Inventorying the INVISIBLE

"We don't know one percent of one millionth about anything." - Thomas Edison

Forgive my philosophy here, but after a long time the philosopher in me is awake and wants to write something. Don,t frown if you don't get the gist or have no idea on what am I talking on, after all the thoughts are intangible or I would have given you the option to mould it as you like. But you can't, as you can't see it in the first place........it's all invisible, isn't it!!! but still I hope you'll read it full, I say you'll enjoy it....

So the question is, what is invisible? There is more of it than you think, actually. Everything, I would say, everything that matters except every thing, and except matter. We can see matter. But we can't see what's the matter. As in this cryptic sentence I found in the Guardian recently. "The marriage suffered a setback in 1965 when the husband was killed by the wife."


So we can see the stars and the planets. But we can't see what holds them apart, or what draws them together. With matter, as with people, we see only the skin of things. We can't see into the engine room. We can't see what makes people tick, at least not without difficulty. And the closer we look at anything, the more it disappears. In fact, if you look really closely at stuff, if you look at the basic substructure of matter, there isn't anything there. Electrons disappear in a kind of fuzz, and there is only energy. And you can't see energy.

So everything that matters, that's important, is invisible. One slightly silly thing that's invisible is this story, which is invisible to you. And I'm now going to make it visible to you. I heard it in one of John Lloyd's talk. It's about an M.P. called Geoffrey Dickens.

The late Geoffrey Dickens, M.P. was attending a fete in his constituency. Wherever he went, at every stall he stopped he was closely followed by a devoted smiling woman of indescribable ugliness. Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him, had met him at a fete and asking for a signed photograph. After her name, written in brackets was the apt description.....horse face. "I've misjudged this women." thought Mr. Dickens. "Not only is she aware of her physical repulsiveness, she turns it to her advantage. A photo is not enough." So he went out and bought a plastic frame to put the photograph in. And on the photograph, he wrote with a flourish, "To Horse Face, with love from Geoffrey Dickens, M.P." After it had been sent off his secretary said to him, "Did you get that letter from the woman at the fete? I wrote Horse Face on her, so you'd remember who she was."

I bet he thought he wished he was invisible, don't you?

So, one of the interesting things about invisibility is that things that we can't see we also can't understand. Gravity is one thing that we can't see, and which we don't understand. It's the least understood of all the four fundamental forces, and the weakest. And nobody really knows what it is or why it's there. For what it's worth, Sir Issac Newton, the greatest scientist who ever lived, he thought Jesus came to earth specifically to operate the levers of gravity. That's what he thought he was there for. So, bright guy, could be wrong on that one, I don't know.

Consciousness. I see all your faces. I have no idea what any of you are thinking. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that incredible that we can't read each other's minds. But we can touch each other, taste each other perhaps, if we get close enough. But we can't read each other's minds. I find that quite astonishing.

The laws of physics: invisible, eternal, omnipresent, all powerful. Remind you of anyone? Interesting. I'm, as you can guess, not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist. And I've found a very useful new word, ignostic. Okay? I'm an ignostic. I refuse to be drawn on the question of whether God exists, until somebody properly defines the terms!!!

The stars by day. I always think that's fascinating. The universe disappears. The more light there is, the less you can see.

Time, nobody can see time. I don't know if you know this. Modern physics, there is a big movement in modern physics to decide that time doesn't really exist. Because it's to inconvenient for the figures. It's much easier if it's not really there. You can't see the future, obviously. And you can't see the past, except in your memory.

One of the interesting things about the past is you particularly can't see, my younger sister asked me this the other day, he said, "Brother, can you remember what I was like when I was two?" And I said "Yes." And she said, "Why can't I?".  Isn't that extraordinary? You can not remember what happened to you earlier than the age of two or three. Which is great news for psychoanalysts. Because otherwise they'd be out of a job. Because that's where all the stuff happens........ that makes you who you are.

