A few lines for a poor boy.....

A few lines for a poor boy.....

'The 5 year old'
Drenched in rain, at the corner of the street,
Nowhere to go, for no one would treat.
A child waits, for the rain to slow,
And after its done, where would he go.

He has a coin, that a good man gave,
Have some rice, or should he save.
Looking at the sky, he begs to God,
Rain and rain, not too odd.

Mamma is sick she is dying now,
Sofia the baby, must be crying now.
Crawling for help, they must be.
No one would help, no one would see.

Then it all came to the child,
In the rain, he ran like wild.
He reached the temple and fell to his knees,
He gave his coin and begged for peace.

Then it stopped, so he ran back home,
The rain had washed, all he had known.
Then again he fell to his knees,
Mamma and sofia, were in peace.

-Irshan Ahmad

From Rape! Rape! Rape! To Rise! Rise! Rise!

From Rape! Rape! Rape! To Rise! Rise! Rise!
I hear about the rape event in Delhi and sit confused deciding who was really raped on that day. Was it the poor and innocent girl or were all the Indians and humanity as a whole raped over and over and over again.

What is justice? Did the second rapist wait after the first had finished or did he spare the girl a few minutes before he made his final attempt of insanity: with the metal rod ? If 6 persons were not waiting to think about their actions then why is a country of 115 billion waiting even a second to hear a sentence announced upon them?

I thank God that the criminals were not rich or that would have bought them enough time to make the Indians forget.

"FORGET" is the word.

Who was it claiming the greatness of the Indian people ? Who was it claiming the intelligence of Indian people? Why were we told in schools about Indians proving their intelligence by working in organisations like NASA ? Because these are the same people who forgot what happened in the boundaries of their own land, in times when their own sisters are walking out unsafe and exposed to monsters waiting to hunt at every moment.

The officials on top positions are waiting for us to FORGET and they will slowly or never decide a ‘fair’ punishment for such monsters[not restricting to Delhi case]. I say if there is no law to punish them enough, then it is time to create one which will scare the very soul out of anyone out there who even dares to think of doing something similar again.

I don’t understand where the leaders are now? Where are all the “I will not eat till I get this bill passed” people. If those who already are cannot do it then where are those who would like to steer this country on a better course? What is stopping us? Are we waiting for the day when our sisters, our daughters, our mothers, our friends and our loved ones will be raped? Raped because they were outside the safety of their home buying vegetables for dinner or studying to accomplish the dreams of their parents and to make way for a better future.

What about the students? What kind of a student and a person we would become if we pass out knowing that a student just like us, with dreams like us, with difficulties like us, with exams like us and with books like us was raped and killed and you had done nothing about it. This is not the country of Mahatma Gandhi, it has changed since crimes like this occur on a daily basis and go unnoticed. There is nothing great about this country and its people if it cannot take care of its own women. There is nothing sacred about our rights and our laws if they cannot be enforced to stop the devil from raping the people again and again.

No, a girl was not raped and murdered, the country and every girl in this country was being raped. Every man who sits and only reads about this news and takes no effort to raise his voice was raped. Every husband’s wife, every father’s daughter and every brother’s sister was raped. And they will continue to be raped until people responsible for letting this happen and monsters carrying out the task are let to breathe beneath the same roof as ours. When you walk out of that door of yours and step onto the Indian soil don’t be deceived into thinking-even for a second-that a crime like this had not occurred on the very same soil beneath your feet and be assured that something like it will happen again, unless.

Stretch your ears and you shall hear the earth shout out of the horrific crime that was carried out on it and continues to happen every day. Do not be silenced into thinking that someone out there is taking care for the protection of your loved ones because no one really cares.

The truth is that we will forget what has happened while we live. We will not feel the pain unless we are ourselves among the ones affected. The only question is when will we all be affected because it does not seem very far when every home in this country will have a victim of such a crime. And I doubt if actions sufficient will be carried out even then, for what respect will we have for our own when we cannot respect and save the sisters of our own others.

We are in debt to this girl for not being able to save her. We are in great debt to all those girls who are victims of such events. And I am afraid of dying in debt to all those people who have suffered due to weakness of the system that works in this country.

I will not let the world forget what has happened or at least I will help the world recall something that it has already started to forget. I assure the people that only years have changed and neither the system nor the monsters have been affected by it in anyway. The only difference of the next rape will be the difference of date. The least I can do and you can do is Remind the people that justice is awaited, not only for this case but for all such cases [uber].

