Love makes the world go round? Think again!

Love doesn't make the world go round. It actually prevents progress and advancement. Curiosity is one of the things that make the world go round, besides angular momentum, and other laws of physics.
People say one can't live without love. But I ask, why shouldn't? Love never inspired any advancement, nor any breakthrough nor any pinnacle of achievement not even a simple shred of progress. You may say there are many works of art, poetry etc., which were inspired by love. It's not love. It's lust. That's what inspires the so called people who are "in love". It is just an evolutionary instinct to go after the best looking/mate who has more chances of survival in this competitive world. People are too afraid to meet their conscience and accept the fact that beneath the facade of love, there nothing but mere need and selfishness. Need and selfishness - They too contribute to progress.
Let's see what has the so called love achieved over time.
The trojan war was fought because the prince was attracted to Helen, destroying many lives and wasting so many man-hours.  How many wars have been fought in the name of love... Historians know better. Coming current times, numerous murders and rapes have been committed (only that I know of) in the name of love. If love leads to peace, why is there a war everywhere there is love? The wars are sometimes psychological and may not be noticed by everyone. For an observant eye there is war everywhere there is love.
So far I have only used love only in the  romantic sense, i.e. between two lovers. Coming to non-romantic love, such as parent-child, siblings, etc.,- This is too obvious to explain in the terms of evolution. Since I came this far, let me put it in words. Trying to survive by supporting each other. I've spent enough time ranting about the pointlessness of love.

Coming to sympathy, it did nothing. Period.

So this raises a question: If love doesn't make the world go round, what does?
This is a question that can't be answered in one word. There is money-the most important one, greed, jealousy, need, hunger, happiness, and nearly all human feelings except love and sympathy.

Greed drives one crazy enough do something to quench one's desire. If one is looking for something more than one can achieve, greed makes them take new paths to grasp it.
Jealousy - It can lead to greed or inspire one to create something more important/valuable than the object in question.
Need - Necessity is the mother of invention, aptly said.
Most other feelings can be finally reduced to one of the above, thereby proving my point.

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As an Atheist...

Let me begin with this: All this started while I was listening to the story of birth of Lord Ganesha. (FYI it is customary to listen to the story on the eve of Ganesh Chathurthi.). Interestingly there are some weird references and connections between Christian, Hindu, Roman Mythologies and some science fiction/fantasy myths such as the philosopher’s stone.

My theory is that all the so called gods are mutants- Mutants as in science fiction: Humans with super human capabilities. This statement especially holds true for hindu gods, for it is said there are three crore (thirty million) gods and goddesses out there.

Rain god Varuna for instance, possesses the same powers as the Storm holds in X-men.

Lord Shiva’s third eye is mentioned to be capable of burning everything in its sight. This is reminds of Cyclops in X-men, except that he doesn’t have a separate eye to burn things. (For Naruto fans out there, Amaterasu is something similar, isn’t it?)

The “Samanthaka Mani” has the ability to give its possessor a mass of nearly 16 kgs in gold every day (as mentioned- 8 manugulu). It is an obvious reference to the Philosopher’s stone.

Cupid is the Roman version of the Indian Manmadha. Manmadha’s wife is Rathi, who is the goddess of sex.

Athena – The goddess of knowledge and wisdom refers to the Goddess Saraswathi.

Moses/Jesus shows his power of telekinesis when he parted the Jordan river to pave way for his followers. This is demonstrated by the powers of Jean Grey in X-men.

Sai Baba is said to have transmuted water into oil, when his devotees couldn’t buy oil to light lamps. Also, he’s said to have dispensed ‘holy’ water from his toes.

Hanuman is the Hindu equivalent of ‘Superman’. He has super human strength and he could fly too.

Vali and Sugreeva brothers are ape-men who could communicate with both humans monkeys alike.

