THE SATANIC Verses, Behzti, Theo van Gogh's Submission, Jerry Springer: The Opera, the Danish cartoons of Muhammed ... now we can add the London exhibition of the work of Maqbool Fida Husain to the rapidly expanding list of works of art and satire targeted by militant religion.
For readers interested in Indian culture, the show at the Asia House gallery in the West End's fine art district should have been essential viewing. Husain is the grand old man of Indian art. He began as a boy painting cinema hoardings for six annas per square foot before getting his first break at the Bombay Art Society in 1947. His international appeal lies in his mixing of classical traditions with modern styles. Art from all over the world inspires him — Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka were early influences — but you only have to glance at his pictures to know an Indian must have painted them.
The Indian High Commissioner, Kamalesh Sharma, claimed at the opening that Husain was India's greatest modern artist. The exhibition was to run until August, to allow visitors to decide for themselves if he was right.
They won't be able to now. Asia House closed the show on Monday after threats of violence from anonymous Hindu fundamentalists. Arjun Malik of the Hindu Human Rights campaign assured me they had nothing to do with him, but said his group had been willing to do everything short of violence to stop the public seeing two of Husain's works.
His supporters had already deluged the gallery with letters, phone calls and emails complaining that Husain's "so-called art" offended the "sentiments of the Hindu community of the U.K." (Whether it did is debatable, as no one has elected the Hindu Human Rights campaign to represent the Hindu or any other community.) The protesters also went for Hitachi, which had given Asia House plasma TV screens, and demanded public apologies from everyone involved, including the Indian High Commissioner.
They called off a planned demonstration in London on Sunday because, like the managers of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre who closed Behzti after the demonstrations by conservative Sikhs and the national newspaper editors who refused to publish the Danish cartoons, Asia House buckled under the pressure to censor.
The apparently separate protests from different faiths are connected. What we are seeing is rival fundamentalists egging each other on in a politics of competitive grievance. Every time one secures a victory, the others realise they can't be left behind. If satirists are frightened of having a go at Islam because they believe they may be killed — and they are — why shouldn't Christian fundamentalists decide to become more menacing?
A comedian who takes a pop at the Pope sends the subliminal message: "We can deride your religion as despicable because we know you are not so despicable you will resort to violence." There is a limit to how long the ultras for any religion will put up with that before they change the ground rules.
After abusive Sikh men closed Behzti, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play about the abuse of Sikh women by Sikh men, Christian Voice upped the ante against Jerry Springer: The Opera. It had previously run at the National Theatre for months without attracting protest. But when BBC2 came to broadcast it, London Christians imitated Birmingham Sikhs and BBC executives suddenly needed the protection of private security guards.
You can see the same pattern in the hounding of M.F. Husain. The paintings the demonstrators targeted were nudes of Draupadi and Durga. Arjun Malik went into all kinds of verbal convolutions when I asked what he had against them, before coming out with the explanation that "according to tradition, they should not be disrobed." The reason for the tongue-twisting is that nude gods and goddesses have been a part of the Indian tradition for 5,000 years. As Husain said: "Here, the nudity is not nakedness; it is a form of innocence and maturity."
It is no longer innocent because, after the state-sponsored violence of the Danish cartoon protests, Hindus from the religious Indian right looked around for a grievance of their own. They picked on Husain — the fact that he was born a Muslim made him a natural target — and began a confessional arms race. In February, a Muslim politician in the Uttar Pradesh offered a large reward to anyone who beheaded the Danish cartoonists. A Hindu politician responded by saying he would pay the same to anyone who would kill Husain.
What is depressing is that, apart from a letter to The Guardian, from Lord Meghnad Desai, the closure of a major exhibition by fanatics has passed without comment. British troops are fighting against forces motivated by the religious fervour of the ultra right. British police officers arrest suspects they claim are inspired to kill because they, too, have a psychotic religious mission. Yet every week, comedians, art gallery owners, TV producers, newspaper editors and Home Office Ministers give in to religious extremists. This is no way to win a war. —
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
POST 17- Has India fulfilled the "Jai Kisan" commitment made by Lal Bahadur Shastri??(Based on the reports of National Comission on Farmers)
The 4th Report of National Comission on Farmers submitted in April 2006 contains the draft of a National Policy for Farmers, titled "Jai Kisan," for widespread discussion.
For the purpose of this policy, the term "farmer" includes landless agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, tenants, small, marginal and sub-marginal cultivators, farmers with larger holdings, fisher men and women, dairy, sheep, poultry and other farmers involved in animal husbandry, pastoralists, as well as those rural and tribal families engaged in a wide variety of farming related occupations such as sericulture, vermiculture, production of biofertilizers and biopesticides, and agro-processing. The term also includes tribal families sometimes engaged in shifting cultivation, and in the collection and use of non-timber forest products. In all cases, both men and women will receive equal attention.
The Year of Agricultural Renewal, better referred to as the Year of the Farmer, is due to begin on June 1, 2006, with the onset of the South West Monsoon. Soon after Independence in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru remarked: "everything else can wait, but not agriculture." He said this in the context of the Bengal Famine of 1942-43 and the acute food scarcity prevailing in the country in 1947. In 1947, there was a strict rule that not more than 30 guests in a wedding could be provided with food. Our population was then 350 million. Today, our population is over 1.1 billion and thousands of persons are fed in the weddings of the rich, since where there is money, there is food. However, a recent report by UNICEF says India has the largest number of malnourished children in the world, nearly 57 million out of a total world figure of 146 million, an index of widespread poverty and deprivation.
Farmers' indebtedness is rising and farmland even in Punjab, the heartland of the green revolution, is being referred to by the electronic media as "killing fields." Yet, the economy is estimated to have grown at 8.1 per cent during 2005-06, on top of the 7.5 per cent growth recorded in the previous year. The services sector continued to be the major driver of economic activity, accounting for almost three-fourths of overall GDP growth. Indian companies raised an unprecedented $40 billion in equity and debt. Merchandise exports rose by 25 per cent crossing the $100 billion level. Unfortunately, more than 50 per cent of our population living in rural areas have no option except to remain silent onlookers of this new-found urban prosperity, conveyed night and day on television channels. This is the Indian enigma.
