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June 13, 2015
Color & Freedom
Book Excerpt
When will we be color & race blind? When will borders between countries fade?
Author Insight
Freedom
We continue to be not free. A simple case in point is this recent incident of
Rachel Dolezal lying about being black. Lying of course is wrong and should not be condoned however this focus on race in the US & elsewhere is not going to take us anywhere.
Step one would be getting rid of the race checkbox on forms.
Step two would be to talk about people in terms of people and not in terms of race. Stop using the term a black man did this, a white man did that in media and also in our daily conversation.
What is the point but the pigeonholing continues - black, white, gay, Asian, male, female … - do we really need to put that on forms? How is this information used? Is it important? I can understand putting blood type, in case you are in an accident, but pigeonholing based on color, caste, & creed needs to go. Not cool, if the strive is for equality.
Lying about being black
When will we be color & race blind? When will borders between countries fade?
Author Insight
Freedom
We continue to be not free. A simple case in point is this recent incident of
Rachel Dolezal lying about being black. Lying of course is wrong and should not be condoned however this focus on race in the US & elsewhere is not going to take us anywhere.
Step one would be getting rid of the race checkbox on forms.
Step two would be to talk about people in terms of people and not in terms of race. Stop using the term a black man did this, a white man did that in media and also in our daily conversation.
What is the point but the pigeonholing continues - black, white, gay, Asian, male, female … - do we really need to put that on forms? How is this information used? Is it important? I can understand putting blood type, in case you are in an accident, but pigeonholing based on color, caste, & creed needs to go. Not cool, if the strive is for equality.
Lying about being black
June 12, 2015
free wild things/thongs?
So you are here wondering what is free and where are the wild things or thongs. Sorry to break the bubble but there are no free thongs or things here..:-).. but there are definitely wild thoughts on a wild range of 34 topics to keep you engaged for a lifetime. There are money thoughts, rants, thoughts on food & drinks, sports, China, Crime, relatives, relationships. Probably no area of society has been left untouched.
Here are the free things that you can get over this weekend. Father's day is coming up (June 21) and there maybe other events around your life for which this maybe a perfect gift.
A chance to win a paperback edition of thoughts from a naked unshackled mind. Make sure to take action before June 15th. Also if you win, along with the paperback edition you will get some additional giveaways.
Good Reads Giveaway
Mark June 14th. On this day the book is free on Kindle. It is free on Kindle Unlimited now.
Kindle & Kindle Unlimited
Enjoy..:-)!!!
Here are the free things that you can get over this weekend. Father's day is coming up (June 21) and there maybe other events around your life for which this maybe a perfect gift.
A chance to win a paperback edition of thoughts from a naked unshackled mind. Make sure to take action before June 15th. Also if you win, along with the paperback edition you will get some additional giveaways.
Good Reads Giveaway
Mark June 14th. On this day the book is free on Kindle. It is free on Kindle Unlimited now.
Kindle & Kindle Unlimited
Enjoy..:-)!!!
June 8, 2015
Soccer or Football or futball
Book Excerpt
Spain is out of the running for the 2014 world cup soccer championship. The economy was already bad & now this fall from grace.
Author Insight
Current Affairs
After a long time the Spanish have something to celebrate. After losing out early in the last world cup (2014), they have regained their pride by winning the champions league title, so what if it is club football. A win is a win, and Spain is multi-cultural, so how does it matter where Lionel Messi is from.
Now to the aspect of naming of the game. Should it be called football or soccer. Before blaming the Americans, read more on the origin of the word soccer. I vote that starting today the game should be called futball
Spain is out of the running for the 2014 world cup soccer championship. The economy was already bad & now this fall from grace.
Author Insight
Current Affairs
After a long time the Spanish have something to celebrate. After losing out early in the last world cup (2014), they have regained their pride by winning the champions league title, so what if it is club football. A win is a win, and Spain is multi-cultural, so how does it matter where Lionel Messi is from.
Now to the aspect of naming of the game. Should it be called football or soccer. Before blaming the Americans, read more on the origin of the word soccer. I vote that starting today the game should be called futball
Baltimore riots and others
Book Excerpt
Wonder why, more blacks are jailed or are pulled over by the cops. Whether it is Ferguson, Missouri or Staten Island, NY, it continues to play out periodically. Easy with the guns, talk instead.
Author Insight
Crime & Craziness
The baltimore riots makes you wonder where are we headed as a country. What is going to be the learning. Keep making the same mistakes over and over again....and now we have an incident in Mckinney, Texas, thankfully nobody got killed but a gun was drawn, take a look
Wonder why, more blacks are jailed or are pulled over by the cops. Whether it is Ferguson, Missouri or Staten Island, NY, it continues to play out periodically. Easy with the guns, talk instead.
