Value of Time

17^th October 2006

 

Time is very important to all of us… we often say, I wish I had more time… but do we really value our time? I am sure that if we manage the 24 hours we have,,, we can achieve 3 times as much as we do so now…. I for one am a poor time manager…. Also please read the lyrics of the song below this quote….

 

Contributed by Raju Bist

 

To realize

       The value of a sister

       Ask someone Who doesn't have one.

 

       To realize

       The value of ten years:

       Ask a newly

       Divorced couple.

 

       To realize

       The value of four years:

       Ask a graduate.

 

       To realize

       The value of one year:

       Ask a student who

       Has failed a final exam.

 

       To realize

       The value of nine months:

       Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

 

       To realize

       The value of one month:

       Ask a mother

       who has given birth to

       A premature baby.

 

       To realize

       The value of one week:

       Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

 

       To realize

       The value of one hour:

       Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

 

       To realize

       The value of one minute:

       Ask a person

       Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

 

       To realize

       The value of one-second:

       Ask a person

       Who has survived an accident...

 

       To! realize

       The value of one millisecond:

       As k the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics

 

       Time waits for no one.

 

       Treasure every moment you have.

       You will treasure it even more when

 

 

Theres a song by Pink Floyd, “Time” from the Dark Side of the Moon which is a great one ….I always derieve

 

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

 

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The day of survival

I was thinking back to a day many many years ago …. That day was Friday the 13^th…. Last week too was a similar coincidence… I am superstitious so don’t do something major that day!!

 

Such a lonely day
And it's mine
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
Should be banned
It's a day that I can't stand

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
Shouldn't exist
It's a day that I'll never miss

Such a lonely day
And it's mine
The most loneliest day of my life

And if you go
I wanna go with you
And if you die
I wanna die with you

Take your hand
And walk away

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
And it's mine
It's a day that I'm glad I survived

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Nail in the wall...

16^th October 2006

 

Please read the last line especially

 

NAIL IN THE FENCE

 

 

 

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.

 

(Most importantly the last sentence)

 

 

 

There once was a little boy who had a bad

 

temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails

 

and told him that every time he lost his

 

temper, he must hammer a nail into the back

 

of the fence. The first day the boy had

 

driven 37 nails into the fence.

 

Over the next

 

few weeks, as he learned to control his

 

anger, the number of nails hammered daily

 

gradually dwindled down. He discovered

 

it was easier to hold his temper than to

 

drive those nails into the fence.

 

 

 

Finally the day came when the boy didn't

 

lose his temper at all. He told his father

 

about it and the father suggested that the

 

boy now pull out one nail for each day that

 

he was able to hold his temper.

 

 

 

The days passed and the young boy was finally

 

able to tell his father that all the nails

 

were gone The father took his son by the

 

hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You

 

have done well, my son, but look at the

 

holes in the fence. The fence will never be

 

the same.

 

 

 

When you say things in anger,

 

they leave a scar just like this one. You

 

can put a knife in a man and draw it out.

 

It won't matter how many times you say I'm

 

sorry, the wound is still there.

 

 

 

“A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

 

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They

 

make you smile and encourage you to succeed.

 

They lend an ear, they share words of praise

 

and they always want to open their hearts to us."

 

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Saying of the Day

16^th October 2006

 

"Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition to do something in this world. They alone rise who strive. Some of you nurse the wrong notion that you will not rise in this world. But remember that the age of helplessness has ended. A new epoch has set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the Politics & Legislatures of this country"
-Dr. B.R.Ambedkar

 

Well well, the father of the constitution, the stooge whose name is debased for everything unconstitutional today, Dr B.R. Ambedkar!

He had clearly said that the reservations are a temporary measure and should not be long term wherein the relevance diminishes. This is a small food for thought for some

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar

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Similarities between Rang De Basanti and Ayn Rands Philosophies..

