My response to a Q from one of the social networking sites: "Do gay children really have a negative effect on "family values"?"

 In my personal opinion, I would like to use the word "deviation" or "diversion" here. Homosexuality is a kind of a diversion one may feel and tread from the natural order of things, if I may say. Its just like the different fantasies or likes one has in his/her love life! It's different for different people and it's normal.

But one sentence to make my firm stand:

Is legalizing/ supporting such "diversions" going to make a huge difference in the uplifting of the human race? I think not.

If you are already into it, then "that's ok!" But if you are not into it, then serious advise, counseling and mentoring is necessary for the youth today to not to get into such a "diversion" just for one simple reason- "It’s not normal!".

And I am not trying to snatch away anybody's freedom here.

To prove that, let me generalize the concept to even normal boy-girl relationships- heterosexuality. Here it is:

Being sexually attracted to the people of the opposite sex is a biological phenomenon and quite natural. But if that "want" to "share the bed" becomes the only thought for which one is living his/ her life or is simply complicating his/ her own life, then it becomes a problem!

We are living in an ever-increasingly-progressive-competitive-unforgiving-world. Be it homosexuality or hetero, thinking only about satisfying the sexual libido of a person is not good for:

1. The person him/herself
2. The society he/ she lives in
3. Not at all good for their children!

The consequences are imminent:

1. Hated/ confused social life
2. Abnormal relationships
3. No-one to call for aid if something goes wrong in the relationship (which is mainly "sex" driven- and these are many a times a violent ending!)
4. Identity crisis for the individual

And even if the govt. and all the people of the world support homosexuality and grant them special reservations/ rights and consider them normal (with some special rights, that is), is it going to make a huge difference in the uplifting of the human race?

It is again going to be the same old story, but with a twist:

Guy breaking up with a guy!

Headlines in one of the newspapers would read:

“Girl sues her partner girlfriend after allegedly seeing her sharing intimate moments with another girl!"

"Lovers commit suicide due to parents' "NO!" Both the guys hanged themselves to the same ceiling fan!

Father says: "I had no idea! I thought they were just friends! You know, the usual friends"

And especially Indian parents will go:

"Dad: Where are you going son?

Son: Out with my friends, to watch a movie.

Dad: Your Boy friends? Why don't you take your little sister along? She loves movies too! And moreover, people will feel that everything's normal between you and David!"

We already have so many complications in life people. We haven’t answered even one question like:

1. Who am I?
2. Why was I born?
3. What am I doing?
4. What am I supposed to do?
5. Why am I still working under him/ her?
6. Why have I never got a hike since last year?
7. When is my wife/ husband ever going to understand me?
8. When will my son/ daughter listen to me?
9. When will I become rich?

Or even better:

1. What is life? /Is this life?
2. What is death? /What is birth?
3. Who is God?/ Who is Satan?
4. How did I end up in my parents' family (amongst 6 billion people!)?

Or:

1. Does M-Theory help me in understanding the origin of the universe totally?
2. When will we find out a formula for deducing the occurrences of all Prime numbers?
3. Is Stephen Hawking right when he says I don't believe in God?
4. Do Carl Sagan's theories of the universes still hold?
5. Will we ever be able to map all the genes?
6. 2012? (Very near now!)
7. What is the matrix?

Or:

1. Is Dan Brown right about Jesus’ daughter and Holy Grail?
2. Does Rekha (film actress) ever age?
3. When is that TV series about Saas-Bahu (mother-in-law and daughter-in-law) going to end?

Or:

1. Have I been of some help to somebody today?
2. Have I been able to help at-least one kid in my entire life to get educated?
3. Have I been a responsible person in my family?
4. Do I deserve the love that others are showing towards me?
5. Have I contributed my piece to the nation?
6. Has my life been worthy enough?

You tell me, should I try and answer any of the above the questions or should I answer this:

“Was Alexander Gay?”

Why are we making a trend out of every “deviation”, “diversion”, “addiction” we get into? People have tried to prove to me that Jesus Christ was Gay which is totally unacceptable! I am a Hindu by birth, but everyone in the world knows why Jesus Christ is revered even today as a GOD for the largest population on earth! What matters about the life of Christ is what it teaches us- how to live! I have got nothing to do with the sexual orientation of him!

Again, why make a trend out of it? Why make news about it? Why support it?

You wouldn’t support your kid becoming a chain smoker, or a drunkard, or a person involved in illicit/ unprotected relationships! This is just the same- Stop them from “diverting” into “unnatural stuff” and train them to focus on constructive, progressive, positive things in life, not to mention uncomplicated and normal!

 In the Indian society, copulation between a Male and a Female was considered a divine act and was done only for the reason of having a graceful kid! But today, it's only a matter of satisfying one's animal instincts. And now, with homosexuality, it gets even better!

