Wednesday, December 10, 2008

when not physically well, everything's unwell

yeah, that's absolutely true.
Just got sick after quite some time -- probably the recent trip to Jammu did this.
What I'm saying is when something's missing, it's only then do you miss the 'perfectness'. Additionally, if I have fever, which is currently true, i see the world with a lot less enthusiasm - nothing seems to be good, i miss the 'better me' -- but then i do believe in the power of mind and the fact that it all depends on what you think it is -- if i am down and start thinking that it's fine, just a day or two's issue, it starts feeling better -- but again if i know it's all psychological, i would also know that 'no, i'm not well , i'm just trying to fool myself that i am well'! -- so gotta play carefully with the mind -- bend it to believe that indeed it is true and see it is true -- u know that mind over matter thing

here, cheer yourself with a random pic-i-clic

any guesses who this nigger is?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

back to the future

just got back from Piyush's wedding last night -- the trip was a good get-togetger-trip. met many a lost friends from old college days.
Waiting for the shower to get free, then I take a bath and get set for office and over the day, get used to the 'second life' -- is this what i eventually have to get back at? I like my work and all but then feel the rats in the race, implying I must be one too...
anyhow, the shower's free now, gtg

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Wedding times

It is the time of the year again when you -- all of you in the Nation -- hear about weddings almost every other day. Unless you are a bit too non-social, chances are that there would be at least 1 wedding that you have to attend in the season.
I, the old one, have a few friends graduating and exiting the Bachelor's league and have till now attended a few weddings, have missed one and am all set to attend another one soon and all this in the last 15-20 days.

Was just wondering what decides this season.
and then started wondering what decides the decision of marriage itself!

I mean when does a person think -- 'yeah, i should get married now' or is it that it just happens when things fall into place automatically.
or is it that when you find the person you think that you can spend your life with, you decide.
or is it a function of many many variables -- person, age, career, financial.

Just plain wondering -- yeah, i know, most of my friends are done-- and that too can be one of the variables!, if not by your function, then by someone else's whose function is a variable for your function -- and this too builds up. Now all your friends are married, why are you not?!
bhai!!
certainly not right now, certainly not planned, certainly not uncertain.
(still have a few friends i can take refuge under)

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

now you can reach me -- brijesh at 56070

Have you checked www.smsmeon.com ? If not, kindly leave this page right now and block a keyword for yourself. I personally think it is a revolutionary concept. For those of you who still haven't visited the site and continue to read this, go ahead (can I do anything about it anyway) – am sure the following text would help and perhaps you need it – why? What's the need? – here's a quick & crisp explanation.


Keyword – unless you have been hibernating for the last 3,4,5,6 yrs, you must have seen ads, posters, billboards, tv ads, heard it on the radio too and in most probabilities, used them at some point of time.


Short-code – till september/october last year, they used to be a 4 digit number (8888 being the most common one in my opinion) and now they are all prefixed with '5' so 8888 became 58888 – and they tried to market the change in the most ridiculous manner – even by indiatimes standard!


So a combination of keywords on short code can become an identity for an entity – usually big corporations

To give a few examples, CRI on 58888 for live cricket scores through indiatimes, PAPA on 56767 for HDFC education loans? Amongst many many more.


These keywords on shortcodes became an effective way for enterprises to capture the audience interested in their products – of course also a money-making proposition. Anybody SMSing PAPA and sending it to 56767 is a probable customer for HDFC and HDFC can get back to him/her with certainly better chances of acquisition – to put it in short, it became an effective lead generation product.

But what about you if you want to book a keyword for yourself – indeed you can and it comes with at a cost unreasonable for an individual.

Now comes the revolutionary part – with www.smsmeon.com – anyone with a valid mobile number (india) can have an identity for himself/herself – FREE of cost – yes, FREE.

What's the need?

  • I have my own analogy for it -

see, it is like what e-mail was till Mr Sabeer Bhatia came up with the disruptive idea of providing it to anyone and everyone with computer access – hotmail! - that it is in doldrums now is a completely different issue altogether.

I mean only big companies (and their employees,who are provided for by their companies) had e-mail addresses or you had to pay for a mail id.

