Sunday, March 12, 2006

bye bye b8

post RDB , i forgot this blog was supposed to act like a diary and not a preachin forum .
so anyway i'm back to recording ... the big and small , important and not so important , moments ; the integration of which will be called my LIFE .


So we said our final goodbye to T's place .
T's place . our den . our nest . our own personal #20 (monica's place) . our second home !

And as we all sat there for the last time , we tried to remember all the things we did there ... all the new year parties , diwali parties , no-reason parties , all the group study attempts , all the movies which we watched , all the sports shows i dint want to watch , all the sitcoms , all the love making (tat i dint make ) , all the eating on the carpet , all the stay overs cuz i was too tired to get back home , all the nonsense talk , all the intelligent talk , all the plans and schemes that were fabricated , and most importantly ....all the "just laying around " activities !

its all over .

and as i left the place , for the last time , i realised .... i'll never wake up to sit in that terrace and watch the sun rise , or get drenched when it rains , never have tea sitting on the floor , never give company while someone smokes in the balcony , never drink there in the hope of getting sloshed , never stay over for no reason , never study lying on that bed , never watch TV lazing on that sofa , never dig inside the fridge to find something interesting , nevr bunk college to come her , never keep my bag and helmet in the special place where i used to , never make faces in that mirror , never pee in that loo !

and now i'm sounding way too gay !

but the thing is , its amzing how scewed up humans are !
how we develop a strong bonding with even non living entities !
how we give life to the color of the paint on the walls , the furniture and the the tv remote !
and how full of LIFE , life is !
and how we realise all this only when something changes .

T's moving out of this place is independent of the other things that will soon change , yet in a way , it is a harbinger to the impending end of a phase of our lives . it is the begining of the end . a couple of months from now , all of us will disperse .... meet new ppl - make new friends - bond with other non living things - perhaps find another T's place !!

yet nothing will replace this place .

bye bye B-8 !

Saturday, March 04, 2006

the A list

So I was on Orkut the other day , this good for nothing 'virtual black hole' , where u spend cash to scrap ppl , u meet everyday in the real world and dont care to talk !

For reasons I do not remember , but suspect had something to do with boredom and plain dementia , I search for 20ish smthn Indian females who are agnostic / athiest .
And i get less than 50 females !!
just 50 out of more than a million indian chicks who orkut are non religious ! whoa !
and these are the eductaed ppl . wow !

well i doubt this will help , but here's a list of some well known smart ppl i remember , know who are anti-religion , and a few kick ass quotes from them .

worth a read even if u are pro religion .




Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Asimov
Napoleon Bonaparte
Andrew Carnegie
Arthur C. Clarke
Mark Twain
Michael Crichton
Douglas Adams
Charles Darwin
Marlon Brando
Sigmund Freud
Robert Frost
Bill Gates
Linus Travoldas
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hughes
Thomas Jefferson
Billy Joel
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Arthur Miller
Thomas Paine
Christopher Reeve
Salman Rushdie
William Howard Taft
Leo Tolstoy
Vincent Van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Zappa
Clarence Darrow

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright


Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand.
-Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathemetician

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
-Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
-Dave Matthews, Australian rock musician

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer

All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway, American author

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
-Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
-Gloria Steinam, women's rights activist

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
-Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek

O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
-Michel Eyqyem de Montaigne, French essayist

Who wants to go to Heaven with all those asshole angels?
-Marilyn Manson, American rock musician


Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison, U.S. President


Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-Sigmund Freud, German-born psychologist

Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-Robert Frost, American poet

Religion is all bunk.
-Thomas Edison, American inventor

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke, author

Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
- Arthur C. Clarke, author

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor


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If only ppl used their heads , like thses men and women !!