To The Best Of My Knowledge

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                         I had already posted many titles on these, and some are not finished; I have to start elaborating on a few. The reason for this title is to give a bird's-eye view of these topics, and it may remain as the foundation of all arguments on these topics dealt with in the other posts. 

                                                                As far as I think, materialism prevails, and it will never end up as a religion, as religion is a stagnant state with hard and fast, unquestionable rules/ rituals. The term ritual itself makes it illogical. On the consumer level, materialism may appear as a religion, but I am sure that the top brass of materialism shall maintain it as materialism or rather science.

              For us humans, pure materialism is unattainable and, if at all, only at a temporary level. Basically, it is really not relevant to search for the creator or how our life energy works, but it is just like an itch, or curiosity of our own mind, and most of us succumb to it. In earlier days, with limited intellect and science working on basic cognisance, it was quite natural for religions to mushroom. But today, many things which were once considered miracles are happening with the help of modern science, with the touch of your finger. So basically, spirituality, or spiritual seeking, most of the time is an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sad to say it, but I feel that way.

        Now, will spiritual seeking help us in any way? Yes! I may use an analogy from science itself. It is about the centrifugal and centripetal forces of a revolving mass. We can see only the centrifugal force acting. And I had a tough time understanding the centripetal part, and even now I do not have a very clear idea about it. But I am sure it is a valid concept. Introspection and extraspection are analogous to the above forces. 

                                                                                       And another thing is that when we see a tree or plant, with flowers or not, we admire it, and we may not care about its roots, which are the most important part, maybe. But we can not dig up the roots, and it may kill the plant. And the same goes for a building or your house, where the foundation is holding it together, but you can't see it. 

                                                    I think I have said enough, and the purpose of religion/ spiritual powers is not really needed with modern science working well, but desperate ones may go for it, and it will work for them. Miracles still happen, but not under the total control of religions. 

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Spirituality is a bottomless pit and should be entered with a safety line intact, but materialism gives the earth and the skies! Just roam around free!

Just remembered the song by Barclay James Harvest - Life is for living and living is for free. But living is not for free right now(even though nature had multitude of what is needed to bring it in place) and if at all the so called new world order comes in to place, it should make the living a free thing! No more muscle stuff, please. 

Sorry, I haven't updated few changes I made into the revision notes post. 1733 IST, 23rd October, 2026.

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                         I googled to find something I read in Stephen Hawking's books or elsewhere, and I ended up with this term. And that was the one I was looking for, but not by Stephen Hawking. Wonderful theory, but it's definitely from one's imagination running wild. Purely extrospective! Bundled with the googling, I came across a lot of theories, and as I am not too interested in prediction or knowing the future, I left them. I may like to proceed with a vision inward and outward and accept reality. And if you know the future and can't do anything to change it ( as if you can alter it, then it is no longer the future and may end with the assumption that the prediction was wrong!), it will be of no use, or rather it will be a nuisance.

                    All these are similar to watching a movie in the theatre in the olden days, without knowing what is happening in the projector room!

More on this later...

PS. As I said, I hold on to only one theory: that everything in this universe is unique, and I have reasons to accept it. And whatever I write is an absolute truth and similar to a river, which may change its path as needed. The name Albert Einstein chose for his book The World As I See It, too, implies that he was really concerned about the relativeness of this world, and to me, it beats the famous relativity theory and energy-mass conversion formulae he was famous for...

And the word Destiny needs some attention. Shall try to do it.

Also, if the mankind of the world comes together, forgetting all the differences, it may do more wonders than all these extraspective theories. Maybe the last challenge to deal with may be the thiest/ athiest division. But then thinking differently but integrally may solve that issue too!

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                         This could have been part of post #025, Death is a myth, but actually, the content of this post was totally overlooked by me in that post. It was always known to me that modern science was never able to crack what happens when one sleeps, and in itself, it was a great achievement for modern science, as all other sciences/ religions accepted it as a normal process. In #025, me too took it as one, but only to realise that it is as complicated as death itself. 

