Monday, August 26, 2019

Freud wasn’t afraid to talk about his thoughts


Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams

It is time we removed Sethna's label "Aurobindonian" tagged at our back. The label makes our critics separate us from the world. I would prefer the terms "integral", "inclusive thinkers", "non-separatists, " we who see life as a whole" through Sri Aurobindo's vision of life.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1165798684551892993?s=19
Let all accept his vision because he is a need of the world. When Sethna used the phrase " we Aurobindonian moderns" in a letter to Kathleen Raine, Sri Aurobindo was little known. Now that he is the spiritual property of the world we must remove the tag from our back!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1165801219111055360?s=19

True...and I subscribe to Sri Aurobindo’s view that there are four propensities in man..of knowledge, of power, of wealth and of service. I consciously will the development of all four...the perfect purusha embodies these four traits in perfect balance and harmony
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1165843277691572224?s=19
And the attitude that am so poorly trying to articulate is that of Sri Aurobindo...and I will not venture to comment if I had not at some peripheral level touched some of these states..including touches of the states Sri Krishna alludes to in the Gita..so🤷‍♂️
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1165842632876052482?s=19

Celebrating 36th Sri Aurobindo Annual Memorial Lecture #celebration #lecture #annualmemoriallecture #sriaurobindo #universitydays #lovetoshare #like4likes #instaclicks #instashare… https://t.co/ROunuHbFHU
https://twitter.com/SMitradutta/status/1165667643476434944?s=19

The Mother, "spiritual" friend of Aurobindo, was schizophrenic like Aurobindo whose mother was diagnosed as suffering from the same mental disorder. Everything psychic claimed by her has been proven false & her supramental is a figment of imagination. Consciousness is not stuff..
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1165840217674092544?s=19
All religions are proven lies. The research is unequivocal on the non-historicity of Abraham, Solomon, David, Noah, Moses & other Jewish figures. Jesus, Krishna & Rama too did not exist. As a Muslim, do you accept breaking of the moon or creation from nothing taught by the Quran?
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164760045789179906?s=19
Like the non-historical Krishna, Rama, Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Noah, David, Solomon, Zoroaster and other religious persons did not exist. Their teachings & the events associated with them too are proven lies, fiction & pseudoscience.
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164546846020255745?s=19
The tussle between the lies, fiction & pseudoscience of Hinduism and Islam with their respective tens of millions of delusional adherents is destroying Kashmir. All religions are running scared of facts. The era of religions is over & fast crumbling everywhere in the world.
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164565158221484033?s=19
Weak sentimentalism & clinging to life & to loved ones are great drawbacks in war & a source of fear, hesitancy & unwillingness to give everything to the task at hand. Religious bigotry & rabid nationalism serve as very potent factors to push fired up fighters to extreme limits.
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164840455332384768?s=19
The New World Order of the globalists is almost upon us...a borderless and depopulated world, one world government, atheism, single currency, miscegnation, multiculturalisn & totalitarian mind control will be some of its features.
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164628252448608257?s=19
Tareek Fateh, David Frawley, Francois Gautier & Maria Wirth are the toast of right wing Hindus as they're converts to Hinduism & rabid supporters of the lies & pseudoscience of the Vedas & are staunch supporters of a Hindu nation. It's obvious they're shills of intel agencies...
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1164365599276982272?s=19

I am sort of ambivalent towards the valorization of Christianity that I see in this tweet
Private Philanthropy was not unknown in the pagan world. In fact, it flourished
Generosity and Magnanimity are virtues discussed by Aristotle, who had nothing to do with Christianity https://t.co/5505iB9zc2
https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1165695195666690053?s=19

Recently, there have been many claims on social media that Muslim ruler Sikander Lodhi donated land to build Ravidas temple of Delhi.
How true are these claims? This thread is a fact check (1) https://t.co/0N5XZn0sE2
https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1165660213732499456?s=19
Other articles by Sumit Paul are ‘Hinduism is a violent faith’ and ‘Free Sanskrit from Brahminical Hegemony’ on ‘The Milli Gazette’, which claims to be “Indian Muslims’ Leading News Source.
Caveat lector! The author is spreading propaganda.
Read https://t.co/ho5X2BpjT6 n/n
https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1165618053918257152?s=19

