Ideologies that inflame

How can you stay in absolute normality when the world around you is in a complete manic state? Is it even remotely possible? Every single day there are riots, communal disruptions, terrorism, rapeathons, rabid mob attacks and to top the cake with whipped cream, there are the never ending politics about who is on power and who is not!



It was a just a while ago when I was staring in a state of shock at the detailed show on the religious violence in Myanmmar and the footage of a single muslim being attacked by a raving mob of buddhists and people from the other sects.

It was absolutely agonising to see the terror that seeped into the man's face,who took the blow and more terror seeped into me when I saw the manic crowd beating him to fatal injuries. There was also this footage on the Muslims attacking the monasteries and buddhists, in turn, ruining their mosques and burning down the houses.

This has been prevelant all over the world and among all the religions that exist and are extinct among the human population.

I have a few questions for you all to answer. Why do humans divide themselves into different groups, castes, sects, communities, religions, states, countries and governance? Why do we mull over something that is just an ideology and not even reality?

Religions might be real, scriptures might be true and you might probably full-heartedly believe in them. But why do we humans identify ourselves with a set of scriptures and defend mere ideas and risk it with our lives?

Why do we create societal unrest for a word spilt in the air and bring down buildings, cities and human life? If we are doing all the above,what is the difference between us and the rest of the clan that God has most generously created in this world?

Whom do we have to protect from our brotherhood and whom do we have to condemn? While we live, we occupy land that is the exact measure of both our feet and when we die, a slightly bigger piece for our body to rest upon. And in the middle of our short lives, do we actually have to bleed and let bleed our comrades?

Awaiting answers that enlighten. For freedom of expression should not be an ideology, but reality.

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Emoting to influence

Before you start reading further, think what emoting is all about and how does it help us big time in relating to the people around us. Now what is emoting according to you?

Let me start with my perspective on emoting. I personally find that emoting is all about freedom of expression. There is no single yardstick to set standards for emoting and it basically involves facial reactions, body language, the posture, the tone of voice, the words one chooses to use while addressing people and hand gestures.
                         
                                         

While delivering a public speech, one can seem to appear confident enough by his body language and smile, but the words he uses and the tone of voice he chooses to deliver them to the public will outlay his nervousness in abundance.

Also the eye contact he/she makes with the audience is an extremely important mode of emoting. In order to appear confident, one has to make constant eye contact with the audience frequently in order to gain their trust on what he is to speak.

A voice that is feeble and low will not appeal the audience. A confident voice which has a great throw will always catch the attention of the audience. An interactive session will also probe them on the topic that the speaker is addressing thereby making the audience more involved in the session.

Coming to the part about hand gestures, frequent waving or gesturing to the public might make the speaker animated and funny at times. This might prove to be a big time distraction away from the topic that is to be addressed. Typically put, the audience must be involved in the speech rather than the speaker.

A confident and straight body posture might add value to the speaker among the audience. Maintaing a rigid body posture might show out signs of nervousness or stage fear while an extremely careless posture may prove the speaker to be overconfident. Both of these styles don't work out on capturing the attention of the addressee . Rather, if the speaker appears to have a normal body posture, the audience feel more invited.

Wrong facial reactions at the wrong time might send out alarmingly wrong messages to the audience. Keeping facial reactions to a minimum might help the audience concentrate more on the content of the speech rather than the speaker.

The most significant feature that makes a great speech is the tone of voice that the speaker adopts while delivering his speech. You can make a request, command, threaten or influence people all with the same words, but the different tones of speech that you choose to experiment with. You can appal or mock cartloads of audience with a few simple words but a great tone of voice.

Emoting properly with all possible facets of expression will help you take off well in a public speech. Emoting should be conciously done to influence people to listen and adhere to what you say, not only while addressing a large crowd but to generally relate to the people around you.

When used properly it can make you a great influencer and you will be able to make greater impact in other people. It also increases the trust that the addressee has in you (the speaker). Start slow by practicing to emote well in your day-to-day life and increase your yardstick everyday to greater heights and greater influencing. Happy emoting! 

What is what?

I wanted to address this issue here because it is a very profound issue that the human kind is in turmoil with. What is what? Before we go into the topic in detail, shall we discuss something else too?

When we see a person, a place or a thing, we always have some opinion in our mind, right? Something like.. How beautiful is this flower.. or how ugly is this person! OR how gross is this thing! According to our trail of thoughts in our secretive minds, our facial reactions change from yewww to wow or vice versa. (Mind you! It is no more a secret!)

Now let me get on to the fundamental issue I was supposed to address. I shall start this with a question. What is beautiful and what is ugly or gross according to you? Does it determine anything true or is it false?