The God’s omniscience could be an amplified version of Charles Xavier’s power to read, write and modify one’s thoughts. (Yes, that’s a pun on computers)

The King of Heaven Zeus is analogous to Lord Indra who is the king of Heaven according to Hindu mythology. Also there is a striking similarity between the weapons wielded by both. Zeus’ weapon was the Lightning and Indra’s weapon was Vajrayudha which by my understanding commands lightning. (Referring to the lightning rain Indra caused on Gokulam when people started worshiping Mt.Govardhana instead of Indra, himself.)

All this references I found only by the limited knowledge I have on each of the mythologies and I wish I knew more so I could find some more.
The reason the so called son of god/prophet is born once in thousands of years is that he is a mutant in real life. Out of all the possible combination of genes, there is still a definite non-zero chance that such a mutant will be born some day and that wouldn't come often. Even the Hindu mythology says that the god shall take a human form to help mankind once every yuga (it is a period of several thousand years). It's nearly the same as the odds of super human taking birth on the planet earth.

Lie to me, House, Mentalist and Leverage...

Lie to me, House, Mentalist and Leverage...

Have you watched atleast 2 or more of these? Then read on...
What's common in all those series? Loads of stuff!! Don't believe it? Then here's a description of one of the series and find out which series I am referring to... game? then go...

A middle aged man, with a passion to solve puzzles. Helps people - directly/indirectly. Socially awkward but considered handsome by middle aged women. A bossy female who keeps him from going insane. The subordinates, one female and two male. The two males being one muscular and the other lean. They are constantly overpowered by the lead. However they confront him when his going too crazy. None of the subordinates know what the lead is planning to next. However, if it's too crazy the bossy female has a way of knowing and stops him. In the end the lead ends up humiliating some, making fun of others, and enjoying himself while all the others go head over heels to solve the problem.

Any guess now?

No? Then here's more..

Each episode starts with a scene not even remotely suggesting the field it is related to. But somehow the writer finds a link to relate it with the series. Also the lead has a past with a female - a memory that haunts him. There is a chemistry going on between the lead and the bossy female. Also one of the male subordinates is attracted to this female subordinate while the other has no interest at all, though he is not gay. Coming to the bossy female- she is single and has trouble committing to another man (anyone other than the lead). Though it is not said or mentioned, the bossy female has feelings for the lead. She being the boss, takes his side against commonsense most of the time. This puts her in certain embarrassing moments. Her way of flirting is arguing violently over petty things, that arise out of his childlike stubbornness. The lead, being very adamant, sees something where everyone ignores and that's what helps in solving a case mostly. Very rarely does the lead get some real help from his subordinates.

Generally, the subordinates are like walls, for a bouncing ball- the lead. They stand there doing nothing but they are the ones which make sure the ball is going the right way.

Any guesses?

My point exactly.

The formula involved is:

Drama = Bossy female + Narcissistic, self righteous, "pain in the arse" male + one weak willed female + One guy who has a thing for the weak willed female + a non-gay guy who doesn't have any feeling for her.

Pour some medicine over it and it's 'House'.
Throw some blood and it's 'Mentalist'.
Invlove some lies it's 'Lie to me'.
A legal loophole/conspiracy? 'Leverage'.

P.S: I like all the series a and I only hope the writers could come up with a hierarchy different from each other.

Good and Evil

"Good and evil, Yin Yang, the balance of forces blah blah"

I happened to overhear two of my classmates talking about that, hence this entry.

From what I know, there are no such thing as balance of forces. What is good and what is bad? Is it decided by majority? What if the majority is wrong? And that often happens to be the case. all along the history the so called "GOOD" has been winning only coz it's majority. We only saw the history from one side and decided that some people are good and others are bad. I don't think we had a "balanced" perspective on what happened just by that.
The movies and literature have been some of the mankind's greatest sources of thought provocation and they inculcate the same. "Good" always wins and "bad" always loses. Did anyone ever feel "Hmm.. there's something fishy going on here..??!"

