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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Monday, August 17, 2015
Identity - Entire gamut of identity's influence and impacts
Identity –its whole gamut
“All of us have our own inner
fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A
suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that
you accept it mentally.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
We must realize that the
subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious
mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a
conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.” Grace Speare.
A question
of identity
Reactions
Identity and
reality
Identity is
the result of fixations
Identity is
the result of getting struck in the steps
Nothing
wrong in being proud of identities and no one needs to hypocritically deny any
particular identity.
But then
what is reality
New
Year with a New Realization of Reality
Let us be
open
Peace and
Harmony are defined indirectly by wanting
too much of same Identity in everyone and everywhere and want of Tolerance
Poverty alleviation requires a multi-pronged strategy
Poverty alleviation requires NGOs yes Nonchalant/ Natural
ways of Generous Offering
from our purse, our hearts, our
minds, our societies etc not necessarily to be operated only through funded operations- even the
ones without ulterior motives- which mostly resort to short term remedies in all situations.
Also let us remember that Peace and Harmony are defined indirectly by wanting too much of same Identity in everyone and everywhere and want of Tolerance
1.
I
think basically the issue of poverty involves lot of things which on the whole
is a bit complex in structure and therefore more complicated to find any quick
fix or universal or homogenized solution.
2.
It
is also an issue on which no one can afford to be indifferent even for their
own selfish reasons because the presence and absence of poverty obviously
manifests through pleasantness or problems for life.
3.
Mere
preaching and pep talks may not alleviate poverty but can at least motivate
many to work towards alleviating poverty.
4.
Sensationalizing
it or subduing it with catchy slogans has not and is not going to offer
solutions.
5.
Starting
from lack of material resources to uncontrolled population to manipulative
politics -which itself involves multiple factors -need to be taken into
consideration along with dealing with lobbies which try to make a living out of
or make a business out of poverty and who prioritize projecting and subtly perpetuating
poverty for their own survival or identity.
6. Any proposal/project/plan of poverty
alleviation has to take into consideration the following aspects as well i.e. the
situation/context and the intensity or degree of poverty.
7. So along with compassion
comprehensive action plan has to be put in place without any hidden agenda or ulterior
motive, the two predominant factors of most funded ventures in the name of
poverty alleviation, wherein the poverty alleviation is an incidental happening
to achieve a wider or larger or ultimate goal with masked intentions.
8. Coming to the question of compassion.
How can it emerge? Why it has not even surfaced adequately after centuries of
preaching by various religions and many good souls. For compassion to emerge we
need, in the first place, some sort of education system and then ensure that it
is embedded with humane values which are manifested in our daily lives.
9. We need to create conducive
atmosphere for peace and harmony, not a mere verbal pronouncement but as a real
situation. Is it possible to have that? If not why?
10. We must ensure to minimize the
negative impact of excessive emphasis on identity orientation in everything
starting from religion, culture, region, language, political ideology, economic
system etc and a fanatical extension of this leads to less tolerance and lack
of compassion.
11. Poverty alleviation requires NGOs yes Nonchalant/ Natural ways
of Generous
Offering from our purse, our hearts,
our minds, our societies etc not necessarily to be operated only through funded
operations- even the ones without ulterior motives- which mostly resort to
short term remedies in all situations.
12. Recapitulating the issues raised
broadly value based education system, dealing with identity without denying it,
doing away with institutions and individuals who make a business out of
poverty, creating an atmosphere of peace and harmony etc and most of these are inter
connected or interrelated.
14. Identity –its whole gamut
“All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs,
opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has
no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it
mentally.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
We must realize that the subconscious mind is
the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on
it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What
we conceive ourselves to be, we become.” Grace Speare.
A question of identity
Reactions
Identity and reality
Identity is the result of
fixations
Identity is the result of
getting struck in the steps
Nothing wrong in being proud of
identities and no one needs to hypocritically deny any particular identity.
But then what is reality
New Year with a
New Realization of Reality
Let us be open
Peace and Harmony are defined
indirectly by wanting too much
of same Identity in everyone and everywhere and want of Tolerance
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Media created labels let us avoid
Let educated people, especially those active
in public life avoid these types of stereotyped surveys, which force us to
acclaim certain specific identity when in reality we are not confined and
preferably must not get confined to any identity cage- why?