Another thing you can't see is the grid, on which we hang. This is fascinating. You probably know, some of you, that cells are continually renewed. You can see it in skin and this kind of stuff. Skin flakes off, hairs grow, nails, that kind of stuff. But every cell in your body is replaced at some point. Tastebuds, every 10 days or so. Livers and internal organs sort of take a bit longer. A spine takes several years. But at the end of seven years, not one cell in your body remains from what was there seven years ago. The question is, who, then, are we? What are we? What is this thing that we hang on, that is actually us?

There is so many things that -- Light. You can't see light. When it's dark, in a vacuum, if a person shines a beam of light straight across your eyes, you won't see it. Slightly technical, some physicists will disagree with this. But it's odd that you can't see the beam of light, you can only see what it hits. I find that extraordinary, not to be able to see light, not to be able to see darkness.

Electricity, you can't see that. Don't let anyone tell you they understand electricity. They don't. Nobody knows what it is. You probably think the electrons in an electric wire move instantaneously down a wire, don't you, at the speed of light when you turn the light on. They don't. Electrons bumble down the wire, about the speed of spreading honey, they say. Galaxies, 100 billion of them, estimated in the universe. 100 billion. How many can we see? Five. Five, out of the 100 billion galaxies, with the naked eye. And one of them is quite difficult to see unless you've got very good eyesight.

And I've come to the conclusion because you've asked this other question, "What's another thing you can't see?" The point, most of us. What's the point? You can't see a point. It's, by definition, dimensionless, like an electron, oddly enough.

But, the point, what I've got it down to is there are only two questions really worth asking. "Why are we here?" and "What should we do about it while we are? And to help you, I've got two things to leave you with, from two great philosophers, perhaps two of the greatest philosopher thinkers of the 20th Century. One a mathematician and an engineer, and the other a poet.

The first is Ludvig Vitgenštajn who said, "I don't know why we are here. But I'm pretty sure it's not in order to enjoy ourselves."

And secondly and lastly, W.H. Auden, who said, "We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've no idea."

Offended!!

I'm sorry, are Muslims offended by images of Muhammad? Tough shit!! Look, if you want to believe in the boogey man, that's your prerogative, but it stops being "Corky from Life Goes On" adorable when your batshit crazy beliefs begin to effect those around you.

You know what offends me? That your beliefs in a god (whether you're Jewish, Christian, or Muslim) affect, and sometimes dictate, the way you vote, which does affect me. I'm offended by Sharia Law. I'm offended by the dark ages and all of the progress that humanity has lost because of religion. I'm offended by all of the energy wasted on religion. I'm offended by honor killings. I'm offended by the ongoing violent conflict between Palestine and Israel. I'm offended by the Crusades. I'm offended by the Inquisition. I'm offended by organized child rape and those that cover it up. I'm especially offended that religion is inflicted upon those that are too young and weak to defend themselves from religious indoctrination and the life time of baggage that goes with it. I'm offended that you have to follow those ten rules because they believe that an invisible man lives in the sky and is watching you, and if you don't follow them, he will send you somewhere down to abstruse depths to burn, to cry. I'm offended by the blatant sexism present in religion. I'm offended by every violent act and murder ever committed in the name of religion. Most of all, I'm offended by the fact that, despite all of this, despite all of the evil done in the name of religion, the rest of you, the "good" believers, still adhere to this bullshit.

tl;dr - they offended me first.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM. You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION. You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION. You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION. You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called 'Cowkimon' and market them worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION. You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION. You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION. You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION. You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION. You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment and high bovine productivity. You have the newsman who reported on the numbers arrested.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION. You have two cows. You worship them.

A MALAYSIAN CORPORATION. You have two cows. You signed a 40-year contract to supply milk at 0.06 per lit. Then midway you raised the price to 0.60 or you cut supply. When the buyer agrees to the new price, you change your mind again and now want 1.20. The buyer decided you can keep the milk and they go look for milk that comes from recycled cows. Your two cows retire together with the PM.

