Have been reading some stuff on Saint Augustine. And all the things in the world are interrelated. A man who was around 1600 years ago, invented the concept of a "Just War" and gave a philosophy on ethics and the concept of the "Original sin" which still continues.
the war is now no more being fought with bows and arrows but computers and technology. Have we really progressed? schopenhaur and Nietzsche after 1400 years reworked on his concept and made it contemporary. WOW......i really admire such people.
Because i am sure neither the people who wage war or who practice these philosophies must know about the men who invented these things. its like using the law of gravity and forgetting all about newton. And why can't it happen in next 1600 years??
I mean the pace at which we are, children might be reading about gravity in prep and kindergarten, the same way they are reading about traffic lights right now. Isn't traffic light a recent invention? And by that time there would have been so many GODs that people would have forgottoen all about Einstine and Newton.
Some 2000 years ago, Aristotle must have been the Einstine or Gandhi of his age. Now we don't find him that appealing, because he is so distant in the past. His writings so out of time, and concepts answering to problems that were then contemporary. But these people have lived their lives for all these years. and they are still alive. Why do i say so??
How does it matter to me that Bill Gates, or Ambani is alive?? Did i notice any change in my life when Dhirubhai died? Did i notice any change when Drucker died? No. None At all. How did i know that these people were alive? Mostly by the "tense" that newspapers used when reffring to them. That has changed. Now no more of their news will be published. But these people have said and done enough, to be printed for the next 400 years.
They are still here amongst us. I still have to allocate the same amount of space in my mind for them, as i had when they were alive. people will still talk about them. The tense will change from present to past, but these people will continue to live on.
If you find it hard to imagine, just think as if they are alive, and in a Coma, under heavy security. Now what do you say? You cannot meet them. They won't talk. But they are alive, and being kept alive by the media.
And Aristotle, Plato and god knows how many are still alive. They are still walking the earth. Taking space in our minds. We just speak of them in past tense. Bill Gates to me is some body who i know through the print, and so is aristotle.
And what a pity, that Gates with all his money has contributed less to this world than a poor ex-communicated jew and a lens grinder from amsterdam called Spinoza. So is all that wealth worth it?
Few people know Spinoza and what he did, but one can never fathom the way in which he has changed the course of history, by changing the way one thinks.If you doubt what i say, then click here
So should I try to be Bill Gates or Spinoza? Should i think of enjoying now, or live ever after? because for both to happen, is a very hard unheard of task. may be only few people like einstine, edison and newton have been able to pull it off. Rest of the people spent all their lives in hardship tring to convince people about their ideas, and by the time people got convinced, these people had died. Some like Bruno and Galileo even suffered worse. Bruno was burnt on stakes. At the time church used to be the opressor, now its some one else....may be media? or the corporates?
I mean don't tell me that the power that church had over people's lives hasn't been passed on to some one. Don't tell me that now people don't get branded as heretics. They do.
In the time of the church and in medieval times, just imagine a man like Spinoza writing that there is no God. I am saying that please imagine a medieval city, with medieval clothes with candle lights and swords hanging from people's waist. With the education level and slavery still in vogue. Then Imagine the Church with red velvet and the Priest being the voice of God and the King being the God's incarnation. And then Imagine a man huddled on a wooden table in a wooden house overlooking a street, writing on a piece of paper with a quilt pen . There is an inkpot beside him. He dips the pen into the ink and writes on the blank parchament "There is No God".
What will be the people's reaction to that? Can you Imagine?
What can you say will be such a sentence in today's time? I can't Imagine that.
Now everthing that existed at that time, still exists. The form has changed. Swords have changed to guns, Education relatively I think has fallen. I mean what a man knows, compared to how much knowledge there is to know. I am not talking about literacy. May be a common man knows more today than the best Scientist at that age. But in relation to the best scientist in our age, he knows relatively less, me thinks.
Similarly paper has changed to scren, pen changed to key board in some places. But the function and the needs haven't.
Its just that man still kills and is still thirsty. Now power also has changed. Earlier we knew that church had that power. At one call of a priest, people will burn a man on stake. Now in present times, what is such a thing at whose one call people will burn me at a stake. Who has as much trust of the people as the priest had in earlier times. Whose word carries as much influence as the word of the priest? Who tells me what is sin and what is not........I hope you are getting there.
I think the answer is either media, or the television(which again is media).
So today i may not be called a heretic because i go against God. But what is it that will get me branded as a heretic by the media? I don't know...will have to think on it.
