There is something abt beautiful music ..which is beautiful. While few days back ..in another worthless conversation..somebody concieved the idea..that life is so much hectic and stressful these days ...that the best a man can do to relax is unplug all the accessories of electronic enjoyment the times he gets to spend with himself and rather just give complete rest to all his senses, refrain from watching idiot-box, listening to hazardous music players, even reading a newspaper or a book, rather just give all his sensory organs a complete chill..and not making them work overtime while you want to just lay back and have a good time...cos they too have already done the day's work..and need to have their peace of mind too..!!
While this is pretty debatable, cos may be the senses rather enjoy and are soothed more with say may be.. beautiful music playing in the background, or looking at a beautiful girl or watching a waterfall hidden in the sanctum of nature, or may be reading the newspaper or a novel that interests you.
Or may be...all these ideas have their own place and conditions under which they are applicable..may be at some point the senses are too fatigued to even listen to the most beautiful music or read the most interesting column and demand a complete vacation from any activity that stimulates them..and they just need to take their break and need to undergo aestivation and rejuvenate and overhaul themselves to remain receptive and agile. So may be its not that bad an idea to give your sensory organs a recluse from the rest of the world for some time.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Prejudices..!!
As you meet new people in all walks of life, you come across many of them with varying degrees of complexity inevitably inherent in the constitution of their self, their character and in their outlook as well.
Fallacies resulting from unreasonable notions or notions too insubstantial to form a reason, form inexplicable prejudices in people, and its hard to get rid of such prejudices nor even might they be willing to shed these prejudices, and its exactly this "prejudice" that causes most of the damned problems in this world.
Right from the problems that people have to cope up with in their personal lives to problems that are much more supranational in nature ,ranging from reasons why people embrace violent means for attaining their ends (which are literally endless), to discrimination of people on the basis of religion, race etc.
One of the most archetypal examples of prejudice - racism, people who belong to a certain race means they have their genes which show some prominent characteristics in say color of skin because of geographical location or environmental conditions, an example of black people would suffice the argument, they being born in equatorial climate and saharan/sub-saharan region developed a certain skin-color to cope with the climate in hundreds of years, this is how they evolved to best neutralise the harsh conditions of weather and topography in that region.
Yeah, thats what race is all about scientifically, geologically and normally, at least to all the sensible people who do not wish to think, conclude something more than obvious and necessary about this fact .And if there are good or bad people in one race, there are so in other races too, at least race is too meek a reason to disciminate against people compared to things like culture which people accept, renounce and distort at their own will .
How would it sound when somebody has prejudices against somebody else for actual racial reasons?..when A says "I hate B because he is black" it would be equivalent to saying ,"I hate B because his genes evolved themselves to live under the extreme conditions of equatorial climate, temperature and topography of Saharan and sub-saharan region"..wow doesn't it sound too convincing an argument now..!?!
Yeah, people can have their own prejudices and hence they wish to discriminate over something which is incomprehensible to be dissected in that context.
A funny analogy would be - people having prejudices against people who are not born in the same season as they are, it seems to be making a perfect recipe for racism, because skin-color is definitely a by-product of such factors.
Fallacies resulting from unreasonable notions or notions too insubstantial to form a reason, form inexplicable prejudices in people, and its hard to get rid of such prejudices nor even might they be willing to shed these prejudices, and its exactly this "prejudice" that causes most of the damned problems in this world.
Right from the problems that people have to cope up with in their personal lives to problems that are much more supranational in nature ,ranging from reasons why people embrace violent means for attaining their ends (which are literally endless), to discrimination of people on the basis of religion, race etc.
One of the most archetypal examples of prejudice - racism, people who belong to a certain race means they have their genes which show some prominent characteristics in say color of skin because of geographical location or environmental conditions, an example of black people would suffice the argument, they being born in equatorial climate and saharan/sub-saharan region developed a certain skin-color to cope with the climate in hundreds of years, this is how they evolved to best neutralise the harsh conditions of weather and topography in that region.
