Thursday, September 28, 2006 

When its a dead end

People who know me for sometime would acknowledge that i could pick an argument about anything and everything; I would definitely vouch for it. Not that i am a fighter cock, i like discussing about things and my way is of the questioning type. I happily rely on logic for my arguments.

I recently picked up an argument with my fellow colleague. He was leaving our company and seeking another career. Out of genuine interest, I asked him as to what he wanted to become in life and as to why he chose this new career and the particular domain. He told me that he was interested in management and didn't want to do a content type of role. I asked him as to how he knew that he was good in management. He said that he wanted to be in the decision-making arena rather than truck on the operational issues.

It was getting interesting, I wanted to provoke him with what i learned in MBA and with good intent, I told management needs a lot of interpersonal skills and asked him whether he was comfortable with it. He replied that he was comfortable with people. I wanted to dig deeper, I asked him as to what he was good at, for example being analytical, creative, leadership or intutive. He out rightly replied without any reflection "I would excel in whatever i do and it should not be problem".

I said that its fine that you can do everything but there must that something which comes to you naturally. He was still stubborn on defensiveness and replied that there is nothing that i am so good or bad but i can do what i am given. He started coming personally at me and asked why don't you tell me what my dreams were in life and what comes to me naturally. I apprised him about my dreams and what comes to me naturally. He gave a very brunt reply "I really can't accept what you are saying". Oops, I didn't know what to say when somebody was trying to negate my views without giving any reason to it. I am not feeling bad about somebody opposing my views; i was rather disappointed that they had not cited reasons for it.

I knew if the argument continued, it would unnecessarily end up in a personal tussle rather than contesting on the content, which we were discussing. I stopped and observed his body language and found that he had his hands pocketed.

As he was a good friend of me, after sometime i told him that it is not necessary that two people need to have the same point of view. I just asked him why don't you reflect on what i say instead of out rightly rejecting. I also told him that even his body language suggested that he was very defensive and that’s why i didn't want to continue. He dared to give a damn about it and quipped I don't believe in body language and it is not true. Boy, oh Boy, how do we deal with people who don't want to accept a point of view without even quoting a reason for it. As i know him, he was very logical in his work and somehow got illogical in this one-off situation.

It happens everywhere, the stock markets crash not because the companies performed badly, its merely because that greed propelled by irrationality overwhelms logic. We follow humpty number of procedures and superstitions with full confidence on our ancestors. Most of them could be really being built on the context and could have perfectly fit that situation. We need not totally discard them, we need to just understand what we are trying to do and that comes through reasoning.

Logic has its own limitations as well, that’s what Immanuel Kant tries to say in his book "critique of pure reason”. Everything cannot be logically explained, as they may not be comphrendable by the limited dimension of our thinking. That doesn't give the liberty to waive off logic; it can be applied to the extent where it can be and most of the times reasoning ends at the apriori which need to be taken in good faith.

Now to the all-important question how do you combat non-rationality with rationality? Simple, its either we need to impart rationality, the basic premise is that we can discuss something only when everybody understands the subject of contention in the same way and have substantiation for it. If we can't, it’s better not to argue because we cannot understand what the other has to say. Now what if we have to co-exit, its better to accept as they are and wait till each of them reach a capability to understand each other

Sunday, September 24, 2006 

Appendix to Crap


Until my venture into blogging,I had seriously under estimated my caliber to create, process and output crap.I always wanted to be very sensible in what i do and i truly acknowledge that sensibility is very relative. A chum of mine used to call me up and ask me, as to how i could crap so much in my blog whereas he had to slog the entire week in work. The funny part is that work seems to be coming at him incessantly. I ended up only in an inevitable question, as to how people read, write and discuss crap?

I watched the movie Vetaiyadu Villaiyadu for the second time last week; it was only out of my penchant for Kamal Hassan, although the film would only find three and an half stars in my rating. It is an investigative story where our hero unravels the "mystery" of two psychopath killers who are on a killing spree, right from their adolescence. They murder and only murder, for a change, the modus operandi was more explicitly shown, compared to the earlier psycho thrillers seen by the Tamil audience.

