Mid week update

How many times has it happened to you discover something new about stuff you use on a day-to-day basis? In the last several months of using launch radio, i never realised there was a metal station. Instead I was trying to create my own metal station by eliminating unwanted songs like "Oops! I did it again". In any case, if you want to listen to my station you can click here .

In another shameless act of self-promotion, I want to announce the launch of my very own
webpage. To be honest, I scoffed upon html and related stuff not too long ago. That is why I never really had a website. (There's a song called "Cyberwaste" playing on radio right now. What a coincidence!!) Recently, I decided to give the whole website thing another chance and it worked out pretty well. I believe, it is time to give something back to the web community. It is only fair considering the amount of stuff I've googled in the last few years.

Why we must not work

Here's an interesting line of thought that came up during my idle time i.e. anytime between 1981 and today.

I noticed that a lot of people are bored. Boredom is generally an offshoot of contentment. Also most (if not all) of these very people are sad that they're bored. Ergo, contentment leads to sadness.

Therefore, my suggestion is that we stop working towards what we wish to achieve. Coz we're gonna be content when we achieve it and thats gonna lead to sadness. Is it possible that we don't really want what we think we want. Does the previous sentence even make any sense? Why are you still reading this blog?

Thots on religion

I have been always fascinated by religion. Not its teachings, but by its motive. Let's assume, a few millenia ago, bunch of folks were sitting around a tree smoking marijuana. What would've inspired them to start off the phenomenon that we now call a religion?
Here's my hypothesis:
The bunch of guys were actually logicians who were trying to build up a theory to describe society. Meaning, they were trying to come up with a set of axioms i.e. stuff that would seem obviously and undeniably true then. For e.g. parents would love their children. They would then have come up with a set of rules to derive more statements about society. For e.g. x is a friend of y and y is a friend of z, x will come to know of z's existence and vice versa. Substituting particular instances of x,y,z would give a statement: "Ganesh knows laxman and laxman knows ram => ganesh would know of ram's existence".

The motive behind this, as with all logic, would have been to come up with a concise way to describe their society, so that further investigations or maybe even predictions may be made.
Now as time went on, they probably realised that their theories are fast becoming inconsistent and/or incomplete. Meaning some statements are no longer true or some obvious statements are not derived from their theory. So, their pride in their work made them enforce a set of rules on people so that they would behave as per the their theory. Thus came the job of the preachers and the priests who would threaten you with dire consequences if u did (or did not) do certain things which is practically what happens in most religions on a large scale.

In some vague ways then: laws:police::religion:priests.