(This is a reply given by me to the suggestion on a forum that it is now important to remove the two Indian political parties BJP and Congress.
I feel there is enough juice in it to share it on my blog too.
Text in squared brackets[like this] are grammatical correction or filled ommission.
The original thread is available here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/India-Force/messages/14035?threaded=1&m=e&var=1&tidx=1)
I am no expert in these subjects .. So don't call on details if you
want to explain me something .. My question is whether removing
Congress and BJP will really remove the roots of the problems ?
Currently corruption follows power. And a large part also follows
"power potential". If power shifts from BJP to Congress or from
Congress to BJP or any other party/ organization/ whatever, corruption
follows suite. Some corruption stays back if there is "power
potential" still remaining in the party. If there is another
party/organization which a part of corruption sees that it has "power
potential", it will move to that if circumstances affecting the
corruption's victim compulse it.
Where does this corruption come from? Citizens. Can you remove
corruption from citizens without corruption drive[ing] it's forces against
your plans? The corruption in Government( with a few lakh employees?)
does not have a chance against clean citizens (100 crore!!!). Can you
turn this growing population "problem" into a strength against
corruption (not just in the Government), thus being it's own
solution?.
The world is shrinking by the minute in terms of communication and
technology. So corruption can make it's way through those channels.
Can you make people immune to such channels of corruption? Can you
come up with an elaborate plan to block only corruption from various
channels of information exchange and then implement flawlessly all the
plans in one go? If you have a[ny] delay between to parts of plans,
corruption can slip through.
I am really sorry that I am not good at expressing everything I feel,
especially thoughts sift too quickly through my mind for me to
construct examples required to convey my ideas. May be that is where
my corruption point lies.
Can you do all the above in one go ? Then we may have a chance against
corruption.
(To this, Someone replied :)
yes sure to some extent. This is not a permanent solution but would work
miracles and help root out the problem once and for all time in near future.
(And my reply was:)
Yes. You are quite right. But unless you have the complete solution to
the problem of corruption, we must not attempt this. I will explain.
The circle of corruption is a vicious one. The Government is corrupted
because the citizens are corrupted. And the citizens are corrupted
because the government is corrupted. The citizens are supported by our
Government. So if we remove BJP and Congress, we should have something
in it's place that can fit and support us otherwise, as a society, we
will collapse. And of course, it goes without saying that it should be
able to withstand the corruption from the citizens and should be free
from corruption itself. Unfortunately, for most citizens it has become
a matter of pride to be corrupted. Any point of time where we need to
be corrupted should be a matter of sadness to us and we should not
stop at fixing our individual problems which forced us to be
corrupted. If a father died because of cigarette smoking, the son
should not continue smoking saying "My dad used to love smoking.. I am
smoking for him.". Instead he should fight against the people who
corrupt their body with unnecessary chemicals.
I completely understand that sometimes corruption becomes necessary to
avoid any glitches in the design of the Government. But instead of
being temporary, it becomes a permanent thing. Like an Asthma patient
getting addicted to the steroids. That is what we should be always
aware about and avoid.
BJP and Congress, are the fruits of such a society and thus the
corruption is concentrated there. Nothing wrong in it. They are our
own fruits. In the plan to remove it, we citizens should also include
ways of cleaning ourselves and in the mean time prepare a replacement
Government which is clean, strong and has a high resistance to
corruption as well.
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Aug 14, 2008
May 22, 2008
To think or not to think?
To think or not to think? That is the question. Lot of times we do mistakes because we sub-consciously decide not to think about the consequences.
At times the consequences of not thinking seem to be less costly than consequences of thinking.
Eg: ..
[The following situation has not happened to me] You are about to meet up with a huge client who will be discussing with you about the new contract. You are about to leave office when you do a childish but irritating mistake.
You obviously realize your mistake. Stopping to ask an excuse is the same as losing the client. Not asking an excuse means weakening your relationship with the colleague.
Losing the client on the other hand means losing the colleague entirely and surely anyway .. as you may be fired to lose such a huge client and won't remain as a colleague. So the best choice is obviously to leave immediately - You can always convey the apology later.
