Names....

Looking to name of author who had four names, I asked my teacher, “Why he has four names?”…. “Why you have a single name?” He replied. I did want to reply because as having single name is cultural, not arguing with teacher is also a cultural practice. My question’s main purpose was to say, “Is having long and big names make you big?” On the other hand having a single name is natural. Our bodies have evolved to have a multi-tasking purpose for each organ. Take the most obvious example of your hand,….It is not only for tool making but also for defense, cleaning, holding and even for deceiving and calculating……………..Nature favor multi-tasking and efficiency…….Having four names is quiet opposite of this aspect of nature….

It equally doesn’t matter much that how many names you have to have…except the more than two names is waste of time and resources, it consume time of people in remembering them, taking more time in writing them, take more space and also increase global warming to wasting a few more pages on long run……..Haahhahahah…Just joking…………….

Patriotism?

It is my second time that I have watched the movie, "Saving Private Ryan" and both times I have the same feelings. Do really people truthful in their claims of patriotism? I am sure, if you question some body's patriotism, you will face his or her outrageous anger. But what if you ask them to name five soldiers who have died recently for their country? If you ask me, what the name of five Pakistani soldiers who died two days ago? I would not be able to tell you. But if you question my patriotism you will face my bony fist. It is not only true for me. If you stop anybody, you will find the same situation.

The truth is we look to the country as a piece of land while it is not true. A country is recognized by her people. The soldiers and people who die for their country get a few words of sympathy and may get some honors and then get forgotten. It is the families who have lost their sons who are left to bear the sufferings.....

Honors are painkillers and they can't heal the pains of families who have lost their loved ones.... Those feel more pain who love more.... We just feel sorry.... May be patriotism do not mean loving but is just claim of love....................

Suffering from life

No doubt, there is no escape from suffering in life, however the question is the effect of sufferings. Some get spoiled by suffering and some grow out of them. How to avoid spoilage of suffering? One widespread piece of advice that you get from almost everyone is to live, the way you want. Certainly, everybody thinks that, he is living the way he wants. However, the matter of fact is that, everybody is conditioned in their lives. Life do not give you free hand even if you believe in 100% freedom of choice. The limitation of choices especially when it come to life changing decisions is what make life is conditioned and there is no escape out of it. Making it worse is the role of others in your life. People around you are unpredictable. We can't insulate ourselves from their responses. You can avoid, you can forget but there is limitation and it is what we all know very well......

Having said this, what we can do is to realize or having a different look/perspective on life. One thing that we learn through cultural transmission is looking at world as "Black and white" or classifying things as "Bad or Good".

When I hear people say, "life is good or bad", I really get puzzled because it is tallying life and concluding the gains or loses. You will find expressions about life changes frequently.

I think you can tally your performances and works but not your life. Life is felt. You feel it good, sometimes it is acceptable and sometime you don't like it. Feelings that we get from life, depends on what we like and what we don't.

Our likes and dislikes changes over time. You do not enjoy the things that you were enjoying in your childhood. Why? Because your perspectives have changed. Our likes and dislikes changes over time because we learn things what to like and what to dislike and it is the most important in judging life.

Feelings in not like tastes. Sweet always taste sweet and sour always taste sour. We can't lean to tastes sour as sweet and vice verse.... However, feelings could get changed. You may not liked a person but as you learn more about him, you may start  to like him. You may not liking a practice but over time you may realize that you were wrong and so on................

In conclusion, I would say, though life is conditioned, what we can do is be vigilant of our feelings and making sure that we have not learnt wrong way of feelings that could spoil our lives. Certainly, suffering remains sufferings until we feel bad about it and it will turn into experience we do not feel bad any more about it................

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Magical hugging from Indian movie, "Munna Bhai" got a psychological study recognition. Though it is Freudian concept that experiences of childhood remain the whole life but it is true to a large extent unless you didn't cross a lot of breaking points to kill out your senses. In this study it is found that a woman's touch make one more confident to take risk, especially financial risks. I don't know where to link it? Whether link it to maternal touches at childhood as study is suggesting or to common conception that behind every successful man is the supporting hands of a woman?

