Man as a Machine: Ignorance

They say Ignorance is bliss.

And it is. To be oblivious, to be in a state of trance, to be in a dream, is a happy, blissful feeling. Even if the dream turns into a nightmare, it is somehow still preferred. Even if there is misery around you and in your life, your ignorance plays it’s part so that you are not aware of that misery.

The problem with waking up and being aware is this: The reality is not as blissful, it is harsh, as another saying goes:

Truth is Bitter.

The person who is woken up, or startled so that he wakes up, or is made aware, is not happy. He curses the person who woke him up from a beautiful dream.

Let’s say it’s 5 am and you are in your sweet dreams, and your mom wakes you up. How does it feel to come out of sleep at that time? I’m not sure if you would just jump and kiss your mom for waking you up! Or am I wrong?

Hence the problem. hence the dilemma.

True freedom is not really known, and people do not like anything that they don’t know. It feels like an abyss. If feels like groping in the dark.

Fear of the unknown is the biggest fear. Man, as a machine, is programmed to be in a state of ignorance. We have the potential to be free, but are born and kept in chains, all of us.

True freedom, is the peak, like Mount Everest. Not really everyone’s cup of tea.

As another saying goes:

The Truth shall set you free.

Vicki

Man as a Machine: Logic

I love how people use logic to do just about anything and everything. They seem to be thoroughly fine with the fact that if the logic is proved completely it is ok, legit, and completely justified to do….. anything!

Logic is a creation of the cunning mind. It’s amazing to know that LOGIC can justify any action with 100% conviction. Whether a person wants to kill their spouse, rob a bank, jump off a cliff, sell their organs, start smoking, agree or not agree with someone, trust or distrust someone…… logic is at their disposal. A perfectly logical reason can be cooked up to justify any deed, belief or action.

A person with a strong/extremist religious belief has multiple justifications and foolproof logic to prove that his belief is rock solid. He may have killed a million people with that logic, but it is untarnished!

Hitlers example comes to mind, but though it is very easy to paint him as an evil person (which he was) we don’t talk about the many million accomplices that carried out his orders to eradicate uncountable people of a race. The logic he gave, the dogma he preached was so profound that the German population never saw what really was happening, or was simply ok with it.

Remember: It’s not that if a thing is proven to be logical it is justified and ok to do. The reality is the opposite. Human Beings can turn any irrational or horrific activity, belief or action into something logical and explain to anyone with a mind that it is the right thing to do.

 

Vicki

Random thoughts part 2

 

If every new born child is taught by parents and teachers that humans live 500 years on average, it will start to happen for real. It is just a childhood programming.

And the absence of the ego is enlightenment; it is not something plus.

People want loyality not righteousness. You are expected to back them even if they are wrong.

 

We are all just one being playing different roles in different bodies..

Most unloved people are like a dry plant who has become scared of water…

I will do things unheard of because i am not trapped in any mental prison.

 

It is no longer cool to shun those who have different ideas and those who think differently.

Get out of your mental prison.
Don’t be a victim of circumstances.

Those who delve in the past stay in the past.

Those who express what they feel fearlessly are always condemned.

Most people condemn realness, embrace fakeness.

A Whole lot is possible in life, if you don’t listen to your mind.

 

-Vicki

The Angry Earth

 

 

 

Our planet, the Earth is home to 8.7 million species, but man, the one species that thinks it owns this sparkling blue diamond, has chosen to rape mother earth.

18 million acres of forests are destroyed every year.

56 billion farmed animals are killed every year by us humans.

We consume and exploit natural resources like oil and water, the life veins of the planet.

The Earth is angry, and it is soon going to show its anger on the parasite species that have taken over. Human Beings.

 

Vikram

The Mother

Part 1: Life

Her pretty face has frantic eyes and a salivating tongue all the time.
She may be hungry but she does not care of her own self anymore.
It is the hunger of her three dark-colored puppies.
She goes on searching and begging for scraps.
Crossing a giant road teeming with monsters and killers.
Sometimes I help her cross the road, touching her on her neck to make her stop.
Sometimes I buy her food so that she does not come outside to cross the deadly road.
Sometimes I get worried when her babies are alone and go searching for her.
The milk needed from her makes her weak, yet responsible.
Her inner strength compensates for her fragile, sick body.
She has worry, anxiety, and toil written on her lovely sweet face.
She stopped sleeping many months ago.
Her life has a selfless mission.
Her life is not hers anymore.
The whole day and night she runs for her loved ones.
She plays with one of them, happy for a few seconds.
Her life is in her babies.
She is an incarnation of motherhood.
The mother has to feed her babies.