Rise! My friends: remind the people and those in power that we will not forget and we will continue to raise our voice until every girl in this country can walk out without fear in her heart. We will not close our eyes because it is yet to happen to us. Take it up as your duty to remind the people that no one is safe in this country and we are in need of laws that will shake the very foundation of evil and demolish its hold.

And if you FORGET, those who are in power and can make a change will forget and justice will be denied. If that happens then remember this- you were raped and you were killed along with that brave girl on that day and girls alike who suffer time and again. The only difference is that she had no choice and you do, she has passed away as a martyr and a brave person while you would as a coward. UNLESS.

Rise! Rise! Rise!

Irshan Ahmad [parts from article on Delhi Rape Case]

"This is a reminder"

For Delhi rape case has PASSED by us. But Rape is still here. Every Day....Every Hour.....

Where is your heart ?

Where is your heart ?

Some people work so hard for that one Ferrari and when they finally have it they realize that the most important person who they would like to sit next to them in the car is either left far behind while they were busy trying to reach the Ferrari or they never got the chance to catch up with one such person. Suddenly, they realize all those who would cheer, congratulate and go really happy and proud of the moment are far gone. Only those new faces now join in who also share the false materialistic dream and stand by applauding in envy and jealousy.

Don't lose yourself in trying to win something !

We are going to Mars !

We are going to Mars !

Ladies and gentleman, as the sign is active please keep your seat belts fastened. We are approaching Mars Inter-planet space station and will be landing shortly. Outside temperature seems to be 20 degree Celsius.

A crew of 2-4 members will land on Mars on a ONE WAY mission and never return. After which crews and supplies will be sent every year until 40 settlers have colonized mars.

Seems fake ?

I know it does.

It is for REAL.

Be thinkers: Go to the greatest scientist you know in the world and ask him what do we know about Antarctica ? He will say, we know a bit but its hardly even one percent.

Go to him again and ask him what do we know about the oceans ? He will clearly tell you that almost all of it is unexplored.

Earths internal structure ? Unexplored.

Amazon forest ? Unexplored.

Species of animals ? Unexplored.

Human Body ? Unexplored.

We seriously don't know much about our planet or its oceans or it's people or animals but we have finally decided to settle on Mars. Be thinkers loves the idea of technological jump and it is possible that this technological jump will provide us with more ideas about how we can explore our own planet. The real question that worries Be Thinkers is this :

Mars-One will be sending the people into space and as their founder Bas Lansdorp stated " There will be a reality show (like Big Boss and Big Brother) about the whole experience of the crew and their life on Mars. That includes the fact that it takes about 3-22 minutes for a message to travel from mars to earth and then again 3-22 minutes back to mars. Also, this number may differ greatly depending on earth's position and satellite's position etc. Will they have watsapp on mars ? well, I guess yes. But last seen will update every half and hour or so[which sucks]. Not to mention, 40 people will not have access to Facebook and that is a reduction in my predicted number of likes ! In reality they will have facebook accounts as well. I doubt they will follow me from Mars after this post though.

The problem is totally different. Let me explain this with an example :

Think of all the earth's resources in one place. Imagine it as a Pie chart or a Pizza. There is only one Pizza and when the Pizza is divided among people equally it will benefit everyone. However, when some one takes a bigger slice from the pizza it simply means that everyone else will have a smaller piece.

There are people dying in MILLIONS due to hunger or need for medication etc. Who is responsible ? People like the Ambaniz of India and no other. They used up a huge chunk of the pizza for themselves. So much of greed that even they cannot experience it in totality themselves. This leaves less or no share for millions of others. Mars-one says they will fund the project by TV views and other resources. Will money "paper" power the ships ? These resources which entire generations have been deprived of, earth has been deprived of, people across the world have died as these resources have not reached them or have been too high priced will now be used to send 40 people on Mars ? [A what ? Should I read that long ass sentence again ?]

Pizza would become smaller.

The initial project would cost 6 Billion Dollars. What a lie. It does not cost dollars it costs resources ! Will they use dollars on Mars ? No, they will use our minerals.

Advance as much as possible. Populate the entire universe. But if it is of no use to people dying in millions....Then why do it ? Why steal from millions here to feed a 40 few there. WHY ?

Is TV entertainment really worth more than suffering millions ?

The whole concept is a Hoax in my opinion. Even if they send someone it will not be real. We may just see animated images from space. It already takes a long time to send and receive messages so it can always be an excuse. You never know !

