Translation by me of a poem by Aparna Nair
To be a woman is
to be a rainbow
without rain and sunshine
to be without existence
To be a woman is
to be a dream,
in others' nights
to make flowers bloom
To be a woman is
to be a clutch of soil;
to be, for those who bite and grab
something to buy and sell
To be a woman is
to be a wet warmth;
a space gifted by roots
from which shoots can sprout
To be a woman is
to not be able to be oneself
Being an atheist makes some kind of sense
Being an antitheist makes some kind of sense
Being a satanist makes some kind of sense
Being a monist makes some kind of sense
Being a theist makes some kind of sense
Being a deist makes some kind of sense
Being a monotheist makes some kind of sense
Being a panentheist makes some kind of sense
What does not make as much sense is trinitarianism and polytheism/pantheism, unless seen through a very limited perspective.
What makes no sense at all is religions not seeing there is no proof for any of these things of faith that make some kind of sense, and the same with the irreligious that there is no proof that any of these positions may be wrong.
Shakespeare was a great writer. He wrote this sentence, "O reason/judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts."
This is true of today's world. Reason is now found only in the company of animals, birds, plants, and trees. I am post- human and anti-human but not in favour of AI or robotics or genetic engineering or space travel or nanotechnology and citius, altius, fortius tech ideas like gene splicing, half man and half machine, cloning, eugenics, cryo-gen(et)ics, simulated earth, augmented reality, and all such rubbish. There are, here too, post-humanisms and anti-humanisms, and I am post-human and anti-human in the sense that the age of the anthropocene is over, I realise that man with his innate ideas of humanism and the humane is now a phase that has passed and we live in a world of rapid disintegration, where the centre cannot hold, of subcultures which will soon descend further to where no one will matter to anyone else except one to oneself and all networking will only be for the sake of survival. It follows that after the death of God/s, declared by Nietzsche, the next natural outcome is this. "Man is Dead". Humanity has died, human beings are dead, humanism and humanness are dead, whether men or women, and no one realizes it anymore than they realized the import of Nietzsche's statement and what has come to pass is not the Overman/Ubermensch, but a "tawdry cheapness" that will outlast our days. There is hope now only in waiting for the wheel of time and history to turn (eternal recurrence) and in the still centre, if there is any wheel and/or any still centre.
Today's meditation
“Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.” — Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (1929-68)
Napoleon Bonarparte
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.” — Napoleon Bonaparte (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
Albert Einstein
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrase-mongers, however artful¨. “No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.” — Albert Einstein – Scientist and Mathematician
Louis Farrakhan
No prophet before Jesus cast out demons, that I can remember, do you remember any of the old prophets casting out demons? Jesus was deep, There was something about the power of his word that demons came out. – Louis Farrakhan, Sr. – Leader of religious group Nation of Islam
Charles Dickens
“I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now most solemnly impress upon you the truth and beauty of the Christian religion as it came from Christ Himself, and the impossibility of going far wrong if you humbly but heartily respect it.” — Charles Dickens, British writer, 1812-1870
Dale Carnegie
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? – Dale Carnegie – American writer and lecturer
Vincent van Gogh
“It is a very good thing that you read the Bible… The Bible is Christ, for the Old Testament leads up to this culminating point… Christ alone… has affirmed as a principal certainty, eternal life, the infinity of time, the nothingness of death, the necessity, and the raison d’être of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as a greater artist than all other artists, despising marble and clay as well as color, working in living flesh. That is to say, this matchless artist… made neither statues nor pictures nor books; he loudly proclaimed that he made… living men, immortals.” — Vincent van Gogh
Calvin Coolidge
“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.” — Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.” — Sholem Asch, Jewish author (1880-1957)
Socrates died like a philosopher; Jesus Christ died like a God.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.” — John Knox
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” - Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 6:12: Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Scars Koshur Qalam - کآشُر قلم January 25th Poetry Challenge prompt Poem by Dr. Koshy AV
Scars
These scars are self-inflicted,
not stigmata
Signs of dissipation
and errata
A fog always spoils
my aura
Jesus, when will I be free/healed
of self-caused trauma?
Aborted Dreams Koshur Qalam - کآشُر قلم Poetry Challenge Prompt poem by Dr. Koshy AV January Twenty sixth
Republic Day Special.
The birds that sing, unseen, in trees
titter, chatter, call, and matter
have no dreams
or if they do
abort none
Their music rings true
Dreams are wings
on which we fly
Seeds that sprout
green leaves and staves that reach high
I have a dream
and it is for today
I'm a dreamer, still
but not the only one
Not a dream to tell
But come true, it will
I dream today of
my country
that one day it will be
a place
where the only dreams that die
aborted, are the ones that lie
I dream of wars, that they will end
I dream of cares, that they all will mend
And of a world in which the only aborted dreams
Are those bred by humans with an evil bent
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