The Knights Of The Temple … Cinema Paradiso

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT On the Importance of Nothing Important The key to understanding the Templars (Knights Templar, Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem [= My God is the Sun/Peace]) is their primary colors, white and…

Rebirth

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Not Reincarnation The case for reincarnation in Christianity is very strong but oblique and not in the terms we ordinarily think of as reincarnation. Rebirth would better describe the sense of it, but…

Theology And Technology: Co-Incidence Of Co-Operators

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, On The Importance Of Java As Lingua Franca For Our Communications Era Section One A set of principles subsumes and causes all activities. Principles are uncaused and intrinsic. Activities are caused and extrinsic. Nature is a set of activities organized…

Ethics And Ethos

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Inner Necessity and Decisive Freedom The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years. It…

Homeschooling

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Thanks much for the Homeschooling article from WSJ. They are right on the point that hs’ers are politically active, at least many of them. Between about ’85 and ’95 Mary and I were…

How I Got To Be A Bus Driver!

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Wasn’t easy! 🙂 Started in late 60s when I wondered just what the hell a theologian was going to do with their life in this secularized environment. Tried the futurist/communications consultant bit even before graduating seminary but theoretical interest got so far…

Tibet

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. To The Dali Lama and Court (info@tibet.com) From David R. Graham 12 March 2000 Brothers and Sisters, Can you tell me the names, in English and/or French transliteration of the Dali Lamas during the period 1088 to 1307 Christian time? I am especially…

Millennium Manifesto

The world is an educational enterprise, not a commercial one. Prosperity is a result of teachers, who cultivate wisdom and reap knowledge and instill these benefits in their students, and of their students, who put the wisdom and knowledge learned from their teachers into practice.  Free trade and free markets have nothing to do with…

Bill Safire

Bill Safire is a columnist for the NY Times but was a Nixon speech writer, along with Pat Buchanan. Their views are not the same although they are both “conservatives.” Bill calls himself a “lib con,” for libertarian conservative. Conservative today means narrowly someone who favors the least possible government activity in the affairs of…

Thoreau

I will vouch for the accuracy of Thoreau’s words.  Life does in fact work just this way.  The reason is that the universe, far from coming towards us as an object, is actually extruded from us, as combinations and permutations of the five senses, as a non-dualistic subject. I am not exactly sure, but I think the fundamental morphology of…

Asia Is West, Not East, From America

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Asia is “West” from historical USA “Westerner” point of view. Asia is “East” from historical USA “Easterner” point of view. Western states Americans think west across the Pacific. Eastern states Americans think east (backwards) through Europe. It is a major cultural difference that…

My View Of MSFT

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My view on MSFT is that if being a dominant business were all there were to it, let them at it. But that is not what is really extant. The actual…

To Finish The Work

We are going to finish the work begun by Generals MacArthur and Stratemeyer, whose sister I knew in Hemet years ago (she told beautiful stories about accompanying her bother to military balls and dancing with General Pershing). Five nations are in the van: India, USA, Russia, Germany and Japan. These nations are in fact brothers…

Short Takes, AUG98-NOV99

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on this “where does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?”  The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is…

The Means Of Grace

In classical Christian terms the matter is stated: the means of Grace are no longer carrying Grace to where they once were. Or more radically, the means of Grace which formerly served the purpose have been abandoned altogether and new ones have been put into place and, implied, are functioning. I believe this is our condition…

The Warrior Code In Action

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A major reason one never hears Southerners run down Grant is because of his actions in re the defeated Army of Northern Virginia, CG R. E. Lee. In contrast, Southerners’ feelings…