Friendship
Some recent events in my life made me to think, what are friends? Something across, I came along!
A friend is defined as somebody emotionally close to another: somebody who has a close personal relationship of mutual affection and trust with another; acquaintance: somebody who has a casual relationship with another, for example, a business acquaintance; ally: somebody who is not an enemy; or an advocate of a cause: somebody who defends or supports a cause, group, or principle, but I believe that a friend is much more than what a dictionary can describe.
In my opinion, if a friend is a good friend and is willing to except their own mistakes and faults as a person, you will get along with them for as long as you are in contact with them.
A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind: you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
After talking with one of my good friend yesterday, I learned two things.
1) Even you hide donkey's tail, you can not hide it's ears.
2) Even if you have money, you have tears.
Feeling the Blanks
Along the path
in my past
I have lost
some feelings
If I go back
they may be
still intact
but there, may be
about them,
I may 'feel' nothing !
YEAR 2005
Yesterday evening, I was listening to CNN news and heard about hurricane Wilma, which, according to them, is the strongest hurricane reported in Atlantic ocean. It's been a quite a year. First devastating Tsunami, forest fires in Europe, flooding in Mumbai, dangerous hurricane Katrina and Rita, a major earthquake in Kashmir area and now Wilma. Its been really a challenging year! I am wondering if we are supposed to interpret some message from such phenomenas, do we need to improve something in our system? I really think that we should start making required changes before it is too late! My sincere sympathies towards all the affected people.
Astronomy and Astrology
Most medieval thinkers assumed that the motions of the heavenly bodies affect the course of nature in the sub lunar realm. Until the twelfth century, Latin knowledge of the heavens came largely from the late Roman works mentioned earlier, all of which were not only nonmathematical but often inconsistent or at least highly fanciful. When Arab astronomy began to be known in the Europe, bringing with it knowledge of Greek mathematical astronomy, the situation changed dramatically. Diversity of day and night, the seasons, the weather, growth of plants and animals, and so forth are explained, first, by the obliquity of the ecliptic or apparent path of the sun, moon and the planets relative to the apparent rotation of the sphere of the fixed stars and then by the individual motions of the sun, moon and planets through the zodiac. Insofar as these supposedly important causal circumstances could be reliably known, physicians, attempted to take account of them in explaining human illnesses and in determining the appropriate timing of medical procedures. Alchemy also assumed the effect of heavenly emanations on the development of metals. Such theories are les evident in later university works, perhaps because they were thought to call freedom of the will dangerously into question, but even so eminent a thinker as Albert the Great took the principle of celestial causation quite seriously.
How was one to think of the science built on this view of the heavens? In Islam, Avicenna had initiated a tendency to categorize astrology as natural philosophy and astronomy as mathematics, a move that raised significant questions about relations of the two disciplines to one another. Astrology became the discipline that addressed the physics of the heavens, as well as applying this physics of heavenly influences on earth. Astronomy, built mathematical models to track the positions of the planets but it often built those models unconstrained by considerations of physical plausibility.
From the time of Plato, most natural philosophers were agreed that a spherical heaven surrounds a spherical earth, although they differed about the details. Aristotle has posited a set of such spheres, each with its own uniform motion but each also carried with the movement of the spheres surrounding it, meant to account for the observed positions of the planets through the year. From the time of Heptarchs and Apollonius, many mathematical astronomers lost hope of accurately ‘saving the phenomena’ of planetary motions using models containing only concentric uniformly rotating spheres. They therefore proposed models in which spheres rotated around centers that were not the center of the cosmos or even changed their rates of rotation. This led to division of labor over the centuries between natural philosophers seeking physically realistic theories of the heavens and mathematical astronomers proposing theories that accurately predicted planetary positions.
This break mathematical astronomy and natural philosophy led to many methodological or epistemological discussions, as well as to many efforts, over the years, to reintegrate the science of the heavens. Did mathematical astronomy take its premises from natural philosophy at least in assuming that all heavenly motions are circular because they are the motions of spheres made up of either for which such motion in natural? Or could mathematical astronomy be an autonomous science that did no need to look to natural philosophy, but could simply build mathematical theories to fit observations? Astronomers had known since the time of Heptarchs that the same planetary motions can be accounted for equally well in different ways: a model with an eccentric may give the same predictions as a model with a deferent and epicycle. In mathematics proper such as arithmetic or geometry, the foundations are axioms that are better known to the mathematicians that the theorems proved on the basis of these foundations. But in astronomy that is not necessarily that case.
