Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The path......

The path of the faithfuls 

In fact is not.......

Riddled with Gold mines

But with landmines.

Friday, March 26, 2021

Corruption of the spirit.....

It is corruption 

That makes 

One.......

Believe in 

Deceitful ways. 

Collide.....

In a godforsaken world 

Sometimes......

Truths are lies and 

Lies are truths.

A (systamatic) pattern...............

Lying and 

Incompetent people are 

Not Nice....

Especially...... 

When they represent 

Organs of......

Any administration.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

The evolution of human values.....

One may assume ......

The corresponding human values are 

An offshoot of traditions cultures and religions 

But it is the evolutionary process of life 

That gives way to and makes it 

Possible for human values 

That help protect and 

Self sustain the species.

     *         *         *         *         *

History has.... 

Its own evolutionary process 

However .....

One may represent or 

Present it.

To Fear....

Don't fear to be wrong 

By error or accident 

But do fear..... 

When you do not try 

To do Right or 

Fail to do so.


Sunday, March 21, 2021

Ocean 8... Part 2....

 The oppressed, 

instead of striving for liberation, 

tend themselves to become oppressors

They have no consciousness of 

themselves as persons or 

as members of an oppressed class.

The oppressed find in the oppressors 

their model of 'manhood.'

The behavior of the oppressed is 

a prescribed behavior, following as it does 

the guidelines of the oppressor.

--- Paulo Freire.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Ocean 8.....Part 1...

How can the oppressed, 

as divided unauthentic beings, 

participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?


As long as they live in the duality 

While desiring to be one's desire is be.... and

To be like one's oppressor, 

this contribution is impossible.

Liberation is thus a childbirth, 

and a painful one.

--- Paulo Freire.

Monday, March 15, 2021

Quote of the day.....

Girls are capable of doing 

everything men are capable of doing. 

Sometimes ......

they have more imagination than men. 

--Katherine Johnson.1918-2020

NASA research Mathematician.

Godless......

A community /Society

Or even a world....

With out A Just nature 

Is play ground for the devil.

The limits of compassion.....

True / Godly compassion has 

No limits... 

Even to the point of 

Being overwhelmed

As the needy is /are.

A tribute to Hilary Putnam.....

Human life is always prone to not just 

messiness and sloppiness,but, worse, 

to capitulation to forms of authority and pressure.

--- Hilary Whitehall putnam.
(/ˈpʌtnəm/; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016).

Conditioning....

Corrupt/ed minds need 

Very little persuasion 

For change of...... 

Their beliefs.

Pathology...

A morally .....

Ethically unhinged behavior is 

A sign of self destructive behavior and 

A humanity's bad choice.

To unburden the self....

To be a burden on other is

No less burden on to.... 

Oneself.

Instead choose...

Freedom

That which sustains 

Thee.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Prejudices....

Our limitations become 

Prejudices....

When mixed up 

With emotions.

Guilty by Association.......

When we buy in to Lies

Falsity of human nature and

Deception....

We make ourselves.... 

Guilty by association.

Hypocrisy......

A claim to goodness with 

An intent to profit is Bad.

Seeking validation......

Seeking validation through

Victimization of

Self or Others is....

A Sad State of affairs.

Life less.....Virtue.

An easy life is not 

A virtuous life

By any account.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

To be.....

A desire and pretense to 

Humility is.....

Not without ambition

Nor a socially conditioned 

Behavior to humility is 

Without its ambiguities.

       *         *        *         *        *

A faith or trust in

Code of conduct is 

Not with out Mistrust.

      *          *         *        *          *

Those that are 

Not truly free 

Could always be mislead.

      *         *         *          *          *

It matters very little

Which side one is 

When there no truth in it.

        *          *         *         *         *

True quest is not seeking

But understanding

what is.

          *          *        *          *          *

Yet there is nothing to 

Act up on 

In understanding or knowing

But to be.

Tuesday, March 09, 2021

What is in Hold.........

What can not seem to hold 

In simple measure 

Does not in projection.

         *           *           *           *           *

Human life and 

Its condition is Universal

The difference lies in....... 

Agreements and Disagreements.

A morale higiene...

Inability to clean up 

One's act.....

Drags One...... 

In to morass finally. 

Farmers are Framers...

Farmers are Framers and

Framers were Farmers.

Monday, March 08, 2021

To Listen......

In true listening

One becomes......

The voice of the other/s.

The Bureaucracy of human affairs......

It is easy....... 

In fact mundane to the extent

To administer and guide/lead human societies

But it is difficult to get

The right way of...... 

Doing so.