Perspective Matters

PERSPECTIVE MATTERS

For those of you who don't have money. Relax, it is a very common and normal thing. You are not the only one and there is NOTHING bad or SMALL in not having money. You see God may not have given you money but he may have given you Parents or some other benefit that many have lost or never had. There are people out there who would give up their entire wealth, one kidney, a piece of liver, bone marrow or blood just to give a year or two to the most dearest person to them: Their Parent, child etc. Even if you had all the money but absence love or loved ones....then all the money in the world cannot but that happiness.

At the same time some people have lost their love ones. It is not the end of the world, though it may seem to be like the end of it. But it is a loss that cannot ever be recovered from. It will leave a space in the heart and a feeling of missing those special characters forever.

In reality, for all cases there is no need to despair endlessly.

For our loss is always less than loss of others like us and our gain is always much more than many others...No matter how small the gain may be.

A person with just one coin is better off than the one whose day has passed and none has bothered to fill his bowl with any coin. A person with great health, who can live strong on just one meal a day and earns just sufficient to buy that meal is better off from the person who earns four times but his health is half as supportive.

What matter most is how you react? Being desperate is totally fine. Being unhappy all the time with whatever one has is unfortunate. However, it is a choice. Perspective Matters.

“SECOND VIEW OF BEEF BAN"-----A must read !!!

SECOND VIEW ON BEEF BAN

In reality beef ban is a small step towards an infinite and loyal vote bank. Majority feels something great has happened for them.

How should the Muslims face it?

Islam does not compel its people to eat non-vegetarian food. There is no loss to them when beef ban is established except that their menus become smaller and a few traders and restaurants will face huge losses. A large number of people outside Islam are the customers of these restaurants and they will be at major loss as this is the only food that they were able to afford and like both.

Bethinkers has already written in opposition to Beef Ban. Now we would like to express the other side of the view also.

How can a Muslim react :

1) Welcome it. This ban should be welcomed by the Muslims.

Islam teaches a person extreme control over their own selves. A lot of the Muslims who practice Islam know that a month Ramadan (most beautiful days of a year) falls every Islamic year. In this time all Muslims must master the art of control on desires. It includes all the desires such as eating, drinking (water, juice etc.), sex, anger etc. In totality it a compulsory month to put a reality check on human desires and a chance for the Muslims to train and become more satisfied of all those things available to man. They learn the feelings of those who are poor and have to go without food and water.

So for any Muslim, giving up one part of diet is NOT a problem and should not be a problem.

2) Gift it : This sacrifice of the Muslims and others of a food that that they dearly loved can be viewed as a gift to their fellow Hindu brothers and sisters in the community. It can be done out of respect towards their neighbor’s beliefs. If a change in menu can bring communities closer and into harmony then it can be done !

3) India is a secular country. It is not a Muslim, Christian, Sikh or Hindu state. This law is not secular in nature. But at the same time if a small sacrifice of the Muslims, Christians and others can make a few Indians happy. Then WHY NOT DO IT!

4) In religious terms Islam allows its people to follow the rule of land as long as it does not violate the law of the supreme Master and owner of all : Allah. Hence, adhering to ‪#‎beefban to maintain communal, society and national balance is not a problem for the Muslims but rather a suggested good deed. In-fact their sacrifice is rewarded in terms of deeds !!

MOST IMPORTANT POINTS ARE BELOW!

There are a few things that the Govt. must do at the same time.

1) There is no infrastructure available in India to stop these animals from entering roads and other areas. At this time even when beef was consumed at high rates large number of traffic jams and accidents resulting in death or injury to the animal and the person involved is very common.

2) Cleanliness is a big issue. While old animals will be left to stray in open. Their last few years are spent biting paper and plastics.

Their excrete is all over the place; clinging to shoes, car wheels to bare feet of other poor people walking around. We never had infrastructure or plan to manage it and now we have decided to raise the population.

3) Milking the animal and then selling the animal for a price was a major source of earning for farmers and other traders of meat. Please provide some incentive to the farmers and traders whose decade old business will perish and incentives to cattle breeders for not selling and taking care of the animals which are not producing income and becoming costs.

4) Chaara or fodder is barely available at times and with rise in animal population it will become more expensive. This expense will raise the price of fodder for other animals such as Goat. Sheep/Goat breeders will face pressure and prices will rise even further. At current level of price most mutton lovers have shifted to chicken and a further rise will make it harder to sell goat for meat.