Yeah, thats what race is all about scientifically, geologically and normally, at least to all the sensible people who do not wish to think, conclude something more than obvious and necessary about this fact .And if there are good or bad people in one race, there are so in other races too, at least race is too meek a reason to disciminate against people compared to things like culture which people accept, renounce and distort at their own will .
How would it sound when somebody has prejudices against somebody else for actual racial reasons?..when A says "I hate B because he is black" it would be equivalent to saying ,"I hate B because his genes evolved themselves to live under the extreme conditions of equatorial climate, temperature and topography of Saharan and sub-saharan region"..wow doesn't it sound too convincing an argument now..!?!
Yeah, people can have their own prejudices and hence they wish to discriminate over something which is incomprehensible to be dissected in that context.
A funny analogy would be - people having prejudices against people who are not born in the same season as they are, it seems to be making a perfect recipe for racism, because skin-color is definitely a by-product of such factors.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The Romance of Zombies
Zombies are far and wide known to have been devoid of souls, legends say that they are the remains of the people who die and while their souls leave their bodies, the body itself in a partially decaying state becomes a zombie..while it is still unclear what reasons would make it a zombie , it is by and large professed that it could be some unfulfilled wish of the dead or the wish of the body itself to dwell on its undead counterparts.
Zombies are also known to have no will or consciousness, quite contrary to their callous cousins -vampires, which are intelligent enough to trap their victims and ensnare them into situations where they find it difficult to escape from their claws.Also, since vampires seem to have a purpose or a diligent determination to suck blood of as many humans as possible and for as long as possible , they are pretty ambitious and focused on what they want in life (read : of life).
Zombies on the other hand are absolutely purposeless, even if they are supposed to suck human blood, they are too aimless to realize that, this instils into the story of zombies a flavour of reticence and innocence....even if they do suck on human blood .., they dont do so out of perversity or desire..., rather they do it out of helplessness, their inability to be decisive enough on how to entertain the humans makes them blood-suckers, they were too disoriented to prey on a human or entrap their victims, the one who would at all get victimized to a zombie would perhaps be on his way to self-annihilation. Zombies could make excellent trekkers in this sense, they would just go about places with their only intent to keep walking except that they would lack the interest to stop and take a look at the picturesque lansdcape, if there happens to be.
Another aspect of zombies , largely imitated by their human counterparts is zombie-walk, but its not the style of walking which should be characterised of zombies, rather its the nature of the walk itself which is purposeless and aimless ,and which should actually define zombie-walk.
Zombies are also known to have no will or consciousness, quite contrary to their callous cousins -vampires, which are intelligent enough to trap their victims and ensnare them into situations where they find it difficult to escape from their claws.Also, since vampires seem to have a purpose or a diligent determination to suck blood of as many humans as possible and for as long as possible , they are pretty ambitious and focused on what they want in life (read : of life).
Zombies on the other hand are absolutely purposeless, even if they are supposed to suck human blood, they are too aimless to realize that, this instils into the story of zombies a flavour of reticence and innocence....even if they do suck on human blood .., they dont do so out of perversity or desire..., rather they do it out of helplessness, their inability to be decisive enough on how to entertain the humans makes them blood-suckers, they were too disoriented to prey on a human or entrap their victims, the one who would at all get victimized to a zombie would perhaps be on his way to self-annihilation. Zombies could make excellent trekkers in this sense, they would just go about places with their only intent to keep walking except that they would lack the interest to stop and take a look at the picturesque lansdcape, if there happens to be.
Another aspect of zombies , largely imitated by their human counterparts is zombie-walk, but its not the style of walking which should be characterised of zombies, rather its the nature of the walk itself which is purposeless and aimless ,and which should actually define zombie-walk.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Hazards of IPOD
One of the most overused electronic music players developed in recent times is also the most underrated electronic devices, at least by the consortium of the scientists who keep on harping upon the effects of the mobile phones and CRT screens, the hazards have not just to be rated over the scale which measures the intensity of harm it incurs on the health of its users or the effects it makes on the biological make-up of the human beings, but rather it has to be made on the effects that it makes on the social life of its users too.