Having declared failure in achieving most of the Tenth Plan goals in agriculture, the Union Planning Commission is now busy preparing the Eleventh Plan. The NCF in its 4th report has pointed out that a business as usual approach in agriculture, ignoring Jawaharlal Nehru's "agriculture cannot wait" exhortation, would have at least the following three major consequences:
-Spread of agrarian distress and rural discontent, and spread of the Naxalite movement;
-Returning to a "ship to mouth" era, and the consequent erosion of national sovereignty in foreign policy;
-Jobless or even job-loss growth resulting in the expansion of urban slums.
What then should we do to end this sad chapter in our agricultural history and fulfil the "Jai Kisan" commitment made by Lal Bahadur Sastri? The steps to be taken are simple, doable, and affordable. They, however, need a change in mindset from regarding farmers as "beneficiaries" of small government programmes to treating them as partners in development and custodians of food security. Integrated action on the following five points will help to get our agriculture back on the rails.
Five-point plan
First, undertake soil health enhancement through integrated measures in improving organic matter and macro- and micro-nutrient content, as well as the physics and the microbiology of the soil. Gujarat has already issued soil health cards to farm families and other States can do likewise.
Secondly, promote water harvesting, conservation, and efficient and equitable use by empowering gram sabhas to function as "pani panchayats." Such "pani panchayats" should foster the establishment of community managed water banks and the recharge of the aquifer. A sustainable water security system should be put in place, particularly in rainfed areas lacking assured irrigation facility. This will be facilitated by mandatory water harvesting and greater attention to dryland farming.
Thirdly, initiate immediately credit reforms coupled with credit and insurance literacy. The Finance Minister has announced a reduction in the interest on short-term loans to 7 per cent; this should be regarded as the first step in a series of measures including the revitalisation of the cooperative credit system. The farm families' agricultural, health, and domestic credit needs should be attended to in a holistic manner. Also in chronically drought-prone areas, the repayment cycle should be extended to four to five years. Credit delivery systems should be made gender sensitive — only a small proportion of women cultivators have been issued kisan credit cards. Adequacy and timelines of credit availability are vital for institutional credit to be meaningful to small farmers.
Fourthly, bridge the growing gap between scientific know-how and field level do-how both in production and post-harvest phases of farming. This could be done through a slew of measures including the training of one woman and one man of every panchayat as farm science managers, establishing farm schools in the fields of outstanding growers, adding a post-harvest technology and agro-processing wing in every Krishi Vigyan Kendra, and organising nationwide lab-to-land demonstrations in the areas of agricultural diversification, food processing, and value addition.
Also knowledge connectivity as proposed under Bharat Nirman should be accomplished by establishing village knowledge centres or "gyan chaupals" throughout the country. Small farmers should not be subjected to administrative and academic experiments in the area of crop diversification without first linking the farmers with the market for the new commodities. Crop-livestock-fish integrated production systems are ideal for small farmers since this can also facilitate organic farming. Success in agricultural progress should be measured by the growth rate in farmers' income and not just by production figures. Low economic risk, high factor productivity, avoidance of ecological harm, and assured income must be the bottom line of all agricultural research and development strategies. Had we adopted a pro-small farmer biotechnology strategy, we would by now have had Bt-cotton varieties whose seeds farmers could keep and replant, unlike in the case of the hybrids marketed by private companies.
Scientific strategies should include attention to both on-farm and non-farm livelihoods. We should confer the power and economy of scale on families operating one hectare or less through management structures such as cooperatives or group farming as well as contract cultivation based on a win-win model of partnership for both the producer and the purchaser. Institutional structures such as small holders' cotton, horticulture, poultry, and aquaculture estates can be promoted by stimulating the formation of self-help groups at the farm level. Concurrently, we should launch an integrated rural non-farm livelihood initiative by revamping and integrating numerous isolated non-farm employment and income generation agencies such as the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Small Farmers' Agri-business Consortium (SFAC), textile, leather and food parks, agri-clinics, and agri-business centres.
Unless market-driven multiple livelihood opportunities are created, the pressure of population on land will grow, the indebtedness of small farmers will increase, and the agrarian distress will spread. Poverty will persist so long as asset-less rural families remain illiterate and unskilled. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme provides a unique opportunity for imparting functional literacy using computer-aided joyful learning techniques. We should use new technologies to leapfrog in the area of human development in villages. At the same time, knowledge without access to the inputs to apply that knowledge will have no meaning. Input supply systems need review and reform.
Finally, the gap between what the rural producer gets and the urban consumer pays must be made as narrow as possible, as has been done in the case of milk under Dr. V. Kurien's leadership. The National Horticulture Board was created for this purpose over 23 years ago, but like the SFAC, it also lost its way. It can only be hoped other expensive new programmes such as the Fisheries Development Board, the National Rainfed Area Authority, and the National Horticultural Mission will learn from the success achieved by agencies such as the National Dairy Development Board, the Indian Space Research Organisation, and the Atomic Energy Commission in achieving specific goals in a time-bound manner, and benefit from strong professional leadership.
There is an urgent need for a National Land Use Advisory Service, structured as a virtual organisation on a hub and spokes model. The spokes would cover the major agro-climatic zones and farming systems, for providing proactive advice to farmers on land and water use through an integrated analysis of meteorological, agronomic, and marketing data. There is also need for an Indian Trade Organisation mandated to protect the livelihood and income security of farm and fisher families. At the same time, there should be a risk stabilisation fund and a farmer-centric Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Market Intervention Scheme (MIS).
Agriculture in our country is based on the technology of production by the masses. As a consequence, it is the backbone of the national livelihood security system. The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures. The NCF has suggested the mainstreaming of the human dimension in all agricultural programmes and policies, the adoption by the National Development Council of a National Policy for Farmers, and the establishment of a State Farmers' Commission by every State Government.
This is to give voice to the voiceless in the formulation of farm policies including the preparation of the 11th Five Year Plan. Let the Year of the Farmer help to shape our agricultural destiny in a manner that farming once again becomes the pride of the nation on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of our Independence on August 15, 2007.
For the purpose of this policy, the term "farmer" includes landless agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, tenants, small, marginal and sub-marginal cultivators, farmers with larger holdings, fisher men and women, dairy, sheep, poultry and other farmers involved in animal husbandry, pastoralists, as well as those rural and tribal families engaged in a wide variety of farming related occupations such as sericulture, vermiculture, production of biofertilizers and biopesticides, and agro-processing. The term also includes tribal families sometimes engaged in shifting cultivation, and in the collection and use of non-timber forest products. In all cases, both men and women will receive equal attention.
