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The Ultimate Wedding

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The journey of a stormy ride is poised to move into an ultimate phase of a pleasant, peaceful one. This is how I would describe the long enduring human search for knowledge, meaning, health and prosperity. We have traveled thousands of miles in darkness and light; freezing chill and boiling heat.   We saw everything in blocks or as random events and we let loose our imagination to extend all sorts of connections and meaning to the bewildering complexity. Some turned out to be accurate; but many others were later proved to be wrong. We have nearly succeeded in finding the secrets of matter. Today we can explain much of the physical phenomena, at least the ones immediately relevant to us, just with a help of a few basic fields and their nearly constant attributes. But the many different values and functions match with each other so perfectly giving rise to stunning outcomes, at times with their even more stunning exceptions and deviations that fully ensure the final results th
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Scientific Determinism Vs. Creative Surrender

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Laplace, the French mathematician, is one of the very first proponents of Scientific Determinism. In his Philosophical Essay on Probabilities   (1814) , he speaks about the possibility of a Vast Intellect that might perceive at once the past, the present and the future – by its sheer ability to see through the internal links of the flow of events. Prior to this proposal, the uncanny scholar had corrected the Newtonian hypothesis of divine interventions to maintain stability of the solar system. Essentially, Laplace  explained through integral calculus the perturbations of larger planets that couldn’t be deduced through Newtonian formulas. Nevertheless, nowhere do we find in the writings of this extraordinary Scientific Reformer an openly confessed atheism, which is a fashionable trend among some of the greatest intellectuals of our own times.  At the same time, the French Scholar wasn't an ardent advocate of Christianity either. One could therefore assert this much with certa
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Your obligations as a 13.77 billion year old being

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We aren’t people hoping to live through till eighties or nineties. Even the new born among us is literally 13.7 billion year old already. If you consider yourself otherwise, it’s simply due to the lack of information you have collected about yourself. I am saying this not with a motive of glorifying human beings alone. Often we have been envious of a mountain that stands for millennia under a single name.  We take buildings and trees as our land mark to reach specific destination. Some of us might have breakfast in the East and dinner in the West of the globe. And we give a sigh of relief when we reach our own property even as we find it to be exactly in the midst of the landscape so deeply registered in our memory. But believe it or not, even the high rise constructions around you started off only as hydrogen molecules many billion years ago – got consolidated into bigger atoms at the furnace of stars – got dispersed into deep space at the time of nebulae, the explosion – found
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Revolution Next to Computer

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Imagine a man/woman of sixteenth century or anyone living even earlier. Could one of them recognize or forecast that the world would be overtaken with production/travel technology, computer/communication technology one after another in the next four hundred years or so. Could he/she ever have a sweet dream of jets, webs, mobile phones and e-governance. In a similar fashion you too would not believe when I tell you that the next stage of revolution would be the still more invisible software, such as the transformation within our own brain. We revolutionised the products, our engines, and later our own mental operations with the help of computer, sattelites and mobile phones. We have achieved this through the extra-ordinary human intellect. Now the remaining part is to revolutionize the intellect itself. There's a new world to be achieved by changing the way we think and feel. Religions have demonstrated some of these powers in the past. But they uniformally failed due to the lack
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I believe I said something startling in my previous blog. One could have still missed it. Not because you aren't agile. But possibly because I could have stated it in a clumsy manner. Let me redo it again for you and take off from that single point. "I am basically a thinking spirit and I could equally say 'I am not this', just as I continue to harp 'I am this and that'. If you remember, I concluded by saying it isn't wrong to believe 'I am this body and this mind' but it's simply a beginning of the evolutionery stage. Just a simple argument is sufficient to prove that my presumption of self is either wrong or imperfect. My body as we know is a mingling of the cells of my parents and it continues to depend even now on lots of physical sources such as food, water and air existing outside this body. Hence how could I ever say 'I starts from this body alone'? My brain which is not sufficiently developed to see the links of physical rea
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I Drowse but I start

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I know this is not the fantastic moment to start. I am still drowsing, as I slept for 4 hours last night. Even my language isn't going to be catchy or crispy. Yet I start, for I have totally new things to offer you. Today I would rather indicate few glimpses here and there. May not be fully organized. But mind you, each of it has been tested under the lab of my own mind for quite many years. Every one of my dictum stands purely on reason and you are most welcome to disprove me based on pure reasoning alone. Who ever said you are your mind? Before entertaining billions of thoughts on the world outside of you, did you pause for a while to turn your deeply analytical skills upon yourself to begin with? Did you check with the basic assumptions your brain has accumulated since the time of its evolution? You constantly say to yourself "I am this body and each of the thought and emotion, my mind displays within me". Your assumption is tied up in every one of your limitless tho
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