#5

This post is gonna be serious, in answer to Kaushik's question about my stand regarding 'secularism' in our country.

Nowadays, there's a lot of talk going around about certain parties exhibiting "pseudo-secularism". This talk mainly stems from the religious fundamentalist right wing parties. I think, that its better to be "pseudo-secular"(PS) than to be downright fundamentalist. This is because, if you're PS, you have certain responsibilities to ensure that your false image does not get busted. Whereas if you're a right wing fundamentalist ****er, any responsibility that you could have, vanishes into empty space. So, right wing fundamentalist's, in my opinion, have no right to call anyone else pseudo secular or anything else for that matter, because they don't have the guts to assume any responsibility themselves.

And as for the existence of secularism in our country, I think secularism has always existed in our society, its only natural considering the existence of so many different races in it. At least, a majority of our society is secular. There are still those people, stewing at home everyday, spewing out trash about how people from other religions are retarted,or hateful, or criminals, or untrustworthy, or (insert heinous character disorder here) . If it weren't for these people, where would our right-wing be? And now let me come to the very basis of right wing philosophy, as I understand it.

You hit me, I hit you back.

Fine enough, if you look at it from a simple, shallow point of view. But,when you're dealing with the lives of thousands of people, a little reconsideration might be in order.Questions have to be asked,for instance, why did you hit me? Was it something I did? Here comes the part where you asess the reason the other person hit you in the first place, and eventually this boils down to accepting the fact that you are wrong some of the time, which is so hard for our right wing brethren to do.
Now let us delve a little deeper,look into the future,another thing our right wing cousins abhorr.

You hit me, I hit you back.
Ok, now if you're the person who has been 'hit back' so to speak, whats to stop you from repeating the whole cycle and going:

You hit me back, I hit you back for hitting me back.
?? Where will this end?
Another point I'd like to make.

You hit me.I hit you back.

Ok.Hit me back. But. Don't hit everyone who lives in my neighbourhood back because they live in my neighbourhood.In other contexts, neighbourhood may be substituted with religion,caste,creed or any other supposed 'point of distinction'.

Now I'd like to bring you all back to a very basic point, which has been raised countless number of times, but never seems to invoke a response.
Heres futile attempt at invoking a response no.1326453 :
WHY must people be separated based on anything?Actually, I should use the word 'discriminated' instead, because 'separated' can also have positive connotations. I think I know the answer to that question. If there were no discriminations, where would our right wing chums find an outlet to their hatred? It would all just get dissolved in the vast mass of humanity that is our society. Now what a waste that would be!! So, in order to make optimum use of pent up hatred, there have to make discriminations in society. Its that simple.

You hit me. I hit you back.

I don't know about you, but something strikes me as odd about that statement. That's what pops into my head when I first think about being hit. But, among the small bits of experience that I have collected over the years, theres one bit that says "the first thought that pops into your head is mostly wrong". I'd like to point out an example,to append this axiom of mine:

Everybody who has their dear ones killed or injured will most definitely feel like killing the person responsible once news of the incident is reached. Think about that, if everybody went around doing that, there'd be blood all over the streets with people burning and stabbing each other all the time(oh wait, thats what happened in the Gujarat riots). Thats why we have law, to prevent that. Yet, our right wing pals preach exactly that: tit for tat, an eye for an eye,so on and so forth.

There are many more examples to prove this, which I'm sure you can think of yourself. This only applies to those reactions which involve hurt to the initiating party,physical or mental. And now to the point, right wing fundamentalists live off the exhibition of base emotions, the ones still remaining from our days as single celled organisms. So, I think, that the time has come for us to stop listening to these base emotions and deplete the lag between our physical and mental evolution.

#4

Hai peoples! Thanks to stratospheric response to my previous post, I shall abolish my principles and make another post in the same day!

Pk(preetika) asked me why I called myself Shyshe. This is a commonly asked question and hence I shall include it in my FAQ section.

FAQ

1)Shishir, why do you call yourself Shyshe?

Ans: The reason for my calling myself this might shock and annoy you, but it has to be uncovered. One day, I happened to be chatting with my 2 friends, Dhruva and Priya. Somehow the conversation came around to the topic of nick names. I was highly obsessed with the word 'shite' at the time, and since I was being pressed by my friends to make up a nickname, I chose the name Shyshe. I shall not insult the intelligence of the reader by explaining the connection between the 2 words.

#3

Hi again.Right now I'm engaged in what is called 'recreational blogging'. A term coined by me a few minutes ago. This basically means that I'm blogging just for relaxation and enjoyment. Thats really sad considering the fact that I made this blog to ask the world some 'serious' questions. After 2 posts though, any hope I had of the 'world' reading my blog quickly vanished. The only person reading my posts is Kaushik and he's losing interest pretty quickly also.

This blog is doomed.

Will you save it?

Its easy!

Just post a comment.

That way I'll actually feel that someone is putting serious thought into what I'm saying even if they're not. If you don't post anything with serious thought put into it, I shall not hold it against you, because I am guilty of the same charge. Maybe instead of me asking questions and nobody answering them, it'd be simpler if you guys asked me my opinion on things and I responded with philosophically loaded and morally uplifting answers. This way is actually very simple for me, because I have more than enough opinion to throw around, and once you guys get angry with me for that, I can safely say 'You asked for it!' and 'Nyah Nyah Nyah' . And just so that you guys don't get pissed with this whole idea, you can post your opinions too! In the comments section.

You can post your opinion!

yes,you!

its easy!

Just post a comment

#2

I have to say, it's extremely hard to think of what to post over here.
Should I post nonsense or just wait for inspiration?
Posting nonsense is considerably easier, but somehow I don't feel like, seeing as that's everybody's way out. Kaushik seems to be inspired this way, in that he can just randomly conjure up some thing which actually means something once you drill through its outer shell of nonsensity. Hopefully anybody reading this will not feel the need to drill past the outer shell for the simple reason that there is nothing underneath. Yes. Beneath this innocent cover of ramble is a sheer mass of emptiness, unfathomable to most. Maybe in my next post I shall find something intelligible to say, but there is definitely no hope for this post. Yeah, I think I'll make my next post about politics, my pet peeve. I think I might ramble about the sorry state of politics in our country today and how all politicians are scum. But you see, the difference between this rambling and that, is that the other kind of rambling actually contains a considerable mass of truth under it, whereas this is mere shallow, old fashioned Bull Shit. Actually, come to think of it, everything is rambling. Who cares about anything? If we actually looked at life from the big picture, then we'd realise that nothing matters, anytime, anywhere. A point already illustrated by Kaushik, blogger extra-ordinaire. I am not going to post a link to his blog though, for fear that his may become more popular than mine! NEVER! No blog is going to obstruct my blog's path to superstardom. Anyway, back to my original point, which is, nothing.

#1

Hullo everybody,thanks for visiting my blog.I'm a little new at this so pardon my mistakes if I happen to make any.
I guess my first question should be,why did i start this blog?
I'm sure everybody asks themselves that question when they start a blog.I can't come up with a single concrete reason as to why although there are a billion floating around in my head.
One reason I can think of is that this way i can get my ideas across to a lot of people without going through the tedium of sending a thousand mails to everybody I know everytime my brains started working. One more is that,this way I can ask questions,the answers to which I can't find in my own life and hopefully find somebody with the answers to those questions ( that explains the title) . I might even try to answer some of the questions myself,so anybody and every body feel free to comment in the comments section or respond in your own blogs.

Ta Ta!