Wednesday, February 13, 2008

WAR

'Only the dead have seen the end of War'

This post wont be regarding whether going to/declaring war on some country/caste is ethical or not.Unfortunately war,guns,weapons are a necessary evil.Since some of our brothers are evolving in a reverse manner as far as their thinking goes......so we need such authority to atleast protect the masses.

Soldiers train themselves for a lifetime for war (and hope they never get to exercise all that they have been taught) I know that feeling won`t always be there but there will still be a part of them which thinks that patrolling is better than going to war no matter how much they deny that part.
In case of watching borders it is relatively ethical in a way but that too seems so irrelevant to me.Sunita Williams said something like (after reaching outer space)"You should be here.Its so beautiful,there are no borders".
The sheer amount of training to reach a high post is untrue.Only the dedicated and hardworking will get to the top after they have the right experience.

The only good thing that came out of War is online Multiplayer Video Games.Play acting is taken on a different level in many Multiplayer Games.Games like Call of Duty let u experience how it would be like for an American soldier,Russian soldier in WWII.

Another view here is what about the psychological war going on? (through our psyche)
Everyone is influencing our pattern of thinking daily.....Many people corrupt our mind (mostly by negative thought patterns)There are many Soldiers(in a way) which try to instill faith in whatever we do.

Such soldiers,present many years ago,include M.Gandhi,A.Einstein,A.Lincoln........
Some of them present in recent past are Nelson Mandella,Mother Teresa,Baba Amte.....
I would even go on to classify someone like a Nagesh Kukunoor,Sharad Upadhay in the same class since through their work they can influence the masses in a right way.
(Nagesh Kukunoor-Iqbal Director,Sharad Upadhay-Marathi writer)

So which enemy are they fighting against......?There are many enemies like anger,selfishness,laziness,etc. but ultimately it is the 'EGO' which causes all these.

The enemies,for starters how about Ekta Kapoor and her K serials.How ironic is it that her name is 'EKTA' meaning unity yet all that is there in each of her serials is how to teach people to fight against each other.Then there are people like Hitler who spread a distorted perception to the masses leading to deaths of innocent.

Lets hope that there are many soldiers awaiting to join the battle as far as psycological war is concerned.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Microcosm and Macrocosm

The pic says it....One on the left is the image of 3 nueron cells and their connections.On the right is the simulated image of current Universe.This is so fascinating how can the two with so much difference in size can be so similiar.Ofcourse u might say the second image is a simulated one but there are other examples which show similarity of a Microcosm and Macrocosm.

The brain/nueral network is so complex is untrue.It is the ultimate intelligence organ of nature.Even as science has developed so rapidly in the last 50 yrs or so.Scientists are still trying to find out about the nuerons and their associations(Basically how they work together in different situations )It is still unclear whether nuerogenesis occurs in our brains and whether it is good for us.I dont think that we will ever get to investigate how brain/nueral connections work in various situations.
Then there are Mirror Nuerons which fire when u see anyone doing some task familiar to you. Lets take a simple example of sports we all have played one game or the other before/after watching it.When we watch (live) on TV we can asssociate with the players becoz of Mirror Nuerons since we have played the game and associate with it.Mirror Neurons fire when we watch them play.Its not that we are playing at that time but there is some part of us there or else how would these nuerons fire(becoz ultimately we come from the same source?)Same goes for movies when we go through different situations and try to empathize with the actor/s.

Stars and Different galaxies are intruiging as well....There is this dialogue in Munnabhai where Arshad Warsi talks to Sanjay Dutt that when we die we become stars.Maybe we do....maybe earth is just like hell...or maybe not(its not that bad here) The point is there might be some parellel universes existing with some different star as their Sun out there with some other dimensions unknown to us.Or some network of super beings(God...) collectively working for us here.

When we try to relate the two there are innumerable differences in scale but there is this feeling of the unknown waiting to be discovered at the same time.

This all brings me to the ultimate question Why are we here?Are there some superpowers who control us without us knowing through neurons and different galaxies?Or is it our own collective thoughts that influence both the Microcosm,Macrocosm.It is an Ultimate quest but i have realized in the past few years that everyone one of us are related.If not the same nuerons but the basic unit of Life DNA remains in all.

There are about 200-400 Billion stars and (approx 100 Billion Nuerons in the human Brain)around 100 Trillion nueron cells.....Now its for us to decide for ourselves whether fate is written in stars or what we make of it ourselves through our actions throughout our lives....