When i saw it the first time, i felt the movie was stretched a little too much in the second half. The identity of the psycho killers is disentangled just 10 minutes after the intermission. There is a bloody tryst with the hero and one of the killer briefs us, as to how they muttoned and chickened people during the course of their journey. Guess what, we had to wait for another hour for them to be captured and be given an equally admirable departure from mother earth.

By Hollywood standards, the movie should not have prolonged for more than 25 min once their identity was revealed. This movie had to be filled with a cop romance and a spicy number in the remaining reels to keep them glued to their seats. Had the movie been tailored of the fillers, it would have been a better psycho thriller, which we don't get to see that often in Indian cinemas.

When i watched it the second time, there was no excitement in knowing the mystery but i started to get into the screenplay. I just waived off the fillers in my mind, know what, the impact was very intense. It would easily affect a vulnerable mind (Only one in a million becomes a psycho killer) and now i got the importance of the crap in between. I am not saying that romance is needed to dissuade the violent stir in the mind. I just got to understand that the may be the audience are not mature enough to leave the impact when they leave the cinema halls. May be that is the reason we don't get to see Desperado or Basic Instinct type movies in Indian Cinema. I am encouraged that bollywood movies are catching up with vigor.

May be, this was a specific case where crap was essential, i started to rewind the crapy things i have done in my Life. Believe me or not, when i used to be in my teens, i would watch cricket, be it local/ domestic/ international of both one day/test format played between any two countries. I used to ponder, had i spend that time preparing for IIT-JEE or in any reading books of interest or learning an art, i would have been a better individual now.

Nothing has changed now, only the means has changed, we have a session called "Chaya Bench" with some of my fellow colleagues in my company where we take no shame to kill time, to amuse ourselves of even non-intellectual/ insensible discussions. We give all names to it "de-stress ourselves amidst work”. I have started reading very weird topics, all in the name of, thirst to seek answers for my questions

When i walk through Landmark now, i really wonder as to how people have the bent to gulp volumes of self help books when the truth is that nobody can teach us to live life rather than ourselves. The local lingual papers publish such crap when there are so many burning social issues, when we think about in our right senses; it’s hard to resist a dream of kicking the editor. Some times it amazes me as to how govt takes the honor of setting up liquor shops instead of banning them all together. Why at all we need social workers?.How do people have the patience to watch illogical movies?

Am i trying to act too smart in suggesting that most people are insensible and they have no lucid thinking?. I would have succeeded if gave you had a glimpse of it at least once during the time you read this, if you didn't i have succeeded even then.

I badly want to give conclusions, analyze the behavior of people, get to the roots of why crap is necessary for life. I want to write another crapy article about it. I suddenly felt i should not burden the reader anymore.

I'll just say this. As long as we are humans we cannot resist thoughts, actions and deeds. Everybody goes through different stages in life. There is as such nothing-called sensibility and absurd. It is very contextual and subject to judgment.An idle mind is devil's workshop.

I 'ill seek the help of Pareto's 20-80 principle this time
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice
-Richard Bach

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 

When the herd thinks its smart

In my endless drive to observe things, i got to tweak on this incident.I usually take an auto to my office after the autowalla and me unconsciously play game theory, arrive at the intended mid thirties although we start at extreme ends of tweens and bi-tweens.

Primarily, the autowallas take two routes to my office with minor modifications at the end.The routes are almost such that we can either take the sides of the right triangle or travel along the hypotenuse.For people who are trained to pythagoras theorem, would obviously choose the hypotenuse as we save distance as its logically the shortest distance.

Today my autowalla took the path along the sides, thats when i suggested that we could have taken the hypotenuse route.He gave me very an astounding answer without any sense of pride, but it revealed immense insight.He said its true that the distance is short, but the time taken would be longer.He didn't stop there, he followed it with his logic for it as well.