Hotmail came and I could book an e-mail address for myself right there and then – of course I didn't know what to do with it and had my own assumptions on it's working (seriously, not me, but a friend of mine thought that the computer needs to be ON for it to receive the mail else the mail would be lost! – not me, I reassert).

Similarly till now, it was only corporates who could afford to 'buy' keywords – now we have smsmeon, where one can have an identity for free and it is accessible by anyone, anytime.

I am BRIJESH@56070 and it is on me what information I want to be transmitted when anybody SMSes my keyword – think about it – the extrapolation can be anything – I could choose to provide my postal address so that I don't have to say, sms or take the pain of telling each time – I can simply say just SMS BRIJESH CONTACT to 56070 and the person sending the SMS gets the details that I have put in that particular field – this is just one of the possibility – others, endless.


Still not clear?

Here, here's a 'visual aided' analogy description:

keyword == email username , brijesht, brijeshtripathi03...

short code == email provider --- gmail, hotmail, yahoomail...

combine the two and it becomes

email address == Mobile identity


but why would somebody spend or send a premium SMS (costing anywhere from 1 to 3 Rs., depending on the service provider) when they can get the info by simply calling me?!

  • do you know my mobile number? – ok,in case I have provided it to you, you have it stored in your phone...hmmm..

what if your phone is not available with you OR say, your phone book went 'kaput' OR you are traveling OR you need to send this info to someone else who does not have my number?

If you know that BRIJESH@56070 is me, it isn't all that difficult !

Hey, this is just one impromptu example of the usability of the service – the extensions are as many as you can imagine - and pardon me on the ambitious statement ' quick and crisp explanation'


Truly a disruptive concept – should bring about a revolution in the current industry – but then these are my predictions – let's see how it shapes up.

Am is simply, easily over-impressed ? would definitely like to know your views on it.

Friday, September 26, 2008

fell back

..on my promise yet again.
in soul asylum's words - one more promise i couldn't keep.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Kickass mornings

*disclaimer: this is, by any standards, a completely useless piece of information. Go ahead only if you expect nothing and then at the end, can accept it.

Saw this extremely funny ticker on Mtv early in the morning today...it was giving sign-wise prediction of the day for different zodiac ...while there were some which said
scorpio - wear your right one first when putting on socks today
pisces - something something...
quite witty was one which said
- you will receive a Hi5 friend request today.... and much to your embarrassment, you would accept it.

true isn't it - the way Hi5 has been trying to gain traffic / users.
i mean i really got a Hi5 request today - just like everyday. what's the idea? let me use my imagination - it must be
'let's get the networking effect. we need to create awareness first - everyday, everyone....even if we get one user who uploads his address book, we need to make sure all the contacts get registered or at least an e-mail in their inbox with Hi5 somewhere in the subject'

'how do we do this boss, if we send them requests jlt, they would feel spammed'

'exactly, this is where we are to be different and without caring for this term - spam, what is it btw?- we NEED to send at least 1 request a day to ALL the e-mail addresses that have ever been seen by our servers.....understood??'

'yes sir'

'hope there are no doubts on this now....Spam, eh...'

'(sighs, sulks, khoon ke aansoo pee jaata hai)'
and thus i know there is someone, somewhere who has registered on Hi5 and he has my e-mail address in his address book......

may be some day i relent to this and instead of deleting the message, i click on the link and end up joining the network and may be I like the whole idea as well -- someday, but till then it's going to be the delete button.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

some news

This would be a day easily forgotten but for my log entries here.
Got some news which although I always knew would be coming my / our way, wasn't really expected to come this soon. Mt called us - ankit, atul, siddharth, asif and me inside the cabin and gave us the news we all had pre-empted anyway. Had some usual issues, went for lunch with ankit to achha kaho, achha khilao - our usual spot on for lunch.
much of the day till now has gone with discussion on the outbreak of the unofficial news - will keep myself posted on the latest on this - am myself not clear on the future happenings - but rocking times - good or bad, coming ahead!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

daily log

it's been long, long since I posted anything - primarily because I thought the post should be useful, relevant, relating, synonyms, synonyms...
but then i thought blog's just a digital-internet-open diary...
so here's mynth promise - now that's a word I'd like to invent - depicting not the first or second or third but 'n' th one.
beginning today, if i'm to keep this self-made-promise, I would log entries everyday without fail.

so what's for today?
how about some breaking news -
heard it yesterday 'HP to cut 24,600 jobs - worldwide in the next 3 yrs' !
source: Cybermedia
mysource - My favorite - MyToday - TECH channel
whoa - do I see a surge in hits for job portals from these guys

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

some interesting startups

Here is a list of few technologies, startups, new ventures, services/products that bymy opinion are reaching out the next level of innovation.

