February 2012
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
-B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
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January 2012
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“Hearts in the hand of another heart and in God’s hand are all hearts
قلب بين...”
– Sami Yusuf
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“Be kind… for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t.
How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is
GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything.
Correct?
Student : Yes
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these
terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe
the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol,
Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega
heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything
called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we
can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is
only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if
you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness,
isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to
make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there
is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me,
Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes,
of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work
and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s
brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain,
felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face
unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
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Mark my words. Someday it will come back to you :)
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“We all know art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least...”
– Pablo Picasso
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
-Arthur H. Sulzberger
December 2011
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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“You can change everything except the most important thing, fate.”
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“Teach the triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of...”
– Buddha
November 2011
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions....”
– Lao-Tze
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“You can do anything, but not everything.”
– David Allen
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... What's cool to you?
"A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool?"
"You?" (Sarcasm)
"A billion dollars!"
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“When nothing goes right, go left.”
– Anonymous
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“He said ‘I have the answers to all our problems. I have the answers to...”
– Anonymous
October 2011
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They tell you to be yourself for a reason...
They tell you to be yourself for a reason… And for good reason too!
I’ve been fighting the fight and hiding my true self behind a tree. Instead of being myself I’ve been putting on a show. I’ve mislead everyone to think that I’m someone I’m not. And do you know where it has taken me. Absolutely nowhere.
I only pretended to be someone else because I...
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“Don’t Tell Me The Sky is the Limit, When There are Footprints on the Moon!”
– Anonymous
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