BJP-RSS base had coined the term Presstitute. A Presstitute is good as long as she is Presstituting for my side https://t.co/fffnTQZjM9
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1165688634118496256?s=19
Amazing how journalists don’t have a basic notion of conflict of interest or professional distance. On another note, yet to see any evidence of research in the outputs of the army of journalists counseled by #ArunJaitley https://t.co/kWQXncERj4
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1165653078768594947?s=19

A tweet that is both an eulogy for a politician and an obituary of 'journalism' practiced by the @timesofindia group. https://t.co/XSS5J6zpuq
https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1165523843328274434?s=19

The way the press has conducted itself after Independence till the arrival of the Internet makes a substantial and accurate case for Freedom From Press, not Freedom of Press.
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1165676325035593728?s=19

A late addition to the corpus of Lal Děd, the Kashmiri sadhika and poet, in the superb translation of poet and scholar @ranjithoskote, with a blunt message for Hindus and Muslims today. https://t.co/KJr6uvoBnH
https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1165485387017404416?s=19

Marx's notion of communism would want to transform the central gender relation from marriage to generalized prostitution. See the link below https://t.co/itMmgOEzoB
https://twitter.com/sgurumurthy/status/1165801331832975360?s=19

We r ever in search for an identity - first, its discovery & then its assertion. One of the ironies of human life is that both those who r searching & those who think they've found it r often equally insecure; neither new immigrants to a place nor sons of the soil seem secure;
https://twitter.com/Gopanarya/status/1165853794984316928?s=19
Neither minorities (linguistic, ethnic, ideological - whatever), nor the majority ever seem fully secure. Often, even the assertion of an identity betrays its underlying fragility. (Am not talking abt assertion of fundamental rights here). Perhaps, this perennial problem has, in
some, given rise to the great philosophical quest for the deepest layer of identity. Something which is not fragile, not impermanent & completely invulnerable to the  vicissitudes of fame, wealth, power & politics. In our case, we have to thank our seers of yore for pointing to
the path whr one such may b found. And at last all insecurity may end. Homage to the founding fathers - Yajnavalkya, Uddalaka, Raikwa, Nachiketa, Itara, Gautama, Satyakama, Bhrigu, Pippalada, Shvetasvatara, Pratardana et al for giving that whch is stronger than a 100 Akshauhinis!
Truly, he took it to a whole new level of epistemology - a complete, mature & robust framework, which integrated formalized & beautifully harmonized the speculations of these founding fathers. https://t.co/YLwwJYXTWX

The combination of ruling functions and the mercantile obsession with profit meant that the #EastIndiaCompany had no qualms being ruthless and extractive, cheered on by their Indian collaborators, writes @UnamPillai, #TheAnarchy, @bloomsburybooks, https://t.co/WjNKIVi7Rb https://t.co/f4ioP5ZoTH
https://twitter.com/Openthemag/status/1165847028678590464?s=19
As a legacy of the Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon era, the bureaucracy is all over the Indian Ministry of Defence and all-powerful, writes Maroof Raza, #CDS https://t.co/YCZrlYaBem https://t.co/QDC3j8Nv1h

In the recent past, on the name of Science, dubious claims have been made about ancient India foreseeing all the present science. Many top scientists had returned their awards in protest. They will be invited to lead the fight against bigotry.
https://twitter.com/AltScienceTech1/status/1165866853144522752?s=19
We will take steps to derecognize Homeopathy since it is a pseudo science. To those with degrees in Homeopathy, we will offer them a chance to study and acquire an alternate degree if they do wish

Dr. @davidfrawleyved writes about some popular misconceptions about Advaita Vedanta prevalent today https://t.co/akZRX8upQu
@advaitaacademy @strawsInTheWind @yoginisd @ShefVaidya @Sai_swaroopa @DimpleAtra @zeneraalstuff @IndicAcademy
https://twitter.com/indictoday/status/1165844841114112001?s=19

