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- Symphony of the seas, Symphony of Beethoven
Her majesty the Queen, the symphony of the seas Started a journey, A long, long journey indeed. Beyond the Horizen as she sailed, Seagulls followed her into the empty ocean space. As she sailed, beyond the reef, As she sailed, beyond the mist. As she drifted past dancing dolphins and mermaids Music filled the air of the deep ocean space. A Symphony of #Beethoven the master of the rhythm Invites the gods and magical creatures of unknown, To flock around her in sleep in a cold dark night. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Was a German composer and pianist who is considered one of the greatest of the western music. At pinnacle of his career, he composed and re-composed his music which will determine the route of generations of musicians to follow. Symphony one, two and three followed, created by him, have become legendary. To add to the irony, Beethoven became progressively deaf, During Heroic period of his career due to auto sclerosis. However, the music magician had done a great deal of work of art by the time #nature took its course, enough for him to be the greatest. Although he could not hear, it did not stop him playing his Piano! Symphony of the seas Is the fourth of Oasis class of cruise ships, to date of five, surpassed only by her sister ship in 2022 by the "Wonder of the #Seas". These gigantic cruise ships are marvels of modern naval, travel can be only second to the fame gained by #Titanic of its era. With carrying capacity of 5400 passengers and half of the amount staff, these ships are fully equipped with facilities of five-star hotel with, cinemas, pools, restaurants, and entertainment hubs. True symbols of symphony only secondary to Beethoven in creativity, as engineering masterpieces Thank you for reading: Symphony of the seas, Symphony of Beethoven You may also like: Positive and negative effects of shipwrecks. Color light complaint
- I wish I could be there..
I wish I could be a ghost and sit by you Whoever you are wherever you are On a park bench or a garage bench In a boat in a bakery or a train station At a penthouse in a hotel of five-star range And talk about things that we couldn't write on a twitter page. And let the tears flow until end. I wish I could be there when you sigh exhausted by your struggles To spend hours and hours until you recover witness the world in your eyes as you see it without judgement I wish I could mingle into your soul and feel inside when it burns. If you'd let me in I wish I could be there is a poem, for you.. For everyone. As I feel what is like to be stuck inside the skin, with nowhere to hide, when the life throws its problems right at us. Divided by prejudices of our nations, colors and pride, separated by time and space. Yet this provide me an opportunity to reach you and reduce that pain, 1% and make you feel cared As I would, like a friend, with a warm hug. Thank you for reading You may also like: Once upon a time story - a scarecrow. Collections, composition and encapsulation - from programming to life
- Singer’s ‘famine relief argument’ and vegans.
Imagine you are walking in a park with some friends. And you hear a cry of a child and note that there is a small child drowning in a pond. You are able to swim and save, what would you do? Imagine you and your friends have decided to walk away letting the child to die. It would be unacceptable to most of us in our society. Now imagine a child who is dying of just malnourishment in some remote African country. And you are having enough wealth to feed yourself and your family. You can easily cut down some luxurious items that you are going to buy and spend some money on Charity organizations to help few of these children. These are the drowning Child analogy put forward by Peter Singer in 1971 in his famous essay of "Famine, Affluence and Morality". He argued that if there is a way to reach the child in Africa, the distance has no meaning, as an excuse for us to get away from our moral obligation of saving that child. And we should be as guilty as when we haven't saved the drowning child. It is time to stretch the limits of the above argument. Over the years there are pro, and against critics for the Singers' argument. However, we will be looking into some of the inferences. If the argument is true, and if you have seen an advertisement from charitable organizations on TV or from your friend or in the newspaper, we ourselves are guilty in the moral court if we haven't done so. It is not about the savings that you are doing for your protection of the future. It is about your expensive shoes, luxury cars or decorative unnecessary shopping spree. After all #Minimalism has its own justification with simmers argument. Let's imagine the child is drowning with its dog and you have the capacity to grab only one and save one, the dog is much closer to you, and you have decided to let the dog die, swim across and save the child instead. It is getting complicated. Both the dog and the child are feeling pain and facing death. Difference is the power of expression and being in different species. Are we obliged only to our own species? What about stopping eating meat being a #vegan, it can directly cause less losses of animal life. Is it wrong to save the animal life over the human life? If it is wrong, then the child drowning in the pond has more value than a Child in Africa. Lesser Known, Singer himself wrote a second book "Animal Liberation" to frame the ethics of treating animals, to tie it to the capacity of an animal to feel the pain. However, someone can still argue that pain is subjective and there is no universal measure of pain, hence we cannot generalize it to non-verbal animals. After all, an Ant who is drowning in your cup of hot coffee may have felt more pain than the