Faith

"Leap, and the net will appear." - Julie Cameron  (Idiot)

Faith. Where does it come from?

Have faith. Good will happen to  you. Laxmi barsegi ek din etc. If you agree, shit.
Having faith in what/who?
If you have faith in yourself, that what you are doing might lead to something that you want to happen, this is fine for me. You are having that faith for some particular reasons, not merely because it should make you happy.
I can have faith in some people, that I trust somebody. Not just like that, only because of the past record. If somebody has been honest, I'll have faith that he might turn out to be honest the next time too. And if the person had been a liar, I might have faith that he will be lying again!

So we can have faith for living beings, not in things. how can I have faith in destiny(whats that?)? in God?
Faith in god is idiotic, even if you believe that god exists. Even if we assume that god exists, and it exists till now, how can you say that it is watching everything happening around the world and thinking that it will also someday do something for you!

And Do Good, Good will happen to you. Have faith :D
Firstly, 'Good' is undefined. Just because some people said that something is good, we are doing things. Others define or have defined it for us. Good is usually something that 'other ppl' like. Obviously, if you do the things that others likes, people will like you, and you might be able to get things done easily. So good is happening to u.


(Or maybe you like the feeling when you help others, but make sure that it is not because of the mindwash done one you when you were a kid. ('you' doesn't mean it is you :P))
But there is no guarantee, that it will happen. Anything can happen to you, depends on the situations, and your talent too.
And its not that somebody is watching you from the sky, that if you do any of those things mentioned in some list, you get extra points, and now you will be happier.

That would surely have been said by some geniuses/idiots to some people,  to make them happy or to gain power, and those people believed it. But they also passed this to their children... to us...

Sach nahi bolta? Phattu.

Honesty. Is it the best policy?

The reason why many(many = all I have known) people believe in speaking truth is because they want people to believe them. To not question anything they say. This gives satisfaction, and ease of life. If somebody is known to be a liar, then of course no value would be given to what  he says! When you are honest, you don't have to remember things, I mean the lies you say, you have to remember them, right. And if there is even one loophole, the lie is destroyed.
That is why I believe in speaking the truth (most of the times) or rather stay quiet.
(If somebody is forcing me to speak when I know I won't be saying what's true, I usually say something, and let the person know that it is a lie. This usually shuts his mouth :P)
Perfect lies are rare. But if it is a situation in which nobody has any chance of knowing the truth, even(!) I might lie.
I haven't seen a more truthful (more truthful? ye kaisi english hai?) person than myself. Maybe I haven't met many people. And I am not proud of this characteristic(not quality) . And I am not un-proud(!) too! I do it for my own sake.
Lastly, Speaking Truth in any case is not a virtue, Lying is not a vice. Truth is something that everybody wants to hear, so they love they people who are truthful. They admire him. That is why everybody says you should be honest, because that makes people happy, and in turn might make you happier!

This is not me, iski baat to sun lo

Just listen to that old guy in white long beard. Starts after 50 sec. That guy talks logic. His name is Jaggi Vasudev and popularly known as Sadhguru.
I am writing a few sentences on which I want to emphasize. But I would prefer that you watch the video first.

00.01.01
Everything that you do not know, has the basic humility to see that I do not know. Only when you say I do not know, there is a possibility of knowing it.

00.01.38
The fight in the world is not between good in evil, it is always between one man's belief verses another man's belief. The moment you believe something that is not a living experience for you, you are already in conflict with somebody else who believes something else.

The part after 00.03.22, I couldn't understand that. Or rather I found it an 'assumption'.

And some other people are also talking in the video. Either I couldn't understand what they were saying (due to unknown accent or knowledge), and the parts that I did understand, I found them crap (strong word to use!).

The best ones

(better ones marked with *)

*"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"-JFK"*

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry
lot indeed.


"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade u do not expect to sit." Nelson Henderson

Pursooku'n( peaceful) lagti hai kitni jheel ke paani pe but( swan) /pairo'n ki betaabiya'n paani
ke ander dekhiye.

*Our desire to seek the truth is a lot weaker than our desire to tell ourselves what we want to
hear,to perpetuate our own beliefs!*


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.


"No one can be good for long when goodness is not in demand.":) Bertolt Brecht.


"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S Truman


How wise,nice and selfless some people sound but when it come to their narrow interest they show
their real self.ugly petty and selfish

"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ~ Henry Ford


Just like a child who does not want to give up a comfort blanket .We hold on to our beliefs
because they help us cope with the fear of death

It is all about counting heads. The more people you can rally onto your side the more "powerful"
you become.

