Some Funny Definitions....

Came across some funny definitions, you also might want to have fun having read 'em.

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.

ears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of
either.

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Father : A banker provided by nature.

Criminal : A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Classic : Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee : Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

Grudge House

I am afraid of "Grudge House"
And the noises that come from it.
As a private joke, I wag my finger.
"Grudge House" sends me a blank note.

It is indeed a marvelous structure.
I can see it fine from here, thanks.
A book tells me to walk up to my fear,
And that it will pass away.

I stay indoors and watch tv instead.
The mail piles up on the lintel.
Many years pass; I draw some comics.
"Grudge House" is repainted twice.
--March, 06'

God's child...

"Estranged fate, my own broke me
prisoned by beloved, who will free me
so much expectations, little justified

They say, you don't have to be a Jew
To disapprove of murder, Tears burn my eyes
Oh Lord!!, I wanna touch u, talk to u
bring me home, bring me home"

The dream has gone...

I wrote this when I set forth in Bang bang bangalore.

"Moment of Freedom
as the prisoner
blinks in the sun
like a mole
from his hole

a child's 1st trip
away from home
that moment of Freedom

but the innocense has gone
like floyd's child grown
he left the grass
dreams of soothing divas"

Individualism: Are we upto It??

Considering individualism: I think the only really important value it has comes from the fact that most if not all of the greatest advances in human history have been brought into play by the dogged genius of very particular individuals. From their endeavours would come vast benefits for others. In short, true individualism services the masses. Beyond that it is hard to see how individualism has much of a contribution to make to humanity. Although many may don the pretensions of self determination and assert their individuality, really the vast majority are sheep-like conformists able to go along with the general sway without much difficulty. Sometimes I get the feeling that with them that if they were put in a time capsule and dropped back into the 14th Century, they would soon adapt such is their lack of moral purpose or anything that resembles a truly centred orientation.

In the modern age, individualism: that I have freedom of expression, will not be told what to do, that I live life on my own terms etc., to me seems like one great pretension. The modern individual is just as conformed as any other. He is just more deluded about identity than in previous ages. True individuals can think outside the context. They can summon the imagination and see what might be a better way and as a consequence bring about some improvement. These are the genuinely unique persons and it is because of what they contribute that individualism as an idea still needs to be kept alive and well. Societies that deliberately suppress creativity are inevitably over-coercive and soon become deficient in important ways. Eventually they cease to move on.

However, as I've said before, once all of the advances necessary for decent existence have been arrived at - and I do think the time will come when most of the problems of elemental life that have historically blighted the human condition have been solved - then we will have truly high-functioning societies. Only then would there be no need to always have a place for individualism. Such societies wouldn't have to be unduly coercive and would for the most part serve the lives of individuals as opposed to frustrate them. The creations of past-age genius would always be there remaining fully integrated in the world perhaps with only the occasional update or amendment required. Overly creative individuals in such a society would tend to subvert it and be something of a nuisance.

Hitherto attempts at collectivism, from Christianity to communism, have tried to act as if what I have just described is possible by just identifying it or announcing it, and then making demands that people live by the associated codes and practices. This is nonsense. Such a thing can only ever be evolutionary. It can only happen in its own time. Progress in the broadest sense for humans is woefully slow. It took them twenty thousand years to learn how to plough a field and a further ten to learn the importance of limiting power through democracy. They are still fighting over whether that is a good thing with no sign of a truce in the immediate future. It will take another ten or twenty thousand before all the inherited genetic damage can be flushed out and anything like what I am proposing become a reality.

Question is: can humans refrain from being at each others throats long enough for such a world to come into being? Can they avert the real danger of wiping each other out? Worse still, will the hostile universe beyond manage not to inflict some kind of galactic catastrophe on the rather vulnerable creatures that inhabit the planet Earth?