The Year of Agricultural Renewal, better referred to as the Year of the Farmer, is due to begin on June 1, 2006, with the onset of the South West Monsoon. Soon after Independence in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru remarked: "everything else can wait, but not agriculture." He said this in the context of the Bengal Famine of 1942-43 and the acute food scarcity prevailing in the country in 1947. In 1947, there was a strict rule that not more than 30 guests in a wedding could be provided with food. Our population was then 350 million. Today, our population is over 1.1 billion and thousands of persons are fed in the weddings of the rich, since where there is money, there is food. However, a recent report by UNICEF says India has the largest number of malnourished children in the world, nearly 57 million out of a total world figure of 146 million, an index of widespread poverty and deprivation.
Farmers' indebtedness is rising and farmland even in Punjab, the heartland of the green revolution, is being referred to by the electronic media as "killing fields." Yet, the economy is estimated to have grown at 8.1 per cent during 2005-06, on top of the 7.5 per cent growth recorded in the previous year. The services sector continued to be the major driver of economic activity, accounting for almost three-fourths of overall GDP growth. Indian companies raised an unprecedented $40 billion in equity and debt. Merchandise exports rose by 25 per cent crossing the $100 billion level. Unfortunately, more than 50 per cent of our population living in rural areas have no option except to remain silent onlookers of this new-found urban prosperity, conveyed night and day on television channels. This is the Indian enigma.
Having declared failure in achieving most of the Tenth Plan goals in agriculture, the Union Planning Commission is now busy preparing the Eleventh Plan. The NCF in its 4th report has pointed out that a business as usual approach in agriculture, ignoring Jawaharlal Nehru's "agriculture cannot wait" exhortation, would have at least the following three major consequences:
-Spread of agrarian distress and rural discontent, and spread of the Naxalite movement;
-Returning to a "ship to mouth" era, and the consequent erosion of national sovereignty in foreign policy;
-Jobless or even job-loss growth resulting in the expansion of urban slums.
What then should we do to end this sad chapter in our agricultural history and fulfil the "Jai Kisan" commitment made by Lal Bahadur Sastri? The steps to be taken are simple, doable, and affordable. They, however, need a change in mindset from regarding farmers as "beneficiaries" of small government programmes to treating them as partners in development and custodians of food security. Integrated action on the following five points will help to get our agriculture back on the rails.
Five-point plan
First, undertake soil health enhancement through integrated measures in improving organic matter and macro- and micro-nutrient content, as well as the physics and the microbiology of the soil. Gujarat has already issued soil health cards to farm families and other States can do likewise.
Secondly, promote water harvesting, conservation, and efficient and equitable use by empowering gram sabhas to function as "pani panchayats." Such "pani panchayats" should foster the establishment of community managed water banks and the recharge of the aquifer. A sustainable water security system should be put in place, particularly in rainfed areas lacking assured irrigation facility. This will be facilitated by mandatory water harvesting and greater attention to dryland farming.
Thirdly, initiate immediately credit reforms coupled with credit and insurance literacy. The Finance Minister has announced a reduction in the interest on short-term loans to 7 per cent; this should be regarded as the first step in a series of measures including the revitalisation of the cooperative credit system. The farm families' agricultural, health, and domestic credit needs should be attended to in a holistic manner. Also in chronically drought-prone areas, the repayment cycle should be extended to four to five years. Credit delivery systems should be made gender sensitive — only a small proportion of women cultivators have been issued kisan credit cards. Adequacy and timelines of credit availability are vital for institutional credit to be meaningful to small farmers.
Fourthly, bridge the growing gap between scientific know-how and field level do-how both in production and post-harvest phases of farming. This could be done through a slew of measures including the training of one woman and one man of every panchayat as farm science managers, establishing farm schools in the fields of outstanding growers, adding a post-harvest technology and agro-processing wing in every Krishi Vigyan Kendra, and organising nationwide lab-to-land demonstrations in the areas of agricultural diversification, food processing, and value addition.
Also knowledge connectivity as proposed under Bharat Nirman should be accomplished by establishing village knowledge centres or "gyan chaupals" throughout the country. Small farmers should not be subjected to administrative and academic experiments in the area of crop diversification without first linking the farmers with the market for the new commodities. Crop-livestock-fish integrated production systems are ideal for small farmers since this can also facilitate organic farming. Success in agricultural progress should be measured by the growth rate in farmers' income and not just by production figures. Low economic risk, high factor productivity, avoidance of ecological harm, and assured income must be the bottom line of all agricultural research and development strategies. Had we adopted a pro-small farmer biotechnology strategy, we would by now have had Bt-cotton varieties whose seeds farmers could keep and replant, unlike in the case of the hybrids marketed by private companies.
Scientific strategies should include attention to both on-farm and non-farm livelihoods. We should confer the power and economy of scale on families operating one hectare or less through management structures such as cooperatives or group farming as well as contract cultivation based on a win-win model of partnership for both the producer and the purchaser. Institutional structures such as small holders' cotton, horticulture, poultry, and aquaculture estates can be promoted by stimulating the formation of self-help groups at the farm level. Concurrently, we should launch an integrated rural non-farm livelihood initiative by revamping and integrating numerous isolated non-farm employment and income generation agencies such as the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Small Farmers' Agri-business Consortium (SFAC), textile, leather and food parks, agri-clinics, and agri-business centres.
Unless market-driven multiple livelihood opportunities are created, the pressure of population on land will grow, the indebtedness of small farmers will increase, and the agrarian distress will spread. Poverty will persist so long as asset-less rural families remain illiterate and unskilled. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme provides a unique opportunity for imparting functional literacy using computer-aided joyful learning techniques. We should use new technologies to leapfrog in the area of human development in villages. At the same time, knowledge without access to the inputs to apply that knowledge will have no meaning. Input supply systems need review and reform.
Finally, the gap between what the rural producer gets and the urban consumer pays must be made as narrow as possible, as has been done in the case of milk under Dr. V. Kurien's leadership. The National Horticulture Board was created for this purpose over 23 years ago, but like the SFAC, it also lost its way. It can only be hoped other expensive new programmes such as the Fisheries Development Board, the National Rainfed Area Authority, and the National Horticultural Mission will learn from the success achieved by agencies such as the National Dairy Development Board, the Indian Space Research Organisation, and the Atomic Energy Commission in achieving specific goals in a time-bound manner, and benefit from strong professional leadership.
