Meaning of(f) Life

This Kit changed all my life

2011-10-13T21:45:00.001-07:00

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Honesty

2011-03-28T23:48:00.000-07:00

Amount of honesty in our talks is inversely proportional to number of people we are talking to, it tends to zero in a crowd and tends to infinity when talking to yourself unless you are split personality.

Unpredictability

2011-02-23T21:14:00.000-08:00

I think unpredictability is the norm, not a infrequent failure of human knowledge in some specific condition. People trying to predict inherently chaotic systems like share market etc should take hint from history in making. Who can have thought or predicted that great(in past) leaders like Hosni Mumbarak and Colonel Gaddafi who were ruling their country for decades will go away in days of sudden and unexpected public outbursts. Simplistic human thought says in so many decades they must have greater hold on their country, at-least I think those leader started to believe that but alas things happen without giving any thought to what humans think.

Anyway enjoy the history in making http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010-2011_Arab_world_protests

PS: Though now many analysts will jump and try to analyze how they have seen it coming or give a detail past-curve-fitting logic of how it happened.

Wise

2011-01-26T21:15:00.000-08:00

Fools go out in rain and get wet,
smart people use umbrella,
and wise do not venture out.

Hmmm

2011-01-24T20:39:00.000-08:00

People don't get happy when they get 1000 bucks by hard-work but they become excited on getting unexpected 10 bucks.

8 ways of Ultra-Effective People

2010-12-31T23:00:00.000-08:00

You may have heard about Stephan Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'

Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Here is a improved version '8 ways of Ultra-Effective People'

1. Be lazy: don't try to do more than what is required, to much worry leads no where, most of the times problems will go away on their own, flow with the flow.
2. End never comes: Don;t worry about the end, think about the process , will it be worth it? Journey is important not the destination.
3. Reprioritize your priorties, what you think first may not be first, keep changing priorities and at best have none.
4. Don't think in terms of win or loss, think about optimum solutions to problems.
5. Drop the ego, you may not have to explain or understand much then.
6. Use simple words, describing things using complex words and adjectives doesn't mean you understand it.
7. Dull your edges, blunt your attack, blur your intellect, life is not a precison machinery warfare to overcome some unknown enemy.
8. Don't believe in such stupid lists.

Happy new year

2010-12-31T20:23:00.000-08:00

Congrats on crossing an artificial boundary without effort which would have passed anyway while you were asleep, I hope next year we have some real boundaries to cross with effort and we start celebrating the real events, I wish new year brings so much joy and peace each day that celebrating a change in number will feel so immaterial that we will celebrate anyway!

What a Thought

2010-12-23T21:22:00.000-08:00

Whatever can be thought has already been thought including this thought

Asymmetry

2010-12-23T20:43:00.001-08:00

Good doesn't exist, things are bad or not bad.
Pain is real, comforts are elusive
A burned vegetable may always taste bad but what is tasty vegetable?
We know what is wrong though what is right is mostly subjective.

Sikhs were responsible for Babri Masjid Demolition

2010-12-21T08:06:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer: This is work of fiction and have no relation with reality whatsoever.

Around 14th century Babar invaded India, crossed thru lahore, went till Ayodhya destroyed a hindu temple and made a Masjid, some say in lahore he also captured Guru Nanak who had just started his own religion, Sikhism, and Babur would repent that in centuries to come.

Sikhs slowly become a powerful force and culiminated in Mahraja Ranjit Singh's empire. Empire did not last for long but concept of Sikh nationality remained in some minds and fructified into Khalistan movmement, which some say congress initially supported but anyway was later crushed in operation blue star in 1984 and for which Indira Gandhi had to pay with life.

Somewhere in Indore in 1978, a women's husband divorced her at age of 62 and under muslim personal law she did not get a penny as alimony. Women was Saha Bano and she did not like it, so went to the court, but as usual case continued for 7 years. Meanwhile killing of India Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards generated a wave of sympathy for congress in general elections, and hence congress got full majority (about 80% seats) in 1984 elections.
At about same time Saha Bano's case reached supreme court, and supreme court thinking objectively ordered her husband to pay maintenance under Section 125, which used to apply to everyone regardless of caste, creed, or religion.

Muslim fundamentalists like Syed Shahabuddin saw it as threat to their religion, and pressurized government. Congress party as usual being secular by not being and by luck having full majority in parliament, passed a very specific "The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce)" Act in 1986 which nullified supreme court's decision.
Many people thought it as appeasment of Muslims and many Hindu Nationalist Parties started getting more public support and Congress felt threatened. So to counter it and to win back Hindus, secular Rajiv Gandhi tried to apply appease all policy and ordered Babri Masjid to be opened to Hindus too for prayer once a year.

That opening was like opening of pandora's box, Ram-janm bhoomi struggle got more convinced and more strong and culminated in demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.

Eyebrows

2010-09-16T06:19:00.000-07:00

Eyebrows; some say evolved to protect from rain, some say for facial expression, I say run 5 Km and you will understand it evolved to protect eyes from acidic, salty sweat!

Understanding

2010-09-12T06:07:00.001-07:00

Real understanding doesn't come when you have all the answers, it comes when you have no more questions.

Best

2010-08-25T00:23:00.000-07:00

Try your best but don't try to be the Best ...because it may lead to worst.

Body and Minda

2010-08-20T09:05:00.001-07:00

Body is an amazing intelleginent machine, we should listen to it once in a while and give Mind a break.

Happy Independence Day

2010-08-14T21:28:00.001-07:00

Celebrations are good and mostly harmless unless people start thinking that
celebration is enough and they have done their Duty. It is ok to celebrate
Mothers's day but better is to take care of your mother whole year, not just
sweet talk on one day. Patriotism is ok, dressing up in traditional Indian
attire on independence day may be fun but it better to be good citizen and a
good person who performs his duty well.

