My unrequitable crush....

Isnt she drop-dead gorgeous? 

Definiton 1 - Responsible citizen

Definition 1:

A responsible citizen is one who comments on (pseudo?)philanthropic blogs, has a set of ideals that he doesnt have the courage to live up to and doesnt have the heart to give up, talks of improbable ideals, at best comes up with an intention towards betterment of society, and places himself on a moral high over others for just his intentions, instead of feeling ashamed that his intentions are, at best, a feeble attempt and a mistaken substitute for concrete action, which he inturn justifies saying "atleast i have an intention, and you dont", each layer of specious justification feeding upon itself until it reaches a stage in which he begins to believe in his own moral authority over others.

In short, a responsible citizen is a hypocrat, guilty of not contributing to the society that he so ardently claims to make better.

I find it easier and better to accept my inability and unwillingness to give back something to the society, instead of deluding myself that i might contribute someday.

this ranting is the result of this conversation, and the subsequent comments.

Dont mistake me here - i am not against ppl who serve the society. in fact, ive had the opportunity to come into contact with a few ppl who i literally worship, in a couple of aspects, for their selfless contributon to SPIC MACAY - ruchira, janaki, sukhdeep, et al. And these ppl dont talk, they perform.

ps: sanjeeth, this is not directed towards you, but towards a fellow mind that claims it is beautiful.
pss: i dont have anything against this person. its his views that i despise.

The pope is funnny

There is no one who does not see the dramatic and distressing consequences of such pragmatism, which perceives truth and justice as something modeled around the work of man himself

-pope

Why dont these religious leaders just leave science to itself? is it because they see themselves and their god threatened by science?

god always gives His best to those
who leave the choice with Him

another hilarous quote... rotfl!
how desperately they try to safeguard their world! the funny thing is, they have succeeded.

Thinking

The highly organized auto-cannibalizing system naturally emerging from conditions common on planetary bodies, and consisting of a population of replicators capable of mutation, around each set of which a homeostatic metabolizing organism, which actively helps reproduce and/or protect the replicator(s), has evolved sucks.

In short, life sucks.

Just a comparison

This is Hindu's front page
and this is Times of India's front page

I think TOI shd stop calling itself a newspaper, and call itself a daily magazine. Its an insult to the term newspaper. Any self-respecting individual wont buy times of india, after seeing this.

I rest,
Ishwar.

P.S: these days, i am into over-dramatising stuff.

Ode to my latest opus, a sublime expression of context free grammar

My late afternoon prediliction for composing veritable classics is finally consummated with a lazy click of the left button of my HP mouse.

Read this.


Now, the literary world has thrust upon me the responsibility of being
Thiruvalluvar2, in addition to being kuvempu2.

I rate this right next to the all-time classic -
Vaazhkayil vettiyai, naaripona jettiyai", also by the same author. Long live his fame.

Seven-week `ban' on non-Kannada films - Pathetic state of affairs

When will people come to know what to expect from the govt and what not to!
When will the govt. stop supporting these weaklings...

Everybody knows the reasons why people dont go to kannada movies. Let them battle with their own ineptitude, and let them die in the process if they arent fit enough to survive. Why should my money go to inept producers?

Decades of socialistic leanings have made ppl expect ridiculous things out of the govt. The whole thing sucks.

Paying guests: hosts may be taxed

Too bad... I was hoping to work for a year or two, save a few tens of lakhs, get a land in a "decent" area like koramangala, construct a ghetto or two, rent it out as PG accomodation, and make millions... Er, did i say ghetto?

If you plan to open a PG accomodation, here is one piece of advice - rent it out to girls - you can ask twice the amount for the same space. All you have to do is to keep saying a few adjectives like "safe", "decent", "decent", "safe".

Good move, in any case. My sadistic instincts prevail... Death to PG's psuedo-parents.

Who is a minority person?

As bad an article as anything that came out of the sensationalistic rediff. But it shifted a few rusting gears in my head that havent been moving for quite some time....

Identifying my place in the political spectrum has been one of the most challenging and irritating burdens of my life, irritating because i keep swinging so many damn times from one extreme to the other.

To me, everybody has a place in the 3D space, emerging out of three axes - religious/non-religious, liberal/conservative, right/left. And there i am, in the rightmost top corner, ya-there! as a pseudo-secular right liberal... dont know if i have much company. Its been a long journey, but i made it! Thanks folks.

Issac Asimov is God

This boy is a musta. After watching some arbit channel called "Sci-fi", i realised how grateful i am to have read asimov. No green bug-eyed martian invading human brains, no mutant cockroaches having a prediliction for teenage virgins, and lastly no aliens landing on earth without a valid I-90 duly stamped by immigration and naturalisation service.

Appreciating science fiction is not very different from appreciating european beer. You should have tasted a bad one(american, so to say) to really, truly, whole-heartedly appreciate the good one. And once you've had the good one, you just cant go back. Nothing less than an antakshari competition in a room overflowing with gaboors with nothing around for miles around can drive me towards an american beer, not if i can find a gun to shoot myself first!

To all those lesser mortals would think Poul Anderson or John Barnes was better, i have only one thing to say - drink american beer, and then drink european beer. You'll realise why crusades were fought!

Thank you issac. I owe you a lot!