5) Muslim festival of Eid Ul Adha will be very difficult to practice as most people will not be in a position to buy sheep or goat for sacrifice due to the extremely high prices. A festival should not be directly affected especially considering that these are the only two major festivals of Muslim population and are typically the only major festivals of "charity" in the world and are non-polluting in nature. However, Islam does not burden a follower to perform sacrifice if one can't do it due to financial or other reasons!

This will profit the Poultry industry but others (majorly farmers) will face difficulty.

Other important bans which are actually needed:

Since, we have banned Beef just to make a certain group of society happy now we have a chance to make the whole country a better place and become world leaders of excellence and quality life.

The advantages of ban on Alcohol is unlimited!

1) Lower number of accidents.

2) Lower violence under influence cases.

3) Lower rape cases

4) Youth have more quality things to indulge into besides getting drunk every time they have time.

5) Lower number of domestic violence cases.

6) Better family relations as “man of the house” is not drunk all the time.

7) Reduction of population growth rate.

8) Reduction in number of abortions.

9) Reduction in crime rate.

10) Reduction in liver diseases.

11) Higher productivity of labors and workers.

12) Quality family life rather than one drunk man and struggling family members.

The people in Alcohol factories need not go Jobless. They will produce alcohol for cars which are alcohol driven (such cars are common in some countries and it’s an easy modification).

13) This will save the country from buying oil from oil rich countries. This will add to Indian savings and we can save in Billions of Dollars in terms of taxes and debts by not importing so much of Oil. Means we can afford better roads and better medical facilities.

14) Pollution reduction.

15) Oil prices will also become cheap.

16) Alcohol rich medicines will become almost free.

17) Deodorants and other such items which use alcohol base will become cheaper to produce and can be exported.

18) Our young generation will grow with more time to do better activities besides being drunk all the time. That would result in healthier and more quality crowd over time.

19) Reduction is spread of STD

20) Our entire Nation can turn around to become the most healthy, happy and progressing nation just by one BAN.

One can go on forever:

Ban Alcohol!!!!!

Besides, Alcohol is a banned element in all major religions practiced in India including Hinduism.It’s time to ban something that will progress the nation and NOT a few people in the nation. People like Mallaya do not come to save all the broken families who have lost someone in an accident, cancer or have experienced domestic violence due to addiction.Why should people pay them and make them rich while the entire nation is drunk, confused and sleeping on the streets.

Regards,

You loving neighborhood goat.

FIRST VIEW ON BAN

Coconut is also religious. Why is it not banned yet ? ‪#‎beefban‬

One Man's food is another man's God. Is one man's right to food less than another's right to worship ? #beefban

Is a chicken not worth being a God ? #beefban

Why isn't all non vegetarian food banned ? Isn't it called Animalism to favor one breed over the other.

Chickens: "I Have decided to go on strike due to the discrimination on the basis of animal: Animalism must stop !"

Why do we eat Tulsi ? Or does Indian science claim that Plants have no life ? or do Tulsi worshipers feel Tulsi isn't an important God.

Why is Pork not banned ? Isn't it part of Muslim's religion to not have Pork ? Or are Muslims not yet considered an important part of India ?

Do we have Jews in India ? Their faith needs them to clearly "NOT BELIEVE IN A COW AS GOD" is their faith and religion not important ?

Isn't Alcohol Ban necessary ? Its not allowed in Muslims or Hindus or Christians !

If Cow is God and we must not Kill it ? Who gave the right to steal milk from God ? Can we steal from God ?

Most of the milk itself comes from Genetically modified cows. Can God be genetically modified ? Genes itself means: Evolutionary code ! That means its not the creator but rather a creation.

Calling it Maharashtra Animal Preservation Amendment. and doing anything with the act is funny.

Does anyone even know that Beef forms a major diet of the poor crowd also as it is affordable ! Chicken prices are sky high and goat is like gold market. Are vegetables available ?

Once the cow worshiper has stolen all the milk from the cows. He sells the God to someone or leaves it in the open or Donates it to a Gaushala. The third option is good. Cows can have fun and enjoy their last few days. Otherwise nobody wants a God which does not generate income and consumes free grass(logically grass should belong to God !). Otherwise the Animal wanders on the streets, kills people in driving accidents, blocks traffic(i must admit : they look so cute when they do that), shits everywhere, pisses everywhere etc.That is natural of a Cow to do so. But it is doing so because the owner of the
God is not in a position to maintain the God.

