I have been reading this book called Godel, Escher, Bach and then I had a revelation. A Luke toovercome Luke, I suddenly have been envisaging what might have been and what should have been and what could have been and then I come to this conclusion that it is all not worth it !!!!
Any specific reason ? /Yeah actually there is....
Ok let me elaborate...
I call it the Roy Paradox,
" this perfect system of logic is able to prove the invalidity of itself "
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Twilight of Dreams
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John (ch. I, v. 1)
Gaudily clad in his belief, the prophet weaves us a cloak of dreams. Dreams to entice us, dreams to excite us, dreams to incite us. Who is this preacher we are talking about ? This preacher who deals us a platter of hope spiked with the choicest of falsity ?
Preach unto us o great one , cries the masses , and he goes on in his sacrilege !!! The blindness of faith has guided him into the spiral of destruction . Destruction of all that is dear , all that was made in the six days. He is dogma, she is fanaticism, it is belief !!!
Knowledge is but which is true, infallible and arrived by a system of self-consistent beliefs. She is the both the means to the end and the end itself. The journey of knowledge is as rewarding as the journey to knowledge. But then in these heathen days we are all but mute spectators recording the pilgrim's progress. Always the scribe but never the protagonist. We have been shut out the fundamentals and created a credo based on axioms of falsehood.
The knowledge of all is now polluted with the lack of the basic qualities which define knowledge. We are being driven by our faith, without seeking the justification, without seeking the reliable basis. We all worship the false gods based on the belief of some. We all have lost the basic tenets which led us to progress. Man is falling into the death spiral guided by his faith in what he feels has been his source of progress.
Look back into antiquity and we find that faith was just a way of life, not life itself. Religion was principle, not tenets. Society was aggregation and not structure. But cut back to the present and we are deluged by the crisis of beliefs. Not the lack of them but the innumerability of them. We are meant to follow the path, we are meant to fit in the wall ,we are the bricks on which the giants of falsity are standing. We are deluded by the fact of being individuals , when we are just the dynamos in the engine of regression that is going towards atavism on a massive scale.
Norms which were one just quirks are now unbreakable tenets. We are taught to be rebels who will create a new structure where the excess bricks will fit in.From Religion to culture to society we are all bound by the various tests of beliefs accorded to us. And we happily pass in all of them and go on in our fool's paradise. We believe that we are meant to be someone. We believe that we will change the world. We believe that we believe.
The shackles of the sky has bounded us to terra infirma. We are not living under a false dream, we are a false dream which has become real. We are driven by ourselves to be destroyed , we are being killed by our ethics, we are being killed by our system of aesthetics, we are being killed by our will to live. we have fallen in a cycle from which the man knows no escape... is there hope ???
- John (ch. I, v. 1)
Gaudily clad in his belief, the prophet weaves us a cloak of dreams. Dreams to entice us, dreams to excite us, dreams to incite us. Who is this preacher we are talking about ? This preacher who deals us a platter of hope spiked with the choicest of falsity ?
Preach unto us o great one , cries the masses , and he goes on in his sacrilege !!! The blindness of faith has guided him into the spiral of destruction . Destruction of all that is dear , all that was made in the six days. He is dogma, she is fanaticism, it is belief !!!
Knowledge is but which is true, infallible and arrived by a system of self-consistent beliefs. She is the both the means to the end and the end itself. The journey of knowledge is as rewarding as the journey to knowledge. But then in these heathen days we are all but mute spectators recording the pilgrim's progress. Always the scribe but never the protagonist. We have been shut out the fundamentals and created a credo based on axioms of falsehood.
The knowledge of all is now polluted with the lack of the basic qualities which define knowledge. We are being driven by our faith, without seeking the justification, without seeking the reliable basis. We all worship the false gods based on the belief of some. We all have lost the basic tenets which led us to progress. Man is falling into the death spiral guided by his faith in what he feels has been his source of progress.