Part 2: Death
The monsters and the killers take their course, and I am helpless and clueless.
Only one of the three babies remained alive, adopted by a good soul.
The mother is surviving hell, enduring every pain that comes every day.
I somehow feed her and take care of her, in my limited way.
The moment I finally plan something better for her, she is brutally taken away from me.

Part 3: Remorse
I try to find her but it is destiny I am fighting against.
Where did they take her?
Why was she injured so badly?
What did those butchers do with her?
Is there a chance she may be still alive?
We live in a jaded, heartless, and selfish world. I got a bitter taste of the same.
I still feel a pain in my heart whenever I think of her.
I feel I couldn’t do enough.
If only had I acted sooner.
If only had I embraced her forever, like I once did.
Why did I ever leave the most beautiful soul with the most poignant eyes?
She always haunts me, maybe she was waiting for me.
Is she cursing me for not saving her?

Part 4: The Prayer
I am sorry, dear Angel, I really am.
Please forgive me and may God bless you.
Your very existence spelled love, motherhood, and was filled with selflessness, and purity.
Living in the streets and mud, you may have been dirty from the outside, but inside your heart always shined like the sun. Your eyes always sparkled with hope and a longing for a better life.
Maybe I will see you on the other side.

I hope you come back to my life as a loved one.
I will recognize your spirit.

June 2016: Random thoughts in my mind

Remember: if you are not making the choices in your life, then someone else is making those choices.. your family, your Boss, your spouse maybe — and the results won’t be good.

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All problems are due to time. Not knowing when something is gonna happen is the root cause of all problems. All desires are also due  of time
We want things to happen now.

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The world is perfect but upside down.

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You and me are basically stories in the end. Is your story good?

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A Joke:
A joke is just a connection… which is revealed. It’s not an ordinary connection of a and b. it’s always c and f or a or g. the connection not being a and b is the essence of the joke.

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Upgrade your mind’s operating system. I really don’t understand why are so many people stuck with an old OS! Kindly reinstall your mind’s OS!

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Every day is the best day of your life. You have limited days anyway.

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There is no job that we need to do. Humans were not intended to do jobs. we are here to create and play and enjoy. We are supposed to write, paint, sing, dance. Yup. Jobs are for machines.

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Money: Many people with lots of money live horribly imbalanced and unhappy lives. Money becomes the root cause of misery in about 90% of such cases.

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Life is not about comfort, but it’s a lab, where you experiment.

 

 

Vicki

The Billionaire

Becoming a Billionaire should not mean making a billion dollars, but to make the lives of 1 BILLION PEOPLE better.

 

The way

 

1. Provocation.
2. Cognitive dissonance.
3. Victory!

Easy as 123!

The person you are.

 

It is important to be a REAL, wholesome person, complete with flaws, rather than a perfect, successful, polished and productive one.

Be incomplete, unfinished, slightly unpolished, slightly mysterious, don’t be someone who can be read in a minute. Invite people to silently ponder over you.

A perfect person is one who is dead.

 

It’s 2016

It’s 2016 and its not enough to be just ONE person. You have to be many different persons to excel.

Just one name, one identity, one life partner, one profession, one skillset is NOT enough anymore.

Live, Burn yourself, Die and rise again as something else. Something New and different than what you were before.

 

Man as a machine: the concept of sports.

Olympics
cricket
football
Screaming audience
Big sport events
Super Bowl
Sports statistics
Ratings
Fans
Trainers
Commentators
TV and social media engagement.

….. Everything is a big conspiracy to keep us all busy. That’s why it’s publicized so much even in radio news bulletins and special pages in the papers. I mean entire sports section…. come on!

It’s a zero sum game but it’s for all of us, young or old, big or small to participate and waste time on.