It is worth pondering that the whole Aristotelian natural philosophy was built on the observation or ‘empirical fact’ that the heavens rotate once a day, carrying around the stars and planets. It was by inference from this universally observed ‘fact’ that Aristotle and Aristotelians, following a reasonable and empirical scientific method, concluded that the heavens must be composed of a fifth element, either, moved in eternal rotation by immaterial unmoved movers. The ongoing existence of systems of mathematical astronomy, in which it was apparent that the process of reasoning from observations to higher level general theory could not guarantee that the higher level theory was uniquely true, even if its predictions were accurate, no doubt served to inject a degree of ongoing caution into natural philosophy’s epistemological claims.
I saw sunrise today.
The sun climbs higher in the sky.
It's light shimmering and warm.
All things now are clearly seen.
A new day has been born.
Yesterday evening, world was amazingly calm. It was the first evening in last few days, I was going home before 9 PM and there was an sense of appease. After a quick dinner, I went to bed with a novel 'A Bridge Across Forever', still a pin drop silence everywhere.
While returning to office, early morning today, I saw sunrise.
"Each day comes with new promises" --> It's true.
Mornings
fresh and clear
makes sunrise spectacular
with birds chirping
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chirping birds with
spectacular sunrise makes
clear and fresh
mornings.
You are Perfection;
Oh my... I have seen
None such as you before,
So divine and ethreal
So sweet and pretty
With your lovely hair
And your beautiful eyes
Your perfect nose
And your sweet sweet smile
Your even little teeth
And your enviable figure,
It is no wonder then,
Why people love you so;
You are the life in any event
The joy of all present,
Without your existence
Life would have been incomplete
It is therefore a blessing
To the world that the mirror
Was invented - for without it,
How could I look upon you?
The First "Real" driving experience on German autobahn !!!
Its been long since I got my German driving license but I have been reluctant to drive. Actually it takes 5 minutes of walk from my home to office so there is no real need, but my internal liking towards the driving made me to get the very expensive German driving license. Last weekend, without any concrete plan, I rented a nice car (Ford Focus). I went to my friend's place and then we were thinking about various possibilities of places to visit! I was thinking about Brussels while she came up with the names like Amsterdam and Berlin and we decided Amsterdam as a final destination!
We started around 2 PM and reached to Amsterdam around 5 PM. I have been driving in Europe for long time but this was the first time, I was driving continuously and at a very high speed. (~ 160 to 180 km/h). There are no speed limits in Germany so all the drivers, really push their cars to the extreme limit. As soon as we entered Netherlands, all the cars were is a row and constant speed of 130 km/h. One of my friend told me that it is much more relaxing to drive outside the Germany and after this experience, I agree to him!
Amsterdam is a very nice place but bit smaller city than expected. There are some famous museums but the most famous is th night life!!! We talked a lot in the downtown and even in 'Red Light district'. It is something we don't see in other cities. (Girls standing is glass showcase and people watching from outside!).
While driving back, I had the same experience. As soon as we entered the German borders all cars were pushed to limits and ultimately I also pushed my car! I can say the average speed was around 160 km/h. Next time, I have decided to get a bigger car which can go faster and try more destinations. It was worth a experience & journey.
"Queer little twists and quirks go into the making of an individual. To suppress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral gray of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance….
Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man’s rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different ways and in different seasons….Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes, but never reaching high enough to strike your own...."
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna runaway?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming
Do you wanna be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more?
Before your life is over
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With their big fake smiles and stupid lies
While deep inside you're bleeding
Let the contents on this page be a loud reminder to all such FOOLS that there are people who CARE and ACCEPT me the way that I am .....
LOVE is not just about a girl guy thing-
It can exist between two friends-two siblings-a mother who gives birth to a child...
LOVE is undefined-
But few Mortals who are so wasted in life try to destroy unfeigned feelings and cook up stories to make living room gossips a pass time...
Worst is few Gullible Clodhopper SNOBS believe in these stories and simply end up concluding on someone without even knowing the whole thing!!!!
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought and its a henious CRIME to simply walks over someone and evaluate the character based on few misconceptions and/or misunderstanding.
Its ridiculous when inspite of beign so vocal about your ideas and views the people whom you've kown for so long are the same Blockheaded Lunatic Dickheads who take you for granted and ill-treat you without knowing the other side of the coin.
Origin of Murphy's laws
Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.
It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.
One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.
Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.
Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.
Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.
The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome."
The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox: Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."Nichols is still around.
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars.
Murphy's Law or Sod's Law?
While I admit that the name of Murphy's laws is a pleasant one as is the story of how it came to light, but the original name for 'if anything can go wrong it will' was sod's law because it would happen to any poor sod who needed such a catastrophic event the least.
It also removes the ability to say "I coined this phrase!" because sod's law has been around long before any living man and has existed in many forms for hundreds of years.
This original name is dying out because Sod is a cursory to the world so is not used much. Murphy's on the other hand is nothing insulting or lacking in hope I hope this clears any problems up and while this maybe hard to come to terms with, think about it, would such an obvious piece of logic have only come about in the second half of the 20th century????