                                                          First, let us consider the way one sleeps. It is always termed as falling into sleep, and it is never a conscious act. You can never say when you fell asleep, except maybe some people who sleep off the moment they lie down, and I think it is quite rare. And once you are asleep, you are not on the time axis of this world, and I always felt that the transition from consciousness is asynchronous. That makes it a non-conscious one, and you can not remember when you fell asleep. I have no idea what happens when one sleeps. Dreams and nightmares; I have no clue about them. Many say it unwinds you, but I always felt the other way round. You will sleep if you are totally unwound, and sleep winds you up for the next day/ or conscious period. It is just a hunch I have. 

                      Getting up can be more synchronous, as I felt, because the mind takes control of that part. Sometimes it is very close, as you may remember something the moment you regain consciousness and act instantly. Somedody/ something waking you up can have different results.

I do not have more to write on this now and please see this with the post #25.

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                         I first heard it from a YouTuber, Great Scott, and it was great. But maybe I was familiar with the idea from the late eighties, when I used to do the crossword puzzles from the Indian Express Sunday edition and The Hindu newspaper those days. I was quite confused about how they used to come up with the puzzles every day with quick and cryptic clues. By the way, cryptic ones were easier for me than the straight ones, as I was never good at English, but a bit better at logic. Sooner or later, I realised that they fill up the templates with interlinking words and then make all the clues and give us the empty template every day. It was as simple as that. The same happened earlier, maybe, with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, as he may create the crime and the scene/ location, etc., and then present us with the missing links that slowly converge to the full story.

More on this later, as it may be more relevant in the search for the so-called absolute truth!

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                          You start seeing the world as a small baby under normal conditions; you grow up to be a fully grown human. The process continues till the death. What I feel is that the religion you take up should also grow to encompass all religions available to you. A true religion should be in an all-inclusive mode rather than excluding mode. Basically, due to the mixing of religions in present-day society, I feel a single religion originally existed in a region, and major updates caused rivalry. Conquests caused maximum mixing, including the Crusades.

More on this later...

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This is another perspective on money, which I think I have not taken up earlier.

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                         This topic was taken up in another context in post #223, and here I would actually like to go a little bit deeper into it. I belong to a place extremely close to a place called Ameda, which got its name from a temple there. Aama in Malayalam means tortoise, and it is said that it is the place where the tortoise stood as the base for the ocean churning (samudra manthan). Tortoise is supposed to be the second Avatar of Maha Vishnu. A stupid fuzzy logic may assume that Ameda means the land of the tortoise, and the same stupid logic makes it Aama- Zone. And Amazon is located almost diametrically opposite to my place! Quite funny logic, but!

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                          Basically, I put these titles without even elaborating on them a bit because of the phrase a senior sailor used as his WordPress page title, viz., "Lest I Forget." While reviewing these titles later, I am a bit confused about how to elaborate on them. Some sort of memory loss. But then, I never worry, as being superstitious, I accept that I remember what I need to remember when I need it. As I have told somewhere before, the ability to forget is as important as, or more important than, the ability to remember to have a stable life. It is again similar to what I said about light and darkness. Frankly speaking, I came back from total memory erasure many times, and Phoenix may be a small fish for me. Again, Arthur Conan Doyle's remark on remembering only what you need may have been applied to my system automatically. God knows!  Hope I live long enough to complete this page's contents. I know it is asking too much. 

           Surgical strike was a war strategy adopted by the present Prime Minister of India, Sri. Narendra Modi. It basically refers to removing malignant cells and trying to save the good ones, keeping one alive and going. I may have to elaborate more on this later...

PS. Keeping some disciples to share my thoughts is a good idea, and as I said before, cams(eccentrics/ nutcases) normally have followers, but I am too much of a nut case, as nobody may dare to touch me even with a ten-foot pole!

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                          I always considered money to be a tool or even a drug. It is marvellous that it works as an elixir too. With money, you can solve many ailments. But then the saying that too much of anything can be poisonous is quite valid here too.

More on this as and when I have time...

