When I reached my office last monday, I found my teammate's desk empty. I messaged him that instant 'Hey, bunk kyun mara aaj?' No reply. I messaged him again but never got a reply. He is not the sorts who wouldnt reply to an sms. Worried, I asked my TL if she knew anything. It was only then that I came to know of his cousin who had passed away in the recent delhi blasts. I was appalled to the core. These blasts had been just "breaking news" to me. '24 feared dead in blasts' . A little bit of discussion with my family about how no place is safe to live in these days, some repeated telecasts of the post-blast scenes on the news channels and a few articles on the newspaper on how the police, the intelligence and ATS in India are still not efficient enough to "tackle" terrorism and I would be done with it. But now when I see the look on the face of my teammate who has lost a loved one, I cant help but think how low (for lack of a 'worse' word) can the religious fundamentalists be that they can commit such a hideous act in the name of something which doesnt even exist (If god really exists, why is he/she/it not doing anything to put a stop to all this?).
"We, the INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN, ask Allah, the Almighty to accept from us these 9 explosions, which were planned to be executed in the holy month of Ramadan" was written in the email sent by them just few minutes before the bombs went off. Really?? Are they really serious or is it some kinda joke?? Those terrorists are not tribals but well-educated people. So even educated people these days believe that waging a holy war and killing innocent people is their moral obligation towards their religion. What happened to all those "Education brings awareness" kinda quotes?? I know its a banal question but the fact that people can turn into beasts over some mythological stories just escapes me. They have always shown god as compassionate and just but have also changed the 'rules and regulations' according to their comfort. A little bit of research tells me "Collective punishment and indiscriminate war were commanded or approved , especially in cases of idolatry in the Hebrew Bible which is considered sacred by all three traditions.... In spite of the Quranic statement against forcing religion on others, Muslim leaders have sometimes threatened to kill unbelievers if they did not accept Islam..... Around the ninth century, an important evolution of Christian thinking occurred, killing unbelievers was actually declared by popes Leo IV and John VIII to be spiritually beneficial for Christian soldiers."
They call themselves religious but they are nothing but full of shit. This is more than enough to prove it. "Sheikh Muhammad Munajid, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, claimed the mouse is "one of Satan's soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure. Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases." Where exactly are we going wrong? What is that one supernatural thing that needs to be done to put some brains into not only these Islamic fundamentalists but even into our own BJP, RSS and VHP enthusiasts? which I think is the only way to tackle terrorism. No amount of Police or Intelligence is going to help. Ah well! I guess this is where "god" will finally have to step in.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Philosophical crap
"...If all is in truth Sachchidananda, death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations, positive in practical effect, negative in essence, of a distorting consciousness which has fallen from the total and unifying knowledge of itself into some error of division and partial experience... ...The Life Divine justifies how the discordant elements can be reconciled into the image of the divine Unity. Actually what happens is something more than mere reconciliation, for the discordant elements are transfigured into higher terms through a process of transcendence, prior to reconciliation.... ...Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.... "
"...If one distills the essence of all established approaches to realization, then this is all they boil down to. Anything else that I attempt to do would be a movement within consciousness and as long as my center is exclusively within consciousness- i.e within a subject object relationship -I remain vulnerable to sufferring. Doing this sadhana amounts to the wiping away of all frames of reference, which is my only salvation, for every frame of reference, however elevated or exalted, brings about dualism..."
"....The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Kant used logic to establish the limits of logic, and while he withdrew much from its old jurisdiction, logic was left all the more secure in what there remained to it..."
These are excerpts from just few of the passages which come for Reading comprehension in the verbal section. Trust me, everytime I read any article like the ones given above, I feel like strangling myself to make the pain that starts erupting in my pea-sized brain feel less life-threatening. I dont understand why people try to complicate the already complicated thing called life and to make it worse use really tough words which probably come in these books before they come in the oxford dictionary. Instead of mulling over topics like life and art, I think the authors of these kinda books should just sit at home, drink chilled beer and watch Steven Spielberg movies. That way their brains will be busy trying to make some sense out of the movie. And if they really want to flaunt their vocabulary skills, they can always participate in the International 'scrabble' or 'crossword' tournament. There are people who claim that books like 'The alchemist' (which is one of the two philosophical books I've read and I am grateful to god I am still alive to tell the tale) and 'The secret' have changed their lives. I just fail to understand how a shitty story where the "soul of the caravan speaks to the soul of the desert" can change someone's life. I tried reading "One" by Richard bach but stopped at the 30th page or something just when my brain was about to explode. I could finish "Johnathan livingston seagull" because it was not even 20 pages long, so the threshold was never reached. When I say I finished, I mean I read every word of it, without being able to comprehend even a single sentence. And this is exactly how I solve RCs in the verbal section and unsurprisingly all of them go wrong. Maybe I should wear a blindfold and mark the answers. The chances of getting a right answer would probably be much higher.
"...If one distills the essence of all established approaches to realization, then this is all they boil down to. Anything else that I attempt to do would be a movement within consciousness and as long as my center is exclusively within consciousness- i.e within a subject object relationship -I remain vulnerable to sufferring. Doing this sadhana amounts to the wiping away of all frames of reference, which is my only salvation, for every frame of reference, however elevated or exalted, brings about dualism..."
"....The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Kant used logic to establish the limits of logic, and while he withdrew much from its old jurisdiction, logic was left all the more secure in what there remained to it..."
These are excerpts from just few of the passages which come for Reading comprehension in the verbal section. Trust me, everytime I read any article like the ones given above, I feel like strangling myself to make the pain that starts erupting in my pea-sized brain feel less life-threatening. I dont understand why people try to complicate the already complicated thing called life and to make it worse use really tough words which probably come in these books before they come in the oxford dictionary. Instead of mulling over topics like life and art, I think the authors of these kinda books should just sit at home, drink chilled beer and watch Steven Spielberg movies. That way their brains will be busy trying to make some sense out of the movie. And if they really want to flaunt their vocabulary skills, they can always participate in the International 'scrabble' or 'crossword' tournament. There are people who claim that books like 'The alchemist' (which is one of the two philosophical books I've read and I am grateful to god I am still alive to tell the tale) and 'The secret' have changed their lives. I just fail to understand how a shitty story where the "soul of the caravan speaks to the soul of the desert" can change someone's life. I tried reading "One" by Richard bach but stopped at the 30th page or something just when my brain was about to explode. I could finish "Johnathan livingston seagull" because it was not even 20 pages long, so the threshold was never reached. When I say I finished, I mean I read every word of it, without being able to comprehend even a single sentence. And this is exactly how I solve RCs in the verbal section and unsurprisingly all of them go wrong. Maybe I should wear a blindfold and mark the answers. The chances of getting a right answer would probably be much higher.
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