Now the question is ..
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are on your way to client's office help ? You may not get enough time to think about how to impress and win the client.
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are discussing with clients about the contract help? Again.. you might do a mistake that may make you lose the client.
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are on your way back help ? Unless you have a personal driver for your vehicle, this is a big no too. Feeling gloomy while riding is equivalent to drinking and driving. And the consequences might be you may not remain as a living being in the first place to go and ask for excuse or forgiveness.
Now most colleagues might understand this. Replace colleague with someone from home, like parents, wife or children. "You did not even have a bit of concern. You are an insensitive clod!". Of course, you must think about your loved ones too. You cannot blame your loved ones either. They have not faced thosituations. So the question is "to think or not to think?".
If you analyze thoroughly, the mistake you did in the first place was also because your sub-conscious was in a dilemma of whether to think or not.
At times the consequences of not thinking seem to be less costly than consequences of thinking.
Eg: ..
[The following situation has not happened to me] You are about to meet up with a huge client who will be discussing with you about the new contract. You are about to leave office when you do a childish but irritating mistake.
You obviously realize your mistake. Stopping to ask an excuse is the same as losing the client. Not asking an excuse means weakening your relationship with the colleague.
Losing the client on the other hand means losing the colleague entirely and surely anyway .. as you may be fired to lose such a huge client and won't remain as a colleague. So the best choice is obviously to leave immediately - You can always convey the apology later.
Now the question is ..
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are on your way to client's office help ? You may not get enough time to think about how to impress and win the client.
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are discussing with clients about the contract help? Again.. you might do a mistake that may make you lose the client.
Does thinking and feeling gloomy about this situation when you are on your way back help ? Unless you have a personal driver for your vehicle, this is a big no too. Feeling gloomy while riding is equivalent to drinking and driving. And the consequences might be you may not remain as a living being in the first place to go and ask for excuse or forgiveness.
Now most colleagues might understand this. Replace colleague with someone from home, like parents, wife or children. "You did not even have a bit of concern. You are an insensitive clod!". Of course, you must think about your loved ones too. You cannot blame your loved ones either. They have not faced thosituations. So the question is "to think or not to think?".
If you analyze thoroughly, the mistake you did in the first place was also because your sub-conscious was in a dilemma of whether to think or not.
May 2, 2008
Is gravity just a bug in software?
[Note: Personal memory dump.. Don't waste time if you don't get.. This is not supposed to make sense except for me.]
Is Gravity just artifact of a bug in the simulation software running the universe ?
Theory:
Taking Gravity as the curvature of space time. Why does it curve at all? Simulation "for loops" might be going over every particle (though not in X, Y or Z ,time dimension exactly). And because of some atomicity problem the positions might not be getting updated at the right moment. Or It might be that there are several(mind boggling number of) threads. And updating the position of each particle might have some atomicity problem. Or may be even some optimization artifact?? Or is God using Intel's FPUs :-P .
I can't make up anything now. There is something fundamentally wrong or lacking with what I already know. So I guess I must let these things rest a while and update my basics.
Is Gravity just artifact of a bug in the simulation software running the universe ?
Theory:
Taking Gravity as the curvature of space time. Why does it curve at all? Simulation "for loops" might be going over every particle (though not in X, Y or Z ,time dimension exactly). And because of some atomicity problem the positions might not be getting updated at the right moment. Or It might be that there are several(mind boggling number of) threads. And updating the position of each particle might have some atomicity problem. Or may be even some optimization artifact?? Or is God using Intel's FPUs :-P .
I can't make up anything now. There is something fundamentally wrong or lacking with what I already know. So I guess I must let these things rest a while and update my basics.
Apr 10, 2008
Why do people ask "What is the purpose of life?"
