A Soldier And A Theologian Share A Common Goal: Freedom

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA A Soldier wants freedom from oppression, tyranny.  A Theologian wants freedom from the world, attachment.  Freedom from tyranny is the rind.  Freedom from attachment is the fruit within.  Both provide personal, communal, national, and civilizational nourishment.  God is the sweetness of the juice of the fruit that is freedom. We begin with…

Technology And Virtues

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA In classical Christian accounting, there are seven virtues, four cardinal, meaning natural, known to all, and three theological, meaning revealed, known to the called and confirmed.  The four cardinal virtues are Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance.  The three theological virtues are Faith, Hope, and Charity. My first — and just about only…

Linked National Sovereignties Replace Containment

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA The benefits accruing to systems upon a decentralization of their structures of command and control are oft-remarked and well-evidenced.  The diminishments visited upon systems by a centralization of their structures of command and control are, as well, oft-remarked and well-evidenced. Modern man, shot-through as he is with dazzlement before opportunities inhering in…

When The Saxon Began To Hate

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved,…

We Americans Love A Good Fight Because We Are Not Hegemons

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Being Americans, we desire fairness, such as our ancestors have striven to build up as our religious, legal, financial, and political systems. Because we are not hegemonic, we cognize hegemons fairly easily and observe their numbers here and abroad to be fairly large. With that awareness, we come to realize that we…

Pacific Pathways Bullet Points

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Pacific Pathways is a strategic path-finding and proof-of-concept operation exploring ahead for multi-partner, multi-domain comms freedom across the Indo-Pacific engagement space. At its heart, Pacific Pathways contemplates a transition of US statecraft asset deployment — diplomacy, finance, war-fighting — from a strategic posture of defensive crouch to a strategic posture of confident…

God And The World, Crucifixion And Hoax

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA God is the world and much more, but the world is not God. Jihadis’ preferred evangelical methodology is direct brutality.  Socialists’ preferred evangelical methodology is mass starvation.  Christians’ preferred evangelical methodology is the sight of Jesus of Nazareth, The Anointed of Heaven and History, The Christ of God for the salvation of…

Thandava – XXV

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA John Hinderaker: These days, it seems that pretty much all of our cultural indicators are pointing downward. I commented: Perhaps.  Seems is a caveat, as you know.  More than that, The Almighty’s arithmetic is not the same as ours and He is unaccustomed to miscalculating. What was the line, a step or…

The Clearances, Time For

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT 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…

Bottoms Up Onatop

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Concerning the latest show of force, again in Portland, OR, by what I call the Democratic-Republican UniParty (and here), John Hinderaker made this compendious post at Power Line. Regarding who these persons are, this…

Hie Thee To A Nunnery

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It’s like we are governed by Bolsheviks bent on destroying everything decent in order to wield their control over what’s left.   [Democrats] are a gigantic hate group, in other words, and are far larger…

Cool Sense And Iran’s Mullahs

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUB3zLtPcgI Counselor Paul Mirengoff today commits signature hand-wringing as a post titled Trump’s Dilemma.  As is often the case, creative response occurred: David R. Graham commented This reasoning ricochets about endlessly under the…

On Facing Facts

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There is at least one large-scale philosophical overview of this happening [Moslems’ happiness with Ilhan Omar’s dissembling, deceit, conceit].  Peoples who favor facing simple as well as complex facts are happier and more…

The Triple Thread – Hegel, Heisenberg, Gödel

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT On 06 November 2014 I posted under title The Triple Thread Of Life. This post comprises improvisation upon a theme created as a thesis by a student of my acquaintance. Hegel said that…

Feedback On A Military Unit’s Draft Mission Statement

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Thanks, looks quite good.  A bit of fuzzy jargon here and there but overall clear and meaningful. The use of the words compete and adversary to describe basic posture towards an enemy or potential enemy implies…

Everybody Knows The Moslem Brotherhood

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT David R. Graham commented on this by Scott Johnson: This is not news, this is self-promotion.  Everyone long knows . . . what Ami is just discovering?  And making a name for himself…