Right rights

2010-07-28T23:18:00.000-07:00

Take away "Right to privacy" and instead give "Right to insult" and this world
would be a better world.

Things

2010-07-20T23:00:00.001-07:00

Things are simple and clean, it is us who vomit our inner garbage on things and
make it messy and dirty.

Purpose

2010-07-19T23:48:00.000-07:00

When you start seeking purpose of things, purpose is lost.
Purpose arises when there is no purpose.

Ego > God

2010-07-09T21:18:00.001-07:00

Both figments of imagination, both harmful
but it is easy to kill the God, not the Ego.

Civilized Insanity

2010-07-09T06:10:00.001-07:00

When people cut their hair but not the fat,
When people trim the nails but not their needs,
When people clean everything except their thoughts,
A civilization is born, where everybody is torn
between collection and rejection.

Distilled

2010-07-09T06:05:00.001-07:00

Purpose of life is to be able to sleep peacefully and wakeup fresh, till we
sleep for ever.

Short story about life

2010-07-09T05:51:00.001-07:00

Mr Achiever: So what do you think is your goal?
Mr X: I think to eat, sleep , to prepare for eating and sleeping and to
kill-time rest of the time.
Mr Achiever: But we are humans we should have some bigger goals, objectives ,
purpose, what you are suggesting is what animals do.
Mr X: exactly.

Disclaimer

2010-07-04T22:51:00.001-07:00

Theorem:
Facts and analogies always mislead.

Corollary:
Analogies are just that analogies, take the essence and fuck the analogy
otherwise take analogy as truth, fact as reality and you will get fucked.

RE: whirlpool

2010-06-29T02:50:00.001-07:00

whirlpool

2010-06-29T02:43:00.001-07:00

whirlpool is not other than the water
and similarly soul/mind is in the body not something separate from it, not something which remains once the body perishes!
though the concept of whirlpool is different from water or whirlpool itself and can be transported to any other medium.

Understand!

2010-06-27T02:51:00.001-07:00

You have understood when you understand that there is nothing to understand.

Everything Exists

2010-06-20T09:51:00.001-07:00

If we can't distinguish between two things, they are same, is there a distinction between a simulation of the world and the world, or in other words can we tell we are not part of a simulated reality, or is there any such thing with a attribute attached *real*?

I don't think so, at the core of *our world* as we dig deeper we find and will find mathematical entities, now our understanding of world is some type of algorithm running on some machine, actually machine is itself the world, question is how it is different from the algorithm itself, on in other words every algorithm or a mathematical structure wouldn't come on it own?

I deeply feel `Mathematical universe hypothesis` to be correct ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_ensemble ) but then the question arises what does correct means if it can't be tested or can it be?

my father and my son

2010-06-03T01:08:00.001-07:00

You are the son of the sun
as much you are your father's son
and broken glass you broke accidentally is as much yours as is your son.

Diogenese

2010-05-31T21:41:00.001-07:00

I like this man, people say 'Alexander the great', I say read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope

Excerpts:
0. Once, it is believed, Alexander the Great came to visit the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. Diogenes famously answered: "Mox ... de ceteris, interim velim a sole mihi non obstes." (To this later, for now I just want you not to stand in the sun.). [1] Alexander respectfully then replied, "If I were not Alexander the Great, I should like to be Diogenes."
Diogenes answered Alexander with the words "Nunc quidem paululum a sole.", (Now come out of the sun a little bit at least).

1. He destroyed the single wooden bowl he possessed on seeing a peasant boy drink from the hollow of his hands.

2. It was contrary to Athenian customs to eat within the marketplace, and still he would eat, for, as he explained when rebuked, it was during the time he was in the marketplace that he felt hungry. The most scandalous of these activities involves his masturbation in the marketplace, to which he responded he wished it were as easy to relieve hunger by rubbing an empty stomach.

3. He used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man."

4. When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition.

5. Diogenes was once on a voyage to Aegina, he was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Crete to a Corinthian named Xeniades. Being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be sold to a man who needed a master.

6. A report that Philip was marching on the town had thrown all Corinth into a bustle; one was furbishing his arms, another wheeling stones, a third patching the wall, a fourth strengthening a battlement, every one making himself useful somehow or other. Diogenes having nothing to do - of course no one thought of giving him a job - was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub-dwelling energetically up and down the Craneum; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: "I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest.

Amazing Monsoon

2010-05-28T21:34:00.001-07:00

I was listening to news and they are saying monsoon may reach Kerala in 3 days.
Thinking about that, isn't it amazing monsoons are so predictable? they almost come same time of year, every year, though it is said weather is a chaotic and non-linear system and long term weather prediction is impossible, but monsoon like clock work emerges every year from the chaotic weather system since thousands or more years, may be monsoon is strange attractor of a chaotic system. Amazing!

Time

2010-05-27T21:53:00.000-07:00

Future comes without invitation
Past goes without intimation
and Present is just an imitation.

void is it?

2010-03-21T07:25:00.000-07:00

Average distance between galaxies is about 30 times size of gallaxy, considering gallxies as solid material, so volume of void is 2700 times volume of matter.

Consider a galaxy, stars are on average 4 light years away and each star has on average radius < 1,000,000 KM, that gives void to matter ratio of 1.46e+027 to 1

Consider sun, average density is only 1.4 times that of water, so it also loosely packed with space between hydrogren atoms, ignore that, take a atom
in hydrogean atom ratio of atom to nuclues daiameter is 145000, taking that into account ratio of void to matter is 4.4509925000000002e+042

that is limit of human probe, when we will look further into nucleus and quarks further void shall be find.

But on the otherhand if we see starts, billions of km away still we can see the light, same light must is visible from any other place, such electromagnetic field is filling the whole universe from billions of stars, so in reality whole void is filled with electromagetic energy and then the gravition field and other fields too.

no matter all energy.
may be matter is the knots in energy?

