Student Vs Professor

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil? (Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them? (Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't. (The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it. (There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? (The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.) Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain? (The class breaks out into laughter.) Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? (The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive. And the student sits down.

To whomsoever it may concern,

This is a reply to the above dialogue between a Student and a Professor, which implicitly sates that it “proves” the existence of god. I was deeply hurt that a dialogue that has no logic in it has been going around the internet for so long a time.

The excerpts from the dialogue are in blue and the reply’s are in black.

Student: ... But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat
we cannot measure cold. Heat is energy.

There is something called Cold. Cold is the name given to low temperatures or low energy (heat energy) levels, which is vastly different from " absence of heat ". Absolute temperature (0 K –273.15 °C/ –459.67 °F) cannot be achieved, as it requires a perfect system without any imperfections. A system without any imperfections is not found in nature and neither can it be created except in theory. We do measure cold. Low temperature is cold.

Student: Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

Wrong. Cold is not absence of heat, but the name given to low energy (heat energy) levels as stated in my previous response.

Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Accepted, darkness is the absence of light as perceived by humans. You see darkness is a human term. Many animals use sound, infra-red, vibrations, chemical signature for navigation and other purposes. So what would be darkness to a human may not be so for some other animal. Also, what’s the point the student is trying to get at here? Is it that the professor is wrong? Well it in no way affects the authenticity of the professor’s statements about god. Why? The reason is the first sentence of the discussion. “An atheist professor of philosophy…..”, as you can very well see the professor is qualified on the subject of philosophy and it nowhere mentions his qualifications in the field of physics. It would therefore not be incorrect to make a premise that the professor’s knowledge in physics is that of a layman as the fields of philosophy and physics differ from each other widely. The Student has made a logically incorrect premise that an expertise in one subject means an expertise in other subjects too.

Student: You argue there is life and then there is death, To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.

First of all The Professor nowhere makes a statement that death is the opposite of life. Again check the Student’s logic: There is absence of life on the Moon, so according to the Student, there is Death on the Moon. Wow, the Student is an absolute genius!!! I am expecting a thesis on the existence of death on the Moon. What crap?

Student: Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.

Really? I didn’t know that science couldn’t explain electricity and magnetism. I guess the Student has missed quite a few science classes during his school days.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)

Evolution is a slow, continuous, cumulative process. It will take a hundred years if not a thousand years to perceive a change. The life period of an average human being is only 60 years. So isn't it logically incorrect of the Student to ask the Professor, if he has observed the process of evolution at work.

And as for evidence of evolution, one word: Fossils. Oh also the genes of animals belonging to different species are quite similar to each other.

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.

Again the Student’s logic is fallacious. That the Professor is able to reply coherently to his questions is not this by itself proof of a brain. The Professor is obviously qualified with at least Bachelors degree if not a Masters or Doctorate to be teaching. As far as I know, that would do require a brain.

The dialogue can be used to “prove” the existence of, among many others, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and the Celestial Teapot. In the dialogue, just replace the instances of the word God with any of the three above and voila!

I doubt how many people would not ridicule a person who believes in the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Invisible Pink Unicorn or the Celestial Teapot. C'mon, you would at least give a wry smile and call the person a nutcase. And yet, if a person believes in God, everyone else is expected to respect their religious sentiment and not make fun of it.

Awaiting a reply,

An Atheist

Pidology

Finally folks, you get to read the thoughts of the great Lord Pidog.

Lord Nihlus Pi Dog Says:

● In Life there are certain

✔ Questions not worth asking.

✔ Answers not worth chasing.

● If it's your fate to change fate then what can stop you?(If there is fate.)

● There is randomness in order and a order in randomness.

● Chaos is nothing but random order.

● Society is a tool for the non powerful who know their power to control the powerful who don't know their power.

● The only intransigent thing in life is transience.

● Life is transient, that's the beauty of it.

● Succeeding is great but knowing where you will is greater.

● It's easy to be wise you just need to know how.

● There is only one way from the top.

● No matter how many people you love, no matter how many people love you, when it really comes down to it, you are alone in this world.

● We don't determine our birth. We don't determine our death. Why then do we try to determine what happens in between?

Answer: Because we are humans!

● Is there anything as good or bad?

● Which is better? Being a Specialist or a Generalist.

● Sometimes we have to do things not because we want to but because we have to.

● In Life, tough decisions have to be taken whether you like it or not. The sooner you accept this fact the better it is for you.

● What would be the best way to show your contempt to something but by conquering it.

● We are what we are because of what we are.

● From the darkest of times come the brightest of lights (sort of redundant).

● Sometimes we do not mean what we mean and mean what we don't mean.