There is an urgent need for a National Land Use Advisory Service, structured as a virtual organisation on a hub and spokes model. The spokes would cover the major agro-climatic zones and farming systems, for providing proactive advice to farmers on land and water use through an integrated analysis of meteorological, agronomic, and marketing data. There is also need for an Indian Trade Organisation mandated to protect the livelihood and income security of farm and fisher families. At the same time, there should be a risk stabilisation fund and a farmer-centric Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Market Intervention Scheme (MIS).
Agriculture in our country is based on the technology of production by the masses. As a consequence, it is the backbone of the national livelihood security system. The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures. The NCF has suggested the mainstreaming of the human dimension in all agricultural programmes and policies, the adoption by the National Development Council of a National Policy for Farmers, and the establishment of a State Farmers' Commission by every State Government.
This is to give voice to the voiceless in the formulation of farm policies including the preparation of the 11th Five Year Plan. Let the Year of the Farmer help to shape our agricultural destiny in a manner that farming once again becomes the pride of the nation on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of our Independence on August 15, 2007.
Friday, May 19, 2006
POST 16- Rock!! Music to Liberate(Contributed by Deathglory666)
What are the next words that comes to your mind when you come across these words. Let me guess:- Noise, shit, drugs, sex, violence and filth.
Human behavior and decisions are based on his past experience. Experience constitutes your personal experience and what has been taught to you by society, enviornment and situations.I bet when you blame rock music, it is only a result of what has been taught to you. Because you yourself have never researched deeply and still come out with such harsh words generalising whole community of ROCK MUSIC. I agree that most of the rock stuff that you must have heard displayed drugs, sex, violence and sometimes romance. But it is all about the choice . What form of music is available and what you choose out of it? Let me clarify, here, that I don't want to hurt your feelings and challenge your decisions. And I won't push you to listen to any stuff. These are just personal views.
ROCK MUSIC started out with a form called rock 'n' roll and classical rock with rock stars like Bob marley, Elvis Presley,The Beatles, The Eagles etc. Then it spread like a disease all over the globe with some modifications according to different nations and cultures. Today ROCK MUSIC has many genres that classify it with very thin lines, such as, Death Metal, Hard metal, Soft Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Black Metal etc. Each of these is a unique form in itself, displaying different faces of same beast.
The most true and purest thing about ROCK MUSIC is that it requires openness of mind. Openness of mind to grab the music, vocals and the message behind every song.It doesn't aim to make you dance with your gf/bf and turn a deaf ear. It aims to channelise all your senses towards it's core and then it hits your conciousness.
I agree that the lyrics are personal views of the band/writers. But these hard lyrics reflects upon the past, present and future of human civilization,society, nations and much more. We try to face away from them because they are the hardest truths around us. We just don't want to accept the reality.We try to live with our eyes closed to the problems in our society because we think we are not the ones to rectify them. Everybody reads the message on the board but we think, it is meant for someone else. We don't want to take the responsibility.But atleast somebody is watching over the whole scene and trying to tell the truth. The violent music and vocals are just the means to show their wrath, anger, concern and depth of problems.
ROCK MUSIC is not just music. It is fight against war, weapons, capitalism, hegemony, discrimination and religious divisions that are torturing and dividing the society. It describes human behavior and psychology and the causes for it. Yeah, it blames society, it's preachers and leaders for the present situation. And who else is to be blamed. I think only humans are to be blamed, not the animals. So they are targeting the right species. I'm not here to preach you.But the truth is ROCK MUSIC shows us the real scene around the globe. It increases our knowledge, conciousness and awareness. It also plants a sense of responsibility in our minds. It makes you feel special by giving you access to vast reserves of knowledge and showing you the path of transformation. Some drown and fail in life after getting addicted to it. But some realize and help in building a better world. But in this race both kind of people are winners.
Human behavior and decisions are based on his past experience. Experience constitutes your personal experience and what has been taught to you by society, enviornment and situations.I bet when you blame rock music, it is only a result of what has been taught to you. Because you yourself have never researched deeply and still come out with such harsh words generalising whole community of ROCK MUSIC. I agree that most of the rock stuff that you must have heard displayed drugs, sex, violence and sometimes romance. But it is all about the choice . What form of music is available and what you choose out of it? Let me clarify, here, that I don't want to hurt your feelings and challenge your decisions. And I won't push you to listen to any stuff. These are just personal views.
ROCK MUSIC started out with a form called rock 'n' roll and classical rock with rock stars like Bob marley, Elvis Presley,The Beatles, The Eagles etc. Then it spread like a disease all over the globe with some modifications according to different nations and cultures. Today ROCK MUSIC has many genres that classify it with very thin lines, such as, Death Metal, Hard metal, Soft Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Black Metal etc. Each of these is a unique form in itself, displaying different faces of same beast.
The most true and purest thing about ROCK MUSIC is that it requires openness of mind. Openness of mind to grab the music, vocals and the message behind every song.It doesn't aim to make you dance with your gf/bf and turn a deaf ear. It aims to channelise all your senses towards it's core and then it hits your conciousness.
I agree that the lyrics are personal views of the band/writers. But these hard lyrics reflects upon the past, present and future of human civilization,society, nations and much more. We try to face away from them because they are the hardest truths around us. We just don't want to accept the reality.We try to live with our eyes closed to the problems in our society because we think we are not the ones to rectify them. Everybody reads the message on the board but we think, it is meant for someone else. We don't want to take the responsibility.But atleast somebody is watching over the whole scene and trying to tell the truth. The violent music and vocals are just the means to show their wrath, anger, concern and depth of problems.
ROCK MUSIC is not just music. It is fight against war, weapons, capitalism, hegemony, discrimination and religious divisions that are torturing and dividing the society. It describes human behavior and psychology and the causes for it. Yeah, it blames society, it's preachers and leaders for the present situation. And who else is to be blamed. I think only humans are to be blamed, not the animals. So they are targeting the right species. I'm not here to preach you.But the truth is ROCK MUSIC shows us the real scene around the globe. It increases our knowledge, conciousness and awareness. It also plants a sense of responsibility in our minds. It makes you feel special by giving you access to vast reserves of knowledge and showing you the path of transformation. Some drown and fail in life after getting addicted to it. But some realize and help in building a better world. But in this race both kind of people are winners.
POST 15- Freedom?? Read This!!!
What am i doing here??
What's this all about??
Why are we so proud of being called humans, and why do we claim our rationality at a time when we're more animals than most of the species...