Kyun nahi?

2010-02-02T01:23:00.001-08:00

देखना जो चाहा वो दिखाया ही नही, अब कहते हो की देखते क्यूँ नही?
ना सुनने लायक सब सुना चुके हो, अब यूँ पूछते हो की सुनते क्यूँ नही?
और यूँ तो बोलने की सज़ा हर बार देते हो, फिर बोलते हो की बोलते क्यूँ नही?
खुद ही तुमने कत्ल कर डाला ज़ालिम, और पूछते हो की ज़िंदा क्यूँ नही?

Dekhna jo chaha wo dikhaya hi nahi, ab kehte ho ki dekhte kyun nahi?
Na sunane layak sab suna chuke ho, ab yun puchte ho ki sunte kyun nahi?
Aur yun to bolne ki saja har bar dete ho, fir bolte ho ki bolte kyun nahi?
Khud hi tumne katl kar dala zaalim, aur puchte ho ki zinda kyun nahi?

Sunrise is just a longer sunset

2010-01-10T18:27:00.000-08:00

morning the sun takes a long time going down mountains - i hate them.

- Jacques Roubaud

I just can't stop laughing reading this quote, imagine a stupid lazy person, who has never seen sunrise but only sunsets, wakes up by chance in morning sees the sun at the horizon over the mountains and waits... waits... waits till evening when eventually it sets.

Sunrise is just a longer sunset.

stoicism

2010-01-07T23:08:00.001-08:00

A link to article below I think which summarizes whatever I ever wanted to say and sometimes feel perplexed that why people can not see it.

so a must read if you have no time to read it
and if you have time to read it, read it anyway

http://www.skepticfiles.org/human/stoicism.htm

a quote from it
People do not allow anyone to seize their estates, and they
rush to stones and arms if there is even the slightest
dispute about the boundaries of their property, yet they
allow others to trespass upon their life -- nay, they them-
selves even bring in those who will eventually possess it.

Jai Tiwari

2009-12-28T21:53:00.000-08:00

N. D. Tiwari caught in sex scandal, people wondering is it true or false, can a person with age of 86 be so active when most of his age are lying in grave or are in bad health like Vajpayee, but I think people who have heard Tiwari's tail will agree that it must be true.

Anyway people who are wondering how can at the age of 86, with three girls? may have not heard a Hindi saying "Aadmi aur ghoda kabhi boodhe nahi hote".

IMO it is not a wonder that he is active at age of 86, it is other way round, because he was always sexually active he is in such good condition at such age. I have a theory the if you are sexually active, you will live longer and be healthy
because otherwise what is the purpose of living if you are not sexually capable to reproduce, you are a unnecessary burden on gene pool if you are not capable of forwarding its cause :)

Happy New Decade

2009-12-27T22:20:00.000-08:00

We want quick gratification and our resolution and targets are usually short term, I wonder what would life be and our achievements be if we made long term targets. I never thought in year 2000 that 2010 will come so soon, and now I am thinking in those 10 years I could have done lots of things... a small step a day may lead a person to anywhere, so our plans and resolution should be long term with a small step everyday.
Instead of new year resolutions, have daily resolutions with a target of decade.
Suppose if I drilled a 1 mm hole in a stone everyday and that is possible by hand in an hour, in 10 year I would have drilled 3.65 metre i.e. around 12 feet :)

So I think lets implement it and think of a thing which we want to achieve in 10 years and can be achieved by doing a small step each day,

hmm thinking, thinking, interesting I can't think of anything which I want to achieve in 10 years.

Drilling a whole seems a nice idea though :)

Can you tell the difference?

2009-10-07T21:53:00.000-07:00

Most people can not tell difference between a good wine or ok wine, a food cooked by world renowned cook or local cook, a boss music system and sony music system, a designer wear and fashion street wear. So most of the time people pretend to know and fool others and themselves too.

Scientist proved what I long suspected

"""

Want to enjoy the benefits of a super-sharp high-definition screen without buying a new TV? Simply tell yourself that you are watching HD and put up a few posters to transform your experience.

"""

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17930-think-yourself-a-better-picture.html.

A song devoted to human ignorance of the human ignorance -

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.

-Pink Floyd

kaiku?

2009-09-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

fill the mug
unnecessarily
spill on keyboard
now you cry?

fill the pot
break it
splashing all over
now you cry?

empty bottle
do not fill
thirst
now you cry?

broken vase
count
all the spots
and all the pieces
countless nights
things break
and break into pieces
why you cry?

Higher Power

2009-09-25T02:49:00.000-07:00

A child doesn't want to play child's game he wants to be an adult?
A teacher doesn't want to get involved in petty politics of school, she is more interested in things much higher more intellectual more political?
A successful business man says this money/business empire is nothing I want to serve people and get higher esteem in eyes of people?
A saint says this world is nothing, I want to get attached to higher power

What is this obsession with going higher, becoming something?

What if there isn't a higher power?
What if there is?
What if there isn't a GOD?
What if there is?
What if gods have their own GOD?
What if this world is mere imagination, a reflection of infinite world?
Who cares! I am happpy where I am!

Gathering of molecules

2009-09-25T02:43:00.001-07:00

Gathering of molecules, I am
so how I am different from
stone, water or rotten shit?

Consciousness

2009-09-01T21:23:00.000-07:00

I do not have consciousness though I have a feeling of consciousness

scantily clad girls here

2009-08-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I was seeing a debate on television on requirement of dress code etc in society, everybody agreed to some extent to dress code in special circumstances, parties etc but failed to understand the same point given by a lady. She said if a woman goes into a crowded bus scantily dressed and is groped, she is to be partially blamed for it. So called liberal men and women almost jumped on that lady, to say such a derogatory remark and being against the freedom of women on the Independence day.