A SINGAPOREAN CORPORATION. You have two cows: One "cow-peh" and one "cow-bu". Both are owned by a government linked corporation.

here's more at http://media-meditation.blogspot.com/2006/05/democracy-with-recent-elections-back.html

27^th December, I was returning to my home, I had to dash (after getting an ultimatum from home, anyone would......) this rush was augmented by the ‘sub-zero’ gush that hit my face like a punch, left my face covered with a layer of ice (I thought so) and reflexively induced in my mind an image in which I had turned into an Ice-Cream and the stray dogs were licking me, so would happen if I delayed further.

Therefore, I started satisfactorily early and was happy that I would reach on time.......but ‘Bhagwan jab deta hai, chhappar phad kar deta hai’......even the quandaries......

Kanpur, the Manchester of Northern India, is the ‘magnum opus’ of mismanagement. It is perennially and whole heartedly there to problemize every errand. Me and my friends booked a two-seater for the bus stand. But that 20 min ride took exactly 67 minutes. Why!!???...... Our steps forward to the destination were blighted by the Muharram procession on the very ‘wide and spacious’ streets of Kanpur.

Religion is a strong incentive for doing anything, anywhere, anyroad without an iota of external objection. They were there......on the streets with flail like things, thongs, whips, barbed wire, fire and other noxious things and the Police present there so that it goes on slickly. Blood dripping from their backs.....skin, flesh and blood had assorted into one.....mourning and imitating the sufferings which (..............) underwent some (........) years ago (ahem...my history was always awful!!!!). I suffer IN THE NAME OF GOD. They were doing the most gruesome things (which made Shakespeare call Lady Macbeth a ‘Shameless Fiend’) to themselves (disqualifying themselves from Human community), which I wouldn’t even do to my Maths teacher (OH GOD!! I hate her more than anyone......phew!). If you were a ‘kafir’ you could turn your face away but if you were one of them, NO VIEWER DISCRETION, even if you were a six year old and have just learned how to not pee on the bed while sleeping.

Whatever, we somehow crawled out of that uncensored bloodbath after several close shaves with other vehicles. But the driver stopped this side of the flyover (with the bus stand on the other side) because the flyover was blocked by the Police due to Muharram processions so we had to walk it. The idea seemed feasible for a second but when you have a bag full of dirty laundry on your back and you are returning after one month you need some extraordinary incentive to do that. Even Edmund Hillary wouldn’t have needed more impetus than we needed at that second. In that cold breeze coupled with starvation, the warm bed in my room and mom’s food were magnets enough to make me ascend.

Finally we were on that bus to Lucknow. It slowly stuffed with passengers. The driver entered the bus, sat on his seat, spat his pan masala out of the window (the incorrigible habit of about a million Indians) and twisted the ignition key. When we reached the bridge over River Ganga, several people bowed their heads to the river and two men took out a one rupee coin and threw it out into the river!!.....just like that......which they would’ve hesitated to give to a beggar in need took almost no time to take the coin out and bury it in that deep water.....whom did they give it to??.....the river??,the fish?? They gave it to no one. God..... (if is present) never asked for it!!! Such kind of people are drowning India’s money before everyone and no one’s stopping them (undoubtedly, the best fooling machine award goes to!!!-----RELIGION***Applause***). 43 men were on that bus. 2/43 drowned 2 rupees. Now you are good enough at probability (m not) to calculate the net amount of money drenched every day in the rivers throughout India. Law says destroying currency is a crime......if you see someone deliberately spiflicating currency notes, you could sue him in the court......but what if you see someone drowning it in a river where it would lie fallow??.......it would just vanish without any clue. There’s no law for this probably because it is backed by a powerful force....RELIGION. IN THE NAME OF GOD, I throw this coin in this river. ‘I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF ...........’ is written on the currency notes......but under what criterion that river the bearer of that sum!!?? We don’t think about the river when we pour our sludge into it putting the whole aquarium at stake!!

Whatever, at the end of the day I’m at my home....in my warm, cosy bed. All this has been happening and will keep on occurring. Faith and patriotism are the most potent tools which anyone could use to make his ends meet. People can do anything if you stir the prospects of faith in them. We can only be thankful to the initiators of such practices that they didn’t start any grimmer or more slipshod practice.......... imagine if in the procession they would have been harming others!!! (Being a fellow countryman you should share our grief!!!).....or if the coins wouldn’t have sufficed our Gods!! (You believe so??.....go on!! Give something new to us!!!)