This is a snippet of chat that happened between me and my friend.
me: have you ever debugged a program ?
friend: tell me
friend: lol
friend: joke ?
me: yes or no
friend: yes
me: and then after a long while you realized you are trying to debug a program/procedure whose purpose is something you do not know ?
friend: yes
me: and you do that and realize because you are "tracing" the stack to find where the problem is.. right ?
friend: whats the point u r trying to say ?
me: yes or no
friend: yes
me: well I just realized that when we are frustrated with life, and try to find[trace] where the fault lies, we are doing the same thing
me: and that is how many of us come to the question "what is life ? What is it's purpose?"
me: have you ever debugged a program ?
friend: tell me
friend: lol
friend: joke ?
me: yes or no
friend: yes
me: and then after a long while you realized you are trying to debug a program/procedure whose purpose is something you do not know ?
friend: yes
me: and you do that and realize because you are "tracing" the stack to find where the problem is.. right ?
friend: whats the point u r trying to say ?
me: yes or no
friend: yes
me: well I just realized that when we are frustrated with life, and try to find[trace] where the fault lies, we are doing the same thing
me: and that is how many of us come to the question "what is life ? What is it's purpose?"
Promises
Some promises we make personally, may not be really personal. From time immemorial when humans have been making promises to their spouses or children that they will even bring the moon to earth for them.
We have brought back at least the pieces of moon.
Similarly, spouses have also made promises to "take you far far away".
Though humans have not gone farther than the moon, the missions for "farther and farther away" are not far away in time.
I feel these promises comprise more of a dream than a promise.
If you come across more of these "promise"s please add them as comments.
We have brought back at least the pieces of moon.
Similarly, spouses have also made promises to "take you far far away".
Though humans have not gone farther than the moon, the missions for "farther and farther away" are not far away in time.
I feel these promises comprise more of a dream than a promise.
If you come across more of these "promise"s please add them as comments.
Apr 5, 2008
Mar 13, 2008
My goal in life
Enthusiastically exercise my talents to be useful to those people who want to be useful and good to those people who want to be useful and good to ...
Feb 29, 2008
Is Microsoft like a shaving mirror to rest of the businesses
This was a dump of my thought process and is not expected to be comprehensible. If you attain any success in parsing and gaining anything from this, please leave a comment ;-) .
Most of the times, I just hate the way Microsoft's business strategies are built. But try comparing them with complete frankness to all other software companies, and to all businesses in general. Microsoft, though has so many bad business practices, most of it are just what other companies do too.
But the hatred we feel is actually not hatred, but the fear that says this : " We are a small company, and if we do this mistake, it is not going to affect the world/humanity much. But If Microsoft does the same mistake, because of Microsoft's size it is going to affect the whole world/humanity in an irreversible way.".
What we need to realize is, though the above concern is right, Microsoft somehow ends up exaggerating and being supported by the malpractices of other companies, thus being a reflection to other companies. And hence, every mistake small companies do ends up being equally effective on the world. So if rest of the companies start an effort to be more benign, the effect will be that Microsoft and other big companies will have no choice but to be more benign.
This is true not only when it comes to big companies like Microsoft, but other big organizations like governments. What you feed them is what they will be and that is what you will get back. The size of the organization matters very much. Because, as the organization keeps recruiting people, and grows, the time and attitude at which they are recruited makes, will get added to the larger "organization" it is going to form, just like the rings you can see in a tree that can tell you a complete history about the tree. Thus the "attitude restoration" in larger companies will need more effort. And if the size of a company is huge, and it's business section is headed and filled by lot of people who are chameleons, it will be a huge effort to change it. What we are afraid is it may go out of control. What can help it, as I mentioned earlier that the small companies do affect the whole ecosystem, that the smaller companies and individual must be more aware and must make the right choices. Because the larger organization know that it will be a larger effort for it to change over, it will make it's efforts to influence the "rest of the world" to slow down as well, so that they can sustain the operations.
As a conclusion, I would like to request all the people. from big and small organizations alike, to give importance to "practice what you preach" and always have a "fair fight" by giving all the advantages, disadvantages, the current situation, the future, and all such things as equal and unbiased priorities as possible. At this point, It seems that I am discouraging the "finger pointing". No. What I am discouraging is baseless finger pointing,and finger pointing in others that is your own mistake.
This was an attempt to bring Microsoft, lock-in vendors and the Indian government, who usually become my favorite punching bags under a fair and unbiased analysis. Please do not take any expressions in this article literally.