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                          With this title, I am trying to delve deeper into the duality I was maintaining throughout my life, knowingly and unknowingly. Being off the beaten track was important to me, but the beaten track was only for show and to serve a basic physical survival purpose. I may aver that extremes of my life were non-availability of free will, and only free will is present. This, in a way, matches with what I had read about Buddha opting for the concept that only free will exists, as otherwise, I may be treated as illogical. Yes, I am responsible for whatever I have done so far with my life, even though medical science may give me some leeway due to bipolarity issues I face. But from my point of view, all along my life I was able to stand on either extreme and show to the world that I am holding a stable state. As I said, true to my knowledge, I was never keen on making decisions or executing them and the world as I see it now just evolved around me. I never had a choice. I can only say that the line between free will and no free will is too thin to be visible or discernible. I may add an adage in Malayalam here. It is about being precarious with one standing on two boats with either leg on different ones. I used to pole boats when I was young, and this saying clearly matches the way I took up my life. But then I always had a solution for this scenario, as I may maintain my status quo till I can hold on to both the boats, and when I can not, I shift over to the boat which I find safe and leave the other one, keeping it always in my sight. And, once things or tide or swell get steady, I get back to the other boat and start my circus again. 

                                             And about the beaten track; it is okay, and over the years realized that the good and bad are just complementary, and you can not eliminate the bad and keep only the good. A disappearing act is the best way if you find the place you live in is bad and don't try to swallow the whole world, or rather try to change the whole world! If you are in bad company and impossible to live there, just shift and try another place. And that is all I can suggest right now. If I come across a better solution, I may update here later. Lot more to write on this, too, as most of my threads are infinite to me! Or if I may borrow from Sadhguru, even though he is not very clear, and as I myself had mentioned earlier, what is unveiling in my life is just an illusion, and I may not get trapped with these things. And at this stage I am not sure whether we all have the same truth/ absolute, and even if so, will we all reach the same accord at any time in our life? Never try to be a winner is the only solution to not be a loser!

                                     The track which I had chosen, which was off the beaten one, I found all along was not totally unbeaten, to my surprise. Like a lighthouse or celestial objects for a sailing ship, all along there was clear-cut evidence that people had walked this way. They might have got diverted, or sometimes I might have tried to follow the path they created. Many a time I realised that they may not be the one I am seeking and retraced back to my original one. Some people have even died at some points, and I had to be cautious and sit back and analyse what caused their end. 

                                                                         Lastly, I may say that the concept of no free will can make you infallible, like they say about the catholic Pope and many Godly figures. About the Pope, it is a burden he has to carry, and I may not dare to become a catholic Pope even with accepting the no-free-will concept.

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                         Secondly, try to know the meaning of education. Try to establish an education system different from job-oriented training. Basically, from what I could make out, the root word of education is not present in most of the substitutes translated into Indian languages. But it may not be relevant; in this part of the world, education, it seems, is used only as a means to gain a job, which should essentially lead to plenty of money, power and fame. This attitude and complete misunderstanding of the word education lead to all sorts of problems and the rat race too.

 More on this later, as this one is also quite heavy for me now.

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                         In Christian marriage invitations, it is normally mentioned as "Deo Volente" be solemnised on so and so time at so and so church. I tried to Google it and find out what it means, and I got the answer that the ceremony may occur only if God wills. As usual, I got a different viewpoint: that the marriage in a spiritual sense may happen only if God wills, after the ceremony. It is more like what Richard Bach mentioned in his book 'One '. The bodies and one soul concept is the target to be achieved, as the priest also mentions. The ceremony itself is the legalisation of living together, in a spiritually bonded way to achieve the target. So the real solemnization may or may not come depending on the zeal the couple put in.

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                          When you are living in a society, you can not choose what you are. Society decides whether you are good or bad. If you need to be a professional, you need a certificate from an approved agency decided by the Government. So is the case with snobbery too. The best part is that if anyone knows the meaning of the word snob will try not to be a snob. But still, he may be taken as a snob by people just because he may behave differently in society. People generally are comfortable with snobs in society, as it is the general standard in society.

