Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Yes and No, uncertainty and a discussion
sjcakes: yes is the beginning of knowledge (tho I've heard "no" may be the beginning of wisdom).
KdProQuo: 'No' is the beginning of freedom.
sjcakes: depending on the question/desire, it can also be yes.
probabilism: perhaps it may be unjust to even walk on the path assessing righteousness of either of the words.
sjcakes: wisdom and knowledge are not righteousness - the are result and use to whatever end they're made.
URM1: Yes, is not necessarily always servile. No might mean the end of possibilities.
probabilism: A Yes may very well be close to the clear conscience. A No might imply a new chapter.
KdProQuo: No is more certain than a Yes?
URM1: How? Why? As @probabilism points out, a judgment is unfair. The operative word in this case should be 'situation'
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probabilism: certainty is a fact. calling out Yes or a No, one may be able to see the facts in retrospect.
URM1: Certainty is perception, belief. Quite different from fact, I'd say.
sjcakes: certainty is a perspective.
probabilism: certainty cannot be a perspective if one prioritizes relativity of life as secondary.
sjcakes: certainties can change. Review your life and see.
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probabilism: but I do see a point in what @KdProQuo has said. we dwell in greys & find comfort. perhaps black & white are needed.
KdProQuo: But Yes and No both can exist in either Black or White.
sjcakes: and their meanings spam a gamut of grays as well as colors.
sjcakes: darlings, the entire menagerie needs the full spectrum, the entire rainbow hues and shades too!
URM1: We pick colours as it suits us. A 'yes', a 'No' and a 'Maybe' are all decided on opportunity/convenience
KdProQuo: Or habit or comfort.
probabilism: indeed. so why not drive that partial willingness to cull out b&w | habit oriented comfort is perhaps lack of will.
sjcakes: more simply: drive out habit and kill it for the blood sucking life destroyer that it is
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URM1: So yes and no, good and bad, light and dark, two sides of the same coin, etc. and life goes on
sjcakes: two sides but there's also an edge - is the edge a third side? it always gets overlooked
probabilism: I think edge is the side that you can choose. perhaps often imbibed by b&w.
KdProQuo: this third side is what makes dissolves the blackness in black and adds the white and vice versa.
sjcakes: it is the INFINITE line enclosing black & white, bounding their edges & exploding infinite colored possibility
probabilism: exactly. that's why one could look beyond normalcy of relativity & visualize an absolute.
KdProQuo: Brother, I am scared of absolutes. They dissolve the intensity of grays that soothe and explain so much.
probabilism: no need. absolute is the other side. not the evil side.
sjcakes: so you absolutely want to deny the existence of absolutes out of fear??
KdProQuo: Yes the fear of losing freedom. The fear of subjecting to absolutes decided by a very subjective audience.
probabilism: Freedom is earned, thus not lost. audience changes over time but freedom is constant.
sjcakes: freedom can be lost. Earning doesn't preclude losing.
probabilism: the intensity of earning freedom is far too superior to the act of losing it. thus the sheer & clear winner.
URM1: Are you sure freedom is constant? I am not. And yes, @sjcakes, the edge/grey is the third side.
probabilism: it definitely is. like i said we stop at grey & forget what we can actually put to use.
sjcakes: tempted to site horrific cases to the contrary but too tired.
KdProQuo: reminds of "every win is not a victory and every victory is not a win."
sjcakes: PLAY THE GAME BUT DO NOT FOR A MOMENT MISTAKE IT FOR WHAT IS REAL.
URM1: Why must one try to be either? It isn't human. We need and use both.
URM1: The best we are allowed to have is a life of moral compromises in lieu of physical peace/comfort.
probabilism: moral compromises, eh. doesn't sound comforting considering this discussion.
probabilism: may be i said it wrong but i agree that both are needed.rather we need to use them.we simply seem to stop at grey.
URM1: Yes, we seem to stop at grey because grey is easy - makes no difficult demands on our conscience.
probabilism: and i have experienced it first hand - if you decide to get out of grey & ask for more, you are hated!
URM1: So suddenly it becomes about the judgement of others, rather than voice of the self? But I won't object.
sjcakes: which highlights the issue us confusing self w others. Needing others approval/conforming vs knowing/living u
probabilism: @URM1 yes. i would have loved it, had you objected it nonetheless :)
URM1: No, I understand how society plays us, and that to be able to lead peaceful lives we must alter our yeses and nos.
sjcakes: we forget it us a game and play it with our real person instead of PLAYING IT.
probabilism: as socially developed animals,perhaps we can make a choice & not let society outplay us. its not individualism am talking.
URM1: Sure we can. But do we? The ideal affirmations and negations hardly ever happen.
probabilism: yes yes. but that is not good enough reason to not enough try it.
