Dignity of labor

Well no work is bad, the fact that you are doing a work that enables you to live with self respect is sufficient to make it dignified. Well how did this idea come to slip in through the crack while the rest of the world is based on nothing but egoist principles. The reason I believe is the white collar people who need the workers to do work that they consider below their dignity. They know that the common man has to do whatever work he gets - its not an option for most. But the thing is that the need is dual and instead of a symbiotic relationship with mutual respect, we know that practically the man with less manual work and all the power has indeed been dealt the higher hand. Now they can be mean and let the rest know who is the boss. But then they are smart in the fact that they know that workers with even a false reason of self-respect and sincerity are better than those that are forced  and so we have such a fancy show. They do that from time to time but at the same time they have this propoganda  teaching kids that no work is bad. Hell if it aint why the difference in position, power and money. I am not saying that they dont deserve it, just that giving the people a false sense of respect is somewhat cruel - practical but cruel.

Sense of Agnostic Redefined

Agnostic is as defined a person who doesn't believe that a certainity pertaining to God can be reached. I have refined this in my earlier post and myself defined it as a person who believes there is no reason to attempt to define a religion, belief and impose it on all others. Basically I am against the forced cloning of ideals that religion basically has come to be. 

Now with new insights I intend to add some thoughts to it. Religion is not a bad thing, the same old logic of too much = bad applies here. The problem is that religion may at best be a consolation to the people who might need it from time to time when in need of support and strength (though its always better to find it within yourself). But people will be the same, they tend to over-rely on anything that gives them comfort, be it medication (druggies), entertainment(lazy bones) or food (fatties) and the same is true for religion. The reform we need in here is more self-restrain and not simple abolishment of religion or any such sweeping change. We need to realise that all people are not strong enough for them to be able to deal with the realities of life and the idea of having some sort of a emotional support for them is not at all repulsive. It's more like we need to make it more of a personal thing. Do what you need to help yourself and thats it. There is no need to make everyone see the things in the same way as you. An anology I can see of the present situation is of a addict under influence hating all the sober people around him. Actually there is nothing more interesting about this whole thing. More focus needs to be given to actual important stuff that may help people live better. ~!

too random this time - i put no effort to rein it in

I just discovered. In old movies when the hero is saddened for some reason that cannot be solved by his almighty fists he sings .. well we normal people do other stuff less filmy. I for instance write. So I through that chain of thought I realised that my writing is more of a device to cope with pain. Its not a rule but thats mostly the case. So why is it that I am saddened on holi eve. When i talk to people they believe that I must be having a time of life, enjoying myself and basically worthy of being envied - all because I am in USA. But then what does being at any place do, will a dying man be happier just because he is living in switzerland or in paris. No, thats a basic immaturity of folks, I cannot be innocent of this crime myself - I used to think so just few months back to some extent. Ya this is pretty obvious but it does pain you when you realise that your suffering is going unrecognised rather misinterpreted and even envied.! 

So the thing is I havent written a diary for a while - by diary I mean not a thing recording what happened but what I thought. Because thoughts like time fly by, you seem to retain only a few seemingly important ones. But then there are things that you would like to know later on but it slips your tiny brain. 

So here I am blogging my thought out in the world naked for everyone to see. Doesnt that make me an exhibitionist - I am not sure. An exhibitionist in the known literary senses is somewhat of a repulsion for various people including myself but come to think of it exposing your body is less weird than opening your mind and thoughts to everyone. Why there is nothing new in any body but every mind has something peculiar and new in it (at least mine does). But exposing it is not blasphemy as it probably should be. Well I dont know - a closed mind doesnt really spread out new ideals and thoughts if you think in that sense.

So I have discovered that this is what my style is in writing- I guess I am more consious than I should be about my style - part of the reason being that I sometimes fancied(or rather still do fancy) myself to be a writer of sorts - but well then I should produce coherent, free flowing, seemingly effortless stuff - but boy have I realised that it is though to take a dictation from the mind and compose it in a decorative language at the same time. I could write it down first and then perhaps try to beautify it - but that would be cheating and somewhat fake - so I tend to keep a clear consious and provide readers( if any :D - my lame humor is glued to me tight, there is one regular reader i believe) this incoherent piece of unintentional crap. 

Well seeing that I have creative juices flowing today and that I have typed this whole thing till now without a pause to think, I should probably go on till it goes - just to see how much I can write without actually saying anything of much consequence. That will be a fun experiment - for me at least.

So coming back to the original topic - why is it that I am sad on a jolly holi day. Well the thing is that its nothing new, nothing that anyone can change and not anything weird. I mean I guess almost everyone has this kind of trouble give or take a little in magnitute.  But the reason is that the most important person from my perspective is what I think about most and am effected by him - and as it turns out for me its myself. Thats the case for most normal people. So that explains sadness as a result of environment and some problems( wont go into details - ya am cutting that supply of masala) so why today then. Hmm still figuring it out, I guess you tend to miss people more in times of 'fun that could be but it not to be'. Not a very innovative answer I know - but then thats the best I got - guess becuz its the most sensible one. 