Freedom of speech is considered a fundamental right in my country, India. But what if my views are against any religion?? Then I am booked for hurting the religious sentiments of the disciples of that religion. That means that I am booked for exercising one of my rights. Then why was I given the right in the first place?
This country is a secular country so I can follow any religion that I want. What if one of my religious beliefs are totally against some other religion?? What I exactly want to say is that may be some practices of my religion may potray some other practice of some other religion in bad sense. so will i be allowed to practice it?? If yes then as I have seen during all these years is that there will be clashes all over between the disciples of both the religions and at the end I'll be made to stop the practice. But if I consider some practice by some other established religion as hurting my new religion's feelings then will the practice by the other religion be stopped?? No. I'll have to keep my mouth shut only because the other religion is older and have more number of followers. If the number of followers is the deciding factor then how is this country secular?? Many minorities suffer like this.
So it is very clear that there is no room for rational thinking in this country and one has to keep his mouth shut and should not try to speak his mind ad if it hurts the mahority then either hw becomes victim of some militant group or the politicians.
I'll not be able to give solutions to the problems but will atleast start a quest to find them. And will urge people to stop hating each other on different grounds such as caste, creed, sex, religion etc. but try to find better ways of living and progressing together.
For last few days I have been listening about the protests that are going against the release of the movie, Da Vinci Code. It is being said that the movie potrays christ in wrong sense and should not be released.
I thought both ways.
Had the movie potrayed any God of the established religions in India in bad sense, would our religious leaders allowed it to release?? There would've been big protests and bandhs. But as christians are in minority, our country doesn't care much.(Here I am talking only about India) And then we say that it is a secular country.
Thinking in another way, the movie is a work of fiction and no body exactly knows the truth. If Christians feel that Da Vinci Code is against Bible the isn't Bible against Da Vinci Code and shouldn't it also contain a warning that it is a pure work of fiction as it is very clear thst Bible was written by Men??
I am not supporting any side here as both have there own reasons, but personally i'm really looking forward to the movie as enjoyed the book a lot and will surely watch it first day first show.
There was also a big hue and cry against the paintings of M.F. Hussien. It was said that he disrespected India by painting Bharat Mata nude. Will someone ask these people that how do they think that India wears clothes.
We are sent into the world naked, that all the variations of the blood might be made visible. However trite, I cannot avoid quoting here the lines of the most deep-thinking and philosophical of our poets:
We understood
Her by her sight: her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say her body thought.
Its a work of art and please take it as that.
From all this it is very clear that India still has a long way to go to become a place where a person is allowed to think logically and speak his mind.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
POST 14- What is Reality???
When we talk of reality we have formed a habit to think that whatever can be percieved by our five sense is real. Most of the time we take concensus as a proof of what is real. but the material is not the only mode of thought. What is an idea? You have the idea of the home you live in when you are a thousand miles from it, even an image "in your mind." Is that material, i.e. physical. Can anyone prove you have that idea in your mind? Nobody else than you can know what thought you have in your mind at this very second. According to concensus there is no thought in your mind but is it the truth?? Also we know ideas "float around" everywhere all the time, and have great influence on us (called "memes"). Experience itself is not physical, although has physical causes (brain). Everything effects you.
We have a habit of trying to fit everything we see in the 3 Dimensions which we understand. We know about the fourth dimension but we never care much as we have taken it for granted that we won't be able to change it to have any particular effect.
But what are dimensions??
Talking in a very crude language a dimension is something according to which the changes in a system are studied. We study how much does one dimension change with respect to some other dimension. For example when we study motion of a car, we study how much distance it travels in some particular time. So dimensions are somethings according to which a system is studied but what we forget many times is that it is to simplify the study that we consider these dimensions. We decided that we'll study the car with time and distance as dimensions. That doesn't mean that there can't be any other dimensions. We could've selected anything. We could've selected the amount of the reduction of fuel as a dimension or the anytjing else. So it should be clear that the dimensions have nothing to do with what is actually happening. It is just a few variables that are chosen to make a simple study of a system.
But when we talk of the real world, we start thinking that there are only 3 Dimensions(Sometimes we consider 4th, if it answers some contradictions). But can't there be any other dimensions. There can be infinite of them. It depends on the person who is studying the system that how much deeply he wants to study the system. To study what is really happeming, he'll have to consider every dimension. Some of the dimensions can be the thought processes that are running through his mind. All depends on him, how he studies it. While trying to fit anything into the dimesions that we understand, we forget that the dimensions that you see is only the map of reality and the real thing is far much bigger(or may be far smaller). Whatever we percieve with our five senses is just a map of the reality and we start considering it as reality. We start saying to many things-- How is this possible?? These questions only arise when you try to fit things into 3 or 4 Dimensions.
I watched something on discovery that really impressed me. I don't remember the name of the program but do remember the concept he was trying to explain.
We have a habit of trying to fit everything we see in the 3 Dimensions which we understand. We know about the fourth dimension but we never care much as we have taken it for granted that we won't be able to change it to have any particular effect.
But what are dimensions??
Talking in a very crude language a dimension is something according to which the changes in a system are studied. We study how much does one dimension change with respect to some other dimension. For example when we study motion of a car, we study how much distance it travels in some particular time. So dimensions are somethings according to which a system is studied but what we forget many times is that it is to simplify the study that we consider these dimensions. We decided that we'll study the car with time and distance as dimensions. That doesn't mean that there can't be any other dimensions. We could've selected anything. We could've selected the amount of the reduction of fuel as a dimension or the anytjing else. So it should be clear that the dimensions have nothing to do with what is actually happening. It is just a few variables that are chosen to make a simple study of a system.
But when we talk of the real world, we start thinking that there are only 3 Dimensions(Sometimes we consider 4th, if it answers some contradictions). But can't there be any other dimensions. There can be infinite of them. It depends on the person who is studying the system that how much deeply he wants to study the system. To study what is really happeming, he'll have to consider every dimension. Some of the dimensions can be the thought processes that are running through his mind. All depends on him, how he studies it. While trying to fit anything into the dimesions that we understand, we forget that the dimensions that you see is only the map of reality and the real thing is far much bigger(or may be far smaller). Whatever we percieve with our five senses is just a map of the reality and we start considering it as reality. We start saying to many things-- How is this possible?? These questions only arise when you try to fit things into 3 or 4 Dimensions.
I watched something on discovery that really impressed me. I don't remember the name of the program but do remember the concept he was trying to explain.