● The world is going to the dogs and i am one of them.

● The hardest thing in life is to be honest with oneself and the easiest is to lie.

● What will happen if we know what is going to happen?

● Which is worse? Consciously doing the wrong thing for the right reasons or doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

● The greatest gift that you can offer a person is not that you can ascend the highest peaks but that you can descend to the deepest nadirs.

● Winners "write" history.

● History judges you not by How but by What.

● Your determination to do something is not shown by what your are willing to give up but by what your are willing to take up.

● The worse thing in life is not that giving up but refusing to take up.

● Which is better? Is it to "Stand and Fight" and Fall or to "Live Today, Fight Tomorrow" and Win.

● How much Grey matter you have determines how much you think about Grey area's.

● What is reality but our assumption that it something is real.

● Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Devil, choose the Devil at least you have a chance of making a deal.

● Sometimes to Win is to Lose and to Lose is to Win.

● It is sometimes better to Lose than to Win.

● Ignorance is sometimes better than knowledge.

● It is the principle of the thing rather than the thing itself that matters.

● If there had been no Goliath, there would have been no David.

● The Weak shall die and the Strong shall survive.

● The most barbaric are the most civilized and reverse holds as well.

● Death is not the end of Life, but its continuation.

● Nobody Wins in a War, the same goes for Life.

● Everyone Losses in a War, Life is the biggest War.

● I like journeys, but i don't like the biggest one of them all.

● Go to your deaths with your heads held high and with a laugh, after all it's what life is all about.

● Everyone has fears only the degree and the cause of fear varies.

● The two greatest sin's of the world Self-Deception and Self-Denial.

● Do we know all the time why we do what we do and why we feel what we feel?

● If perfection is a myth, why chase it?

● Perfection is against the very existence of the universe.

● Desire is considered the root of all evil, but without desire how can anyone live?

● If it is not about Winning or Losing, but only about how good a fight you put up, why is Winning given so much importance?

● If Winning is a habit (it should also hold true for Losing), then how does Losing become the first step to Success.

● That all truths are facts and all facts are truths is by itself a truth and a fact.

Nations, Nationality and Patriotism

Nation, that absurd political idea that has, is, and causing so many problems for mankind, ever since it’s inception along with the growth of the civilizations.

Why do I call the idea of nation and nationality absurd? Well, the reasons are fairly simple. It is primarily an idea that was used to by the noblesse to capture and retain their power and wealth. Nations and nationality are at any level just a political idea and holds no other higher meaning. And, nationality does not mean that you have to dislike (nor hate) other countries.

Patriotism and nationality are being increasingly cited as reasons by governments across the world to extend support to their citizen(s), even though the person(s) may indeed be guilty. These are also increasingly being cited as reasons by people to oppose the ideas that other countries put forth and in most cases to look down upon other countries.

Mankind has spilled blood over this idea. I can understand if you are fighting over an area rich in natural resources. But mankind has spilled blood even over areas that are inhospitable and lack any kind of natural resources. Areas that only hold symbolic meaning and sometimes areas that are actually a loss are also defended. Why? Because there is a perception of difference of opinion.

All the differences of opinions among the 200 odd countries in the world evaporate if you take away the idea of nationality. In what way is a person from the continent of America any different from a person from the Asian continent? There is no difference.

Why shouldn’t an individual born in one country feel that his nationality is more that of another country? After all nations and nationality are just political ideas. But such an individual would be called unpatriotic.

And what is Patriotism anyway? Patriotism is an idea. It means not only to stand up for and stand by a country but more importantly for the ideas and principles behind that country. This is the true meaning of the word Patriotism.

Why have I stressed on the word country in the definition?

It is because; there is a difference between the “government of a country” and “country.” Many people have been misled to think that “government of a country” and “country” are the same. The first duty of a patriot is not the government of their country, not even towards his/her country but to the ideas and principles behind his/her country. A person truly becomes a patriot only if he/she is loyal to the the ideas and principles behind their country.

Also, patriotism does not mean and never meant that whatever your country does is correct and that whatever other countries do is wrong.

Just because, you were born in a country doesn’t mean that you have to feel patriotic towards it or have to identify yourself with the nationality of that country. Respect the country you were born in, if and only if it truly deserves it.

But if there is any other country that you can identify yourself with, go ahead and identify yourself by that country. And if you feel patriotic towards a country other than in which you were not born in, you are not unpatriotic.

Culture

Culture means the complete lifestyle of a person, including but not limited to occupation, types of food consumed, how the food is cooked, language, dress style, laws, values, beliefs, religion, travel, construction methods, the materials used in the construction and so on.