Most of the times, I just hate the way Microsoft's business strategies are built. But try comparing them with complete frankness to all other software companies, and to all businesses in general. Microsoft, though has so many bad business practices, most of it are just what other companies do too.
But the hatred we feel is actually not hatred, but the fear that says this : " We are a small company, and if we do this mistake, it is not going to affect the world/humanity much. But If Microsoft does the same mistake, because of Microsoft's size it is going to affect the whole world/humanity in an irreversible way.".
What we need to realize is, though the above concern is right, Microsoft somehow ends up exaggerating and being supported by the malpractices of other companies, thus being a reflection to other companies. And hence, every mistake small companies do ends up being equally effective on the world. So if rest of the companies start an effort to be more benign, the effect will be that Microsoft and other big companies will have no choice but to be more benign.
This is true not only when it comes to big companies like Microsoft, but other big organizations like governments. What you feed them is what they will be and that is what you will get back. The size of the organization matters very much. Because, as the organization keeps recruiting people, and grows, the time and attitude at which they are recruited makes, will get added to the larger "organization" it is going to form, just like the rings you can see in a tree that can tell you a complete history about the tree. Thus the "attitude restoration" in larger companies will need more effort. And if the size of a company is huge, and it's business section is headed and filled by lot of people who are chameleons, it will be a huge effort to change it. What we are afraid is it may go out of control. What can help it, as I mentioned earlier that the small companies do affect the whole ecosystem, that the smaller companies and individual must be more aware and must make the right choices. Because the larger organization know that it will be a larger effort for it to change over, it will make it's efforts to influence the "rest of the world" to slow down as well, so that they can sustain the operations.
As a conclusion, I would like to request all the people. from big and small organizations alike, to give importance to "practice what you preach" and always have a "fair fight" by giving all the advantages, disadvantages, the current situation, the future, and all such things as equal and unbiased priorities as possible. At this point, It seems that I am discouraging the "finger pointing". No. What I am discouraging is baseless finger pointing,and finger pointing in others that is your own mistake.
This was an attempt to bring Microsoft, lock-in vendors and the Indian government, who usually become my favorite punching bags under a fair and unbiased analysis. Please do not take any expressions in this article literally.
Feb 7, 2008
Is our brain designed for fourier analysis ?
I am 25 years old and have seen many ups and downs in life. Not just when it comes to mood, but also several other things like social life, interests in different subjects, the way I treat different aspects of life, etc.
Now more often than not, and as I grew , I have been able to sense sinusoidal ups and downs . Don't ask me which ones and how, but I have been able to also sense that the factors that I used to perceive when I was younger which have other forms of ups and downs like square, triangle, irregular, actually don't exist as themselves , but are further broken down to other factors that have proper sinusoidal ups and downs.
That leaves a question in mind : Does everything that happen actually just a combination of several different sinusoidal waves, which control "Macro" things in our life? Is it just that our brain actually keeps doing Fourier analysis ? Is our life actually God's "listening" process of some "music" that is being played? The music that is constituted by all those "ups and downs" that we feel ?
Another question: What are emotions? How do they affect ? Who induces "Interest"s in particular persons ?
Now more often than not, and as I grew , I have been able to sense sinusoidal ups and downs . Don't ask me which ones and how, but I have been able to also sense that the factors that I used to perceive when I was younger which have other forms of ups and downs like square, triangle, irregular, actually don't exist as themselves , but are further broken down to other factors that have proper sinusoidal ups and downs.
That leaves a question in mind : Does everything that happen actually just a combination of several different sinusoidal waves, which control "Macro" things in our life? Is it just that our brain actually keeps doing Fourier analysis ? Is our life actually God's "listening" process of some "music" that is being played? The music that is constituted by all those "ups and downs" that we feel ?
Another question: What are emotions? How do they affect ? Who induces "Interest"s in particular persons ?
Feb 6, 2008
The greatest magic show.
A pile of mud. Lifeless, inanimate, simplistic pile of mud. Lying on the ground or flowing around at the whim of the wind's and gravity's wishes. Stones, rocks, rivers. All behaving exactly as simple physics could explain.