Most of the people think that it is the shortest route and the road ends up in heavy traffic and we loose time.Giving wings to my green thinking, I thought we would atleast save on petrol as we travel shorter distance.He clipped that even before i had thoughts of flying.He said that we have three signals in the hypotenuse road and the amount of petrol burnt waiting for the signals is far exceeding the amount spent by taking the sides of the right angle.I wanted to revoke my B.Tech degree in utter shame.

The herd thinks its smart and ends up only creating an illusionary perception that we can reach our goals faster.We fail to recognise that everybody is as smart as we are.I started to recollect some of the herd phenomenons which i got to observe in the past .Everybody wanted to do engineering when i came out of my higher secondary education and the craze has eased out now .Everybody wanted to be in IT & Software industry as the fad gained momentum, later only to find that, they don't find commensurate jobs due to extreme competition and inadequate competence.

Now i kept thinking, what do really smart people do, they don't take the popular route.They deny the mass-thinking.I could recollect of a popular Wall street analyst who would not track a stock which is tracked by more than 10 analyst, his logic was that there is no fun tracking them as the market would be overloaded with piles of information , which gives least thrill in tracking a stock.There is friend of mine who is serious biblomanic, he had a strange rule, he would not read a popular book, he would say "if its for the commom masses, its not for me".

I thought, i was coming to some premature conclusions.May be what i say is right in the short term, but in the long run every system try to reach a equilibrium when all routes take similar time periods and petrol consumption.Now the tricky situation is that we all live only for short periods and its not easy to determine the period as well.

"To succeed, one should be the first or the best or different"

Monday, September 18, 2006 

Priorities in Life !!

As we go through our day we follow a set of task which are based on certain rule of priority or ally randomness (At times i feel that randomness is also chosen with will/consent).There was priority when you choose to browse this article or you may leave it midway as you have a better work to do.

This even applies to our decisions in life as well, we are always confronted with humpty number of decisions and we seek the decisions based on our judgment prudent then.The complexities arise when we need to take mutually exclusive decisions, to be lucid , the "now or never decisions" which are totally irreversible and exist in monopoly.

I was trying to apparently peep into factors that contribute to our priority, the first factor that beckoned my attention was the "being - tobe factor".It depends on what we are currently and what we want to be in future.These factors are completely an outcome of our conditioning which is a close proxy to our value system.There are values which we hold very close to us, which are basically the core values which are hardly compromised and the other type called the attributed values which are compromised when situtions arise.When we try to look back at our past decisions, we can observe that our priority was mostly taken to align with our core values.

Now what if we are confronted with a decision tree which has branches which are mutually conflicting with our core values (everthing is possible you know).What if both core values are equally important (I don't believe in equal importance because there can't be one like that, atleast that is what my past conditioning has made me perceive) and that state leads to a intersting situation, we choose to succumb to randomness (most of the times, the outcome of the decision is the core value which is superior although we might be confused about the priority in core value).

The other factors that came to me was inertia and time.There are times when we totally move with the factors that guided us in the past to guide our current decision.Having caught up in world of casuality determined by space-time, certain decisions are taken with insufficient time its rule is mostly determined by inertia and core values.

As days get by, our priorties change in life as we continously evolve in a flux of situations and our values find a new equlibrium at every moment.Every decision is right at that moment and can't be ridiculed as well.Its absolutely essential to have our core values tuned before we make big decisions in life. Never should we be struck in interia, we should strive to learn what is right and wrong and what priorities we have in life.The funny part is that what might be in the list now may not exist as we contemplate later in life.

Thursday, September 14, 2006 

Eureka!! Eureka!!

I just discovered the ammunition in the human mind.

Boy, Oh boy! How i wondered at these GI soldiers with ultra sophisticated weapons when they scavenged the Middle East during their mind-blowing holy wars against terroism. It compounded with awe looking at the precision of the artilleries, which pounded the dumbfounded people and spaces out there. It tweaked a couple of my neurons and ended with this question why on earth did the great souls invent weapons?

Weapon is a device, which is used to defend us from possible injuries and the most common way to defend is to attack. The nature of a weapon is also interesting, it has a focus to create intense pressure (less surface area), stores energy and has a perfect launch pad, all for its supreme purpose to inflict pain or to proclaim threat.