What all so called liberals and intellectuals fail to understand is that things are not black and white, there are no absolute truths and there are practical consideration to a situation. People tend to be passionate and sensitive about things and that blinds the real objective perspective.

So here I would like to take away the debate to a different but similar situation may be people would be able to see things clearly.

Suppose in your city you have to pass thru a gheto famous for criminals, will you take any precautions? Will you take a bag of money with you? Forget the gheto will you take a stash of cash openly in general public place or try to hide it.
If you are taking 1 million in a transparent plastic bag in crowded place and someone runs away with it, will you blame yourself? Don't you think obscene display of so much money in a public place may change hearts of so called honest people. Suppose you leave 1 million on the road side, with a tag that this belongs to so and so please do not take away, Will you still expect it to be there when you return?

Obviously person stealing is to blamed for legal and moral crime but you are also to be blamed for a not having common-sense, you can't say I have freedom to take my money as I wish. In a ideal world you are right, but we do not live in a ideal world otherwise we would not be debating such things as dress codes.

?

2009-08-05T21:10:00.000-07:00

I do not have any ulterior motives hence I ask for money.

Islam is not a race, it is a software

2009-07-20T21:44:00.000-07:00

Islam is not a race? sounds a ridiculous statement which everyone already knows, yes I think I also did, but when I introspected a bit I came to conclusion that somewhere there is feeling inside me and others too that Muslim is like tribe or race not a philosophy and that is why there may be a hesitance or may be disbelieve that someone can convert to Islam, because you can't become a Chinese you are born a Chinese, but now as I study it more it becomes clear that Islam is a simple religion, with simple tenets and followers of which are really serious may be unlike other religious people. Islam is a way of life, a philosophy, like a software.

If man is a machine/hardware then religion is like its software, and any machine can be loaded with any software, no machine is bound to a software or gets a software by birth, it is put into it.

Like software are developed for specific needs at specific times and become outdated so does religions. Hinduism can be called a open source religion which has been developed for so many years that now it has lost its openness, Christianity/Islam/Judaism can be called closed source, all three forked from the same branch of code but now may be Christianity is open sourcing a bit and may be it is time that Islam does that too.

Why i hate crocs

2009-07-15T22:45:00.000-07:00

Actually hate is a very strong word and I don't know if I really hate anything, but yes a little storm raises in corner of my mind when I see people going gaga over crocs.

Now to keep this straight, I do not hate crocs as such, they may not look that good but even I do not even look that good. Point is I hate croc-lovers not crocs, actually not croc-lover but the croc-mentality , so "i hate crocs" is just a expression towards that double standard , stupid, trend loving, group-ism promoting croc-itude which on the outside claims to be individual , different but inside all is same, they follow the follower, they believe what most people do must be right.

I bet if any person would have dared to venture wearing such shoes 20 years back, people might have stoned him to death because that did not fit into there conforming mentality but now it is in, it is fashionable.

gay, cannibalism and golden rule

2009-07-04T03:52:00.000-07:00

Few days back there was a gay pride parade in metros of India, may be first time in India, and all the news channels were going crazy asking question should Gay relations be made legal (btw they are/were illegal in India.) As usual some are in favor, some against it. Main reason of people in favour is that, how you can exclude a certain section of society, when they are not doing any harm and everything is (con)sensual between two adults. People opposing it says this is plain immoral and against nature.

If someone asks me who is right, my answer would be both are wrong, and that is the "Golden Rule" i have found :) , whenever there are two parties debating over a issue and someone asks you who is right , usually both are wrong otherwise they would not be debating.

Same is the case with these gay supporters and people against it, my question to gay-bashers is , which morals they are talking about? are they really serious about it? are they sure they haven't committed bigger moral blunders and wouldn't do given a chance? and the list will go on and I am sure many people are asking these questions to them...but main point here is to ask question to gay supporters, is the reason "if it doesn't harm anybody and adult people are doing it with mutual consent then what is wrong with giving it a legal sanction" enough? On that same reason we should allow cannibalism, at least people eating other dead people, that will also solve world food problem.

So consider a scenario:

A hip restaurant in NewYork, serving hot human flesh barbecue and kebabs with unlimited wine mixed with human blood, they guarantee no human were killed on purpose for this, the flesh comes directly from healthy human who die accidentally and they were already registered for "steal-the-meat" program which allows restaurant to use their meat.

How many of these gay-activist are ok with this? if not what is the reason?

Btw this gay thing and cannibalism has something else in common, cannibal eats human directly , but gay-ness eats it indirectly, ultimate effect is reduction in population.

mystery

2009-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

I can walk

I can talk

I am

The biggest mystery!

good bad bad good

2009-05-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

Most people are confused about what is good or bad, and many discussion go nowhere with each party pressing his good to be the real good. On a level it seems very wierd because it should be easy to see good in most cases given the facts.

I think confusion arises because we think of good and bad as something absolute.We all know that the best solution or a good thing is within a context but we keep forgetting that may be due to our mental conditioning , or sometimes if context is not clear we introduce our own contexts.

e.g. answering a few question may clear up the thought process

is it good to be beautiful?

is it good to be tall?

is more money good?

is exercise good?

is bubble sort the worst sorting alogorithim?

are good communication skills good? now that one is interesting :)

is bad good? is good good?

Answer of all these will vary and depend on context but sometime we stick to the stance we know or made, even if whole context changes.

charity

2009-05-19T20:32:00.000-07:00

charity is good but to do charity because it is good, is bad

be good

2009-04-25T17:43:00.000-07:00

because there is no goodness in being bad

God delusion

2009-02-14T20:27:00.001-08:00

I was reading the book 'God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins, book is ok, 463 pages about nothing i.e. GOD, but the most interesting thing I think is how wierd we humans are, someone has to go to such great lengths to convey a point which should be obvious to all thinking persons but somehow isn't.