With all due respect to the homosexual community, I want to add that I have co-directed a movie on Gay rights which competed for Sony pix awards! It’s not wrong to think differently. But it hinders your own progress if you get obsessed toward certain addictions! And this applies not only to homosexuals, but to heterosexuals as well.

Children today are to be educated about the “urges” they feel in their youth, and it becomes the sole responsibility of the parents to talk to their kids, educate them and counsel them and get them focused about their lives!

Yes, it’s sometimes embarrassing and difficult. But parents, if you don’t, then who will?

 I would say no to “criminalizing” the kids, but serious counseling is needed!

And again, please comment!

If you can' relate to this, then was your childhood fun?

Volkswagen goes off of its usual method to introduce its product to the Kids! Really connecting!

Update from one of my social networks! Science or God- What do I believe?

Had to choose some side!
If "God" is the encryptor, then "Science" is the decryptor! If "God" is the creator, "Science" is the discoverer!
I can explain how Rayleigh Scattering is responsible for beautiful colors during a sunset, but I can never explain why it is beautiful or why I enjoy it!

 

When man was inventing tools to survive in the wild 10000 years before, his tools and skills were Science- his faith, love and fears were God!
Can never ask my girl- "What's the proof that you love me?"
Neither can I dip my finger in concentrated H2SO4 with a blind faith that it won't burn!
Do I believe in God? That's very personal. :)

Two most important things i Learnt while counseling a freind about his luv and relationships!

1. "Marriage is being the perfect person! Not trying to find the perfect person!"
2. "Youth are very good! GOOD for nothing!"- remark by one of the elderly person in the marriage session! (Couldn't control my laughter! : D , tummy hurts!)

Chocolates may go extinct!- What do I do? (biting nails)

How to get guys to care about global warming? Threaten their beer. How to get women to care? Start talking about chocolate going extinct. (That’s not sexist, is it?)

The Nature Conservation Resource Council (NCRC) recently announced that within 20 years, chocolate may become extinct! This is because of the unsustainable farming practices.

Whereas chocolate, in its native state, grows in rainforest conditions with high biodiversity, it’s now farmed by clearing the forest and using hybrid seeds to produce higher output in a shorter amount of time. This leads to soil erosion and a shorter lifespan for the cacao trees, which will eventually lead to an overall shortage of cacao.

While many a chocoholic may lament this news, I wish to provide our readers with a little firsthand “reality check.” Most of the world’s cacao is grown in West Africa. While living in Ghana during my study-abroad year as an undergraduate, I was struck by the fact that, even though Ghana is a net exporter of cacao, most of the country’s inhabitants could not afford to purchase a Cadbury or Hershey’s bar. Although I shared many a fresh, delicious cacao fruit with my Ghanaian friends, actually eating a chocolate bar was considered a luxury.
For Ghanaians, “no chocolate 20 years from now” is now. Such reminders are necessary to place in perspective predictions of ecological change and impacts on human populations. While we, in wealthy, industrialized countries, may fear with trepidation the loss of resources and biodiversity associated with global warming, it is important to remember that half the world’s peoples are already living that reality.

Start breaking your dependence now, people. I know I’ll have to. But a world without chocolate sounds like a sad, sad place. What will we put in s’mores?

-An excerpt from the internet.

Sovereignty! Happy Republic Day!

Someone in my social networks group asked me today: Is India a Sovereign nation?
I ventured to make some online research to answer technically. This is what I found in Wikipedia:

“	There exists perhaps no conception the meaning of which is more controversial than that of sovereignty. It is an indisputable fact that this conception, from the moment when it was introduced into political science until the present day, has never had a meaning which was universally agreed upon.	”
	— Lassa Oppenheim, an authority on international law

(Biting Nails! Confused)
Anyways, Jai Bharat, Jai Karnataka.

Being You! Being Me!

 Definitions: (source: not wikipedia, not oxford, not brittanica, not encyclopedia)

Artist: Not knowing what will emerge out yet letting the art emerge all by itself, without trying to actually pursue an idea! And finally stay with this!

Entrepreneur:

Doesn't work for anybody but himself; 

When he feels he's absolutely right, the world disproves him 6 billion times (that's one for each human on earth... and counting 6Bil and 1, 2, 3...);

When he knows that his idea is absolutely sucky, an investor calls him and says, "I am interested in your project!" (of course, the funding doesn't happen finally); 

When he thinks that he's wasted his time on this holy earth, someone praises him and when he's busy, the world curses him for wasting time; 

Follows a dream like a loony;

Follows the investor as a loony;

Realizes the world is a loon house;

Understands the world was normal and he was the loon;

Further understands that if he was a loon and the world was his house, wouldn't that be a loon house;

Forces himself to understand that he is not a loon and the world is a beautiful place;

Investor calls- No time to think of the loony stuff!

