The Apple of Eden Part 2

Earlier, I spoke about knowledge and how we acquire it.  We are surrounded by new ideas, and some of them are thrown right at us. Are these ideas actually what we want to see, or are they what we are made to see though?

Some of us if not most of us are aware that facts are usually manipulated a little before it is shown to the public eye. Or, they're just not shown. Movies, video games, books and all kinds of media and information sources are restricted from being let out into society. Some restrictions or bans maybe implemented due to offensive material, but what about the rest? Society controls what we read and watch and along with it, gives us a (what we seem to see as a) very good reason to do so. Most of us blindly accept things as they come to us ( me being one of them). Why? That's because we are either scared or just lazy to bother finding out more. See the contradiction, we are know for being eager beings, we want to find out more and yet we hold back, we only explore more into areas that we are allowed to explore into.

Along with this society even uses techniques that influence our decisions. One very common technique that is used in the Black and White choice. In this method, you are offered two extreme choices, and one of them would be a choice that favours what the person wants and the other will be one that you will not choose. To better explain this here is an example, "Are you going to fight me, or run away like a coward?"  The choice that is made by most people would be to obviously fight the aggressor, mainly because the other choice is sort of derogatory. This is a more microscopic example but apply this to the type of messages that you may or may not see around you.

I got these ideas from an article that I read (http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-you-right-now.html), rather eye opening. What I mean to say from all this is that, just because some words are thrown in that may antagonize us or make it seem like the wrong thing to do (this doesn't apply to anti-drug campaigns, drugs are bad and always will be), the choice is entirely up to you to go out and explore the world around you. Understand the situation completely before blindly following what is shown. We are humans, not sheep.

  

Poems

The following are a set of poems written by our friend, Pratik. We thought we should share them. Happy reading.

The cold wind from the north blows,
yet the warmth from your heart flows.

Although the world has propelled into darkness,
I see nothing but u and our happiness.

The love we share has no bounds,
for even god has no control over it.

Come my love let us dance in this moon lit night,

for undoubtedly it is our eternal right.

(2^nd December 2013)

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The passion within me is slowly dying,
yet the thought of you is always mystifying.

The mind tries to reconcile with reality, 
but the heart tries to run away from human mortality. 

My dreams shall never see the light of day,

even during the warm May,
for they have left their dwelling place

(2^nd December 2013)

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The mind is a land of desolation,
wandering hopelessly for redemption.

It is filled with memories we made,
that have slowly begun to fade.

Your voice that echoes in the mind,
has slowly pierced the soul.

The merciless turbulence has wrecked my boat,

ceasing my chances to float.

(1^st December 2013)

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Humanity has stepped into darkness,

propelling the future into an unfathomable wickedness.

Yet the moon shines bright at night, 
to give peace to those in flight.

Love now may seem to be a broken fragment
or a fleeting moment,
yet it gives the heart the elixir,

to the eternal torment.

(3^rd December 2013)

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The cold winter slowly approaches,

while the warmth of the sun steadily diminishes.

The heart waits in anticipation,

while the mind is full of contemplation.

Yet the homeless celebrate their happiness,

and birds sing their melodies.

Peace seems omnipresent,

while pain seems absent.

Sweet is the night air,

for it has the God's holy flair.

As the moon stares down at the empty night,

 all it sees is humanity's daily plight.

It shines its soothing light on the shoulders,

 only to find that they are burdened with heavy boulders

Dreams now seem to be a hopeless fancy

and love an idealist's incomprehensible lunacy.

Darkness seems to be the only light that prevails and hope,

 a goal, that has an unprecedented trail. 

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The sun shines its light to show humanity the way,
yet the confusion in the mind and the heart leads us astray.

Peace now is a piece of history,
tormenting an idealist's mind that tries to solve the forgotten mystery.

Now, humanity resides in a reality filled with wickedness,
devoid of souls that were once filled with impregnable righteousness.

(22^nd December 2013)

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Time And Trust

Time: Gradient = Constant

It is said that everything in this world is temporary. Only time is permanent.......

Memory is powerful tool and yet it is such a burden. We tend to forget things that might just help us. Like during exams, how do we always manage to forget the answers. We know that we know it and yet, we mess up. On the other hand, we always remember the things we try so hard to forget. An embarrassing incident or something that hurt you once before. Those stay for years and years. Time and memory are two variables that we cannot seem to control. Time surpasses all of us (literally). Memory controls us. We all know that Memory is directly linked to time. As time passes we create new memories. Some we will remember, others our subconscious will remember. Memory also helps us learn new things, create a better understanding of our world. Along with time it also teaches us that nothing stays the same. Good things and bad things always come to anend. We try to recreate memories, but it never comes close. There is no better feeling than experiencing something new.

Trust: A feeling of unity with another entity.

When you feel that you can scream your heart out, without having the fear of being judged, or heard by anyone else. That's when trust is established. Personally I value trust over almost everything. This also is powerful tool that tells you that someone/something is always there for you. Even when the world turns away. Being such a powerful tool, it can be misused. Yes, we've all been there haven't we?
Having your trust broken, by someone you thought you had faith in. To me that's the worst feeling anyone could ever undergo.
No one deserves that. No one. 

Everything is in continuum

There are distinctions in whatever we see and do. From people to actions; we have either been taught these distinctions or have drawn the line at some point saying "Okay if this object has this characteristics then this must belong to a certain group" and so on. We have races, religion, gender, age and so much more dividing us all. But what we don't seem to realize is that these are merely distinctions that we as humans have created and have placed in society to stand apart from each other. If we look for scientific proof, the genes in our DNA suggest that we are very close in terms of our genes and how they are structured. Therefore there is a continuum within us despite the fact that we all seem different from one another.

When we take this principle and apply it to everything around us we see that it can be proven that everything is in continuum. Time is a perfect example to show this as it is always moving and never stopping, it is continuous. Movement of people is continuous because even if we stop while walking we are still moving due to the rotation and revolution of the Earth around its orbit. Our bodies are always pumping fluid in the form of blood or hormones etc and so they're always moving. Your daily business being dumped into the soil will serve as nutrients to plants one day that will then be eaten by animals and then eaten by you again and therefore there is a continuous cycle. Nothing ever stops. Take the two most distinct things or categories you know and you'll always find a link between them somewhere at some point in history. We are all connected and moving at all times. Ever since the Big Bang, nothing has ever ceased to exit. It is always converted to some form or the other that will exist in the world and universe as we know it. Even the distinction between living and dead is blurred; when exactly do we say a person is dead? There are so many answers to this. When the blood stops pumping from the heart? When the brain no longer functions? When the flow of fluids stop? When the cells eventually die? 

All the answer that we have created to answer our questions have come from definitions we as humans have created and put in place for hundreds of years and therefore have become facts. This is what psychologists call categorical thinking, where we form categories into which all that we have knowledge of will fit into. These are just mere linguistic divisions we form to help us think better. This is when you realize that we as humans who are very inquisitive and always questioning what's happening to satisfy our curiosities have never gotten the complete answer. We see that our questions that were asked have never been truly answered for the entire span of human history and will never be truly answered ever. We will never stop asking questions even though there is never a perfect answer to the questions we ask...