To possess....

The possession of power over others is 

inherently destructive both..... 

to the possessor of  the power and 

to those over whom it is exercised.

-- George D. Herron (1862-1925)

A domain.....

Where there is.... 

Neither Truth nor 

A Fact....

There lies Propaganda.

Faith.....

Faith is a solitary affair

Albeit with no end goal.

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Once only true defence....

Once only defense against 

Lies and Deception is 

Truth......

Even when 

One is placed against

Truth.

To fight......and When...We do...

Most often the fight from tyranny 

Comes at a great cost

Even when...... 

A victory is achieved 

There is nothing much left 

To be gained

So most choose....... 

Not to fight such battle/s....

But when One chooses to fight....

Such fight/s is not so much for 

Victory or 

For the fruits of victory..... 

But it is for a change...

Much needed one.... 

A change of 

Order....

A change of 

Conditioned mindset.... 

A change of
 
How we conduct human affairs

A change for 

Present and Future 

That is different from past and 

Finally .......

A change that defines our humanity

More so that........

We as humans are worthy of 

Who we can be.

Friday, March 05, 2021

To Bequeath.....

Money is the least of 

All inheritances... 

One can bequeath.... and

Off-course also..... 

Poverty.  

Quote of the day.....

“A ruling intelligentsia,

whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats 

the masses as raw material 

to be experimented on, 

processed and wasted at will.”

---Eric Hoffer.

To be entrenched.....

It requires one 

To be entrenched in....

False consciousness

While lacking any curiosity...and

Assuming to know 

But also being so....

To the extent of being 

Self delusional and idiotic.

The first impulse of .....Weak minded......

The first impulse of 

Weak minded is

To kill the messenger and

The devil rules over

Such impulse/s.

Thursday, March 04, 2021

By default many keep falling...But few are ascending.....

Creation is His seeking to 

make souls out of matter. 

Morally, matter "Per se" is neutral-

with form imposed on it,

good, but in any case 

its basic nature is competitive. 

No two things can occupy 

the same place at the same time.

Hence pain......

But we must act with non-material motives. 

What was his journey on earth 

but a flouting of competitive values ? And 

There is the Devil.

But with the devil 

the whole cosmos became confused.

--- John Updike.

Dentistry and Doubt.

History in making....

History has its own 

Evolutionary process

However .....

What account some or

Those of many may 

Represent or Present.

The (two tonged) serpent that talks.....

The tyranny of the Voice 

That speaks (not so true words)..... 

The nature of ills 

In to one's ear .....

Is no less evil

If not more than

The voice that critics.... 

Thee.

Inquiry and Status quo.......

An unpretentious,

Open and True inquiry is..... 

Most often perceived as a threat to 

The establishment that prefers 

A status quo...... 

Even at the cost of 

( for which it never pays or 

bears responsibility) 

Being decadent.

Monday, February 15, 2021

Quote of the day.....

 “The less justified a man is in

claiming excellence for his own self, 

the more ready he is to claim 

all excellence for his nation, 

his religion, his race or his holy cause.”

---Eric Hoffer.

Quote of the day.....

 “A man is likely to mind 

his own business..... 

when it is worth minding.”

“When it is not, 

he takes his mind off 

his own meaningless affairs 

by minding other people’s business.”

--- Eric Hoffer.

Quote of the day.....

Cancel culture wouldn’t exist 

Without coward culture.

---Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi

If you have real courage....speak truth for novelty sake ......

 Stop "spinning" or censoring stories 

about race, and

try telling the plain truth,

if only for the novelty of it.

-----Thomas Sowell.

Quote of the day......

Many issues are misconstrued,

not because they are too complex for

most people to understand,

but because a mundane explanation is

far less emotionally satisfying than

an explanation which produces

villains to hate and heroes to exalt.

--- Thomas Sowell.

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Liars lair....

Liars

When lied..... 

Can't tell the difference.

An oppressor......

An oppressor is

Never.....

A courageous One.

The thing in itself....and To be deranged....

Don't make 

Virtue of anything 

Then you will find.....

Sin everywhere.

To care for truth....

The one..... 

That does not

Care for truth will/may ....

Eventually indulge in

Monstrous acts.

In our differences....

In our differences

The injustice 

We do..... 

To each other.

Not for others....

The idea of being good and

Doing good is not for....

Others.

Friday, February 12, 2021

Grandstanding....

A symbolic grand standing is 

An easy virtue.

To be humble....

When one is truly humble.... 

One has very little to despair.

To be good........

 Hard is it to be good....

---The saying of Pittacus of Mytilene.