"I never change, I simply become more myself." - Joyce Carol Oates


*Our desire to be accepted prevents us from doing what is "right".*


The lust for fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. Even those who write against fame do
not hesitate to attach their name to it.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of
doubt." - Bertrand Russell


"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at
all." - Michelangelo  (fastest guitarist)


"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of
pursuit." - Denis Waitley


"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle


Wit of the Day: "Future scene: Abhishek to Amitabh : daddy daddy baby bilkul mujhpe gya hai...:)
^_^ Amitabh: OH shit!! :-/" - Aman Garg


akbar ne birbal se aisa likhne ko kaha,jise khushi main padhein to gum ho aur gum main khushi.usne likha"ye waqt guzar jaayega " ;)


Ek roti koi nhi de ska us masoom ko Lekin,Wo tasveer lakho me bik gayi Jisme roti k bgair wo

baccha udaas baitha tha..!


*I torture you to take the torture out of me!*

*Fear is the father of faith just as hope is the mother of fear.*


"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." -Plato

*If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.*

*Don't listen to your heart, cuz that's actually your brain, disguised as your heart! Listen to your brain, which is actually your heart!*

"You must first be who you are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." -- Margaret Young

And the best one.. by freddie mercury (Queen Band)
*Nothing really matters.... Anyway the wind blows...*
(i.e. nothing really matters.. kuch bhi karlo... hawa to behti rahegi...)

Why Reason (sounds strange :P)

(If you don't get why the title should sound strange.. that is because I am going to give reasons for why we should value reason!)
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The first thing I would like to clarify would be why is 'why' not meaningless, why is reason not baseless.
(That is because I really have seen somebody saying this!!)
If anybody considers reason as baseless, this would mean that according to him arguments and discussions can't really exist, because we can end all discussions by saying that 'reason itself is baseless so why to discuss'. Discussion implies that we are going to use reason.
One more,
When I use this sentence (reason=baseless), this means that I am actually giving a 'reason'! A reason to prove my point, that since reason is baseless, I win and we have to stop talking about it.
So, if reason is baseless, then we all should just shut up and sit at our homes, not talk.
But you didn't do that, right? You just said that 'reason is baseless'! Contradiction.
But since I have used reason to prove that you are actually making a contradiction, according to you all this would be baseless. You win.
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Now what is reason. I would say, that it is a statement, which is when dug up even deeper, we lead to a premise. And a premise is something which is true. (or rather assumed to be true.. which might make reason baseless..).

Now, the only premise that exists according to me is  "I want ____". Fill anything in that blank. Every reason that I give leads to this.
I believe this because I have found reasons for everything I believe, but not for this particular sentence which I am calling as a premise.... All the arguments that I make, sab khod khaad ke yaheen pahunchta hai.
I also think (but I don't believe it as of now) that a reason for this sentence does not, and cannot exist. That this is the thing for which we are living, that we want to do the things that we want to do. May it be being a rapist or may it be being a soldier.

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When I say I want something and want to dig out reasons for that, all I get are some other I want's. And then some more I want's again. Recursion you see. But it always ends on one I want something. Last wale I want ka reason kabhi nahi mila mujhe. Sochke lagta hai ki milega bhi kaise. Tumko mile to batana.
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One more thing. Say a discussion is going on. What I believe is that more than on person can't be correct. An ideal discussion will lead to a unanimous conclusion. Why?
Firstly, I think discussion can't take place if everybody doesn't follow the same set of premises. Because then there won't be any point of discussing stuff. If we are arguing whether drinking is right or wrong, all of the participants have to have belief in some particular, and common set of premises. For example, if all of us believe that 'harming somebody else's life is not a good thing' then, and ONLY then, we can make the argument 'Drinking is bad because after drinking you might fight and kill somebody'. or else this can't be said. And if this argument is valid, and there is somebody who doesn't agree to 'drinking is bad' , then that somebody is actually making a contradiction. because he is violating a premise.
If some people believe in that premise and some people don't, then the argument will be accepted by some people only. Then it would be a deadlock I suppose. No points to make after that. Discussion ends.
(It all actually works according to the books!)
(But disagreement might occur where GD is about predicting something.. like violence vs non-violence to reach freedom, or should we take up this project or that project for the success of a company. all this is hypothetical.)

What my problem is?
Whenever we say something for which we can't find an argument, we say that 'reasons do not exist for some things'.(when I say 'we', it doesn't include me)  Why is that? If you can't find a reason, don't believe it.. until you find one! Realize that you use reasons in every discussion you do. When you discuss something with somebody, you want to win by reason, you want to prove yourself right by using some set of premises. Why not discuss someday with yourself? Why to let somebody's imagination become your belief?