OMG!

Bye.. Gotto go.... someone is calling- may be an investor!

No... really, bye!

Inspiring

Not blogged since eternity! But these words I found need to be shared:

"Our willingness to fail gives us the ability and opportunity to succeed where others may fear to tread."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

—Michael Jordan

That was fun! The new year Party and all! Dumbest party ever!

We were just three guys... In my HOUSE - no preparations till 11pm - to find out all the shops are closed even on New Year's eve back here in my home town - and we had nothing at all except, may be, WATER to drink!
But I did the one thing that I hadn't done in a week! I slept MAO! Oh god, that was so relieving!

Really, contributing to wikipedia should become the task of every human who uses Internet for crying out Loud! 5 bucks! Can't we do it?

Computers again

Some Funny abbreviations:
CIA - Computer Industry Acronyms

- CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
- PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
- ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
- SCSI: System Can't See It
- MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
- DOS: Defunct Operating System
- WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
- OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
- PnP: Plug and Pray
- APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
- IBM: I Blame Microsoft
- DEC: Do Expect Cuts
- MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
- CA: Constant Acquisitions
- COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
- LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
- MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
- AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
- WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You're Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.

Keepin in touch! Future of Mankind... scary, yet easy

1. Today: Matrimony.com- Online match making
In the Future:
Marriage.com- Online marriage for only $999 (for a 50 year membership)
Highlights:
Just fill up one form and enjoy a prosperous and happy married life.
Choose between hundreds of brides and bridegrooms from all over the world
o Note: Only actual photos are posted. 100% photoshop free.
Choose a Marriage hall anywhere in the world for free
o Note: Traveling charges not included.
Marriage is auspicious: Listen to your favorite mantras and slokas and bhajans while filling up the form
A legal agreement will be sent to both the parties (newly-weds) as soon as the ‘SUBMIT’ button is pressed.
No print-outs; No record Keeping; After all, we get married only once!
The main highlight of our services is:
o Instant online Marriage if both agree
o Instant online Divorce if both disagree in the near future
§ Note: You cannot apply for a Divorce within one week of your marriage (We need at least 7 days to update your details into our database.

Become a Member today of the largest ONLINE MARRIAGE PORTAL and bring your life ON-LINE.
Marriages per day: 2, 560,876
Divorce per day: DITTO


2. Today we have discussion forums that discuss about God.
In the Future:
Online Confession:
No matter what sin you have committed, just send us a detailed e-mail about it (250 words only) and we will patch your e-mail directly to God. Kindly do send a fixed one time payment of $999 only for all the sins that you have committed till today and for all those sins that you have not committed yet. We will surely deliver you of all the sins and get you a one way ticket to heaven. Al this in $999 only

3. Today, we can get new and used books delivered through shipment or courier
In the Future:
Baby Delivery:
No matter where you are in the world, we can deliver babies of any age to you within 2 working days. Are you fed up of the 9 months painful routine of carrying a baby? If yes then opt for babydelivery.com. We can get you babies that suit your needs within no time and courier it across to you. And don’t worry; our packaging system is very unique and safe. Your baby will be safe inside.

4. Today babies are administered with Polio drops and various other vaccines.
In the future
Blue tooth ear-rings for the new born baby is made compulsory by the government of Karnataka as an answer to globalization and increasing demands of communication. Depending on t6he temperature of your baby’s body, this small blue tooth device plays different music to suit your baby’s mood instantly. Mothers never have to learn to sing to make their any sleep anymore. Also, this gadget comes with the latest GPS technology. If you forget your baby somewhere in the sub-way or the park or in a zoo, just give us a call. We’ll deliver your precious baby to you. After all we know how much risk you might have taken to get that baby delivered from far places of the world.

I can't! Can't write about her!

Why would I want to ruin her happy going life by blogging about her. Let her stay inside me as a memory, forever.
I know that love has the capacity to transform even the worst nightmares into a sweet pastime- but as the saying goes: Only time can heal. I will have to wait.

My Friend... a memory!