It's fine, we need to protect us and it's natural, as does our immune system to fight foreign bodies in our human body. I too vouch for the natural instinct to protect, as i believe that we constantly try to imitate the microcosm into the macrocosm. It kept me thinking as to whether the use of weapons is a mere physical phenomenon giving color to an underlying surge in the mind? Is it a physical response to an emotional stir? What if we have a level playing field, we combat only on an emotional plane?

It gave me grave answers, may be we are carrying loads of ammunition with us and firing it at each other constantly. We are playing war-mind games to protect us from emotional vulnerability. I started dissecting the humanoid weapons and the first thing which struck me was, "words and words all i have, to take your heart away”, nothing hurts like words. Could be i am finding the wrong scapegoat in words, they are just the instrument for communicating and an effective means than silence.

The other commonly used tools such as anger, insult, ignore, suspicion, disgrace and mistrust. These are the most common defense mechanism to protect one self and to attack others very effectively. Onething for sure, everybody is carrying one or the other weapon to protect them with utmost efficacy in using them.

Every human mind has a breaking point to show its ugly expertise in using the lethal weapons and its own behavior barometer levels as well. If we are seeking peace, it should start with the microcosm with a true conviction to dismantle the instinct to use Mindy weapons to instigate Mind wars.

Theeiyinaal sutta pon ull aarum
(The fire-burnt wounds do find a cure )
aarathe naavinal sutta vaadu
(tongue-burnt wound rests a running sore)
-Thirukkural(Self control-129)

Monday, September 11, 2006 

Real life Illusions


For the past 9 months, I have been passing via Panagal Park circle near my office, which leads to four roads. There is this road which leads to Pondy bazzar, its quite tricky to take a left turn, given the voluminous herd of traffic wanting to get into that road. It quite a risk to the pedestrians who try to cross the road on an illusionary zebra crossing.

There is a feeble blind spot good enough to hinder the vision to defeat the braking instinct if a motorist encounters a crazy pedestrian out there. I have been a victim to the vocabulary of the motorist and i have seen quite a number of people stranded in the road to an unexpected vehicle.

Every one another day as i walk through that corner, I would see a pack of crumbed vehicles and I’ll swear the Chennai traffic police blurting out unparliamentarily language about their negligence and inefficiency. Infact there is a traffic police station right at the edge of the road; I would think how immune these people have become to accidents instead of taking steps to avoid them by providing proper barricades.

It was not until last week i realized this, it is not that the corner is accident-prone; the vehicles which were crumbled in an accident in an area under the jurisdiction of the traffic police station were parked there.

Yet another incident, I gave my level-II CFA examinations last June and i knew that i would not get through for sure as i was totally under prepared for the examination. I told my friends i would flunk for sure after i gave my exams, nobody took it seriously given my track record in academics and the cribbing i gave after my previous exams and still managed to scape through. I did flunk the L2 exam and it was a surprise for quite number of them even though i never expected to pass. Some people thought that i was bluffing to mitigate treats.

I really wonder how we are caught in illusions everyday; we tend to give meaning to events based on our limited field of experience. Sometimes we are pre occupied with perceptions about the observed. There are occasions when we give meaning to something based on a predetermined conclusion to meet our conditioning. There are occasions when we distort the meaning to meet an illusionary image.

I would not deny illusions, may be we should strive to overcome them by increasing the field of experience and unconditioning us.

Friday, September 08, 2006 

Blindness 2020

This thought unraveled here is not an outcome of weird explorations; it’s a sincere step to confront the maze of logic and ethics, which has provoked more anguish than its intended purpose. It is out of genuine madness to give us a better world. The past drove us to this convincible answer to all our problems.

It had to survive the darkness of tumultuous eras, to see the light today, not to create enlightment but to unchain humanity from vision, to lead us back to darkness which is our true nature. We have been waiting for too long, to unleash ourselves, we had to conceal ourselves in dumb minds, only to reveal the darkest of secrets now. We are going to shatter the brilliant architects who have been maneouring this world for too long.

