what do you do when your mind works in different realms on conflicting ideas and gives equally convincing reasons?
May 30, 2005
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...
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...
May 29, 2005
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.
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.
May 27, 2005
quote
To respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.
--Richard Dawkins
--Richard Dawkins
May 26, 2005
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.
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 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?
May 25, 2005
this is unbelievable... n funny
http://www.heavenlymedicine.com/index.html
i found this really hilarious...
"find hope courage meaning strength purpose refuge for $24.95 + S&H"
i found this really hilarious...
"find hope courage meaning strength purpose refuge for $24.95 + S&H"
This is a letter from a Sardarni Mother to her son.
Pyaarey puttar, Vahe Guru.
I'm writing this letter slow, because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the paper that most accidents happen 20 miles from your home, so we moved. I won't be able to send you the address as the last Sardar who stayed here took the numbers with them for their next house, so they wouldn't have to change their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works too well : last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. The weather here isn't too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days. The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket. We got another bill from the funeral home. It said that if we don't make the last payment on Grandma's funeral, she will come up again. Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery. Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it's a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your uncle, Jatinder fell in a whisky vat. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days. Three of your friends went off the bridge in a pick-up truck. One was driving, the other two were in the back. The driver got out, he rolled down the window and swam to safety. The other drowned because they couldn't get the tall gate down. There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.
Love
Mom.
PS.: I was going to send you some money but the envelope was already sealed.
I'm writing this letter slow, because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the paper that most accidents happen 20 miles from your home, so we moved. I won't be able to send you the address as the last Sardar who stayed here took the numbers with them for their next house, so they wouldn't have to change their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works too well : last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. The weather here isn't too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days. The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket. We got another bill from the funeral home. It said that if we don't make the last payment on Grandma's funeral, she will come up again. Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery. Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it's a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your uncle, Jatinder fell in a whisky vat. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days. Three of your friends went off the bridge in a pick-up truck. One was driving, the other two were in the back. The driver got out, he rolled down the window and swam to safety. The other drowned because they couldn't get the tall gate down. There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.
Love
Mom.
PS.: I was going to send you some money but the envelope was already sealed.
children in armed conflict
Child soldiers an article form hindu...
few more stories on this
http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000260.html
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2005-04-25-voa27.cfm
depressing.
few more stories on this
http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000260.html
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2005-04-25-voa27.cfm
depressing.
stem cell research
stem cell research bill passes
"The House then overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed proposal that would use federal money to study stem cells taken from adults and umbilical cord blood, instead of using human embryos.
The vote was 431-1. One Republican voted against the bill, which was supported by Bush."
"The House then overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed proposal that would use federal money to study stem cells taken from adults and umbilical cord blood, instead of using human embryos.
The vote was 431-1. One Republican voted against the bill, which was supported by Bush."
thought
Q: how much CAN u endure?
A: more than u thought u could
A: more than u thought u could
quotes
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
--Gilda Radner
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
--Ivy Baker Priest
--Gilda Radner
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
--Ivy Baker Priest
May 22, 2005
quote
On Being Saved
Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone, therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint; therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone, therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint; therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
anonymuncule
zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi?
zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi?
daman main bikhre phulo si rahi,
unko chunte samay kanton si rahi,
phir bahte lahu ko thamte hatho se rahi,
badalte hatho ke anjane jazbato si rahi.
zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi?
suraj ke bikhre sone si rahi,
uski nirakarta samete badalo si rahi,
phir badalo se bikhri rimjhim si rahi,
rimjhim me mitti ki sondhi kushbu si rahi.
na jane zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi...
here it is (though i hate writing hindi in english)
zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi?
daman main bikhre phulo si rahi,
unko chunte samay kanton si rahi,
phir bahte lahu ko thamte hatho se rahi,
badalte hatho ke anjane jazbato si rahi.
zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi?
suraj ke bikhre sone si rahi,
uski nirakarta samete badalo si rahi,
phir badalo se bikhri rimjhim si rahi,
rimjhim me mitti ki sondhi kushbu si rahi.
na jane zindagi se mulaqat kaisi rahi...
here it is (though i hate writing hindi in english)