Crazy Ideas: Vol 3: The Return of The Void

I have been busy.

Does that encompass lack of a post for eight months, is something I can not answer. Q4R occupied most of those eight months, that I can assure you. Q4R is on the verge of a successful end (or is it the beginning?), by the way.

Chalo, I will begin the post.

Terror(?) Attacks!!

And here we go again, a bomb here and a bomb there. Three cities, and all three of them I share a special connection with, Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad.

I spent my childhood in Jaipur, formative years in Ahmedabad and Bangalore just for the amazing place it is, and because two of my bestest friends live there.

And I was thinking, as always, watching stuff from a distance you know like I am used to. And two theories strike me, one admittedly because of my mother and the other one for the sheer genius of it.

India has been a terrorist hub for ages, our neighboring countries cant seem to respect our National Integrity, or maybe they cant control their citizens. Maybe they don't appreciate the fact that a country can be secular and progressive at the same time or maybe all religions are equal. (The all religion part is real easy for me, being an atheist and all!) Its a well known fact that our neighbors all around the borders have tried infiltration with one form or the other. This fact has been well documented, put in public view and everything. But this is not the point I am trying to put across. There is something missing, there have been bombs before but not so many, and not in the smaller cities (aside of J&K of course) and definitely not so frequently. And I haven't done any research work but I just flat feel a difference. And what about Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), where are they? Haven't they been the top intelligence agency after maybe CIA? How come they couldn't foil these attacks this time, I am sure they don't publicise it but they do spoil a lot of such attempts every year. How do you spoil a plan? Informants, eavesdropping and a million other techniques that are P2C2E (Process too complicated to explain). And so the failure means RAW or IB didn't have any informants, couldn't eavesdrop-definitely means new agency!!

New don't mean new like old timer organization Lashkar n stuff, the ISLAMIC group. Neither it is Maoists, naxalites or any other and here are the two theories, and what "new" might be.

The Insider Theory

First one is not my theory like I said before, heard from my mommy first and heard it repeated by Ms. Sushma Swaraj (I have always liked her, by the way). The government is doing it? If you haven't heard the UPA has taken a huge hit in the guts by the inflation. Three cities got hit, all BJP ruled states! You can blame it on BJP government, and their incompetence like the "central" government did. You can also ask the question, why the hell? And when did the politics got so dirty as putting the blame on each other for terrorist acts!!

Congress, if I remember correctly have been blamed for massacre, killings, etc. before this. And well after the note wads being waved at the parliament nothing would surprise me.

The Outsider Theory

If somebody else has expressed this theory somewhere before I am not aware of it, it is just something that came to my mind.

If you look closely at the top of Indian Government, we have two brilliant economists in Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram. So why is our finances (inflation) so screwed up? Indian finances were always strong (inflation, gdp) even with the non economist ministers. Why is it going up. It almost makes you wonder. Add to it the instability in the government brought about by the NUCLEAR DEAL, your mind begins to churn. Throw in the bomb blasts, subtract the political corruption of the country (that saved the government), and you get a country with an uncontrollable inflation, no government and bombs exploding every corner. That means maybe you can connect all of them. If you have been reading the newspaper, USA has blamed India for food shortage, inflation in their country and have always been an awful ally. In fact for US, India, which was like an unsquattable bugging fly until a couple of decades ago, is now turning up as a competitor. Competitor who maintains both the GDP and Inflation at 8% steady continuously! And what was with the fall in the dollar, did it really touch 37? What would you do if you had all the resources and CIA! Maybe fuck up the finances, screw with the government and destabilize the country. Easy to do if a neighbor of the country you wanna mess up is your lapdog. After all CIA has a reputation to live up to!!

Not that we can do anything about it but well, nice to have these thoughts out!!

With Love
Void

Crazy Ideas Vol:2

"Feminism"



Many things prompted me to take up Women, as the next topic for my blog, and to ignore the sounds of roaring thunder that is to befell my head soon after this volume is published. Women will largely dominate this blog, through a guy's perspective, although I will also try to tackle the relationship we share with them and scratching the surface of homosexual tendencies (of guys hence the title-feminism) finally ending with my own sexist tendencies.

Part 1
Guy-Gal Dynamics

If you have read Mario Puzo's "Fool's Die", you will perhaps agree with me it presents the dynamics of the relationships rather perfectly, that is, from a guy's perspective. He begins with a very interesting prologue where he promises to weave magic and present women in their naked honesty. He claims the women will come out better than men in the end. He also claims that men need women.

