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 I was asked whether any of the historical/theological statements in this fiction are true. The answer is, No. Notes – not discourse – amplifying that answer follow. The author says that…
Question: Is it possible for a universe of meaning of tyranny to overwhelm a universe of meaning of democracy by using the latter’s openness, in principle omni-directional and without limitation, to subvert it decisively? Response: Yes. We’ll not live to see outcome, but I’m optimistic. Question: Are there demonstrations from “theoria” and/or “praxis” which reliably…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The truth is the whole and journalists and scientists neither relate to nor relate it. “Journalism” and “Science” today are factories retailing personal prejudices. Participants in those retail activities who transcend them are no longer journalists or scientists. They are theologians participating in…
What do you think of this, which may be fictitious? I think it expresses what we remember of the 1950s that makes us yearn for them as a time, at least in our collective memory, of consideration, thoughtfulness, adequately reimbursed labor, self-sufficiency, simplicity, quiet and human values, before these blessings were deemed curses — and that…
Certain liturgical developments occur periodically. Here is an archive of such. The purpose is to consecrate life as a whole, to see the truth as the whole, to honor the mothers of all species and persons by fostering the circumstances which conduce to fulfillment of the intrinsic potential of each of their womb inhabitants and each of…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, You ask why Christian leaders have not condemned the editorial cartoons published in Denmark four months (!) ago and subsequently. The answer is: because Christian leaders, to include the political ones, publicly label and even condemn their heretics…
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 SECTION I Overview I reject parsing religions into denominations or sects and, ultimately, I reject parsing religion itself into “religions.” Religion is religion, no matter now denominated. There is one God. …
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Honors of State should be accorded to those who lived in selfless service to their Country, either through high office elected by a majority of Americans, vitally successful military service in defense of their Country while it is in mortal peril or…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Man alone has freedom to transcend his condition, in limited ways physically but on principle in unlimited ways spiritually, to include the functions of culture, religion and morality. The ability to transcend any cultural situation, by creating…
Some thoughts: 1- President George W. Bush is going to be regarded in the same breath as Lincoln and Washington. Their mantle rests on his shoulders. I trust him. My only criticism of President Bush is that he has not put the country on war footing, as during WWII. 2- There is no requirement that…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, You know, the more I think about the behavior of partisan Democrats, the more I think that their error is not really in what they say — although there is plenty of that, but it is discussable, if discussion were possible —…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Responding to this essay by the great Christopher Hitchens: This article states the truth. I think, however, that the time for discussion, for rational conversation, is over and that the subject, in whole, has been submitted to the judgment of war, trusting…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Ultimately they are toast as long as we stay the course. It will be a first in Middle Eastern history, at least since the days the Greeks and then Romans subdued the fractious bastards. This time the faction will be defeated at…
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 Responding to Joseph Epstein’s What Happened To The Movies. Scratching head. Was something important being written about? There must have been, but found myself agreeing, in general, only with the chap…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Multiculturalism, which really is a fancy word for tribalism, functions in its proponents’ intellects and hearts as a secular utopianism, a final (or at least final-enough), unambiguous, taint-free state of the chosen and/or inexorable end-state of evolution. Utopia is a compound of…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Our son is an Officer and West Point Graduate who deployed to Iraq and is now home. What Cindy Sheehan is doing is shameful personally and disrespectful of her son, who fulfilled his life doing what he wanted to do. It is shameful…