I am beginning to realise how much of a narcassist I am turning into - I am writing this as basically a record of my talks to myself - it is a weird minute of the meeting that I am having with myself. Well from my viewpoint.

Kind of a different track now. I was thinking why/how do old friends/friendships die out. Its not a machine made of nuts and bolts that just die out of wear and tear. I have seen many (some including myself as a member) friendships die out as a star out of fuel. The reason is distance - well in most cases it is an important part. But there are other reasons such as girls, economic divide, ego and many other follies that man has created to nullify all his intelligent gifts given in the form of such wonderful things. And the thing is it saddens my heart to see that indifference also figures among them - ya its not for an egotist to admit it out in the open - but thats why I name no names and I am sure no one knows exactly who I am talking about - because I myself am not sure. he he .. Ya I meant the general trend of people in general out of which some are important to you. I guess I am going to make a novel of crap if I dont stop, so I will force a stop at this point.  

But ya continued this whole thing w/o a pause. I can produce good volume work if not good work. . lol

Depression v2.0

The great american recession... havent talked about that and somehow this is one thing that has affected everyone (myself included) in more ways than one. We had the last big depression in 1930s and this was a time that I know not much about, but the least I can tell is that this was a time when the developed nations had conditions not much better than what poor nations have today .. or state it simpler suddenly the great nations had gone poor. Now what baffles me is how does a nation become poor and more stupefyingly how can the whole world become poor. Well this is what happened in 1930s and is happening in the present and coming years. The reason is obviously some sort of a scam - a conspiracy ( that's a chic word to use today for some reason!). Well I am not the right person to comment on the depression v1.0 but since I have seen the depression v2.0 released by Mr. Bush I surely can give an insight into that. The USA has been for a long time been the dream of dreamers, who wish for success - material success at least. Many have come in and realised their dreams. But now suddenly why has USA got nothing to give its own people now. It's poor - one of us. There can be no one reason for this. One is obviously the war that America has waged over the past few years in Afganistan and Iraq. Official figures are around __ billion usd so we can be sure its at least __ billion usd . But this amount though very large it's not enough to pull down a prosperous nation as USA. The reason is that it is more of a case of a terminte infested house being subjected to floods - a sort of double whammy. The other reason is inertia - the tendency of being in the flow of the situation, with rising belief that a bleak future is ahead of us the future is made more bleaker with the death of each hope. Also I am not a real fan of Bush. I do believe that other than the war his policies had a lot to do in fucking up the economy. So basically the wrong choice made by american voters has been the reason that other countries have suffered.!! Other reasons include the oil prices. Oil is the necessary and OPEC is the devil with its key. Now it can hardly be the case that all the countries are helpless in front of opec. They have oil but the rest of the world has lots of things that they dont. The reason that they yield so much power is the greed of men of power that make the powerful countries meek in front of them. Now i dont mean that Bush was on a direct payroll of some oil lord - but in some sort of indirect way he has profited or else he is why has he let the opec come across terrorist powers. It may seem that this essay is somewat scattered but the reason is that the problems associated with the topic are a web and concentrating on just one part will give only part of the picture. There is a lot more to the topic and it shall be continued ............

Religion ..assorted thoughts

They say sex sells, on the contrary religion sells the most and still it is not recognized as it is somewhat not thought of as along the same lines. The church/mosque/temple is the biggest grosser of them all. The reason is that they say the money is for a cause. The only cause, as I see, worth contributing hard earned money can be humanitarian and not Christian, Islamic or Hindu. These funds are destined to be misused either in a bad way (Jehad) or at best spent on furthering the religion's popularity. I would call this as a misuse as well - because converting people from one religion to another which is the ultimate goal achieved/intended is not worth zilch to the cause of humanity.
Let us try and estimate how the religions came into existence The God(s) have never made a public appearance (or i missed one great show), well at least not one for the past millenium or two. The only evidence we have is books, scriptures that tell us a story. Now how are we to believe that the story is a historical one and not just another fantasy tale. We can't , and even this simplistic demand for reason and logic is seen as a form of develish impertinence & blasphemy. Were you to be told that your meeting is not to be held as earlier decided, wouldn't you ask for a reason? If such a simple thing breds a need for reason why should a man's need for reason in what is supposed to influence his thinking, his society and very much everything in his life ; be questioned.
I have been an agnostic since before I knew what the word meant- moving over to my birth religion on increasingly rare occasions ,chiefly in periods of despair ( or extreme happiness). It's something of a weakness, I am not ashamed to admit that I have been weak at times. But does that make me a falsifier? Quite on the contrary I believe it makes my believe in non-utility of religion more tangible. It clearly shows that man doesn't really need it, if he is strong enough in character. The more relentless advertising we see on behalf of every religion the more it makes me sure that it's a fake necessity. Our reliance of it is somewhat similar to our addiction to other best marketed products that we see advertised around us - like colas etc.