Look back into antiquity and we find that faith was just a way of life, not life itself. Religion was principle, not tenets. Society was aggregation and not structure. But cut back to the present and we are deluged by the crisis of beliefs. Not the lack of them but the innumerability of them. We are meant to follow the path, we are meant to fit in the wall ,we are the bricks on which the giants of falsity are standing. We are deluded by the fact of being individuals , when we are just the dynamos in the engine of regression that is going towards atavism on a massive scale.
Norms which were one just quirks are now unbreakable tenets. We are taught to be rebels who will create a new structure where the excess bricks will fit in.From Religion to culture to society we are all bound by the various tests of beliefs accorded to us. And we happily pass in all of them and go on in our fool's paradise. We believe that we are meant to be someone. We believe that we will change the world. We believe that we believe.
The shackles of the sky has bounded us to terra infirma. We are not living under a false dream, we are a false dream which has become real. We are driven by ourselves to be destroyed , we are being killed by our ethics, we are being killed by our system of aesthetics, we are being killed by our will to live. we have fallen in a cycle from which the man knows no escape... is there hope ???
Friday, February 23, 2007
Man and Superman
I remember a dialogue from a famous movie. It talked about how Superman is different from all other superheroes. He is perhaps the only one, the argument continues, who wears a disguise to become normal. Take Batman , take spiderman, all asume different alter egos to show their powers or lack of them ( pardon me Bob Kane ).
Why this phenomenon of hiding ?
The standard explanation comes from the viewpoint of privacy. They too have a normal life, they would also want to go to the supermarket to buy coffee, they would also want to fight with the next door guy about their dog's toilet habits. Thus they assume a mild mannered character , the total anti-thesis of themsleves. Bruce Wayne , prizefighter for the forces of justice is a care for nothing playboy. Bruce Banner, the wild Hulk is a brilliant rational scientist.
All this perhaps, I think arises from our perception about figure-ground settings. A figure is only visible because of the ground it stands on. A black statue on a black back ground is just not there. A super hero is super only because the alter ego is not so super. It is this starkness of contrasts the identity provides. This may be not the tip of the pen of authors but this is the intended effect. To make a super hero super one needs to make it a hero first. Have you ever heard of the super hero accountant who could add up numbers in his head Or have you heard of the cook who could make 10 pizzas are minute. No they are never superheroes !!!
A superhero is the icon of what we all desire in our hearts. The power to fly, the power over fire, the control over mind and matter. They are able to do what we want to do in our dreams. They are able to be what we wanted to be, do what we felt should have been done. They are the manifestation of our desires - They represent what is best in us and what is worst.
Hubris
A term meaning fatal fault. This is perhaps what sets superheroes from super powers. Anyone can have super powers , but it is the hubris that makes them superheroes. They are manifestation of our desires, they represent what is good in our hearts , but they also represent what is worst.
It is only a fact that man is mortal and his death is the manifestation of his fatal fault. Even gods have death, every super hero ages and dies. The ones who can't wont be super heroes. Only the endless ( death, desire, dream, destiny, delurium, despair ) are there forever the rest have to go. Man and superman included.
But then you surround me ... ask me what is the hubris I found in super-man, Batman can't have one, He-Man is only a kid, Spider-man is the son you want to have ?
As I said earlier to be a super hero- You need to be super , you need to be a hero, you need to be a villian. Clark Kent is guise Super-man but at heart a country scout boy - He lacks the ability to think about humanity. Batman is the dark and his heart is so, He is so enamoured by the concept of justice, his breaking the law is just a matter of time, he fights crime in his life and he fights the society for the criminal. Spider Man is a kid wonder, who cares about himself more than others and is utterly selfish in his life. Wonder Woman is a vanquished princess , lured by the return of the mantle. Any more examples will make you stop believing in your self so I stop here.