Numerous findings by the socio-scientific fraternity have shown a sick man is bound to get more sick...if he has no social life or a healthy man is likely to fall sick under the slightest of instants if he has no social life either.
Still when they come up with such a product , they hardly do an investigation over its impacts on the social life of its users or even if they do ..their studies hardly reveal any significant results which they may have come up with.
Numerous innocent,gullible users dress up in the morning, plug this marvellous piece of electronic art onto their eardrums..and walk out of their homes with the morning bloom on their face and confidence in their persona, hardly realising what else emanates from them apart from the tune thats likely to shake anybody's ass cha-cha-cha.
Many of them commute on public transportations-buses or trains and not realising as each day passes by, the people who never used to mind sitting next to you on a beautiful day when seats in the bus were comfortably vacant and there was plenty of space to choose the seat of your choice, the same people wouldn't want to do the same on a crowded day when probably the only possible seat left empty was the one next to you...but its users never realised, they were too busy shuffling songs or adjusting the equaliser settings to the one which sounded the best for the song they were listening to.
But the story doesn't end here, the vile device has more on its mind to play.
The unsuspecting user steps into the office passing a smile and "Hello" to everyone on way ,hardly caring if they replied back or frowned back in reply.Just too eager to check his mails, with still the little devil sucking on his ears the user logs into his system and starts getting lost into the web, still busy and deeply engrossed, suddenly his biological-cum-digestive system feels the urge to release a gust of gas to balance the pressure of air on both sides, and the user still unperturbed and unaware of the processes going on in his stomach and too occupied with the processes running under the task manager, voluntarily or involuntarily releases the air with no intents of minimizing the auditory overtones that this might produce, since the little devil kept the brain under the impression that the people around too are living in a world with loud music ringing against their eardrums!!
(To the uninitiated : Please read again!!)
Numerous findings by the socio-scientific fraternity have shown a sick man is bound to get more sick...if he has no social life or a healthy man is likely to fall sick under the slightest of instants if he has no social life either.
Still when they come up with such a product , they hardly do an investigation over its impacts on the social life of its users or even if they do ..their studies hardly reveal any significant results which they may have come up with.
Numerous innocent,gullible users dress up in the morning, plug this marvellous piece of electronic art onto their eardrums..and walk out of their homes with the morning bloom on their face and confidence in their persona, hardly realising what else emanates from them apart from the tune thats likely to shake anybody's ass cha-cha-cha.
Many of them commute on public transportations-buses or trains and not realising as each day passes by, the people who never used to mind sitting next to you on a beautiful day when seats in the bus were comfortably vacant and there was plenty of space to choose the seat of your choice, the same people wouldn't want to do the same on a crowded day when probably the only possible seat left empty was the one next to you...but its users never realised, they were too busy shuffling songs or adjusting the equaliser settings to the one which sounded the best for the song they were listening to.
But the story doesn't end here, the vile device has more on its mind to play.
The unsuspecting user steps into the office passing a smile and "Hello" to everyone on way ,hardly caring if they replied back or frowned back in reply.Just too eager to check his mails, with still the little devil sucking on his ears the user logs into his system and starts getting lost into the web, still busy and deeply engrossed, suddenly his biological-cum-digestive system feels the urge to release a gust of gas to balance the pressure of air on both sides, and the user still unperturbed and unaware of the processes going on in his stomach and too occupied with the processes running under the task manager, voluntarily or involuntarily releases the air with no intents of minimizing the auditory overtones that this might produce, since the little devil kept the brain under the impression that the people around too are living in a world with loud music ringing against their eardrums!!
(To the uninitiated : Please read again!!)
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