More on this later.

Thanks and best regards.

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                         I do not know to whom the title credit goes! A few months back, I got a T-shirt for my son with this phrase on it. I got a book too, with the same name, which I could not even flip through. I liked the phrase basically because I always liked to keep the child within me, and I hope I managed to do so far. 

                                                   Now, the reason to bring it up is that I just googled to find more about this phrase and stumbled upon a version which states that the children looked up to the elders and liked their freedom and the power they held. And once they grew up and realised the responsibility part is a bit unbearable or stressful, they regret the state they reached. And they used this phrase as a warning sign for other children! I was shocked by an absolute misunderstanding of such a wonderful phrase! The term which has to be considered here is 'noblesse oblige', which means privileges entail responsibility. I should say it works either way. One with responsibility may enjoy, or rather be entitled to, freedom and power. If children, while being brought up, were made to understand this, such a confusion might not have occurred.

                                                              The word child has two derivatives to my knowledge, with entirely different meanings. Child-like is with a more elfish nature, content and not many wants.

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                            I thought I might just try to revise the status of the phrase I had used to accentuate the title of this blog. With this attempt, I aim to clarify conflicts/ contradictions in my own thought process, which run throughout the blog. The first and foremost reason is the lack of an absolute platform for the subject I am dealing with, followed by the competency issues of human language. Please do not consider it as a bad worker blaming the tool issue. I submitted valid reasons to prove it from analysing the possible ways a human language evolved, and then, to make matters worse, the inter-lingual translation issues as I tried to explain.

                               Choosing this title itself, as it precisely points to the subject matter explained in the last paragraph. At the time I started with the blog, it appeared as the right phrase to express my mind most simply. Also, I started off to take it as a profession as I assumed that I had reached the dead end of my primary profession. Then I sprang back into my original profession, and this blog also got transformed into a learning session rather than the other way round.  #068 post is an outcome of that. This blog turned out to be my space up in the clouds, and I can shout with my full throat, as I tried to keep this space as private as possible. And as far as I know, the world was always controlled by the Good ones, even though it may seem otherwise to many. So is the case with cyberspace, too; I believe. I am not a great fan of the Christian Bible verse “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. Matthew 10:27; maybe Luke was safer as far as this context is concerned. Anyway, I was always quite dubious about St. Mathew as he deciphered all a bit the wrong way, it seems. Now, coming to the concerned post, #167, where I say that I am an impurity within the oyster called this world. This basically nullifies the title phrase, as it basically implies as me being a part of the world. But considering the world as the oyster and me the impurity being transformed by the oyster, the world and I are two different entities. So I suspected myself as an impurity here and remained so all along, and this need not be true for all my fellow human beings. Oyster comes across many things and consumes and rejects many, and itself consists of intricate things. And I am what I am by default, and not due to my merit. The only underlying fact is that I lived my life, and I see whatever I see external to me, whether living or material, may have the same perspective as mine during the period I dive into my subconscious element...???

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                         Is it a paradox? Or is it like the puzzle of the polar bear and the seal living safely in different regions? Are we just puppets on strings, and is there a marionette and an audience to him/ her, too? Too many questions to start a post with.

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Many a time in my life, I thought I had reached very close to knowing what I am, and as I believed it may be advantageous to me, I proceeded and ended up losing myself. Definitely not the grammatical version, but the absolute 'what'. Then I realised that it is not an achievable state. Losing yourself. I'd better keep my mask or persona strongly attached to myself. Many say to be selfless. We are all like onions, and peel the layers and end up with nothing. Wanna live, better be selfish. Yes, you can be aware of the selfless you!

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This one is about the present geopolitical situation and similar ones.

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                                    Earlier, I said Lot was wrong, but actually, it was Abraham who could not find even one just person. Maybe I, too, am in his shoes now. Maybe Jehovah himself might have a different opinion about what he had created after the six-day-long creation of this mess.

PS. This post is in no way related to the present geopolitical situation.

