Bijesh Nagesh's Blog, page 87

A Taste For Terror

Don't be surprised if there's a quiet and powerful all-female rebellion brewing in Afghanistan. Even the Taliban need to eat. They certainly task women with the 'life-saving', yet in their opinion 'low', task of preparing food. With their penchant for polygamy and their insistence on head-to-toe burqas, members of the Taliban might realize too late that they have more than one 'invisible' rebel forced against her will to live under their roof. Food laced with poison will not be a difficult stretch of the imagination to serve to men who have lost their taste for equality and palate for human rights. While cruelly enforced burqas quiver with feminine giggles, the Taliban men in their peraahan tunbaans and azaarbands will shake with trepidation and anxiety whilst holding guns, whips, and swords. Even terrorists may realize that they can't eat bullets and drink uncivilized laws of oppression and extremism to survive. They are but men harbouring Stone-Age beliefs, and all men gotta eat. Even these terrorists may, just may, realize that food can be more than just medicine. It can be a swift path to death, one as undignified as the 'takeover' these, and other, terrorists have forced upon the people and women of Afghanistan.

Fate & Destiny

Some believe in Fate, that everything is already 'written' and will happen regardless of what we do to alter or halt it. Others believe in Destiny, that our choices and efforts can and will influence the final outcome of things. But both Fate and Destiny are two faces of the same coin, two sides of the same story… We cannot change either or choose one any more than we can say Life alone is real and Death is non-existent, or Good alone is allowed and Evil is forbidden. They all exist together within each soul. Each Human's Fate is pre-written and unfolds based on Karmic Principles, the true knowledge of which is lost to time, or perhaps just cleverly hidden. Each Human's Destiny dictates how we face each Fateful challenge that comes our way, especially how open our hearts and minds are to evolving and meeting those challenges head on. Fate is the arena in which we battle Life. Destiny is our choice of weapon, combat technique, tactical retreat, or abject surrender, either one of which we choose to help us survive until Death finally whisks us away to another arena where each of our souls grows stronger and more resilient until…
Who knows… That's a bridge we are all still yet to cross.

Seek the Truth

In a world drowning in darkness, a little light is always welcome. And nothing shines brighter than the Truth.

Full of Hot Air?

Surprising how an adequately sized and properly contained dome can play host to a set amount of warm and cold air, merged expressly to generate a static storm cloud, which can spew lightning that can then be conducted into a metal rod or receiver, and end up providing what seems to be 'limitless energy'. Either this is Science or Fiction, or both. I'm probably wrong, in which case just think of it as a totally random joke and carry on.

Being Utopian...

It is impossible to create a Utopian society, because Human Nature...
When everyone's sharing, someone or other plans to steal. When everyone's growing, someone or other decides to exploit. When everyone's at peace, someone starts a war.

Disappointing...

The greatest disappointment is that which you cannot cure or resolve.

To Convince, Or Not To

Anyone who makes an effort not to be convinced about the truth of who they really are is worth neither time nor trust.

A Spider's Wisdom

"So what?" said the spider to the fly. "It's only natural that you die in this time and in this form."

The fly buzzed weakly in the spider's mouth and said with its final breath, "I feed you just once and then I am gone. But in your fatal form, you eat a hundred times. Where is the justice in that?"

The spider replied, "In other times and in other forms, I myself died a hundred deaths. I fed and fueled the very web which I now spin and rule. One must perish in order to thrive, die in order to live. I shall eat you today, and you will eat me tomorrow."

The Self

It is not your responsibility to make the world understand or accept you, but for you to understand and accept yourself.

Knowing...

Only a fool with a death wish will threaten a Tiger in its own forest.