Sometimes u mite hav noticed how even a simple thing or event causes immense joy or pleasure in us. This cant be attributed to anything other than the euphoric state the mind is elevated to due to that event. Sometimes such events can also bring about a remarkable calm in the person. Suburban train journeys always puts my mind in a temporary but long lasting state of calm. I cant figure out if its due to teh train rattling along, the sights from the train or the people inside the train. I hav been on these trips at various times of the day but the magic created is always newer and always better.
Getting into a train at around 9 am : the entire station and train are congested with office goers and students. Yet a number of noises can be distinguished clearly among all the buzz. Rite from a baby crying to a vendor selling breakfast there, everyone puts forth their voices loud and clear. Also one can observe the shops being set up for the day somewhere in the railway stations.
Around 11.30 am : executives who hav to travel around teh city a lot can be found as usual. The train vendors get active and all sorts of things can be bought for 1/10th the prices outside. Blind men singing for a living, fruit sellers hawking their fruits and all other vendors advertising their wares is a common site.
Around 4 pm : a trickle of college students will be present along with those travelling to Central or Egmore to catch an evening train out of Chennai. Families going to the Central Chennai and relatives returning home after a grand lunch somewhere r regulars at this time. The hawkers and vendors r omnipresent.
Around 6.30 pm : The crowd returns again as office goers return home along with those travelling to Central or Egmore to catch a nite train out of Chennai. A myriad of colors and noises r present as the trains r packed till they burst.
Around 8.30 pm : the crowd slowly reduces but vendors still dont call it a day. The whole train becomes a lot quieter and the last stranglers for the day trudge home. The lighting, noises and visuals make it a breath taking scene creating its own creative beauty.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
God and middle men
I used to be an aestetic during skool life and ne er questioned anything. I can confidently blame people around me including a bitch (was a teacher) who voiced their opinions rite on my face...like i asked teh castrated bastards wat they thot or not...hell they jus walked and started talking like it was their damned business. This caused my drift from my religious beliefs and led to articles like teh one written below :
My irritation and rebuttal to such talks mentioned before the aricle were these verbal outbursts and visual displays of atheism. But one thing was that i began doubting religion and customs. Even though i accepted the presence of a central being as God but then lost interest in customs and beliefs. Sadly, those who do follow customs r a dying breed now. The neo priests hav other aims when they decide to take up this line of work. Invariably most priests become totally money minded and extort as much as they possibly can..alrite i do agree they do need to make a living but then their actual intentions shudnt waver so much...my bitter experience in a temple where in i gav for archanai..the priest subtly hinted tht i needed to put some money on teh plate by saying "vaera onnum kadaiyaadha?"...i ignored this and walked out..the bitch (God forgive me) called me back and asked me to put some money on the plate. He even had the audacity of citing a similarity wherein we spend money when we go to a hotel. He was able to lower himself to this level to literally asking me to give him some money atleast. Even though some of the money goes to the temple i hav noticed that all teh money from the plate going into a separate bag only..i cudnt help but wish i had given all the money to teh handicapped beggar sitting outside teh temple..lol wat difference wud that make in this case? Stuff like births and deaths in a family automatically signal for mobilisation of funds to pay these priests...lol nowadays priests also go on foreign trips to serve in temples present out of India...thats quite some money involved..their entire sty is sponsored by flithy rich and religious NRIs...
Science vs. Religion
Science is a term used in its broadest meaning to denote systematized knowledge in any field, but applied usually to the organization of objectively verifiable sense experience. The pursuit of knowledge in this context is known as pure science, to distinguish it from applied science, which is the search for practical uses of scientific knowledge, and from technology, through which applications are realized. One of the major branches of science is Physics.
“Physics is a major science, dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. Sometimes in modern physics a more sophisticated approach is taken that incorporates elements of the three areas listed above; it relates to the laws of symmetry and conservation, such as those pertaining to energy, momentum, charge, and parity.”
This is the exact definition of physics in an encyclopaedia or any other book of knowledge. But according to me, physics is nothing more than a number of questions punctuated in between with complex words like those mentioned in the above piece of information. The definition of science given above is also utter nonsense. Physics is closely related to the other natural sciences and, in a sense, encompasses them. Everything around us involves science in some form or the other. A good science student is one who has mastered the art of questioning thoroughly but also has seen the true face of science in whatever he or she is doing.