That was the second bit he got right. We will come to the first bit in some time, but first you must understand what I mean when I say the dynamics of the relationship from a guy's perspective.
You see, although the prologue deals almost exclusively with women and a promise on a book on feminism, the book hardly deals with it. Not that it isn't a great book, it is a stunner, but in no way a book on women. And from a guy's perspective that's the whole story. Give us a minute to think about it and women jump to our minds. But usually, most rational men gets too often too engrossed in what they are doing that they actually forget the women part in their lives, and this part comes and goes like a favorite TV show, that they absolutely love. So that book actually describes the dynamics of a guy-gal relationship, although not in a way you expect.

Now, in all seriousness I don't expect my mundane mind to figure out the dark complex mysteries of a feminine mind, what I will do instead is interpret some aspect which is more of a hunch based on incidents perhaps too complex to put down in words.

For me, the defining point of women will remain the attention, that they crave and the same that they refuse to pay. Can they be called self involved? I don't know, but I don't think that's what it is. I say this not to appease them, but in an attempt towards our all important goal of understanding them. And why is because of their overall softer nature, a plight is more likely to appeal to a woman than a man. Perhaps it has something to do with motherhood, I do not know. What I do know is the fact that men at least tend to pay more attention to their female friends, however vehemently they can deny it. Of women I don't know, but I can certainly say that a man is more likely to make a wonderful selfless gesture towards a female friend,(Friend, not girlfriend We will come to girlfriends later). On the contrary, woman will walk away leaving the foolish man in an embarrassment of his selfless ways while she accomplishes her "goals". But then the same guy is more likely a self centered jackass, while around other people. I don't know about women, but if I am to hazard a guess based on reasonable assumptions I would say she would be similar, at least with a guy she considers an equal. And I also believe, for every woman, this number of equals is pretty low, and this number is inversely proportional to the attention she gets in the first place.

This equal again is a very important term, and I truly am at a loss to discover the magic formula. When I recked my brains the only thing that made sense to me was perhaps the equals is a random term or perhaps every girl have their own magic formula. I am willing to believe a mix of two, chance adding to the magic formula, more likely dominating it. Having said that, from a guy's perspective, the most important thing is positioning. I have found that the girls are very easily impressed/awed and in the end it all comes down to positioning and timing. But this is again related to the attention they usually get. By positioning I mean, exactly what it sounds like. The girl needs to know who you are. It doesn't hurt to have a good reputation or looks, these are the catalysts. But I have come to believe, in the end, these don't matter much. I also found that while saying the right things is necessary, action still speak louder than the words. And of course when I mean saying the right things is necessary, I meant knowing when to shut up too. You see, talking is women department and that is something a guy should never forget. Even the girls who you will deem shy will talk more than a guy, so if the talk ratio approaches 50-50, that dynamics is in trouble and will shift pretty soon. I find 60-40 to be the perfect, because man gives the woman the hold, but still enough for himself to have his say. Although 70-30 is acceptable, any dynamics below that is tending to shift.

Another thing I have found rather fascinating is the fact it is up to women to make the decisions, and here I am talking about modern day relationships, not about our parents, which of course shows dynamics of a fast fading era. The decision making process rests with Women, surprisingly due to something they hate! Sexism!! In college-life-relationship these include time of meeting (decided according to girl's schedule), place (decided according to her mobility ) and most important of all, what is good/bad,private/public and so on (according to her judgment). Now well the first two are more obvious cases of sexism whether women "decide" to acknowledge them or not. While the third one, yes, how the hell did that become sexist. Guys don't realize but the third one is snuck in either when they don't realize or have been manipulated enough so they are just waiting to slice their right hands and gift it to them.

The fact is guys mostly grumble about one or two, in fact mostly one. But what they don't realize all this time is the fact, the third one is basically the governing factor. Because the third one actually dictates the life outside of college, if the relationship survive the brutal transformation. The third is the most significant weapon, it can vary from pouting of mouth to sad eyes, looking down. But actually I have said this about Hitler and I repeat it about the girls. Hitler came to power only because he actually believed in antisemitism (anti Jew feelings), he truly believed he was ridding Germany of evil and he sold it. Same goes for girls, whatever they do, you can never actually take away the one thing, they are believers. And I don't say this lightly but as a tribute to the most fascinating aspect of womanhood, they actually believe in the goodness of a man, of something even we can not see but it is there and she sees it and perhaps inspire us to change, for better or for worse, I don't know. I haven't allowed anyone to change me yet, but when it does happen, hell that transformation will be awesome.


