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Hmm.....
Meesum still hasnt fixed that exasperating li'l problem of there not being a title bar.

So here we are....its amazing that this place's not coated with dust. Oh I forgot...this is cyberspace..... you dont normally see the effects of neglect until you install a hits counter...

Anyway...so another semester is over, and as the inactivity on this blog would indicate, it wasnt a happy one.
I often wonder why we are being punished for committing the crime of clearing JEE.
The crime, deplorable enough in its nature, doesnt deserve punishment as cruel as we are regularly meted out in the name of a holistic education(yeah...and all that insignificant shite that really doesnt and shouldnt make a difference)

Let me see.......If we started making lists of "10 things that I hate about IIT"...we would soon find the list far overflowing the originally stipulated quota of ten.
How do you pick out the worst out of a pile of shit?
Shit is Shit, no matter what the doctors tell you.

Let me see.....Profs appearing out of the blue to inform us (after keeping a laboratory closed for two weeks) that we are scheduled to be finishing all experiments within the next two lab turns??
Or the aforementioned Prof forcing us to waste premium time (a week before the end semester examination ) in order that we can attent his screwball project presentations?

Or having five examinations in five days, when there are eight allotted examination days??
If we could kill without the fear of inevitable admonishment, then we'd have taken out a Prof a day.
But alas, talking of killing is ludicruous....for people who have no rights...
We are marginally better off than those mongrels people kick into gutters. No fucking freedom to do anything..
We live in times that superficially give us all these means and modes of expressing and manifesting our so called freedom. They say Humankind is nearing its Nirvana . they say that we live in an age of increased awareness, of compassion, of brotherhood and all that kind of shite

Somehow, you know, it all rings as hollow as a plastic bottle, when we are listening to a prof telling us that we dont have the required scientific temparament, when that prof is an arsehole who is least bothered about taking his classes, and filling in the so called gaps in our scientific temparament if and where he percieves them.

Or some guy telling us that we are designed to handle pressure, being in IIT, the pressure being of the most curious nature, in as much as he was referring to our end semester schedule change plea.... We were originally scheduled to be having the examinations spread over 8 days, with plenty of time for everything.

The way it turned out, I dont think any of us had any idea how we managed to write the examinations

If we had the slightest temparamental defect or mental infirmity, we would have jumped from the sixth floor of fb at least 20 times during our stay in IIT. We havent done so...They can safely send us to Indo Pak Border...

At least killing is not illegal down there

Feminism vs Hedonism part 2

Since I am that esteemed member whom Meesum quoted, (though I cant help thinking that he doesn't quite believe it himself,, thereby all his efforts at distancing himself from the comment), I find it imperative for me to elaborate on what might earn me a Court martial sentence in today's world.

First of all, women who believe that feminism (and the practice and propagation thereof) has anything to do with their benefit, Let me assure you, from a different point of view that we males have the benefit of having, from which we can indeed see everything that you cant, that Feminism has nothing to do with empowerment of women. It IS verily an excuse by men to conveniently dub females and males to be same in all respects, all the better for us to follow our own hedonistically driven pursuits. Males and Females are BIOLOGICALLY different, and the feminist utopia in which all males are eliminated is thereby a biological impossibility.Of course, what women DO NOT realize more often than not, that they are so mentally oppressed that they cant see the obvious fact that this (and other such obnoxiously improabale ideas) are merely pipe dreams that men show them to take advantage of them. The fact that women support the feminist movement viciously shows that we live in an epoch of time where females are verily in a position of disadvantage, just like the "Black Empowerment" crap shows how far behind is Africa is today. And moreover, it draws them ever deeper into the cesspool of misery.

And therefore, women who jump up and down like over excited rabbits revelling in the dream that they are indeed superior than males often earn my pity and disgust, no offence to our most respect "Feminists" . I can understand males indulging in such things, but a woman has to be VERY weak to do such a thing. Look beyond. I often wonder , arent they realizing, that we live in a world in which their irresponsible "feminism" lenses out what they should see. They are , more than ever before, sexual playthings in a world of manupulation and deceit , And the "empowered " woman has less of a say than ever bofore. At the same time, whenever there are two groups that are equal, then one group will inevitably try to take advantage of the other. Men, who are fully aware of the fact that they are very much in the vantage point today, use this aforementioned argument to exploit women more than ever before.