drowning dog in our anlage. Let's look at our Space race, recently India became the first to land on the South pole of the moon. Are our space races which burn millions of dollars really necessary expenses while still there is famine prevail in our world? If countries are considered humans, shouldn't we feel guilty as nations to burn money in space? What is the lesson? We could argue saving a child drowning is better than saving the African child or the dog. We could argue that driving the poverty of humanity is better than a space race. Of course, there will be no correct argument, truth seems to be relative when we change our perspective. If there is an asteroid, or a massive volcanic eruption which can drive humans into extinction, SpaceX Mars project would be our only hope. On the other hand, trying to be a vegan can lead to the death of hundreds of insects than a single cow! So, the debate will go on between vegans and non-vegans, affluence and poverty, into the future as well. Thank you for reading Singer’s ‘famine relief argument’ and vegans. You may also like to read : The boy, dog and the story of mathematics. Sunken ships and deep shipwreck
- Like the Moon Like the Earth -Tidal Locking
Did you know the moon liked the Earth? The Blue and green and brown its Worth. Looking at the Earth since its Birth. Moon never could look away from its lovely Earth. It is so far away but felt so near. I stay in the dark background waiting for you to hear. One day to come closer and hug you my dear And that I will swear by the sun, Earth can you hear! I can't look away Oh I've tried in the past. I would drop down on my knees at last, If I could kiss you, I wouldn't mind I blast. And I will penetrate so deep into your Heart. ( Tidal Locking - The moon always faces the earth as the gravity has forced its rotation to stop a long time ago!, and one day billions of years into the future it may fall on earth. If it does it will crash deep into the core of the earth and that will be the end of the earth as a nice planet. It will be just in pieces. However, this potential crash is said to happen even after our sun is aged as a red giant, so much so there will be no sun to witness it. And all these astronomic things are not relevant to humankind as planets closer to us will be unhabitable for animals when sun ceases to exist. As far as today moon still is moving away from earth few centimeters 3.78cm per year) Thank you for reading : Like the moon like the earth- tidal locking You will also find it interesting: Are we prisoners of our own minds? Autumn colors (poem)
- Assembly lines and life before them.
Have you seen an #Assemblyline ? If you are working in a factory, it is more likely that you have seen one. And maybe you are already working in one. When we think about assembly lines, different images come to life, such as TikTok videos about 'Most lazy jobs in the world', or the assembly lines of second world War, where workers sing songs while making guns, or inside of Tesla or Toyota car manufacturing factories, where everything is run by automated robots. Assembly lines have revolutionized our production so that the demands are met by, as everyone needs a car, a doll or a doughnut, there is a genuine need to be as fast as what we can achieve. When Henry Ford popularized and amazed the world with Ford cars, he also had just the tools which were necessary for his fast production line. He was the Elon Musk of his time, and he had made it possible by using an Assembly line, although it was already in use by meat processing farms in Chicago, even before that, in China. But obviously there are problems. It is a fact that whenever we find something good for ourselves, we also find new problems. Is it a fact of nature? ( That is a topic for another discussion ) Let's look at some problems with the assembly line and, hopefully, it will make you understand why you are tired doing the laziest job in the world. Assembly lines are fine if they are operated by robots. However, if there are people who are involved, then there will be boredom and poor job satisfaction over time. Imagine if you are underpaid on top of that because whatever the job you are doing can be easily replaced by someone else as there is no big skill needed. (Someone would argue it is modern day slavery) Whoever is involved in an assembly line is never able to see the final product, from beginning to end, and they will never acquire skills to make something of their own. Let's compare it with productions which we had before the assembly line and industrial revolution, and still prevailing in rural parts in some ways. Let's imagine a craftsman in a village who makes metal crafts. He will collect scrap metal from the city to bring it to his cove, and melt it by himself. He will prepare carvings with his fine tools on a piece of wood, to make molds, He will pour the melted metal into his molds and later make fine polishing and painting of the craft. You may have seen videos like that, where they discuss why some specific products, clothing and crafts, are so expensive. It is true that these craftsmen do not earn money as the owners of assembly lines. However, look more satisfied and content with what they earn. What can we learn about life from these assembly lines? If you are stuck in one, and feel tired, know that, maybe you need to let go of your creative self-craving to get away from monotonous nature. Listen to it, at least give some second option. After all, nobody would miss you, and you will be easily replaced. Secondly, be mindful about bottlenecks in your life. Which are side effects of these assembly lines and really can strangulate you otherwise. It is wise to be aware, and prevent after all before a crash happens, and production is affected. And our happiness can create happiness for those around us.
- How to program ourselves?