The basis of selection??
- Let me put it this way, it's not according to my whims and fancies! and I've tried to refrain from cluttering by listing only a few of them - believe (u) me, there are a lot more out there working their s'es off but just cannot be seen / comprehended right now. In fact I'd write another one for those incomprehensible ones.

Most of the ones listed here are doing great - using the old school logic that since I know about them, they are doing great!

Here they are:
  1. TringMe

    • Category - Mobile services - VoIP
    I know I know you already know about them. They have been in news everywhere for their revolutionary VoIP based solutions. They clarified a lot many doubts (including mine) on the VoIP based solutions in India. Clarity in voice, low on cost, adaptablity to different media - widgets, IM's, voice mails, direct PC to mobile call; their 'intelligent call-routing system' are some of the unique features offered by them.As much as I know about TringMe, I feel the future is quite bright for them - especially with the ever-increasing mobile / broadband penetration- everybody, all the time is looking for easier, better, less-expensive solution and if TringMe can do that, they get the cake.

    Way to go the long way!


  2. Alabot

    • Category - Natural Language Processing - talk to computer and let it help you!
    This is some real cool app that these guys at alabot have come up with. Currently the offering is for travel inquiries - instant 'on the fly'

    The concept - add it to your buddy list, for GTalk users, add alabot.travel@gmail.com as one of your contact - finito!
    Just start chatting with it as if it were just another friend of yours. Of course, it's not
    perfect human but it's the closest to being one. C'mon now what are u expecting? just give it a query on flight details and it will reply back with the details in almost a flash with a link to go ahead & purchase. Now what could be the details required from your end - obvious - start, end destinations; no. of travellers ; date of travel and .......... that's it.
    It understands language like a human, it rectifies spell errors
    I'm sure a lot more services can be added - using their technology.

    Go Ahead get to know alabot it!


  3. mScriber
    • Category - Speech Recognition - Say your thing and let it be written!
    This is again interesting, fascinating, long-time persuaded speech recognition. I remember during my college days computer ppl doing some projects on this.
    It was always a fascination to speak something and that be written and we had many softwares - Microsoft, dragon-speak easy amongst many others... they had many inherent problems, primary being the
    training where one would have to sit for hours and train the s/w to adapt to ur accent - i remember sitting and reading some novel hoping that it'd finally get my accent and type accordingly - it did that but to a very non-satisfying level - i had to be very very careful, speaking each word clearly and explicitly. summary: not worth the effort.
    Here comes mscriber and their s/w has been trained comprehensively - one really has to mess it up big time for it to not understand ur words.

    The concept
    - 'eliminate ur texting needs' - I'd just explain one of their various services - Voice2SMS - you will never have to write an SMS again.
    Just call their number ; follow the instructions - speak up the number where u want to send this message; speak ur message - finito!
    For testing purposes, I tried this with different accents and except for when I really got too desi/firang in my accent, the results were what I had expected.

    So what's so great about this? who would want to call up someone and then speak something which would then be sent as SMS to some number, that too with some errors?
    Hey, this was just an example of the technology -- for the things that this technology can lead to, read their blog

    Speak easy and it really understands.


That's it folks, they were the Top 3 - You got to see them if you already haven't. I'm quite bullish about these technologies, how about you?

Friday, August 8, 2008

Blow ...blow ...low...ow

Much as annoyed as I was to see high-visibility headlines of Times of India yesterday, they just broke ma back with the continuation / addition of spices onto that with their another high-demand gimmick - poll / view-point - Today again!!
So, wrote a quick note...
here it is:

Ridiculous that you guys(times grp) has blown the things out of proportion and that too to the levels wherein not one day, it is the freaking headline kind of news for you to publish two days in a row.
needless, to say it has been done to supply the daily dose of useless information / comments.

the whole issue is pointless - relax, he is the supremo and what Mr Frank said is in a pure light humorous sense, in a light stride.
it's a pain to see that instead of laughing it away, a revenue/marketing stream has been generated out of it.

nice bad work... expected nothing lesser!
not Times, (it's just doing plain business, filling the supply-demand gap) it the preposterous comments from everybody(including some authoritative people).