Have some water Folks. Sarcasm is heavy.

"Cigarette smoking Kills People" we DON'T give a shit about people do we ? No, wonder cows are running the country. Ban cigarettes already ! If not, we won't have to worry about beef because there will be no people left to eat it !

Maharashtra will benefit by exporting the Cows to other states tongue emoticonis that allowed ? I am trying to get hold of a copy of the Bill...? Anybody with Pdf ?

Regards,
Your neighborhood Goat.
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SHACKLES OF LIE

SHACKLES OF LIE
There is a difference of only one letter"f" between life and Lie, that is ironic.

You need money, which is a creation of the system. You need to behave as the system directs you to be a part of the system. You are not allowed to exit the system; you must fit into the system. If you want to live up to the system/fit into the system, you need money.<-- Now read the sentences backwards.

-The Loop

The world is screaming Freedom, and the leaders claim to have provided the pinnacle of it. Capitalizing on sheer ignorance of people has been the ultimate tool of controlling the masses while deluding them into thinking that they have been provided with freedom. While freedom is the only thing that is being mined away from them.

YOU ARE CHAINED TO SOMETHING THAT WILL EVENTUALLY EXPIRE WITH YOU EXPIRING. UNLESS OTHERWISE.

Lie after Lie after Lie is the new recipe, and you are the one consuming the final product of this recipe- a food full of filth, humiliation and degradation of identity.

I heard a man say- “I want to marry another man, this is a free country- who I marry is my choice.”

I simply say- If I created a cheese sandwich for which I paid- one buck for bread and another for the cheese, I have (maximum) authority and ownership over it. If someone in a remote village created the same without your knowledge and miles apart from you. Can you declare your OWNERSHIP over it and right to do anything with that sandwich. No, It would be extremely vague and legally punishable.

So, you have NOT/could not make Yourself.

You did not/could not feed yourself.

You did not/could not learn from yourself.

You were not nourished by yourself.

When your existence came into being, your were nourished and provided for from that which you have not created either.

Then how in the world does one come to the conclusion of ownership of their lives?

What is it that you have done? Could you plan what you do now from the influence of society when you were nothing but a “cell” in a DROP?

But that is another discussion in totality, the real question is- while you live with this LIE that you are the owner of yourself, that it was you who nourished yourself through these years-

Ask this to yourself- Are you really FREE?

Let’s breakdown this concept of freedom-

In a developed country, a new born baby is dressed in nothing less than branded clothes. Clothes are decided by any company which succeeds in advertising over its other competitors and successfully positions itself as the safe, socially high class and comfortable choice for a baby.

This tender age of learning is governed by HOURS and HOURS of television and music.

Television is FULL of two things-

1)      They want you to think what they want you to think and

2)      They want you to think what they want you to think.

Before the baby knows about anything he has already stored Colgate somewhere in his brain, Lux is endorsed in his mind, iPhone etc. The strategy to sell for the next 30 years has been devised and customers recruited during this tender age. While these advertisements play in between, songs of love, sex, violence and evil are fed into their heads. Parent see the baby so dearly engrossed into T.V and smile about it, little do they know that it is them who does not understand the music while the baby is storing everything in his record system(brain). He may not know what it means now, but 10-15 years later he will associate his life and words with what was created at that time.

The next step is the tender age of 6-10. Parents are dressing their children in clothes exactly like teen stars on television. Modesty is slowly perishing.

You already know about all this- Lets fast forward.

The young/youth age of 16-30 :

Basically, men want the women open and uncovered for them. It’s not something they can remove from their instinct but they can control their desires if they try. The urge in men will remain, because it is needed in both (men and women) to continue the survival of mankind (Human beings) but it can be controlled by men/women if moral values are instilled in them. But that urge is not just the thing-

Women/men dress to conform to the society standards and to attract men/women at large[consciously and unconsciously].The fault is NOT with women nor is it of men. But few people sitting at the top of business must keep their business alive and they will go to any extent to achieve it.

Men will go head over heels for beautiful women-

So most of the products that men need- are sold with a little bit of women.

Ever been to a man’s favorite toy exhibit?

AUTO EXPO?

Women dressed in something that looks like opaque cello-tape or few handkerchiefs and extreme make-up. Hand-picked models showcasing the cars? Hoarding next to the car saying- The new ride is here. Guess who is holding the Board?