URM1: Definitely. Some idealists are always needed to give this world hope. You pick your yes, I'll pick mine.
KdProQuo: That reply just made me smile. I agree. Moral compromises are required and are highly malleable.
probabilism: and I'll stand by your side to back you up. idealists fail because they stand up but never stand by.
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KdProQuo: Every grey has a black and white. Situations decide the intensity of either.
probabilism: and they equate in the end. my question is, why not equate it to start with.
URM1: But the question is does relativity ever take a backseat? Who can claim to be logical/emotional at all times?
sjcakes: I can CLAIM to be BOTH at all times.
probabilism: no one can claim so. but one must try to. this is exactly where bond b/w logic & belief comes in.
probabilism: but then if perception rises from my information or absence of it, where would belief stand? a hunch of logic?
sjcakes: (grinning) More things are perspective than even perspective wants to admit
KdProQuo: belief and logic rarely go hand in hand. belief is more instinctive. logical belief is science, yeah?
sjcakes: logic and belief. Depends.
probabilism: @KdProQuo i completely disagree with it.logic & belief are not different.to be honest, spending time with them tells you more
URM1: Sure they are opposing forces. But that does not stop us from choosing according to convenience.
probabilism: yup. and we can stop it. change the direction with belief. and proceed with logic.
URM1: But from time to time life makes us all select a black or a white, painful as it is. And we let 1 win - head or heart
sjcakes: pick red instead. Or green. Society will bitch and whinge. But after a moment will forget. But you won't.
probabilism: yes. ironically, if you make a habit out of it the pain subsides :)
sjcakes: the pain doesn't subside. You just get better at justifying your ignoring it
probabilism: you may be right about the ignoring part of it.
...No one still would probably know where it led. Apart from this blog post.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
On rat races...
After a long time it was good to debate about something that all of us face and will face in our daily routines.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
On hating prejudiced people
K: It's easy to hate prejudiced people...
AG: Oh the irony!
K: Paradoxical!
BK: No it's not easy.
HS: What if they are prejudiced in your favor?
K: @BK- Then someone else might hate/dislike them.
BK: What I mean is that if you go deep in their thoughts and beliefs you'll find it reasonable somehow, we may not like it, yes its natural ;)
K: Someone understanding and humble might handle it the way you have put it.
RP: How right.. And at least one person seems to bump into you every day.
Tj: Prejudiced people are fun when they can back their kooky ideas with logic, a waste of time if not. So I guess I either love them or ignore them.
DT: Yeah and it is fun to play with their mind time and again. :P
Tj: @DT Evil but incredibly fun to watch them go off, the truly prejudiced ones are usually parroting ideas so used, u wonder if they were ever new.
K: @RP and DT - I totally agree with you guys, when prejudiced people start justifying their beliefs with unreasonable ideas, it is fun to argue with them. So, once you get over the hate/dislike, the habitual prejudiced folks are fun, eh?
Tj: Most certainly....I remember setting off a certain Political Party fan and every time we poked a hole in his theory he would basically repeat it as if that somehow answered the question...
Tj: On a different note I remember telling one of our HR that it's not that she doesn't get my point but that she does not want to get it, she hated hearing that but then HR are supposed to always smile and be nice, so she had to take it.
K @Tj - Awesome stuff to the HR dude. Also regarding the Political Party fellow. That's a typical disaster management type of a thing when ones beliefs get shattered. Like, close your eyes and ears and repeat your (debated) belief to yourself so that it still withstands at least in your mind! :)
What do you say?
Friday, July 30, 2010
Updates
Here is one of my Facebook update and the comments that followed (I just felt like posting it!):
K: There is a pattern in most of things that humans do. Wise are those who can read these patterns in others and wiser are the ones who baffle others by deviating from these patterns while using a camouflage.
B: and these wiser people live their lives by cheating others in this way, and they are not to be trusted.
K: Trust is a heavy word to use. I agree with you. But then sometimes we have a limited choice.
B: yes being trustworthy is saints job nowadays !
K: You believe in simple living, yes? :) Well, from the look of what you saying, you certainly belong to the wise side. Those who can read others very well. Yes?
B: thats right ! but unfortunately I am not wise enough to read others !:D
A: there's nothing wrong with deviating from this pattern...if nobody ever did that in the course of human history, we would still be living in caves marveling at the invention of fire...
K: This has more to do with human psychology than innovations. Like reactions to certain situations, manipulating people etc.
What do you say?
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Grind It!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Moon and the Box!
As the game that dice did play, as guileful as a fox!
I love myself as much as a penguin loves an Ipod!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Might... Maybe and Not!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Guru Gyan!
R: kay?
oh my status again?