Thats all for now
i will be back later on
satyarth
the war is now no more being fought with bows and arrows but computers and technology. Have we really progressed? schopenhaur and Nietzsche after 1400 years reworked on his concept and made it contemporary. WOW......i really admire such people.
Because i am sure neither the people who wage war or who practice these philosophies must know about the men who invented these things. its like using the law of gravity and forgetting all about newton. And why can't it happen in next 1600 years??
I mean the pace at which we are, children might be reading about gravity in prep and kindergarten, the same way they are reading about traffic lights right now. Isn't traffic light a recent invention? And by that time there would have been so many GODs that people would have forgottoen all about Einstine and Newton.
Some 2000 years ago, Aristotle must have been the Einstine or Gandhi of his age. Now we don't find him that appealing, because he is so distant in the past. His writings so out of time, and concepts answering to problems that were then contemporary. But these people have lived their lives for all these years. and they are still alive. Why do i say so??
How does it matter to me that Bill Gates, or Ambani is alive?? Did i notice any change in my life when Dhirubhai died? Did i notice any change when Drucker died? No. None At all. How did i know that these people were alive? Mostly by the "tense" that newspapers used when reffring to them. That has changed. Now no more of their news will be published. But these people have said and done enough, to be printed for the next 400 years.
They are still here amongst us. I still have to allocate the same amount of space in my mind for them, as i had when they were alive. people will still talk about them. The tense will change from present to past, but these people will continue to live on.
If you find it hard to imagine, just think as if they are alive, and in a Coma, under heavy security. Now what do you say? You cannot meet them. They won't talk. But they are alive, and being kept alive by the media.
And Aristotle, Plato and god knows how many are still alive. They are still walking the earth. Taking space in our minds. We just speak of them in past tense. Bill Gates to me is some body who i know through the print, and so is aristotle.
And what a pity, that Gates with all his money has contributed less to this world than a poor ex-communicated jew and a lens grinder from amsterdam called Spinoza. So is all that wealth worth it?
Few people know Spinoza and what he did, but one can never fathom the way in which he has changed the course of history, by changing the way one thinks.If you doubt what i say, then click here
So should I try to be Bill Gates or Spinoza? Should i think of enjoying now, or live ever after? because for both to happen, is a very hard unheard of task. may be only few people like einstine, edison and newton have been able to pull it off. Rest of the people spent all their lives in hardship tring to convince people about their ideas, and by the time people got convinced, these people had died. Some like Bruno and Galileo even suffered worse. Bruno was burnt on stakes. At the time church used to be the opressor, now its some one else....may be media? or the corporates?
I mean don't tell me that the power that church had over people's lives hasn't been passed on to some one. Don't tell me that now people don't get branded as heretics. They do.
In the time of the church and in medieval times, just imagine a man like Spinoza writing that there is no God. I am saying that please imagine a medieval city, with medieval clothes with candle lights and swords hanging from people's waist. With the education level and slavery still in vogue. Then Imagine the Church with red velvet and the Priest being the voice of God and the King being the God's incarnation. And then Imagine a man huddled on a wooden table in a wooden house overlooking a street, writing on a piece of paper with a quilt pen . There is an inkpot beside him. He dips the pen into the ink and writes on the blank parchament "There is No God".
What will be the people's reaction to that? Can you Imagine?
What can you say will be such a sentence in today's time? I can't Imagine that.
Now everthing that existed at that time, still exists. The form has changed. Swords have changed to guns, Education relatively I think has fallen. I mean what a man knows, compared to how much knowledge there is to know. I am not talking about literacy. May be a common man knows more today than the best Scientist at that age. But in relation to the best scientist in our age, he knows relatively less, me thinks.
Similarly paper has changed to scren, pen changed to key board in some places. But the function and the needs haven't.
Its just that man still kills and is still thirsty. Now power also has changed. Earlier we knew that church had that power. At one call of a priest, people will burn a man on stake. Now in present times, what is such a thing at whose one call people will burn me at a stake. Who has as much trust of the people as the priest had in earlier times. Whose word carries as much influence as the word of the priest? Who tells me what is sin and what is not........I hope you are getting there.
I think the answer is either media, or the television(which again is media).
So today i may not be called a heretic because i go against God. But what is it that will get me branded as a heretic by the media? I don't know...will have to think on it.
Thats all for now
i will be back later on
satyarth