Now imagine a part of the pile of the mud thinking for itself, being able to control where it goes, or may be collect water from the ground, energy from the sun, and channel, store it for future. Now wouldn't it be the most amazing magic trick you could see?
The magic pile of mud that could be you, your pet, the moss growing on a stone in your backyard, the snail feeding on it, the bird high up in the air planning to do a "drop" on your car you just washed.
This magic show is called "Life". Life is the most amazing magic shows you can witness. Don't miss it ! And please don't mess with it.
Now imagine a part of the pile of the mud thinking for itself, being able to control where it goes, or may be collect water from the ground, energy from the sun, and channel, store it for future. Now wouldn't it be the most amazing magic trick you could see?
The magic pile of mud that could be you, your pet, the moss growing on a stone in your backyard, the snail feeding on it, the bird high up in the air planning to do a "drop" on your car you just washed.
This magic show is called "Life". Life is the most amazing magic shows you can witness. Don't miss it ! And please don't mess with it.
Jan 30, 2008
Are we mosquitoes?
Ouch.. grr.. Splat .. Haaaa
I just killed a mosquito. It was sucking the blood produced by hard work from my body by piercing through my skin, giving me pain and probably even diseases.
Was the last mosquito bite a punishment from God ? Was it right of me to kill the mosquito and thus stop the punishment ? Why would God be punishing me .. Is there any time when I did something similar to someone else ? Not just as me, but as a part of the society ?
Oh God .. Are all the oil rigs causing pain to mother Earth ? Just imagine.. The oil rigs pierce through the earth's crust like a syringe.. and suck out the oil from it.. oil stored and produced for thousands of years.. Are we really doing this to mother earth?
Okay. Now pause emotions and let rationality play. Those oils are just there from thousands of years produced by beings which were alive thousands of years ago. Of use to nobody otherwise. What is wrong with us using it ?
What could go wrong?
like
Till then all I can do is sit and pray to mother earth. "Oh Mother Earth, the greed and laziness of millions are at work at this. I will pray to them to control their laziness and greed. Forgive me as a child, or punish me as a part of this evil supporting society. "
And I also pray to my fellow beings "Let us all analyze this truthfully, and see if we are hurting Mother Earth. Let us exercise our truthfulness and intelligence into it. And if we are hurting mother earth, let us pro-actively change to better and renewable sources of energy."
I just killed a mosquito. It was sucking the blood produced by hard work from my body by piercing through my skin, giving me pain and probably even diseases.
Was the last mosquito bite a punishment from God ? Was it right of me to kill the mosquito and thus stop the punishment ? Why would God be punishing me .. Is there any time when I did something similar to someone else ? Not just as me, but as a part of the society ?
Oh God .. Are all the oil rigs causing pain to mother Earth ? Just imagine.. The oil rigs pierce through the earth's crust like a syringe.. and suck out the oil from it.. oil stored and produced for thousands of years.. Are we really doing this to mother earth?
Okay. Now pause emotions and let rationality play. Those oils are just there from thousands of years produced by beings which were alive thousands of years ago. Of use to nobody otherwise. What is wrong with us using it ?
What could go wrong?
- pollution.
- cavity under land
- unstable geo plates
like
- how much crude oil is available
- what are the shapes of it ?
- how deep is it ?
- how do we get it ?
- how much are we spending ?
- how good and strong is the skin of earth that is holding us ?
- how efficiently are we spending ?
Till then all I can do is sit and pray to mother earth. "Oh Mother Earth, the greed and laziness of millions are at work at this. I will pray to them to control their laziness and greed. Forgive me as a child, or punish me as a part of this evil supporting society. "
And I also pray to my fellow beings "Let us all analyze this truthfully, and see if we are hurting Mother Earth. Let us exercise our truthfulness and intelligence into it. And if we are hurting mother earth, let us pro-actively change to better and renewable sources of energy."
Jan 28, 2008
Indian software end-user's situation.