- Take a piece of paper and a pin. Consider this piece of paper as a 2 D world. Just imagine that there are people living on the paper who just understand the two dimensions and know nothing about the 3rd dimension. Now hold the pin on the top of the paper. Till the pin is a little far from the paper, the paper people know nothing about it as they can't understand the 3rd dimension. We know that the pin exists. Prick the paper with the pin. What has happened?? As the pin pricks the paper, it enters the paper people's world. Won't they see something appearing through thin air?? When you take out the pin, the paper people will think that the pin just dissappeared in thin air. For you nothing really happened but for the paper people it might have been a rendezvous with what they might consider god.
Similarly we just think that the reality has to fit in the three dimensions that we can understand with our five senses and start considering anything that we don't understand as not real.
What we forget here is that it is not the dimensions that are controlling the system but the system that effects the dimensions. And while talking of reality we try mixing many sytems just to make them fit in the dimensions that we undertstand.
Proof follows scientific methodology. Spiritual "insight" is not subject to proof,...
The only knower of reality is the subject - what can be more real than this?
Monday, May 15, 2006
This is a request to all those who have questions
It is not possible to answer all questions in main so this is a request to immoratal_bhagat and all others who have questions to send in your questions in mail. You can send them at missionmind@gmail.com
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously and abundantly.
- Jeseph Murphy, Ph.D., The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Too many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Looking forward to an enlightened world. Lets shed ignorance once and for all.
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously and abundantly.
- Jeseph Murphy, Ph.D., The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Too many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Looking forward to an enlightened world. Lets shed ignorance once and for all.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
POST 13- Are you an Achiever??
In your life you seem to have it all
You seem to have control
But deep within your soul
You're losing it
You never took the time
Assume that you're to blame
You think that you're insane
Won't you spare me
I know the breakdown
Everything is gonna shake now someday
I know the breakdown
Tell me again am i awake now maybe
You can find the reason that no one else is living this way
Do you know what you want???
Have you thought where will u be 5 years from now?? and where you'll be 10 years from now??
Are you on the right path at this moment to achieve the goals that you have set for yourself??
One secret to success is that you decide what you have to do and then channelize all your energy just to do that.
Unfortunately, most people are "wondering generalities". These are the people who wander throught life without direction. They are not reaching for worthwhile goals.
Achievers know exactly what they want and consistently move towards it. There may be many ways to reach it but the goal should be very clear.
Once you are clear about what you want, the universe works day and night to help attract it into your life. Oppurtunities will show up out of nowhere. you'll begin recognizing things that you otherwise never noticed before. In many cases, you will realize that these oppurtunities were right in front of you the whole time.
Our mind has a way of focussing on what we want and filtering out information that is not important to us- it is survival mechanism.
The bottom line is, if you are unclear about what you want out of life, then even if oppurtunities arise, they'll simply go unnoticed. You will unknowingly filter them out. On the other hand, when you are clear about what you want to achieve, you'll notice the slightest oppurtunity that can lead to the accomplishment of your goals.
Goathe writes,
Until one is committed their hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always infectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely comits oneself, then Povidence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events, issues from decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would come his way.Whatever you can do, or you can dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Just think once, if money, time, resource, or oppurtunity were not an obstacle--what would i chose to do??
This is one more step in the growth process.
Yeah your lies
Your world is built around
Two faces to a clown
The voices in your head
Think there's four pawns down
Well in this unity
Fate has found the need
So you better check yourself
Before you check out
If you find yourself
Then you might believe
Then within yourself
You just might conceive
You can find the reason that no one else is living this way
Send in your comments and questions at missionmind@gmail.com
It is not possible to answer all questions in main so this is a request to immoratal_bhagat and all others who have questions to send in your questions in mail.
You seem to have control
But deep within your soul
You're losing it
You never took the time
Assume that you're to blame
You think that you're insane
Won't you spare me
I know the breakdown
Everything is gonna shake now someday
I know the breakdown
Tell me again am i awake now maybe
You can find the reason that no one else is living this way
Do you know what you want???
Have you thought where will u be 5 years from now?? and where you'll be 10 years from now??
Are you on the right path at this moment to achieve the goals that you have set for yourself??
One secret to success is that you decide what you have to do and then channelize all your energy just to do that.
Unfortunately, most people are "wondering generalities". These are the people who wander throught life without direction. They are not reaching for worthwhile goals.
Achievers know exactly what they want and consistently move towards it. There may be many ways to reach it but the goal should be very clear.
Once you are clear about what you want, the universe works day and night to help attract it into your life. Oppurtunities will show up out of nowhere. you'll begin recognizing things that you otherwise never noticed before. In many cases, you will realize that these oppurtunities were right in front of you the whole time.
Our mind has a way of focussing on what we want and filtering out information that is not important to us- it is survival mechanism.
The bottom line is, if you are unclear about what you want out of life, then even if oppurtunities arise, they'll simply go unnoticed. You will unknowingly filter them out. On the other hand, when you are clear about what you want to achieve, you'll notice the slightest oppurtunity that can lead to the accomplishment of your goals.
Goathe writes,
Until one is committed their hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always infectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely comits oneself, then Povidence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events, issues from decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would come his way.Whatever you can do, or you can dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Just think once, if money, time, resource, or oppurtunity were not an obstacle--what would i chose to do??
This is one more step in the growth process.
Yeah your lies
Your world is built around
Two faces to a clown
The voices in your head
Think there's four pawns down
Well in this unity
Fate has found the need
So you better check yourself
Before you check out
If you find yourself
Then you might believe
Then within yourself
You just might conceive
You can find the reason that no one else is living this way
Send in your comments and questions at missionmind@gmail.com
It is not possible to answer all questions in main so this is a request to immoratal_bhagat and all others who have questions to send in your questions in mail.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
This is in reply to a comment
This is in reply to comment--
Hello Brother..I am quite impressed by your content and style...But wat u write here is not dat practical...Have you ever stopped and sat to think who u really are in this fast track world...have u ever pondered upon the thought that why did God, if there is any sent you here on this Earth. What are you doing and wat r u supposed to do here....Do u think you have the power to change the prevelant thinking of people...?
--Posted by Immortal_Bhagat
If i hadn't stopped and thought that who i really am in this fast track world, then i wouldn't have taken so much pain to start a mission like this.
We are not going to war or anything but this mission is against ignorance and to make lives more meaningful. We all have to live normal lives but that doesn't mean that we should stop trying to find the answers of the bigger questions of lfe.