11^th October 2006

 

This is again an extract from a long line of threads where in we were discussing the relevance of ayn rands philosophies to todays scenarios… and RDB came up…had give a diverse range of views that can be seen at http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5263625&tid=2482020946371497488&na=4

 

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However emotionless one mayclaim to be... the actions  and events that affect the near and dear ones will definitely affect them.. these may not be just blood relations, but then any relation... even platonic or business ones...

man is after all a social animal (well... to be political correct even women [:)]

 

so what if they reacted after their close friend... and pal Ajay was affected... they def will.... try picturing any of the people you are very close to having the fate of ajay (pray to god doesnot happen) and look at rage.. rage has to have anoutlet... either u sit and pine and whine and talk rhetoric... or u take action... even it is silly at a later date... "humko lagta tha hummein kisi cheez ke liye ladne ka... kisi cheez ke liye marne ka junoon hi nahin tha" were their words... they couldnt have been wronger...

 

the parallels in the movie are very artistic... the "assasination" of Lalaji is similar to that in the india gate incident... that further egrages them on... in any crime or event, one thing leads to another and a range of events are put into rolling that may not be controlled.. karma!

 

All in all... it was a good movie... artistically as well as the message... it has inspired a lot of events in contempory space - jessica lal and the mandal 2 fight... it inspired them

 

anthara... an uprising has no guarentee ... it can go either way.. thats also the case with any event... always begins with a probability of 0.5 either yes or no!

 

that doesnt mean that action should not be taken...  u cannot be sure of eradicating all the evil ever... nothing is 100%... anything can happen at any time...

 

comming back to Ayn Rand.. there is NO parallel between the two.... AS is driven by the MIND and RDB is driven by the heart ...they are poles apart. The people do not even contemplate that they will be heros at a later date... in fact they are scared of death... they are not cut out to be martyrs but are made one...

 

even the scene where sukhi runs out and faces the bullets.. is not bravery... it is just shock at what they are oing to them and sooting them down like pigeons!

 

All in all... it was a heart wrenching movie.... Trust me, if this happens today, this is what will happen... the media will play them on to be terrorists and the govt will keep an enquiry report that will finally be used in the hearth of some fuckin babu in some goddam place.... as is correctly said.... yeh system hi kharaab hain....

 

Please lets run the country and take over from the second handers... are you sre that the energy and zeal and idealism that all of us now  show... will remain when we grow older and older ? or will it translate into real actions and motives from our side? I pray so....

 

I want to be part of the atlantis that does not flee.... I want to be a part of atlantis that does not surrender but fights back and WINS.... the second handers will get defeated because the number of us atlantians will be that huge...

 

is this a dream???? well... 30 years back no one could even imaging that a computer can be any smaller than a room or weigh less than 10 tons... today we can be keeping it our palms..... the boundaries of human thought are boundless........ soar .... soar my fellow atlantians...

 

I stongly believe in this adage:

"When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net....

Instead I learnt to fly,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"

 

Signed/-

Raghudon

(PS: this is also on my blog - http://raghudonspeaks.blogspot.com  )

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Euthenesia Debate

"Dr. Death" Is a Defender of Life

The essense of political liberty is the right to control one's own body (and to end its existence), free of state coercion.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's murder trial now beginning in Pontiac, Michigan involves far more than an individual's right to die: it involves his right to live.

Kevorkian, who has been acquitted in three previous assisted-suicide trials, is charged with first-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a Michigan man who was dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. Kevorkian has openly stated his intent to make this a clear-cut test case for euthanasia.

But far more than euthanasia is going to be on trial. For if a man suffering from an agonizing terminal illness does not have the legal right to choose death--if the state can stop him and prolong his agony--then the question must be asked: to whom does one's life belong?

Surely, in a free country, the only moral answer is that a man's life belongs to himself. It is not the property of society or of the government. Each individual has the right to his own "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Entailed in this right to live one's life is the freedom to choose to end it when, in one's judgment, it is no longer worth living. Just as the right to free speech includes the right to remain silent--just as the right to practice religion includes the right to be an atheist--so the right to live includes the right to decide to die. Freedom means the freedom to choose.