The above definition encompasses all the various definitions that there are on culture.

Why am I stressing on the definition of culture? Because, so many people seem to use this word without knowing what the word stands for.

Especially, Indians seem to use this word more than the people from any other nationalities. They use it to raise a hue and cry about the changing dressing styles, the changing values, and generally for everything which is not to their taste. [I have used the word they when referring to Indians, even though I am a naturalized citizen of India because: I being the Emperor of the Universe, am a citizen of the Universe at large and cannot be categorized as a citizen of any one particular region.]

When someone wears jeans, people say it is not Indian culture to wear jeans. My question is what is Indian culture? Which point in India’s history, would you use as the benchmark for defining “Indian Culture”? Culture changes with time. The practices and beliefs practices today were not followed hundred years ago. And the practices that were followed a hundred years ago were not followed three hundred years ago and it goes on. So, which would be “Indian Culture”? The practices followed today? Or the one’s practiced hundred years ago?

The answer, I mostly get is that we are following the same practices that were followed a hundred years ago. Really? You didn’t have IT companies back then. So, working in an IT company is against “Indian Culture”. We didn’t have automobiles back then or cell phones, or television, or credit cards… and the list is endless. All these things are against the “Indian Culture”. Yet how many people do you see protesting against these? Not a single person!!!! Yet, you have people protesting that English should not be used in official documents, food chains should not open, and some stuff like that.

I was watching a program were two group of people were debating over whether not wearing dhoti is against “Indian Culture”. The whole thing left a bad taste in mouth. Little did the Pro-dhoti group or for that matter anyone else did not notice was that the medium (television) through which they were airing their views by itself is not “Indian Culture”.

Democracy as practiced now is also not an “Indian Culture” (The idea of democracy is from the Ancient Rome.). India since it’s inception by the great Chandragupta Maurya with the assistance of the even greater Chanakya (Who’s idea it was to create a large empire in the subcontinent.) was always ruled by a king in its long history until British Raj and became a true democracy only after the independence (In some ways, India is still not a democracy.). Yet, Indians never tire of shouting their throats hoarse that India is the largest democracy.

Show some consistency people!!!!!!!!

I end by saying that Culture is not permanent. It is unfixed, and ever-changing. It must change with time or will stagnate, decay and decompose everything that it touches. Culture absorbs new things, both modifying itself and that which it absorbs into a new entity constantly.

The idea of this post is not to say that you have to accept everything that is new and reject everything that is old. The idea is learn to accept change and do not stand in the way of progress saying something is not culture just because it is not to your taste.

Marriage

Marriages are made in heavens goes a saying. You can find some version of this in almost all cultures (More about cultures in a later blog.). Since, scientific evidence for the “heavens” is lacking, I as a rationale being cannot accept the first statement. (I am too good….. ain’t I?)

I have quite a few arguments for taking the active stance, which I have taken, against Marriage.
These have been listed below:


Reasoning 1:

Marriage is the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies

The above is the definition I got from dictionary.com. It is also very close to the meaning given in my copy of the oxford dictionary.

Let me make it clear that I am not against love or more specifically romance. All I am against is the institution that is marriage.

Most of you may ask what is the difference. There is and it is quite simple, at least to me.
You have friends, right? You don’t have a ceremony to declare that this is my friend. Nor do you have a ceremony to say; my friend and I are parting ways, we are no longer friends.

See the logic? So, why have a ceremony to declare someone is your husband or wife?


Reasoning 2:

I have been asking the question “Why should one necessarily get married?” to almost everyone I know. The answer is get is “To share my life.” Or “ Imagine, when you are 50-60 yrs old. You will want someone to love and be close with.”

These answers all point to one thing: Fear. Yeah, yeah, I know. Most of you, will not agree with me. Some of you are probably thinking of some nice juicy words and lines for the comments. But people, sadly the truth is that it is true. It is fear of being alone that drives most people to marriage.

So, if you are really strong you will not have fear of being alone. Hence, you need not marry at all. This is not to say that all married people are weak, but most are.


Reasoning 3:

This is a reasoning to which great person (read, my elder sister) awakened me. I did a little research of my own and the finding did corroborate the conclusion to which I had already arrived.

This is again another major reason why many people in India marry. They want to have sex. I can hear the boos and nay’s. But people it is the sad truth about our culture. It is indeed a sad insight into our culture. We Indians push the entire topic of sex under the carpet. Have you seen any family (read, parents and children) having an open conversation about this topic? No, I have till date not come across such a situation. The result is a country full of sex-obsessed individuals. And, this is the country where marriage is considered sacred. Pathetic.