First of all i want to say that you are again working on the preconcieved notions that you have formed.
I'll quote some things from the blog to clarify.
If you had read and understood the complete blog and tried to understand it then your wouldn't have asked this question.
What is practical?? It is you yourself who set the limits.
We have a habit to try to fit everything within the 3 dimensions that we see. But isn't there a 4th dimension?? We don't see it so we think that it is not affecting our lives. Similarly there are many other dimensions. If you can't make graphs of it then it doesn't mean that they don't exist.
What we see is just a map as the actual things is too big and we start thinking that only what can be fitted in these 3 dimensions is practical.
You can't see, hear, smell, taste or touch what the other person is thinking but does that mean that his thoughts don't exist?? Is his mind non-existant practically??
Everything in the world can't be expressed in words and many things can't be percieved with our 5 senses but have to be felt.
Quotes from the blog-
Suppose that you join a course for mathematics which is about some things that you haven’t studied before. And suppose that on your first day the teacher asks you some question which is based on a formula that you have never seen in your life before. What will be your answer???You’ll surely say that how could you tell as this is your first day at the class.But if I ask your any question like why a human is behaving a certain way, in a certain situation Or any question like how a particular thing is effecting anybody’s life, you’ll pick up your pen and will start filling pages on that and would never say that you can’t tell as this is your first day.
You’ll start working on the preconceived notions that you accept as facts.Explaining this in another way, i can say that how can you pour more coffee in a cup that is already full? You’ll have to empty your cup first to understand properly.
--Post 1
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience which in its nature transcends linguistics --- D.T. Suzuki
--Post 4
Any path is just a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you… Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question… Does this path have a heart?? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use-----Carlos Castaneda, The teaching of Don Juan.
--Post 6
Somebody asked me, what'll i gain out of all this?? Hey friends, gain is always not measured in material terms. Even if one soul on the earth changes due to my effort, i'll think that my efforts have been successful.
--Post 8
I want to produce such positive thoughts so that even from the time a child is born, he thinks positively. And it is possible.May be not in my lifetime. Many times the results come much later. When Galileo said that sun is the centre of the solar system, noone believed him but it doesn't prove that he was wrong.sometimes result come much later.Some people say that we don't have time for such things. hey friends, even Einstein, Nostradamus, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespear and many great people who lived in this 3-Dimensional world had 24 hours in a day.
--Post 8
The principles on which your life is based may be entirely sound, but until you've examined them, you can't be certain of this.
--Post 12
And please do read atleast once the complete POST 9 -Believe. Please do read it atleast once and you'll get answers to many of your questions.
Comments and questions can also be sent at missionmind@gmail.com
Hello Brother..I am quite impressed by your content and style...But wat u write here is not dat practical...Have you ever stopped and sat to think who u really are in this fast track world...have u ever pondered upon the thought that why did God, if there is any sent you here on this Earth. What are you doing and wat r u supposed to do here....Do u think you have the power to change the prevelant thinking of people...?
--Posted by Immortal_Bhagat
If i hadn't stopped and thought that who i really am in this fast track world, then i wouldn't have taken so much pain to start a mission like this.
We are not going to war or anything but this mission is against ignorance and to make lives more meaningful. We all have to live normal lives but that doesn't mean that we should stop trying to find the answers of the bigger questions of lfe.
First of all i want to say that you are again working on the preconcieved notions that you have formed.
I'll quote some things from the blog to clarify.
If you had read and understood the complete blog and tried to understand it then your wouldn't have asked this question.
What is practical?? It is you yourself who set the limits.
We have a habit to try to fit everything within the 3 dimensions that we see. But isn't there a 4th dimension?? We don't see it so we think that it is not affecting our lives. Similarly there are many other dimensions. If you can't make graphs of it then it doesn't mean that they don't exist.
What we see is just a map as the actual things is too big and we start thinking that only what can be fitted in these 3 dimensions is practical.
You can't see, hear, smell, taste or touch what the other person is thinking but does that mean that his thoughts don't exist?? Is his mind non-existant practically??
Everything in the world can't be expressed in words and many things can't be percieved with our 5 senses but have to be felt.
Quotes from the blog-
Suppose that you join a course for mathematics which is about some things that you haven’t studied before. And suppose that on your first day the teacher asks you some question which is based on a formula that you have never seen in your life before. What will be your answer???You’ll surely say that how could you tell as this is your first day at the class.But if I ask your any question like why a human is behaving a certain way, in a certain situation Or any question like how a particular thing is effecting anybody’s life, you’ll pick up your pen and will start filling pages on that and would never say that you can’t tell as this is your first day.
You’ll start working on the preconceived notions that you accept as facts.Explaining this in another way, i can say that how can you pour more coffee in a cup that is already full? You’ll have to empty your cup first to understand properly.
--Post 1
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience which in its nature transcends linguistics --- D.T. Suzuki
--Post 4
Any path is just a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you… Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question… Does this path have a heart?? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use-----Carlos Castaneda, The teaching of Don Juan.
--Post 6
Somebody asked me, what'll i gain out of all this?? Hey friends, gain is always not measured in material terms. Even if one soul on the earth changes due to my effort, i'll think that my efforts have been successful.
--Post 8
I want to produce such positive thoughts so that even from the time a child is born, he thinks positively. And it is possible.May be not in my lifetime. Many times the results come much later. When Galileo said that sun is the centre of the solar system, noone believed him but it doesn't prove that he was wrong.sometimes result come much later.Some people say that we don't have time for such things. hey friends, even Einstein, Nostradamus, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespear and many great people who lived in this 3-Dimensional world had 24 hours in a day.
--Post 8
The principles on which your life is based may be entirely sound, but until you've examined them, you can't be certain of this.
--Post 12
And please do read atleast once the complete POST 9 -Believe. Please do read it atleast once and you'll get answers to many of your questions.
Comments and questions can also be sent at missionmind@gmail.com
Friday, May 05, 2006
POST 12- Analyse
Many people say that i talk a lot of philosophy.
But do you know what is Philosophy?? and why do we need it??
Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question. Its most distinctive features is its use of logical argument. Philosophers typically deal in arguments: they either invent them, criticise other people's, or do both. They analyse and clarify concepts. The word 'Philosophy' is often used in a much broader sense than this to mean one's general outlook on life, or else rather to some forms of mysticism.