Philosophy of Viagra

Remember: "It is clear that Viagra needs to be examined not only from a sociological but also from a philosophical point of view"!

The impotency remedy Viagra is the “fastest selling drug in history” (McGinn 1998). It is no longer just a medical phenomenon, but also a cultural icon, appearing in television sitcoms as a pretext for jokes or as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications not limited to sexuality, but concerns various parts of our cultural landscape. Being relatively convincing in terms of bio-medical efficiency, criticism of Viagra has so far mainly been expressed in the (often feminist) “Liberal Arts” camp where Pfizer (the maker of Viagra) is reproached for its profit-oriented negation of any psychological, social, emotional, and relational components involved in impotency. Further criticism ridicules Viagra’s mechanical imagery of a “techno-fix” (Vares & Braun 2006) not only intensifying the medicalization of impotency current since the early 1980s (Tiefer 1986), but also making “sex into a medical function like digestion” (Tiefer 2003) and the fact that Viagra renders masculinity as a mere problem of chemical engineering, plumbing, and hydraulics. A further concern is that through Viagra, the traditional gender role of the “potent man and the happy woman” is restored without any critical revision (Loe 2004). In spite of, or because of, the narrow humanistic basis offered by its producers, Viagra has obtained the status of a lifestyle drug.

It is clear that Viagra needs to be examined not only from a sociological but also from a philosophical point of view.

What do philosophers have to say about the “viagrification” culture? Is there a philosophical principle behind Viagra as a cultural phenomenon?

Possible subjects are:

• Viagra and Posthumanism (artificial life)
• The Body as a Machine
• Reality and Desire
• Pursuing Hedonism. Why not?
• Non-natural sex?
• Ethical concerns about Viagra
• Viagra and the Virtual. Through Viagra the desire is not created but has always been there in a virtual (that is, not actual but also not non-actual) form. Through Viagra the desire becomes (virtually) real.

A simple Question

Hey friends....

I have been thinking over a question for a long time....I present this question to you.....

Would you take a billion dollars if as part of the deal the ‘Earth’ would be made an uninhabitable place a year after your death!!???.......(of course you would think about your friends, family, grandchildren!!) ......but what if the condition is changed to that the Earth would be poisoned a thousand years subsequent to your demise???

We feel strong obligations towards our immediate generations....should we not feel the same for our great grandchildren and their children and the generations thereafter??!!!

Understanding Memory (Part 2)

In my last article.....I pointed out a 'probable' relation between Memory and Understanding!!!!!!!!

Well I would like to thank my friend Sukrit for helping me out further with it and point out the many flaws in it......which has strengthened my theory further and also did a slight modification......I donno how to put that conversation before you so I thought that best way would be to put it exactly before you as it took place!!! So here it is,

me: hey!!

 sukrit1990: hi

 me: so wassup?

 sukrit1990: nothing yaar

  bas gettin bored

10:13 AM tum batao... read my comments?

 me: yaaah

 sukrit1990: :)

 me: quite good argument

  but you know m talkin about long time intervals

10:14 AM when u r into memorizing alot n a lot......u consequently lose ur ability to understand
all u know is how to mugup

10:15 AM sukrit1990: really mae?

  is that so?

  hey c'mon

 me: yeah that's wat i've observed

  !!!

  n read!!!

10:16 AM sukrit1990: i memorized lots of poems in nursery class

  i still remember them and my power to understand is still there

 me: ha ha......that's ur versatile stage

  ur mind is very flexible at that stage

10:18 AM 

u learn manythings at that stage..............but that dosen't mean that u gonna do it whole of ur life

  :)

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

10:19 AM sukrit1990: achcha ..... let me take u to a different level

 me: yeah

10:20 AM sukrit1990: why didnt u plot a straight line with slope of -1?

  why is it a hyperbola?

  u mean to say when u are not understanding...... u can memorize infinitely?