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                                   This one is going to be full of fuzzy logic. Almost crazy.

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                         Being on ships and keeping stores, spares and tools in an extra amount as a safety precaution led me to follow the same at home too. Yes, it was logical for this part of the world, where we may not be able to get things when shops are closed during night hours and other holidays. Not actually hoarding. Small items for plumbing, electrical and electronics jobs, most used battery types and necessary tools. Printer cartridges, paper, etc., too. Computer peripherals like keyboard, mouse, etc during the good old days of relying on desktop computers were needed for diagnosing any glitches faced. All these are more relevant as I live in a rural area, and accessing shops turns out to be tedious, and the expenses incurred for commuting. Maybe the most important thing is the time factor, affecting the workflow drastically. This procedure is not common in my locality, as a money-saving measure is followed here. But I already saved a lot of money and time so far, and being a DIY fan saved a lot on labour charges too. So I should say that all my expenditures for this procedure has broke even, at least.

                                                So to justify my way, I used to compare the case of keeping licensed shotguns in some countries where they are allowed for their protection. They may never use it in their lifetime, but it assures safety, and they never complain about the price they pay. And recently, I stumbled upon the phrase and further googled to know that it was made famous or formed by George Ellis, whose name I was familiar with, but I could not find out when or how. So I think this is a simple post I have taken up, said enough and closing it.

Thanks to all,

George A P.

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                         Once again, let me state that I am trying to take as absolute a position as possible and talk about what is apparent to me. I do not know how much material science and/ or spirituality have progressed at all.

      With the title adage, I am trying to point to the present day developement of  AI, or rather artificial intelligence. The primary question I had was whether we are running short of innate intelligence. Sorry that I can not use 'natural' as I am going to contradict me mentioning earlier that there is nothing unnatural. To me, from my vantage point, everything we perceive is unnatural. Sorry for blurting it out. The basic reason is all over my posts, and you may have to get out of all four quadrants of theism/atheism. Shell out the devotion, adoration, stubbornness, and inaction. Free up your mind. Now the answer to my primary question is that I feel, like the inertia of materials, we too resist physical/ mental labour. As I believe the sages of yesteryears tried to attain what they wished, just by sitting or wandering around, thinking, and they apparently had succeeded. Now, material science is providing the same thing to common people. It was a gradual one, up to the invention of the computer, then the pace was quite drastic. Physics was real, but mathematics was pure imagination(non-real), and chemistry and biology had to follow the first two leaders. I really misunderstood the importance of the Economics stream, which links the humans together, and the digital currency transactions of today are really marvellous. Regret I misunderstood the importance of it. I don't say that the good old material science is obsolete, but they don't permeate to the common people (Or at least I would like to believe that way). It makes the AI work far more easily. As I said earlier, I am not a reformer and am blaming what is going around me, so that the scenario may change. So, the AI provides means for an easy living without labouring much. People are no more intersested in developing the innate intelligence. This may be clearer in the next paragraph, where I take up the title issue and the unnatural nature!

                                       AI works mostly with vision and magic, too. It is about the least distance of distinct vision, the horizon span and the memory effect of vision which makes a video possible. Vision is all about video, as time can not stop. The culprit is the memory effect, which makes the clarity of vision impossible. Hearing is not easily beaten, as material science is not really good at tampering with it and with other senses too. Interactive voice response systems, even up to Google maps use human voice, I believe. An eyewitness is supposed to hold a very important role in proving anything, but an English style shake-hand is really needed to make it worth considering the possibility of 3d projections(I had seen it in one quite old English movie). Artificial root word basically defines art, skill and science. The world we see may be an artificial one created by the creator using its skills. And the memory effect of the vision/ brain combination is suited for it. Even though I do not want to bring the term God in here, you might have heard that the human year is smaller than God's year in mythology/ theology, etc. So if my 1 year is equal to someone else's 12 years, and if both are capable of working in the same space, what I try to do in 1 second, the other one gets 12 seconds. And I will never have an idea in that one second of mine. Here goes the cause and effect theory!

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