Sunday, July 8, 2007

So long...and thanks for all the Babel fish!

Peregrination again! Again the whole rigmarole of black suit, portfolio bags and smiling nothings played in front of an audience of conscience, pride,introspection and Program Directors.Of comforting existentialist questions into hush-hush-later decrepit corners, of wasted trash bags- what a paradox; cheap gas-huge cars; Italian Irish prissiness-kallu ghettoes,of looking away from poverty by looking into your huge American car; pan discontentment becoming a friend for fear of becoming banal, shooting career and cortisol into dizzy Megarathean heights; of neuroticism begetting loneliness and loneliness begetting neuroticism- the land abounds in Sertraline which can be picked by the alleyways of Yourphysician boroughs in big apples and boughs in sunshine cities; of reading newspapers on ...online,of toilet paper abrasions, ....of a perpetual yearning- for what one forgets, as newer sensory experiences continue to opiate your mind into an amnesic dysphasic state.Perhaps that yearning is what keeps you going when 5ht and love abandon you. You keep evolving( thats positive) into neo-citizens of a migrant hitchhiker clan with no where to go and yet the entire world in front of you .

Anyways - times for decisions are tough times. They are when all your refinement seems to abandon you and you think like a seventh grader being taught matrices; despite all the logical reasoning that seems so good in theory putting the variables into sides of an equation or forming a Null hypothesis seems abstruse.Especially when one-way roads lead to different points of no return.And these points cannot be imagined for we have never seen them...we have to create these points of reference.This is where a bad experience of past comes handy.This is where integrity of thought, faith( in God maybe,in self mostly)and other such kitschy sounding qualities might help us out.


The ultimate question in life is not exactly framed.It goes pretentiously something like( in Quasi Mode): "what is the meaning of life, universe and all such things" ....Notice the lack of a question mark after that question- for it is an infinite quantity...you have to draw a vector from point("wh..) to point (..gs") and accelerate it at 9.8 times the speed of light within limits zero to infinity using Leibnitzian integrity of thought....and hope to reach the bigQ.

The answer thought is 42.

The question was to be framed by a big supercomputer that computed at a rate that was a quadrillion times faster than the best computer ever built.Somebody called this computer the earth.Unfortunately, just hours before the 6 million or so years time limit it took for the earth to compute the ultimate question, it was destroyed by Vogons.

Thats-- so....frickin....improbable!
But so are many other things.Goedel's theorem, Bertie Russel's barber paradox...usw.
All completely logical problems.

Morals and logic are windows through which we see the vast infiniteness of the probably or improbably infinite universe.They are just the implasticity of some obstinate gyrus-sulcus in the finite billion neuron populated cerebral cortex.

The rest we have to figure out....with integrity of thought, faith( in God probably, but mostly self) and other such kitschy sounding albeit very useful qualities we have.

Point A --------( mostly a billion points in between)---------> Point B
Point A: ( variously) cause, gene, big bang, birth, stimulus, thought
Point B: ( variously, but inconsistently) effect, protein,universe, rebirth?,response/tolerance,string theory .

3 comments:

Siddhartha said...

well, i can't really claim to know you but...

1. remember what it says on the cover of the Guide...Don't Panic!

2. and be sure where the towel is :)...to quote...any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

all the best!

Shivakumar said...

Thanks....

The World Within said...

when serotonin and love abandon you, chocolate comes to rescue, although some part of it works through 5ht too :P

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