Dear Desmond.. You're a slave..

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ME: So I have no access to what I write and what is ideally a part of my brain..
The MAN: I’m sorry Desmond; I guess you weren’t as important as you thought you were.

Me: I’m on your side as far as blocking nonsense, I’d sign any petition you give me to not receive a brain numbing video of a monkey flinging poo or a supposedly ‘comical parody’ of a song I like.
The MAN: Ahh, you’re starting to see our point here.

Me: I was even open about the fact that that you thought Facebook would corrupt our work ethic and general decorum. I mean all people seem to do around here is tend to their farms.
The MAN: That WAS a bit odd. You completely missed the point though. Facebook privileges are taken away to break your spirit. The less time you spend on frivolous nonsense like virtually ‘poking’ people into a state of agitation, the faster you will realize that I own your ass. I always have, always will.

Me: Isn’t that just living in a state of disillusion? Owning people is passé and died out with the colonists. You can’t own people, heck, never their minds!
The MAN: Yea? See you not on facebook right now? Tried to access youtube and other rubbish to no avail? What else do you have to do? Im going to bore you into working. And when your spirit finally breaks with the barrage of work I throw at you, you’ll be hooked for life.

Me: What about blogger and google reader! Those aren’t nonsense, they help me express and grow as a person! I get to be abreast of happening all around the world and I get to explore a more philosophical side to myself, knowing myself better with each passing day.
The MAN: Boy really. Do you think I care about your personal growth! You’re just another slave! Slaves don’t get privileges! Slaves get no compassion! Slaves get no personal enlighten! SLAVES GET NO MERCY! They break mental bricks on ancient computers we provide. They’re not given faster processing lest they get accustomed to convenience! They’re given music privileges so that their minds are occupied and thus they remain in their state of lull and complacence forever!

Me: Fair enough. But riddle me this, why is google blogger listed in the category of Dating and Matrimonials?
The MAN: Err. Umm..

What We Deserve.

Standing by the sea shore,
Gazing into the horizon, i think of all the moments i lost.
Lost forever with my unwillingness to step out of the boundaries of my comfort zone.
For this world, its all about what makes us feel secure. Everything we say, do, feel all has to be digested in a way that is acceptable and understood by our selves.
For anything that isn't understood is feared and hated.

The true question here is that are we really hating the other entity for being different from us or are we really hating a part of our self that is so hard coded by years of mundane living that we find it seemingly impossible to change. Are we not truly hating this extension of our personality that says, i want to be there, i want to think that and yet, i simply cannot! how dare he!

We do crazy things,
We let our lives marinate in a soup of problems namely because we scared of the grass beyond our own rusty fences.
Our insecurities confine us to dead-end jobs, horrendous relationships, uninspiring and sometimes potentially dangerous living conditions.

How do we break free? Its simple, we simply should want to, bad enough.
Did you ever want anything so bad, that the universe just had to work its way around you? That's not really the universe at play, its all the power of you.
Believe that what you want, you deserve.
You deserve it because you are a beautiful person, inside and out.
you do not deserve anything less than average. Average here not being horrible mind you..
Average being a state in which comfortable survival is possible..

True change is only possible when we we honestly believe that we deserve it.

Being Strong

Know what defines character? Strength.
Strength in its purest form..
Strength NOT to conform to the norm..
Strength to BELIEVE in yourself despite the world have written you off.
Strength to STAND UP for you believe..

Many undervalue the importance of strength. Simply visualizing your dreams or plans don't depict or determine anything, your character is really defined by how you use these aspirations and how it transcends into your practical life..

What weighs a person down to NOT actually seeing through what he's planned is only weakness..
Weakness in the mind or body that is often the result of years of mental conditioning/torture


What is that one thing you've always wanted to do, say or achieve?
And what really stops you from doing it?
Once you've deciphered these two pre-requisites, you're surely along the way to personal enlightenment and growth..

Staring into Oblivion.

The pointlessness of life often brings a selected few to the point of an epiphanic moment which tags with it the self destructive question, "where do I go from here".
Now that I know how truly purposeless life is, how do i live it.
The religiously inclined have it easy. This life is only a passage. A passage that is detrimental to where your spiritual self ends up after it leaves your mortal confines.
Lets level the playing field in the spirit of argumentation.
For a moment, just for a brief one, imagine, as it were, there were no GOD.
what then? what then are we truly living for? Fulfilling our altruistic tendencies? Ones that only came about AFTER civilization?
Is it to life a good clean life? Not indulge our senses to the fullest? WHY did we evolve to have them then!
The dichotomy in our life is very evident.. We don't exactly serve any purpose here. We're not going anywhere from here. Might as well make the most of our time here.
Now where does religion fit in here? Religion gives hope of a rosy afterlife in the case of us being good. er.. It isn't all that hopeful a place for the less than perfect..

For the rest of us, life is simple. try to live it with too much complication, it will be the meanest mistress you've ever seen. But life a simple life, fulfill all your senses. Experience everything she has to offer and she will reward you with a lifetime of experiences.

Honestly, I'd rather have non existence after a well lived life than live eternally looking down from the heavens at people living the way I wished I had..

