Speckled II- Better Results

Speckled II

Speckled-I

Speckled

Fragments

Fragments

Unhappy Child

Unhappy Child

a mother beside(s)

unhappy child

herself

Stockade

Stockade

I am  

trapped 

within self-made 

stockade

Two Faced

Two Faced

Automatism-First Attempt

Automatism-First Attempt

I am impressed with the artwork of a Facebook artist friend. I said I wished I could create like he does. He generously suggested I start with Automatism. I did not know what it was. I looked it up on Wikipedia. It is basically doodling. That is what I did, doodled; and then improvised on it. This is my first attempt at it. Let us see how far I go. Perhaps not very......

Belief Systems

As a causal argument for what is happening around the world today, a friend sent me this essay written in 1877 by Charles Peirce. 

My reaction: 

It is so true. Therefore, one should belong to no institutions; religious or otherwise. Because every mission statement they are based on requires that joiners be ruthlessly loyal to it or do not join. Yen,  ken, prakaren…. 

Essay:

BELIEF SYSTEMS AND THEIR DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES.........

"Let an institution be created which shall have for its object to keep correct doctrines before the attention of the people, to reiterate them perpetually, and to teach them to the young; having at the same time power to prevent contrary doctrines from being taught, advocated, or expressed. Let all possible causes of a change of mind be removed from men's apprehensions. Let them be kept ignorant, lest they should learn of some reason to think otherwise than they do.

Let their passions be enlisted, so that they may regard private and unusual opinions with hatred and horror. Then, let all men who reject the established belief be terrified into silence. Let the people turn out and tar-and-feather such men, or let inquisitions be made into the manner of thinking of suspected persons, and when they are found guilty of forbidden beliefs, let them be subjected to some signal punishment. When complete agreement could not otherwise be reached, a general massacre of all who have not thought in a certain way has proved a very effective means of settling opinion in a country. If the power to do this be wanting, let a list of opinions be drawn up, to which no man of the least independence of thought can assent, and let the faithful be required to accept all these propositions, in order to segregate them as radically as possible from the influence of the rest of the world.

This method has, from the earliest times, been one of the chief means of upholding correct theological and political doctrines, and of preserving their universal or catholic character. In Rome, especially, it has been practised from the days of Numa Pompilius to those of Pius Nonus. This is the most perfect example in history; but wherever there is a priesthood --and no religion has been without one -- this method has been more or less made use of. Wherever there is an aristocracy, or a guild, or any association of a class of men whose interests depend, or are supposed to depend, on certain propositions, there will be inevitably found some traces of this natural product of social feeling. Cruelties always accompany this system; and when it is consistently carried out, they become atrocities of the most horrible kind in the eyes of any rational man. Nor should this occasion surprise, for the officer of a society does not feel justified in surrendering the interests of that society for the sake of mercy, as he might his own private interests. It is natural, therefore, that sympathy and fellowship should thus produce a most ruthless power."

From: Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce_bibliography#Articles_by_Peirce.2C_published_in_his_lifetime

What Gunther said:
Dear Charu, Pierce conceptualzies SCIENCE as a 'belief system' - and right he is! And yet he is wrong too, because he - as a pragmatist - conceives of 'truth' as something 'practical', something serving our needs and wants. What a limited and devastating outlook on 'truth' this is, producing all those conflicts it is thought to solve.....

Stamped and Tamped Heart

Stamped and Tamped Heart

Colors

Colors 081214

Definitions of Happiness, Scientific and Philosophical

The Declaration of Independence popularized,  '... and the pursuit of happiness..' so much that every one must have to be happy.

Few days ago a relative put forth his Philosophical definition of Happiness to me thus:

"Yes, I have a definition of Happiness too. Happiness is absence of Desire. Non-fulfilment of desire begets unhappiness. Fulfillment of one desire instantly generates another, higher desire. Therefore, Happiness is a utopian state, like Infinity in Maths and Physics. There, but not attainable. If you can, you would be a Buddha or Krishna"

Coincidentally, last week one of the trivia items at the end of the news was a mathematical formula for defining happiness. It went as follows. This is copied from the website given below. Scientists are saying they have discovered the formula for happiness. I am not mathematically inclined so I will not try to prove or disprove it. But the reporter who tested it himself said he came up with 'Sad' results .

Laugh! Laugh!! Laugh!!!

If you are mathematically inclined try it out....

Mathematical Formula

^{Happiness = baseline average mood + what you can settle for (CR) + what you'll get on average if you gamble (EV) + the difference between that and what you actually get (RPE). The recurring ∑-function weights each factor in turn by its recent history}

^{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11014611/Is-this-mathematical-equation-the-secret-to-happiness.html}

Spying Eyes

On my way to walks there are trees with nodules that look like eyes. They seem to be following me everywhere. Can I hide nowhere......?

Spying Eyes

Today Vs. Yesterday

Today Vs. Yesterday

Today, 

there is

 less flavor in tastes

less spring in steps

less appeal in interests

less grasp on comprehensions

but mostly,

less life in living

than usual.

Not that I possessed

any more yesterday.

                   charu

Googoola-Googoola

If you do not Google, you area a fool..................

A hilarious video........................