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Now we are living in a world that is in agony.
Suffering with ‘Shared delusional disorder’.
People live in tribes defined by social groups.
Delusions in these tribes are deep-rooted.
Hard to dispel delusions with no inter tribe communication.
Recognize the symptoms to identify the disease
Identifying the disease leads to finding cure.
Finding the cure will save us from destruction.
It is time for a new entity in the manual of mental disorders.
Though symptoms are evident, no one accepts the disease.
Walls between groups are built by fear, misunderstanding and unverifiable conjectures.
Each group is imprisoned by history and by prejudices, suffering from resulting hatred.
Violence results from the hatred and manifests in words, in deeds and in thoughts.
A mind perturbed by hatred, can’t avail the pleasures of beautiful roses nor chidren’s laughter .
Success comes when people tap on the walls of separation as a means of communication,
Like the two prisoners, who learned to communicate by tapping on a wall between them.
Finding what is common moves us towards each other, focusing on differences will separate us forever .
Let us hope and imagine a peaceful world where we derive pleasure by helping each other.
Reason alone differentiates a human from an animal.
Reason allows us to find a cause for every sensory disturbance.
Reason provides us a plan of action or in some cases inaction.
Reason alone is responsible for one’s own capacity to reason.
Using reason, we search for a cause that has no prior reason.
Like a chess grandmaster, reason evaluates the chain of possibilities.
Unbiased reasoning will server it’s master well in reaching the root cause.
Damaged reasoning will make an animal out of any human being.
Propagandas and Social groups are danger for process of reasoning.
They cause interferences in this process and lead it astray.
The most unreasonable, may become acceptable under their control.
Influenced reasoning traverses’ wrong paths and terminates with wrong conclusion.
May God help us with our innate reasoning be pristine and properly guided.
Ancient Human laws, or at least the principle by which punishments are exacted, or disputes are settled are found in prophetical revelations, or by authority of temple priests, or in the presumably inspired wisdom of sage or tribal chief. (From Prof. Danial Robinson’s lectures). We have come a long way from them, modern societies have well written laws and judicial systems to debate the injury, identify the injured and the perpetrator, and to advocate a remedy for the victim, and punishment for the lawbreaker.
“Law is reason without passion”, Aristotle.
Reason puts it in a qualitative paradigm. What is reasonable in one country is not reasonable in another. What is reasonable to me is not reasonable to another. This leaves room for the powerful members of populous to define, what constitutes a logical reason and what are the consequences of breaking that. Not all that is legal is moral and not all that is moral is legal. When you live in a country, you are obligated to adhere to the laws of that land, some you agree and some you disagree. Each corporation in that country makes rules of engagements with their clients. Absent a watchful overseer from authorities responsible for protecting individual rights, these corporations will create rules that will be written in their favor.
Justice, “The constant and perpetual wish to render everyone his due” Emperor Justinian AD 533.
Recently, I booked a round-trip ticket on direct flights from Hyderabad to Vizag. The day before my departure, I received a message – Hyderabad to Vizag flight was cancelled due to technical issues, allowing me to cancel for a full refund or rebook. When I called to inquire about rebooking, I found I couldn’t book a direct flight on that day, despite them being available. If I cancel, I will get a full refund for the onward journey but will lose money on the cancellation of return flight. I can’t imagine taking the return flight without flying there first. My hotel reservation can’t be cancelled either because the hotel doesn’t consider flight cancellation relevant. These unfair rules deprive people of their rights.
Following Socrates’ teachings, I prefer to be a victim of unjust laws than the reason for them. I’m uncertain how many more painful experiences I can endure. For now, I pray ‘so help me God’.
All nations need heroes, who are beacons of good conduct, especially the people who have an opportunity to lead the governments. Lest the youth have no reason to listen to elders and will fall prey to disillusion and despair. They will recklessly tear the fabric which holds the nation together with a belief in shared responsibilities, shared law and justice and shared opportunities for a better life and freedom to pursue happiness.
Oh Biden! Do you really care for what happens to the country after you save your son from prosecution?
Highest courts of any nation must be free from politics. Judges at these courts must have conduct that is exemplary, untainted with selfish indulgences, and one that inspires reverence. If the courts judgements support the current governments or falls in line with the pollical parties, such a system must be redesigned before one has to swipe the teams from the lady of justice blind folded face.
Commander-in-chief should never be timid and should never lie to protect criminals in fellow countrymen, family members or leaders of foreign lands. Protect the population without considering their class, religion, or personal wealth. Strive relentlessly to provide equitable taxation, opportunities for education, employment and health care.
President Biden has done a real harm to the republic by pardoning his son. Now it will take a miracle to convince the youth to follow the law and to believe in ‘Under the law, everyone is equal’. He gave a peevish explanation and asked us to understand his fatherly love. If we consent to his request, no one should be punished for any crime unless the criminal has no father or fatherly love.
Oh! Biden, we can’t support you with your unacceptable reasons when these reasons can’t be extended to everyone.
Ballads from the past to praise the heroes that saved their country men with self-sacrifices, no chance to make a new ballad in times we are in. May be the leaders need lessons in good morals, I suggest they read Battle of Thermopylae – Wikipedia for bravery, Charge of the Light Brigade – Wikipedia for valor, and about Socrates death, though he believed he was innocent, such a moral philosopher he was, he drank hemlock and died to follow the rule of law than to run away like a coward.
