http://www.happypsychotic.com/474/a-slumdogs-life/ The societal ramblings of a couple brothers in their pursuit of truth Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:58:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.happypsychotic.com/474/a-slumdogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-247 terry Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:27:58 +0000 http://www.happypsychotic.com/?p=474#comment-247 A purpose for life ? We exist because we have a purpose. Does ending one's existence affect the purpose ? Qualifiers should be added . First , we can not undo. Our actions are recorded . One of my favourite sayings is that : "it has already been woven into the great carpets in Constantinople". If you are sceptical , think of all the paleotolists , archeolists , forensic researchers , historians , chronologist . Every one of these professionals seeks to document facts. Alas : We seem to record other humans existence at a higher level than our self existence. Human vision , the eyes and all the processing imagery in the brain yearn for videos of other humans and events. To strengthen this point -a question , "How often do you watch a video of yourself - versus - watching a video of someone else? Each new video watched , moves our thoughts , and our existence to a new level of knowledge. Salim and Jamaal , experienced the reality of their existence in different manners , each developing his own meaning of life and death. 9/10 of 6 billion people striving for money ? Perhaps striving but not for money . Religions have tainted money "filthy lucre" , "almighty dollar" . In reality , money is a tool , like a plough share or a gun . And so what are the 9/10 people striving for ? - plough shares or guns ? The answer is in the movie. It is a popular movie. 9/10 of us want to see Jamaal succeed. Succeed in getting guns ? Nope, Salim went that route. Sucess in getting plough shares ? Of course not. We want him to get the girl and we want the girl to get him and this continues the purpose. The word "suicide" is also a tainted word. Religions ensure that the word has more baggage than Imelda Marcos. The movie was popular. Many people paid money (plough shares or guns) to watch it and they enjoyed it. Ending one's existence was the route taken by Salim and some of us enjoyed the movie for that reason but in the context of promoting success for Jamaal. A purpose for life ?
We exist because we have a purpose. Does ending one’s existence affect the purpose ?
Qualifiers should be added . First , we can not undo. Our actions are recorded . One of my favourite sayings is that : “it has already been woven into the great carpets in Constantinople”. If you are sceptical , think of all the paleotolists , archeolists , forensic researchers , historians , chronologist . Every one of these professionals seeks to document facts.
Alas : We seem to record other humans existence at a higher level than our self existence. Human vision , the eyes and all the
processing imagery in the brain yearn for videos of other humans and events. To strengthen this point -a question , “How often do you watch a video of yourself – versus – watching a video of someone else? Each new video watched , moves our thoughts , and our existence to a new level of knowledge.
Salim and Jamaal , experienced the reality of their existence in
different manners , each developing his own meaning of life and death.
9/10 of 6 billion people striving for money ? Perhaps striving but
not for money . Religions have tainted money “filthy lucre” ,
“almighty dollar” . In reality , money is a tool , like a plough
share or a gun . And so what are the 9/10 people striving for ? –
plough shares or guns ? The answer is in the movie. It is a popular
movie. 9/10 of us want to see Jamaal succeed. Succeed in getting guns ? Nope, Salim went that route. Sucess in getting plough shares ? Of course not. We want him to get the girl and we want the girl to get him and this continues the purpose.
The word “suicide” is also a tainted word. Religions ensure that
the word has more baggage than Imelda Marcos. The movie was popular.
Many people paid money (plough shares or guns) to watch it and they enjoyed it. Ending one’s existence was the route taken by Salim and some of us enjoyed the movie for that reason but in the context of promoting success for Jamaal.

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