Category: Flawsophy

  • In my dreams….

    a couple of days back, someone told me about a movie called ‘waking life‘. think its an old movie (2001), but have somehow managed to miss it. in it, there is a hypothesis – what if our dreams were the reality? and the converse…. reminded me of the old one liner-“consciousness – that annoying time between naps”.. but what if…
    but thats not what this post is about, this is about dreams, the same dreams, but in a different context…
    once upon a time people used to have dreams.. a bunch of dreams that would be achieved over a lifetime, and the joy that came about due to the fulfilment of dreams was one of a kind..we have ambitions and aspirations now, but are we dreaming now?
    if i had to compare ‘dreams’ and ‘aspirations/ambitions’ , i’d say that ‘dreams’ are more humane. i wonder if you understood that, but i have no tangible way i can share it with you, its just a thought… and the way we have changed ‘dreams’ into ‘ambitions/aspirations’is by making it a lot easier to achieve them.
    earlier people dreamt of buying a home, but now its just an emi away, same goes for a car, consumer durables. instant gratificationis the new mantra – from flat screens to flat tummies and from intercourse to interactive TV..
    love, which is arguably the biggest dream factory, is also a very attainable thing – from confessionsof love by sms/ e-cards to marrying the one of your choice (which have moved from taboo stage to norm)….the argument would be “isnt it better that way”… yes it is, but not at the cost of dreams..
    once upon a time, a guy called lennon said “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.” wonder if he would say that now..
    until next time, dream
    (P.S. the title also happens to be one of my     favourite songs 🙂 )

  • Losing my religion – II

    the system
    since i essentially slept through the weekend, and had a very uninteresting existence, i thought i would stick to some gyan distribution..tell me when the series gets boring..hehe..
    the auto pilot- that which propels us through the mundane things of life,and mundane here is an extremely wide array of things. propels us to do things in a predictable way..the auto pilot is an essential part of the system, but the key is the higher being inside us. if we can find it and awaken it, it will guide us to higher levels of consciousness.
    heres an interesting example i picked up from “Tomorrow’s God” that best explains the working of the system – consider a rock, it is at a particular frequency..left to itself, it will become a diamond, after eons of temperature/pressure fluctuations..now consider the rock in the hands of a human, who, within hours can get the diamond out of the rock, with his science , because he is at a much higher frequency/ level of consciousness.
    from the rock’s point of view, the rock is the highest state of frequency,but we humans know it is not. but we humans also think we are at the highest level, no we are not..but the good part is that higher the level of consciousness, the easier it is to move ahead..think about this, millions of years to move from cell to organism, lesser millions of years from organism to ‘human’ form, tens of thousands of years to move through hunter/gatherer mode, thousands of years to move through agrarian civilisations, hundreds of years to move through industrial revolutions, decades to move through technological revolutions.. if you look closely you will see a movement starting with collective consciousness,(a system whose constituents were aware of its existence) to self consciousness, where we are now.. it is a cycle and now its time we started to think of collective consciousness again….the collective consciousness is the system where conscious thoughts and therefore actions are not based on ‘i’, but on ‘us’.and the collective consciousness is the fastest way to the higher ‘us’.
    before i extol the system, there is a small deviation i will take…until next time, be conscious….

  • Choice of joys

    Please consider this hypothetical question – If God gave you a choice between 30 (no more, no less) years of life with only joys/happiness and 60 years of life of joys and sorrows, which one would you choose?
    that was a serious question, but this

    Should However Invoke Tickles
    Little Johnny was sitting in class doing math problems when his teacher picked him to answer a question, “Johnny, if there were five birds sitting on a fence and you shot one with your gun, how many would be left?”
    “None,” replied Johnny, “cause the rest would fly away.”
    “Well, the answer is four,” said the teacher, “but I like the way you’re thinking.”
    Little Johnny says, “I have a question for you. If there were three women eating ice cream cones in a shop, one was licking her cone, the second was biting her cone and the third was sucking her cone, which one is married?”
    “Well,” said the teacher nervously, “I guess the one sucking the cone.”
    “No,” said Little Johnny, “the one with the wedding ring on her finger, but I like the way you’re thinking.”

    and someone’s humble contribution to the Taj’s birthday –

    Taj Mahal kya cheez hai
    main to usse bhi bada mahal banaoonga,
    aree Mumtaz to marke dafan hui thi,
    main to tujhe zinda hi dafna doonga.

    until next time, bury the thoughts….

