31 December, 2020

Miscellanea [1 October 2020 - 31 December 2020]

 3/10/20 

  • If the man goes down many of his lieutenants will follow. But no sympathy. His policies claimed thousands of his countrymen 

 

17/10/20 

  • To those brave hearts that crossed boundaries: SALAAM 
    as you discovered stronger bond than faith 

18/10/20 

  • A UNIVERSE INSIDE ONE SQUARE INCH OF SKY! 

23/10/20 

  • TRYING TO UNDERSTAND LIFE 
     
    Travelling 200 million miles, for just a few second's tagging - all in an attempt to better understand the origins of life on earth 

29/10/20 

  • Our aggressive and undiplomatic protests actually hurt the cause. From Quran burning to portrait, to cartoons... we are responsible for popularizing the indiscretion. 

1/11/20 

  • Was it possible for Allah to punish Samuel Paty for showing Charlie Hebdo #cartoon? And He didn't, right? 
     
    But Abdoulakh considered it his duty to play God, ignoring his debt to the French, as a refugee, and hurting Muslim interest worldwide. 
     
    And we don't find anything wrong with such thought and action? 

3/11/20 

  • 19 perish to the terror of the lunatics in Kabul University. How blind faith can benumb sensitivities. Wake up people: Promote #Rationality. 

4/11/20 

  • If the erstwhile colonialists did not follow the rule of law and humanism today many of these #jihadists would not be able to terrorize them. Would they? 

 

  • Islamist #terrorists are plain lunatics and cowards. 
     
    Have they ever killed any powerful enemy of Muslims? 
     
    Under every faith, killers of innocents at random 
    go to hell. 
     
    Whither their Paradise? 

5/11/20 

  • Science and Reason finally seem to be scraping through American elections! 
    All hope is yet not lost. 

6/11/20 

  • What is the health of this much taunted democracy? 
     
    The President himself wants votes ignored and counting stopped! 
     
    And his bhakts flaunting their guns support him! 

7/11/20 

  • Long after the dust of US elections settles down, the Americans must ask how come a man such as he got elected and then came so close to reelection. 

 

  • Isn't our so-called adult-franchised #democracy model with its universal weightage, first past the poll/ winner takes all, very very flawed? 
    Any ideas for better self-governance? 

12/11/20 

  • By far the most unscientific, irrational and vulgarly anti- secular public action has come from none other than #Arvind Kejriwal, far surpassing the top BJP leadership. Those who ridiculed Modi's thalis should evaluate this man's vibrations. A new contender for prime ministership of today's India. 

14/11/20 

  • #STATE: 
    An elaborate system of well thought out processes to facilitate individual and institutional transactions but which allows jokers to lead and thwart it merely on the strength of universal adult franchise. 

 

  • An invite to the #Muslims: 
     
    Assume that you were born a non-Muslim and were just as good as you today are, and yet Muslims regarded you as infidel or #Kafir. What feelings would you harbour towards them? 

15/11/20 

  • So long as one believes in a #God without attaching any attributes to him no one should have a problem. But when you attach some attributes, and I some others, a conflict is inevitable. Logically #religions must produce disharmony. 

16/11/20 

  • NOT EVEN GRAVITY CAN CONTAIN US! 
     
    Watch SpaceX's Falcon-9 lift off from Kennedy Space Centre with four astronauts, on its day-long journey to dock with ISS 

17/11/20 

  • Even our latest version, Homo Sapien Sapiens, is as old as over two lakh years, while the oldest organised religion is no older than 5000 years. If we not only grew but thrived in those difficult times and with smaller brains, why can't we do so without a #religion today? 

19/11/20 

  • Why did #God create the hell? Because some people wont reform, ever. 
    Fair, no? 
    But who created those wretched sinners? 
    And what about God's omnipotence? 
    Maybe there's no hell, after all! And the heaven. And their creator. 

 

  • The sheer number of people that are willing to believe apparent nonsense in the name of #religion, #nation or the leader is benumbing. 
     
    Is it the Loftiness of the idea or the Lowliness of our critical thinking that works? 

20/11/20 

  • MUSLIM CULTURE 
     
    When ill-informed Hindus deride Muslims, en masse, lightly, I know they know neither their rich culture and its magnificence - nor of their own civilizational values. 
     
    Come, let me show you glimpses of Muslim culture. 
     
    Is it fair to judge history from misery? 

21/11/20 

  • DELHI GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS 
    I wonder how they fund such massive advertisement blitzkrieg on so many TV channels nationally, and why. Is it media appeasement? 

22/11/20 

  • Mercifully the tough times have not robbed us of the instinct to feel good about large-heartedness. 

23/11/20 

  • Bemoan the societies that are led by #clergymen or #politicians, rather than by scholars, social activists, scientists... 

 

  • Please correct such nonsense: 
     
    "My religion /book /country /leader...is the best" = "Yours is inferior" 
     
    "They elope with our sisters" = "Our sisters elope with them" 

24/11/20 

  • Yes we will boycott France and Germany and EU, and then UK and America and finally the oceania. We still have most of Africa left within our favours where we can go and start a new life. But I heard they are migrating to Europe themselves 

25/11/20 

  • As the second largest religious community on earth, Muslims must ask why their influence on the American continent is so ignorable? 

26/11/20 

  • Are we mortgaging our nation? 
    BSNL is nearly bleed to death. 
    Airports are leased out long term 
    GDP contraction has seen the billionaires getting richer 
    And now even Arvind Subramaniam is worried at private biggies launching their banks 

27/11/20 

  • Eight decades after #Hindu Mahasabha and #Muslim League politics, aren't we back to competitive #communalism? 
    No one won then; none will now. 

 

  •  #Muslim brethren beware and avoid the trap. #Political power sought through reactionary politics will be disastrous. Instead, focus producing an Einstein, a Gandhi, Maradona, Gates, Luther, Teresa, Keller, Obama, Mandela... 

28/11/20 

  • Serious brain-damage to the middle class is caused by its half-educated clergymen who flaunt pseudo-science in acceptable English! 

 

  • I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT #RATIONALITY AND FIRM #SECULARISM, NOT MUSLIM COMMUNALISM, IS THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER TO HINDU #COMMUNALISM 

 

  • I ask 
    I probe 
    I provoke 
    I chide and taunt 
    Because I love 
    Because I care 

29/11/20 

  • If only he was less obsessed with sex! 
     
    His presumption is that girls are ever ready to have sex, that coeducation only produces free sex, that all men have only sexual relationship... 
     
    Clearly for him women have only one use for men: sex 

 

         

  • Accidents of birth within a faith, within a nation and within a family can sometimes become fetters to free pursuit of truth and inquiry 

 

  • Look up or around. Everything in #universe is subordinated to something else, and is eventually doomed for destruction. Recycling is the sole characteristic of nature: not democracy, equality, good, bad, reward, punishment... 

30/11/20