10:21 AM me: yeah that's human mind

10:22 AM i say that there's a possibility

  that u cud do it

  but not neccesarily everyone

  !!!

 sukrit1990: hmmmm...... okie

10:23 AM me: kmow a diseaes called somewhat 'savant' something

  wait a sec

10:24 AM yeah "AUTISTIC SAVANT'

  :)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome

  u cud read it

10:25 AM According to Treffert, something that almost all savants have in common is a prodigious memory of a special type, a memory that he describes as "very deep, but exceedingly narrow".[1]

  get it???

 sukrit1990: hmmmm...... ya..... but thats a disease man

10:26 AM me: shudn't we include diseased humans in our studys???

  well u cant say that's a diseases!!

10:27 AM that can b looked upon as a special ability

10:28 AM sukrit1990: okie ... call it a special ability..... but special abilities shud be considered as exceptions .... not as ur study

  :)

10:29 AM me: well ur seeing the infinite end of that graph is also an exception!!!

  u cud neveer reach it...talking theoritically

10:31 AM satisfied

  ?

 sukrit1990: not at all

  firstly... i dont think they shud be inversely related

  secondly..... even if they are, it shud not be a hyperbola

10:32 AM me: ok i m not very certain about the shape of the graph

  its jst a possibility

 sukrit1990: haan.... can be

  but an intereseting theory on a whole

10:33 AM something on which i would like to study bout

  and discuss

10:34 AM me: is the rest of the theory satisfying

  ?

  to u?

10:35 AM sukrit1990: i only read this theory till now

  still have to read the others

 me: do u know others too?

10:36 AM sukrit1990: not yet

 me: ha ha

  well then thanx for this discussion'

 sukrit1990: hahaha

  in fact i shud thank u

  a really nice theory

10:37 AM me: it has help me identify several loopholes in it

  n it'll help me improve it

 sukrit1990: keep working on it

 me: like i haven't described many points in it

 sukrit1990: who knows.. u can get a nobel prize for it

 me: which i'll describe now

10:38 AM n plz tell ny other u find

        sukrit1990: ya sure

    me: i'll say u read one on superstition

  its got another of my theory

 10:40 AM 

sukrit1990: sure

 me: thanx again ......bbyeeee

 sukrit1990: bye bye

 me: gotta study for my class tests

 sukrit1990: kk

 me: gotta both memorize n understand!!!

10:41 AM haha

 sukrit1990: hahahaa

 me: bbyeeeeeee

 sukrit1990: best of luck

  bye

 me: thanx
So I think that you might have gotta know what actually was the problem with it!!.....once again I would thank Sukrit for his contribution.>:)

Understanding Memory

The human mind is a mysterious thing......many sceintists and thinkers and philosophers have tried to understand and decipher its working but a few have have succeded and that too partially. I am no greater than them so I just thought of a very basic thing......our memory and our understanding ability. Do they reside in totally isolated premises or do they have a connecting door. I am not talking about the physical divisions in our brains which the sceintists have carved out.....but the abstract thing!!!!

After a lot of contemplation and thought of a very interesting relationship between them which seems to be correct. well i think that the human mind's memory and understanding have a HYPERBOLIC relation between them. The graph to the right depicts the relation. take y=memory and x=understanding (or vice-versa)...the relation may be pictured so(the graph line in the 1st quadrant).

The more you memorize the less you understand and the more you understand the less you can mug-up.....now that's some disadvantage....but you could escape it by choosing the optimum point. At that point you can both learn and understand optimally. Its upto you how swiftly and easily you identify and reach that point. Yes there's also arises a possibility(I beleive that anything's possible [:)] ) that there can be born such a man who could choose two such points and can both learn and understand to the sheer extremity......(the second graph line in the 3rd quadrant) and in this way he can two optimal points.....

quite analogous to the core 2 duo processor!!!

""weird thoughts I have""

It's Only Superstition!!!

