Avatar: The World's most expensive screen-saver

What was in James Cameroon's mind when he had hit upon the idea ?

- 'Dances with the wolves' meets 'Call me Joe'

The timing of the movie release can also be drawn to many parallels in our current world,

- The Copenhagen summit ( Environmental destruction )

- Petrodollar War ( Big Brother attacks Oil rich Gulf )

- Religion ( The concept of God and Religion)

If Cameron hadn't hit the idea of making a spectacularmovie with his US$237 million budget ( currently, the fourth most expensive movie ever ) he could have at least given us an educative documentary.

Avatar, which ploughs through 'Pandora' for an impossible 162 minutes, requires more patience than watching his previous commercial success Titanic.

The motion-capture 3D visuals deserves applause for a technical achievement, but frankly the film did not surprise me. The Religious rituals of the Na’vi made my mind to draw parallel of our own world and then there was a kiss scene - "hey wait, so the aliens kiss too !", although Charlton Heston kissed an Alien-ape in the 1968 movie, the relatively-intimate scenes can be matched to some Animal behavior that you get to watch on any science-channel, it wasn't even close to be called romantic.

The climaticbattle scenes looked like mix of Terminator/Matrix series and the LOTR if they were fighting each-other. Maybe that’s a little too harsh, but certainly Cameron apparently does nothing new with digital warfare that Peter Jackson created in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (To be noted that the complete 10+ hour trilogy-epic-drama was done for a budget of US$285 million), still on a lesser budget spent on Avatar.

Perceptions may vary, but to my eyes, Avatar looks like mixing old wines and serving it in new bottle.

Making a note of years-in-the-making opus in reality has shaped up to divide the fan-camp, with one group calling it the most awe-inspiring sensory experience ever to grace a movie theater, and the other finding it somewhat lacking in areas like story, character, pacing, dialogue, and acting… you know, the ingredients that used to be considered the basic building blocks of a master-piece.

So how is Avatar any different than a hundred other special-effects spectaculars over the past several decades? The technology may be ever-changing, but the central idea remains the same, except that Cameroon had to invent a new language for the movie, introduce Religious material into a commercial entertainer ( Though, already tried in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' )

The story doesn’t quite surprise you either, especially if you’ve seen Dances with Wolves.To put the Plot in simple words : It’s the twenty-second century and we’ve long since run out of oil, but luckily our boys in space have discovered a powerful energy source called unobtanium (not again !) on the distant moon of Pandora. The Lame 'Call me Joe' Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is the one of the agents to obtain this material; with his consciousness  synchronously installed in a genetically engineered body resembling the native Navi.

Jake appears to earn the trust of the locals and help negotiate a peace-deal for both the Earthlings and Locals benefit, but in secret Jake is infiltrating the enemy quarters for information on these Aliens' strengths and weakness, as overseen by the comic-bookish stereo-type Villain, is to, if necessary, motion a Holocaust of the Navi, who are blocking the way of progress.

 Jake, rather than spying falls for the Navi tribal-princess Neytiri (wait, wait again ! that's  Pocahontas).

The lame guy must choose between his Evil-Earthlings and his new blue people.

Predictable isn't it ?


And to end my blog-post; In the movie-theatre there was a little fella' who had come with his dad and I understood Avatar isn't a children's movie and if you were to take your children, the pattern of questions may be as, some of them below:

"Dad, how are they gonna poop with their tails on"

"What is jelly-fish doing in his hair".

"Dad, i don't understand a thing".

"Is there gollum in this movie too ?"

Frankly, Avatar can be put into a category for Guinness-records for the world's longest and most expensive Screen-Saver

Enjoy the movie for its Visual-Fx and Music, otherwise, there is nothing new to say. 

:)

- Peace

The Beginning of The End

Why there had to be a beginning ?

"So that there could be an end"

Why there has to be an end ?

"The world has changed, we could feel it in the water, feel it in the earth, smell it in the air - and our destiny has brought us to a point from where there is no return journey, the only way is forward towards the end"

When is the end ?

"When untrustworthy people will be regarded as trustworthy and the trustworthy will be regarded as untrustworthy - the Mass Hypnosis and diminished peripheral awareness"

What is next?

"The answer is out there"

~ There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.

We Live In A Crazy Age!

An age, where our scientific prowess has far exceeded the spiritual one. The result is, we now inhabit a world which has an abundance of guided missiles and misguided men, men who believe in out-rightly denying and condemning the legitimacy of others perspective simply because it disagrees with theirs. As Omar Bradley once lamented: 'Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.' A world where many without proper awareness of the real situation wield power; a world where people insist on attempting to blame the victims for their own predicament.

Only when this situation is rectified can we begin to work towards a true and lasting peace. In such a scenario, all voices of reason and rationale deserves to be heard for they are our only choice for living in a truly civilized, secure and sane society. The riots that simmer in the minds of the people, can sometimes be prevented by responsible and honest information and dialogue, but eventually the onus lies on the unbiased governments and humane law enforcement agencies.


- Thanks Guided-ones

~ Power breeds Corruption

Parameters for a better world

Resource-Based Economy:

"A Resource-Based Economy is an economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of any system of debt or servitude like money, credits or barter. All resources become the common heritage of all people, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival."

Financial Commons:

"Financial commons refers to an experimental methodology whereby an alternative currency is given freely in the form of a basic income to preserve a common resource, until the currency is exhausted once an exchange is no longer required to preserve its use, after productive output exceeds demand, surfacing a free use commons or free access to a resource without exchange currency."