The girl who does not know much about the car, they are just there to keep the people into thinking that if they buy this car, they will have a girl like her. Once you ask questions about the engine and other things another person walks up with glasses on his/her face and an engineering college degree to back him/her up or great sales record.

Why is she selling if she doesn't know much about the product at all? What is she selling?

Curves and a beautiful face?

Does she really want to sell that part of her?

NO! She does not.

But she needs to live up to her friends, society, peers, other models, handbags, phones, shoes, one-piece dress, earrings, make-up etc…..she needs money for all that.

It is a loop- You need money, which is a creation of the system. You need to behave as the system directs you to be a part of the system. You are not allowed to exit the system; you must fit into the system. If you want to live up to the system/fit into the system, you need money. It starts and ends with “you need money”.

It is not just a LOOP, it’s a perfect loop.

Have you seen what Poverty does to people ?

Is poverty a result of lack of water, food, shelter and electricity?

No, it is the lack of paper(money) in the pockets. ~ Interesting.

No wonder India produces so much food(high quality) and yet highest death rate due to under nourishment.

No wonder the richest lands are the lands of Africa and YET the poorest half of the world. Poor because they don’t have enough paper(money) to buy or grow food. Yet India exports enormous quantities of rice and Africa attracts enormous wild life thrill seekers.

The system and fashion drives the kind of appearance one keeps of himself.

Chained to SYSTEM!

The real problem with a system is that it is NEVER consistent-EVER!

It keeps falling apart and adding new features and deleting old features. The things we like to associate with (materialistic) die out eventually or the users have perished themselves.

Basically, something that is designed to keep us busy until we are dead.So, where is this is so called FREEDOM?

The night Clubs are full of men who are dressed more and women who are dressed less, it is a space for insulting women to the level that their worth is only in what they are able to show. Almost all such clubs will not work if the special free drinks/free passes etc . are not provided to women to attract them into the clubs, which would then attract men and other women into the clubs who would shell out some real money to buy drinks/prostitutes/entry fee/drinks for others etc.

Advertisements need models or film stars to show that their shampoo is the best. Cold drinks are not much about taste, but rather a status symbol, homes are not much about comfort but rather a home in that elite class society- You can yourself go on FOREVER and realize that we are living how the products, system and large organizations want us to live.

We are always busy about this thought consciously or unconsciously- “What would people think?”

Some people don’t want to face people in some situations to such an extent that they commit/plan suicide. (Shackles turn into a rope hanging from the ceiling)

When I see women covered all in black, who are not interested in impressing anyone at all with their physical appearance-- a sincere question can be asked to them- Why are you all covered and chained?

All of them who have understood it and then taken up this habit have a common and interesting answer - “I feel liberated”

How can she be liberated? She looks oppressed.

Well, she doesn't spend hours of make up just to fit into the office culture, she is not a slave to what people and peers think about her. She doesn't want to have those heels and stylish walk just to keep up with the society culture, she is NOT locked into a cage of “ what would people think” she just looks at herself in the mirror, throws a quick loose cloak over herself and walks out of the house.

Yes, she is liberated from the shackles of a society which is itself not permanent and is a slave of money.

She doesn't want to live the way a television set tells her to live. She is just smart. Others are ignorant.

I started my article with this underlined word “ignorant” and have ended with it. But I wish from the depth of my heart-

If you started this article in ignorance, I hope you didn't end as an Ignorant.

The Magic Trick effect

Alfred Borden: The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.
-The Prestige

Alfred Borden: Never show anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up... you'll be nothing to them.
-The Prestige

One apple plus one apple equals two apples. But it does not create two apples for you.

-Author

If you impress someone with a magic trick, the more they see you do the act the more they would be caught up into it, unless they somehow find out how it was achieved. If you were to disclose it to them, they would never ask to see the trick again and the whole effect and attention received earlier would vanish. It is the trick itself which is interesting, once it’s decoded-it becomes a boring mechanism of fooling the other.

The lovers of science are always trying to understand the way things work around them. It is a trial and error world. The moment they know how it works they feel like they own it and as if it is them who made the amazing act of nature happen. If they modify it in some way, they feel thrilled to think they created a better version of what they had.

The problem with this is- No matter how efficient the equation gets, one apple added to the other only gives us the logic of how it happens. It does not actually fill the stomach with two apples at all.