Regarding the topic that I have chosen to type about, science and religion are totally different aspects of life. Even though I am not an atheist, I don’t believe in many customs in any of the religions present today (not that I believe in people who PREACH* science also.) Many customs prevalent today are quite senseless and so unintelligible that those who follow any certain religion do it very blindly. Most people who do many a ritual during the course of a year do not understand what they do and they do better not do such rituals. They just follow the instructions of a man who draws money from them in the name of God.
Some of the other silly customs are not to lie down during the evenings and also not to keep the door open during evenings. Our elders just show us a very old picture of a person donned in a dhoti and attired with a lot of jewels and a light behind his head and say he is God. Have they seen him before for themselves? They also have been showed the same picture and been told that he is God.
The imagination of God by an aesthetic is almost equivalent to a blind man’s vision of another man, as no one has seen God before. In the temples they tell us to say something in Sanskrit in front of a stone carved to a specific shape indicating it as God and giving the stone a specific name.
On the other hand, science is very, very, very, very, very, very, very different from religion. There is no place for blind belief in science and everything has to be questioned and analyzed before accepting it. An air of skepticism should always be floating over a science student. Everything that is said by a person has to be experimented and doubted before even believing it. One more important point about science is to understand the fundamentals thoroughly even before talking about science as they lay the foundation of the entire skyscraper that is science.
* (Those who preach science are those who just teach science but do not answer those students who ask any questions to them! I guess they themselves don’t understand what they are trying to convey)
Knowledge is not Science!
Use of bombastic terms is not science!
Information is not Science!
My irritation and rebuttal to such talks mentioned before the aricle were these verbal outbursts and visual displays of atheism. But one thing was that i began doubting religion and customs. Even though i accepted the presence of a central being as God but then lost interest in customs and beliefs. Sadly, those who do follow customs r a dying breed now. The neo priests hav other aims when they decide to take up this line of work. Invariably most priests become totally money minded and extort as much as they possibly can..alrite i do agree they do need to make a living but then their actual intentions shudnt waver so much...my bitter experience in a temple where in i gav for archanai..the priest subtly hinted tht i needed to put some money on teh plate by saying "vaera onnum kadaiyaadha?"...i ignored this and walked out..the bitch (God forgive me) called me back and asked me to put some money on the plate. He even had the audacity of citing a similarity wherein we spend money when we go to a hotel. He was able to lower himself to this level to literally asking me to give him some money atleast. Even though some of the money goes to the temple i hav noticed that all teh money from the plate going into a separate bag only..i cudnt help but wish i had given all the money to teh handicapped beggar sitting outside teh temple..lol wat difference wud that make in this case? Stuff like births and deaths in a family automatically signal for mobilisation of funds to pay these priests...lol nowadays priests also go on foreign trips to serve in temples present out of India...thats quite some money involved..their entire sty is sponsored by flithy rich and religious NRIs...
Tamil Nadu politics
Having decided to blog about public issues i thot i'll jus step into the shitload rite away...
Politics in tamil nadu rite from the formation of DK to DMDK has been full of twists and turns. I invariably find the scenario funny when the politicians convincingly fool people to vote for them. Pre election manifestos and promises got wilder and wackier as the D-Day approached. I was able to note these recent elections nicely and hence feel i can safely comment on it. On the outset i'll state a few facts:
DMK promises : Illavasa Tv with cable connection, erendu rubaiku ration arisi, vivasayi galluku illavasa nellam etc
AIADMK : "Madam J" first spoke philosophically that she had done enuf for her people and they wud vote for her in return. Later on her lucrative promises included free gold and free marriages, 20 kg of rice for Rs.35 etc
DMDK : Finally Captain Vijaykanth felt he's been jobless in life and the state needed him from now on. He promised free 15 kg rice, cows and door delivery of rations.
I still dont understand wat Vaiko does inbetween all these guys. I hav seen him posing in a variety of dresses suiting the occasion and that he's a gr8 orator but then cant go beyond saying politican if asked wat his occupation is. He frequents jail and glorifies the experience also.