Design Science Revolution:

"The conceptual framework for a design science revolution was articulated as a panacea for problems caused by natural resource depletion, overpopulation and many other 20th century's anticipated problems. The answer to the various dilemmas involved a concerted effort by design engineers to anticipate the needs of humanity and meet them before it is too late. Nature is revered for its technological complexity, "In it's complexities of design integrity, the universe is technology."By utilizing these natural principles of technology, mankind could become an omni-sustainable utopia. Operatively, design science would be the continued utilization of these natural principles, and thus man's vehicle to utopia."




~ Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know

No Wonder - We all look the same

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The Indian* Ten Commandments

1. Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect
2. Remain close to the Great Spirit
3. Show great respect for your fellow beings
4. Work together for the benefit of all Mankind
5. Give assistance and kindness wherever needed
6. Do what you know to be right
7. Look after the well-being of Mind and Body
8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater Good
9. Be truthful and honest at all times
10. Take full responsibility for your actions
    
    "Red Indian" chiefs did not care what race or what beliefs were held by anyone, they showed respect for all mankind and the planet which they all occupied..
    
    What a lovely view of this world they had. The message is clear.
    
    To be honest! As humans should we not being doing this anyway? We all breathe the same air and we should all cherish this earth and all its resources, all its humans and all creatures, and make sure all The Great Sprit has provided remains renewable and sustainable for all who follow after us.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    * The Apache Indians of America

Our Society Is One Big Pyramid Scheme

No matter how you look at it, our society is one big pyramid scheme serving the elite and enslaving masses. None the less, this is nothing new as this scheme has been propagated by the thirteen blood lines that have originated from ancient Babylon who are known to us today as our government. The members of these thirteen blood lines are organized through various secret societies that manipulate our government and administer our society. Their banks are the force that dictate our lives in every single aspect, including: migration, quality of life and freedom. Everyone else outside of these thirteen clans is nothing more that a building block supporting the cap stone at the top. And like with every other pyramid scheme, there are a whole bunch of losers at the bottom.

It all started in Sumeria, the cradle of Mesopotamian civilization over 5,000 years ago and the basic foundation of our civilization today. If you would like to go back even further, there unfortunately isn’t a lot of information about any pre-Sumerian history, but we know that prior to Sumer the the same territory was part of the Harapian empire and most likely these people were of Turanian origin. To name a few accomplishments that the Sumerian civilization gave us, we have: democracy, the wheel, medicine, philosophy, mathematics, money and countless other human inventions that advanced human civilization. Thanks to this great knowledge the Sumerian’s spread all over the world and founded other great civilizations including ancient Egypt. And as is the case today, this knowledge was used for power and evil which lead to a unique form of imperialism.

When conquering foreign lands the Mesopotamians had huge military advantages, including chariots, an organized military and bronze weaponry. Of course, military conquest wasn’t their only method of imperialism, as they also used religion and political subversion to control and subdue foreign powers. Their genius lied in their deception and cunning, where instead of simply taking a new found land, they also assimilated the existing population into their own empire through religion and governance. When I say governance you should take it as enslavement.

Once the Mesopotamians conquered a land they would govern it through a secret society that would recruit members native to the land and the people were then programmed into pacifism by religion that was shoved down their throats. As you see not much has changed to this day as society is still governed by secret societies based on Turanian mysticism known to us as Masonry. Religion is still shoved down our throat promoting pacifism to protect the upper classes from the lower classes. Where the former two are propagated under the guise of righteousness and the ontology that serves it. Even worse, Masonry and religion both explicitly condone slavery, once again serving the upper class agenda.

Slavery has existed since throughout the ages, but in its’ purest form it did not succeed very well in part due to countless slave revolts. So our Masonic masters have evolved slavery into citizenship that is dictated by money. Money was solely invented by the Sumerian civilization to separate the bond between master and slave. The people at the top of the pyramid were given control of all property and resources and the people at the bottom were given freedom, giving them no reason to revolt. There was a catch to this scheme, as the people at the bottom had nothing, forcing them to work for their previous masters for sustenance. Today most of the land and resources are owned by a few and a majority of us are still enslaved by money – nothing has changed.

Yet, the creation of money wasn’t enough to keep order in a two class society: the have’s and have not’s, as revolutions still took place. A buffer was needed, so the middle-class was added to the equation. Creating a middle-class needed more slaves to sustain it, hence colonialization. To protect themselves, Masonic governed countries went on a barbaric conquest pillaging third-world country resource’s which gave rise to our past flourishing societies with a thriving middle-class. And in the U.S. they created a racial buffer by importing black slaves and Mexican pseudo-slaves, but this didn’t work out to nicely as these marginalized groups had a visible ethnic enemy, causing racial tension. Today in Canada this colonialization has gone one step further, taking the form of economic imperialization of poorer countries. Canadians are now happy thanks to the currency enslavement of these third-world countries giving us the quality of life that satisfies the masses thanks to our imported material riches.

The internal Canadian class base is brilliantly engineered thanks to the third-world enslavement and immigration. When putting Canada in context, the country has no long term losers at the bottom of the pyramid thanks to constant influx of immigrants that create a new bottom pyramid layer. In addition to perpetual growth of the pyramid, new immigrants are taken in to higher levels of the pyramid as not to create any racial tension, as was the case in the U.SA. Racial mixing is very important since it prevents the formation of a collusive force that can cause an opposition. In addition, these new immigrants are not selected based on their qualities that would make them a successful citizen, rather they are selected on the need of the pyramid. Immigration is thus highly selective, with race and education being the most important determinants.

To keep the pyramid going, debt and materialism have been added to the equation. Debt is a stressor that is necessary to keep us working harder and when we don’t want to. Materialism is a reward mechanism that justifies our placement in this pyramid scheme. Both of these attributes are indirect and voluntary, yet they are both inevitable. By this mechanism the true nature of the system remains hidden eliminating any opposition from us. As perfect as this system is, it does have its’ flaws.

