Blessed Life with Dispensational Value: Not Unnoticed by God the Almighty Jer. 35:8-9 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: In Book of Jeremiah 35, the mention of the tribe, the Rechabites, kindles our idle mind to think about something vague that tries to be made crystal clear. We ponder reflectively on this vagueness about this clan and the peculiar way of their living. The Bible says that they do not build houses for shelter, plant vineyards for the enjoyment of toxic wine, or build cities for their protective living. They live a nomadic life in tents and abstain from drinking wine. Altogether, it is a life without malice toward others and toward oneself. What else can be expected more than this? One can count this life as the highest moral standard of hu...
The Ridiculous Dream of a Fantastic Man Dear reader, the title of this series seems to be fashioned after Dostoevsky's short story, but it isn't Dostoevskian. Rather, it is absolutely Rabelaisian and grotesquely realistic. The term ‘fantastic’ in the title also cannot be associated with the themes of magic or fantasy. It is ‘absolutely’ realistic by nature. In the present age, it is hard to find a single man who has the ability to think. That is why I call him a fantastic man. The dreamer in this narrative is indeed a fantastic man, in my conjecture. All his struggles and combats are for his one qualifying criterion: a fantastic thinker. He is the man who thinks; therefore, he is. However, time, place, people, and things in this series are all fictional. It is like Vetrimaaran taking advantage of transferring the crude real into fiction by the one disclaimer at the onset of the film, ‘fictional.’ The trailer of his upc...