A First Memory

If I have the chance to occupy one more dimension in addition to the four time-space dimensions, I would be able to see multiple replicas of myself doing different things in different times. Each one of these replications is unique and independent of any other copy. That, certainly, means I am not the same person one minute ago, much less 20 years ago.

Anyway, don't take my word for it.

Any of the 9000 taste buds any of us have are no older than 10 days. Interesting, huh?

What about the lungs? 2 to 3 weeks old at maximum.

Your skin is two to four weeks old.

While the skeleton lives for about 10 years, the heart can make it to be 20 years old.

So, in a span of 20 years, many parts of each of us cease to exist. In the mean time, a whole new us come to living.

Let's stop here and think of what holds the memories, the brain.

The brain, as well as the eyes, are always as old as we are. Once they are gone, they are gone.

Since the brain is the container of our memories, it remains as a sole evidence that parts of us lived in the past. But these parts of us are not us, at all.

We are not who we were in the past, and our future selves are going to be totally different persons.

I like to describe it as a moral obligation to our ancestor selves to keep their words, promises, and dreams living. But it's not anything further.

OhLife.com

A couple of days ago, I found a really cool website that makes it possible to send emails to my future self. It sounded like fun at the beginning, but after a moment it turned really emotional. I felt something for the future me! I started to think of him as a son. I felt that I care for him, I love him, and I want to provide for him.

This parental emotion seems instinctive, I really can't help it.

I just sent him a happy birthday wishes, and I'm sure he will be excited about it.

Honestly, I know that I might never meet him, but all I want from him is to not hate me. Is it too much to ask for?

Watch Your Language

Consciousness is the fruit of realization. Realization comes from understanding. Understanding is the result of putting thoughts in the right context.Language, in turn, is the container of thoughts. I cannot imagine thinking without a language.

Therefore, in order to control a society, you need to make their consciousness absent. There is one efficient way to do that; limiting their thinking ability.This can be easily achieved when you are able to shrink the used language. less vocabulary is not merely limiting the spoken language, but it also decays the thoughts.

Omission of words is systematically undertaken by different institutions in the society, and for many reasons.Blasphemy comes on the top of the list. though, there are more people than you can think of who try to control your language, and accordingly, your thoughts. it starts with your parents but does not end when you finish school. each and every law on earth have some blacklisted words that you are not even allowed to think of.It's not only about curse words, it's almost about everything.

When we look at some societies around us, you can easily realize how limited the vocabulary they have in use! they even use the word  البتاع(the thing/the belonging)  to describe everything at any time. This evidently affected the way they look to themselves and the way they see their future; very limited.

On the other hand, there are organizations who try to give you better alternatives to some words. this eventually elevates the quality of your thinking and increases your consciousness; since the thoughts at the beginning are made of language. and as good your language was, the better your thoughts will be.we all know that the word "challenged", for example, is better than "crippled" or "handicap", and the word "cabin crew" is reflecting a meaning that couldn't be understood when words like "hostess" or "flight attendant" used to be used.

So, in order to achieve a better state of awareness, you need to have sharp and precise thoughts, which implicitly requires a rich language with quality choice of words.

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Musical Chairs

Years ago, Taliban was not recognized the world over. Only three countries agreed to have a representatives of  Taliban on their territories; Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. At the time, Qatar resided on the liberal wing of the region, fighting their own battle to host US forces base on their land.

While Osama Bin Laden videos found their way to be aired on Al Jazeera when the Internet was not as available as of today, an invasion was being orchestrated in Al-Sailiya and Al Udeid bases near Doha, targeted Afghanistan then Iraq. Later, Abu Dhabi hosted many Taliban and Iraqi Ba'ath veterans.

In 2006, Hamas dominated the seats of PLC. Hence was entitled to form the Palestinian government, and it did. Regardless of the consequences, this re-raised an old flag from the 1990's, where Islamists in Algeria won the elections, then were overruled by the army there, which ignited a conflict lasted for a decade and harvested thousands of souls there. Hamas victory made it a fact; elections bring Islamists to power. Therefore, a series of actions must be effectively taken, concerned parties thought. Consequently, an international blockade was forced on Gaza, the strong base of Hamas, to let it be an example to the people who would think of electing Islamists.

Apparently, people don't learn from others mistakes. After a dominos-like uprisings in the Arab world wishfully named 'Arab Spring', elections brought MB and other Islamist factions to the parliaments of these moving countries. Those people must get taught a lesson, it was decided. Out of this mess, an alliance came into the lights (actually to the shadows), leading a war on these changes in order to maintain the system and the regimes.

With personal obsessions playing a major role, those countries who used to sound like the voice of reason started to play a different tune. Thereafter, this place was vacant and must be filled immediately. After all, everybody needs a mediator able talk to those who we don't talk to. Eventually, there are things to negotiate with MB, Hamas, Al Nusra front, Taliban, and maybe ISIS. Hence comes Qatar.

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Is Consumption Culture Stopping us From Moving to Renewable Energy?

The need to start investing in renewable energy is becoming massive as oil prices going up while fossil fuel reservoirs are getting scarce. But what stops the developing countries that have very limited natural resources from taking the initiative?