Everybody is thinking, he just said it!


[pic courtesy:www.causticconservative.com]
right said --

just in case, u need to see the other comments by significant others, click here

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Airtel iPhone

Thanks to MyToday and reuters money, just read this:
"Airtel to launch 3G iPhone on August 22"
Many predictions have been made, several differing opinions served.
I'd wait and watch while people go ahead and get techno-savvy :(

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Calling the shots


Just witnessed another 'Great Indian drama'.



This is about Mehtas and the debate that starts with their simple, logical and very valid plea.
What I fail to understand is - Who calls the shots here?

[picture courtesy - placebojournal.com]

We have various entities:

- Disabled rights groups / Organizations
From disabled rights groups' conveners to secretaries of organizations like ' right to die with dignity' all giving their views on what should be the next step and what is the right way, the ethical way and the only way.

- Doctors
Who tell you about the probabilities of the unborn child having disabilities post the diagnosis.

- Lawyers / Judges
Who tell you about their field and the intricacies of the legal system

- Media people - arranging a get-together of all of the above
Organizing the talk show where all the above parties are invited and poking 'whichever' party with an anti-logic and "Do you mean to say..." questions.

- Parents
In my opinion the one and only who should've been involved - It's their child after all and they are the ones who would be constantly involved in the whole life-cycle - theirs AND child's.

All the others here would forget the case in a month, if not earlier.
It's a shame that it has got down to this that people are writing articles about it, giving opinions, holding strong view-points.Of course, me included.
Who are we to say anything about what the parents should do?
They state it clearly that they cannot afford the child - financially or emotionally.
Then we have the category 1 people saying
' financially, we would assist them..... there are many organizations who would assist you financially' and for the emotional quotient, statements like "the doctor has just given a probability / indication on child's disability, it's not certain. 1 in 10 children have this kind of an issue, does this mean we should kill 1/10th of the children"

This is ridiculous, the last part of the statement above.

No father or mother would want to kill their child and it certainly is the biggest pain for them and the pain is biggest for them, if at all it is a pain for anybody else.
They want to consciously make this choice of conducting an abortion
- so what if it has already been 25 weeks, the disability has been detected now only.
I completely turn a deaf ear to statements like ' the foetus is 25 weeks and it is almost like a child, so conducting an abortion would tantamount to killing a child'
- of course sir, it is being explicitly said that they want to go ahead with the abortion of the child still in womb because they know they cannot, and even if they could, they do not want to bring such a life which would be a pain - primarily for the child, and for the parents. All it means is bringing the unfortunate event to an end, scrabbling with words as you are, yes, it does mean killing the child, terminating the life, eliminating a human even before it is born and more grotesque versions of it.

Only people (parents) with very very high motivation levels / courage would be able to swallow this and plan the fight accordingly - in that case everything is fine, smooth - applause.
Story's quite different (logical and common, if u ask me) here -
If the parents themselves are demotivated and cannot raise such a child, how can anyone come and make strong, inflexible statements and order the next steps.

I'm in complete agreement with the parents and it their and only their prerogative to decide the next steps, the legal systems which define it in terms of '24 and not 25 weeks that it can be decided in' are techno and logically poor reasoning.
These laws are way old, why don't you try improvising the system - I know, charity begins at home.

All said and done - I plead, let the parents decide the future steps - they know it and they are the ones, and nobody else, who are going to bear the repercussions of the good / bad judgment .

In Ed's words - Society, you're a crazy breed...

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Roll out of the mobile broadband - 3G services in India

Hmmm... i read that.
Of course, it was long awaited and am pretty excited about
that and in the same breath I'd like to say that somehow,
i'm not convinced it's going to be a big game changer!
I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

What it means? essentially one thing-Internet on the move!
while one may argue that such a state exists already,
try experiencing it and more often than not, it'll be
a strenuous exercise(Or is it just me who uses them inefficiently)
To even check mail on my cell, i have to muster courage
and get motivated enough to give it a try!
While that may be a little exaggerated, the point
remains - the services are painfully slow right now.