Let me put this into perspective.. Imagine a football game. For the example let's consider there are only two teams competing against each other, say Red and the Green. Both the teams quite good. But no matter how many games they played, Red always won and Green never won. The score sheet was like this

Matches Red Green
100 100 0
200 200 0
500 500 0

So immediately your response is "WTF? Is there even a green team? are they alive? Then WTF are they doing?"

So, without the captain's consent nor knowledge, some of the players changed sides. And even now the results are the same. No change.
What's your response now? Logically we deduce that the game is rigged. That's us outside the game.

Now let's get into the player's heads and think. You are a player of the Red team. You are always winning. There's no reason to look back and retrospect on the game and you are 100% sure that you are going to win the next match no matter what. So what do you do? PARTY!! Who cares of other team so long as we remain the victors?? Hope to win the coming match and respect your captain for leading the team to victory.

Now time for the Green team. You are always losing no matter what you do. Even trying to recruit some members from the red team failed. Imagine the frustration of the players and the pressure on the captain. This forces him to eliminate any weak links in the team even though it's painful. Each time, at the end of the match, the captain saying "Damn you red team!!You frikkin cheater! There's no way anyone can win without losing and there is going to be a day I will defeat you!" The players are forced into being silent.

Looking familiar?? Being outside the game, we think that someone's cheating but being in the "Red" team makes you think you are right. So if there is a balance, there should be equal wins and losses for the teams. But there isn't. Being outside the teams, we think red is using some "EVIL" trick to achieve the feat. So by definition red falls under suspicious "GREY" area between the good and the evil. There are two options now.
Option 1: Red is evil and Green is good.
Option 2: Green is evil and red is good.

Option 1: Red is evil and Green is good.
Let's say it's true. Then the good never wins. But that beats what we learnt till now. Doesn't it??

Option 2: Green is evil and red is good.
This is the only option left. So now we say Red team is good. We are at the point of saying "Good" is suspicious. Good by it's own definition is not "Good"
Therfore a contradiction. Now we are left with nowhere to go!!

But fortunately for those who can SEE, there is a third option. To deny the very classification of being good and bad. That puts us outside the game and when every one is outside the field, there is no game. No battle. No war. Isn't this what we've fought for over the thousands of years?? All we need is just a little perspective. Instead of lending power to the narrow minded masochists, take the power to your own hand.

The waterbombs - Modified

The waterbombs - Modified
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

One sheet of paper - no cuts - only folding

On one of the corridors

On one of the corridors
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

As most people think, spiders are not insects. They belong to a family of the animal kingdom called Arachnids. They are some oof my favorite creatures. The webs often mystify me. I stand in awe in front of the spider's web.

Origami for a hairstyle ?!

Origami for a hairstyle ?!
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

That's ma sis posing with the origami cranes I made...
The idea happened to arise when a crane accidentally fell on her head. Then I made more.
And yes, she was aware that she's posing for the pic ;)

All my pens- in writing

All my pens- in writing
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

Best viewed in full size.
I've used nearly all of my pens to write their own names and the ink blots are some little mishaps in the process ;) :D

Doublets!!

Doublets!!
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

It's more fun
with two than just one...

In the pic from left to right are
-BlitzKwills
-Pilot frixion ball
-Parker Vector
-Hero 360 degrees

My current "on the go" stationery!

My current "on the go" stationery!
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

This is my current stationery that I carry around all the time. The is my standard art and craft kit.
Most of it is packed in the Qiangli pouch above(including the scissors). I myself didn't expect the pouch to carry so much "luggage" but it does without any problem.
In the picture are my
-21pens
-5 mechanical pencils
-6 lead boxes
-Scissors
-3 blades
-2 erasers.

My new fountain pen

My new fountain pen
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

I'm a big fan of fountain pens. This one here, I call it the "BlitzKwill". It's smooth and awesome!!

Scraps!!

Scraps!!
Originally uploaded by Bharath Kishore

These are the remnants of the papers I've been using in the last 2 months....