Relegious texts redefined.

Bible: An ancient novel full of murder, corruption, homosexuality, bestiality, incest and cruelty. It is often read to children on Sunday.

Gita: A sacred Hindu text that is incorporated into the Mahabharata and takes the form of a philosophical dialogue in which Krishna instructs others with Machiavellian ease and gathers material for his memoirs to be published 'abroad' for saffron-clad, bald whites dancing barefoot.

Mahabharata: Call it dynasty politics with India now an Indian culture in politics. One of the biggest problems in current day Indian politics is that there is no leader and no successor. Sadly, this problem also has its roots mentioned in the Mahabharata.

 

Who is this man you profane?

Who is this man you profane
Can you look him in the eye
And explain why brides cry?
Justify why you can't
Once again try or even
Understand the things
He can and the difference
Between the past and a plan

Personal Job Shakedown Strategies

Everyone finds their work life boring. They wake up, go to work and come home. Work used to be exciting when there was more ahead than behind you. Questions regarding what you are going to do with the rest of your life run through your head and you find your self having to come to terms with the fact that work is going to be just like this forever. Time is right for a shakedown. Given these tough economic times we are going through, maybe it would be best if you take things in your own hands and give yourself a job shakedown before the (now-inevitable) company shakedown!

Flat Spot-Rut Paradigm
Flat spots occur in every automobile’s acceleration curve, where the engine hesitates. The feeling of not going anywhere in life is like the proverbial plateau or glass ceiling that has started to limit your vertical, as well as horizontal horizon of possibilities and (here’s the bad news) abilities. The same old routine has an uncanny ability to simultaneously be your limitation. Welcome to your own well-worn rut.

If you do not know how, or are afraid to break out of it, then you must come to accept the end of your growth. For many of us, what is at stake here is the basis of our very identity and existence. Work gives us a sense of identity. Just ask anyone to tell you a little bit about themselves and invariably they tell you what they do for a living. Our sense of achievement (both past and future) and self-esteem is connected to it.

Unfortunately, mastery at work also brings tedium, ennui and a rising tide of dissatisfaction in life that eventually does start to spill over into our daily outlook. Even promotions die out, if they do not punish you first by leaving you removed from the actual action in a senior administrative/managerial post. 

Long ago, a pre-historic ancestor of man stepped out of a cave and picked up as stick. It took four hours before he learn to throw it away from him. A hundred years of evolution passed before an idea struck — why not throw it at someone. Like that Nub-Dring-Blah who’s dragging She-Gronk into a cave right now.

Thousands of years passed before someone decided to throw something harder. That was it! From there to now, it’s been a mad dash for a stage when man could calmly peel a banana in the knowledge that if someone hurls a stick at him, his sticks will automatically rise up in an offensive defense.

Take my base value.
Multiply it by time.
Add experience.
Subtract love.
Divide family.

What you get is the present.
The present would be better off in the past
Right now, my present has its eyes fixed on the distant future.

How To Build Johnny’s Garden

4 cabins
1 dorm subdivided into three
a restaurant on the same level
kitchen garage workshop shed and stores
bunch of trees by a gravel drive
Road visible sign

Awnings for the restaurant
Wheelchair access to the mountains
Food, phone and hot water
Trekking supplies and guides
Photo supplies art supplies anyone?
Reading room and photocopier too.
But no TV!