It is sometime argued that there is no point in studying philosophy as all philosophers ever do is sit around quibbling over the meaning of words. They never seem to reach any conclusions of any importance and their contribution to society is virtually non-existent.
The caricature of a philosopher is of someone who is good at dealing with very abstract thoughts.
One important reason for studying philosophy is that it deals with fundamental questions about the meaning of our existence.
Most of us at some time in our lives ask ourselves basic philosophical questions.
Why are we here? Is there any proof that God exists? Is there any purpose to our lives? What makes anything right or wrong? Could we ever be justified in breaking the law? Could our lives be just a dream? Is mind different from body, or are we simply physical beings? How does science progress? What is art? and so on.
Most people who study philosophy believe that it is important that each of us examines such questions. Some even argue that an unexamined life is not worth living. To carry on routine existence without ever examining the principles on which it is based may be like driving a car which has never been serviced. You may be justified in trusting the brakes, the steering, the engine. since they have always worked well enough up until now; but you may be completely unjustified in trust: the brake pads may be faulty and fail you when you most need them.
Similarly the principles on which your life is based may be entirely sound, but until you've examined them, you can't be certain of this.
However, even if you do not seriously doubt the soundness of the assumptions on which your life is based, you may be impoverishing your life by not exercising your power of thought. Many people find it either too much of an effort, or too disturbing to ask themselves such fundamental questions: they may be happy and comfortable with their prejudices and laugh on others who do so but they forget that others have a strong desire to find answers to challenging philosophical questions.
Post questions at missionmind@gmail.com
But do you know what is Philosophy?? and why do we need it??
Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question. Its most distinctive features is its use of logical argument. Philosophers typically deal in arguments: they either invent them, criticise other people's, or do both. They analyse and clarify concepts. The word 'Philosophy' is often used in a much broader sense than this to mean one's general outlook on life, or else rather to some forms of mysticism.
It is sometime argued that there is no point in studying philosophy as all philosophers ever do is sit around quibbling over the meaning of words. They never seem to reach any conclusions of any importance and their contribution to society is virtually non-existent.
The caricature of a philosopher is of someone who is good at dealing with very abstract thoughts.
One important reason for studying philosophy is that it deals with fundamental questions about the meaning of our existence.
Most of us at some time in our lives ask ourselves basic philosophical questions.
Why are we here? Is there any proof that God exists? Is there any purpose to our lives? What makes anything right or wrong? Could we ever be justified in breaking the law? Could our lives be just a dream? Is mind different from body, or are we simply physical beings? How does science progress? What is art? and so on.
Most people who study philosophy believe that it is important that each of us examines such questions. Some even argue that an unexamined life is not worth living. To carry on routine existence without ever examining the principles on which it is based may be like driving a car which has never been serviced. You may be justified in trusting the brakes, the steering, the engine. since they have always worked well enough up until now; but you may be completely unjustified in trust: the brake pads may be faulty and fail you when you most need them.
Similarly the principles on which your life is based may be entirely sound, but until you've examined them, you can't be certain of this.
However, even if you do not seriously doubt the soundness of the assumptions on which your life is based, you may be impoverishing your life by not exercising your power of thought. Many people find it either too much of an effort, or too disturbing to ask themselves such fundamental questions: they may be happy and comfortable with their prejudices and laugh on others who do so but they forget that others have a strong desire to find answers to challenging philosophical questions.
Post questions at missionmind@gmail.com
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
POST 11- Nobodies??
We are the nobodies
Wanna be Somebodies
We're Dead,
they'll know just who we are
Some children died the other day
we fed machines and then we prayed
puked up and down in morbid faith
you should have seen the ratings that day
When we are small, we have many dreams. But as the time passes many dreams fade away as we start putting limitations to them. We make compromises on various stages of life and according to them our dreams also have to make compromises.
Its not that we should never compromise in our life. We have to make many compromises for our benefit and the benefit of all those who are connected with us.
To explain this i'll tell you a small incident-
Once 3 people died. While dying the first said Jesus. Second said Ram. The third said Potato.
When the postmortem report came out, it was found that the first two had their stomachs full while the third was hungry.
Every person first thinks about food and only after that he can think about God.
While we discuss these things, their are many who are still looking for proper food. The people on the top are just fighting for supremacy and have forgotten that they also have to look down.
US attacked Iraq as they said that people of Iraq were in bad condition under the rule of Saddam Hussein. Is it true?? Is their situation any better today??
And what right does US have to attack any other country when the other country has not even done a single bit to harm US. US said that Iraq had nucleur and chemical weapons but where have they gone?? So US had no base in attacking Iraq, so Why is there no case on US for attacking Iraq, in International Court??
Why the other countries not do anything to stop US?? Why the other countries still have good relations with US. Why US is still a permanent member of UN when it has violated the orders of UN??
This is the perfect example of how we have closed our eyes and have compromised with the situation around the world. But is it right?? Are we the nobodies?? Ask yourself these questions. Don't you wanna be somebody??
Wanna be Somebodies
We're Dead,
they'll know just who we are
Some children died the other day
we fed machines and then we prayed
puked up and down in morbid faith
you should have seen the ratings that day
When we are small, we have many dreams. But as the time passes many dreams fade away as we start putting limitations to them. We make compromises on various stages of life and according to them our dreams also have to make compromises.
Its not that we should never compromise in our life. We have to make many compromises for our benefit and the benefit of all those who are connected with us.
To explain this i'll tell you a small incident-
Once 3 people died. While dying the first said Jesus. Second said Ram. The third said Potato.
When the postmortem report came out, it was found that the first two had their stomachs full while the third was hungry.
Every person first thinks about food and only after that he can think about God.
While we discuss these things, their are many who are still looking for proper food. The people on the top are just fighting for supremacy and have forgotten that they also have to look down.
US attacked Iraq as they said that people of Iraq were in bad condition under the rule of Saddam Hussein. Is it true?? Is their situation any better today??
And what right does US have to attack any other country when the other country has not even done a single bit to harm US. US said that Iraq had nucleur and chemical weapons but where have they gone?? So US had no base in attacking Iraq, so Why is there no case on US for attacking Iraq, in International Court??
Why the other countries not do anything to stop US?? Why the other countries still have good relations with US. Why US is still a permanent member of UN when it has violated the orders of UN??
This is the perfect example of how we have closed our eyes and have compromised with the situation around the world. But is it right?? Are we the nobodies?? Ask yourself these questions. Don't you wanna be somebody??
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