This is a modified version of my mail http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-June/003378.html
in the http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-June/003374.html thread
The [current software] scenario [in India] is such that the most people away from the s/w industry take software for granted, without considering the license [Doh! They dont even know that there is such a thing as a "license" for software]. When a non-industrial Indian installs software , they just press "next" when the License page is displayed.. Just as their hardware vendor or the next door "computer guru" had taught them.
And for those who do (may be if they have nothing else to read and bored ;-) ), they dont care because for most of them avoiding taxes and law is a matter of business and pride. It is a small percentage of "educated" population who really care about education.
As such [type of] people are more [, and] have flooded, communication between really ethical people [who have thus become sparse], with thirst for knowledge always gets either poisoned or blocked by the other "majority". As such, even for a person who is very ethical - who prays to God, you can find him using "Pirated Software" with all the good glory going on in his mind with the ignorance of Licensing.. You can find educational institution being opened up by lighting a Lamp in front of the Lord, providing IT education ... on pirated software.
In such a place where people are ignorant that ethics also apply very much to "new technology", you can find plenty of such mistakes like that of Sarath. [ And Sarath at least by my imagination, has done his work with a good mind - of bringing Free Software to the masses. And It has also been learnt that it is the ignorant media which over-glorified Sarath that he had developed a "New operating system", while Sarath struggled to explain them he only re-mastered Knoppix ]
In a different angle, there are these so called "Computer People" and "Computer scientists", upon whom other people used to look as Gods. Their word was always final. These software people or in newer terms "hardware vendors" or "computer assemblers", when questioned about the dialog they used to get about the license, just used to say "just ignore it .. press next". Their words were final. The user was bound to press next. And for the hardware vendors, they too were affected with the pride of avoiding the law. It used to (and still does) gives them the feeling "the law doesn't apply to me. I am the King". They dont realise themselves as part of the community [when thinking about being lawfull. Their brain somehow masks it]. And for those few who did, were crushed by the business of those who didnt.
in the http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-June/003374.html thread
The [current software] scenario [in India] is such that the most people away from the s/w industry take software for granted, without considering the license [Doh! They dont even know that there is such a thing as a "license" for software]. When a non-industrial Indian installs software , they just press "next" when the License page is displayed.. Just as their hardware vendor or the next door "computer guru" had taught them.
And for those who do (may be if they have nothing else to read and bored ;-) ), they dont care because for most of them avoiding taxes and law is a matter of business and pride. It is a small percentage of "educated" population who really care about education.
As such [type of] people are more [, and] have flooded, communication between really ethical people [who have thus become sparse], with thirst for knowledge always gets either poisoned or blocked by the other "majority". As such, even for a person who is very ethical - who prays to God, you can find him using "Pirated Software" with all the good glory going on in his mind with the ignorance of Licensing.. You can find educational institution being opened up by lighting a Lamp in front of the Lord, providing IT education ... on pirated software.
In such a place where people are ignorant that ethics also apply very much to "new technology", you can find plenty of such mistakes like that of Sarath. [ And Sarath at least by my imagination, has done his work with a good mind - of bringing Free Software to the masses. And It has also been learnt that it is the ignorant media which over-glorified Sarath that he had developed a "New operating system", while Sarath struggled to explain them he only re-mastered Knoppix ]
In a different angle, there are these so called "Computer People" and "Computer scientists", upon whom other people used to look as Gods. Their word was always final. These software people or in newer terms "hardware vendors" or "computer assemblers", when questioned about the dialog they used to get about the license, just used to say "just ignore it .. press next". Their words were final. The user was bound to press next. And for the hardware vendors, they too were affected with the pride of avoiding the law. It used to (and still does) gives them the feeling "the law doesn't apply to me. I am the King". They dont realise themselves as part of the community [when thinking about being lawfull. Their brain somehow masks it]. And for those few who did, were crushed by the business of those who didnt.
Where is God?
This is a rather old writing of mine and resided at http://geocities.com/kamathln
The grammar and style of writing may be unsatisfactory .. so please tolerate :-) Text in square brackets [like this] are my new comments to text in red
When an old person searches for his/her glasses with them on already, we joke about it. Well how good are we at finding things? . God is all around us, even within us. And we ask God where he is! Well, if he is already around us why don't we see him? - These types of conversation might have gone on between the common spiritualists. The main problem is they don't say it properly, which leads to confusion! - "What do you mean by he is already around us?"
