Category: Thoughts

Ignorance is bliss

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I consider myself to be a relatively knowledgeable and aware individual. But lately it has been leading to a lot of negativeness in my life.

This evening, 10 minutes of Twitter time combined with a couple of clicks around the New York Times website, catapulted me into a very dark place.

There was news about yet another earthquake, this time in Sumatra, Indonesia with a magnitude of 7.8. (Remember the time when an earthquake of around 6.5 was considered serious and talked about all year?). This news came roughly 48 hours after the earthquake that hit California. (Let’s not forget this is the same year when Peru and Haiti have been hit by massive earthquakes as well.)

There was news about 74 CRPF soldiers in India who were massacred by 1000 Maoist rebels. If this isn’t Civil unrest, I don’t know what is?!

While I was at it, I also saw a news item about web espionage as a University in Canada unearthed Highly Sensitive and Confidential information about Indian military forces, weapons and other relevant tactical data was hacked and stolen by a source based in China. They also hacked into the UN website and the Dalai Lama’s office.

There was a brutal attack on the US embassy in the Pakistani city of Kabul.

Deaths in a West Virginia mine.

Fears of xenophobia in Russia, as Moscow recovers from the brutal terrorist bombings.

At least 95 killed as floods paralyze Rio de Janeiro.

Bombers kill two policemen in Russia.

This is just 10 minutes of spending time on Twitter (and through Twitter – NYTimes.com)

Ignorance is bliss.

HOME (if you are human, you need to watch this)

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One of the most informative and thereby heart wrenching documentaries I have watched about our planet in crisis. It should be made compulsory in all the world’s schools, organizations and work places.
The staggering beauty shown in it, coupled with the brutish reality of our consuming behavior, makes it very effective in stirring emotions of renegade against prevalent norms.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

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via youtube.com

This is the first video I will post here.
This lecture changed my life, and I know there are people out there who have no idea about this lecture (you know who you are).
Take a hour and 17 minutes off, watch it and reflect over it.

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Renegade

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Did you purchase
fate
from the bogeyman?
Mountains and valleys,
pineries of desire.
Shock.
We plead guilty
of reason, maybe treason.
Streets lined with crystals.
Time freezes
for
the populace.
Breathe in, call out
conjoin, fall out.
Renegade.
 
 

Displaced

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This place is a
deep blue octagon.
Strange shapes embody
it’s angular crevices.
I raise my head,
twilight.
Sun raping the moon.
I dream of beanstalks and
a certain trave(r)sty.
Money fuels
this palace of azure.
Displaced….
maybe.

The gala

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I found it in
the book of questions,
last page.
Did you live it?
(Unsure)
The future was yesterday,
Purple.
Seams of laughter,
bind my mind.
I want out!
It says not yet.
Do you have it in you?
(Nod)
I pry,
unfriendly silhouettes.
Gypsies, Vixens. Stones.
Dragons and bones
Herbs of freedom.
Harps & organs,
Pixy laden orchestras
Sonnets.
The gala
has already begun.
I’am here.

Imagery

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Intercourse of a sexual nature.
Goblins and firecrackers,
Cherry popsicles and effervescent souls.
The time is yesterday, the day is now.
Space, I don’t feel anymore.
This lyric might have the sad, common strangeness
that characterizes large buxom obese dwarf-women,
or
it could be a pledge to twisted imagery.
The poet embarks,
flying whales, drinking Sherry.
Pitchers at a time.
Marble porches, charades.
We be where dreams are manufactured.
This be my ode to thee.
A certain contrariety.
Alcohol or drugs.
Maybe both.
Quick mind, strange mind.
We anoint the Earth.