With globalization, came the consumption culture that dominated the social behavior  of societies and individuals, where they got addicted to it in a way that it became extremely difficult to quit it. People now are defining necessities that were considered luxury a century ago, or even 40 years ago in some countries. This global society of consumers is only benefiting the capitalists who are selling overpriced commodities to people who spend credit card money on things they don't really need.

In energy sector, people seems not caring about moving toward renewable energy. Obviously, they don't care about environment, but this is not my concern as well. Consumers' energy bill is rising rapidly, which gives them one thing to complain about; but they seem very understanding! In the mean time, Energy companies are not only reluctant to transfer their efforts away from fossil fuel, but they fight tooth and nail to stop, or at least delay, such transition. Why? Consumption.

Corruption is one tool in their plot. In developing countries, those capitalists are using their influence to seduce the politicians who tempt to move a single foot on the route of alternative energy resources. Renewable energy is not consumable, and adopting it will kill the goose that lays golden eggs. The tools that programmed to function as massive consumption machines; aka people, need to start revolution against their way of life in order to be liberated from Capitalist Masters. After all, it's us who pay the price.

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You Can't Give What You Don't Have

What is the present time?

What can we call present? A minute ago is past now, as well a second ago.

The past resides only in the memory. And what we call "experience" is a memory organized in a form of a prototype that can be beneficial  if a similar situation occurred.

But what can a man without experience accomplish? Are we meant to be people of trial and error?

One can claim that "reading adds new experiences to your experience",

" you don't have to reinvent the wheel",

"what you are looking for is already there, just go and find it",

"the humans experience is a collective and accumulative experience",

So forth and so on...

But if you read a thousand books that describes the taste of sour grapes without really tasting them then you know nothing about sour grapes.

What we really are is what we are looking for, what we think of ourselves, the image that we have for ourselves in the future. But we are not starting from a plain page, every passing day is leaving its fingerprint. The bad news is; we cannot overwrite it. The good news is; we don't have to start from scratch.

One last thing before you cast away off this page, don't despise what you cannot have.

And for the sake of entertainment, here is one of Aesop's Fables:

The Fox and the Grapes

One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from over a lofty branch.

"Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he.

Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few paces back and tried to reach them but still failed.

Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, "They're probably sour anyway," and proceeded to walk away.

Natural Nature

If you want to do something once, do it right.

Philosophers are having this dispute; is the human good in nature or bad in nature? If they cannot have a conclusive answer, then can I?

The closest thing to human nature are the little children who did not get their nature spoiled by the order the grownups chose for themselves. You can see them act naturally while we allow ourselves to judge their characters and develop a type, print it on a tag and hang it around their nicks for the rest of their lives.

You can notice the very same child is being selfish trying to protect her/his own possessions, and being generous sharing her/his possessions with other children or adults.

Children can love you or hate you unconditionally! And they can change their minds in this regard unconditionally as well.

What happened then? All those people in this world who are judged and have their nature questioned, what happened to them, and what happened to those who are trying to judge them?

The collective human experience that led us to the world that is ruled by fear, or at least by "the carrot and the stick" is a huge diversion from the natural nature of humans. We are living on the heritage of our ancestors and we are putting ourselves in their shoes.

But we are not our ancestors! That's why we commit revolutions.

Crowds are the muscles of revolutions, while philosophers are the brains of them. And since we were counting on the muscles only; our revolutions will develop immaturely and end up retarded.

If you want to do anything, do it once and do it right. Because you don't have the luxury of "trial and error" nor the bless of second chances.

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Out of the Cave

Well, I know it's been a while since I wrote anything here! Frankly, I have 14 posts in drafts and I don't feel like publishing them, not now at least.

Few days ago, I was reading an article about depression symptoms, and surprisingly, I can diagnose myself as depressed person despite that I don't feel such way at all. A brief behavioral analysis shows that those symptoms fits me well, but when did that start? I can't even remember!

Back at time when I was working at the network operations center, I thought I was the nicest and most supportive person I could be. But later I discovered the field engineers where avoiding to call the NOC as much as they can if they knew that it was my shift!

When I was managing one of the projects, a different reputation emerged, and many engineers liked working with me! Am I a nice person to deal with in person but a one who is good to avoid on phone?
Yes I am.
I've never been good at this social networking dot com bubbles, nor on the phone or even emails. My history is full of aggressive emails where I wouldn't mind if it was sent to a customer, a contractor or a vendor. But I learnt to be nicer, by the hard way.

Honestly, I don't know how did I get at this point, since this is not what I intended to write when I clicked "new post" button at the blog, but I will keep it any way.

The sophisticated type of life is not helping building a trust-worthy relationship or coping with fast-track changes life brings on everyday basis, so we try to hide in our safe places and hope it's just a storm and will end some time soon. But after a hurricane, nothing is as it was except the sky gets clearer and the sun looks shiner.

Hence you have been in your cave for a long time, can you open your eyes to a shiny sun?


Thanks for taking the trouble reading the nonsense above.
XOXO




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