The Beatles

We used to listen to the Beatles all the time and try deciphering the meaning in their lyrics and relate that to our lives. We started going out on long mid-night walks on the silent, dark main roads. We sang Lemon Tree, counted the stars and the trees, saw beautiful girls in their balconies and I imagined an innocent life full of happiness. I rejoiced in the vastness of the sky, of Nature and of the heart that could enjoy all of this at once. I had transformed into Tom Hanks of Cast Away when I learnt how to be happy with myself. And my friend was my Wilson. I learnt from Saving Private Ryan that there were only two ways of living life- one is like a soldier and the other is like a chicken in the poultry. Both of them don’t know when death may strike. Both of their lives are intensely lived- every second counting sweetly. But the only difference was that one of them knew what he was doing. For one, death is by chance, whereas for the other, death was by choice. I learnt from Life Is Beautiful that a smile cost nothing and it is worth sharing. I learnt that man has the capacity to laugh even at the face of certain death. Fiddler on the roof taught me that there is music in everything around us- be it God’s Creation or Man’s Tradition! All seemed delicious in my life and there was absolutely no work to do. I felt that I had all the time in the world to enjoy the sweet lessons of life. So, this way ,I started getting exposed to many literary and philosophical resources and movies and my understanding towards life started to change. I started to realize that I was a kind of a Joker yesterday, and I also knew that I would feel the same tomorrow about today. Although many a times our past seems very silly and funny, sometimes dreaded, we should understand that our past holds the key to our future and the code for tomorrow is encrypted in our yesterday. Back to my story, I started understanding that there is more to life than I know and have understood. I also understood that my behavior about hiding my write-ups was wrong. I had wasted a lot of my friend’s time in fear of getting insulted. Now it was high time that I did something to compensate all that I had missed. So, I started revising all my contacts and found that one of my very close relatives- my Uncle was in a printing firm. I called him up promptly and told him what we were planning to do- to write a book. My Uncle was generous enough to offer us printing of the books free of cost. That was a jack-pot. I knew that my friend would be very happy to hear that he had to spend nothing to get his books published. That morning was really fresh and I was all the more enthusiastic to tell my friend about the good news. I called him up and told him everything that my Uncle had told me. I had expected him to jump up in joy. After all, his dream was about to come true. But my friend told me that he’d got sick of staying with a person who hasn’t been able to write a word for months together. He told that I didn’t have the urge to write and that I was a coward. He was harsh and right on my face. I tried to explain that I had written a lot of things and was waiting for the right time to show it to him. He did not believe me. He in fact blamed me of lying. Yes, I had lied to him many times fearing rejection from him, but this time I was true. I was ready. I was ready to write and be confident. But I was, not even in my dreams, ready to leave my friend. But he wanted it. He wanted to walk away. He wanted, in his words, to stay with some one who had the urge to write and the courage to live. He believed that I had none of these. The happiest day of my life turned out to be the saddest of all. My friend walked away blaming me for it and I thought that he was right. I had to be blamed. I had wasted his time and before I could correct, it was too late.

Two people had left me that week. One was my best friend with whom I spent almost 5 years of intense life and the other was my GIRLFRIEND.

To be continued… My Girl Friend

Reading E. M. Forster, Nietzsche, Goethe, Dostoevsky and Ernest Hemingway was like life had taken a shape- a shape that I had never imagined! My life was no more mine. It was alien, more mature than me and had become demanding although my childishness kept me away from becoming a fake philosopher or something! :)

Micro Life continued...

And the list went on. We used to listen to the Beatles all the time and try deciphering the meaning in their lyrics and relate that to our lives. I read Edgar Allan Poe’s collections and was simply amazed by the way he’d handle the reader- getting into too much reality and slowly and consciously drawing them into fancied fantasy. He would bridge the gap between reality and fiction so well that the reader would be mesmerized by it and bedazzled into believing anything he says. I was in fact affected by him so much that my usual language and vocabulary became somewhat novelistic.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Rushdie, Sulman

 

I read a few excerpts from Sulman Rushdi. His way of forming long meaningful, yet hard to understand, sentences in English and his unique-for-him style of connecting many words into one complex word full of hyphens, which when read continuously would give you the sense of knowing English and nothing more, but finally after deciphering the meaning of it, would startle you and make you think of his genius faculty inspired me so much that it got reflected in many of my speeches and sentences (wow, some influence, huh?!)

But Eliza wants something else:

All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air.
With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat.
Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still!
I would never budge 'til Spring crept over my window sill.
Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be,
Who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

Excerpt from My Fair Lady

Henry Higgins wanted Eliza to learn good English. At the same time he hates people woo (who) pronounce English wongly (wrongly) He thinks:

Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue...
This is what the British population
Calls an elementary education...
It's 'ow' and 'garn' that keep her in her place,
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now, should be antique.
[To Pickering] If you spoke as she does, sir, instead of the way you do,
Why you might be selling flowers too...

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek
In France every Frenchman knows his language from 'A' to 'Zed' -
The French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
The Hebrews learn it backwards which is absolutely frightening.
Use proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
Oh, why can't the English -
Why can't the English learn to speak?

If I were a Rich Man!

My Journey from FOTR to LOTR!

FOTR

Cast Away

Forrest Gump

My Fair Lady

ET

The Sixth Sense

Bella! Life is beautiful

The Godfather

Father of the Bride

Matrix Reloaded

LOTR