What is pleasant or unpleasant according to you? Why does it determine your postive or negative behaviour towards that thing/person/place? Is there a rule book where people who are dark/ stout/ bald/ old/ very thin or however you percieve ugliness to be are supposed to be called/treated as ugly? Or are the people who are slender/ fair-complexioned/ young/ attractive or however you percieve beauty to be are supposed to be called as beautiful and treated accordingly?

I am sure there is no rule book as such and all these factors are based on man's mind and his perceptions on things. Then why should man treat his kin according to the complexion of their skin/ their facial features or their body shape or even the size of their wallet?

Do give it a thought, guys! In this world, who is ugly and who is beautiful? Who is gross or who is attractive? When there is nothing implied or stated in any kind of rule book either constitutional or spiritual, why do we treat others according to the conditioning of our minds?

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Being perfect with perfection

What does it mean to be perfect? Does the word 'perfect' have an exact dictionary meaning? Of Course, all words have. These are the different meanings listed in a dictionary.

per·fect

  [adj., n. pur-fikt; v. per-fekt]  Show IPA

adjective

1.

conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an idealtype: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.

2.

excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement: There is no perfect legal code. The proportions of thistemple are almost perfect.

3.

exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose: a perfect actor to play Mr. Micawber; a perfect saw forcutting out keyholes.

4.

entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings: a perfectapple; the perfect crime.

5.

accurate, exact, or correct in every detail: a perfect copy.

Now, given the meaning, I shall ask you 'What do you mean by flaws?' I am sure that you would provide the dictionary meaning or definition which might not even be universal. God or whatever you call it, nature or supernatural or anything, has sprinkled a sense of wildness in every existence. 

Do you remember? When you go out of control, you go wild. But have you ever wondered of what do you go out of control? It doesn't mean you have gone out of control of anything great. You have gone beyond the pangs of a society. 

The society is man-made and tries to instill a sense of dread and discipline in every being's character by birth. In some ways, it might be advantageous but in many other ways it is just pinning down the natural sense of wildness in every being. 

Every creation of (let's call it God) is uneven, unequal but non-chaotic. Man's system of the society or organizations try to make everyone perfect but end up in utter turmoil and chaos. On the surface of the Earth, there are mountains, plains, ditches, deserts and the ocean. In the sky, we can find the plain blue sky painted with embossed and irregular white and dark clouds, the Moon/Sun and the distant, twinkling stars. 

How will it be when there are cemented pavements everywhere instead of the randomness that the Earth holds? How will it be if all oceans are transparent, reflecting it's own perfect colour according to man and his society? Quite a drag, right?

Then why, as creations of God, we are always in the quest to find perfection? What is wrong in being the way you are, created by the perfectionist of his own way? 

The parellel galaxies

Yesterday night, I was reading a fantasy story book which got me engrossed. I couldn't take my eyes off it and so I continued reading it through the night. I found myself to be a constant observer of the happenings that was recorded in the book. I was introduced to many fictitious charecters, living and non-living. I was on-board the adventure that the charecters faced, I could imagine to ground reality the adversities that they faced and how they won over all of it.

During this time, my mother had returned back home. She had no keys and so had no other choice but to use the calling bell. I was so engrossed in my own fictitious world that I had lost track of time, I lost my response to the five senses and as a result, could not hear the endless ding-dong of the whizzing electric bell.

Later, only when I heard the land-line phone that was quite near me buzz to life, did I notice the calling bell's exhaustive screech. 

From this incident and other similar incidents, is it possible to infer that the place we live in now cannot be the ground reality but one of the parallel galaxies that we traverse into? 

Then where do we actually dwell? In our minds or on 'Earth'?

Is our reality actually fiction?

To make this sound seemingly interesting, let me ask you ‘Where am I now?’ Well, you’d say, how do I know. But the answer might actually be pretty simple. Am I in the  Universe>Earth>Continent>Country>State>City>Locality>Road>Street>Flat>Apartment number.>in a room>in my body? That might perhaps make sense. (I know you were lazy enough to skip reading the above line)

                           

But I disagree. I say I mostly live inside my mind. And I really hope that it is true with each one of us. When we communicate with another person, we always communicate from our mind. When we sit idly, we are in constant conversations with our mind, when we watch TV or read a book or browse the internet, it always seems like we react within and from our mind.

Yet, this mind also goes away to the so-called non-reality to the most eccentric people whom we either consider mad or call as ‘the enlightened’. Sometimes for us, who really have the sense to think about something out-of-the-box, our mind seems to travel far away from where the rock solid floor bares our body.

So, if we always live in our mind which seems to dwindle far away from our existing bodily form, then what is the place that our body resides in called as? Is that something we call ‘mind’ the reality or the forests, cities, houses, people and material that we experience through our five senses a reality? Are we actually living a dream? Doesn’t it sound fascinating?

Readers, I request you to comment below and convey your most significant views on the topic as this blog is not all about me, but a combined effort of us, to find what is called ‘the reality’.