Hand in Hand....

 Ignorance/Lack of enlightenment and

Self-serving....

Go hand in hand.

A definition of life time journey.... To define oneself.....

 You are not what others

Say or even See as

You may not be even....

Who you define yourself to be and

You are a definition of 

Life time journey......

Through a maze of complexities

Made and Unmade by

Fellow human beings...... 

Irrespective of

Who you are.

Caring.....

Caring is about acting

In ways that are..... 

Most needful in an

Appropriate manner

Towards all life forms.

Enemy /s....

The idea of an Enemy is...

A construct.

Imitating One's Rivals.....

One should not imitate 

One's rivals....

Where one falls short of ingenuity

It is wise to find a Way

A right way 

For A true and

Redeemable Victory.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

The nature of truth....

Truth is its own rai·son d'ê·tre.....

Cause and effect......

It does not rest 

With in the domain of

Any ( single ) species.

        *             *              *              *             *

The correspondence theory is often traced back to

Aristotle's  
definition of truth.

(Metaphysics 1011b25):

“To say of what is that it is not, or of 

what is not that it is, is false,

while to say of what is that it is, and of 

what is not that it is not, is true”
            *           *           *            *            *
Since truth is objective, our knowledge of 
true propositions must be about real things. 
According to Plato, these real things are Forms. 
Their nature is such that the only mode by which 
we can know them is rationality.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The world we Live in.......

When there is enough room 

For a spirit to prevail

Even an ordinary person....

Can raise to glorious heights and 

Be generous and kind....But

When forced in to inhumanity 

Even the glorified.....

Fall short and be Low as to

Commit heinous crimes. 

In and out....

There is no truth out there than 

The one with in......... and 

One's ability to find.... 

What is out there is 

Not different from ....

What is hidden within.

One self....

 The most difficult horse to ride.

Turing test.....

It is foolhardy to have

A desire to rule over others lives....

The true power lies in.... 

Ruling one's own life.

Dialectical dichotomy of the Vulnerable.......

One is vulnerable in..... 

One's prejudices and

Also is the One in..... 

One's moral standing.

Trishanku.....

The fallibility of human intelligence is 

To create its psycho-pathological...... 

Alter egos...... and 

To conjure up..... 

What it desires most.

Monday, February 08, 2021

Raison D'être......

Nature is never

A bystander to..... 

Human follies and wrongs.

Privileging Identities.....


Favoritism and privileging

In eventuality leads to  

A destructive misuse and 

Abuse of collective resources.... 

Hence a self fulfilling individual 

With a false consciousness and

A distorted and manipulative intelligence 

Chooses privilege and favoritism....

Where One's shortcomings and failures are

Always compensated by.... 

The coffers of a community.


Natural rights...The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689), John Locke.


Every Man has a Property in his own Person. 


This no Body has any Right to but himself. 

The Labour of his Body, and 

the Work of his Hands, 

we may say, are properly his. 

The great and chief end therefore, 

of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and 

putting themselves under Government, 

is the Preservation of their Property.

-- John Locke (1632-1704).
 English philosopher and political theorist
Source: Two Treatises on Government, 1690

Film ....

A film is.....

The most Creative 

Diverse....

Prolific enterprise

Mimicking....

Life.

 

We......and what lies under our skin....

We are our true selves and

Impostors.

Quote of the day....

 A key tactic in defending 

The dominant groups values is to

deliberately ostracize those who

question them.

First emotional and moral responses are

denied-and then they are labeled as 

Unacceptable.

--- Feminist philosopher Alison Jagger.

The essence of strength.....

The essence of strength is....

Flexibility.

Breaking Laws....

No Laws are broken...

Where there is no Law to.... 

Begin with.

One's faith in humanity........

There is nothing wrong with keeping

One's faith in human beings

Even when they do not measure up to

It only reflects one's ability.....

To be compassionate towards

Fellow human beings.

       *         *          *          *          *

It is most difficult to contend with 

The evil nature of beings.....

It is destructive both With in and Out.

        *         *           *          *           *

Even inheritance has to be 

Earned and Qualified.....

In its rightful measures.

Saturday, February 06, 2021

To beg.....

It is all right to beg for food...

But not truth.

----- An old Dharma / Dhamma saying.

Proving oneself.....

I accept when you make a claim to

Being a good person.... 

Because it is you alone

That is capable of proving it..... 

Otherwise.

Evolution.....

Evolution is change of identities

Finding them anew.

        *         *         *         *         *

The genetic material of 

All species evolves..... 

Only by losing

Its former

Primitive identities.

Speculation.....