Oh! Biden, have you not read about these heroic deeds?
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Every action we do have repercussions to us and to the society we live in.
These repercussions fall in three categories.
- Result is good for self and to the to the society. (Becoming a civil engineer).
- Result is good for self and not for the society. (Take a bribe, skip inspection).
- Result is not good for self but good for society. (Work 10 hours a day to complete the bridge on time).
The result, which is good for only yourself, will cost you in the long run. In the above example: It will harm the reputation, bridge may collapse, worrying about being caught you may lose sleep every night.
This writer requests the reader is to choose options C and A, in that order.
Mr. Biden choose option 2, for a leader chosen for public service and to protect the constitution and uphold the law and order, it is wrong and despicable. Hunter did crime and he must be judged and punished accordingly. No party could have influenced him to buy a gun, do drugs, skip taxes, or take bribes.
This is dastardly pardon is a smear on the American justice system which can’t be removed.
The Endless Pursuit of Happiness: The Path of Personal Desires.
This is the path most people pursue. These desires are to be rich, to have the best house, to go on the best vacation, to enjoy best food and to have great family and friends. This path is very competitive and full of exuberances and disappointments. Once reaching goals, just to reset them to a higher level from there. Thus, the pursuit of happiness is unending exhaustive journey through an ocean with no shore in sight.
The Unrecognized Revolutionaries: Walking the Path of Honor.
This is a path a few people pursue. They live their life to be respected by their peers in the society. They desire recognition for their contributions to the society at large. Farmers, Teacher, Doctors, Leaders, Engineers, Lawyers and other contributors to society, belong to this group. Though each of these professions provide ample opportunities to work for selfish gains, a few of them walking this path of honor staying true to the high morals and responsibilities of their profession. Though working for honor, most of them go unrecognized and unappreciated and the honor they are seeking becomes elusive. Most of them remain unappreciated and unrecognized revolutionaries unable to change the system. Thus, the pursuit of honor does not lead to attaining the goal for majority of them.
Virtuous Living: The Path to Lasting Happiness.
This is the least used path for attaining happiness, though it is the best way to get there. In this discipline, one will adhere every action they do in line with the virtues that are natural to them. There are no specific examples to quote, and this path is available to all human beings. Our parents and teachers in childhood will teach us many virtues on how to lead our life. When one does action based on what is good of society and not for personal gains, such virtual living is free from approvals from others and will always be joyful because it maximizes the goodness.
At last, Ambani marriage commotions are coming to an end.
Country can save foreign reserves to meet the needs of billions of other Indians.
Press should focus on things that really matter to billions of other Indians.
Ordinary citizens don’t have to feel bad daily about the wealth disparity.
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In India, marriage is the new stage on which wealth and power is displayed.
In the game of marriages, Ambani could not match the middle-class India.
Middle class India spends beyond their means and goes into debt, consider that.
With that measure, Mukesh Ambani is losing out to a government clerk.
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What happened to all those elementary school moral stories on modesty?
What happened to the rejection of pomp and pageantry of British empire?
Did Freedom fighters who exemplified simplicity and quite grandeur for no avail?
For once, my optimism for a great world is taking a smack in the face.
One suffers more often in imagination then in reality.
It is not necessarily to be unhappy in anticipation of sorrow.
One who never been robbed, afraid of being robbed every night.
One who never seen a ghost, afraid of sleeping at night
Sad is the one, who thinks he is sad.
Lost is the one, who thinks he is lost.
Happy is the one, who thinks he is happy.
Blessed is the one, who thinks he is blessed.
Rich or poor, you live in your mind’s domain.
Epicurus words of wisdom:
The Acquisition of riches has been for many men not an end but a change of troubles. For the faults is not in the wealth but in the mind itself. That which made the poverty a burden will make the riches a burden too. Just as it matters a little, whether you lay a sick man on a wooden bed or on a golden bed. No matter which bed he is carried to, he will carry his malady with him.
One need not care if the deceased mind is bestowed upon riches or upon poverty. His malady goes with the man.
Oh Technology, the invention of mankind.
Runaway train that is what you are.
About to ruin the lives of very mankind.
Flaming fires of hatred, conflicts and war.
Mary Shelly warned us back in 1818.
Warning to heed from her great novel.
Frankenstein said the following lines.
“Remember that I have power;
you believe yourself miserable,
but I can make you so wretched
that the light of day will be hateful to you.
You are my creator, but I am your master;–obey!”
Watch the outside influence on everyday living.
Need to walk away from the technology addictions.
Addictions that will rob our time and creativity.
Disinformation is rampant to control our minds.
This we all know, though we submit and follow.
Ask anyone, no one admits lacking common sense.
Floods will runoff.
Snow will melt.
Seasons will change.
Injuries will heal.
Tears will dry up.
Time will reconcile, everything except one.
One, which one, remorse that is.
Remorse or guilt, a burden that is borne till the very end.
Guilt is from actions done contrary to one’s own nature.
Guilt grows with time, act on a remedy as soon as you can.
Pursue non-violence in all that you do – thoughts, action, and speech.
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