Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
--R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
--R. Buckminster Fuller
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
--Luis Bunuel
Jul 20, 2005
quotes
Jul 19, 2005
97 per cent certain !!!!!!!!?????
Christ's resurrection by God proved by maths, logic from HT
"Swinburne, while giving a public lecture at the Australian Catholic University said that probability calculus showed a probability of 97 per cent that Christ was resurrected. He said that the conclusion was arrived at after a series of complex calculations, which began with the probability of God's existence as one in two, that is either God existed or did not, adding that it was also one in two that God became incarnate.
Arguing that the evidence for God's existence was an argument for the resurrection, and any evidence against God's existence was an argument against the resurrection, he said that the chance of Christ's resurrection not being reported by the gospels had the probability of one in 10. These factors, all coming together, if the resurrection was not true, were one in 1000, he said."
Jul 16, 2005
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
--John Lennon
[via Manjusha]
taj belongs to gov of india
Muslim Taj Mahal claim rejected from bbc
update on "making another mess" i just posted :P
"Calling the board's claim baseless, Law Minister H R Bharadwaj said the monument was Indian national property."
so it is money matters not religious after all!!!!!!
"It has been governed, managed and maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) since 1920.
The Waqf Board had claimed that the building was being neglected, a charge the government rejects.
"There is no need for any other body to look after the monument as the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is taking care of it quite well," Mr Bharadwaj said.
If the Sunni Waqf Board were to succeed in its bid to become the owner of the monument, it would get 7% of the income from the building by law. "
missing mangoes
making another mess
Taj not a teardrop, but a 'grave' from telegraph [via indiauncut]
"The Taj Mahal was today declared Sunni Wakf property on the ground that it is the grave of a woman whose emperor husband was a Sunni."
...
"With the BJP protesting the judgment and asking the Centre to step in, the issue has the potential to stoke controversy at a time when the Imrana row was dying down."
anyone read this book?
The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy by Mark McCutcheon
seems to be an intresting book abt existing theories of physics. here is the link to the first chapter
thought
always believed that - what ever happens, happens for good.
and i am still trying to keep it the same.
Jul 15, 2005
anonymuncule
kushi
ek muskan,
kayi kaliya,
shant chintna,
culbuli upeksha,
ujagar savera,
dhumli shyam,
apar vishwas,
thodisi takrar,
ekpal intezar,
jivanbhar pyar,
dharsi batien,
zarasi khamoshi,
achanak milna,
hamesha saath,
madhur sangeet,
besura meet,
rimjhim barsat,
jaane jivan mai kitni aise kushiya beshumar........
(incomplete)
Jul 12, 2005
very nice and very true
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
-- from pat
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pakistan 'moral laws' spark row from bbc
"According to a draft of the bill, the mohtasib will be required to ensure people pay adequate respect to azan (call to prayers), pray on time and do not engage in commerce at the time of Friday prayers.
The mohtasib will also stop unrelated men and women from appearing in public places together and discourage singing and dancing. "
quotes
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
--English Proverb
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard
Wisdom is know what to do next; virtue is doing it.
--David Starr Jordan
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
--Anne Frank
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
--Mark Twain