Category: ethos - the way things should be

what makes a writer tick

ethos By on November 6, 2013

Imagine a world beautiful and perfect, then know one thing, that Infinite Radiant Is has imagined it a whole lot better ^1.

We’ve built a world out of Anarchy ^1. But all lovers are deranged ^3. Which ones? The Giants on whose shoulders we stand ^4. For if in the voice of Luthien was power to silence he who was mightiest among the Ainur (Melkor) ^5, then Karen must be her incarnate to take us to the Top of the World ^6.

With architects like Roark ^7 to inspire us – building for love and exploration and divinizations sake, and Angels like Niggle and Eugene and Ackroyd and Ben Franklin to light the way, or characters like Goldberg, Shimoda, Monty and Budgie and Stormy ^9 to keep us company, isn’t it conceivable why we dream or care to build superstructures in the mind to match the ones in the spirit world as described by Bo Yin Ra ^10.

Of epics sung and battles fought, of Harvest’s reaped ^11 in sorrow and countless years ending in a Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Read more »

Islam not Atheism

ethos By on October 19, 2013

Islam is made of these 4 letters. I is actually A qualified by the e accent (similar to Hindi etc).
A – Alif – Peace
S – Seen – Security
LA – Laam Alif – Education
M – Mohammed – Love

How long before a religion founded on these principles that has fallen to this pitiable state starts to produce atheists like Christianity has? Do we subtract the time difference between Christ and Mohammed and come up with a figure of 600 years? Or, now that atheism is in vogue in Vedic and Buddhist circles too, can we expect utter chaos within 50 years ^1?

What of the Love Krishna, Buddha, Christ and Mohammed bore us? Read more »

Dear Brother, of both Kindreds

ethos By on August 10, 2013

To all my brothers
I grew up at my mother’ side. We lived on the eastern side of a mountain. By the time I was fifteen, I had come to know the facts of life. Our people were not responsible for a single modern convenience. Those came from the tribe that lived on the west slope. There was also some mention of a Golden Age in my people’s past, but that was millennia ago. I had the privilege of watching my brethren descend en masse into destitution, thievery – immorality in its many guises – a chaos that bound and enslaved us.

Repulsed by the thriving animal instinct here and lured by the order, freedom and justice there, my brothers had packed their belongings one early spring morning and began an exodus that would leave our villages bereft of most of the few remaining civilised people. The rest of us could not stand the chaos, but did not know what to do, so closed our eves and pretended everythings alright. Read more »

musings interrupted

ethos By on July 22, 2013

Why madness? Because the thoughts are too loud. The thoughts and the worries. Their incessant gnawing at the foundation of our faith and hope and dream.

Misplaced energy on transient things. How can I judge what is transient or unreal and speak of inclusion? I am not qualified to say this is the way, but isn’t there something missing? Some higher purpose? To delve within ourselves and find a bedrock of faith and positivity and on it to build a fount of dynamism. And to expel our fears and frivolities.

When O lord shall the writing come to me as it came to Goldberg^1. Or did Pullman^2 make that up? Is there no writer so prolific? Or do you need to tap into the right source like Budgeron^3 did?

Why should talk of edifices and monuments in the other world^4 make it seem to materialistic? Building is a noble profession. Read more »

to live, love

ethos By on June 16, 2013

while the flame is strong, cause we may not be the young ones, very long!

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

So what of the mirth and gaiety in life. Why do so many live in ignorance and denial of it? Read more »

love thy self

ethos By on March 18, 2013

What is love, what if God was one of us. What if God were stuck in a corner of his own fencing and needed a hand?

What of the Gods? What of the God in man? Why anger, indignation, bitterness, frustration, ill-will, emptiness, spite. Not born of callousness and indifference, but of love unrequited and rejected.

Of long ago mishaps and chances lost. Of abominations committed by the callous and grudges borne. Now the world is gone I’m just one, oh please God help me^1. Help me lift the jaded view of the world, lift the cesspool out of the sparkling mountain water and see it for what it is. Forgive my fellow man our differences, for he knows not even that there is a way. Forgive me my misdirected hatred of him, and my inability to love him, yes every last one of him. Demons, daisies, all borne of the same Ultimate, heading back to the sublime.

What are the values? Consideration, non aggression, nonviolence, benevolence, inclusion, acceptance, kindness, hope, endurance, self-forgiveness, direction, insight, wisdom and its application. What makes a good value? Anything that increases our love for the universe. What the bad? Anything that breeds negativity, dislike, self aggrandizement.
Is there no cure for poverty of the spirit? Or self-loathing? Or chronic depression?

What if God was one of us? What if God was inside us? Desperate to come out? Why do we cling on to pain so much? Whoever said self immolation was the way and that walking around with cloven spirit was the right thing to do.

Reach out and touch something and say I love you. Start with the mirror and then across the dining table. In their well being and prosperity alone lies my happiness^2. Something good in everything I see^3.

Footnotes:
1 – One – Metallica
2 – Indian National Pledge
3 – I have a dream – Westlife

reminders to advance the soul

ethos By on January 22, 2013

Somewhere it is writ that life is not about the number of breaths we take but those that take our breath away. ^1

Well, how often do we allow for that to happen? Why is normal, proper, respectable so overrated? What are we afraid of?

How about I allow everyone to live their life on their terms as they also do? ^2 Read more »

animals

ethos By on February 16, 2009

Intensely fond of animals, I have somehow come to notice that the good guys usually condemn the tree huggers (or in this case chicken huggers).

Also, that sometimes that we are so caught up in latching on to some new fad that we forget to think. What happens then is we find ourselves with strong convictions except we havent the foggiest answer to these simple questions – why (am i) who (am i) how (am i).

I think Carlin had it right… the planet is fine…

I’m an occasional non-vegetarian. No leather except for a wallet change every 10 years or so.

So why this outburst? Read more »

Coincidences

ethos By on December 30, 2008

I think not! Reminders to show us how were all the same and there is nothing to fight about.

Keeping the examples short turned this into free cerse. Will try to better the rhythm.

Since we fight mostly over religion, culture, gender, status thats where these coincidences will lie. Read more »

perfect harmony: the co-operative that delivers quality

ethos, By on December 30, 2008

Sound too cliché? I guarantee you its not! Its about a movement that’s trying to get going on this website. This posting is only the initial plan on paper.

There are enough managers, teachers, students, professionals and people I know of who think along these same lines to think that I stand alone. It happens every now and then that people who are very tired of hogwash, smart enough to understand what’s really important – PEOPLE – and individualistic enough to build / support an environment that nurtures this kind of growth.

We’re not resources, were HUMAN Read more »