Richard Dawkins says people who believe in a "personal God who keeps a watch on their lives" are delusional. I agree, but point is not that I agree, point is why I even have to bring this point. If I say I believe in ich-kuchi-putchi, no body will try to write a book that I am free to belive in whatever I think but I am dumb.

Why things which are so obvious are not so obvious to people?

I know lots of my relative who when hear first time that I am a atheist, I do not pray to God and to me Temples are just another place for toursim (only if they are good), will not believe and will confirm it in many ways and astonishing thing is it should have been otherwise, I should have been asking "do you really believe in such bullshit"?

I think humans are by instinct averse to logic, I know many technologically advance people who will not agree that one day "computers may converse like humans" but will readily believe that some saint in chichpokli has a parrot who can recite whole Gita and can tell your future too.

bored

2008-10-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

pleasures abound, dwell in happiness

practicality may make you, theory will save you

Best is worst

2008-09-26T21:09:00.000-07:00

In this world race for the best leads to the worst, so who settles for worst may even be better.

Trying to be best in one field inevitably leads to worst performance in other fields and that is obvious e.g. trying to best shooter and your personal life may get hit etc but interesting thing is trying to be best in a field may lead to worst results in that same field.

e.g.

Everybody trying to be the best athlete leads to worst athletes who are not athlete at all but steroid driven machines.

People trying to buy best mangoes with brightest color, or greenest vegetable leads to artificial coloring and mangoes injected with chemicals.

Trying to be the best country makes you the worst.

All these effort to be best fail because the point here is to be best in other people's eye if the effort is to be best for yourself than you may succeed

e.g. suppose you are alone is this world and for pastime climb a mountain everyday, you may try to surpass yourself but will you damage your body and take steroids to just break your own record?

Respect

2008-09-26T20:57:00.000-07:00

If you respect something/someone it means you are capable of disrespect, so if a person is incapable of disrespect how can he respect something?

If you can not condemn something how can you appreciate something in the worldly sense.

At most what you can do is state facts, Trees are bigger, grass is short, that is no appreciation, no respect.

If someone is too caring, too respectful, too appreciative, too good he must be bad.

Also whom does appreciation helps, you.

and whom does criticism helps, the other person,

So atleast in this case it is better to criticize than to appericiate.

But anyway all these words are tools of weak human sprit.

Freewill - bullshit

2008-09-25T21:22:00.000-07:00

1> Suppose you are on a train which is moving in wavy motion left-right-left every few minutes. You don't know you are inside such a train and have been told that with enough practice, hard work and sheer attitude, you can change in what direction world moves. I think if you even try randomly you will succeed in about 50% cases, that success rate is much more than real world, though real world is more complex, even so what are the chances that you can change your destiny?

2> Think of the primordial soup billions of year ago on earth , chemicals interacting creating amino acids, which reacting further to create more complex molecules, virus, bacteria, humans

we are part of that same chemical process, which will go on as it is...

3> Scientist say it all started with a big bang and what we see today was in seed form billions of year ago, and if the same seed germinate again wouldn't it be same tree again? for a real seed in real world it may be not be true because there are external factors but what is external to our universe?

4> A process which has been going since a long time and never needed human intervention because most of that time humans weren't even born, why do you think now you can change that process?

5> If you believe in rational world and think current state of system defines that next state perfectly, where is the place for human thought or desires?

and if you believe in irrational world nothing has to be discussed.

I think Freewill will be one of the last pillars of human ego to go,

we used to believe earth is the center, and after that may be sun is in center of universe,

we used to believe god created humans but evolution says otherwise,

we still think creativity is some human magic, computers will soon prove it wrong

but i think for long we will not stop to believe that we have free will and it is me who is writing this and can stop it anytime.

Can I?

So be happy because everything is good as it can not be otherwise.

Everything is good

2008-09-22T20:23:00.000-07:00

Everything is bad because it could have been otherwise,

or everything is good because it can not be otherwise?

If it could have been otherwise, it would have been otherwise

Be wise this is that otherwise.

Don't

2008-09-22T20:20:00.000-07:00

A person too materialistic should read Tao Te Ching

A person too sipirtiual should read Ashtavakra Gita

But a person niether that nor this not in between

Shouldn't read.

Fart

2008-09-10T07:00:00.000-07:00

I wonder why fart is smelly, is it due to some intrinsic reason of its own or it is the side effect of something else?

I think fart smells bad because human excreta can be dangerous due to bacterias etc so it smells bad due to evolutionary reasons and fart is basically vaporised excreta of that so it smells bad too, now you will say that was obvious but to me it is not because if fart was coming out of some place else it may not be smelly and I don't think fart can be dangerous so it is just a side effect of dangerous bacterias without any evolutionary advantage.

On the other hand my hypothesis is no body dislikes his own fart because the people who disliked their own fart died long ago while running away from themselves, it is just opposite of kasturi(musk) deer who runs all over the jungle in search of the musk smell and dies.
It also proves that musk deer story must be fictitious because otherwise either there would be no deer or no musk in it, either way no musk deer.

Coming back to fart from sweet smell of musk. . . if no body dislikes his own fart what must be the reason for that, how can we distinguish between farts, does each human body generates some signal chemicals which are unique to each person,? can we use it in biometric security?
Imagine the scene, you go to your office and on the gate pull down your pants and fart, but that may be a impossible feat, farting on demand but i know some people who have achieved those super human capabilities :)

Cutting Edge

2008-06-19T04:26:00.000-07:00

In Funkypur there is a famous game called ‘cutting edge’, game is simple people walk on a razor thin glass wall and whoever walks the longest with least damage wins the race and you know winners are celebrity, they go on every television show, every inauguration . But some people dread it and for some it is totally useless Endeavour, still some are so obsessed with it that they have totally damaged their legs. Both of these types are ridiculed in funkypur , a recent winner put it very nicely ‘It is all about balance’.