Let us discuss "WHAT" this god is. He keeps track of all the good and bad of what we do. He is responsible for the judgment of every action of what we do, what each and every thing does. From galaxies in total to each atom , each particle in an atom , each quark in the particle and what not. So, what is this guy? The answer is that God is the total sum of all existence. "Now what is this again ?" you might ask.
Compare the human brain and its cell. There are millions of zillions of these tiny wonders of the nature which on their own are hardly capable of thinking or taking complex decision like we do. But we cannot and do not take lightly the power of them being together and communicating to each other. We believe that every action we do leaves a vibration that can be sensed by the stars and other heavenly objects [I would love to rephrase this as "We beleive that every action we do, does affect every other element of the universe, in some way or other, whether perceptible to the human or not. This might be the way things are communicated or 'Signalled' between objects of the universe"]. "These vibrations are be very very subtle and can be neglected" is what a usual arguer or a common scientist comes out with. But here is where our "Brain cell argument" comes into picture. The effect of the signal from one cell can reach the brain even being so little ! This is because the signal reaches many neighboring cells. Now think about the "SIGNALS" that we leave or any other entity leaves. These do not reach just one star or heavenly object. These reach more than 10^11 (that is a number with 11 zeroes after a 10)stars in our own galaxy. Now that itself is a huge number. Then just realize that the signals actually reach out to 10^22 stars in the whole universe (that is the estimate the scientists have given us). And those are not just the stars that are out there on the black canvas at night. So by comparing it to the brain, we may guess that this whole thing might be able to "think" and "decide" about the signals got. And also try to realize what would be the effect on us if all these 10^22 stars sent signals back to us or the entity about their decision? Don't you think they have the power to act their decision on us or our environment? Cant this complex structure be the actual GOD? I agree that as the sun and the other planets, our moon , all these things are much closer to us than the other thing on the night sky, the effect of our action will be signalled strongly to these. And that is why the calculation of the good astrologers is always almost correct. But as they neglect the effect of the other heavenly bodies, their calculations can never be so perfect! Let us finally come to the answer. For the answer to be clear, let me change the question a bit: "Where are we?". The answer is ,"We are inside God".
The grammar and style of writing may be unsatisfactory .. so please tolerate :-) Text in square brackets [like this] are my new comments to text in red
When an old person searches for his/her glasses with them on already, we joke about it. Well how good are we at finding things? . God is all around us, even within us. And we ask God where he is! Well, if he is already around us why don't we see him? - These types of conversation might have gone on between the common spiritualists. The main problem is they don't say it properly, which leads to confusion! - "What do you mean by he is already around us?"
Let us discuss "WHAT" this god is. He keeps track of all the good and bad of what we do. He is responsible for the judgment of every action of what we do, what each and every thing does. From galaxies in total to each atom , each particle in an atom , each quark in the particle and what not. So, what is this guy? The answer is that God is the total sum of all existence. "Now what is this again ?" you might ask.
Compare the human brain and its cell. There are millions of zillions of these tiny wonders of the nature which on their own are hardly capable of thinking or taking complex decision like we do. But we cannot and do not take lightly the power of them being together and communicating to each other. We believe that every action we do leaves a vibration that can be sensed by the stars and other heavenly objects [I would love to rephrase this as "We beleive that every action we do, does affect every other element of the universe, in some way or other, whether perceptible to the human or not. This might be the way things are communicated or 'Signalled' between objects of the universe"]. "These vibrations are be very very subtle and can be neglected" is what a usual arguer or a common scientist comes out with. But here is where our "Brain cell argument" comes into picture. The effect of the signal from one cell can reach the brain even being so little ! This is because the signal reaches many neighboring cells. Now think about the "SIGNALS" that we leave or any other entity leaves. These do not reach just one star or heavenly object. These reach more than 10^11 (that is a number with 11 zeroes after a 10)stars in our own galaxy. Now that itself is a huge number. Then just realize that the signals actually reach out to 10^22 stars in the whole universe (that is the estimate the scientists have given us). And those are not just the stars that are out there on the black canvas at night. So by comparing it to the brain, we may guess that this whole thing might be able to "think" and "decide" about the signals got. And also try to realize what would be the effect on us if all these 10^22 stars sent signals back to us or the entity about their decision? Don't you think they have the power to act their decision on us or our environment? Cant this complex structure be the actual GOD? I agree that as the sun and the other planets, our moon , all these things are much closer to us than the other thing on the night sky, the effect of our action will be signalled strongly to these. And that is why the calculation of the good astrologers is always almost correct. But as they neglect the effect of the other heavenly bodies, their calculations can never be so perfect! Let us finally come to the answer. For the answer to be clear, let me change the question a bit: "Where are we?". The answer is ,"We are inside God".