Super heroes and super villians are just two sides of the same coin depending on which side you see. In one the desires are stronger , in the other the social ego more active. Vlad Tepis can be the saviour of nation or inspiration for Dracula ? History is written by the biased , heroes are made by our dark desires not the one which craves for greatness. Look down and you will find their alters made up of our worst nitemares. We are puny mortals pining for what should not be and what is not to be .................................
Why this phenomenon of hiding ?
The standard explanation comes from the viewpoint of privacy. They too have a normal life, they would also want to go to the supermarket to buy coffee, they would also want to fight with the next door guy about their dog's toilet habits. Thus they assume a mild mannered character , the total anti-thesis of themsleves. Bruce Wayne , prizefighter for the forces of justice is a care for nothing playboy. Bruce Banner, the wild Hulk is a brilliant rational scientist.
All this perhaps, I think arises from our perception about figure-ground settings. A figure is only visible because of the ground it stands on. A black statue on a black back ground is just not there. A super hero is super only because the alter ego is not so super. It is this starkness of contrasts the identity provides. This may be not the tip of the pen of authors but this is the intended effect. To make a super hero super one needs to make it a hero first. Have you ever heard of the super hero accountant who could add up numbers in his head Or have you heard of the cook who could make 10 pizzas are minute. No they are never superheroes !!!
A superhero is the icon of what we all desire in our hearts. The power to fly, the power over fire, the control over mind and matter. They are able to do what we want to do in our dreams. They are able to be what we wanted to be, do what we felt should have been done. They are the manifestation of our desires - They represent what is best in us and what is worst.
Hubris
A term meaning fatal fault. This is perhaps what sets superheroes from super powers. Anyone can have super powers , but it is the hubris that makes them superheroes. They are manifestation of our desires, they represent what is good in our hearts , but they also represent what is worst.
It is only a fact that man is mortal and his death is the manifestation of his fatal fault. Even gods have death, every super hero ages and dies. The ones who can't wont be super heroes. Only the endless ( death, desire, dream, destiny, delurium, despair ) are there forever the rest have to go. Man and superman included.
But then you surround me ... ask me what is the hubris I found in super-man, Batman can't have one, He-Man is only a kid, Spider-man is the son you want to have ?
As I said earlier to be a super hero- You need to be super , you need to be a hero, you need to be a villian. Clark Kent is guise Super-man but at heart a country scout boy - He lacks the ability to think about humanity. Batman is the dark and his heart is so, He is so enamoured by the concept of justice, his breaking the law is just a matter of time, he fights crime in his life and he fights the society for the criminal. Spider Man is a kid wonder, who cares about himself more than others and is utterly selfish in his life. Wonder Woman is a vanquished princess , lured by the return of the mantle. Any more examples will make you stop believing in your self so I stop here.
Super heroes and super villians are just two sides of the same coin depending on which side you see. In one the desires are stronger , in the other the social ego more active. Vlad Tepis can be the saviour of nation or inspiration for Dracula ? History is written by the biased , heroes are made by our dark desires not the one which craves for greatness. Look down and you will find their alters made up of our worst nitemares. We are puny mortals pining for what should not be and what is not to be .................................
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Small Gods
Someone asked me " When are you going to marry ?" . Very logical question given the fact that I am of a marraigable age and my peers are tying the knot left right and centre.
But then I ponder deep and ask - What is marraige ?
Is it repression of our basal instincts ?
Is it a social institution ?
Is it the next level of love ?
Man can be denoted by 4 letters - A,T,G,C . the basic building blocks of life. And so can be all plants, animals and what else and what not. We are different only in the type of our skin but not in what lies underneath. We are all just parts of a greater social conssciousness built on by externals to guise the truth - So why this doubt ?
Nature is by nature selecting the fittest . And how does she do it ? She gives the males the chance to impregnate the maximum number of females . She gives the females the maximum oppurtunity to concieve . Intercourse and sexual exchanges are as natural to life as breathi or eating. Then why this taboo ???
