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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
- Carl Becker

Trying (forever) to accept Meaninglessness
Deeply puzzled
A bit Relaxed
A bit Hopeful

Points to Ponder

"There's an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction"

-JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech - June 5 2008

Thoughtful
Kind
Puzzled
Uncertain
Waiting

What a Wonderful World

Deeply frustrated
Extremely Angry
Tensed
Very much afraid
Greatly confused
Filled with Guilt
Lonely
Sad
Restless
Very Stressed
Hopeless
Failed
Aimless

Black Rock Mountain

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker

Perspective

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow

We and our brains

No human thing is of serious importance. - Plato

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

What not to do

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

Into the Unknown

The further I go,
The longer it gets.

I never reach.

Do Not Take It Easy.

Nothing is easy. And nothing should be taken easily. Everything matters. Everything is serious. Take it easy is the worst thing to say.

4 simple statements

1. Morality, ethics, sense of right and wrong, good or bad ====> No real existence

2. Consistency or presence of laws in nature is probably a property of existence. Anything that exist in a plane (or domain) has to have consistency with the other objects of that plane (or domain), with respect to whom it exist.

3. Existence itself is the closest thing to the concept of God. There is probably nothing more beyond that.

4. An existence that exist to itself as well, is life.

Dynamics of Mind

Like a car we need to drive our mind. As we can not drive a car on the road haphhazardly without the risk of accidents, so is the case with our mind. The level of freedom we get in our thinking world puts us under enormous possibility to think otherwise. We take it almost granted that it's ok to think whatever we want to - that in thinking there could be no real danger. In the land of imagination, we can wander about aimlessly without the fear of any harm. The only difference we appreciate is: if we think smartly, we might be able to achieve more. This is true. But it's only part of the whole picture.

The important fact that we miss here is, we think we can change the direction and context of our thinking in zero time. It seems to us that we can think of anything at anytime without any major effort. This could not be further from the truth. The notion of freedom in our choice of matter of thinking is illusionary. Like a car we can not suddenly change the direction or the speed without losing the momentum or getting into an accident. Surely, there can not be an one to one mapping between a car running on the road and a mind wondering in thoughts. This means, it is probably true that we have more flexiblity in our minds, to change the subject and the rate it changes at, than a present day car. But that difference is certainly not infinite. In fact, it's quite smaller than we can apprehend at first. The flexbility and speed of our thinking mind can change very rapidly in short term, but it's very hard to do the same in long term. Mind does have it's own momentum and like the momentum of a physical body, it also resists changes. Change in mind too, thus requires proportionate application of force, no less than a car or a physical body does. The difference is only in our inability to see it, not in actuality.

Driving a mind is more challenging and engaging than driving a car by many orders of magnitude. We do not drive cars constantly. But we do think at all time. We know when to refuel our car and how to do it, but little is known to us, how we can keep our mind strong for the task it has to complete. Physical food can not be a complete replenishment for the decay of our mind. We need something intellectually revitalizing and refreshing. We seldom appreciate that.

All these facts only indicate a higher chance of mishaps in our mind. And ironically enough, we know very little about how to recover from a 'mind crash' as well. Our knowledge about the dynamics of our mind are as poor as our readiness to address the recovery of probable failure. Mind is our greatest asset as human beings. Yet, we perhaps couldn't care less about it. We need to change. Surely.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Thoughtful Quotes

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

Simple Big Questions

Am I in a test?

The new life

I see a new life.

Or perhaps an old one, the original one, the very original way.

I am excited, thrilled, terrified, hopeful and eager to embrace it.

Quotes to be understood

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

Quotes to remember

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

Beginning

A new sun is at the horizon.

The World Is In Our Hands

"See Who I Am
Break Through The Surface
Reach For My Hand And Shout Out That We Can
Free Your Mind And Find A Way
The World Is In Our Hands

This Is Not The End"

Growing

Growing is painful. Be it the muscle or the mind.

Really

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard

The Fears

My fears have drowned me deeper than what they are about.

Perfect line of the year

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotable Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. - George Iles

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." ~E

Thoughts of the day

What is a good process to find the optimal extent to which a problem should be attempted to be solved, before pushing the whole problem or part of it out of the problem's initial domain?

What are the important criterias to consider in this decision process?

