[miles] stop and think
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by miles247
The thing I wanna talk about today is humanism. Every individual should have the right to think and say whatever he feels right after a thorough thinking. Every person to his own. And everybody helps others in shaping their views, ideas and thoughts. That’s it. It may seem quite easy but its not.
Not everyone wants to think on his own. We are too used to being spoon-fed to be free thinkers. We need guidelines on which to trot. Biggest problem with this is that we hinder everyone who diverts from these paths, and so we stop his, ours and humanity’s growth. That is basically the reason I hate organizations or systems. Most of them are started with two or three level-headed sane people. But soon more and more people come and subscribe to their ideas. As most of these newcomers are just wishy-washy people, soon the organization becomes rigid and stale, with same old ideas and patterns of thinking. So in a way that system loses its original value with which it was formed.
I mean, RL India was once famous for creation. We had mastered all the knowledge of universe that was there to be mastered. At that time we used to worship intelligence more than anything else, but now every one of those aspects of our society have been lost. My religion, my state, my country, so narrow minded we have become that we have stopped caring for other new ideas which are out there waiting to be given a chance to develop. Not even a single thought about what are we doing and why.
We would have to stop before it is too late. Stop conforming people. Have the guts to say something new and different and face its consequences. Giving voice to your thoughts is not always easy. You would be suppressed and cast off. Let no one strangle your voice. That is, in my opinion, true meaning of life – to add something. And to do that we have to stop living like cockroaches.
Signing off
Miles
PS- sorry for off game article
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Good article miles can't wait for the next one 🙂
Miles, can I just say how glad I am to have another sane voice around here. People don't always say what needs saying most of the time, caught up in petty quabbles. Thanks for a great article. Keep em coming!
Cheers!
~Mav
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and yeah, the problem with me is that I think too much before taking a step and by the time I take I take the step, it matters not much whichever I take... 😃
well said miles...im a knowledge freak myself and dislike religious nutcases and political opportunists vehemently. they are the real obstacles to progress and its sad, our society is RL is ruled by these cretins.
on the other hand though its heartening to note the awesome ingenuity that has been borne out of the rural areas since the past few decades and even more so the fact that it is finally being given its due
Times will change and knowledge will prevail eventually...once the zealots have killed each other off
@naga: too much thinking is never a bad thing. Important thing is to follow your hearts and stop appeasing others.
@Ash: I hope that day comes soon, bro. but then their place would be taken by new ones and we would keep watching ‘Sheela Ki Jawaani’ and those ‘saas bahu soaps’ and would never take a moment to think what on earth are we doing.
Since yesterday I'm thining at what you say here.
Strange, very strange how people could forget, even to alienate from themselves.
The truths spoken by so many ancestors of India is so hard to comprehense ? Or is this just the result of abt 500 years of opresion, manipulation and brain washing ?
It is no doubt, how you also say, India have discovered allmoust everything but ... after the arab invasion she begin to forget, to transform but not by his own will.
To find yourself, to achieve selfcontrol, purity of facts in order to offer them to others.
All this are so far now for indians ?
@Maniu: I knew you would like this one. India has changed a lot in past few centuries. We keep speaking of our tradition. But let me tell you, this mad race for money (more and more money) was never a part of our tradition. Caste system still prevails in rural areas. People still donate millions of money to religious leaders. Every person is corrupt without exception. It is other thing that they soothe themselves by taking a bath every once in a while in Ganges and thinking that their sins have been washed away.
In answer to your question:
One can only find himself when he thinks. In India, one doing too much thinking about nature of life is taken for psychiatric consult (Believe me, I have seen four of them). Self control is a bird that has long flown from here where people work only to satisfy their urges to buy a flat screen LCD tv and other stuff. Purity comes from thinking also and we are hypocrites. One who is virtuous enough to offer himself to others is going to end up like Tibet. It is better not to follow that path.
Hope I am accurate enough.
miles
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i agree...for one to discover himself he must look into himself...meditation is what makes your hidden power rise...
Think about your actions before doing them and also after doing them..
read Vedas and you will get knowledge that will make you rich in every sense of life..
Maniu has kindly referred to your article. You are taking a huge risk when resorting to humanism in this world, which is all wires, after all...remember Mr Wilson of Castaway? Sometimes the kindest humans are imaginary...
We should be humanely turned back into humans.
@ Miles - Human society has always been self-centred around greed..sometimes on a personal level, other times on a community level. The irony is that this is the engine that drives progress and invention. For is not invention a desire to either survive or dominate by going one up on your closest adversary - be it nature or humankind.
The caste system was a crucial component that drove this engine ... a twisted branch out of natural selection/evolution. It was a way of ensuring efficiency by having role specific machines, alienated form the others, specialising in what they do. An efficiency that led the ancients to build unbelievably complex, well planned cities all along the Indus, Sutlej and the Chenab. Even now, the sheer organisation of the cities confounds modern day science. The sheer distance they covered is also mind boggling...starting from the Kashmir highlands , down all the way to karachi and Kutch in the south and to the borders of Afghanistan, Tajikistan to the west.
And yet, these cities lived in harmony as there havent been too many traces of disorder and civil anarchy.
The secret was to ensure sensible wealth distribution among the castes and masses ... just enough to let them remain content without fostering thoughts of needing more. That is the main difference between slavery and caste system - both devices to fuel productivity in their own way. Slavery used whips, caste system used economic and psychological manipulation and has actually been more successful.
The problem our current third world is facing, is basically the unequal distribution of wealth and worse than that, the flagrant wasteful displays of the nouveau rich, striing discontent (case in point - Antillia, the world's most expensive home)
THAT'S where humanism is getting lost...false pride and megalomania.
Nice Article ... voted
Fully agree with it🙂
@Ash: glad to see our tank is part of think-tank also. Thanks for the wonderful insight into caste system, never looked at it in this way. Again caste system gets marred due to its rigidity in transfer by birth. How does it justify for a 10th standard dropout to call himself pundit, just because he is born in house of someone who is successor of someone who had knowledge of purans and Vedas.
And yes, vanity and self pride is going to be one of major obstacles in our growth as humans.
thought-provoking. thanks 🙂