There is another reason why many men marry. They just want a unpaid house keeper who will also double up as their emotional support. A person who will put up with them no matter what they do.

Neither are the woman any more pious than men. What else does a woman want from a husband? They want a free meal. A person who will jump up to defend them, even for the most stupidest thing they do. And, the social status associated with marriage. Most women also follow the social norm that the better your spouse is (financially and socially), the better for you.


Conclusion:

I do not oppose marriage, when the people involved know each other, love each other and more importantly have respect for each other. But I do oppose people getting married for the sake of getting married.

I have not spoken about the survival of the species/procreation argument for marriage as it is a non-issue. We do not have any responsibility to increase our numbers.

Sisters

Sisters, who can live with them or without them?

It is my personal opinion that all sisters should have a statutory warning label like they do on the cigarette packets. You may ask, why then do you still continue the relationship? Well, it is the same reason as why people continue to smoke, drink, and do drugs even though they know about their ill hazards. Believe me it is addictive and you will want to have more and more sisters. The worst part is there are no rehab centers for people like me!!

I have so many sisters that I have started loosing count. Okay, I am exaggerating by a huge margin here; the actual count is in the range of eight.

Read below to know how these sisters of mine make my life funny, happy, and sometimes drive me to utter insanity. In short, they add spice to my life.

This is what my elder sister (She is an darling [for lack of a better word] angel.) has made and I dread will continue to make me do.

I was once dumb enough to agree, when my sister asked me if I could go along with her for shopping (translation: It simply means they[girls] need a person who will drive her around, carry her bags, doesn’t comment on the time or on the choice of her tastes.). And, she even told me that she hadn’t seriously shopped (translation: which means, buying clothes that they[girls] can but will not wear for a lifetime) in a long time (translation: means about around a month). She made me wait in front of the dressing room with a whole bunch of clothes dumped on me! Imagine, my plight. And, guess what? It took her only two and half hours to decide on her clothes. She in between asked me if I was feeling embarrassed? Duh! What kind of a dumb question is that? Of course I was embarrassed. Thankfully she didn’t ask me to pay for her clothes, which was a big relief. The icing on the cake was this statement by her as we were going home: “I thought we could buy something for you too. But I guess there is no time, I have some work to do.”

The next one is even better. Her cooking. I seriously pity the person who is going to marry my sister. Once, she decided to make Poori (a south Indian dish). It was so hard that even my dog had difficulty eating it. Then there is this Thakkali Sadam that she made (I’ll never forget this once for the rest of my life.). She used a pressure cooker. The result: the rice at the bottom was roasted, on the top it was somewhere between uncooked and half-cooked. There was this tiny layer in between that was cooked properly. I can’t even today understand how she got it. Then she literally force feed the whole thing to me while laughing uncontrollably.

Now, for the sister who really spices up my life. She was my classmate in college and now my most adorable younger sister. How does she spice up my life? Well, she calls up at 11 in the night (all most every day) and cringes about something or the other. Well, what will any good brother do? Cheer her up. Well, that’s what I do. It usually takes an hour or so and by the time we say bye, her spirits are up or at least that’s what she says. Finally, I go to bed feeling good about myself. The next day around lunchtime I get a message from her saying that she’s still feeling low. This happens everytime. Isn't that enough to drive even a sane man to insanity; imagine what it will do to an already insane person?

Next, is the only second person that almost agrees with all most of my ideas (The first of course being my darling angel.). She’s crazy but on a lower scale then me though. Well, she irritates me by commenting on my laziness every time we speak. I have told her many times to give it a rest but she keeps continuing. It drives me nuts.

Then there is this sister of mine, whom I got to know mostly because we kept and keep getting into arguments (pointless arguments according to her, which I don’t agree with). Have you ever known anyone who laughs when someone is discussing a serious issue with them or scolding them? Well, she does precisely that. Effect, I get more gray hairs, and my blood pressure shoots up.

Then are these two classmates from my college again who are now my sisters. Both are pretty okay. One does sort of drive me mad because she never listens to me. I go mad of asking her the same question and getting the same reply that she still hasn’t done what she was supposed to do. I think I should be happy, as things would have been worse if she had been working in town. And the other sister is the only one of my sisters, who I think has up to now never tried to drive me crazy (Excepting of course the one time she nearly came close to the precipice of insanity but I pushed her back to sanity. But, i pushed her back to sanity, becasue she was not ready yet for insanity.).