Jan 15, 2008
Jan 13, 2008
Truth, Beauty and Justice
A lot of people try to convince me that I am too much "alone". I would like to quote this from Albert Einstein.
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation". - Sir Albert Einstein
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation". - Sir Albert Einstein
Stop fighting for this speck of dust.
I have always argued that compared to the universe, the earth is just a speck of dust. And for this speck of dist we try to fight for land, power and everything that our human mind can think of. Isn't it simply stupid?
I wanted to write down analogies which can help people perceive how small our earth is, and hence how small and powerless we humans are in front of the universe, how insignificant we are in comparison to the universe.
As I was thinking of analogies, it suddenly occurred to me that someone on the net might already have done that. I went ahead and searched, and I got almost perfectly what I was expecting. Please read go through the results of http://www.google.com/search?q=sun+earth+milky+way+size+comparison and realize how stupid it is to have hatred based on religions, caste, occupation, nation.... skin colour ! (ROTFL) hohoho!.
Update:
YouTube - How big is the Universe?
The universe - How big are you?
YouTube - Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)
YouTube - Large scale simulation of the universe
More Updates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
I wanted to write down analogies which can help people perceive how small our earth is, and hence how small and powerless we humans are in front of the universe, how insignificant we are in comparison to the universe.
As I was thinking of analogies, it suddenly occurred to me that someone on the net might already have done that. I went ahead and searched, and I got almost perfectly what I was expecting. Please read go through the results of http://www.google.com/search?q=sun+earth+milky+way+size+comparison and realize how stupid it is to have hatred based on religions, caste, occupation, nation.... skin colour ! (ROTFL) hohoho!.
Update:
YouTube - How big is the Universe?
The universe - How big are you?
YouTube - Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)
YouTube - Large scale simulation of the universe
More Updates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Dec 30, 2007
The spirit of Wikipedia / FOSS and Sir Albert Einstein
The spirit that drives Free and Open Source Software and Wikipedia is based on that of the knowledge as a property of humanity and "sharing knowledge" the essence of human life, thus making it a duty of every human being. I always felt it as necessary for the current generation of students of all fields and grades to cultivate this spirit.
My thrill knew no bounds when I read an address to students made by my favorite scientist of all times - Sir Albert Einstein :
" My dear Children,
I rejoice to see you before me to-day, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance, in order that you may recieve it, honour it, add to it, and one day dutifully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things we create in common.
If you always keep this in mind you will find a meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude towards other nations and ages. "
It is this address that kicked me out of my laziness, and urged to create a blog - so that I can share my knowledge and ideas, and care the other steps : "add"ing and "dutifully hand"ing, in addition to the "reciev"ing and "honour"ing that I have always done.
My thrill knew no bounds when I read an address to students made by my favorite scientist of all times - Sir Albert Einstein :
" My dear Children,
I rejoice to see you before me to-day, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance, in order that you may recieve it, honour it, add to it, and one day dutifully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things we create in common.
If you always keep this in mind you will find a meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude towards other nations and ages. "
It is this address that kicked me out of my laziness, and urged to create a blog - so that I can share my knowledge and ideas, and care the other steps : "add"ing and "dutifully hand"ing, in addition to the "reciev"ing and "honour"ing that I have always done.
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