But of course, no woman will agree with me. Thats the sad part. For them, god still exists, and still rules a feminist heaven. Sadly enough for them.
Amen

When the aforementioned beaver vainshed into a promiscuous back-alley, the assassin was left stranded, pondering the nature of knowledge

As with chachi, there seems to be a title bar absent. Now as for the "non-linear" wisdom, I've hardly seen any wisdom thats linear in nature. Information may be as straight as a candle (!) but wisdom just dont come that way. The guy who's created these has much to say on this subject. I remember this discussion about 3 months back when meesum,porny,dabholkar and I were in the great one's room and someone commented on how its such a pain in the ass to read a textbook chapter by chapter (that this sparked of a really long discussion and eventually led to a fokat mein treat is a matter of the past). To be concise, accumalation of info is quite linear, but its not exactly wisdom/knowledge. Wisdom is inherently non-linear...radial with multiple junctions is probably a good approximation.

But even non-linear stuff how much ever jagged and fractal-like it may be is continuous. And it seems that proceeding purely by logic can only get you to some lower peak. A rather obscure book by Heinz Pagels called the Cosmic Code gives a rather sketchy lil' diagram of something Einstein had commented upon in his latter days. It seems to deal with analysing observations and know facts to arrive at some level of understanding...but the ultimate conclusion is reached from this point by an 'intuitive leap'. Im talking about stuff I dont understand a bit of and have this bad tendency of hooking up rather unrelated stuff together but here goes...Theres also this book by Douglas Hofsdater (now this is one helluva book...its got lotsa Lewis Carrollish stories that makes for fun reading but whats ironic is that the non-humourous parts are just plain one millions tonnes of stone block on the brain). All I managed with my feeble intellect was to get through what seemed like 10% of the book. But the superbly written intro gives a decent idea of what he aims at. He tries to use the Godel theorem to create a model for the working of the mind...and although i know nothing more of the godel theorem than two pages worth of summary, it seems to conform well with the intuitive leap business. Also seemingly connected to these are the zen koan thingies. This book explores such in great detail...as usual, I havent finished, getting only about the halfway mark :(

@chachi : And as for the 4D business...saale poore chuttiyon mein Gamow rakha tha, usme shadow waala funda nahin dekha kya ? Of course we cant perceive a 4D object every night while brushing but his method does seem quite elegant.

To wind up this rant on stuff I hardly know two pence worth about, this quote courtesy Hofsdater : What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?

The above mindless garble generated by :

Kreid Mirgerov
Blademeister of the Fenrir Lodge
Oberlieutenant - Quadragon Seven
Imperial Guard of the Vergi Empire

Feminism vs Hedonism

so there i was sitting and sweating in the class of feminist theory
i was pretty apprehensive about the way things may turn out...
well the instructor does have a unique style and makes her talk interesting.
so lets deliberate on the topic she started today---

Abstract:
according to her talk there are two types of identities-
1.biological (male/female)
2.social (man/woman)
biological identities are a constant , ie. you are born with
some discrete identity (male/female)(taking entangled states as an exception).
and the society determines your social identity---her examples being of type:--
"a women with a manly voice"
and that the women can have manly qualities and some such stuff...

its a profound idea and its consequences are more far reaching
than meets the eye,
allow me to build up a conspiracy theory--
its just an attempt by females to show that theres nothing feminine about
behaviour and that the manly qualities nad womanly qualities are not
a disjoint set ... thus they can go on and gain some sympathy from the
patriarchal society by giving them a reason for empathy...

theres another comment by an honorable member of this blog that
feminist theory is a sort of crap invented by the male human beings for
their own hedonistic motives.

Non-Linear Wisdom

Somehow this blog doesn't allow me to have a title, still, here its goes:

When Meesum first made this blog and named it "non-linear wisdom", I had no idea what to expect. Well, and here I am, writing the first meaningful post of this blog, explaining what it means. First of all, what is "linear wisdom"? I think it's very clear that linear wisdom is normal wisdom. The kind of wisdom that most of us have. The power to observe things and deliberate upon ideas. So, what is non-linear wisdom? Someone who can debate upon a thing with himself, view a situation from different viewpoints - he seems to be pretty close to having a non-linear wisdom. But can a three-dimensional being imagine a four-dimensional object? No. At most, he can imagine the shadow that four-dimensional object would cast on a three-dimensional space. So whats the best way to imagine a four-dimensional object? By being a four-dimensional creature! So, to actually view a situation from different viewpoints, the best method is not to imagine ourselves in different positions, but to have people who are actually in different positions comment on the same thing at the same time.

Thats what we are trying to do here at nonlinear wisdom.