Because labels are
used subtly through certain terminological terrorism [like secularism,
communalism, saffronization etc ] to lure you to find out your brand of
preferred identity.
As a part of humor
they are ok but not on any serious ideology.
1. The word ‘liberal’ and ‘noble’ are the most
misused and misunderstood words, if you read History for a United World by
Dance you will know.
2. All these labels are based on the assumption of
fixed identities and ideological fixations.
3. Human
psyche/ideas/thought s/perceptions etc like human body also do undergo a
process of metamorphosis wherein at some time or other we would have been part
of one of these or some of these or all of these.
4. Even at the same time according to the context
we need to change labels like vehicle gears. Communitarian is a distorted term.
5. All these in practice and application differ
very much from definition." Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the
creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal
sharing of misery." and "The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal
sharing of miseries"- Winston Churchill and also read this one
http://katecarruthers.com/2005/02/alleged-quote-by-churchill-on-being-a-socialist-or-conservative/.
6. It is the greatest malady of/sick obsession of
the Western psyche to homogenize everything which has been perpetrated on the
whole of human perspective of perception by trying to homogenize the beauty and
subtle variety in life and categorize into some classification then lead all
discussion based on those homogenized classification.
7. This homogenization mania is carried on all
domains If we glimpse through the annals of history, we can observe this and
the several ways in which this has been carried out: by indoctrination, by
force, by cultural invasions, by wars etc. Throughout history it has failed
miserably. Be it the Roman Empire’s greed to spread its tentacles, be it the
attempt to homogenize religion which failed with Spanish Inquisition, be it
Nazism or Colonialism, all have failed. Once these attempts at homogenizing
cultures, beliefs, political ideologies have failed, now, the West is trying it
in Trade and Economy.
8. Now the whole media, including social media
resorts to this terminological terrorism whereby certain labels are assigned or
appropriated and then they are used as the base to develop the discourse like
communalism, secularism, saffronization etc and these are mostly marketed by
the greenhorns of red brigade.
9. Just yesterday I wrote a very long article on
people terming saffronization of history and India has no proper account of
history but only mythology which is misconstrued as history and people build an
edifice on that etc http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/07/history-and-controversies.html
10. Three days ago,
my friend Prof. Vaidyanathan [ of IIM
Bangalore] has rightly explained about
this terminological terrorism in his excellent lecture at Delhi Vivekananda
institute and did write to him my views about that excellent lecture link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwOFBXoVr3E&feature=share
and my comments you can find there and also here http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/07/terminological-aberrations-and.html
Thursday, August 6, 2015
It is Grand Modi leading a Grand nation and not Brand Modi or Brand India
I wish all those writing here to read these links carefully.
Mark my words it is Grand Modi leading a Grand nation and not Brand Modi or Brand India because both are not products but have grand soul, good intentions , great potential and grand visions.
Kudos to MODI .Yes it is true and he is going about doing some very
important things for a country,[ as can be obviously seen by all without being
specialist economists or the feigning half baked judge all and know all TV
anchors], like India which is:-
1. Geographically
large and susceptible to the vagaries of weather on which not only the economic
activity but the very livelihood of the majority of population depends namely,
agriculture.
2. A population
which is multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi ethnic, multi- lingual,
3. Vast majority of
this population is habitually used to anarchic behavior,
4. Essential
government services are at the mercy of multiple Babus [starting from a clerk
to a Goonda leader to a minister either political, bureaucratic or otherwise
influencing everything,
5. Majority of the
population vulnerable to emotional black mailing,
6. A name sake
federal structure which was subjected to pull and push tactics by the central
government even on issues of national interest and those in concurrent list for
political considerations.
7. Bunch of
academically qualified people who have only worked for short term gains or with
next election minding politicians.
8. To add to some of
these inherent and inevitable difficult circumstances and atrocious destructive
forces there are also many externally sponsored trouble creators operating
under various masks.