The side-effects of this pyramid scheme are various and effect all of us to some degree. Capitalism is by far the most grievous product, as it puts a price on everything and quantifies are very existence. The by-product of capitalism is an engineered cyclical economy with an always ready pool of unemployed workers ready to feed the pyramid. In addition, the nepotism and collusion brought about by our Masonic overlords has created a shadowy aristocracy that has removed most of the fundamental aspects needed for a modern progressive society. After years of systemic conditioning this has all been normalized and we now accept and excuse all of the side-effects that this scheme provides.

As you see the Canadian national pyramid scheme works in thanks due its’ upper placement in the global pyramid scheme, so indeed we are lucky thanks to the blood and sweat of the people below us. We are unfortunately oblivious to the fact that our high standard of living is there thanks to the currency enslavement brought about our banks on the people of third-world countries. The worst part of all is that we don’t question the existence and transparency of the secret societies that dictate our lives and the lives we indirectly effect abroad. The truth of the matter is that change will not take place until people in the third-world countries will revolt and decide to work for themselves and not us. Without the bottom layers the pyramid will crumble and the empire will implode. Unfortunately, the puppet governments that we (CIA more precisely) instill will sabotage the product of any revolution. While there is no answer to the evils of a class based society, a foundation for an answer does exist – equality and a global society without classes.


Call me Insane !

~ Thanks Link

Hey there, Do we have a Back-up copy of Earth !

The story we call the environmental crisis is nothing more than a human crisis. If we pay attention, we will hear in it our own story, echoing back to us from a deep horizon.
Learning to listen is so important now because, in a way, we have all recently been blinded. Everyone learns to see the world through the lens of native-culture. For tens of thousands of years, those countless cultures all of them cultivated the natural curiousness of children about the unknown, into knowledgeable adulthood.
At their root, they taught people to see the environment as enchanted, brought to life by an external agent (read it as 'God' or 'Big Bang' as it suits).
This enchanted-place was not called ‘nature,’ or the ‘natural world,’ then. Nor was the immense knowledge of the world people acquired and passed on named ‘the natural sciences.’ Most importantly, cultures accumulated a continuous treasure of beneficial knowledge piled generation upon generation as a whole and recognized the living connection between everything on earth, beneath its soils, above in skies, and in its sweet and salty waters,of the rivers and oceans.
They further connected this with the spirit of life that ran through it all from a Living Source beyond in the realm of the Unseen (atoms - the invisible building blocks). Never would they flatten the cycle of life into a one dimensional chronological line. Never would they sever worldly life from its otherworldly(heavenly) origin, splitting life in two, calling this part “sensible,” and therefore real, and that part “insensible,” and therefore irrelevant.

Because of their holistic understanding of the world themselves in 'Physical-Matter' and 'Physical-Matter' in them, come to them from a Life-Source apart(abiogenesis) they understood that they were to live in it, work from, work with, and on the portion of it in their immediate grasp, and take care of it so that it would remain there for them and their children, grandchildren, and furthest posterity.
They also knew that their offenses against Earth(Physical-Matter) were violations against the Natural-cycle and would inevitably be met with own hand-made disaster directly affecting their vicinity, if left uncorrected.They called this Divine Judgment, or the Knowledge of Unknown(read it as 'God' or 'the Undiscovered science').
Such was the wisdom of man. In only the last few centuries, however, this most basic intelligence and outlook has been lost to us. Steadily, but abruptly, we have accepted to wear lenses that cut life from its Source and ourselves from our own environments. And because of this, we have generation-by-generation killed-off the native curiosity of our children and forgotten how even to live in our own localities.
In the place of the continuum of human knowledge bequeathed to us by our predecessors, we have assumed an incapacitating reliance on mechanized world-spanning control systems for the very bread we put into our mouths, the water we drink, the fire we kindle, the land we live on, the shelter we repose in, even for the cloth to cover our own nakedness.
This humiliating dependence on collectivized, unnatural(dehumanized) enterprise has disabled our hearts. For even if we claim belief in the "Ultimate Source of All" as alive or just matter,nothing changes, we can no longer see the Provider as actually providing.
We look on these interlocking control structures—what modern scientists have accurately called for short, “the system” as giving us our provision. This has proven a most fatal error, for it forfeits the prime human-right: Freedom to verify the single thread of truth running through all reality (Call it the molecules/atoms or quarks or energy or mass ): All else is one fellowship of a Singular-Source (Call it Big-Bang or God): so that man can make of himself, his society, and his environment a living witness to the basic-rules of the One source:which in the end must cycle back into a continuous esthetically of beauty, reflecting the infinite splendor of the sublime process. Herein reside the two qualities upholding the delicate interlace of our earthly human architecture: Dignity and rectitude.
To replace in our hearts a faith ,that earth can be a better place, the All-Living, with a dead matrix is surely the ill-fated exchange which the modern-science decries: What a barbaric transaction? It strips men of their mutual respect, or responsibility, making Gods by Dozens and Scores out of material-matter, exploiters and ravenous blood-letters and when the civilized Aliens would see this in us, perhaps on the pattern of the unknown, destroyed vicegerents of the earth our kind may have succeeded - These Aliens would spit on our faces, and call us a disgrace to the Universe, we will be a life that are not worth to live on a planet that provided everything, and still the greedy-man wanted for more and raped the planet.