When science witnesses the greatness of nature, perfection of universe, placement of life, coordination of all the elements in the universe to support life they end up trying to describe the reason to its perfection and not appreciating the perfection in itself.

There are 4 kinds of reactions to a simple observation-

1)      Look at the sun, its nothing but a chemical reaction and a result of nuclear fusion.

2)      Look at the sun, what an amazing creation of God.

3)      Look at the sun, how perfectly has it been placed for us and how interestingly the simple changes of energy millions of miles away provide us with just the precise amount of energy we need... Praise for the creator.

4)      Look at the sun, it is such a coincidental perfection and everything else that’s around it is also such an interesting coincidence.

I appreciate the third opinion the most. It is a very humble form of appreciation for both- i.e the understanding of how the nuclear reactions happen, its necessity for us and how magnificent the creation is, and thus, how magnificent would the creator be.

I am usually surprised at the reaction of people. They look at a machine, (say a brand new Lamborghini Huracan) and say “Amazing!! What a fine car! What a lovely piece of design and great automotive feat”, with their jaws literally dropped open and heads turning to take another look. Yet, they fail to appreciate the ability to be able to comprehend the machine itself (animals cannot understand it, they will walk by a Lamborghini just as they would walk by a cycle- a dog would lift a leg and piss on both without discrimination); they fail to appreciate the ability granted to be able to put together such a machine, to have the resources for it and to have the dimension of time to invest into the making of it. They fail to appreciate the creator itself.

If you appreciate this machine so much for its beauty and technical superiority, what makes one to not appreciate the night sky lit by millions of bright twinkling stars, endless beautiful green forests

with trees older than centuries, brightly colored insects that would mesmerize any man, the glorious rivers and an entire world in itself beneath the oceans.

Saying that a butterfly is spotted only because it is saving itself from its predator by its apparent appearance is not a false idea, but don’t let the ‘explanation’ of magical placement of God’s nature tarnish the need for its appreciation. It would rather be better to be always mesmerized by the beauty and curiosity than to know the trick itself.

Diminishing the beauty of something as small as a butterfly by saying that its bright colors and large spots are only to fool the predator into thinking of it as a risky snack is a sad and half eye view of the moment. It is rather the appreciation for the magical effect it creates which is more soothing than the explanation for it which makes it reduce the its worth.I rather wonder, how the butterfly thought of evolving its wings to have large spotted figures to make the predator think of it as eyes. A brain less insect was intelligent enough to discover and implement it thousands of years ago and it took us millions of brain cells and thousands of years to finally understand why it was so.

The creator is the common factor in any equation. Can we not breakdown every element and arrive eventually at the same base substance-a combination of protons, electrons and neutrons. Does that not point to one single source of creation? How naively we look at iPhones, iPads and iPods and recognize the source of creation as one organization and appreciate their technical expertise and yet we look at the entire universe made for us with the same building blocks and we reject that it isn't from one single source and technical expertise beyond our comprehension. We praise an extra ordinary CEO who could create the pinnacle of success through phones and musical devices and read stories, biographies and quote from his experience, not acknowledging the fact that the same person could not reverse or stop the process of returning to the creator and yet we don’t want to fully appreciate the creator himself who has placed among us an ocean full of such CEOs and other infinite miraculous examples. I don’t mean to tarnish the work of Steve Jobs, nor will I ever make the mistake of comparing a creation’s creation with that of the creator’s creation. Neither will I make the mistake of comparing the creator with anything at all, because he is nothing like anything that we know of.

The evidence is all around us.

So,





Don’t let the secret of the magic trick, discredit the magical effect itself.

-Irshan


I extend my humble courtesy to the photographers for their efforts. I don't know who or where they are but they have done a wonderful job.

Short Story : The Unseen

Short story-

It was one of those days when I needed my coffee served the way I liked it best, i.e while I surfed the internet reading various topics of interest. As I entered the local café I noticed busy tables and waiters taking orders here and there, I always wondered how they managed to keep up with the impatient and desperate crowd all the time.

Looking across the lounge I found a corner with a vacant space for two. I rushed towards the seat, in my head it played like a mission with the finish line separated by other occupied tables.

I won. Mission accomplished. I was seated.

The waiter walked up to me with a pretentious smile, as if I was the customer that he had been waiting for his entire life; I smiled back and ordered a tall glass of black coffee. He rushed away to take another order form an adjacent table.

I pulled out my laptop and just as I had felt like I had this whole corner and privacy to myself, it was breached. A handsome and well suited man took the seat opposite mine and threw a big smile that said- I hope you don’t mind.