Speculation is anathema to...

True creative forces.

The wisest among us.....

The wisest among us have....

Least affront to.... 

( Human) Stupidity.

What is Art? (1896).....

 "I know that most men -- 

not only those considered clever,

but even those who are very clever and 

capable of understanding

most difficult scientific, mathematical, or 

philosophical problems --

can seldom discern even 

the simplest and most obvious truth 

if it be such as obliges them to admit 

the falsity of conclusions they have formed,

perhaps with much difficulty -- 

conclusions of which they are proud,

which they have taught to others, and 

on which they have built their lives."

-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
(1828-1910) Russian writer
Source: What is Art? (1896)

Standing high.....

Only in true Tolerance

One stands high ground.

What endures.../ Pedagogic my dear Watson...

When we fail to win 

Other's hearts....

As a society

We have lost...... 

Our human cause.

Our times.....

Time does not wait for anyone

Even for those.....

That create their own times.

Friday, February 05, 2021

It should surprise no one.....


It should surprise no one as and when

It happens again and again that

A secular and enlightened idea like 

Informing the citizenry.... 

That gets to be hijacked by

The divisive , factional and 

Self seeking forces..... 

To their utmost personal benefit 

Feeding to the gutters by robbing

The common people's faith in 

Human values.... 

That have more than once brought 

Peril and Destruction to.... 

The very core of secular spirit

That sustains humanity in its survival.


Criminals in disguise....


People who are amenable to corruption 

Mistrust others.....

While those who are dubiously positive are 

Just criminals in disguise.

Acts and Rituals....


All expressions are in contrast to 

Something else....

Everything else is Ritual.

Ashoka the great..

The possibility of .....

A most radical transformation is 

When there is no moral.....

Opposition with in.

It matters little....

In matters of difference and 

Even rivalries.....

It matters little

which side of the pole One is

But for the truth.....

One holds deep down

In one's heart.

Thursday, February 04, 2021

Quote of the day.....


The least initial deviation from the truth

is multiplied later a thousandfold.

-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

Figuratively speaking....


Wicked do not heed the wise.

             *       *       *        *        *

Those who can not restrain themselves

Should be restrained.... 

But for their own good.

              *        *        *        *       *

Man is his own doomsayer.

             *       *       *       *       *

A dog that chases it own tail is

Never suitable to be....

A pet or service dog

It takes One nowhere....

            *       *       *       *        *

Hatred for others does not 

Elevate one's standing or 

Offer scoring points.


Enemy....

The idea of an enemy is....

A construct.

White - Gray and Black......

Propaganda ( in turn becomes) at its best is....

The cognitive foundation of ....

Pseudo-scientific Humans/Society.

Reality as Ordered.....

If  One/We can not look beyond 

Our Tribe,Caste and Political or Religious sect

What remains outside becomes relevant only for

Self consumption.....

Otherwise it may only merit in

Annihilation and extinction.

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

It is immaterial ......

It is immaterial how the world sees you or 

What you show your self to be...

You may be a good person or 

May be even a bad person .....

You may be here and there and 

May be lost......

At the end of the day.....

What matters.....

To the true nature of reality and 

To the  creation is..... 

What you do and 

What seed you plant.

Monday, February 01, 2021

Self in its condition....

When one is part of  A self serving group

Irrespective of the feigned objective.....

One has neither individuality....Nor

Self integrity.


Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Quote of the day....

To pretend to know....

When you do not know is a disease.


--[ Li Erh ] ( 570 -490 BC )
Old sage- Father of Taoism.

Truly....I tell you....

Truly I tell you...

What one can truly do is.... Also....!

What One can undo.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Idiopathy....

How ever holy.....

All ideologies aid in breeding

Contempt for others and

Men and Women of spoilt and 

Corrupt nature.......

More so turning individuals in to

Morally inept and incompetent

Persons along with making of 

Known and unknown

Psychopaths and Parasites amongst us

Undermining....... 

The very existential nature of

What is called human.


Thursday, September 06, 2018

Quote of the day.....

Truth always originates in 

a minority of one,

and every custom begins 

as a broken precedent.

-- Nancy Astor
(1879-1964) Member of Parliament, UK.

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"Such being the happiness of the times, 

that you may think as you wish, and 

speak as you think.

 Lat., Rara temporum felicitate, 

ubi sentire quae velis, 

et quae sentias dicere licet.

-- Cornelius Tacitus(55-117 A.D.) 
Senator and historian of the Roman Empire

Con / flicts.....

There is always 

A conflict in Lies...

Since they are with out roots and are

Made on a sly.