Ingenious Fools or...

A wise man once said that it was better to have common sense without education than have an education without common sense. Common Sense; something that is not so common; is nothing but the ability to comprehend facts in a logical and informed manner, so as to make a decision which would be correct.

While started off as something based on logic, due to the inherent nature of man/woman being a lazy animal, after a while the commonly used logics are no longer applied and only the hypothesis is used to make further conclusions. Not this is may not be logically correct, but there is no one to check if what was common sense earlier is still common sense and if what you believe to be common sense now is not just a fallacy. And if it be just a fallacy, anything and everything derived from using it as the basis of your logic would in-turn be nothing more than a misleading notion.

What is common about common sense is that it, almost always, is never based on hard evidence and is only the things that we think to be true. For if it was left up to the sense of the commons, the sun and the stars would still be circling a flat earth, and the Church would still be crucifying women for being witches.

Let it be known that common sense is but only the collection of prejudices acquired with age, and while a man may imagine things that are false, he can only understand things that are true; for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Who’s the man?

Cracked open the new bottle of a very fine single malt that I had bought off the reserve stock of a Scottish distillery a couple of months ago. I had been saving it for a special day, and after all your best friend making his engagement announcement would qualify as such an occasion. After a drink or two, out came the turntable with the Frank Sinatra L.P.’s that I had inherited from my uncle and the Cubans that someone had picked up at the duty free. And while the mood was set and everyone wanted to talk about the wedding that was to be, the conversation abruptly moved to the subject of the role of men and women in the household. 

“She’s the man of the house”, someone exclaimed, referring to a friend of mine who had been married for 4 years now. And while some people were amused to see how she had been the dominant one in the relationship and continued the conversation to talk about how decision making was a “man” thing, I wondered if it was really the men of the household who have been making decisions all this while.

The truth is that the notion of the man being the decision maker of the household is so old that instead of recognising that a woman too can be the one to call the shots, a woman who openly determines what to do is called the dominant one and the “man” of the family. But if the same woman influences the decision of the “man” by behind the scene tactics where the man is lead to believe that the decision was actually his, he remains the “man” and the woman remains the “woman”. In either case it was the will of the woman which was being done, in the first case she was open about it and in the second she was the perfect politician.

So the question really is that do you want love or politics in your relationship? If it is politics that you seek, “be the man”; and if it is love that you want then “let the woman be the man!”

Food for thought

Let it be known that common sense is but only the collection of prejudices acquired with age, and while a man may imagine things that are false, he can only understand things that are true; for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding!

The Learners, Not the Learned will Win!

Writing, just for the sake of it, to prove that I am serious about what I am doing. But am I really? Rather is anyone serious about anything at all? Or they are just posers just like me. I am of the opinion that the latter is true. (Music plays in the background )

Who are we kidding with this use of eloquent jargon for every aspect of life or business; the speaker, satisfied after he has bombarded a room full of under-confident people who think that the speaker is obviously someone great because he’s been asked to address them; the people impressed with the speaker’s phenomenal command over his technical lingo; later they all exchange business cards, each one in his mind wondering if the other knows the truth about him.
 

The truth, if someone thinks outside the bounds of their box, is that while the learned is putting on his vulgar display of power, the learners in order to recognise his deception will need to learn the language of the learned first to prove that the learner is more learned than the learned. So in order to prove that you are learned, you need to learn more and that is how the learned becomes a learner and since he is learning he is not learned. Hence the saying – “The learners, not the learned will win.”

Effects of White Wine and Whiskey

The wine’s gone, and so is the whiskey, and I ask myself – “so do I have an expanded mind yet?” The answer – Yes and No! Yes, for a person who hated to express his views orally, let alone on paper, writing it out and actually posting them on a public forum; NO, for whatever I write makes absolutely NO sense at all. So, this evening when I thought some alcohol would actually help me expand my mind and explore facets of my life that I had not explored before, I would say it worked and it did not.

So why is it that the first things that come to my mind to actually write about are Cigarettes and Alcohol? Is it just coincidence or perhaps fate? Or perhaps it is a higher power that is guiding me to write these words. Crap. The reason I write about this is because this is something that I hear about every day of my life.

Is it the sleep, or is it the alcohol? I don’t have a clue; I still am in my senses, although the words are flowing pretty quickly. Could also be because I’m in “the zone” but I’m not entirely sure.

Smoking is for Thinkers!

Promised to give up smoking as a wedding gift to my two best friends, not knowing what the real consequences were. Or is it just a figment of my imagination that even after 4 months of not smoking a single cigarette I still feel the urge to smoke some times. Not because someone or something tempts me, but because I have this urge to hold a stick in my hand and after I press it against my lips and blow out that cloud of carbon dioxide into the air.

Is it my addiction to Nicotine? I seldom ask myself; I believe not, because if it were, I would have been craving cigarettes for every second for the last four months. But since the craving happens only when I need to THNIK, I believe it is something to do with how my brain is wired and needs some stimulation when I intend to get creative.

By that rationale, I think a new marketing idea for a cigarette company should be related to how people need to smoke while they are thinking. Face it, there is this market of “pseudo” media people who call themselves the great thinkers and the revolutionaries of society and are smokers (I’m assuming here that the stereotype is actually true). And whatever these influencers of society do is what the public picks up. So I think the next campaign by any cigarette company should be “Smoking is for Thinkers!”