There is also a word of caution for men and that is you become more vulnerable in works where there are greater risks. A woman's presence that is close to you make you confident to take risks. It is all depends on your judgments to what extent you want to be exposed to risks. Risks don't mean lossing but most of time they mean gain. You can use this study to your advantage. In areas that you feel less comfortable or less confident, you may use a touch to become more confident. That is a good idea! Hahaha hehehe

Ace?

Ace, means perfect and it also used for perfect shot. There is nothing perfect but it is strange that we still use this expression. Why? The reason is simple and that is when we feel good. To me, feeling good is of two types, immediate just like eating something when you feel hungry, drinking water when you are thirsty and sleep when you are tired and ultimate feeling of good that is feeling good after completing your graduation or completing a book. Ultimate feeling of good, remains forever with you. Ultimate feeling of good is the core of logic, truth, morality, beauty and justice. So complete is more related to emotions that to rationality and better to say related to emotional wisdom.

What to believe?

Usually believing is attached to religions or belief systems. Before, we could be able to judge in what to believe or to what believing is attached, it is necessary to clarify that we all do not born with beliefs but we learn through cultural transmissions to what believe and to what not? On other hand we had born with basic tools for reasoning and rationality, our CNS and PNS.





I think believing is attached to emotions than to religions and belief systems.



Let me explain it by an example. Say, you believe in a religion that teaches in equality of all human beings beyond races, cultures, geographical regions and it also teach compassion. When it comes to helping out people in need, rationality says that aid should be given to people most in need than gradually to those in less and lesser in needs. Certainly needs are at different levels. Your 10 dollars donation may be one time meal in an advanced country for one and 2 pair of clothing for another or text books for few children in third world countries.



What is your targeted needy ones. The experience shows people care less about poor and needy people in third world countries than their country men who are much in better shape.



Both beliefs and rationality teaches to go for most needy one first who are most vulnerable. However, our helps go to those who we care. Our kin, our countrymen or those who get spotlight attentions are those who we care. This is out of beliefs and rationality but rather more biological and instinct based.



Our emotions play a key role in what to think and what think not. Unless we do not think we neither get an understanding nor can make a decision making.

Intellectual Eugenics

Einstein's famous quote, "Imagination is more important than knowledge" could fit in a lot of instances. One way that it fits is to use imaginations in persuasion. Imaginations are designed to simulate situations before being tested to reduce harms and make smart decisions. For example it is your first field in a mountainous or a forest. Though you have never been to mountain or forest but you have heard, read or watched videos about and based on your these knowledge basis you will use your imaginations for upcoming situations. You prepare yourself accordingly. Though your imaginations can't simulate the exact situations but it helps you to be prepared for them. As much you braoden your knowledge base and imagine well you be more prepared and have a secure trip and also have fun.

This is a good part of imaginations. We have used and relied so heavily on our imaginations that sometimes we take them as real. Let me elaborate this. You take math class and your teacher solve math problems and make a lot of propositions by proving them through imaginary scenarios that you become habitual to them and you no longer question them.

All these propositions are based on definition. Once you accept a defination, you make another definition based on first one and create a chains of definitions. It is really intimidating and a lot of people do not dare to question them. They accept them as rational.

This is an unfortunate use of rationality and imaginations. It is even more unfortunate when it is used politically or due to personal prejudices to attack, cultures, religions and social gains. Often people become the victims of these kinds of misuse of imaginations and rationality just because they born in a particular race, religion, cultural or social conditions.

Individuals who use rationality to promote their political or personal prejudices try to create intellectual monopoly by using imaginative definitions and a chain of them to persuade people. I look to these efforts as "intellectual Eugenics".

Just in early few decades of last century, some people thinking that they are doing science by favoring a race against other. Later, genetics proved that no all races have harmful gene mutations and also beneficial gene mutations.

Now, people who advocate that only their position is ultimate truth and all other positions are irrational and should be stopped is an effort of intellectual eugenics. Most unfortunate is that some people do it by name of Science and Philosophy.

To me, intellectual plurity is needed for evolution of logic and rationality and it make us able to distinguish natural evidences from imaginary definitions.

Let me know if you have a different take on th issue. I would like to hear it.