Yup, that's me.
In Madras Bashai.
Wiki mama says :
"
Meaning in context : Jack of all arts.
Origin, usage : English, all-in-all.
"
Monday, August 18, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
15th August, 2008 - Independence Day
India .
There never was an India and there never will be.
Are Indians nothing more than cheap,lazy frauds? Or are Indians the most spiritual people on this planet and the right ones to guide the rest towards utopia ? First up, what makes or constitutes an Indian? Just living inside the geographic entity called India? Is there no national thread or essence which glues and binds us together as people of one social entity and makes us move purposively forward? Is this national essence nothing other than the much-hyped and much-faked Indian spirit? Spirit?
August 15th - The one other day apart from our Republic Day when unknown, unexplained feelings of patriotism creep out in every one of us and makes us forget our other-wise stands of being a bihari/tamilian/hindu/communist/socialist/muslim/capitalist/blah/blah/blah ....
A few years back it was India Shining ... now what? India jumping-up-and-down ???
P.S. This post might or might not hurt a lot or a few emotions of many or scare members of the society, but I don't really give a fuck.
There never was an India and there never will be.
Are Indians nothing more than cheap,lazy frauds? Or are Indians the most spiritual people on this planet and the right ones to guide the rest towards utopia ? First up, what makes or constitutes an Indian? Just living inside the geographic entity called India? Is there no national thread or essence which glues and binds us together as people of one social entity and makes us move purposively forward? Is this national essence nothing other than the much-hyped and much-faked Indian spirit? Spirit?
August 15th - The one other day apart from our Republic Day when unknown, unexplained feelings of patriotism creep out in every one of us and makes us forget our other-wise stands of being a bihari/tamilian/hindu/communist/socialist/muslim/capitalist/blah/blah/blah ....
A few years back it was India Shining ... now what? India jumping-up-and-down ???
P.S. This post might or might not hurt a lot or a few emotions of many or scare members of the society, but I don't really give a fuck.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Introductory Post - Might be hazardous to brain cells
Why the name Gaja Buja Fundas ? Why not Buja Gaja Fundas ? Could the answer be a rational one backed by logical thinking ?
Yes.
But unfortunately, rationality (w.r.t. the onjective theory of self's happiness being supreme) is linked to the ultra-ambiguous 'Free Will'. We shall continue to call it 'Free Will' until we have a more scientific basis as to why we like something and why not something else .
For example, me eating Kaju Katli (an Indian sweet made with cashews) and immediately liking it is free will.Well, yeah, you can talk about taste buds and their correlation with the different molecules found in Kaju Katli, but you really don't know about the happiness part yet.
But if the whole world likes Badam Katli and only you like Kaju Katli, you still buying Kaju Katli every time you go to the sweet shop would be rationality.
So much for a name .
(There is an idea to make this a partnership blog with one more fundoo-ist. I would be Gaja and the other would be Buja. And of course, this blog would then be a collection of our funda-isms.)
Talking of rationality, one of my professors was talking about a modern philosophy called Bounded Rationality.
It goes like this : Each man's ability to take rational decisions has an upper limit,i.e. a bound.
My take on this theory : Yes, but the bound does not in any way imply the defeat of the theory of absolute rationalism. The bound will, gradually, grow outwards and eventually, disappear altogether. Eventually? Yeah, infinite time scale.
Why and How? I feel the bound exists due to what we don't know,i.e. our ignorance. If we knew exactly why(very ambiguous question indeed) we like only the molecules of the Kaju Katli and not the Badam Katli, the role of 'Free Will' gets kicked outta the window.
So, is this state of absolute rationality God? Maybe, maybe not.
Yes.
But unfortunately, rationality (w.r.t. the onjective theory of self's happiness being supreme) is linked to the ultra-ambiguous 'Free Will'. We shall continue to call it 'Free Will' until we have a more scientific basis as to why we like something and why not something else .
For example, me eating Kaju Katli (an Indian sweet made with cashews) and immediately liking it is free will.Well, yeah, you can talk about taste buds and their correlation with the different molecules found in Kaju Katli, but you really don't know about the happiness part yet.
But if the whole world likes Badam Katli and only you like Kaju Katli, you still buying Kaju Katli every time you go to the sweet shop would be rationality.
So much for a name .
(There is an idea to make this a partnership blog with one more fundoo-ist. I would be Gaja and the other would be Buja. And of course, this blog would then be a collection of our funda-isms.)
Talking of rationality, one of my professors was talking about a modern philosophy called Bounded Rationality.
It goes like this : Each man's ability to take rational decisions has an upper limit,i.e. a bound.
My take on this theory : Yes, but the bound does not in any way imply the defeat of the theory of absolute rationalism. The bound will, gradually, grow outwards and eventually, disappear altogether. Eventually? Yeah, infinite time scale.
Why and How? I feel the bound exists due to what we don't know,i.e. our ignorance. If we knew exactly why(very ambiguous question indeed) we like only the molecules of the Kaju Katli and not the Badam Katli, the role of 'Free Will' gets kicked outta the window.
So, is this state of absolute rationality God? Maybe, maybe not.
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