This would be eliminated by 3G -- coming soon (in a year or so!)

Another issue I have is the pricing of data services
by the operators.
Wonder which side the pricing bar would slide to.

Amidst all this what I'm waiting for is the variety
of new, innovative, luxurious-turning-to-essential services.
The list would be poetically - eternal.

e-mails
- I'd get all the e-mails and would be hardly accessing
computer-internet for that.

Location Based Services
- How amazing it would be with integration of mobile
and internet.
Just imagine my location is always definable and I'm
always connected to the internet too.
I'm in sector 2 and get to know that a particular route
for my destination is experiencing a traffic jam
or
I'm again at sector 2 and my orkut-integration tells
me my-best-enemy is nearby!
The possibilities are truly endless...

Paymenting
- enhanced data transfer would enable mobile payments,
which is currently being relished in watered down formats.
- this means transactions OTF - relief to many, i'm certain.
- Shopping

more services
- Video calls / Conferencing
- Online Videos / Music - (read youtube or even better something

new which gets even more popular)
- Downloads
- Bookings - Tickets - Movie / airfare - train etc
again thousand more possibilities.
- Gaming - multiplayer
- Networking - with social networks already leading the
preferred sites on mobile.

Better services
- better voice call communication, clarity

some questions :
1. what about the small screen, would getting onto
internet ever get half as easy as it is on computer?
2. Price.. cost.. my bills..pretty sure i'd opt for some
unlimited d.t. plan
3. More spam? more targeted advertising - with more
info with them now.
4. Handset compatibility - although most of them are,
there would be a lot of services, and essential ones
on that, which would require handsets with certain
minimum specifications??

all in all I'm all in for this move and wait for the day

How about you, what do you have to say
would love to hear some commentary on this..

Monday, July 28, 2008

MyToday - SMS feeds

A wonderful concept of providing feeds via SMS.
Though this is being done for quite some time by all the operators,
the way MyToday does it is
'different' -- it's free!

If you live in India and have a mobile phone, there's something
I strongly suggest you do, of course if you feel the need that is.
All you need to do is choose what feeds you want to receive,
it varies from
- News, Cricket alerts, business news, sensex alerts,
bollywood news,jokes, career tips, word of the day,
quiz and so many more (here)

with intuitive start / stop keywords for subscribing / unsubscribing
and timed delivery - a specific time for each alert
(i'm usually woken up with 'word-of-the-day' SMS from MyToday)
, it makes these alerts a habit.
go ahead, give it a try...
and once u get hooked to the various services offered by them,
like i am, you cell wouldn't stop beeping with alerts.

more than the excellent service for the users, I see it as an
effective platform for advertising. This kind of SMS-alert service
has been there for quite a long time and is still being pushed
- we have vodafone promoting it's various alerts services,
even BSNL has jumped in with all kind of ads promoting their
alerts subscription.

The monetization of such services is subscription based with
users paying anything between Rs. 15 - Rs.50 per month.
so how is MyToday different?
Well, yes, I ask this question only to answer it right away--

- First of all, MyToday is independent
-- meaning It does not matter if you are a Vodafone user or
an Idea user or Airtel or any of the other 5-6 operators' subscriber
-- you can still subscribe to this free service of MyToday.

- Free -- yes I need to repeat this - It takes a lot to power
such a service, sending messages to many many people without
receiving anything in return (initially)

- Volumes -- this is, you too would agree, a function of
the above two factors. when you are not bound by any operator
and the service too is free, why not give it a try - exactly!
This is what millions of users did; and what if the service was good,
the content was powerful, the timing was precise plus one could
unsubscribe anytime one wanted to?-- excellent recipe!

- Inventory -- again, derivative of above factor.

good good points mentioned, there are few factors that may
affect the 'perfect-plan'.

They already are doing a terrific job - a huge subscriber base;
many clients choosing this platform, ever-growing subscribers
and channels of service.

It is service well crafted and without waiting for the
giant success stories about it, I salute the risk-takers,
the conceptualizers, the visionaries behind it.

