Oh God!

Someone at this church has a sense of humor...
I found this while browsing on net, here.

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Me at my best

Few of my friends of late have been asking me to post a video clip of myself. So for all those who asked for it...


Disclaimer: I have no idea who shot this video. If anyone has a copyright issue with it please let me know.

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Socrates and Plato

I came across a post by Huda Ba'haroon and it made me wonder a bit. According to her story (not sure about the authenticity)...

"Phiosopher Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day he came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say.

The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..." "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.

Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?" "No, on the contrary..." "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?" The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?" "No, not really"

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem."

And also the reason why he was unaware of the fact that Plato, one of his students, had a better time with his wife. I just thought both sides of the story needed to be told.

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Creativity

Creativity can be more amusing than modern fine arts. Obviously someone thought of a better use of one-way glass than the police interrogation room. But, the question is when you are inside at your job and see a speeding truck heading your way... hmmm.. makes me wonder a bit!

Yes, it's a public restroom from outside

and inside.

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The End

Come May, I release the door,
There you are, free.
Can you now do your chore,
Drifting iceberg, aimless, in the cold North sea?

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A wish

I wanted to ask your name
Since the moment I saw you,
Walking alone bare feet
On the grass and the morning dew.

I wished I could write
And the words would rhyme;
Perhaps to catch your breath
Like a wind from the chime.

From the ancient Greece, I wished,
I were a sculptor, forgotten and nameless
Carving on the rock to seize
A glimpse of your grace.

Or if I could only paint
And not live to rue,
I didn't capture the color of your tears,
And all its wasted hue.

The juvenile sun promised glory
For the time to come.
But, I stood there motionless
Lost and lonesome.

Perhaps if I could move
To touch you or feel
Your soul covered in nudity,
If only could I peel!

At least if I could speak
To ask your name!
Now the day is gone to wonder.
But, myself, I have no one to blame.

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An introspection

I miss the good old days in Sulekha forum. There was a time people used to write about the analysis of a game in terms of what went wrong or right, not WHO went wrong and right. As Indians, we tend to do a lot of Hero-worshipping. We pick our heroes and make the infallible in our mind and refuse to even accept all these people are actually mortals with human imperfections, be it Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly. Shewag , Yuvraj, or Kumble or anyone else.
Another sad aspect was how we slowly started to resort to personal attacks (I am guilty of that myself at times, though I don’t post very often) in order to have our point across. If I say something in support of Ganguly I am attacked by a group of individual as if I am a brainless moron. If I say in support of Tendulkar it’s the same response from another group of individuals. Sulekha’s obvious flaw of generating fake ids was exploited to the core. There was time when I didn’t know who I was responding too. It’s ironic that we keep harping about corrupt politicians. Unfortunately they don’t really fall from the sky. They are the product of the same society made by all of us.
Slow demise of this forum as a platform to discuss sports is sad. But, it’s an indication of our national character in some sense as we didn’t take too long to bring down something pleasant and rapidly transformed it into a stage for throwing mud at each other.

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