PROUD

2008-06-18T02:31:00.000-07:00

In the big beautiful city of Funkypur lived a man named PROUD and the name was very apt, as he had accomplished so many things in the life, that not only he but everybody in the city was proud of him and that was the reason he use to write his name in all capitals 'PROUD'. He thought of himself the greatest of all and when usual proper nouns must start with a capital letter e.g. God, Einstein etc, he was more than proper to have all capitals in his name.

But with time he become more wise and mature and started thinking, what I do is what I do, rest is just the side effect of that, a child playing with the toys or a labor digging a ditch or me doing my work all are same and there is nothing to be proud or ashamed. So he started writing his name as ‘Proud’, but sooner he felt that it is also not proper because what so proper about a proper noun. Why ‘Proud’ should start with a capital ‘P’ and ‘people’ with small ‘p’, both are words and by writing my name with a capital ‘P’ I am still asserting myself.

So he changed his name to ‘proud’, but alas it also still did not suit him as he thought, “maybe I am being proud of the fact that I am not proud and by writing proud in all smalls I am trying to be different and asserting the fact that ‘ I am not proud’ though everybody knows I am PROUD, can I ever run from this fact?....
He kept on thinking and his brain exploded with a loud proud bang.

Everybody in the town read the news next day in paper except a happy go lucky illiterate dumb guy also named proud, as he did not know how to read or write or think.

Swimming - Coding

2008-06-03T02:25:00.000-07:00

By reading all the best swimming books in the world or by reading “swimming in 10 days” will you learn to swim? until you jump into a swimming pool and practice real swimming.

Or do you think discussing the minute details of each swimming stroke lead you to anywhere unless you know swimming?
Neither knowing all the esoteric terms related to swimming will make you a better swimmer.

Yes it may help you to fake in front of many people that you are the best swimmer alive which knows all past , present and future of swimming but when you are thrown into a pool no book or swimming seminar will come to your rescue.

So what are you waiting for, jump into the pool unless you can hire a swimmer who can carry you on her back or you have big boats and you don’t need to swim.

But beware when the boat crashes.

Circle

2008-05-28T03:36:00.000-07:00

A beggar lying on the road-side under a tree: I wish I had a tea stall, I will not have to be dependent on other people’s whims and I can earn a decent amount with less trouble.

Tea-stall owner: I wish I can be a caterer like that man, he buys tea from me and delivers it to a software company in much more.

Caterer: I wish I was an engineer and did not have to roam around in such hot day delivering tea around companies.

Engineer: I wish I was my boss, he does nothing and gets all the credit plus a fat pay check.

Boss: I wish I could become a CEO, they do nothing and just roam around , deliver talks and enjoy holidays at beaches.

CEO while entering his company premises sees a beggar sleeping under a tree: I wish I had such leisure and peace of mind to sleep in such a hot day in such a noisy environment.

I wish I wish not.

Blessed are those who do not wish.

Climbers

2008-05-21T05:38:00.000-07:00

In prehistoric times, there lived a tribe near a river on the foothills of a hill. People were happy though there were frequent floods, mosquito malaise and usual sightings of people being eaten by crocodiles. People started to think that there must be a better way of living.

One day a old man had a eureka moment and he asked everybody to climb up the hill, so it will save them from floods and related problems. Everybody started to climb the hill and it was no easy task but with patience, slowly they started to climb with occasional stopping and camping on the way.

After days of climbing when they have reached sufficient height one lazy guy name cray-ji, asked people why shouldn’t we permanently live here, we have caves here, few waterfalls and fruit laden trees and river is so down below that it cannot be seen. Most of the people disagreed giving the reason that we aren’t far away, and in extreme one-in-a-thousand-year rain river may swell too high. Also they said who knows what beautiful and comfortable places lie ahead and they started to climb again leaving the cray-ji there.

After several months people were still climbing, most of them have forgotten why they were climbing, some enthusiastic people were so excited that they have found a purpose in life and that was to reach the top. There was a rush to reach the top before anybody. As they were reaching near the top, hill area was shrinking fast and was not able to sustain all of them. There was not much food, wind was blowing very fast, taking some climbers with it to the bottom from where they have come. Some got frustrated from this, said “climbing is useless and top a myth”, they renounced climbing and themselves jumped to the river from the cliff.

But the real men who were passionate for the topmost point and not to be deterred by temporary obstacles kept on climbing. Some made groups , elected a leader who will keep the foot on the top first. There struggle is still continuing….

Oh we forgot about cray-ji, he is still there near the bottom, eating drinking and sleeping in a cave.

Monkey from funkypur

2008-05-19T03:08:00.000-07:00

In the jungles of funkypur there was a monkey named ‘Kee’, and he was very famous and sought after.

Fellow monkeys envied him, various circus wanted him, as his experience and talent for juggling was immense and not so common.

Most of the funkypur could juggle two balls, some univer-shitty educated monkeys could juggle three and four, and some MBAs claimed to juggle many balls though nobody ever saw them juggling.

Kee could juggle ten balls and that was considered great despite the fact that some special monkeys could juggle dozens balls, still juggling 10 balls was a feat in itself. Due to this talent he jumped from one circus to other grabbing a better salary and status. Women were after him and he was the key attraction at parties. People would say he will eventually become the chief juggler in King’s circus.

But one day something unexpected happened and Kee quit juggling job at circus, chief juggler tried to persuade him that he is wasting his talent, he can achieve the greatest things in life, if he continued in the circus, which was one of the best and hired most talented ones, he could soon itself become chief juggler.

Kee replied yes I agree and quit.

Last Kee was seen juggling at a local party when he was in need of some money and he usually juggles in his home for his child.
Rest of the time ‘Kee’ is just eating, drinking and sleeping. He has found the key.

Oh, yes, circus found another guy who can juggle 123 balls and that is a new world record.