Next is the sister that made and makes me very happy. Why? She’s is the third person, who agrees with most of the things I say. But, even she doesn’t agree with me on everything. I guess I am that rare breed of genius who comes along once in a millennium. Understanding, accepting, and appreciating such a genius like myself itself requires a kind of genius that comes along only once in a hundred years. So, back to the topic of discussion. Don’t worry she is not even near the vicinity of the area of what may and can be classified as the lower zones of my genius. Oh, I almost forgot to mention, how she drove me crazy. Well, it made to me so happy to find another person who is like me, that I went crazy.

I have saved the best for the last. Because, this next sister of mine is the winner hands down. No arguments about it. Why? She very nearly killed me by giving me a heart attack. I know, what you guys would be thinking. That she probably brought home some guy and introduced him as her boy friend. No, that wouldn’t give anyone a heart attack would it? C’mon people have some imagination. Remember people she is my sister. Can’t guess still, here’s the answer. She’s recently taken to calling me “anna”(Tamil, for elder brother). Now, you are probably wondering why she calling me anna gave me a heart attack. Because, until about seven-eight years ago, we both used to literally have wrestling matches with each other (serious ones, mind you). Come to think of it, I guess theses wrestling matches do partially explain some of my hair loss. Okay, enough about my hair loss problems, back to the story. You might wonder, didn’t you anticipate this, in the intervening years? See, in between, we didn’t get to meet each other lot because of my studies (Yeah, right) and generally we lost contact. So imagine, how would it be when suddenly she called me anna? I know what you people are thinking? You probably want to meet my sister to congratulate her on nearly killing me. But, sorry I am not going to name her so you people can never know who she is. (Sorry sis, you have to remain anonymous. But you know who you are and so you know how many people would have come to look up on you as a savior had you managed to kill me.) Evil, ain't I?

Note:

Not all sisters are like mine nor do I guarantee that they all would not be so. I have chosen to write only how they drive me crazy. They of course also sometimes make me very happy. I have written about the instances when they drive me mad not because of any lack of instances where they have made me happy but because I have chosen not mention these instances.

Special Note to Girls:

The intention of this blog is not to scare any brother into disowning his sisters. I till date have not disowned a single sister. I do not and will not take responsibility if any brother does so. As it is up to each individual on how he interprets this blog. But, I guess you all know that you have nothing to fear from one small tiny little blog. There are about hundreds of thousands of warning out there about marriage. Yet, men keep getting married.

Homosexuality

Why have I written a blog on homosexuality? Well, because I have been asked by quite a few people if I am a homosexual. I don't mind or care how many people ask me how many times but what disgusted and disgusts me is that the question is asked with a sneer or in derogatory tone (expect by the one person I really really really really really care about.). So, it set me off thinking that should probably write something about the whole issue. Read on...

The one thing that immediately strikes me is: Philadelphia. Why? Because, it is the one single movie that makes me cry every single time I watch it. The characters are so beautifully created that the whole film just gets recorded into your mind. And, I personally consider it to be the best movie on homosexuality.

Now, for the main issue.

In India, which is where I live incidentally, the whole issue is avoided. People just don’t want to discuss about it. They would rather have the whole thing swept under the carpet like many other things are done.

What is most depressing is that even well educated, otherwise broadminded people too shrink away from discussing the issue. Sometimes, they even pass the most disgusting jokes on the issue.

This is a country that HAD a long history of tolerance. Now, look at the pathetic state of affairs Okay, I am digressing here. More about the deplorable state of affairs in a later blog.

First of all what people, I am sad to say, don’t understand is that homosexuality is not a disease nor is it some kind of a sin. No religion ever says anything against homosexuality. Yet, the religious leaders during medieval ages and even now continue to twist the minds of people against it. Why? Because, they are demagogues.

Discriminating against homosexuality is racism. Please think before you act, they are people just like you. They too have jobs, friends, families, and ideals just like you. Why then do you want to discriminate against them? Don’t they have every right to live, as they want to, just like you do?

Criminals and terrorist are pardoned and yet these people who have not done anything wrong are harassed and jailed. What kind of a society is this? Did you know that marriage between homosexual is considered illegal is India? And guess what people, this law was not formulated by us but was constituted under the British Raj and it is still in continued use today with no change. How about that people? For a country that has tried to remove all traces of its colonial days, it still uses the same arcane laws that were setup during that period. This just goes to show how hypocritical we Indians really are about on everything.

Personally, I believe that all those closet homosexual should come out and make a stance. Marriages between homosexuals should be made legal.

If you are a person who is against homosexuality, I am going to ask you to do a small favor. Go watch the movie Philadelphia.

Here is an link to another intresting blog on homosexuality. http://wingstoneverland.blogspot.com/2007/11/are-we-homo-sapience.html