I am in Kashi right now. It pains so much to see that the most important Hindu yatrasthal is maintained so poorly. And it pains further to realize it is our PM @narendramodi ji's constituency.
https://twitter.com/Pradyb1/status/1165868149285113862?s=19

Hindutva before Savarkar: Chandranath Basu’s contribution Like most modern ideas in Bharat, “Hindutva,” too, was born in Bengal in the 19th century. His name is Chandranath Basu (1844-1910). ⁦@MakrandParanspe⁩ 
cc ⁦@KanchanGupta⁩  https://t.co/3iIFyU61TR
https://twitter.com/BasuAshis/status/1165833659540279297?s=19

Hoped that MS of first book of Alcioneverse would be ready by end of month but not to be. #StreamOfConsciousnes #YA (maybe? or R-rated?) series that starts on giant space habitat. Adding more #worldbuilding details, no decent plot yet because I'm a pantser #amediting #wip #scifi
https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1165856326280339457?s=19

Herodotus: in Persia, important political decisions are taken when legislators r drunk. Then, when sober, if consensus holds, law is passed.
https://twitter.com/KS1729/status/267325705728180224?s=19

How often do connoisseurs of film do the equivalent of watching the film once drunk (and suggestible) and then sober(and critical) before pronouncing it good? https://t.co/WOlc6WEtPr
https://twitter.com/longhandnotes/status/1087265781455347713?s=19

I’m curious if those who are equipped to watch a movie with a ‘trained eye’, see some value in watching “naïvely” at first, like the poet here who advise just taking in sounds and pauses to start with. https://t.co/uiAUselHxC

The Hindi poet (and professor of English literature) Arun Kamal in an interview for Gyan Darshan listed 5 steps for reading a poem he recommends to his students.
Step 1: Read the poem aloud to yourself. Turn the letters on the page into sound. Notice where you pause for breath.
Step 2: Write down the poem rearranging its words into prose, and read this prose version. (This is called “anvaya” in Sanskrit/Hindi)
Step 3: List the unfamiliar words and references in the poem. Consult a dictionary or other references and write up your glossary.
Step 4: Simply read the poem as a poem again from start to finish (without going referring midway to the notes made earlier).
Step 5: Read the poem as many times as you can, whenever there’s an opportunity to revisit.
“A good poem never deserts you.”, Prof. Arun Kamal says.

there is definitely a school of thought that privileges instincts and senses as compared to a more distanced intellectual interpretation and judgment. My own feeling is that both are important, one without the other will leave you with an incomplete experience.
https://twitter.com/alokranj/status/1087268322859728896?s=19

I believe the best thing about Freud was: he wasn’t afraid to talk about his thoughts and revelations about mental health.
He had amazing curiosity for what happened in humans with distressing psych symptoms. He was not ’bogged down with actual academic research like we are now’ https://t.co/lc295Vel0L
https://twitter.com/SarahJaneLeach3/status/1163335673677537282?s=19

Casablanca is the Best. Movie. Ever. That said, let's go really old. The opening of Chaplin's City Lights is perfection, and the rest of the movie is right on its heels. https://t.co/IQtPtoUUFQ
https://twitter.com/taxtweet/status/1162893582237339649?s=19
I agree that Casablanca is the best movie ever!  That said, for me, Psycho made such an impact on me that even though I know it’s in black and white, I remember it in color!
https://twitter.com/RobergTax/status/1163062450490630146?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: German romanticism, American transcendentalism, and... https://t.co/sgOrduSYa3
Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams
EVEN THE SMALLEST MEANEST WORK BECAME
A SWEET OR GLAD AND GLORIOUS SACRAMENT
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165697019911884800?s=19
It's well known that when one doesn't have any identity or achievement (like in adolescence) one takes up some tribal cause like nation or religion in order to shore up self esteem. But justifying political support (with intention of material gains) as rational is sheer hypocrisy.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165881931356991488?s=19