Coding theorem:

2008-04-28T02:12:00.000-07:00

Coding theorem:

You can not split your time or money into multiple people and expect same productivity

e.g.

5 people with worth 2 lakh salaray != 1 person with 10 lakh salary

5 people working for 2 hours daily != 1 person working for 10 hours

a person working for 5 days , 2 hrs daily != same person working for 10 hrs a day

also

5 people working for 2 hours daily < a person working for 5 days , 2 hrs daily < 1 person working for 10 hours

Nothing = Everything

2008-03-19T03:50:00.000-07:00

Nothing is better than Something

Though Something is not better than Everything.

Contradiction is right.

Political (in)correctness

2007-12-27T20:09:00.001-08:00

People are not ‘politically correct’ because they care about other people and their feelings but they want to save their neck.

A truly honest person will never be ‘politically correct’ but he will be correct, political correctness and shrewdness go hand in hand.

And why you need an adjective 'politically' when you are correct :)

Pain

2007-12-18T23:45:00.000-08:00

If you are in pain, physical bodily pain like hunger, fever or headache, it can be avoided but if not, it is still easy to understand the reason but if you are in mental pain/agony then you are the only one to be blamed, it is without reason.

Doing

2007-12-17T22:41:00.000-08:00

Doing whatever has to be done...
Doing whatever arrives to be done...
Doing whatever gets done...
Doing...Done.

Nano Toothbrush

2007-12-17T00:20:00.000-08:00

What if your tooth brush doesn’t have a handle, instead of it each bristle was very small automated robot which can go in your mouth and clean leftovers after a meal.?

What if those nano-bots got power from movement of your teeth?

What if you can direct them inside your mouth by pressurizing them so they know where to go?

What if you don’t have to spit the leftovers but nano-bots attahc that to themselves and you can swallow the mixed dirt which tasted great?

And what if they can be manufactured in huge quantities costing not more than dirt?

anUni tech. has just discovered such nano-bots called “Small Automated Usable Nano Particles for Health” or abbreviated to SAUNPH.

Isn’t it wild fantasy coming true?

life is a bitch

2007-12-10T03:30:00.001-08:00

Life is unpredicatable like an itch
and I will try not to ditch...
but what if I am bitten by a bitch?

imitation: stuff vs fluff

2007-12-10T03:11:00.000-08:00

How to separate stuff from fluff, or necessary things and unnecessary. Now if we go into meaning of necessity etc we will never end this discussion so just pretend we understand what it means.

A simple test can be of imitation, if a thing can be imitated functionally by a cheap imitation that thing is fluff (unnecessary).
You can apply it to objects, people and ideas too.

e.g. is gold jewelry fluff, yes a imitation/fake one will look as good as real one and nobody can make a difference by seeing it. Here I assume functionality of jewelry is to decorate. Similarly expensive branded goggles , watches , clothing can most of the time be faked (most of the time).

Take car, I have never seen a fake car being used by people, it must be a necessity :) . I understand this is very loos definition but still I think it has some iota of truth to it.

whatever

2007-12-05T00:18:00.000-08:00

do whatever
go wherever
this or that
here there nowhere
doesn't matter

Paradoxical Life

2007-12-03T20:18:00.000-08:00

I wonder why people kill themselves, I can understand if a person does it for fun but what’s the reason of dying when you are in misery?

We people are twisted and irrational and do lots of stuff which doesn't make sense e.g. driving to a supermarket 20 km away to get a free gift worth 10 bucks.
Basically we are penny wise pound foolish people, otherwise why a person who is ready to DIE will DIE?

Actually a person who is ready to DIE will live the life most happily.

I thing people who kill themselves do not want to DIE (paradox), or are they so bored or can't face themselves. Actually that may be the reason because most of the people I know get so bored in their company that they need someone else nearby all the time .

Leave the branch

2007-12-03T20:12:00.000-08:00

In life we do lots of absurd things, like cutting the same branch on which we are sitting. Maybe not literally but consequences are same. E.g. People are in stress, unhappy, addicted to things etc but they fail to reverse things because they want two contradictory things at a time. Someone wants love in life but still want to be detached so things don’t hurt or someone wants to eat all the things in the world but still don’t want to get fat.

So thing to do is jump out of the life as you would jump off the branch your are sitting on and start chopping, cutting and do whatever you want and it will not harm you a bit. Once you are able to do that you can do whatever you were doing love, job, robbery but with a little difference that all of this will be like acting.

Do you understand this? I don’t :)

Money Money

2007-12-03T20:06:00.000-08:00

Only thing worth earning in this world is money, and if you are trying to earn something whose end goal is not money you are on wrong path. (obviously happiness is the ultimate goal).

So if you are trying to get respect, trying to get knowledge to impress other, trying to be good, trying to be bad whatever then you are wrong.

You should not be trying anything and earning money if needed.

Money you earned must be for the purpose of spending not just for the sake of earning money.

Purpose of spending must again not be above mentioned things but only either to earn money or to do things which you would do if you were alone in this world except few things which local laws and customs require you to do.

Lie

2007-12-03T20:02:00.000-08:00

Jhoot Bola,
Jhoot Suna,
Jhoot Kaha,
Waha

Creativity = Good Eyes

2007-12-03T20:00:00.000-08:00

All intelligent behavior or creative output can be replaced by a black box which internally consists of two modules

1. Generator generates output in a desired domain e.g. random painting, music or code

2. Filter filters any input according to some criteria for good and bad.Now Generator can be a simple dumb module but Filter should have some basic intelligence to judge things.

So considering this hypothesis all great musicians or painter are not good creator but they are good judge of the art.So if I can judge a good thing from bad then I am creative enough. I am just lacking the generator function. Similarly lousy programmer can write good code if you have better testing.

Is alcohol bad?