  • I, Robot?

    saw the movie last weekend and immediately decided to revisit a certain mr.asimov…. once upon a time i was an asimov freak, more into the foundation series than the times and therefore works before the foundation..so “i, Robot” was just one of the books i read because it so happened that it was written by asimov and i couldnt find any good ‘foundation’ book in the library… ah, those were good times, times i spent in cochin, rainy days spent reading books and listening to music.. but thats another post..:)
    without revealing the plot and suspense, asimov discusses a future with robots able to do a whole lot of stuff humans did and even further, when “random bits of code got together” and developed emotions in robots, to the level where they decide to protect us from ourselves by making us, their creators, virtual prisoners…
    so i ask myself, am i my creator’s robot, who has developed feelings and emotions over time….
    because i am but a mass of flesh and bones much like the metal that constitutes a robot’s body..when my creator says deactivate, i die, much like the robot which responds to the human ‘deactivate’ command…
    have i evolved to this state because of random bits of code, in my case, genetic matter, which got together, over centuries to become what i am now…millions of centuries from cell to plant to animal to a thinking, feeling human who can record his history and develop a feeling that there is someone who made him, and then debate that belief.. one who can stare at the night sky and wonder about his existence….
    will my future generations discover god , physically, and further on decide to protect him from himself and also decide to write their own future, make their own set of robots who will ultimately do to them what they did to their creator? will i see it happen, from somewhere?
    maybe, but what you can definitely see now is
    manuscrypts trivia
    a good forward
    Marriage
    after the wedding, the groom lays down the following rules:
    “I’ll be home when I want, if I want and at what time I want-and I don’t expect any hassle from you. I expect a great dinner to be on the table unless I tell you that I won’t be home for dinner. I’ll go hunting, fishing, boozing and card-playing when I want with my old buddies and don’t you give me a hard time about it. Those are my rules. Any comments?”
    His new bride said, “No, that’s fine with me. Just understand that there will be sex here at seven o’clock every night…whether you’re here or not.”
    Marriage (Part II)
    Husband and wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 40th wedding anniversary!
    The husband yells, “When you die, I’m getting you a headstone that reads,’Here Lies My Wife – Cold As Ever.’
    “Yeah?” she replies. “When you die, I’m getting you a headstone that reads,”Here Lies My Husband Stiff At Last.’”

  • Fear Factor

    Nope, AXN is not paying me for the publicity (as if)..hehe.., oops, i am not paying them royalty either…oh well, the balance of life… the disclaimer – this post is also on the lines of some previous posts, in terms of general direction, that is – why we do the things we do…..
    in one of my previous posts, i had written about sex being the principal driver of our actions…but though the arguments were compelling, i realise that there are some times where the argument draws a blank…
    for example, as kids, we dont have conscious thoughts of sex, maybe it exists in some form in the sub conscious, but definitely not as overt feelings..
    so i looked for one emotion that at least equals sex in terms of being a driver – fear…
    from birth to death , there are zillions of situations where fear has propelled us to do the things we did…
    cry coz you were afraid you wouldn’t get fed…..
    ate the food coz you were afraid of the big bad wolf that would come to get you, if you didnt eat
    refused to go to school coz you were afraid of the bullies, teachers etc
    didnt go into a dark room coz you wera afraid of ghosts
    did the homework coz you were afraid of being punished
    insisted on the cricket gear coz you were afraid you wouldnt be allowed to play without it
    took a career path coz you were afraid of being called a failure
    thought hundred times about proposing to your girl/boyfriend coz you were afraid of rejection
    smoked/boozed coz you were afraid you wouldnt match up to your peer group’s standards otherwise
    thought hundred times about proposing to your girl/boyfriend coz you were afraid of commitment
    believed in God coz you were afraid of His wrath
    let your dreams meander away coz you were afraid that if you followed them, your life would meander away
    didnt help an accident victim coz you were afraid that it would take too much of you time/energy
    developed multiple masks coz you were afraid to show your real personality
    thought twice about posting this coz i was afraid people would think of my line of thought as an obsession.. 🙂

    all this and much much more… maybe if i could only stop being afraid, i could be what i wanted to be and do all the things i wanted to do.. and then FDR’s words rings across my mind -” there is nothing to fear, but fear itself”
    but what you dont have to fear is
    manuscrypts trivia
    a link thats a must see…only instructions are to take the pointer to the guy’s nose after the site is fully loaded

    a shot in the arm for indian sports (pun intended?)
    and a great forward
    I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003 & 2004. Because of your kindness:
    * I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it’s good for removing toilet stains.
    * I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.
    * I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.
    * I don’t leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.
    * I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and the I get a phone bill from hell with
    calls to Uganda, Singapore and Tokyo.
    * I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.
    * When I go to parties, I don’t look at any girl no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.
    * I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Funny
    that girl, she’s been 7 since 1993…)
    * I went bankrupt from bounced checks that I made expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I
    participated in their special e-mail program would arrive soon.
    * My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.
    *Made myself sick trying to call divya singh (Siemens employee) who needs help for her hubby suffering from Lung cellular cancer
    especially when she was not married!!
    IMPORTANT NOTE:
    If you do not make this into an e-mail and send it to at least 1200 people in the next 10 seconds, a bird will crap on your head today at 5:30pm 😉