The
keyboard is mightier than the pen.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Foreknowledge & Immortality
"I'll tell you a secret, something they don't teach you in your temple. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now, and we will never be here again." - Achilles
Life as a subjective view.
Question : What happens with a blind guy? If he doesn't see the beggar can he know poverty ?
Extend that to other things - If someone is in ignorance, can they be held responsible ?
And if knowledge isn't absolute but only partial and evolving, we are always semi-ignorant and hence cannot be fully responsible except to the extent of our knowledge.
Life as wave cycles.
One main wave and then others interlayed over that as possibly 1) birth circumstance 2) health mental & physical 3) inborn personality traits 4) random events
How God cannot enjoy a football match or a penalty shoot-out as he already knows the outcome.
And so, can there be any real benefit of fore-knowledge ?
Are we destined to fully realise our lives only through living ?
Achilles' view that the gods envy us because we die; there is no enjoyment in anything that lasts for eternity. Yet somehow he seeks immortality himself. The eternal paradox.
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Life as a subjective view.
Question : What happens with a blind guy? If he doesn't see the beggar can he know poverty ?
Extend that to other things - If someone is in ignorance, can they be held responsible ?
And if knowledge isn't absolute but only partial and evolving, we are always semi-ignorant and hence cannot be fully responsible except to the extent of our knowledge.
Life as wave cycles.
One main wave and then others interlayed over that as possibly 1) birth circumstance 2) health mental & physical 3) inborn personality traits 4) random events
How God cannot enjoy a football match or a penalty shoot-out as he already knows the outcome.
And so, can there be any real benefit of fore-knowledge ?
Are we destined to fully realise our lives only through living ?
Achilles' view that the gods envy us because we die; there is no enjoyment in anything that lasts for eternity. Yet somehow he seeks immortality himself. The eternal paradox.
.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Conversations 02
Last
evening on the way to piano class Alisha pointed out the lyrics from the song
"Don’t think twice its alright" By Dylan …. "I gave her my heart
but she wanted my soul"….
What she had to say was -- that based on the
sentence structure and order, the sense of responsibility / blame shifted onto
either person. Eg what he says lead us to think that the girl is dissatisfied
and wanted more. But if we change the order of the sentences to "she
wanted my soul but I gave her my heart" makes it look like he was
responsible for not fulfilling her want. I was very impressed with her
observation, and the underlying logic which was pretty sound.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Green Belt Exam [ Kung-Fu ]
On 17 July 2012, Alisha & Armaan took their Examination for a Green Belt in Kung-Fu. They are steadily making terrific progress in their martial Arts training, and feel so proud of themselves.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Off the Florida Keys, Theres a Place called Kokomo
We'll put out to sea
And we'll
perfect our chemistry
By and by
we'll defy a little bit of gravity.
[ The Beach Boys - Kokomo ]
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
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