So we do what we do…

Aren’t we all supposed to know what we want? I mean what we want from life. What we want from our selves! And yet, with every passing day we only show a heightened sense of confusion prevalent amongst the best of us..
Every new day we make new choices for ourselves that we on most occasions make to the best of our conscience. Where am I getting with this? We all regret the choices we make.. What then allows us to make these horrible choices that we know we’re going to regret! Emotion? Mental incapability? Nope.. Just plain stupidity. The ‘What If’ factor I call it.. We all like to tempt fate.. Cause lives too normal my average Joe reader, we all try to make it a bit more interesting by adding the freak factor in..
So what do you do when staring with options? You chose the most insane one, that’s what you do! But you’re brain makes up a whole back story for you wherein you had no other choice really.. That truly becomes the only choice you ever had to begin with.. Yes Mr Officer, I swear, Im not drive while drunking my truck!!
How do you make choices more in line with whats good for you? Im sorry, you don’t.. Cause if you do that, what will the new onslaught of reality shows feed off? What will office gossip groups do without you! What other reason will your parents/children have to hate you?
So go! Go forth onto the world my stupid children! Make this world a better place.. One stupid act at a time..

The thin red line.

There’s a very obvious line dividing the mental cases from the obviously religious ones. Or is there? Already the topic of various courses, lectures, stand up comedies, err. . So one’s mans god is another man’s schizophrenia.. Strange, I was remember being told as a child, if I stayed really quiet and listened intently; I would hear the voice of God, or of his angels. I never did.. But that’s ok. He was probably busy with other things, like telling someone in Afghanistan to blow up a school that taught modern values like equality to women.
Now im not saying the main man is the one to blame, not fully. He can’t be fully blamed for the idiots running around poking each other with toothpicks in his name.. But can’t he accept a little of the blame? Isn’t he big enough for that? Imagine you created this world, ok, chuck that, Imagine I created this world. And the world got this far, with the same conditions as is now.. people were running around killing each other, healing each others, touching each other, yea I see you Benny hinn!! You get off him! Anyway, if I saw all that happening, I’d make my displeasure known! By stuffing a grenade up Osama’s butt.. and another one up Mr Bush.. But do you see that happening?
Am I to believe that someone who created us, that some of us sing and dance for, has fallen so off his game that he doesn’t care what we do anymore? (Ohh please let this not attract any Jesus nuts, I mean GOD in the broader sense.. you know, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, Yahweh the whole shebang)
If god is anything like the kinda god I’d be, he probably lived as a mortal called Elvis Presley and now he’s vacationing in Acapulco..

Time Wasted...

Writing a blog is such a waste of time..
Talk about a paradox..

People blog about critical and important issues that need to be highlighted in today's fast paced world. Concerns that would otherwise go unnoticed by general population.
But who bothers actually reading these blogs? only the aware few.. The people meant to be targeted have and always will remain in darkness, unaware of the chaos created by their indifference and in most cases lack of knowledge of this medium.
Feel the sena is too harsh? want to blog about it? who's life will that impact? unless you are a Bachan or a khan, no one.. And when you are either one, you stay away from unpolitical statements like that..
trying convincing a religious person that most of his 'traditions' and 'customs' have arose from a basic need to control people and suited the lifestyle in the time 'before Christ'. Try telling him laws determined by any organized religion are archaic and that his women need not roam around wearing black cloth to cover up their modesty. Do you honestly think such a person will ever change his mind after reading one blog?
We talk about things like protecting the environment and saving our planet. Do you honestly believe that people (In India)will even stop littering after being 'inspired' by your 'touching' blog?

Why then do we yet pour out our hearts through the medium of the internet! Is it just a needy want to be heard by people?

Actually it is the hope that some humanity still exists in this artificial society..
We don't really aspire to change any minds right away.. just instilling a seed of doubt suffices in our eyes.. Yes we want to change mindsets.. one idea at a time..

Freedom of thought?

I want to believe.. I really do.

Belief in today's world is liberty.. liberty from free thought..
Freedom is highly overrated.. Do we rally want to make our own decisions?

Belief in religion creates a sense of security.. A sort of safety net so that we feel loved and wanted, that too by someone who is powerful enough to meddle in our everyday lives in way we cannot yet fully comprehend..

Belief in society leads us to accept a sense of brotherhood and altruism.. These might not exist in a free world but believing that they exists is really more important than they really existing.

Believing in true love.. *sigh. True love that lasts forever. .
Cause we'll mentally remain the same people we are until the day we die.

I Want to Believe..
Because belief IS freedom. .

What makes us tick..

Life is beautiful.
What makes it so? Living up to the ideals we set..
how do we form these ideals and notions of what/how we want our life to be?
Experiences mostly.. and for the impressionable few, media and peer groups etc.
So we mostly live to satisfy a want that is, at its very essence, a 'created one'.
Very man made..

How then can we quantify whether we're truly living life the desirable way?
Happiness is a good quantifier i hear you say...
Who among us though, is truly happy..
Note, this isn't the the kind of happiness derived from materials acquisitions.
For those of you that fall under the above mentioned category, get a life.. seriously.. Like go right now..

