Holy wow. I haven't used this blog for nearly 2 years! And still 1 or 2 people are viewing it every other day. Should I write here again? Hmm...

Blog Transfer

Ive shifted this blog to a facebook page :) spread the word! :D

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pensieve/192775910766974

The Problem With Time Travel

Thought of this when I saw Terminator.

"Let us send a robot into the past to kill this dangerous man when he was a child."

"Yes sir...But captain...He is still alive right now. That means we must've failed to kill him with that robot."

"Holy crap!! You're right! Let us not waste our time then. We'll try something else..."

"But then if we don't send a robot, this person could be alive now simply because we didnt try to kill him that way."

"So have we already failed or not??"

How Does It Feel?...

How Does it Feel....

To Know that you are responsible for your own feeling of loneliness...

To realize after so long that someone had always meant a lot more to you than you had meant for that person...

To have to accept that a person will never trust you no matter how much you show that you care...

To be humbled by the knowledge that so few of us will ever make a worthwhile difference to the world...and the rest of us are just living to survive...

To realize when you look at the big picture or from another person's point of view that you were never as important as people told you you were...

When you find out someone lied to you to protect you from getting hurt...

When you watch your dream go further and further away from the chances of becoming reality until you are forced to compromise your dream for one where your goal is just to exist in this world...

To have to lie to an innocent and trusting person, who has never done you any wrong, on the face...

When you give everything you have to save a person but he/she still goes out of reach...

When your best friends achieve what you had always wanted to, without a fraction of the efforts you had put into it...

When a casual friend knows better than your best friends what qualities in yourself you are proud of the most...

To watch a person pass away in front of your eyes and not be able to do anything about it...

When a child's legs are amputated and he will never have the chance for a normal life, because you did not have the discipline to keep away from alcohol before driving...

Empathy

To patrol during those long night-shift hours and miss out on the chance to have a normal life with others, because a random thief is not interested in finding an honest job...

To have to kill the pleading, defenseless enemy-soldier because your country told you to...

To have to work in a sewage dump to save the city from clogging (whose people do not ever give a thought about your nauseating job), while you yourself live in a slum miles away...

To have to accept a bribe to save your family, causing a million poor people to lose all the money they were entitled to...

To have to walk to your own death, to save a billion people who will never know about your sacrifice and continue to waste their lives...

From Blog To Book

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Philanthrope You!

Have you noticed that all swear words are only monosyllable or bisyllable? f***, bi***, so on... This makes them easy to say and is probably the reason why so many people use them. For example, let's say that the word f*** never existed. Instead the swear word is philanthropist. Can you imagine how all gangsters would talk? "Get that philanthropisting gun outta ma face!!"

Is God Testing Us?

Another piece about looking at things perspectively.

Exactly to what extent are we 'built for survival'?. Sure, scientists (and well, I also) find it very interesting that the Earth has all the requirements for survival of humans and other animals. It's seemingly extraordinary that Earth is at the right distance from the Sun, has the correct tilt of it's axis to create seasons, has the correct balance of gases in the atmosphere, has an abundance of water in it's liquid state and all the animals that exist on Earth smoothly fit into food chains, thereby helping each other to continue to survive.

Then let's go to a smaller level. To help us digest food we have hydrochloric acid and other gastric juices; to hide from predators chameleon can change colour to camouflage themselves; to swing from tree to tree orangutan's have longer and stronger arms than legs; to compensate for weak sight bats have excellent hearing capability; to hold tools efficiently monkeys and humans have longer fingers than most other species...then here's an example I find really interesting, taken from Physics of The Impossible: 'Foxes, dogs, tigers, and lions have eyes that are on the front of their face in order to judge distance when they pounce on their prey. With two eyes, they can use 3-D stereo-vision to lock on to their prey. Prey, such as deer and rabbits, on the other hand, just have to know how to run. They have eyes that are on the side of their face in order to scan for predators 360 degrees around them.'

All these examples makes one think. Surely all this is way too much to be just a coincidence? It would be ridiculous to suggest after being aware of so many more examples like these that it is through mere chance that we exist today, right? After all, the odds become progressively smaller as we state each factor that has helped us to survive. Doesn't this suggest that there's concrete proof that some supernatural force, maybe a God, that controls everything around us as well as us?

But let's look at the other side of the coin, a side which many people didn't think existed. If this supernatural force had built us specifically for us to survive, then why is it that not even a single person is devoid of flaws? We tend to voluntarily get into arguments, start wars and kill each other, let alone kill other animals. Foods that are nutritious (and help us survive) - vegetables, garlic, juice from tulsi leaves - do not taste as good as foods that slowly poison us...Pepsi, fudge, cakes, chocolates (to be accurate, chocolates are beneficial when taken in small amounts). There is also drugs and smoking. People are obsessed with them because it gives them temporary relief and makes them feel 'cool' in society.

So what's the verdict? Is there some supernatural force controlling the elements? If there is, then why are we easily seduced by things that harm us? Is it a moral test, a test of our willpower that everyone is obliged to take from the moment they are born?