Author Insight
Crime & Craziness
The baltimore riots makes you wonder where are we headed as a country. What is going to be the learning. Keep making the same mistakes over and over again....and now we have an incident in Mckinney, Texas, thankfully nobody got killed but a gun was drawn, take a look
June 2, 2015
Do you want to kindle?
The party was interesting. All the who's who from all walks of life were there. I was stuck by this one lady who seemed to be the center of attraction of an animated conversation. She was very successful, a publisher, I learnt and she was gorgeous. Brains and Beauty I thought, what a dynamic combination.
She beckoned. I looked around. Did she really mean me. She walked over. My heart raced, and I could hear my pulse beating hard. She came very, very close, leaned over and whispered in my ear. I could feel the hot warmth of her breath and a shudder ran through my body. "Would you like to kindle?", she asked. I froze.
She walked away towards the patio, and glanced back at me with a smile inviting me to join her. I ran for cover.
That night I frantically searched the internet for what kindle meant. Was it a Kama sutra position that I missed reading about. It certainly could not mean the 13th century old norse Kynda, to arouse, light, it had to mean something else. I finally found what she wanted to do. Read a book together on the amazon kindle. I sighed! Why do I always jump bases in relationships!
How about you? Do you kindle?
© image courtesy From silpol.tumblr.com(http://silpol.tumblr.com/post/3924415...)
Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind
She beckoned. I looked around. Did she really mean me. She walked over. My heart raced, and I could hear my pulse beating hard. She came very, very close, leaned over and whispered in my ear. I could feel the hot warmth of her breath and a shudder ran through my body. "Would you like to kindle?", she asked. I froze.
She walked away towards the patio, and glanced back at me with a smile inviting me to join her. I ran for cover.
That night I frantically searched the internet for what kindle meant. Was it a Kama sutra position that I missed reading about. It certainly could not mean the 13th century old norse Kynda, to arouse, light, it had to mean something else. I finally found what she wanted to do. Read a book together on the amazon kindle. I sighed! Why do I always jump bases in relationships!
How about you? Do you kindle?
© image courtesy From silpol.tumblr.com(http://silpol.tumblr.com/post/3924415...)
Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind
May 27, 2015
Graduation gift
So your kid is graduating college and you want to give him or her the perfect graduation gift.
Consider gifting this book - thoughts from a naked unshackled mind. It has all the learnings accumulated over the years I have spent on earth. I invite you to review the chapters and read some of the advice posted on my blog with one primary question. What would you have done differently with this advice when you were 22 year old. Some of the advice may seem like your own but you know how kids are, they hate to get advice from parents so hand them this book instead.
Happy Reading. You can purchase the book many different places and the links are posted here.
createspace
Amazon Kindle
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind
Consider gifting this book - thoughts from a naked unshackled mind. It has all the learnings accumulated over the years I have spent on earth. I invite you to review the chapters and read some of the advice posted on my blog with one primary question. What would you have done differently with this advice when you were 22 year old. Some of the advice may seem like your own but you know how kids are, they hate to get advice from parents so hand them this book instead.
Happy Reading. You can purchase the book many different places and the links are posted here.
createspace
Amazon Kindle
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind
May 26, 2015
Politicians & their salaries
Book Excerpt
Members of the house & senate make $174,000 per year, majority, & minority leaders -$193,000, cabinet members - $199,700, the speaker - $223,500, the Vice President - $230,700, & The President - $400,000. Average household income in the country - less than $55,000
Author Insight
Recently I was listening to Stephen Dubner, freakonomics author on why politicians should be paid more and it was an interesting insight (btw his video is at the link at the bottom of this post).
I once had the opportunity to listen to the President of Singapore. This was in the early 1990s and the president proudly stated that he was the highest paid President in the world and was paid more than the President of the United States. One of the key things that he said that Singapore did to get to where they were was to hire the top talents from different fields and made them in-charge of an equivalent field in the government. Will that work in a democracy, nah.
Take a look at the pays of our politicians and where the average Joe and Jane sits. I don't think that pay necessarily converts to the quality of work that one does. The average mathematics and Physics major is poorly paid but rest assured the quality of work you will get from them is superlative. I think the same holds true of the politicians, one who cares for his constituents will do a good job irrespective of the pay. So I ask you to vote to get politician pay in your constituency to be at par with the pay of the average Joe and Jane of the constituency because isn't they who they should truly represent?
Stephen Dubner - pay politicians more
Members of the house & senate make $174,000 per year, majority, & minority leaders -$193,000, cabinet members - $199,700, the speaker - $223,500, the Vice President - $230,700, & The President - $400,000. Average household income in the country - less than $55,000
Author Insight
Recently I was listening to Stephen Dubner, freakonomics author on why politicians should be paid more and it was an interesting insight (btw his video is at the link at the bottom of this post).
I once had the opportunity to listen to the President of Singapore. This was in the early 1990s and the president proudly stated that he was the highest paid President in the world and was paid more than the President of the United States. One of the key things that he said that Singapore did to get to where they were was to hire the top talents from different fields and made them in-charge of an equivalent field in the government. Will that work in a democracy, nah.
