Saint Rantic

September 29, 2005

Update!!!!!!! –> Things i am doing this week

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 10:52 am

This is a filler post, just to show that i am alive :p . So kindly bear with me……

Things I have been doing this week

  1. Started Running Regularly on Cromwell Field.
  2. Got a Job and thrown out of it the same day (because of reasons beyond my control)
  3. Have a midterm exam this week and i discovered that i still hate exams…
  4. Wanted to post something on hope and the Indian Farmer…. posted Shaggy instead.
  5. Got an idea for a startup and started documenting it.
  6. Life is beautiful
  7. This is my 100th post!!!!!!!

More next week ;-)
–Laks

September 26, 2005

Hope –Shaggy

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 3:02 pm

I remember, wasn’t so long ago
We had a one room shack and the livin’ was low
And my mama by herself raised me and my bro
Wasn’t easy but she did it with the little that flowed
Worked hard got us off to school everyday
And kept her eyes on the stars when the skies were gray
Gave us pride to survive, really showed us the way
Now I really understood what she was tryin’ to say

She said, “Son there I’ll be times when the tides are high
And the boat may be rocky, you can cry
Just never give up
And you can never give up,”

In this life you can lead if you only believe
And in order to achieve what you need
You can never give up
You can never give up

And this hope
That keeps me holding on
On and on
And this hope
That makes me carry on
On and on

……………, couldn’t have made it alone
I got a wonderful life, two kids on my own
With a strong foundation that was carved in stone
And my mama for the love that made my house a home
Made me wonder some time if this was meant to be
All this for a humble little guy like me
And all I ever really wanted was a family
To teach my kids the same value that she gave to me

She said, Son there’ll be times when the tides are high
And the boat may be rocky, you can cry
Just never give up
You can never give up

In this life you can lead if you only believe
And in order to achieve what you need
You can never give up
You can never give up

And this hope
That keeps me holding on
And on
And this hope
That makes me carry on
On and on

Me nah gonna stepper, things are for better
Never let yourself be overcome by oh!!! you are better
Cool ya me better, have faith instead a
Sit down and a watch and all ya fight one another
Blaze like fire, regard no retire
God nah sleep and at him I will inspire
We have a atire, that we require
We have to make a mark before the time is gone

And this hope
That keep me holding on
And on
And this hope
That makes me carry on
On and on

And this hope
That keep me holding on
And on
And this hope
That makes me carry on
On and on

There’s hope, yeah
Hope keeps it alive,
Hope keeps it alive,
And it strikes an iron,
Hope keeps it alive, yeah,
Hope keeps it alive, yeah
Only the strong survive, yeah
Keep it carry on, keep it carry on, yeah
I’ll keep it carry on, yeah
I gotta carry on, gotta carry on and be strong

And this hope
That keep me holding on
And on
And this hope
That makes me carry on
On and on

September 24, 2005

Hurray!!!!!

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:33 am

I am all over the Cromwell Field running on the olympic quality track (for the first time in my life).

check it out here

Cromwell

i could see a few acclaimed marathoners running beside me too.. they were running for an awful long time.

I ran for around 3 rounds… and then speed walked for around 4 rounds and then walked for around 3.

It was just amazing!!!

This is good

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 2:38 am

I came accross some good forward today.. i usually do not post forwards but this one’s just too much

here we go

An engineer, an experimental physicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher were hiking through the hills of Scotland. Cresting the top of one hill, they see, on top of the next, a black sheep. The engineer says: “What do you know, the sheep in Scotland are black.” “Well, *some* of the sheep in Scotland are black,” replies the experimental physicist. The theoretical physicist considers this for a moment and says “Well, at least one of the sheep in Scotland is black.” “Well,” the philosopher responds, “on one side, anyway.”

September 21, 2005

Give me liberty or give me death

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:07 am

This speech is what we have to learn…. by hearts… and keep it by our heart for all the fight.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

click on here to read the whole speech by Patrick Henry.

September 19, 2005

Feeling lonely? In search of Dagny Taggart

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 4:14 am

This is something about me which i really did not want to put up here…. but well what the heck.. this is my space(or so i think). This is nothing other than Just for your information material. So kindly ignore it if u feel like. This contains my view on love and friendship.

This is the part of the e-mail that I recieved from one of my friends a few days ago:

Hey laks,

I have been seeing your Blogs abt Love ..
What has happened to u? Have u gone crazy?
You should love only two things ur passion/Innovation and India.
I can smell whats going on ..
Focus on ur job, write on what u have observed, ur experiences etc so that we can gain from it.
Remember u have a following, who want to know abt ur experiences.
Hope u take it in right spirit

Well i took it in the right spirit allright… and went for a small analysis of what exactly i was searching for.

Needless to say that my friend was right about me.
There is a BAD news and a GOOD news to be announced today.
I am in love, that is the bad news for all of you. The good news is this: Its with a charector in a book.

Her name is Dagny Taggart, she comes from the book Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. ( WARNING If u read the contents of the link the plot of the story gets spoiled… if u are interested in reading the book get it from amazon and read.. they are one of the best books written)

My state and my philosophy can be contained in three quotes from the book The Fountainhead also from the same Author. It goes something like this

Every loneliness is a pinnacle.

The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning,
my end is the work itself. My work, done my way.

Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by
one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive,
like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single
theme, and to serve its own single purpose…

My philosophy is simple. My passion is the passion to produce. The passion to create. It is this happiness through creativity that gives me joy, because i love to create what i want to create. The basis for the philosophy is that ratiocination is the only way a man can live and that his nature is to seek happiness from what he creates.

The question that i ask myself is not “To be or not to be?” it is “To think or not to think?”.

The people whom I love are the people who have the integrity and depth of understanding my cause. These are the only people whom I can relate with. They are my only friends.

To me love and friendship kinda mean the same thing. I think friends are united in the values that they hold. They may be doing lot of things, and they may be a hell lot different from each other, but what gels them together? The answer, i suppose, is only one simple thing :Values.

A person of strong charector won’t copromise on the ethical values that he holds. He will do justice to them. Come what may.

An emotionally mature individual gets emotional for only the right reasons. He gets sad when he has a reason to get sad. Gets happy when he has a reason to get happy. Cries when he has a reason to cry. Sadness, happiness, anger and any other emotion is a not a sign of weakness.. its a sign of a mentally healthy individual. An individual of perfect mental health would get the right kind of emotions for the right kind of situations. Wanting a shoulder to cry on(or someone to love) is therefore a personal choice, it does not make u weak or strong by any comparison.

A friend is a person who understands ur cause, and ur means to achieve the cause. One who understands and appreciates the fire in you, one who appreciates that you are fighting for the cause with the same weapon as she/he is… i.e. Rationality. She/he is the one who can relate to your values completely, she/he can understand what you say and more importantly what u can’t say.

Such a friendship will last for a lifetime. Coz what she/he likes is something that will never die out in you. It will be there till u end. And till that time she/he will be your friend. Same is the case with love i guess. If u love another person’s reason and cause. And also love the way she goes about it. love the fire in her. then that love will last a lifetime.. the last thing that it will depend upon is looks, which are temporary. When u ask for a shoulder to be lent in order to rest on and cry, ur real friends will willingly do so.. coz they know what you are fighting for… coz they know what struggle is…. coz they know what integrity means… and more than anything they know that u are crying, because there is some reason for u to cry.

The strongest friendships are forged between those men/women whose integrity knows no bounds. The men/women of steel.. like Dagny and Roark. They may chose to cry on another friends shoulder, but it does nothing to their integrity. They are strong and if they cry for the right reasons.. i would say that they are emotionally strong as well.

This is the summary of my justified true beliefs on friendship and love.

now we come to my predicament.

The Problem in me
Now here is my problem… I am feeling lonely because i have not found even a SINGLE woman who is worth enough to be recognized as a friend yet. I am at a pinnacle of my philosophical beliefs, there is no companion to look to, and talk eye to eye. There is not a single woman whom I have met who understands what i live for, and who i can relate to completely… Its soo lonely up here… I NEED SOME COMPANY. ;-) )

Until I find her I am happy being alone!!!!!!!
But its ok even if dont get her in my whole life….

life goes on :-) ) i can always be happy by following my passion

September 17, 2005

What a fuck up

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:49 pm

Just have a look at the BBC country profile of India.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm

It shows the “in-depth” knowledge of BBC in covering India. And also shows how fucking hollow they are in commanding respect in the matters of terrorism(anywehere) and the likes.

BBC go to fucking hell!!!!!!!!!!

September 14, 2005

Why a socialist philosophy fails — 1

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:25 pm

I had earlier talked about objective and subjective philosophies especially in this post and this post which criticizes Gandhian philosophy.

An objective philosophy is one which does not assume the existence of others as primary. It views all the assumptions as primary to an individual. The values do not depend upon the existence or the non existence of other people.

Whereas the subjective one is different, it assumes the presence of other individuals. It assumes the quailty/behaviour of others as more primary than that of an individual. There is an axiomatic contradiction here. Before defining your philosophical values you must define the other individuals philosophical values. If he is also of the same philosophy then his philosophical values can be laid down only when yours are. So its a dead lock.

the best example is Gandhi again :

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Tolerance ASSUMES other individuals. It also ASSUMES that other individuals will do stuff that will corrode you. The funny thing is that it is not universal. U cannot apply it to yourself. For example, according to the philosophy, you should tolerate yourself. Which gives u the right to be intolerant to others. Because u can tolerate your intolerance towards others. That itself contradicts the purpose of the definition there.

Any subjective philosophy fails… because it is a contradiction. Socialism is a subjective extreme. Which is defined in Wikipedia as Follows:

Socialism is an ideology with the core belief that a society should exist in which popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production.

In simple words: if u produce something then it is controlled by other individuals. The question is who controls them.. answer:still other individuals. Question who controls still other individuals, answer: still still other individuals….etc etc. This is called (Virtuoso)Infinite Regression. It shows that some concept is flawed somewhere.

Infact i am closee to proving that socialism is close to theft.That would be for a later post.

~~~~~~~~~~To be COntinued~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

September 12, 2005

Here is something interesting

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 11:15 pm

Gaza Pull out

Now WHY in the world should they burn the synagogues?????

Does it symbolize anything.

September 9, 2005

Secularism

Filed under: Ancient Mmusings! — laks @ 5:17 am
Subtle face of the great indian political Stupidity – the F***ing Secularism
 
Read it here
 
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=77518
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