And thus I sign off the pretty amazing journey through guy-gal dynamics, there is still a lot left to be said. After all, a woman is not just about her relationships, As of this moment I am at 1300 words, which is quite enough length for a single post. I will soon add the parts 2 onwards to make a complete study.... till then cheerioz

CrazY IdeaS Vol:1

"Atheism"





There are many people out there for my blood, for the simplest of reasons. My belief (or lack thereof) towards religion. I say what is the big deal, Do I harass you for being part of the followers? why then cant you leave me alone for not bowing my head everytime I hear the temple bells toll. But I guess I have avoided the question long enough, perhaps its the time I speak back. Although its not my tendency to take shots at the "Ultimate Authority" *rolls eyes* this is one time I will go against the dictum. So I warn anyone who is blindly in love with the omnipotent one to leave now, never to return!
My answer is perhaps the simplest of all... "Most people dont believe in most gods/religions anyway, I just went one god/religion further"

But this is not the extent of it, I will now undertake tedious but quite plain work of tearing religions (and God, although to a lesser extent) apart...

Part 1

Religions constantly try to throw us into many variations of pits of fire (more commonly known as hell). If you do this , you are in hell, you do that you are in hell, if you dont do this or that, hey presto you are still in hell. Well I agree, it is a crime to use a condom while having sex and deserves condemnation to hell. Oh and what was the poor boy thinking when he thought Darwin actually made sense! Damn it you are not allowed to apply logic or free thought, no doubt you deserve hell. And those insolent Scientists! what are they thinking believing Science to solve Genesis? Hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell!!
I can provide you another one thousand examples, a couple of which I have experienced closely, and they make me sick to the bottom of my stomach. I wish no such fate for you. And anyways even if you avoid doing this or that and also avoid not doing this or that, guess what you are still going to hell. Why, you ask me. The answer is simple actually: The sheer number of religions that exist, and definitely more than one of them states if you dont follow us you will go to hell. And of course, you cant follow more than one because than you are not following that one... so basically the minute you were born you are already condemned.

Part 2

Omnipotence

The only point around which "their" Gods seems to unite is the fact that they remain omnipotent, whatever the case.
Hmm, this paradox I absolutely love and I have used it so many times! Well if God is omnipotent, meaning he can pretty much do anything, Can he create a stone that he himself can not lift?

This is the nearest any theist got to solving this paradox,

Now since God is not confined to linear time like us He can as easily lift that stone in a parallel reality as the actions in parallel source are not defined in those circumstances.

The statement defies logic, meaning existence of an omnipotent God is for non logical people. I dont know about you guys but I will much rather have logic than God.


Part 3

Religious Blasphemy

It is a pretty culture to spend millions of bucks on organization of (highly productive *coughs*)
festival and rituals everyday. And at the same time, in India at least, hungry children die at the footsteps of the temple, they are mostly not allowed to enter, and perhaps are more in need of that money. The day to spend our limited resources on God should have been the day when we have wiped off starvation and deaths off the destiny of every child in the world. But no, the higher priority remains to please the "stone" Gods, who well, promise vengeance in case you dare to ignore. Well, I dont actually believe that the "stone" gods are capable of ire. Its just those selfishly motivated priests, pundits, rabbis and fathers who spread this crap in name of the "whole" entity to serve their purpose. Come on, let us face it, without God what will be the need of them popes and pundits and gurus and rabbis and whatever the hell. Then how will they sit on their fat asses and preach messages they themselves dont follow? And you bow to them and laugh at me. Whew, I thank your Gods for creating me "screwed".


Conclusion:

I believe in logic and free thinking. I believe in seeing things simply. I believe Bible, Geeta and Koran did not arrive from heaven via fax. I believe people who wrote the laws were no better than us. You believe in God, I believe in people. You believe in strength of prayer, I believe in strength of heart. I have my own religion, even if it doesnt have a name. But it involves hard work, logic and above all rationality. Not the benevolence, kindness crap... which you dont follow anyway.


Miss Vetra from Dan Brown's Angels and Demons got it right perhaps when she said, "God is not some omnipotent authority waiting to condemn us to a pit of fire the moment we disobey. God is the energy that runs through the synapses of our nervous system and chambers of our hearts."


You say I am going to hell, I dont give a damn. Even if I am wrong, I already proved either everyone is going to hell or God is not powerful enough to have control over every aspect of his creation. And anyways I would much rather live the present with logic than future with luxury. And if God is so narrow minded and egotistic as to only accept those into his realm who are spineless, brainless followers, then I dont want to kneel in front of such a God anyway.


Based on everything I have found out the simplest fact remains, God or religion, doesnt make any sense. There is no logic involved, so next time you find yourself short on strength dont look up, look within, everything you will ever require is right there!