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Does GOD exist? This is a Billion dollar query unanswered properly (or answered improperly) from the beginning of human history. As I am very much allergic to the spiritual/ religious views, let me see what my beloved/ esteemed brainies' stand on this. Most of the big scientists and philosophers of the world history (including Albert Einstein) nearly, believed the existence of God. But their theism emerged out of atheism. Means, their God is confined to the unexplained gaps in scientific explanations of nature - " The God of the gaps ". The most famous/ frequent example is gap in " The origin of species ". I am taking a different stand in this regard but based on the same logical fallacy of their argument. Theirs is " It's True as it has not been proven false ". But mine is " It's false as it has not been proven true ". Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor & theologian once said - " We are to find God in what we know, not in...

Girls are paradoxical . It's very much difficult to translate her words of mouth to heart. More harder if she is in bed. It's easier to talk with a child about sex rather the a matured female. To a girl, sex is moreover an appetite inside head and hence every girl needs to be wooed before any below-the-belt actions. It's very common globally that a girl often gets head-ache when she is signaled by her boy-friend which makes him think "Is she not in mood? But why?". Dr.Yvonne K. Fulbright, an Icelandic-American sexologist and founder of Sexuality Source Inc., answers with top 15 reasons - Why she says "No"? She feels fat. She feels gassy. She has her period. She's wearing grandma underwear. She has a yeast infection. She's sweaty or unclean. Neither of you brought a condom. Her parents – or yours – are too close for comfort. Her nether region feels dry. She's tired. She's already taken care of business. She's ticked off at you. She...

It's Autocracy , if Power rules; It's Plutocracy , if Money rules; It's Theocracy , if Religion rules; It's Aristocracy , if Heredity rules; It's Stratocracy , if Military rules; It's Democracy , if there are no rules .

James Hansen, the director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences (NASA), an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and science advisor to Al Gore, often termed as Godfather of Global Warming Science , at once (June 1988) brought the ill-effects of global warming to the public, for the first time. Exactly 20 years after that, Hansen is back now - " This is the last chance. We're toast if we don't get on a very different path ". Hansen said the earth's atmosphere needs to get back to 1988 levels (350 ppm CO2) , at least. Last month, it was 10% higher - 386.7 ppm. The slow disasters waiting in the queue are sea-level rises, glacier retreat, Arctic shrinkage (" The Arctic is the first tipping point " - Hansen), ecosystem collapse, tropical diseases, economy hit and even may be the mass extinction of species. A red warning on the gree n house ! Let us not see the human extinction in our life-time...

Everybody knows that π is a mathematical constant which represents the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry. Starting from Babylonians, Yajnavalkya and Archimedes, we have a handful of approximations for the value of Pi ranging from Aryabhata's " chaturadhikam śatamaśtagunam dvāśaśtistathā sahasrānām Ayutadvayaviśkambhasyāsanno vrîttaparinahah " to the Chinese fraction, 22/7. It's value with first 1000 decimal digits is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 05820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582 231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128 475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511 6094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912 27938183011949129833673...

Yesterday, My wife had a bed-time story for me from www - "A girl, at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought he was simply amazing, very much of her dream guy and fell in love with him. But she never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later, she killed her sister." Then, she asked, "What is her motive?". I thought for a while and squeezed my lips (as usual). She continued (with smile-filled face), "This is a Psychopath analysis test by a famous American psychologist and many arrested serial killers answered this question correctly. It's good that you don't know the answer". Finally, she unveiled the answer - "The girl was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again". I don't know why I didn't open my mouth, even I know the correct answer.

" We have come alone in the world and we will depart alone; then why should we fall for somebody else? " - This is the core philosophy based on which FOSLA is evolved. FOSLA? It's Frustrated One Sided Lovers Association . They have a portal - http://www.fosla.org/ , claiming that they are the world's oldest unofficial association of bachelors (Obviously, they don't know about "Varuthappadaadha Vaalibar Sangam"). " Independent of anybody's mercy for love " is their reason to rejoice. It's a very big thing to be in such an evacuated mental state. All the Tamil Sithar s of olden days preached this state of art; in particular - Pattinathaar (will write about that in a separate post - needs a lot of reading and peace of mind). Recently, one of my closest friends gave the rest a definite shock by joining this association as a part of the disagreement consequences in his biography (His Gtalk custom message reads " Live for yourself -- th...

R.V.Chandravadan, Director, Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSACS) made an unofficial remark " Nearly 20 to 25 sex centres exist at Tirupati with 400 workers engaged ". When Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) was in the urge to make clarification, the leaders of major political parties of AP condemned that the remarks should have been made only after getting to know the true facts as it hurt the sentiments of crores of Hindus in the country. Why didn't they think off that their statement hurt the sentiments of the mentioned 400 odd people at Tirumala Hills?

World Information Access (WIA) - 2008 Report compiled by the University Of Washington speaks about the documented arrests of bloggers all over the world since 2003. The total number of bloggers arrested is 65 from 2003 to 2008, beginning. 3 Nations - Iran, China and Egypt accounts more than 50% the arrests. The number of arrests tripled in one year - from 2006 to 2007. During the 5 years, bloggers spent a total of 940 months in jail. The jail terms varies from few hours to eight years - average being 15 months. Emerging democracies like Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand also involved. Philip Howard, the lead author of the report says " Governments are starting to take citizen bloggers seriously. They are not familiar with how to deal with citizens who speak out ". When am I? Do I?

Yesterday, AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE released a list of top 10 American films of 10 popular genres. Listed below are the films ranked first in each genre. Animation - SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Romantic Comedy - CITY LIGHTS Western - THE SEARCHERS Sports - RAGING BULL Mystery - VERTIGO Fantasy - THE WIZARD OF OZ Science Fiction - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Gangster - THE GODFATHER Courtroom Drama - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Epic - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Bob Gazzale, President & CEO, AFI says “ This will serve as the ultimate guide to the very best in 10 of America’s most beloved film genres ”. The complete list is available @ http://www.afi.com/10TOP10/ . Can give a try, if you are choosy in movies.