Believing that the system that caused man to abandon his trust, to care for the environment. It renders him unconscious that all things on the earth—the animals, plants, elements, and minerals—the earth, mountains, and sky themselves—are consciously alive by the touch of the very scientific terms (atoms buzzing around everywhere), communicating and complying with the momentary command of the One Sublime, though we may not perceive their discourse and actions.
It tricks man into substituting mere crumbs falling from the lowly table of market-interest for the opulent grace of the morality, and thereby to upset the Heavenly Control-System, the delicate balance of the very Universe, that originally set and then bequeathed to care us.

P.S:
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Post Inspirations: "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The 11th Hour"


Global warming is the bigger issue, which is eclipsed by smaller issues like Religion, War and Swine-Flu.

~ Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, politics, nations and epochs it is the rule

A mere coincidence - (A)Theist Point of View

I was walking out of the Al-Haram (the Ka'bah in Makkah) and saw a man begging from
everyone whosoever passed by him.

A man who had parked his tinted Mercedes excessively close to the Haram in a designated VIP parking walked passed by the beggar on his way to get back to his car. As he pulled the keys out and the alarm did the 'whup whup', the beggar raised his finger to the sky and said, "Please, for the sake of Allah!"

Trying to end the moment and avoid a dip into the pocket, the Mercedes man said back, "Allah will provide!"

The beggar replied: "What! Did you at any moment think that I thought YOU were my provider! I'm not asking for your provision, I KNOW Allah will provide for me."
The two stood there staring at one another for a moment and then the Mercedes tinted windows came up and the man drove away.

An ordinary African sister who was sitting nearby on the street selling clothes was moved by the incident. She did not have much, but from what she did have, she pulled out a riyal and placed it in the hands of that beggar.

He smiled and went on his way.

Possibly, Meanwhile the Mercedes man could not drive on with the choke of guilt.
I saw him come back made his way through the crowd to the place where the incident had happened.
I saw with as he pulled out a 10 riyal bill from his briefcase to give it to the beggar, and he looked left and right but could not find him. What was he to do?
He had already pulled out the bill to give for the sake of Allah and was not going to put it back. So he found the nearest person he thought was worthy of the bill, placed it in her lap and went on his way.

The 10 riyals sat in the lap of the African sister who had given the riyal to the beggar!

The Messenger had said that Allah's injunction is:

"O my servants ! Spend and you will be given." [Bukhari, Muslim]

The Messenger said that "Charity does not diminish wealth." [Tibrani]

(May Allah Give you Reward)

P.S:
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- Quite and Quite entirely off, from my normal posts.
This mail was shared by one of my close friend, with a condition that i must put this up on my blog, without knowing the content in it - i accepted, and frankly i had to keep my promise to her.


Insane Lesson:
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Rushing into promises could take a toll, if you are a man of words. (Ewwwwwww!!)

The Ugly FlashBack - Episode II

August 12th 2006:

At Bangalore much new people to meet around young men and women(..??) from kolkata.. Hyderabad and far, though the place is good(for sleeping ..apart from training), it stretches from 9 morning to evening 6 and the bangalore traffic is like hell..!!
I did a little shoppin, electric-iron, lashy sports shoes, socks and couple of other items.

And I could assume to know about how things are at other offices , but a lot of people smoke at my office.
Like recently we had this meeting and the guy sitting to my right started smoking . And I am thinking "Sigh . All a part of work ." Then the guy to my left lights up a stick and I am thinking "Cough Cough . An oxygen mask should be on my next shopping list ."

We had a break after a demo-project, Within a short time , 4 ( and we had a total of 7 guys in that meeting ) are blowing around smoke and I am thinking "What number do we dial for the fire brigade ?".
When the meeting ended , I ran out , took in huge lung fills of non-polluted air, and thanked mother nature for trees and emission norms.

Being a non smoker ( to say the truth i have tasted once Long Long time Ago OUT OF CURIOSITY.) but i am being here is like being a mickey mouse in a pub full of rough leather clad bikers.(True, it was shocking to watch a couple of ladies among the smoke).
Infact a lot of outsiders expect me to smoke since I work at a software company, seems to be a mandatory requirement for being a Software engineer....!!
(Somewhere i read SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH, and oh yeah it was on the cigarette carton!!)

Anyway, in other, not so smoky events, I purchased an electric iron recently .
I went to a home appliances shop to do that . I walk to the guy behind the counter and say "You got electric irons ? " .
The guy stares at my face for what seemed the duration of a test match and grunts something in kannada, Sensing a little communication gap , I start making huge horizontal swipes with my right arm to depict a typical cloth ironing action, his eyes light up and he promptly leads to me a counter selling teflon coated non stick kitchenware to a couple of overfed housewives,
It is embarassing for any 22 year old to be found in the teflon coated non stick kitchenware section of a home appliances shop with a couple of heavy women and a kannadiga shop keeper, It was like a moment of realisation for me, which passed soon enough anyway.
After touring four shops and being shown a lot of things from juice dispensers to stoves to music players, I finally bought a little electric iron .
I guess my domestication process from a who-cares-guy-in-college to a single-chap-living-alone-at-other-end-of-country is reflected well by the type of things I am buying these days

but..!! ...DO really people die if they smoke..???

Anyway.. who cares.. . I haven't begun to suffer from nightmares involving dead people chasing me while electric-pole sized cigarettes fly around in the background. But yeah , as a personal choice , I don't support smoking .
I don't smoke and won't want my kids to smoke , unless If i work for a Cigarette company..!!