History would assume a definite skewness today. We have had subtle patrons in the past who took this baton all along. Should I reveal them, it's time we acknowledge them; Valmiki, Socrates, Van Gough, Michael Faraday, Thomas Alva Edison, Michelson, Mahatma Gandhi and many others us still living with us. We are the "Lampiratti" leading this world back to darkness, to the place where we belonged.

We have had enumerous imitations like the Priory of Sion, Night Templars, Free Masons, Ku Klux Klan and humpty number of them who wanted to forge sadness into the human minds.

Did your history book say, Socrates was killed of poisoning, that’s how it was morphed, to bundle us out. He never propounded logic, why would somebody do it, knowing it to be the most treacherous futile process. They killed his twin brother Pocrates, after having found that Socrates rode a horse all the way to India,that was the reason Alexander followed suit after a couple of years, in search of the inevitable truth.

Socrates seeked asylum in his last days at Porbandar in Western India, contemplating the legacy. A conviction was born, thats when he gave birth to the defining artifact, which contained the definite truth leading us to divine darkness. He wanted something to be fixed everywhere not guide us, but to lead us to the inevitable truth.

You can see it everywhere, breaking the barriers of ideologies, aptly disguising it, only to achieve its ends everyday. Are you still wondering what it is? my goodness, if you can't find it, we have succeeded, its the electric bulb whose foundation was laid in a lamp. We wanted a symbol which would permeate every walk of the human life. We proliferated the lamp post, the symbol of the truth everywhere; we put it in every nook and corner of this world, to remind the society of the truth that was abandoned in darkness.

Have you ever wondered what causes problem in this society, which is frantic search of something or other, there is always some fad to tag with, be it money, fame, power or ideology.

What causes all the problems in life?.We are continously churning the remanants of our vision in the name of thought.It's a holy war not against any sect, it's against the imperialism of thought.What is the way out, we can't remain in this vicous circle of thought forever.We wanted to stop it but still be alive in eternal happiness.

We have been in the society, perpetrating our plans, you can see its final outcome out there in another 14 years.

We wanted to get rid of monetary system, there would no physical fiat money any more in the future, we would have only plastic cards. When the dark truth reveals itself, the entire banking system would collapse, there is no distinction between the have and have nots.

When every belief is waiting for the their avatar to be back, we would air a morph of them high in the sky, only to reveal there is only one god. We’ll stop all the war in the name of God.

There is one thing without which the humans can't survive; we are going to be an agrarian society again. We are going to be naive farmers again.There would be only one universal staple food, what else? opium which stops us from thinking, the root cause of all the problems in the society. We would initiate a mass scale cultivation of narcotic drugs in all corners of the world.

We would one day run this world only with electricity and exhaust all the known sources of energy in this planet. There is will one fine day nick-named the Armageddon when everything would come to a standstill devoid of power without anything to burn anymore.Know what, we would be left with complete darkness. ,nothing to see and nothing to think. We need not think of the electricity bills anymore!!

The slaves in the name of science would say, there is always the sun to help them out. Sorry people, we have plans for it, we can't see the sun in a couple of years, we have meticulously played games with the biosphere, the atmosphere in its current state would be lost, only to hide the planet completely from the sun, source of all energy in this planet. Don’t worry there would be no wind, no flowing water, no nuclear waste (we would have exhausted all the resources by then), we have plans for every alternate energy which bondages man to thought.

We do all this to unchain the humanity from the clutches of light and leads us to darkness and that is where we belong. The next time you see a lamp post remind yourself, the dark days would be back to save us all from vicious circle of thought.

Lampirattians

Hari..Sara...............

Are you ready to see the dark days?

Tuesday, September 05, 2006 

Is God having fun?

I am going to go on a rampage with more than a bundle of questions about this concept of God. Every human mind has some conception about God, which could have been embraced voluntarily or would have been an involuntary outcome based on the individual's conditioning to customs and practices.

The world is made of about 6.4 billion people who follow different beliefs. I am not going to take the principles of individual religions and use my sagacity to question them. I am giving a try to question the DNA of God. It’s still a riddle to me, with such naiveness, I am not going to give suggestions or answers; I would prefer to stop with questions.