Clearly, choosing death is a serious matter, not to be done on the spur of the moment. But if, after serious reflection, a rational adult concludes that he prefers death, he must have the right to implement that decision. Consequently, he must have the right to request assistance from others; and, for the same reason, those others must have the right to provide whatever assistance is asked for.

The opponents of medically assisted suicide are plainly arguing from an anti-freedom premise. They are opposed to a man's right to live and to die by his own decision. "Consent is not a viable defense in taking the life of another," states the Michigan prosecutor who will try the case. But if my consent is not sufficient justification to terminate my life, what does this say regarding my freedom and my right to my own life? It says that I am a rightless pawn whom a paternalistic state can compel to suffer as it deems fit. It says that the most fundamental decision about the disposition of my life is to be made by others, against my will.

The issue of the right to control one's own body, free of government coercion, is not distinctive to euthanasia. It is the essence of political liberty--so that far more than the fate of Kevorkian or the status of assisted-suicide hinges on this upcoming trial.

Although Kevorkian may have broken the law, we must remember that so did Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers--so did all those who, in pursuit of justice, sought to challenge the morality of the existing legal system. Kevorkian's courage in creating this test case is reminiscent of the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. When the Christian Fundamentalists, who controlled Tennessee's state legislature, passed a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution, John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, continued to teach Darwinian theory. He deliberately broke the law, initiating the "trial of the century" that resulted eventually in the repeal of the law.

The issues in Kevorkian's case are similar--as are his opponents. It is no accident that the strongest hostility toward euthanasia comes from devout religionists. For on their view, a man's life does not belong to himself, but to God. The anti-evolution law did not permit a man to choose how to think; the anti-euthanasia law does not permit a man to choose how to live. The first was directed against man's mind, the second against his body, but the principle is identical: the individual's life is ultimately to be controlled by some higher authority.

In the Scopes trial seventy-three years ago, the target of the prosecution was not simply a Tennessee schoolteacher, but the principle of the individual's right to think. Today, the spiritual heirs of those prosecutors will be placing on trial, not just Jack Kevorkian, but the individual's right to die--and hence right to live--as a free man.
 
Dr. Bernstein, a professor of philosophy at Pace University, is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I look forward to your views on this touchy topic.

Contributed by: Andrew Bernstein

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr006=ksryywxqc2.app7a&page=NewsArticle&id=5198&news_iv_ctrl=1087

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Socialistic State

10^th October 2006

 

A simple act of revenge also has far reaching implications. The mahabharatha war was also an act of revenge,... it becomes a fight of good versus evil, the world wars also more so,... there are bound to be opinions and actions and there are bound to be the opposite views... the debates do not solve the problems. the scale is too far tilted on the other side - the more powerful sides. The underdogs rarely win.... they only do so in movies... thats why we have the disparity between reel and real life.

Solutions to simple problems are normally complex. Thats the paradox.

Today I too cannot remember a simgle politician brought to task for any of their crimes and sins. Does nto mean that the youth should take up arms and go shooting around... it just means that the youth should be more assertive in raising their voices when injustice is meted to them. Like the mandal part 2... it is the very essense of the second hander.... "let another person sleep hungry... i dont fuckin care.... i dont have anything and i need it" thats the attitude conveyed. They do not want to be discriminated against, but then they want super-men status. crap! By what divine right can u cnsider that a scheduled cast boy who lives in a 5 bedroom house which is paid for by the bribes his father is collecting as a government office is more "needy" than the poor brahmin boy whose father is a clerk in some place and toils his ass out to just make ends meet... he canot dream of education for his kids cuzx there are "more deserving" candidates than him! CRAP!

This parallel to the socialism is strong even today. We are a semi-capatilistic, semi-socialistic society... in a socialist state, the only benificiaries are the bloody politicians!

just a ranting session after a hard day of work ... in MY OFFICE... in MY FACTORY... using MY Computer and MY BRAIN!

 

" I swear by my life and my love for it that I will not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine"

I believe it................ at the same time.. if in living my life it is symbiotic to another person.... so be it... nothing like it!

 

Raghudon

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