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One being a skeptic somehow radiates a bad aura, and I often wonder WHY? Taking a pause to look into the eyes of a skeptic – There are a few soft but strong assumptions that we take when we meet a skeptic. 1. We assume the same level of knowledge, coherence and comprehension on the stated belief systems 2. Assume the world view in which the skeptic operates and raises the questions as being the same you are in 3. Assume that the skeptic is infinite in his questions – There is a sense of finality that really drives the skeptic However, what would make a skeptic, an honest one or otherwise? I think it’s a simple thing – Are the questions part of the quest for the answer, or the questions an attempt to find a crack in the respondents answer. I love skeptics ( and I am one too sometimes ), especially the honest ones – They think, make you think and drive you to seek and attain clarity about the basic tenants that we base our world view and outlook on. To skeptics, Gnaw it off - Johnny

It's a lil past midnight, and sleeps beckons, but the moment lingers! I do not know how many times this happens to anyone, but twas a moment, when I felt so humbled, by simple honesty. Heaving with a puffed chest about a virtuous life, and somewhere along the way snacthed the credit to myself for God's Grace, and a brilliant upbrining, as if it was all mine, and reveling with a feeling of near pride - It was just a moment of honesty, talking with my dearest and best friend, that crushed it all - Just crushed it all! A moment I felt that, it was most important to get right with God, with myself and with man in the same order. I feel like I have rediscovered something that was lost, and am filled with Joy and gratitude. God does work in Mysterious ways , and I thank Him for all! For once I am not afraid to give back all the controls to Him. What was I really holding back?" - It was just the question, that was lingering in my head, that I wanted to ask God, and I get the ans

Now this is something thats worth a thought ! (stolen of Arjun's blog) Everything we do in relationships has some kind of payoff for us. Even when we do unselfish" things, it bolsters our image of ourselves as kind, caring human beings. When we take into account what effect choices will have on others, we become better aware of what consequences our choices will have. Here's the link I end on this note: I don't know if I agree or disagree to this, cos, I count it a previlage to have tasted something beyond the above (and for that, thanks to all).

Just a Pause . .. ... .... Time to breathe Time to deal with Time to get back to the basics Time to contemplate Time to correlate Time to take time

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I am appalled at the evolution of humans to a culture of delivering “good news” when there isn’t any. Why do we constantly, subconsciously crave and drive ourselves to the point of desolation, just in pursuit of what we perceive as “good news” that we want to deliver, at the primal level to ourselves, in the disguise to a feeling of well being and cool with all the surroundings around us. Have we forgotten that the basic instinct to survive is to understand what we are? and importantly beyond us as a person, into getting in harmony with the environment around us! That’s what we called as evolution with peaceful coexistence. (and yes harmony does not mean mutating, its just harmony!) It takes courage to face the truth, more to look into the eye and say the same, and the greatest to say to our “own-self”. Does a disguise of a pretentious refusal of reality, just change the world – No it doesn’t – On the contrary, you loose the very ground you loose one. What ever happened to the twinkle

My friend Sam's creativity on the whiteboard, on my desk

One of those days, when you wanted to reference something, that could help you with your work - and you enter a library. Now before I go ahead, let me describe my office Library - We have a sitting space to read news papers, a sitting space to read books and magazines, and a 40 seater cyber cafe, so that employees can catch up on any personal mails / browsing or just take a break. I finish my work and walk by searching for a machine, and find something very amusing! 1. More than 60% of the machines - Webmail (office mail is open) - Huh ? You come all the way to the cybercafe to check the same mails you ran away from?!!! 2. About 10% cross browse (meaning - I see what you are browsing, and you see what I am browsing) - May be this is the internet version of "I pat your back and you pat my back" 3. About 15% - searching for Jobs (hmmm thats better, but the internet access is uses your AD authentication - so what difference does it make if you search for a job from your desk??)

Hmm.. I wanted a fresh looking computer desktop background, and went about searching for some good images on a few better known sites. Has the definition of a "good" image been fortified as - 1. It should be something green ! 2. Some closeup picture of a blade of grass, a dew drop, or a bird shot with a telescopic lens 3. Empty landscapes 4. Sunset / Sunrises 5. Shilloutes 6. Flowers shot at such close up, that you feel you stripped them naked? Just want one background image that can brighten up a day! - Is that too much to ask? Huh? I will start my photography back!

This blog is dedicated to me – Why? Cos, I love an intelligent argument! On a random visit to one of my own blog entries - The Indulgent Mind - So More and No More !, it stuck me to reason as to, what a counter argument to this can be? Hidden deep in the recesses of layers of experiences accumulated over the years, as a result of learning, un-learning and re-learning, is a strong impression of a set of rules that need to be honored, zealously safeguarded with spite to anything that remotely suggests indulgence. The lines are teased, the lines are crossed, and the lines are broken – from when did one take ‘indulgence’ to be a way of life? – It’s the discipline in the now what would define the tomorrow! If the lines were drawn, they had a purpose to it. As G.K. Chesterton pens it down - “Before you pull any fence down; always pause long enough to find out why it was put there in the first place.” That brings us to the question – It’s about expanding the horizons that really defines and

I have come up with this new theory that life happens in buckets of 7s. 0-7 Yrs You are nurtured Cared for First impressions of likes and dislikes You get your way by kicking and crying Love is being nice to (yourself) Milk teeth fall and … 8-14 Yrs Your grow faster in head as much as in body Learn to care for First strong impressions about anything and everything First crushes Completely new set of opinions about life Voice cracks, final set of teeth Dreams where sky is the limit … 15-21 Yrs Likes and dislikes are redefined Impressions turn into Opinions Crushes are crushed and Love is substantiated Dreams are fortified Responsibility? First taste of frustration … 22-28 Yrs Have an opinion about everything and anythingOpinions are given a dimension of pragmatic realism Frustration fortified Love is revisited, crushes are better Get realistic, dreams are for the losers Responsibility beckons Marriages….? 29-35 Yrs Opinions don’t matter anymore New set of impressions (what ever they are

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I am not the one to burn bridges with haste, but sometimes, I just hate it so much; that at will I can choose to uproot even the mountains that create the need for a bridge. No Mountains, no bridges, just an open expanse of whatever you call that. I detest when someone uses me to be the shoulder to fire a gun, and move away with the notion that I would not realize - something that people forget - when you fire a gun - there is a recoil that hits the shoulder, and that does jolt even the dumbest one to know that it was their shoulder, from which the gun was fired. If you have a question, and chose to ask - be prepared to hear the answer. Why make a mockery of the answer and me? - There was nothing to speak if the question was not asked! - Balls! Mediocrity reigns and I am tired of people who in general know only one world - 'their world" and make a mockery of everything else that’s not as per the laws of a fictitious world You wanna live a real life, get real, there is more tha

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I am so happy - After the sharp turns and the rocky roads(?), it feels so wonderful to drive @ a cool 40KMPH (yes 40), blissful to meet and spend time with someone close to your heart - Its Brilliant! I am happy :)