I do, said the voice inside my head. But I smiled back and said, “Please” gesturing a welcome hand sign.

Once settled, he drew his weapon of choice-a latest version of Apple i-Pad and started doing his extremely important thing. I looked around at the expressions of others- everybody seemed to be into cellphones and computers and had this look like they were about to save the world with that final stroke of a key. I think I had it too.

My coffee arrived and the waiter started unloading his tray onto my table and just as he was about to do everything perfectly, he lost his balance. The cup jumped in his hand while I held my breath for Touch-Down. “Brace for impact” played in my head from a documentary that I had watched earlier this week.

But this waiter had some amazing reflexes. I wonder if it was due to his daily-loss of balance-routine that he developed this skill of-catch it just in time- or if he was a waiter for “cover up identity” and worked secretly as 007. Whatever he did in his private life, he had saved my day at the very last moment.

I managed to speak a few words as the horror swept away from my mind, “Thank God!”

“I am so sorry”, said the waiter with a short bow.

I smiled back and nodded. He walked away cheerfully, glad that he had just pulled of an impossible stunt and saved the day. He was a hero in his head. I didn't object.

“So you believe in the Unseen?” spoke the man who had just occupied the seat opposite mine.

“I am sorry”, I questioned, not sure about what he had just asked.

“So you believe in the Unseen, God.” He responded, raising his tone slightly higher so that I could hear.

“Don’t you?” I asked while taking a sip from the cup which had almost burned me. Good coffee, said the voice inside my head.

“I am a man of science” he said, taking pride in his words like he knew something that nobody had known and it somehow made him much smarter than those (allegedly) less intelligent beings who believe in the unseen.

He seemed like a rational person and not the kind who would deny logic or truth, he seemed to be a person who believed in facts and things that he could see, feel, touch or taste.

I smiled back at him or rather at his interesting question and praised his bold stand on his belief.

Interesting..

I took a deep breath and then I spoke,

“You see sir, the world was once flat for science. The earth was the center of everything, the moon was an unknown mysterious object and microorganisms were a joke to the most learned of the doctors and surgeons. It took time for science to evolve, trial and errors on rats, humans and monkeys led to most of what we have today, but God, through his religion, sent down the guidance that held mankind united and together for several millenniums. Where was science then?"

Before he could intervene, I continued..

"Every second science rejects its self, a new hardware is developed that claims that the earlier one was not good enough, a new process is developed which opposes the methods of development used earlier as harmful and less efficient, as we speak a new software code is written that would denounce its earlier version as bugged and unnecessarily lengthy.

The Legends of science shouted and rejected everything in the world when they thought we were the center of the universe, they looked down upon those who could not comprehend the idea and praised their exceptional knowledge based upon mathematical theories and scientific tools available at that time. And soon after, they rejected what they believed a few years ago to believe in the newly found knowledge -we may not be the center of the universe but rather the sun is the center of the universe. And then later-like it wasn't already too late- they changed it as per their new discoveries.

So, I differ on this point. I accept science but I will not reject the fact that it contradicts itself every single day of my life. Lift up today’s newspaper and look up the gadgets section and you would notice that a lot of them claim to be better versions of their previous unreliable ones. Lift one tomorrow and you would see them rejecting what you see today.

Religion on the other hand, is stable. It does not contradict itself and fits for an endless period of time. It was religion that was giving hope and guiding people while science was busy rocking the cradle and learning the ropes.

So, what I say is this- yes I believe in something more stable. And yes, I believe in the unseen. Besides, science has no answers about life. Science has not been able to explain what happens to us after we die…..…”
Just as expected, he broke me off at this point, “Science is learning, I agree. And one day science will have an answer about After-life too.”, he said

“Which day?” I inquired.

“One day”, he reassured me.

“Have you had a vision or a breakthrough?” I asked.

“No” He laughed, “But I am sure that it will happen one day”, he announced.

I observed him for a second, wondering if he understood his stand.

“And then you say that I am the one who believes in the Unseen”, I concluded.

He paused and looked at me for a minute or two. He was out of words and a little confused.

I sipped my last bit of coffee, lifted my bag and nodded-Have a fine day- and walked towards the exit of the café leaving behind an extra tip for the fine reflexes of the waiter.

You did well.

The truth is, we all believe in the Unseen. It is all about choosing something more reliable and moral.