Sunday, February 22, 2009

Its all relative

It starts as a simple question. "what happens after death ?". Apparently 'researchers' have after significant amount of study concluded that... nothing happens after death. To be clear on this apparently some part of ur brain shuts down.. blah blah blah... so in the end you as a person cease to exist. But the question arises what about the notion of a soul , heaven and more importantly hell. How can we concretely state that they are non existent ?
The fact remains that the doctors had nothing to do with the after life. They are all still alive so they are not qualified to speak about death. They studied physical specimens and presented their findings, .. inherently assuming that they were of a superior intelligence ? But how do we know that is true ? That brings us to the million dollar question. Based on the same arguement how do we know if anything is true ? After all what is 'truth' ?

The whole world could just be a figment of your imagination or heaven forbid a computer program ( think matrix, haven't seen it go die.. painfully). We as humans consider ourselves to have a sixth sense and hence superior to animals. That is an incredibly stupid arguement. Any superior intelligence might well be capable of making us believe it is not so, false sense of security if you will. After all the greatest trick the devil ever pulled off was convincing the world he didn't exist. So every thing we do or know is in fact completely relative or POV dependant. From our POV humans rock!! In reality we could just be pawns in a game of some higher force like ants in ant hill . The earth could just be a marble. Creatures with crooked glasses could be lookin at you as you reads this. Pigs could be the most advanced life forms on this planet, if it is a planet that is. After all pigs are pink. There has to be something there.

How do you know you are not dreaming right now. You can't pinch yourself in a dream.

The whole world could just be an experiment, perhaps to find the ultimate question. So essentially everything is RELATIVE. No absolutes.

To quote Agent K from men in black "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. "

For a more specific case take the example of a bull as in a bullock cart. From its POV we feed it, take care of it and in return it just has to walk here and there. Further more, once a year we organise a festival for them to hurt or worse kill us (jallikattu). Does that sound smart ?

Throughout the ages there has always been the concept of right and wrong. Now that you have read this you must realise the flaw in that. How can there be such a classification of absolutes when nothing is absolute ? What seems wrong to you could be justified in someone else's eyes.
Most people are devastatingly good looking ... in their own eyes

So the fact of the matter is there is no right and wrong, no truth or lies, no live or dead , nothing.
Nobody knows anything. Everything is relative. But again that in itself is an absolute statement. Hmm a paradox... or is it. This is why there are so many contradictions in this article. So in effect we can't even say its all relative. So what can we say ?
[insert philosophical comment here]

Remember... there is no spoon!


Friday, September 19, 2008

Men are from Mars but...

Exploring the difference between the male and female psyches.
Ask your self theses 2 questions:
1.You are working on a big project on a tight deadline when you hit a snag.You want one way when your teammate,say Bob strongly disagrees .To break the deadlock,you:
a)Present your position,listen to the other side,then fashion a compromise
b)Punch Bob
2.Your favorite football team is about to win the championship,but the victory is stolen away by a bad decision by the referee.You:
a)Remember that its just a game and that there are better things in life.
b)Punch Bob
If you answered B on both occasions, congratulations you are male.If A was your preferred choice, you are either female,gay or overtly metro sexual.
Some psychology researchers delving into them male and female psyche(and no doubt eating up huge research grants) have made an astounding discovery-wait for it-men and women are different.
They reached this conclusion after studying humans and rats,which are extremely similar to humans except they are not stupid enough to do drugs or buy lottery tickets.
The researcher’s studies show that when men are under stress they respond by either fighting or running away.Females, respond it seems by nurturing others and making friends.This is big news it seems in the psychology community,which is apparently located on some distant planet.We, here on Earth, know that if two men bump into each other in a corridor,they’ll go like
A:Machan,Watch it!
B:Fucker.You watch it!
A:Oh yeah!
(they bump into each other again)
If instead there were two women:
A:So Sorry.
B:No,it’s my fault.
A:Say,thats a nice T-Shirt!
(They go shopping together)
If these “researchers” need further proof,just look at how men and women shower:
Women:
Take off clothing.
Place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to light and dark shades.Wear a bathrobe.If you see husband along the way,cover up any exposed areas.Look at womanly physique in mirror.Make mental note to do more exercise,sit ups,leg lifts,etc.Wash face with all natural facial scrub for 10 minutes.Wash hair with cucmber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.Repeat to make sure hair is clean.Condition hair with mint conditioner with real passion fruit.Shave body hair.Get out and stand exactly on bathmat.Dry with a towel the size of a country.Return with towel wrapped on head.
Men:
Take off clothes in bedroom and leave them in a pile.
Walk naked to bathroom.If you see wife along the way,shake wiener at her and make woo-woo sounds.
Admire “equipment” in mirror and scratch your butt.Get into shower and wash face.Blow nose in hand and let water rinse it off.Wash hair,make a shampoo Mohawk.Pee.
Avoid bathmat.Dry off forearms and butt only.
I think psychology researchers should find out if these syndromes exist in other species.They could put rats into a cage with a gun and some lipstick and find out what happens.My guess is there would be some fighting,Between the male researchers I mean.Its a shame this male aggression.Which has caused many horrible problems like war and football.It makes me ashamed of my gender.I think I am going to punch Bob.

written by a friend. (excuse vulgarity if any)