9. There exists
alongside a small portion of emotionally charged attention diverting and
uncontrollable extreme right wing elements who they have their own agenda which
they do not, unfortunately, realize is not the priority for the nation at
present.
10.All these combinations are further manipulated and
misused by the majority of the most dangerous malign media mafias with their
hidden agenda, dictates of their pay masters etc. These popular goons who enjoy
popularity and power without any responsibility can magnify minute things and
totally mask massive corruption through their selective amnesia, collective
indifference, brain washing techniques, sloganeering and many other dirty old
tricks.
In this unwelcome and infectious milieu PM MODI is doing the following
excellent things which are a great paradigm shift in a short span and are going
to be of immense use giving long term benefits, because he knows a country with
a great pride of ancestry can only become a hope for the future:-
First putting institutions in place;
Second ensuring efficient, enthusiastic and the most eligible persons at
important positions in these institutions who can at least think in the same
wave length and attempt to execute appropriate measures with certain amount of
integrity and;
Third ensuring the benefits, services etc directly reach the most
deserving population through activities like opening bank accounts, doing away
with Gas subsidy, social security scheme, making railway stations as business
hubs in small villages, and;
Fourth ensuring inter- state interactions at all levels irrespective of
political affinities or ideologies.
It is these activities which are no small achievement by any means in
any country and, more so, in a country like India with a perennially anti
development attitude peddling hostile media and multitude of host of
theoretical suggestions giving experts who try hard to criticize every action
and try hard to find fault if not invent mistakes to question every action or
policy.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Global warming - Science or Scare mongering or Surmises based on simple facts
On the flip side, for half baked people like me getting tossed up by too many and often too conflicting hypothesis with clear convincing justification from different reliable and respectable sources causes more confusion than clarity.
For example I
happen to attend three years back a 3 day International Astro science fair with
some interesting exhibits and conferences at Coimbatore along with my daughter
and it had lectures given by top scientists from NASA the main participant, DRDO, ISRO, BABA atomic research center and TATA
observatories etc. We attended some of the programs and lectures.
Some top Indian scientists too accompanied me; in fact I stay
only in their houses whenever I go to Coimbatore to brush up some unbiased
opinions in science's hot topics.
One NASA scientist, who gave a nice speech with lots of
slides, was emphasizing a lot about release of gases from cow dung making a
huge impact on environment and adding to global warming. One scientist got up
and asked during question hour. "What is the data of population of cow on
earth, quantity of cow dung, how it is kept and where or how it is disposed
off? Have you measured the gas emanating from them collectively even if all of
it were measured? have you ever noticed, researched scientifically more
dangerous and damaging gases released for centuries together from decaying
flora and fauna from, fortunately still some virginal, areas like some parts of
Amazon forests, some in Zaire, even some parts of Western Ghats in India, some
areas in Assam and some forest lands in South America etc?" The scientist
from NASA just shrugged his shoulders. So, I am also led to believe some parts
of what is contained here too, a web site I read on a regular basis.
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/globalwarming13sep06.shtml
[© Copyright 2006-2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved]
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/globalwarming13sep06.shtml
[© Copyright 2006-2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved]
My contention is that I would not like to succumb to varying
degrees of ignorance nor led by predetermined publicity programs masked under
the garb of science and marketed with massive jargon, nor can I afford to be
indifferent to whatever is happening in nature and happening to nature either
as part of evolutionary poetry or perpetrated damage by human greed and need
for resources at the expense of so many things. Nor would I like to take any stand on any confirmation bias. However, on observation of nature, at least
around me, in the region where I live, I can see massive and marked changes
with balding green tops of earth leading to shining concrete structures [I am
not saying either right or wrong], visible disappearance of or diminishing
quantity of many varieties of vegetables, fruits, birds etc. why the small
sparrows which used to line up the window at Chennai have almost disappeared
[we are told it is due to mobile phone towers]. Does anyone talk about one
species going extinct right in front of our eyes or can anyone do anything
about it if at all they can?
UN’s Mother Earth Day April
22nd 2013-Why?
URBANISATION MANIA CAUSES EL NINO
LIFE WILL CONTINUE ALWAYS NO DOOMSDAY
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