A  Hindu or a Jew, a kid or an adult, catholic or a protestant, a farmer or an executive everyone is fettered with credulities. Superstition is a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to supposedly irrational beliefs of others, and its precise meaning is therefore subjective. It is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the irrational belief that future events can be influenced or foretold by specific, unrelated behaviors or occurrences. A well educated man might scorn pejoratively the idea of tagging on a superstition but he still has some of ‘em buried in him. We are bred in an atmos loaded with superstitions. And such intense are its effects that we’ve got them etched in our minds even now……..it’s the upshot of such things that we are petrified if, say,  a black cat crosses our way. It is a common sight nowadays to see opulent people spending their every spare dime on ‘pundits’ for some rite b’coz they saw themselves sleeping on the pavement in a dream….or something preposterous like that.

 

Our world has many superstition embedded in it.

Exempla gratia:

According to legend, during the time of a plague, Saint Gregory I the Great ordered that people say "God bless you" when somebody sneezed, to prevent the spread of the disease. In Western folklore, superstitions associated with bad luck include Friday the 13th and walking under a ladder. It is also believed that if you were to step on a crack, your mother would then break her back. Often people will throw salt over their shoulder after they spill it, in order to blind the devil, who sits at your left shoulder. Breaking a mirror is considered to cause 7 years of bad luck. In India, there is a superstition that a pregnant woman should avoid going outside during an eclipse in order to prevent her baby being born with a facial birthmark. In Iran, birthmarks are called 'maah-gereftegi' which means eclipse. In Korea, there is a superstition that leaving a fan on in a closed room will suffocate the occupants.

 

It is not bad to have superstitions. A human mind, when sees a particular out of the ordinary thing occur, it ties it to something which you did somewhere in the past and thus emerges a new superstition. You then tenaciously believe in it and pass it to others (directly or indirectly) spreading it geometrically in all directions. Each one of us develops some superstition or rather naïveté…remember Dhoni unstrap and strap his gloves before every delivery.

 

Do these superstitions really have some effect and are they logical in any bearing? Are they rational? Considering the rhetorical aspect of the question the consensus would be a “YES”. Greek and Roman pagans, who modeled their relations with the gods on political and social terms, scorned the man who constantly trembled with fear at the thought of the gods, as a slave feared a cruel and capricious master. "Such fear of the gods (deisidaimonia) was what the Romans meant by 'superstition'. The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be sinful in the sense that it denotes a lack of trust in the divine providence of God and, as such, is a violation of the first of the Ten Commandments. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states superstition "in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion".

 

Discussing further….take the example of probably the most famous superstition that if a black cat crosses your way bad luck’s gonna come to you. So if a black cat passes thus you stop there waiting for someone else to cross it and take away the jinx with him. One such person happens to pass and then you joyfully move on; but God is watching you and He is angry because you did bad with that man and would curse you…..thus bad luck’ll come to you. But then again if you would have passed through that cursed area God would have been happy with you because you saved any other man from the curse and would relieve you from the evil eye. So we see that whatsoever, superstitions ultimately have no effect, how a belief goes wrong just by changing your point of reference!!!

 

The above discussion puts a big question mark on many other superstitions. Man is very logical in his approach owing to his rational mind then what is it that forces him to make irrational conclusions?? You could see many such beliefs entrenched around you and such beautifully camouflaged that sometimes we give in to them without us being aware of doing so. I would be reiterating to say that we have some unique credulities of our own and limited to us. But there are some widespread ones too and I know it would be too bold to say but have you ever given a thought of GOD also being a superstition!!!

 

It is certainly possible that somewhere in the past when many men were seeing the ‘out of the ordinary’ things happen, unexpected goings-on they would have taken the shelter of some ‘Superhuman’-God, who was making all this happen….or it is also possible that (in the past) some crazy, maverick philosopher would have given his theory of God and the petty sapiens (flabbergasted and unable to interpret these outlandish things) surrendered to it (which explained all things). And this theory became so popular that it is extant even now and is certainly going to be redolent many centuries ahead. Just like those men took the shelter of God, we too take the shelter of superstitions (like eating curd before going and doing some important task insuring that it finishes properly), and then we also have a major superstition (GOD) with us and within seconds our morale is soaring. When you seriously contemplate on this theory you may find many unexplained things as explained.

This is what I thought…..you can refute if you want to on this proposition…….