~ Insane's Insanely Insane Notes
(Ripped it off from: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes )

The Ugly FlashBack - Episode I

July 26th 2006:

I am sitting on my bed in my room right now.I see around and see empty bookshelves and an empty wardrobe,Sona insitute library slips , old-newspapers and magazines , notebooks , empty wafers, polythene bags and chocolate wrappers , strewn across the floor. And i see a britney spears picture pasted on my cupboard door.I had cut it out from the friday supplement of THE HINDU some time back.Dont get me wrong , a pretty decent picture it is , you sit down with popcorn and watch it for hours with your family.

And i also see a big VIP a smaller VIP case , and a blazing Blue Reebok Travel Bag.I have managed to stuff almost all my clothes ,some travel-books, and my compact disks into them.
The "call taxi" would arrive at 4:30 PM and the inter-city Express leaves at 5 pm to take me to Bangalore.
Surely it doesn't feels nice to know that I wud be away from home and friends.

Even though I would spend a greater part of my time sleeping in front of PC, It wont feel nice that I wouldn't be able to see MY people, I loved every morning and night here , and have the food cooked by Ammi , and lie over clean floor watching TV hang out with college pals.They are Just 'Memories' Now...

College is very few of the places where without much pain, involves a lot of running around,carrying around a gunny-BAG, everytime I looked down I felt, with a blank mind, "LIfe is just so fun, eh".

I Still Remember that Fateful-Day - when responsibility was yoked on my shoulders and a label was stuck on my forehead "Successfully Transisioned from youth to manhood", the date: 15th March-2005.
I stood outside the interview room all day , wearing a clean-shirt, dark blue trousers and shoes(OUCH..!!).I had to maintain the myself waiting in working condition , helping myself with water , advice from seniors and nerve soothing actions. Still Being on my mind as a default setting...!!

Obviously , there would be someone very dear whom I would still miss after the selection procedure..!!


So, here I am about to go BANGALORE.


~ Insanis Notstalgis

A Holiday to Remember

An overprotected English princess seeks to escape the boredom and monotony of her Royal duties, by slipping away from her entourage, into the city of Rome.

Lost in the eternal city and under the influence of a powerful sleeping pill, Princess Ann is taken in by an American journalist Joe Bradley. Temporarily free of her Royal duties the young princess takes the opportunity to spend a day pleasing herself.

Princess Ann: I could do some of the things I've always wanted to.

Joe Bradley: Like what?

Princess Ann: Oh, you can't imagine. I-I'd do just whatever I liked all day long.

On realizing he has had the good fortune of stumbling on a princess Joe, with the help of photographer Eddie Albert, seek to make the day into a very profitable news story.

On the surface the plot of 2 people spending a day in Rome, is remarkably thin, but at every turn the film delights with a lightness of touch and effortless comedy. A backdrop of great photography and atmospheric music also enhance the lyrical screenplay. The plaudits have rightly gone to Audrey Hepburn who is beguiling and captivating as a young woman; successfully combining the dignity of a princess with the innocent charm of a care free spirit.

You could watch the film with barely noticing but the film does have a powerful underlying moral perspective. On the one hand the film expresses a hedonistic vision of pleasing oneself, but at the same time it becomes a testimony to the importance of duty. It is only after spending a carefree day pleasing herself that Princess Ann really grows into appreciating the life of a princess.

[the Duchess mentions Princess Ann's duty]

Princess Ann: Please do not use that word. Were I not entirely aware of my duty to my family and to my country, I would not have come back tonight... or indeed ever again!

Similarly Joe is initially motivated purely by the aim of making money, but in the delightful presence of the Princess he allows his heart to override his head. In the end he ends up giving up the woman he loves and the paycheck he so desperately needs.

There is an enjoyable cameo role played by the photographer Eddie Albert. He continually suffers at the hands of Joe, but is also caught up in the nobility underlying the film.

You can enjoy this film on many levels, its beautiful photography, its zany humor. The film has a capacity to uplift and make you smile. You could watch the film for the performance of Audrey Hepburn alone. Maybe the idea of monarchy is not so important these days, but this is a film has a timeless appeal.

And the insane loved it!

God Can't Be (Dis)Proven

One of the most futile debates you can possibly have is about the existence of God. Unless the argument is purely philosophical, it is bound to end up going nowhere — because God can't be proven empirically.
To prove (or alternately, disprove) the existence of God empirically, the scientific method has to be followed. The first step, naturally, is proposing a hypothesis, i.e. God (does not) exist(s) — depending on whether you're arguing for or against theism, include or exclude the portions in parentheses.At this very first stage, we run into problems. How do you define God? What definition of God do we use? I think the following definition would probably be acceptable to monotheists:
God is an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient being.

Our hypothesis thus becomes:

An omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient being (does not) exist(s).

Now, let me ask you... Just how on earth do you prove or disprove this hypothesis? If this being is omniscient — all-knowing — it will know we're looking for it. And if it is omnipotent — all-powerful — it can hide itself at will.
The result is that unless this being chooses to reveal itself to us, it is impossible to prove or disprove the hypothesis, since the subject of our experiments will be able to manipulate the evidence at will. Some creationists when confronted with radiocarbon dating argue that God put the dinosaur bones in the ground and artifically backdated them, but in reality we were created 10,000 years ago.
If such is the case, how do you empirically and scientifically prove or disprove God? You definitely can't disprove him, because of this manipulation of the evidence, if there is a God.