K: genocide alert,,
R: hehe... je ghadtay te innocently lihite
underline innocently thrice
K: thrice
aint that too less
R: nahi re... hyachya peksha jaasta nahi lihita yet... majboori ka doosra naam gandhiji hai :P
K: why gandhi?
why not R?
R: nahi nahi
R is never majboor...
K: oh how can it be like that
R: even if she has to be for some reason
K: R is R
R: she takes it on udhari basis from gandhiji
but never owns it
K: oh nice
beautiful
khadi on rent is it
R: yeah.... selective alternatives....
I CHOOSE
in a free country
K: awesome
R: ;)
K: who said the country is free
there is no Free Lunch
R: my country is
talk about someone who's getting free lunch almost 80 % of the time
K: lol
thats being cut from my salary
that aint completely free
R: naah.... its like putting thngs on sale
K: totally
R: triple the price and then give a 10% discount
K: first increase the price...
R: so your salary is tripled
K: precisely put
:)
R: then a meagre amount is cut
K: right right
tripled yeah
R: haha u must hate me for what i am saying
:P
hehe
K: just like the triple underline in ur innocence right?
R: that's pure reality
innocence personified
K: there is nothing such as reality my friend
reality is just but percieved facts
which can be miscontrued on the way
R: facts nevertheless
plainly put as reality
in common man's terms
K: reality is just but percieved facts
which can be miscontrued on the way
R: i am a common man
K: that was the complete sentence
R: i got that
K: u talk about genocide
and still you are a common man
and still the country is free?
R: sab Maya hai
u'll have to go beyond illusions to understand the concept
K: now u are contradicting urself Oh Common Man
R: that's teh sad fate of common man....
no choice but to contradict oneself at every step
to survive
K: fantastic
Contradiction is a Common Mans Curse
could it be?
R: boon...
only opportunity where a common man can conveniently contradict himself to save his skin
so a BOON
K: but the very fact that he has to rely on Contradiction to Save his skin
R: tragic
but true
K: precise words
R: baas aata
bhaari zhala
K: Ok bye
R: ya
bye
K: Peace
R: prevail for
Ever
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Frustrations!
K: man change ur status
Sent at 11:35 PM on Monday
C: nahi
K: ok
Sent at 11:35 PM on Monday
C: desh drohi
K: look who is sitting where and who is calling whom what
Sent at 11:36 PM on Monday
C: tht really doesnt matter u know tht
K: everything that has to matter matters
everything that doesnt does too!
Sent at 11:38 PM on Monday
C: thts wot
Sent at 11:39 PM on Monday
C: and now u tryin to buy ur way out
K: no some ways are free
Sent at 11:39 PM on Monday
C: talkin like a desh drohi huh??
K: boundaries are created by humans
and humans break them
Sent at 11:42 PM on Monday
C: there u go
u r referring to humans as Indians
K: and why is that so
Sent at 11:42 PM on Monday
K: u might be perceiving something else
Sent at 11:43 PM on Monday
C: i never argue with desh drohis
K: what if ur definition is wrong
Sent at 11:44 PM on Monday
C: ur definitions and boundaries r wrong
thts yy u r a desh drohi
K: wrongly taken
boundaries dont exist for me
and definitions are but cages
built by humans to trap in words
Sent at 11:47 PM on Monday
C: tht means u will crossover to Pakistan and u r against India's Voice
K: that could also mean that i would bring peace to Afghanistan’s oppressed and represent humanity
if you look through a blue glass the worlds looks blue
C: Taliban also wanted peace
only as U say
K: nope
taliban wanted to control
C: their definition of peace was different
K: not peace
C: bush wants peace
K: same thing
C: once they have the oil of the world
K: bush is paranoid to the shitless extent
C: so u also want peace once u have betrayed our Beloved Bharat Mata (sniff)
SO R U
angry face
K: well
what we know of india is something that we are taught of
we rarely have felt what it is to belong
and to make the most of this belonging
to the extent that somethings that have made us indians have also kept us away from being truly indians
C: so u want to b a Chinese patriot now
K: i want to join the humane brigade
C: Jihad??
K: if jihad is human, then gmail is yahoo
Sent at 11:56 PM on Monday
C: gmail and yahoo were founded by colleagues / friends / classmates Leaves of the same tree STANFORD
K: and they were after all HUMANS
Sent at 11:59 PM on Monday
C: yeah i mean to say they come from the same roots
K: but their fruits are different
an apple tree cannot grow mangoes
technically it can but then it doesnt remain an apple tree
Sent at 12:00 AM on Tuesday
C: thts wot u r a Desh Drohi
K: i think i am going to put this chat on my blog
C: yeah so tht u can broadcast to ur fellow Desh Drohis how a Patriot Indian thinks
u guys have advanced
u use computer technology now-a-days