What do you think about this service?
(hello...is there anybody in there?)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Blast from the Past - or is it?

I used to consider myself not an avid but a listener nevertheless, to the hit tunes by the great Mr Snoop Doggy Dogg and i just heard a few weeks back - sensual seduction... nice song from his album ego trippin. hey snoop you never fail to impress and amaze me, both at the same time...this guys got some tunes up his 'leaves'.

have you had a chance to check the video?




retro style -
and he actually had me believing that this video is old times like 70s and this is what i thought till i wrote this post and when i did do some research on this, i finally found out it's not - it's a 2007 album song! - hey anybody reading this correct me if i'm wrong and provide me with the accurate info on this.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

unreasoned reasoning

i Received this fwd a few days back.....
read on to explore ridiculous reasoning.

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new Hindu students to stand and.....

Prof: You are a Hindu, aren't you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
(Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, and smelled your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light.... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelled it...No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir. The link between MAN & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.


i say, c'mon man what is this student preaching??
he has the right to choose his beliefs and so does the professor.

so are we just taking it as faith that 'we have evolved from monkeys' ?, does it not make sense that way, sound logical?
do we have any other belief to go on with or rather anything that explains us, humans' presence here?

let's take a look at the story once again - the professor's question were never answered and were scientifically (which is synonymous to logic for me) correct/valid.
now if there was/were god, would he not save his brother - which even to think sounds ridiculous.
we can/should never take this thing as a fact that god has created everything.
believers in god often would go by this reasoning - God is infinite, incomprehensible and we cannot explain him just like we can't explain many things (as mentioned in the fwd)
but no , this is an escape route - in fact it the philosophical flaw in the student's premise - philosophical trickery, if u ask me.
{and yeah the student beat the professor if the latter accepted his reasoning)
we haven't seen brain - but we do have explanation for it - we know where it is....
wouldn't it have been much easier for us to say that brain is something controlled by God and he has everybody's brain - that would put an end to any argument.

something which exists can be proven - light, electricity, heat - one can show the effects of it and prove the existence.
whereas to say [ conclusively] that something exists and then ask others to disprove it would be ridiculous.
if someone says prove that there is no electricity, one can show him the effects of it and tell what is about to happen due to that electricity - which is known.
at the same time if u say there is crexecity which makes the sun come out every morning and the moon in the night - and hey just believe it because u don't know what crexecity is and would comprehend it anyway and it is the one controlling sun, moon's movements....
now one has all the right to ask wtf is this crexecity, can we get more details on it , and can we check for it's functioning mechanism - that's a learning/progressive process
but no, we have preachers - just believe it!, crexecity is something that has not been seen, can't be and just have to believe it...

that was crexecity which was handling only the movements of sun,moon...Now
presenting to you - GOD - the wholesole manager of this universe (or whatever galactic level discoveries, of course it resides at atomic level too...were u thinking God would miss out anything?

i can understand God as a term being used as a synonym of life,to say that everything/creature has a life would also be still bearable.
when the statements turn to saying he controls everything, sees everything (or for that matter even one thing), i get slightly uncomfortable (just like when i hear politicians making bold promises - hey btw, some politicians may be good, G can't be!)

how did the reasoning go?
if you have given the power/authority to God to be the whole sole manager of this world (i'm sorry, is this not the belief? )
so how does he handle the bad,wicked things - don't want to be repetitive, but only the one's residing at a particular place are responsible for the happening at a place , and not god (it may be as vague as clouds, trees, virus, men,children,dogs objects)
what i'm trying to say is, if there is a flood somewhere - don't say God did it in a rage, or if a certain area has had exceptionally good rainfall (good crops n all) - don't credit god, he's no entity - it's the sun, the moon, the cloud, the people sweating down, the bulls leaking anything that can be seen or explained by a knowledgeable one.

so god, since u r handling all the things in this world, why make anyone sad (hey u control everybody's emotions as well (brains?), but somehow u control my brain insuch a way that makes me want to make people aware of your non-existence!), why let a simple goodpoor man die of hunger,cold or the hard-working, has-worked-to-earn-the status rich man get a sudden business loss (or a personal tragedy)
or has the God been demoted to handle only the good good things....