staying.cool

hmmm.. i was supposed to continue in my series of amazingly intuitive yet intelligent observations on life, the universe and everything.
but i got a new phone.

the motorola MPx200.
and that means that i'm playing with it for the rest of the night.

amazing how small things can seem so beautiful..
even more amazing is how we can philosophize about anything.

and that means that this post is over.
and i've finally added a bit of personal stuff into the blog..
dammit. i didn't want to do that.

oh well.. shit happens..

laterz

also how we can write 10 lines on anything and not realize that it's all crap anyway.
damn. there i go again.

hmmm.. a thought came to me as i went through the comments to yesterday's post.

can we dichotomize thinking between the brain and the heart ?

as in, can we use them as separate entities ? can we completely detach ourselves from feelings and commitments when we think ? think in a cold-blooded manner, such that matters of the heart do not intrude on the decisions that we have to make ?
this is what i referred to when i said yesterday when i said that i 'thought with the heart'.
another question also arises.
should we ?

it is said that in business there are no brothers. this is another form of division. there are no relationships, no involvements when it comes to business. nothing 'personal'.
can we adopt this attitude in life ? or at least at certain stages ?
doesn't our heart, the feelings in us, the reactions that we give to stimuli: our inner self; assert itself under most circumstances ? can we ever completely ignore it ?
doubtful. there is always some amount of warp due to this.

but consider. we would be able to make judgments faster. the second-guessing factor would disappear. the feeling of fear of something going wrong would too. fear is after all only our heart asserting itself when it comes to darker possibilities.
would we also be less human ?

i have caught myself thinking in this cold-blooded fashion at times. and it terrifies me.
i am able to imagine the worst possible scenario without it affecting me in anyway. and able to see the possible repercussions and solutions. everything can be considered without feeling, and i could not care less as to what could be the worst that could happen. because i have seen it and i know what it could be. and that it's not all that big a deal. that major a cost.
but only in this frame of mind.

but in any other, it seems completely anti-human, even vaguely psychotic.
and that is truly terrifying.
i cannot explain this with an example. it is not a region that i want to go into now.
but for the sake of being the ultimate machine, is it worth sacrificing humanity ?

what are we sacrificing, after all ?
love ? hate ? just feelings - random nerve synapses at best.
that in many ways could be said to weaken us, and leave us inferior to species that are completely thinking-based or cerebral.
there was a story i read that described the evolution of man into a species that was completely intellectual. but they were dead inside. feelings had no place in their brain. everything that was thought was purely logic based. and hence reduced to equations.

are we heading there ?

one gets that feeling that such a case is getting inevitable..

laterz

hmmm.. a simple facet of being a human was revealed to me today.

that of emotions. feelings. affections. hatred. love. attachments. and many more.
i had mentioned yesterday that very often it doesn't seem worthwhile being a human. and this is one quality that i believe is unique to humans.
sentiment.

interestingly, it was reminded to me in two very different ways.
i watched a hindi movie that was above average at best, but evoked deep emotions. it was a roller-coaster ride of thinking with the heart rather than the brain. and i was surprised to find myself drawn to the raw feelings exhibited. the love, the hate, the sacrifices, the laughter, the sadness, and finally the sweetness of a happy ending.
at the end of it i was completely blown by what had passed through my mind.
i had been put in touch with my inner self.

then i read a creation - a work in progress.
and i was physically hit at the end of it. completely, once again, mentally stunned. at the feelings that were coming in my head. at the way my heart was taking over my thoughts and actions.
i could completely imagine everything that was being written.. and yet could empathize with what was happening.
my inner self was asserting itself.

two different times. two different creations.
both managed to make me empathize with them. understand them. feel them. feel what they are feeling. everything.
it was surreal.

but isn't that how we feel ? we feel for others. we even feel due to others.
after all, in this multiverse, everything happening is affected by what is happening around it. what is affected by it. what is causing it.
and so our inner self reacts to the stimuli given.

and the stimuli could be anything. a child's picture. a lover calling. the tears that appear to fall from the heart. the wind blowing. a leaf falling. the sound of water on stone. the smell of the morning. the feel of another's hand in your own.
anything.
and yet everything.

it all affects us: each and every single thing that is happening in the universe, whether we see/hear/smell/touch it or not. we just don't realise it at the time.
and thus we try to blockade ourselves from them. and so continue to becoming less human.
and more automated. and lazy.
and dead.

will we ever realise how to come back to life ?

i doubt it.

laterz

hmmm.. i wonder.. how many of you understood the title of yesterday's post ?

more importantly (to me).. how many of you tried to find out ?
[i will await answers to that one.]

each title that i keep, each post i write, that i come up with, is supposed to do two things.
one, make everyone want to read the post.
two, make anyone who sees it, think.

i don't know how successful it is. or how successful it has been. i generally try to keep links pointing to the meanings in the body of the post.
but i didn't yesterday. i was curious about something.

i have a theory that humans are currently regressing when it comes to thinking. no offense meant, but it is something that i have seen: humans want to think as little as possible. we are certainly moving towards that tendency. to put in the least effort as is possible on something that really matters. work like an ass, mindlessly; but not think for even a couple of seconds to see what can be done to make it better. could be done to make it better.
what is possible.
sad.

but is it true ? i do not know any more.
rather, that i am no longer sure.
at one point, i was inwardly wondering whether we are degenerating into a world of cretins. and was quite sure of it.

i am not saying that we are all becoming stupid. i am talking on a slightly higher plane. that we are separating out mentally. we are evolving into two species: one dumb and the other intelligent.
it certainly seems that way. the way that we act a lot of the time, the way that we behave, and look like we are heading towards; all lead to one conclusion. the inevitable one.
stupidity. imbecility.

i will not say insanity, 'coz face it, we are all inherently insane.
that i suffer from this is true. i do not say that i am above this. but i am trying to think. trying to exercise my 'little grey cells'. even though it very often seems futile.
what happened to change my opinion ? people i met. online. offline.
displaying at least some of the characteristics that distinguish humans.

is that a good or a bad thing ? i don't know. and very often i'm not too sure if being a human itself is such a good thing anymore.

i do not say that this is bad. or that being a human is not amazing.
just that, very often, its not as good as it can be.
and that sucks.

hopefully something will happen to change my position on this too.

laterz