This was the statistics which I picked from Wiki about the number of adherents to the major approaches; Christianity (2.1 bn), Islam (1.3 bn), Secular/ Atheist/ Irreligious/ Agnostic/ Nontheist (1.1 bn), Hinduism (900 mn), Buddhism (708 mn), Chinese folk religion (394 mn).We have approaches like Sikhism, Judaism , Jainism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Neo-Paganism and others which have a sizeable following.

I would start with the role of God in our daily lives; I really want to know if God really controls our actions.If yes, does that mean that we are merely programmed to enact his script. If yes, then why should I bear all the pain and misery for his sadist pleasures? If No, if he does not control our actions why at all should I pray to him to for my life.

If I am getting pain because of my sins, why doesn’t he program us from committing it instead of giving leeway to desires?. If he is all powerful, can't he do this simple task which a humanly programmer can do?. If he is also learning, does that mean he is not perfect as well. If he is not perfect, how can his creation be perfect?. Who is to be blamed for this jugglery due to incompetence? .Why should we suffer for his mockery?. Am I such an insane psycho to say that I don't have any pain when I really feel it?.

Is God good or bad? If he is good, why did he create all bad creatures as well when he is so powerful?. Why did he create all things in duality?. If he did not create the negative balances, what was he doing when it was created, when he knew that it would harm his creations? If he did not know them, should we suspect his abilities?.

If God is love, then what the heck is he doing when so many people kill each other in the name of religion, leave alone politics and wealth?. Why doesn't he come in public and identify himself with a particular approach and solve the dilemma. If at all he belonged to a particular approach, why did he allow so many approaches to sprout only to end in conflict?. Is he going to wait till there is a sizeable bloodshed; I am pushed to believe he is no better. If he thinks that non-believers are to be punished, then where is the concept of love? .If he discriminates people by their belief, doesn't he have universal love, Is he humanly as well?

If he gets only to people who approach him, is he biased? If he is biased, then how can he lovable or indiscriminate?. If he is biased, what is the difference between human and God? Is he male or female? Is he black, white or brown? Is he short or tall? What language does he speak? What is the sacred book which I should read to reach him? What is the customs which I should diligently follow to reach him? Which place should I go to worship him?


What fun does he have by playing games with us?

Monday, September 04, 2006 

Take me as I am

When somebody listens to you, you feel important. When somebody reflects your thought, you get excited. When somebody thinks like you, you get moved. When somebody thinks for you, that is when we loose track of you and I. The boundary ceases to exist, we are submerged in a butterfly feeling which blossoms to mutually reinforce that both are indivisible.

It doesn’t happen out of the blue, it's a very sublime and continuous process of evolution, delving every granule of time, only to reach new peaks of experience everytime. It conjures up only to annunciate that they are the reflection of each other.

The fusion of thought goes through different grades of thought alignment. I don’t know whether I am getting it through to you. May be, i' all seek the help of a printer which attempts to imitate the process of thought alignment.

The infant stages are blotted with a binary view, its either black/white perception about the thoughts emanating from a person, there is a conscious endeavor to align. This is when the process of listening is dominant and we are trying to cross the barriers of reflection.

Then we move on to the zone of comfort, we are mindful that there is many to many mapping of the thought, stimuli and the sequel. We are cognizant of the heterogeneity and strive to decipher it by more of reflection and it gradually leads to imitation of the thought process.

Finally, we move on to the zone of mutual instinct, we have a bent empowered by intuition to recognize the multitudinous flavor of thought, just like a 256 color cartridge that emulates the complete spectrum of thought, understanding both the preludes and the postludes to the thought. May be that is what people call the six sense and its when the barricades of the observer and the observed vanishes. This is complete nirvana from identity.

Not every relationship goes through this cascaded process and it is not necessary as well. The strength of the relationship depends on the stage where it is stationed.

May be, that is what people seek when they want to be completely understood with a latent thought, "Take me as I am"

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