At the same time, you can't prove God's existence unless he comes out and issues a statement along the lines of "Hey guys, I'm God. See, I can prove it — I'll just turn this wine to water." Without such hard evidence, all the theists have left going for them is aphorisms like "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." (Intelligent design as a scientific theory is utter bunk — all the proofs of intelligent design are nothing more than critiques of evolutionary theory as it is currently understood, and don't in themselves prove that there is a higher being.)
But what does this failure to prove or disprove God actually bode? Does this mean religion or atheism is pointless, since we can't prove any hypotheses about God's existence or lack of it?
I don't think so. I think there is actually a subtle beauty in our inability to prove God's existence empirically. Being able to prove that God is real would actually be the real death blow for religion.
The point of religion is faith — to believe, not just accept. Being a Christian, I naturally will prefer Biblical authorities, but I'm sure followers of other religions will be able to find passages in their own holy book with similar meanings.
The Bible states "The fool saith in his heart, there is no God" — it does not say "saith in his mind" or "saith in his thoughts". If there is empirical evidence God exists, there is basically no point in believing — you are forced to believe God exists, not because you are convicted in your heart that he is real, but because the evidence is there and you can't run away from it.
Believing because you have to, and believing because you hold a conviction in your heart are two totally different things. As the Bible says, "Even the devils believe [God exists]". Their belief does not save them, because they do not hold a conviction in their heart about God — they just have no choice but to accept God exists.
The fact that God has not given us evidence of his existence is meant to affirm our free will, and to lend our faith a meaning. Hard atheist Richard Dawkins says that if after dying, he finds himself in front of God, he will tell Him, "Not enough evidence, God. Not enough evidence."
But the point of the evidence's absence is to give us a choice, and to make believing truly believing. That is something all people, theists and atheists, have to come to terms with. Trying to empirically prove that God exists, or to disprove his existence, beyond as some mental exercise, is a complete waste of time.

- Thanks: www.infernalramblings.com/articles/Philosophy_and_Religion

Russia from Ashes

Russia was largely a non-factor on the world stage for the past decade. Other than a few fits of pique involving Ukranian natural gas contracts, threats of energy supply cutoffs to Europe and an internal rebellion in Chechnya which was ignored by the rest of the world, Russia has been relegated to obscurity. That all changed when Russian troops invaded South Ossetia and nearly toppled a US-backed state in the process of applying for NATO membership. It was a direct statement to the rest of the world. Russia is reasserting itself in its sphere of influence lost in the breakup of the Soviet Union. The opportunity exists because the United States is stretched thin due to deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and because NATO is no longer coherent enough to object. The world is discovering that the EU has no real power, and the UN has been a joke for decades. Russia was seemingly deliberately baited by NATO membership hints to Georgia, the Western-inspired Orange revolution in Ukraine (a nation which was direct geopolitical consequences to Russia, including Mediterranean port access, pipeline control to Europe, and geographic defense value), and western involvement in the Balkans during Clintons term. Now they have the opportunity to object to these perceived threats, and they are taking full advantage of it while it lasts.


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Logosphilia

The Optimist and the Optimizer

As for anyone who have come across the philosophy "Principle of Sufficient Reason" Gottfried Leibniz ( Pronounce: Got fried lay'by'knees ! - just kidding ;) ) states long and
complex theories that could be abstracted as :

* For every entity x, if x exists, then there is a sufficient explanation why x exists.
* For every event e, if e occurs, then there is a sufficient explanation why e occurs.
* For every proposition p, if p is true, then there is a sufficient explanation why p is true.

These statements puts something called fate to the guillotine. So, Slumdogs watch out, for the tag line d.)It is written. So a literal paradox in place , comparable to something like when Eve responds to Adam after the apple incident "I can resist anything but temptation" - Nuts.!

Adding to it, the short story " The Garden of Forking Paths ",will rattle your mind - which is of course related to "Many-worlds interpretation" of Quantum-Mechanics - but for your reference: The story came first and then the science. :)

Many beliefs look for the exact position of the stars and planets considering the birth-time and try to predict his/her future events. But that baby must have been conceived about ten months back, why shouldn't they take into account when the actual stuff happened ( I can feel you staring - well to make it least vulgar - of course i meant the "fusion time" of the male and female individual ): Imagine that ! :)
Rubbish.!!

With People who have a desire for shallow plunge into Quantum Mechanics, Ten years of Deep Sea dive would mean comparatively nothing - Quantum Science:It absorbs you! -- Yet you don't understand a thing.Even Albert Einstein spent sleepless nights after hearing these concepts, and finally the "Axiom of Causality" was nullified based on Quantum Science, and what happened to Gottfried's philosophy ? - it was simply killed by quantum effect.
When it comes to Quantum science : God just disappear (or reappear)!

Gottfried gave his wonderful theory that we all are living in "Best of all possible worlds", may be didn't live long to see the World-wars or Osama-niac. His statements try to solve the problem of evil, by trying to justify that everything happens for good : Optimists - as they are technically called!

Leibniz' solution casts God as a kind of "Optimizer" of the collection of all original possibilities: Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good--in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds.On the one hand, this view might help us rationalize some of what we experience: Imagine that all the world is made of good and evil. The best possible world would have the most good and the least evil. Courage is better than no courage. It might be observed, then, that without evil to challenge us, there can be no courage. Since evil brings out the best aspects of humanity, evil is regarded as necessary. So in creating this world God made some evil to make the best of all possible worlds. On the other hand, the theory explains evil not by denying it or even rationalizing it--but simply by declaring it to be part of the optimum combination of elements that comprise the best possible Godly choice.

So, Based on this we could justify the presence of Bin-laden, Adolf Hitler, Mussolini and all the Cannibals whoever existed. :) coz.,God made them.!

The Result, Voltaire makes a mockery of Gottfried's philosophy in his book Candide.

Like to acknowledge Charles Darwin for the best fiction ever, The Theory of Evolution ( Which the Pope has apologized for shunning - so long ! )
This great man, travels to Galapagos and makes this theory: Which made everyone doubt their religious fancies, and then came Carl Sagan - and followed a similar road.