Take a look at the pays of our politicians and where the average Joe and Jane sits. I don't think that pay necessarily converts to the quality of work that one does. The average mathematics and Physics major is poorly paid but rest assured the quality of work you will get from them is superlative. I think the same holds true of the politicians, one who cares for his constituents will do a good job irrespective of the pay. So I ask you to vote to get politician pay in your constituency to be at par with the pay of the average Joe and Jane of the constituency because isn't they who they should truly represent?
Stephen Dubner - pay politicians more
May 17, 2015
Socrates has something to say
Find out what Socrates, the greatest Greek philosopher has to say about thoughts from a naked unshackled mind. Listen carefully and follow through on his advice.
Hear what Socrates is thinking
Who is Socrates
Hear what Socrates is thinking
Who is Socrates
Socrates
Over the last several days I have been reading about Socrates (yes the Greek philosopher). Some of the facts that I learnt in the process was amazing. He was a stone mason and did not know how to read and write. He was much misunderstood during his lifetime and his death sentence is testimony to that.
Plato was his most famous student because of whom we get to learn about him. In spite his lack of reading or writing skills he thought hard and he thought long. There are stories about how he would keep standing at a place for hours deep in his thoughts.
His method is one of asking questions and in the process getting to the real answer. Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind at some level attempts to do the same. Read the book and see how many of these thoughts are thoughts you should be thinking that are relevant now.
As a parting note here is one of his thoughts
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates
Plato was his most famous student because of whom we get to learn about him. In spite his lack of reading or writing skills he thought hard and he thought long. There are stories about how he would keep standing at a place for hours deep in his thoughts.
His method is one of asking questions and in the process getting to the real answer. Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind at some level attempts to do the same. Read the book and see how many of these thoughts are thoughts you should be thinking that are relevant now.
As a parting note here is one of his thoughts
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates
May 10, 2015
Freedom is not free
Book Excerpt
True Freedom is freedom of thought & of action. How many of us can claim to be truly free?
The only country to drop two bombs on humankind has been the US.
Author Insight
On a recent trip to Berlin I was struck by the enormity of what human beings are capable of. Hitler was a piece in the puzzle but there has to be followers to a movement, supporting and carrying out the acts. They have to share the blame, a significant part of the blame. Also any retaliation should be measured and any nation going to any extreme, history is not going to forget.
The number of people killed in World War II is 50 million plus (see the wiki link below to get a perspective). The most number of people from a single country is Russia. You could argue a significant other genocide has not been reported as well, the one that China and others were being inflicted upon by the Japanese. A significant number of Jews, Roma and Sinti people along with homosexuals and handicapped were methodically killed by Nazi Germany. What a price numerous nations had to pay to be free!!
One of the museums I visited was checkpoint Charlie and it was interesting to learn about the events to the Berlin Wall collapse and artifacts including US involvement around the war however what was interesting was the top floor where it depicts, I would like to think activists/ actions who/which made a difference in the modern world which includes the UN resolutions. I was stuck by the journalists/human right activists who lost their lives killed brutally reporting on Chechnya and other conflicts around the world. One person who was missing there was Aaron Swartz who was striving for a better world for all of us. If you don't know who he was I would recommend reading about him at the wiki link below, however be prepared for the consequences of your actions..freedom is not free, there is a price to be paid.
World War II casualties
Aaron Swartz
True Freedom is freedom of thought & of action. How many of us can claim to be truly free?
The only country to drop two bombs on humankind has been the US.
Author Insight
On a recent trip to Berlin I was struck by the enormity of what human beings are capable of. Hitler was a piece in the puzzle but there has to be followers to a movement, supporting and carrying out the acts. They have to share the blame, a significant part of the blame. Also any retaliation should be measured and any nation going to any extreme, history is not going to forget.
The number of people killed in World War II is 50 million plus (see the wiki link below to get a perspective). The most number of people from a single country is Russia. You could argue a significant other genocide has not been reported as well, the one that China and others were being inflicted upon by the Japanese. A significant number of Jews, Roma and Sinti people along with homosexuals and handicapped were methodically killed by Nazi Germany. What a price numerous nations had to pay to be free!!
One of the museums I visited was checkpoint Charlie and it was interesting to learn about the events to the Berlin Wall collapse and artifacts including US involvement around the war however what was interesting was the top floor where it depicts, I would like to think activists/ actions who/which made a difference in the modern world which includes the UN resolutions. I was stuck by the journalists/human right activists who lost their lives killed brutally reporting on Chechnya and other conflicts around the world. One person who was missing there was Aaron Swartz who was striving for a better world for all of us. If you don't know who he was I would recommend reading about him at the wiki link below, however be prepared for the consequences of your actions..freedom is not free, there is a price to be paid.
World War II casualties
Aaron Swartz