What is the most generic method of solving a problem?

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding

Life

I awe with wonder,
at
the simplicity yet richness
the beauty weaved into mystery
the vastness with the minutest of details
the grand puzzle, the ancient question
presented in such meticulous arrangement!

It's but a Game
to be played with
hope, fear, love, happiness, sorrows and wonder
to seek the answers.

Revelation

'I' date back to the origin of the universe itself. I have not come from the universe. The universe emerged into me.

I am, the universe.

Hello there!

A line from "Desperate Housewives", ep 19

"I love him enough to let him hate me"

Interpretation

Cohesion

Yes

Mean people suck.

Me

I will not succumb. I will prevail. I will survive. I will succeed.

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -E.

Being kind to the Self

Once I've taken the pressure of keeping myself happy, out of myself, I have become happy again, or at least, I am not as unhappy as I was before.

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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges DuhamelFrench author (1884 - 1966)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen (1935 - )

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen (1935 - )

Stupidometer

It calculates the amount of stupidity of a person, direclty from the time, that person takes between facing a problem and googling it.

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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

Survival of the fittest

The game of extinction.
Played so hard
So cruel.

The game of life and death
Played so immaculate
So careless.

The race is so inescapable.
The result so unchangeable.

Endlessly played
In an
Endless progression.

To the Silent Listener

Powerful you might be, but, you have disappointed me with the amount of kindness you display. I think I do a better job than you. What a shame, isn't it? Or may be not. In the name of infinity one can override mathematical truths -- And once you are out of mathematics, you can tout, almost anything.

Do not persist

I have never understood
.....why.....
things

-do not persist-

Existence

I love this quote

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

It's Lunch Time! Or may be not.

There is no free lunch. As a matter of fact, sometimes there is no lunch at all.

Never

Empty

In vast, for long
So hard
So eagerly
In vein

So many times
Only in vein

In vein
In vein
In vein

Found
Empty

Professionalism

If taken positively, I havn't faced a situation in life where professionalism has not been helpful -- no matter how personal or informal the situation could have been.

An Experience

Differences are largely perceptual.

The Bottom

Deep beaneath, there is an echo. It may be God. Or someone.

Deeper than that, there is none. But the self.

Intelligence: My version

Intelligence is the ability to recognize pattern and utilize it to achieve goals.

Main.c

Ocean

Hope

Fears
Alone

Stormy Dangerous Unknown
Sufferings Delusions
Alone

Attractions Illusions
Realization
Deceptions Disguise Lies
Pain Sufferings
Alone

Sufferings
Alone

Sufferings
Alone

Realization
Alone
Alone
Alone

Hope

Once again

The highway of honesty does not connect all the cities. And as powerful as Truth might be, it alone is not enough fuel to take you there. There are less than honest paths that have to be travelled to find your destination. There are stuffs other than the truth, that will be needed as you go along.

"When I was young, I thought, I would conquer this world with truth" - O Boy, you can safely wake up from this dream - and now would be a very good time...

The certain void

Certainly the time will come
In silence, In absence
All ecstacy will calm down
Peaceful eternal silence
Will touch upon.

Rule of change never changes
The entanglement
never unfolds
Unknowable meaningless void
Never expresses

The time is so sure to come
Of Silence, Absence and of Abundance
Destiny, embraced.

All will end
All will return

Understanding a work in progress

In our quest for understanding how this world was made, we are on the verge of realizing that it has not been made yet; but still being made, actively. This universe is a work in progress.

True?

intelligence
ambition
genuine kindness and caring
witty sense of humor
sense of style
confidence
good looks

Simple, powerful truths

The more dependent you are, the weaker you become. This world is not for the weaks. Dependencies can actually eliminate you.

Are you there?

Really..

