Its that time of the year again

Its that time of the year again

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Hello kids !! Its THAT time of the year again …

What time?? … do you ask !!

It’s the time when we unpack n clean the dust off those little tricolor flags cause it’s the occasion when India resumes its talks with Pakistan again again again ... again

You see India and Pakistan have a history …..  This ‘history’ goes way back … I mean this story is so freakin' old that when it all started … blackberry and apple were nothing but fruits.

What’s the story?? ... u ask ?     

                                                                          

You see back in the forties long before himesh reshamiya , Michael Jackson , Beatles and Elvis Presley, when Hitler and the allied forces were beating the shit out of each other (yeah now u see what I meant by OLD) the talks about India’s independence started to actually amount to something. The moment it became clear that the British were leaving, the wolves came in howling, claiming the throne of the nation. Eventually two independent nations; India and Pakistan came into existence n both the PMs were simply ecstatic (a couple of million people died along the way but why cry over spilt milk …. People had the recent holocaust to worry about.. Who would notice the biggest exodus of modern times ). It wasn’t long before they figured that just the throne of the nation is not enough they also needed a summer home just like the British had in shimla … cause believe me it gets hot here in the subcontinent, so they both start looking at kashmir n decide its theirs now. Kashmir’s king had no Idea what was going on and by the time he realized how frustrated a megalomaniac on a power trip can get in the summer heat, he had forces from Pakistan breathing down his neck. So he asks the Indian PM for help and in turn accepted to merge with India. Ever since, India and Pakistan haven’t seen eye to eye. Wars, Espionage, Terrorist attacks, HIV+ girls on the border, u name it and it has already been tried.

So what’s so interesting about this story?

(apart from  an animosity that has crossed the better part of a century and loss of millions of lives… )

Well, the interesting part is the ‘tradition’ that this history has given birth to …

What tradition?.. Do you ask!!

The tradition of exchanging gifts and greeting cards.

The people on both sides just love to exchange greeting cards it’s just that they like to call those greeting cards as the nefarious DOSSIERS (the most dread ones are the ones printed with bold and Italic words some even in UPPERCASE). What do they write in those greeting cards … oh sorry … my bad … DOSSIERS … nothing important just things like;

Wassup ??

hows it been ??

hows the wife ….. ??

how are the kids ??

hows the neighbor ??

n oh yeah.. you were looking smart in that new black suit standing with Sarah Palin

PS – there was a terrorist attack on us from your side…. nothing big.. Just a couple of hundred ppl died  ..  if you get the time..  pls look into it … no hurry…. take your time

PPS – I also sent a consignment of mangoes …. Write me back if you want more.

A new black suit – a couple of hundred dollars

A terrorist attack on another nation’s soil – a couple of million dollars

A photo with Sarah Palin - A couple of thousand dollars 

A Consignment of mangoes -  Another couple of hundred dollars

Brotherly love – Priceless

For everything else:  there is a guy waving a small flag looking at the television screen with hope of better future in his eyes.

People tend to call me a pessimist but let me tell you one thing, I am anything but a pessimist , even though it took me two powercuts to finish this piece  I still believe in the time tested tradition of ;

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me .. fool me a million times over and you can run my country

PS - My best wishes to our honorable Home Minister, Chidambaram Sir on his current trip to pakistan

Crown jewel

Crown jewel

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i dont want to fight no more

i dont need no strife no more

you and me can end this all

you and me can go places far

we can now be just friends

we can now shake those hands 

i am you , you are me

this is how , things shud be

we dont need no wars no more

we dont need those walls no more

we end this now, make a new start 

stop these wars, start winning hearts

this is one chance we ever gonna get

we accept peace n stop being led

those fools want us to play their slaves 

but this is not how nature behaves 

fittest of all will survive

no longer theres a need to hide

we both know this is not who we are

we are not even close to it all

we know we can do better than this

we need to find that eternal bliss

one life time is all we get 

out of all the place, where we could have been

this is where we finally met

we need to make this moment count 

to humanity, we both are bound

this is the time to end this all

this is the time to break those walls

coz i dont need no fight no more

coz i dont need no strife no more

ages passed, still here stuck

none of us is ready to give up

we owe this to those who died

fought relgiously for both these sides

a couple of decades is all we see

dats just like a drop in the sea

we read some age old pages

heard about some age old sages

some old black ink made a few lines

people are ready to back it with their lives

we no longer need to show submission

we take our place ,as the one, the only

crown jewel of evolution !