Competition

We know that the outlook one has is very important in what he becomes. That is true for nations as well. We see the US as a very developed/prosperous country. But why did it come by being so successful... Competition.. Thats what it was blessed with... it took to competing with Russia and Russia took US to great heights while it itself kept moving down. Come to India.. we are very happy and pumped up that India is progressing blah blah.. but is it real progress.. well the world is progressing and as circumstances would have it India is so strategically placed that it's man power is taking it to rise at a pace slighty above the world average.But do we have competition. We tend to compete with Pakistan - that's the enemy state. Well an unworthy opponent is a good way of defeating yourself. If instead we look towards competiting with China and let Pakistan burn in the fire they have light themselves.. !N if they keep pestering us we know its no more than a fly for India if we truly use the force that we have. !

JEHAD

Jehad an Islamic term, is a religious duty of muslims. But come today it has gone to mean a mask to cover all despicable acts in the name of religion. Can we help hating the religion that has come to be recognized as the mascot of terrorism. It may sound very much discriminating but if you look at the sort of events happening of late we cannot close our eyes to the fact that more than 95% of terrorism is undeniably 'jehad'. If the religion teaches it's people to destrop the world shouldn't the world join as one and eliminate this nuisance of a teaching. There may be many that say Kuran does not teach this or that people are bending it for their own use and misguiding. But I say hell with it. Do you think that your hand is not spreading poison intentionally .. if it poisoning your body however tough the decision maybe you will always decide to chop it off. And that is what needs to be done. The problem is a religion is not as easy to chop off as a hand of a poor man. There are all sorts of compassionate issues involved and humanity bites us. But if we want the world to live we need to eliminate muslim or at least let them know that they will be eliminated if they continue to thread this unbelievingly ruthless way of destroying the world they themselves live in. We may at least seal off all support to any country that is a declared islamic nation. For instance bleed them economically starve them and isolate them. And well if you decide to thread this path i m sure there is enough way to get the thing done once the world leaders sit on this with their manipulative minds set on this! :D

THE FLASK OF LIFE

Life can be seen as a flask with the water in it a measure of our immaturity. We begin life with our flasks full - ever so innocent. Every deception we encounter, every emotional dent and every bad experience in life is a dent n the flask which leads to the water leaking hence decreasing our immaturity. But the love and selfless love is the rain that refills our flask. The aim in life is to have a half full flask, not completely full to senseless immaturity and neither empty that would be of a emotionally empty person.

Sports In India

Everytime some international sporting event takes place India stands behind in the long queue abashed. And we the 'patriotic' Indians start out blaming the government and the system for the deplorable conditions of sports here. But what do we do if some one really perform at the center stage? We give the individual cash prizes and endorsement deals. Make him a superstar. But how exactly does that help sports in the country - if that's what the prizes are for. Or is the prize just a lottery for being one of the thousands gifted one who can achieve something even after being held back by the lack of facilities. Wouldn't we be better to give him funds to achieve better results.. sponsoring for a coach et al. Another fact that is sad is the lack of sight with people in anything beyond cricket. We may raise a hue and cry over the lack of results but what do we do where indians do get something. India has some hold in chess and billiards for instance. chess being an intelligent game it is somewhat understandable that the people do not really make it one of the most popular ones. But billiards.. amazing is the fact that in the last world championship the top 4 finishing individuals were all Indians. But still there is no interest in the sport. Is it just that we want people to get medals in our country's name so that we can snub the game for not being cricket ?!

Ta ta to growth

What the hell is the matter with bengal. Bengal takes pride in it's glorious past and is making sure that it's future son's n daughters will have nothing else to do either. They are so hell bent on preventing anyone do anything productive that we feel like giving them recognition for being unbiased at least. The fact that a sizeable portion of the citizen give credence to the hails of a mad /manipulative out of work woman is a pity. The fact remains that in order to make a factory industrialist need land and lets face it - it's a necessary evil .. we cant do without these factories. But it does not mean that all is fair.. no the farmers have every right to demand better compensation for their homes/land. So protest for that . demand better. a more fair compensation. Democracy is a thing that when overused can only give diarrhea to the nation. When the majority of people have given in to the proposal the so called messiah of the oppressed may come in and help them get a better deal. But thats not the intention here. All she wants ,as any other politician (who can blame her if the people here are that much more dumber) is to get political points. So she comes in and says that the tata pack their bags and leave the poor ole farmers to tile their lands. But then why are CMs of 10 other states unabatedly waiting with garlands in their hands ??? Its not that these CM are ideal politicians or some such extinct species. Simple the people elsewhere are more sensible today and their success is more dependent on the goods they deliver. So a simple solution to to a chunk of the problems in here is that the voters become a bit sensible.