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Friday, August 16, 2019

Limitations in human affairs

Contextual relevance.


Contextually speaking of hungry lions they do not care about the type of flesh whether raw, cooked, with masala, baked or half baked. For hungry lions any flesh is just flesh but then human beings know to contextually deal with flesh.

Similar flesh has to be most carefully , delicately handled and even touched with greatest precision if it is in the form of or as human brain in the hands of a neuro surgeon.


Context is something I have always ( a semantically bad term) maintained  as of utmost importance. 


However , just to jolt a little bit I​ ​wish we all read the following essays which I had taken photos and kept in cloud.

As I was very busy could not respond on the following :-

Limitations of rationality, spirituality, intellectual analysis etc.

Our life is, unfortunately mortal, our frames of references are influenced by limited factors.

So ,  for anyone of us to say this the best or most perfect or correct answer or solution to any situation, much less a panacea is meaningless.

Probably for want of better alternatives for sociopolitical administration we choose democracy;


Probably for want of  better alternatives for certain illnesses for immediate relief we take antibiotics and steroids;

Probably for want of  better alternatives to provide mass literacy we depend on some form of schooling; 

Probably for want of  better alternatives to perceive the world and our life in it we choose rationality.

Probably for want of  better alternatives to grasp some inexplicable or invisible influences or power we choose various religious forms like worship, rituals, philosophical explanation etc

Probably for want of actual experience based tangible and empirical evidence based proofs of what is spirituality that can be easily replicated [ there may be few exceptional cases where people have real experience of spirituality] we use many sincere symbolism, real life situations and happenings [ beyond intellectual perceptions] to explain what may be spirituality and also devise various disciplines and dos and don'ts to grasp what it may be. 


Probably some disruptive social engineering system may replace democracy;


Probably some disruptive health care and disease cure system may replace use of antibiotics and so on and so forth.







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