For the ones that equate happiness with a state of mind and being, a state of no worries or problems, welcome to the unending pursuit of happiness.

You will go through a series of life changes in your pursuit for the ultimate state of bliss..
Cutting out dependency on material possessions so as to not get chained down to anything..
Cutting out dependency on other people, people are known to offload their own set of problems on to you thus weighing your own baggage down..
Cutting out dependency of every sin mentioned in the great seven.

Thereafter you will achieve an ultimate state of nirvana..
Upon which, you'll realized that you've already been hard-coded by years of societal living.. You can never escape dependency on other people or of emotions.. damn that lust.. You can never escape dependency on gadgets. Computers, internet, music players..

We're doomed to an existence of mediocrity. Wherein we want the perfect happy existence but cannot move our fate even an inch from its destined path inorder to get it..
What is the point then.. What is the point of our existence when we know that will never, READ:NEVER, be completely free of problems.. Or do we want to regurgitate some random psychotic nonsense about excepting the good with the bad., a life without sorrows being bland and how we need problems to keep us sane and thinking.. people almost fear a life of only happiness.. seems to good to be true..

What about heaven then? won't you get bored there? won't you never be challenged by any problem, that was supposed to see you rising above it through strength and becoming a better person for it? OR does heaven provide an endless supply of dopamine to keep you numb and marinating in memories of your past life forever..

Deep down, I live in hope of a time where problems cease.. where I'll be happy all day long.. where I'll give up material possessions, friends and my past life..
I just hope at this time, my friends manage to drag me into a rehab in time..


Signing out.
Desmond Frias.

Religion: An informed Choice..

We are but a product and result of choice.
Our existence is often incorrectly attributed to chance only, choice had, infact, a major role in shaping how we emerged as the leading species on earth.
We exercise, through freewill, choice, on a daily basis.
What we wear, eat, do, is all in a way a resultant from our experiences, but the end point being, we have the power to choose to not act a certain way, not eat certain things and not wear specific clothes/colors.
WHY then, must we not exercise this choice when it comes to the one and probably ONLY factor that majorly shapes the way we make decisions and live our lives?
Im talking about religion.

If you think you've chosen your religion, you're probably wrong.
Have you really?
Inorder to have chosen the religion you're in, you would, by definition, need to know about the alternatives, else, your choice would be the result of incorrect/incomplete information.
Most of us follow the religion of our parents. A generation that was brainwashed into a false sense of security and complacence.
But today, we're in the information age, where every bit of knowledge is available at your fingertips.
Why then do we subscribe blindly to a religion without studying what we could've been? Because you parents say so? because else, you wouldn't fit into your existing social circles anymore? is that honestly a good enough reason?
You could secretly be a Buddhist or a sun worshiper, but for the knowledge of the religion. How many of you know enough to judge or even talk about another religion? Islam, hinduism and christanity.. Does the general population know anything apart from these religions? Religions that sometimes even predate all these by thousands of years...

Even as a consumer buying a product that would not last forever, you check for alternatives and best prices. But it is indeed sad many of us settle for the first religion, often one that we will remain faithful to forever, to comes our way without checking for alternatives first..

Relationships are messy.. Bewarned.. Yet..

We're all born innocent..
Born into a world that's anything but.
true, we make the best of it, losing a little of our innocence at every stop. The more stops you make, the higher you go..
Gosh I remember being small.. Such an uncomplicated life we lead then..
Who knew it would get this messed up.
But do you know whats really messed up? Complicated lives are optional..
We all are fully aware of how much we opt for.. yet, like bugs to a light..

Know what is really messy? Relationships..
Think of a life that is practical to the core..
Sure mainstream media will lead you to believe we're all societal beings that cannot function without any non-practical relationships.
But ponder over it for just a minute...
Relationships not based in practicality are just plain messy.. they almost never go they way you intend.

As children we all thought life would be a breeze.. Ahh well.. little did we know.
What changed? We grew up in a rosy land of fairy tales and stories..
and suddenly were ripped almost brutally from the cozy womb of lullaby land and thrown into the pit of the brutal practical world..

Its about time we faced the facts.. We live in a world not that dissimilar to the matrix..

We're here as a result of evolution. That almost cuts out the possibility of us having a pre-planned end game or a 'destiny' if you will..
that would make our only purpose here, to further propagate our current species until the need to further evolve arises. And also to progress as a species, effectively cutting out any room for 'emotional' entanglements..
Every action performed in the name of 'emotion' has practical reasoning to it. well almost all. Everything we do in a relationship, we do because of practical purposes. Right from being selfish to being caring to the eternally complicated mind games revolving sex.. Many books on the subject will more than prove my point.

What am i getting at?
All im saying is, identify which of our relationships have practicality deeply embedded in them.. Those are your lasting ones.
and lastly, please don't subscribe to the propaganda sold to you by various forms of media.. Don't let a few people with journalism/media degrees influence the way you think..
If not believing in non-practical relationships makes me shallow, then there exists an urgent need to re-define what being 'shallow' means..