Atheist in foxholes

Atheist in foxholes

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There is this widespread saying that, "There are no atheists in foxholes" . This refers to a situation of extreme stress or fear, when even the most committed and staunch atheists reach out to a higher power abandoning their disbelief in god or a higher power 

Origins of this saying.... courtesy : wikipedia 

The precise origin of the phrase is uncertain. Various sources credit Lieutenant-Colonel William J. Clear, or Lieutenant-Colonel William Casey, but the phrase is most often attributed to journalist Ernie Pyle. The line is used in the film Wake Island, which was released sometime in early 1942. In the book Ghost Soldiers, authorHampton Sides credits the origin of the phrase to "Father Cummings," a chaplain present during the raid at Cabanatuan in 1945. In the form "There are no atheists in the trenches", the idea dates back at least as far as World War I.

Obviously this saying has been around for some time now. But the question is, is this true or not ? and if true then why ?

True or false : Now this answer may vary from person to person and may turn out be contrary of the one that a person believes is his answer when such a situation actually occurs. Now majority of us can only assume how a person might react when he is in grave danger . Hence to formulate an 100% correct answer that implies to every person is not possible. Because its not possible to know the thought process of the one actually going through the situation. But this is sure that this change of faith has been seen and thats why  such a saying came into the main stream. But at the same time this is also equally true that people are there who have proved this saying wrong 

hence the quote of the blog :

Every philosopher has an equal and opposite philosopher

and many examples of such atheists in foxholes are listed in MAAF ( Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers)

So we can make the conclusion that such an generalization cannot be made and validity of this saying varies from person to person .

With the validity of this saying settled, we can move to the other  part of the question

Why ? :  Now why does a person reach out to a higher power when he is in a situation which is  too much for him to handle (if he/she actually does reach out ). This can  we related with, 

Why does a child cry out to his parents when scared? 

Simple, a child has seen on several occasions that his parents care for him, they are bigger than him and stronger, they hand him his toys, food and help him get up when he falls.He does not know any supreme authority besides them . So he builds up an understanding that when he is in danger (or he feels that he is danger) they will come to help him and are strong enough to tackle any situation. Therefore he calls out to them.

Why do we blame the government for bad management in public sector ?

We over the years develop and understanding that all public sector is controlled by the government and forget that government is not a single entity but a system where their are different people controlling and running different departments to their level best who may not even be concerned or ever be concerned with the department where you faced bad

management. But still we are familiar with this thing, this government that runs everything around us therefore its the one responsible. Hence government gets the blame for actions of one person.

Why do theists thank God for every good thing that happens to them ? 

Theists come to believe that God is the cause behind everything that happens and nothing happens without his wish and he does good things to certain people . These good things are a result of his grace and therefore thank him for those good thing some out of sheer belief and rest who make an habit out of this. And hence This "God" gets all the credit. 

Now similarly when a person is grown up and realizes that parents are not the supreme authority he is again and again subject to the thought that god is supreme and it is the god that can save lives miraculously and also grants wishes so in spite of not believing in such a god out of human reason and logic under normal circumstances . Such a person when under extreme conditions of stress or fear , when his brain is not act as under normal conditions with different hormones like adrenalin and others .He knows Government(another preformed notion of supreme authority) can't help him in this situation.

So normally a person reaches out another preformed notion of "god" in his sub-conscience when he is in grave danger as he is no longer following reason, just his insticst of reaching out to who ever may help him and surviving (this is after all what evolution prepares one for)

this is as normal as,

swearing at people you will never swear at, in anger 

making false claims and saying things yo will never say while normal, under intoxication or making too big promises to fulfill while over the top happy 

cerebration log : someone reaching out to a preformed notion dat he wishes to be true for help, doesn't mean that notion is true 

Evil is what?

Evil is what?

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I m father time, i'll tell u a story

what is evil ?, its dreaded history

beautiful planet , we call our home

bears scars from times long gone

sanity lost, anarchy prevailed

crusades, holocaust, jihad & wars 

all these evils  done and said 

men did come preaching peace

those who fought, masters of sword

ended up, praying on their knees

but it all changed soon enough 

evil ressurected on a distant land

gave those swords in different hands

sages are dead, satan survived

beasts roam free, angels hide

evil is the force,  we all created

evil is the force,  we all hated

thousands born thousands died

evil still lurks somewhere in disguise 

evil is what ,that will survive

evil is a shadow that will not die

i am here witnessing this

sleeping in my eternal bliss

hundreds rose thousand fell

this the sceret ages tell

evil is what ? which keeps returning

evil is what ? where souls are burning

nations fell and rose again

but all of it ended up in vain

this time weapons were not the same 

same was the obsession to gain more fame

world found itself amidst more wars

World war is what it was called 

same was the reason, centuries before

someone had little and wanted more

raged a war against those who had 

he was to some a hero, to others 'mad'

this the force that drives us all 

men desire, people do and nations fall

it was the story which needed to be told

with its strenth increased many folds

evil is the power that did it all this

now i go back to my eternal bliss