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Ha! We discovered Infinity!!!!!

This one is out of frustration. As always I want to take things head on, even if it might just scar my  face. Ha! One discussion per day, just eases me away. But it definitely helps in my study of people. Sometimes its just that I feel pity for people, and it turns into anger cause he/she has abused me. Well the world is full of such people, and what else can u do except stop putting, anything you feel worth discussing, in front of them.

Most of the time, I pull myself into the role of a devils advocate just to have a fun of a wholesome discussion, and exercise my brain a bit. I'll put some perspective to my article.

World is full of people, who say.. so what, if your father happens to be an Ambani, so what if your father happens to be a Narayan Murthy. And now, it looks funny when they say, wow... Upanishads have the concept of infinity, or the zero was discovered in India. And they'll take immense pride on the illiteracy of the other part of the world. 

Well I find it totally illogical. When we discuss things done by our ancestors thousands of years back, and take immense pride in it, (a pride which amounts to I'm one like them) why is it wrong to say, 'My father is intelligent , successful man. So I am one like him.'  Do you see the point. I would rather consider it a piece of general knowledge for myself, and surely would appreciate the books and feel happy about it. But I won't be having any pride on this fact.. And its for the bloody/nice/intelligent politicians to use these facts.. that people we aren't backward, we aren't lacking in anything.. and ask me why.. cause we discovered zero, we discovered infinity. In a way good, good for people who can't think, good for people who can't do anything... you know why.. cause they themselves can't contribute even a zilch to it, happily aware .. that long long back there was an Indian who talked about Infinity, there was an Indian who talked about zero. And thats it to it, when it comes to contribution to any development.. you know why cause there was once an Indian who happened to talk about Infinity.

A look at scriptures... or such claims

I've heard people saying that in Lord Ram's time our culture was so developed, that we had planes.. obviously referring to Pushpak Viman. I've heard people saying that Adam and Eve existed, cause our gene pool, has been traced to one female.. or something. I've heard people saying that Indians knew about Atom Bomb much before it was invented, cause it was bramhasthra which Ram, Arjun used to kill the enemies. Gimme a break.

Now I'm just waiting for a Jew or a Christian to arrive at a conclusion that bloody they knew about cloning/ or atleast the concept of cloning, much before when a large part of the world thought of using condoms. Ha! and ask me why..cause Christ was born of a virgin. Probably it would take another Christ to tell people that Jesus didn't happen through cloning nor was he born of a virgin.

A day would come when all the descendants of Arthur C. Clarke, damn..I don't even remember his name correctly, would claim for all the space age advances... and ask me why.. cause he has written about scientific fantasies, he in a way conceptualized them.. Have a bloody kitkat for all these things.

To further my stance...

Feel happy about things that our ancestors were good, intelligent but not with any superior air.

Always look at the present, and think of future. And if you have any kind of bad hair day kind of thing, going with you.. you can take a shot..by saying that after all it wasn't bad yesterday, by looking into the history if it happens to be good.

And for guys who don't give a damn to or.. who have an attitude of .. so what your father happens to be a Narayan Murthy?? Just treat these pieces of information as general knowledge.

And for guys, who discuss.. wait for others to form an argument. Cause saying that you are zilch.. you are an insect, just stalls all the thinking process. Don't rush for things in an argument. Cause probably the person in front of you, has grown out of your arguments, and is looking for some nice fulcrum.. to turn things upside down.

And for guys, who discuss.. always be prepared to know the context in which the other might be placing the arguments. And dont ever think that you are telling things, new to him. Cause he might be the one who was just inundated with your kind of claims.. 

 A long article.. now it is very visible that I had a source of inspiration.

It all started with a discussion where a person was taking undue pride on the fact that some Indian talked about infinity, further he thought even Newton didn't know what is infinity. Now after surfing the net, I've come to know.. that infinity is as old a concept as philosophy, as old as any thinking man that ever came into existence first. Bloody the greek philosopher Zeno used to make fun of people by using arguments that involved infinity. He was the one of those who taught people the possibility of drawing absurd conclusions from apparently reasonable assumptions. His paradoxes of Achilles and tortoise, had one major fundamental of pulling all the reason that could be found in people of his times.. and adding a tinge of infinity (which is infinity). .

And that doesn't mean Zeno was the first one to think about infinity, he was the first one to put a paradox by involving a concept of infinity in the form paradox of Achilles and Tortoise. And if some greek comes in front of me and says.. Zeno said this.. you see.. and bloody u Indians.. and if all that, whole of the greece is doing, is one big fat greek wedding, it would definitely pull out a smile on my face.  

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