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The Wonderful Lies

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. - Clare Booth Luce

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

Read till the last line

"A man in Germany has committed suicide by hiding deep in a forest and starving himself to death, keeping a diary as his life ebbed away.
Police said that hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58 year-old in an isolated hide high up among trees some sixty miles from his hometown of Hanover.
After deciding to kill himself, the man, known only as Hans Z, apparently set out on the wooded paths of the Solling forest on his bicycle, intent on losing himself far from human contact and potential rescue.
By his body was a chronicle of 24 days he spent in the tumbledown tree house before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage and his estrangement from his daughter.
His long and fruitless search for a job also appeared to be a factor in his decision to kill himself. His unemployment benefits had been stopped only a month before he ventured into the forest.
But his diary also described the physical impact as his self-imposed starvation began to kill him ­ the "dryness of the skin" and the sensation of a "gradual shutdown of internal organs".
The last entry in the diary was written on December 13, almost two months ago. Police suspect he died on that day or shortly after.
Police described the scene of Hanz Z's death, with the body lying on a makeshift mattress, as "awful" but said it was a "clear suicide".
They said they had passed on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested in the notebook. It was apparently his last wish.
"This notebook is to be given to my daughter after my death," he wrote.
But local newspapers reported that his grown up daughter, Joana, displayed little emotion when told of her father's death."

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Robert Frost

Life is

A really bad, really long, and really realistic nightmare.

"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size." -E

Reality's litmus test

The deepest irony of the reality is that it is confirmed more by pain than by happiness or any other feelings.

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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." -E

FYI

I live in a dream world. If you ever meet me, there is a chance that you are part of my dream.

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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity" -E.

Deep

I probably do not exist.

The 2-Groups hypothesis

In most situations there are broadly two groups of people. One that do something, and the other that talk about it. Ironically enough, it's always the talking group that seem to have the golden solution for all the problems involved.

The Existential Twist

My existence substantiates the realism of this reality. The reality does not substantiate my existence.

The wind of change under the unchanged sky

It will never be what it was not and is not. Things might seem to change from a smaller perspective; but the grander scheme has no changes. Everything that is; was and will be.

The careless Nature

The facts affect the feelings. But feelings hardly change the facts.

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

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Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene

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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E

I hope it's boring. Because

The more accurate, the more boring.

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"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." -Einstein

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

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"It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom"
- Einstein.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout

Black Hole? Dooms Day?

The advantage of ridiculing any prophecy about the destruction of this world is, you will always be the winner if there is one, or else there won't be anyone to even talk about it. It's a bit unfair, but so is life anyway.

This explains something

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns

Not me, Einstein said it.

"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."

A Wish

"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. "

Reflective Kindness

I love myself. I don't think I should change much. I am good just the way I am. Might seem foolish at times, but I don't see this as a reason to change any of my core qualities. I am good, man!

Living inside memory

Living is tricky. To live happily is trickier. You realize this, when you understand that you are not the same person, you were a minute ago and the one you will be a minute later. You are changing every moment, and your sense of a single continuous conscience is but an illusion created by your memory.

Openning the mind

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

-Carl Jung

What a statement...

"..that the cosmos has no special regard for any particular individual"

Probably one of the strongest truths I've ever heard and experienced.

Rider course

My motorcyle course begins today. I've been looking forward to this date for the last few months..so it's exciting. No plan to buy a bike as of now..lets see what happens..

Understanding. Does it help?

Up until now, for all these I've seen and understood, it would be safe to say, to look for any particular goal, or meaning of this reality is a misleading journey. There is no bias towards either good or evil. There is no insurance of justice or kindness or anything. Neither good nor bad. It's just a colorless, biasless, void. It becomes only equally complete to include the evils and the sufferings. There is no special regard, no more or less desirable states in nature. We define these terms for our short term realities; hence they are bound to fail to integrate to the conitnuum of reality.

I've probably understood this little bit, but what I have absolutely no clue about is, how do I accept it?

Quotable Quotes

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. - Bertrand Russell

Could you recognize the music?!

The ever so false hope

Who assured that there will be a global justice? Nobody. Yet, that’s what all my ethics is based on. What gives me this so deep-seated expectation for kindness in nature? I don’t know. But it does shape the way I think and act. If both of these are actually wrong, I can’t even begin to comprehend the level of foolishness and ignorance I live in.

One thing for certain, I cannot rule out the existence of sufferings in our reality. However I am at least theoretically ready to accept that all my ethics could be incorrect (if there is a globally correct one) or even inconsistent within the self. But, whatever it is, the existence of large scale sufferings I’ve already observed, rules out the possibility that, happiness is a necessary holistic expected outcome of the effective ethics in nature.

Something is seriously wrong, for my beliefs to have a scintilla of truth in them.