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Dear Readers,

Why are we on this planet? It’s the itch that everyone has a different opinion on what the cure or answer is.

Regardless, we all mostly agree that this itch needs to be scratched.

I’ve always felt that suffering is abundant in life. Living here in North America and growing up in an environment where our comfort and conveince was always foremost – has made me question if we are even deserving of this?

We have so much, but happiness is not as abundant as the amount of starbucks and drive-thru’s that pollute our minds with meaningless distractions.

We are willfully blind to those without. Having so much, we take and take, and rarely give back. Perhaps only to those people who touch our lives, our relatives and friends. But even then, adultery, revenge, mistrust, jealousy, divorce, murder and dishonesty are more abundant than stupidity in the republican party.

There are so many lives that continue to suffer (and now with worldwide communication and globalization we are very aware this is taking place).

Do we not have a responsibiltiy, now more than ever as global citizens to put an end to our consumer whoring?

The real hero is not the celebrity or the sport athelete making millions of dollars. The real hero is the one who sacrifices one’s own comfort to increase that of others that were barely given a fair shot at survival.

Is it not irresponsible to bring a new life into the world, when there are millions of children willing to love you and give you joy like that of your own child. These children are waiting to be adopted.

Is it not irresponsible to continue to accumulate wealth and fill your life with distractions to forget that your fellow human is suffering?

I find it hard to look in the mirror and call yourself a human if you truly do not care.

Is it not worse to care and not do something about it?

This is my purpose.

Thoughts, comments and your own views are eagerly awaited!

(The Following is inspired from Bill Maher’s ‘Religulous’)

When your milk turned sour in the 17th century, it was widely accepted that this was the work of the devil.

This was not based on logic, it was based on faith.

Until one fine day, some doubters came along and questioned this faith.

Aren’t you glad we didn’t put all our faith in this theory.

This exact mentality has enslaved our mind. It convinced the people who lived through the “Great Plague” that this was God’s way of punishing the sinful people of Europe.

So one must think, is God punishing that child born deaf or blind or even with a lisp? Is there some divine purpose to this that we must have faith in? Why isn’t Allah corrupting Christian babies so that Islam can truly prevail? Or vice versa?

Of course you can sense the ludicrous sarcasm in my tone but there is more to my point that these people are dangerous, not only to our sanity but to our safety and prosperity as humans!

Faith has shackled the progress of humanity. Faith has slowed down the progress of scientific theories such as heliocentric theory, gallileo’s findings..etc.

I mean, is there not somewhere where we can draw the line with these people? Do we stop and say, oh sure that’s your faith, and back off?

All theistic religions predict a doomsday, they all believe in an afterlife that is better than what we are in now.

This creates two things in a religious human. An apathy towards becoming a better person in your own life time and it creates an apathy towards the general state of the world in total!

Are these the people you want on your planet?

Fuck no.

So, i had the priviledge to talk to one of these enlightened beings.

The discussion was simple.

This “Just Someone” was arguing that there is faith involved in laws such as friction and gravity.

The example being used was friction, and we broke it down into foot+ground= friction (for the sake of simplicity)

Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:20 AM): if foot is always foot, and ground is always ground, and there is no change in any thing in any attribute
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:25 AM): the result will always be the same
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:30 AM): forever
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:32 AM): till the end of time
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:36 AM): until both are blown up
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:23:55 AM): two constants with no variable = law.

Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:26:15 AM): a law is a theory that has yet to fail a test
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:26:18 AM): so
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:26:23 AM): each time you step
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:26:27 AM): you are testing it
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:26:54 AM): with each test, you do not know the result
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:01 AM): you may have an idea
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:07 AM): based on the past
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:09 AM): but
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:13 AM): for a test to be valif
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:15 AM): valid
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:27:56 AM): the possibility for any outcome is there. meaning you can’t come up with an answer for a question you haven’t yet asked
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:19 AM): you are asking a question
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:24 AM): you do not Know the answer
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:29 AM): you can bet on it
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:34 AM): youcan be pretty sure
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:51 AM): but it is not yet known until your foot comes down and there is resistence
Just Someone (25/12/2008 7:28:58 AM): that friction will occur

Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:33:18 AM): and my rebuttal to that is simple
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:33:48 AM): if i ask you, if you step in dog shit an infinite number of times
Dhruv NANDA (25/12/2008 7:33:55 AM): when will the dog shit not be there?

I should have listened to my own advice… if i bashed my head on the same brick, over and over, it would still be a brick.

Unmistakable aroma grasping immediate attention,
That enticing and auspicious cruel intention.
She motions you closer, yet leading you astray
Like a glutton given feast on endless silver tray.
Whispering illicit fantasies to fuel desire,
Gently placing cash in the hand of the compulsive buyer.
Misunderstood as bliss, unlike nirvana.
A disguised paradise, infested with piranha.
Irresistible beauty submits penetrable will,
Well known to induce blood to spill.
Infecting all rationality and omitting morality,
Spiraling blindly to insanity.

Once the pitter patter ceases, bursting blindly bright light.

A sly fox will cower and compliment to another’s delight.

Vultures waiting for their turn,

Permanently putting aside that which you yearn.

The ox said to the other, ‘you’re slowing me down!’

The king self-proclaimed puts on his crown.

The robin’s leery glaze at the redder breast,

Smirking female at who she detest.

Once the pitter patter ceases, the curtains close,

Six million ways to die, so i chose.

I have noticed alot more kind words spoken to eachother over the holidays this year…..it does the soul good to know mankind hasn’t given up on peace, love and joy, or the idea of it anyway.
With the world on such dire straits we all need to remember when all else fails, the language of love is known worldwide. That is reguardless of ur religion or lack there of.
It can be such a cruel world and it scares the hell out of me to know i am raising my child in it and he will all too soon go out into the world and see how things are for himself. I work hard trying to teach my son good values and how people should and should not be treated.
It seems so unfair for me to ever have to let him go out into this big bad world and reveal itself for the monster it can be. He is so pure, so full of his ‘child optimism’. He believes right now that all he has to do is grow up, and tell the world to act right and it automatically will. He is so wonderful, isn’t he?:)
Well, I’m just so full of Christmas hormones this mornin’ I am rambling! lol I was just thinkin, I would love to see the world thru the eyes of a child just one more time………………..