thought

what do you do when your mind works in different realms on conflicting ideas and gives equally convincing reasons?

tsunami disaster continues

form indian express
Help, they treat us like animals: tsunami victims

not the first one that i have read since then and i am not surprised by it either. brings back the same questions...

thought

Threads of life

Some weak and few strong.
Some with knots and few smooth.
Few to help you hang in there,
and some to hang you by.
Few you gave color to,
and some have painted you.
Some you hold on to,
and few you have to let go...
and wish the rest are strong, smooth and colorful.
Each strand weaves itself in the mesh of life,
and its mark known only when the mesh is complete.

quote

To respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.
--Richard Dawkins

thought

there are times when life dishes out things to us and we just keep fighting it. but one day it all seems to fall in place when we stop and think, set our priorities straight, decide what we want to achieve in life, what matters to us.
we make mistakes and we have to still get on with life and learn from them, correct them, get past them. give life the best and it will somehow show the way to us. sometimes the path might be difficult seem to be leading nowhere but endurance will get us the answers that we want.

and now the answers are beginning to take shape.

dawkins on genetic engineering...

Where do the real dangers of genetic engineering lie?

this is an old article on genetic engineering by dawkins but the issues it address are still the same that are faced by "scientific" community and the law makers.

parts of his article
"Part of what we have to fear from genetic engineering is a paradox - it is too good at what it does. As ever, science's formidable power makes correspond-ingly formidable demands on society's wisdom. The more powerful the science, the greater the potential for evil as well as good. And the more important it is that we make the right choices over how we use it. A major difficulty is political - deciding who is the "we" in that sentence. If decisions over genetic engineering are left to the marketplace alone, the long-term interests of the environment are unlikely to be well served. But that is true about so many aspects of life."

will "we" ever be ready to use science's formidable powers only for good?

this is unbelievable... n funny

http://www.heavenlymedicine.com/index.html

i found this really hilarious...

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