My perfect holiday is when I can sit back with a book on an easy chair and not answer for my idleness to anyone. I do not mind what book I read really. Books are meant to do something to me and it is all that I expect in a holiday as well. After having [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Holiday Travels
Posted in humor, travels, tagged books,, adventure, culture, renewal, reinvent, Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, travels, travel planner, chnge of scene, armchair travel, slice of life on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sleep
Posted in life, tagged healing power, Morpheus, power, rejuvenation, sandman, sleep on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a child I thought sleep was glorious. I still think so. One would think certain habits like hitting the sack at a regular time or waking up by break of dawn would pall with passage of time. No. Man goes to sleep like a beggar with his worn out nerves and thoughts soiled by [...]
New Superstitious Belief-systems
Posted in current news, lifestyle, tagged beauty fads, breast implants, fads, humor, modern education, organic food, Truth, untested facts, veganism on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion in 2007.
A systematic [...]
Small and Big Issues
Posted in humor, life, tagged aphorisms, humor, Oscar Wilde, quotes, W.C Fields on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I can think for myself the big issues but you gotta solve small issues for me, like where my next meal is coming from.”
Mahatma Kane Jeeves II
Unearned Influences
Posted in nature, religion,, tagged atheism, Christianity, Churches, crooks, Earth cults, New Age, saints, scientology, shamanism, wiganism on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Religion is for man. Quality of religion is such an abstract quantity that makes no sense unless it is shown in practice.
Religion requires a base from which anyone may show off the merit of belief-systems that he subscribes to. Man is one such. He or she may demonstrate its color and other qualities. It is [...]
Quote for the Day
Posted in current news, life, tagged aphorisms, Madoff, one liners, W.C Fields on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Life is like a Ponzi scheme…” I will let Bernie Madoff complete the sentence.
Mahatma Kane Jeeves II
A Quote
Posted in life, tagged aphorism, marriage, one liners, precepts on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marriages are made in heaven but those who pull the strings behind, over the time, seem to lose track of reality.
benny
A Proverb
Posted in nature, tagged instant proverbs, time and place, worship on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Obedience is good for the soul but obedience to your body makes even the hundred names of Allah sound perfect’ -An Uzbeck proverb
As the fellow who told the kazi when he was accused of impiety, ‘ When my bladder is bursting and must leak I tell the mullah,”This isn’t time. Allah can wait. The mullah [...]
Offside
Posted in moral philosophy, tagged astronomy, astrophysics, ce, energy, Hubble, moral sense, red shift, soul on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving away from us, as predicted by a universal expansion. Using the redshift of their electromagnetic spectra to determine the distance and speed of remote objects in space, he showed that all objects are moving away from us, and that their speed is [...]
Devil is in Details
Posted in moral philosophy, tagged Ariel, bipolar, Caliban, character, Dr Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, duality, Greed, Madoff, sacrifice, split personality on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nucleus of an atom is made up of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. These are fermions (spin-half particles) of almost the same mass (in fact it is often useful to think of them as two different states of the same particle, distinguished by different values of quantum number, isospin).
Nucleons interact with one another [...]