With the belief that God is omnipotent, omniscient and omni-benevolent but in parallel: the same time evil exists. God either cannot stop evil or he will not. If he cannot then he is argued to not be omnipotent. If he will not then he is argued to not be omni-benevolent.Welcome home - Atheists!

I am in plan of creating my own belief(also to allow [read allow as force] others to believe), by creating someone called God version 2.0, an invisible and imaginary character: Give it some parameters, Give it a back story, add some magic elements here and there in that, and also include some prophecies (which the coming generations would Hope to occur - but never will !), and tons of unquestionable illogical statements and make them "Holy" - So the future would fight over it! - and have absolute control over their minds - How interesting is it to be God ;)

But someone may provide response that includes the arguments that evil is necessary for the existence of greater goods such as free will or spiritual growth, that we cannot understand God, that evil is merely the absence of good, or that it is an appropriate punishment, and the valence effect follows.

Human - Who cannot create an "Atom" by himself - creates Gods by Dozens.!
Ever sensed protons and electrons buzzing inside you ?-You are just a pile of atoms: The same contents as the Halley's Comet or Rolls Royce, where does all this comes from ?
My belief : Quantum Physics is going to create a shattering effect on the future of current Religious systems.

Come'on Guys -- Wake up and .... "Follow the White Rabid-Rabbit"

You are bored of existing in this world. Suddenly you sees a white rabbit, wearing a coat and carrying a watch, run past, lamenting " I am late". And you follow it down a rabbit hole and fall very slowly down a tunnel...How Deep does The Rabbit Hole Go?



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Google
Confucius
Kaala Bandhar ( The Black Monkey )
God ;)

Bangalore-100

Disclaimer: This post is purely a work of fiction, and resemblance to any Insane living or dead is co-incidental .

“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part. - Ernest Miller Hemingway

Life was always sucking out 'Sanity' from my mind and its rate had doubled ever since i landed in Bangalore.

Act-I

Time: 26th July 2006
Location: ChikAdugodi, 7th Cross, Madivala.
Mission: Hunting for a room
Scene Members: A Couple of my college mates,and House Agent.

After two day sessions and all that sick process of getting into an Insanely Accepted and Socially Respected "IT Industry", time was being wasted to hunt down a room.
I had never stayed away from home, particularly not for a longer period. Luckily my first job posting was just a 5 hours drive for my Home.
We Finally settled down for a house, it was crappy, dull and had a moist smell. But that's what you get for a monthly rental of 5000 bucks sharing with 5 other lunatics.
The House-owner was a middle aged lady, and had three children and a Messy dog - who could lick anything ( I would have blow-ed that animal apart if i had a shot gun - thanks to Serious Sam ) we heard that she was married but we never in our stay got to meet her husband.
We had to pay the broker 2500 bucks or so for that Animal-Farm.
I was in a really bad mental state living there - may be because, i am now considered to be a grown up man, and also have morphed into a money churning machine in society's view - i hated my part there, i failed a couple of Training Exams and barely made it through to get into a project. Partly because, I just hated Myself for landing myself in an occupation - that didn't interested or challenged me.
The Manager was a Total Sucker and i was not at all inclined toward my occupation in my 18 months of working period at Electronics City, Bangalore.
I also happened to get in touch with a bunch of losers - who dreamed of landing USofA the very next day they were let into a project.
The House owner was getting increasingly bossy - the other part - i was never able to figure out what i was working on, in for my whole stay at the first company.
Meanwhile we moved out in to a house located nearer to my office, Bangalore-100.

Act-II

Time: 12th December 2007
Location: Mahadevpura,Whitefield Road.
Baseline: Looking for a new job.
Scene Members: Few people waiting at the bus-stop.

I was increasingly getting frustrated with my term at the current company, I had a couple of emotional outbursts with my seniors there - I knew that it would finally screw-up my performance evaluation. I had applied for a transfer to Chennai, which was a nasty drama - moved to Chennai - after which i was thrown back to the office at same old location --> Bangalore-100.
I wanted to Quit my current Organization.
And here i was in front of one of the most admired Software Organization in the world, waiting for my interviewer to call me in. I was seated near a Peepal tree ( It can uptake CO{-2} during the night as well with its their ability to perform a type of photosynthesis called Crassulacean Acid Metabolism, -- Also I believe it was the same type of tree under which Gauthama Buddha was enlightened )

I was selected after a brief interview - which i didn't do quite well technically, but my attitude played a supporting part there.

And now One Year since i have joined this World renowned Organization, but i still feel nothing has changed much - except for a big pocket to hold larger amount of salary.
A lot of stuff happened, in this period
- Had read through completely about a half-a-dozen books and dropped a score of them in mid-way .
- Watched some 70 movies ( DVDs, TV or Screen )
- Fluctuating interest in T20 and EPL. ( Sometimes i watched them and sometimes i didn't )
- Added 15 KGs to my body-frame and started looking like an Ultimate Loser.
- Got a new Sony Ericsson Mobile ( Tried being a Cybershot Addict - Clicking anything and everything )
- Got a second hand bike, also had a recent accident which left a person injured enough not to work for atleast a month.I had to change my mobile number after that incident.
- Tried to create a charity group with my So Called Friends or whatever, which i feel is eventually failing to hold itself.
- With the increasing chaos in the job market,and the international debt-cycle: Banks Crashing out, Auto sales down, companies bankrupt, jobs slashed,oil barrel doing a roller coaster, more job cuts, pay cuts, and S-H-I-T..!!

Sometimes makes me wonder - i am not having a life at all. I am just doing all this because it would make my parents and the society feel - i am responsible guy !!