So then tamil nadu politics survives on the people i.e. those who vote. Sadly it realistically means illiterate, poor mass constituting the housing boards, slums and area borders filled with all kinda insects, diseases and not to mention an open gutter flowing freely thru the so called roads present there. These people hav high ambitions but little realism and practicalism in life. Also develop the mentality that anything goes for money.
With the kind of funds i notice being spent on campaigning and glorifying each side, no one we still reel under bad road conditions, sanitation and third rate buses. One of those glorifying events i noticed was in t nagar bang on pondy bazar. Elaborate bandobust with police manning every feet of the area around the function and lot of chair and kachi thondargal hearing a speech. AS we walked closer, i noticed that there wasnt anyone on stage and a recorder was placed near the microphone. So many policemen for a tape recorder. Other events include dances by MGR look alikes and adaptation of third rate TASMAC certified tamil songs with party glorifying lyrics..spending this kinda money here makes me wonder where all teh funds come from...lol the budget allocated 280 crores for flood prevention in Chennai alone...and yet parties like Lok Paritran r also not encourged...
Politics in tamil nadu rite from the formation of DK to DMDK has been full of twists and turns. I invariably find the scenario funny when the politicians convincingly fool people to vote for them. Pre election manifestos and promises got wilder and wackier as the D-Day approached. I was able to note these recent elections nicely and hence feel i can safely comment on it. On the outset i'll state a few facts:
DMK promises : Illavasa Tv with cable connection, erendu rubaiku ration arisi, vivasayi galluku illavasa nellam etc
AIADMK : "Madam J" first spoke philosophically that she had done enuf for her people and they wud vote for her in return. Later on her lucrative promises included free gold and free marriages, 20 kg of rice for Rs.35 etc
DMDK : Finally Captain Vijaykanth felt he's been jobless in life and the state needed him from now on. He promised free 15 kg rice, cows and door delivery of rations.
I still dont understand wat Vaiko does inbetween all these guys. I hav seen him posing in a variety of dresses suiting the occasion and that he's a gr8 orator but then cant go beyond saying politican if asked wat his occupation is. He frequents jail and glorifies the experience also.
So then tamil nadu politics survives on the people i.e. those who vote. Sadly it realistically means illiterate, poor mass constituting the housing boards, slums and area borders filled with all kinda insects, diseases and not to mention an open gutter flowing freely thru the so called roads present there. These people hav high ambitions but little realism and practicalism in life. Also develop the mentality that anything goes for money.
With the kind of funds i notice being spent on campaigning and glorifying each side, no one we still reel under bad road conditions, sanitation and third rate buses. One of those glorifying events i noticed was in t nagar bang on pondy bazar. Elaborate bandobust with police manning every feet of the area around the function and lot of chair and kachi thondargal hearing a speech. AS we walked closer, i noticed that there wasnt anyone on stage and a recorder was placed near the microphone. So many policemen for a tape recorder. Other events include dances by MGR look alikes and adaptation of third rate TASMAC certified tamil songs with party glorifying lyrics..spending this kinda money here makes me wonder where all teh funds come from...lol the budget allocated 280 crores for flood prevention in Chennai alone...and yet parties like Lok Paritran r also not encourged...
Sunday, October 22, 2006
All thanx to the bloody idiot who cant keep his trap shut
My first thots and purpose of blogging was to speak my mind out about my life only. I "assumed" i cud do it here freely without ppl disturbing me but then am surrounded by nuts who r even more jobless than i am and get satisfaction by pissing me off. So here i am back again to start talking about things that happen around me and all that. Am sure that those who read it will get interested and read fully or get bored rite in the beginning and close the window.
For those who kno me, this is my blog and i type my version and wat i feel. Pls dont try to explain stuff here to me cos i dont care a damn for it anyway.
For those who dont kno me yet, pls dont read my blog cos it will jus piss u off. Get to kno me from orkut maybe.
For those who kno me, this is my blog and i type my version and wat i feel. Pls dont try to explain stuff here to me cos i dont care a damn for it anyway.
For those who dont kno me yet, pls dont read my blog cos it will jus piss u off. Get to kno me from orkut maybe.
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