If we want our society to prosper why do we not allow the best to grow rapidly to the next generation ? Why do we let women be a victim of the circumstances and be just the mother of the child ? She can be the next Immaculate Conception. Acknowledge her for her right to bear gods but don't label her a whore to try and do so. Everything has a reason and so has untamed sex, multiple partners - IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF PROBABILITIES.
Critics do propound that man is a higher animal , with higher responsibilities and sensibilities. Man is beyond the basal instincts and is ruled by his brain and not by the animal he is. O.K tell me is this true ? If man has higher responsibilities he should be more focused on improved progeny. If he has sensibilities Sparta should have been his ideals. Weed out the weak , the stupid,, the incapable and what you are left with is a society of gods.
GODS - who will not be ruled by institutions but will be a slave to reason and excellence. Godesses who will be focused towards more gods. A society where poverty and weakness do not exist. If you don't have the incapable you don't have the weak the powerless the useless. Do we aim for that ? NO
Marraige - an institution that talks about purity ( the white virginal bride) and commitment ( through better ir worse) . Is it what we need when the world is swamped with poverty, overcome by sycophants and the incapables ? At one time when knowledge was not what she is today , marraige ensured that the intellectuals survive inspite of the powerful in physical strength. today as knowledge is power , do we need such a rite ?
A rite which has been propounded by the weak of the social order. In order for them to control the gods , they have talked about morality. Morality is not what should be - Morality is what you want it to be .
As we stand poised to enter into a new age, usher in the gods in their chariots , let us overcome mere human constraints and overthrow the yoke of properiety and morality and be what we are
GOLDEN GODS FOR TOMMOROW
But then I ponder deep and ask - What is marraige ?
Is it repression of our basal instincts ?
Is it a social institution ?
Is it the next level of love ?
Man can be denoted by 4 letters - A,T,G,C . the basic building blocks of life. And so can be all plants, animals and what else and what not. We are different only in the type of our skin but not in what lies underneath. We are all just parts of a greater social conssciousness built on by externals to guise the truth - So why this doubt ?
Nature is by nature selecting the fittest . And how does she do it ? She gives the males the chance to impregnate the maximum number of females . She gives the females the maximum oppurtunity to concieve . Intercourse and sexual exchanges are as natural to life as breathi or eating. Then why this taboo ???
If we want our society to prosper why do we not allow the best to grow rapidly to the next generation ? Why do we let women be a victim of the circumstances and be just the mother of the child ? She can be the next Immaculate Conception. Acknowledge her for her right to bear gods but don't label her a whore to try and do so. Everything has a reason and so has untamed sex, multiple partners - IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF PROBABILITIES.
Critics do propound that man is a higher animal , with higher responsibilities and sensibilities. Man is beyond the basal instincts and is ruled by his brain and not by the animal he is. O.K tell me is this true ? If man has higher responsibilities he should be more focused on improved progeny. If he has sensibilities Sparta should have been his ideals. Weed out the weak , the stupid,, the incapable and what you are left with is a society of gods.
GODS - who will not be ruled by institutions but will be a slave to reason and excellence. Godesses who will be focused towards more gods. A society where poverty and weakness do not exist. If you don't have the incapable you don't have the weak the powerless the useless. Do we aim for that ? NO
Marraige - an institution that talks about purity ( the white virginal bride) and commitment ( through better ir worse) . Is it what we need when the world is swamped with poverty, overcome by sycophants and the incapables ? At one time when knowledge was not what she is today , marraige ensured that the intellectuals survive inspite of the powerful in physical strength. today as knowledge is power , do we need such a rite ?
A rite which has been propounded by the weak of the social order. In order for them to control the gods , they have talked about morality. Morality is not what should be - Morality is what you want it to be .
As we stand poised to enter into a new age, usher in the gods in their chariots , let us overcome mere human constraints and overthrow the yoke of properiety and morality and be what we are
GOLDEN GODS FOR TOMMOROW
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