But the insanely worse thing is - I don't really know what i must be doing..!
Money doesn't interests me - Girls (Nah..!!) - My mom is exponentially getting aggressive in getting me a bride by every week passing.

I am right now living at the same old location " Bangalore-100", May be i waited for "something to happen to me, by itself - like a miracle" - that would try to give me a direction or path to take upon or atleast improve my condition.
But i am learning that "You can waste a lot of time waiting for others to act for you."

Theology - God - Blog - Society - Money - Books - Orkut - Family - Friends - Girls - Religion - Politics - Art - Occupation - Reality Shows(Which are so dramatic and unreal..!) - Music - almost everything seems to be disconnected from me - I am floating in a Dark darK space with nothing to hold on to, nothing in sight, nothing to think : sometimes i was forced into believing that i don't even exist.

One of my school guy, who too worked at my old office, had quit the job to take up something he liked ( or may be he thinks that he likes it ) - Travel and Writing.

Things around me just don't make me happy anymore - i just Act to be happy - Act to laugh - Act to be working - Act to be.. What not..!!

May be i am a naturally successful, or i am impossibly lucky (or unlucky !) to have been born (Fighting away more than a million probabilities of a different child - who would have been my brother or sister - I would have been happier to have lost the race - But the Mad flagella wagged itself to reach - You know.. ) and reach this So called Great Position. which the society acknowledges " It points at me - Look out there is the Software Engineer, Do you know his package??--40K!!, He is a hard working and studious guy, Learn from him". DAMN the society and Damn Life.

I am just a coward, drained and yellow - lost and with nothing to interest me. But still that does leaves me an option of becoming a Aghori Sadhu, But my problem doesn't end there - I simply don't want to Exist in this Bullshit world of Money, Lust, Religion, Divide, Borders, Envy, Sloth, Hunger, Gluttony, Greed, War, Guilt, Pride, Wrath, Hate, Immorality, Disease,and Racism.
I am sending out a message to the Aliens " Please Abduct Me..!!, i am ready to be your Lab Mouse"

~ Hey you guys out there - Insanely, the sickest post ever ? : Whoa don't breathe - i have loads more.

Qualia

This is a simple concept, in the programmer's term: idea is an interface between the mind and the object. Without the interface the idea and the mind cannot connect.

For most solipsists ( People who believe that, their mind is the only thing that exists - someone like me ) the question of external world is an interesting explanation.
They believe, mind is an immaterialistic-fabric and that is the only thing to ever exist, all the other things in the external environment are just objects with which the mind can interface using an Idea!

So, another question springs up here: What of the other people in the environment, who have their own minds!! - According to the solipsist there is only one rule:"My mind is the only thind that exists all other minds are not minds but objects instead, which inturn can be connected/interfaced using an idea"

Since every "Mind" is aware that they are alive in reality only when they are capable of generating ideas/thoughts, this sub-plot present an unusual and fascinating twist on the concept - to explain it better i ll quote Mart Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" of Eseldorf ( Esel = stupid ; dorf = village ; syn: village of stupid people )

"..In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier. It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you( as a thought ). And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Scary, but more realistic than the reality itself that you perceived.!

Well then,"How can you notice that you were dreaming? Only by awakening from your dream. So, how can you awake from your life?". All you Zombies.!
You are the thought that rules the universe, but you are in such a state of worldy penace , to the extent that you are unaware that you rule the universe or even, in fact, that the universe exists.

Following this concept, defining death would be easier: The point where your mind ceases to generate ideas, it may be because of the follwoing reason: A mind that reaches self-awareness, it understands that it does not exist as Mr.XYZ or Ms.PQR, instead that as a thought itself, all matter, pain, age, disease would mean nothing - no point in existing as a thought if you know this ultimate reality!. Moksha. The mind just pushes its self-destruction button and poof.! - Defining Death. You are God, you are the universe, You are a Thought, you are a mind.

These things doesn't seem to be in common-sense, but that is what solipsism is about.-Mind and Insanity- everyone is insane, until his thoughts exists - because sanity would be attained only when the mind dies.

Don't you know that Dogs dream ?, they of course think and generate thoughts!

Many a times your mind would have tricked your brain, by making you believe an action which is happening to you at that instance for very first time, would seem to have happened sometime in past or for a micro-second you belived that its weird to explain, but say it this way:

- Monday, 27th, 2017: There is a flash/dream of Mr.XYZ going to strange place and getting a banana from market, and there he notices this old lady with green outfit smiling at him.. Poof! Dream over.

--- Note this point: Mr.XYZ doesn't remembers or is unable to recall the dream after he wakes up. And he goes on with his normal life. That evening he gets an urgent call asking him to visit his client at india. He has never been to india ever before.He leaves to india. --

- Thursday,30th, 2017: Mr.XYZ finsihes off the work and moves to have a look around. He feels hungry and looks over to have a snack, he reaches a market nearby, and first thing he notices is a ripe banana, he goes for it with strange feeling that, this has happened to me before... and next i would see a smiling-lady, before he completes his thought, a store lady, wearing a green-outfit smiles at him and asks, "Sir, how could i help you..!"

--- This makes no sense, but whats all this wierd stuff all about ?

See, all this science, religion, god, career, family, friends, television wall these worldly things are just figments, that your mind is learning, and until it learns itself, it would exist.

Okay Mister, I agree but what of the people/minds that die of accident: "They don't die instead your mind generates a thought that he is dead": and Your Mind is insane.

"It hated me because I talked to it."

"You TALKED to it?" exclaimed Ford. "What do you mean you talked to it?"

"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself
into it's external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length,
and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.

"And what happened? " pressed Ford.

"It committed suicide, " said Marvin.


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