2007-11-02T02:40:00.001-07:00

Now what does it mean? Obviously alcohol or any substance is not bad, what we are talking here is about human consumption of alcohol. Consuming alcohol has its drawbacks and benefits too and which are proven e.g. refer newscientist.com, what important is that in limited quantity it is beneficial and hence cannot be just categorized as bad.

Several things we eat or all of them also have some bad effects on health if not taken in limited amounts so this whole debate should be thought of objectively and it can be safely assumed that alcohol is as bad as many things we consume.

Obesity is the one of the fatal disease in world and in that sense food may be considered bad compared to alcohol. It has also been proved that fat is as bad as cigarettes when it comes to cancer.

Also addiction of anything or craving for anything can be considered bad and in that sense having alcohol out of habit or eating ice creams or chocolates is same thing.

So doing things which are not necessary is bad.

Whats is 'necessary' is a separate thing to be debated :)

You need not be good.

2007-11-01T01:28:00.000-07:00

For a society to be good it is not necessary for each individual to be good, but it is important that majority of people understand the difference between good and bad. It is also to be noted that I am not talking about good and bad in usual terms or some absolute meaning. Good and bad for a society will be decided by its majority or influential people and only having concept of such distinction between good and bad can lead a society toward good.

So you do not need to be good only knowing the difference and appreciating or rewarding people who do good is enough.

e.g. You think charity and helping poor is good but you don’t do it. That’s ok, your thinking can help this cause. All the people with money and power will help in your cause e.g. film stars do charity because they want to earn your respect. They have lots of money and they have all the things which money can buy so they use that money to buy respect by doing things respectable in a society.

Arranged or Love Marriage?

2007-10-31T01:54:00.000-07:00

Lots of people have asked this question lots of time… especially it is girls favorite pass time.
Most of the girls prefer love marriage and that is another proof that girls lack neurons dedicated to logical reasoning but that is a topic better discussed some other time.

Here I am going to list some points that I think will justify whatever choice you make. In my opinion if purpose of marriage is to have a long term sustainable happy relationship than arranged marriage is the best bet but if your idea of marriage is something different than no need of reading further.

So how can arranged marriage help in raising our probability of having a “long term sustainable happy relationship” called LTSHR from now on.
To understand that we must understand few basic problems with a love marriage

1. Love marriages are based on love not merit and we all know love is blind and in such case a person cannot objectively choose his partner for a LTSHR.

2. Love marriage comes with a baggage of expectations which when not fulfilled lead to dissatisfaction but in case of arranged marriages expectations may be there but there is no prior proof of that so people try to adjust.

3. It is human tendency to desire things and love them until they are beyond reach, but once you get it you lose interest e.g. you may like to buy a pair of okley and love the idea of wearing it and in your dreams you may feel great but once you get it that excitement will fade away soon and same happens in love too. That’s why it is said if you want to preserve love do not get married J

4. I think this is the most important point of all but a bit abstract. Love marriages are based on love which I think is the least understood word and different people mean different things when they say love. Moreover same person may mean something else sometime later and worse they do not really know what does it mean. At least I do not understand it and it’s a very loaded term and the nearest synonyms I can find is ‘addiction’.

So decisions based on desires and vague ideas may not be best way to attain LTSHR.

If these ideas doesn’t convince you think of this analogy:

Love marriage is a plant full of beautiful flowers and at its peak while arranged marriage is a empty pot with some dirty soil and few seeds in it.
Now if your decision is based on NOW you may choose love marriage but if you want LTSHR you will have to choose arranged marriage as we have a chance to grow a plant and bloom flowers in it with a little patience and work .
In case of love marriage plant is already grown and only way it can grow is the way to extinction…flowers will fade..leaves will fall sooner or later, in case of arranged marriage as you grow in relationship you have chance to grow more flowers.

Poem?

2007-10-30T04:45:00.000-07:00

When you lack words
and pleothra of thoughts hurt
write a poem
are poems thoughts without meaning

Just watch

2007-10-30T04:40:00.000-07:00

Birds Flying, we watching
you thinking, how beautiful
enjoying the flight
but she may be busy
doing her work...like you do
but she may be enoying that as you don't
or our words and worlds
work, enjoyment doesn't mean anything
to the flying bird
so stop analysing
Just watch
what i am doing?

Axiom of Life #1

2007-07-22T01:47:00.000-07:00

Agreed life has no purpose but still there must be something to guide the way thru life, we can live life in total chaos and that will be consistent way of living but at least we are semi-rational would like a single guiding factor....I think after going thru all the purposes which I can think or any body else can think of (which is not possible for me but I guess) is that every purpose has a underlying thought and i.e is

Axiom #1 To be Happy (Blissful)
Happiness does not only means getting pleasure, it is much more , it is to be at peace with yourself , to be in a almost base position, relaxed and happy. Correct word would be Sanskrit word 'Anand'.
So all thing we do should be directed to achieve happiness

Axioms of life

2007-07-22T01:36:00.000-07:00

Like any mathematical system , life can not be without few axioms or beliefs.
And as there can be N number of different axioms for a mathematical system , which leads to different type of systems e.g. euclidean geometry or non-euclidean geometry.
Similarly for life you can assume/believe different axioms and you life will totally be different, as it is all in the brain.

So we should decide axioms based on what we want to achieve or may be its round-about what we want to achieve could be the axiom no .1

Axiom No. 0 - Life has no purpose.
What else could be the purpose of life?
Purpose should be self consistent and should not go into infinite regression e.g.
if you say life's purpose is X, I may ask whats the purpose of 'X' and repeat same logic till infinity..
So only answer is it is purpose in itself and has not purpose outside the system or in other words it has no purpose.

Axiom No. 1

Meaning of life

2007-07-22T01:32:00.000-07:00

Every body who has come here (this blog) or this earth must know that there is a added 'F' in it.
So there is no meaning of life or in life, but life is without meaning and once you except that...
you are totally free ...
boundless
limitless
infinite
GOD itself...