This is part two about computers and life ( Part 1). The basic question to ask is how to program ourselves? However, as we all have tried various methods, it is a very difficult task, as the mind seems to be working according to a clock of its own. I will lay down three steps to understand the problem in programming ourselves. After all we want to find the perfect algorithm to live by, we should understand how they are structured and operated. It doesn't matter if you are a non-programmer like me. But we are all owners of this wonderful machine of mind. So, we need to understand what is happening. Step 1: Basic structure of how a computer works. Step 2: Similarities of computers and our mind. Step 3: What can we do to program ourselves? Step 1: Basic structure of how a computer works. We all have seen; computers consist of hardware and software. It takes up inputs from various input devices like mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera, and even from internet connection etc. And it manipulates the data, according to the set of instructions we have given, in the form of programs, (processing) and outputs the results in a meaningful way, to another program or to ourselves. Input - processing - output Step 2: Similarities of computers and our mind. As a human we get our inputs from our in-built sensory organs, and the mind seems to have some internet connection too! We process our information by some unknown mechanisms and programs which occur in our brains. And we see our output as thoughts. However, we can convert these into meaningful conversations, movements and actions as well. Input - sensory organs Processing - in mind Output - thoughts and actions When science advanced, we have better understanding of input and output of ourselves, so we have powers to enhance these, however we still do not understand how the mind really works. That is where the real problem is. If we really want to program ourselves to have happy thoughts all the time, no matter what the inputs are, be positive all the time no matter what happens, we need a programming language to write our programs with. So far that does not exist. This gap in science is replaced by various means, like religion, and beliefs. Let us stop there, as otherwise I will have to write a book, not a blog post to explain. But here, you would argue with me," hold on, thoughts are not outputs, I created them! It is my processing, it's the language. " I can prove it is not, thoughts are not our programming language. Proof 1, Can you predict what your next thought would be? Proof 2, All the thoughts you had during reading of this passage, were influenced by the information I gave you, and information you gathered from the past, (from your hard drive) Proof 3, Even the English language you use to understand your thoughts are, information you received from the past, and stored. Leave a comment if you do not agree. After all these are just outputs of whatever information I have received. There is a chance it's all wrong. Step 3: What can we do to program ourselves? If you understand the problem, now we should have our answer. Truth is, the question is wrong 'Can we really program ourselves?' is the correct question to ask. We cannot program ourselves simply because we do not know our programming language. Whatever the lifehacks you read about are not going to work, not all the time. What about habit forming tricks? What about time management? What about Pomodoro's, and study groups? They are just information, they have the ability to change the output we see, in our thoughts and actions. However, information is not the programming language, so outcomes can be variable for variable people. All we can do is give good healthy information to our machines and wait to see the outcome. That's why traveling works, meditation works. I suggest you change your environment, if our output seems to be not good lately. You may also like to read: Spectrums of nature - its not always black and white
- It's time to dream
A collection about dreams. These are tweets from the twitter. And it's time to dream. Contributed by @IgorMarynowski Contributed by @IamSaymi Post 1 @mgmindfullivng Today's theme is dreams. Everyone has one Everyone chase one Everyone dreams one ElonMusk has an Outerspace one A writer has a readable one A Politician has a cunning one I've just made a magical one #magicalmindfulliving JUST LIKE THAT !😋 Post 2 The dreamers (2003 film) The dreamers dream about dreams. Dreams are just dreams There is no truth about dreams You can work walk and dream in a dream But If you have committed a crime in a dream Its Time to wake up Wake up before you are punished in your dream Post 3 @IgorMarynowski @IamSaymi Post 4 @mgmindfulliving had only 41 Followers ! I feel like going back to my 6th grade clasroom. We had 42 students and my number was 42 Here I am doing it all over again. Starting small to conqur the world But it all started with a classroom dream. HAPPY CLASSROOM DAY! (Of course its imaginary)
- For all the birds, who can't fly.
It's the Fall its final call to leave the nest in time. Stoke parents' guide their offspring to out open, in line. To win the skies and fly far away it's a matter of do or die. It's so unfair, if you care, as some birds can't fly.(1997 film) Like Dura, some stayed, with broken wings, his heart cried in pain. When brothers and sisters, said goodbye, he tried again in vain. Like Venesa with hope, how could she have, simply stayed so sane? When given no chance, and end is at the start, whom should we blame? I was sad, thought how sad, I cannot give them hope. I cried and cried, alone in my mind, as I couldn't give a helping hand. Now I realize, how strongly she stood, Venesa the brave heart. Past is passed, future cannot be touched, as life is packed in a second. Background: Some birds can't fly is a 1997 Yugoslav drama film directed by Petar Lalović. Dura- Is a stoke in the story who has broken weak wings. He remains in the nest when his siblings fly away from it to the safety of warm, as winter is approaching. Venesa - Is a girl with Leukemia, although she is pure and bright, she has sccumbed to the nature so early in her life. She is so matured and accepts her fate. Even when her mother tried to give some hope saying that Dura will fly away from his nest, Venesa disagrees saying "He won't, Some birds can't fly". Isn't she amazing?
- To catch The Happiness before it hides
"Life is the journey not the destination." An angel told me once the happiness is the movement, the journey, the in between. Then I took a walk and thought to myself. If life is a wave. Happiness is a movement of the buoy. If life is a waterfall. Happiness is the flight of a droplet. If life is wind. Happiness is a falling leaf. If life is a river happiness is in the flow of waters not stagnated pools of calm. If life is a lifetime, happiness is in years and dacades If life is a year, happiness is in weeks and days If life is a day, happiness is in hours minutues andseconds If life is a millisecond, happiness is an illusion in the mind Meaning: To catch the happiness before it hides The poem was triggered by a tweet highlighting "life is a journey not the destination". Ha ha ha, however I Lied. I really didn't take a walk, (Poets are allowed to lie in the context of poem) though it took me on a thought journey (Maybe I did not lie after all). Now you know what I thought and It really is difficult to catch the happiness if the life is just in milliseconds. However we have to go through milliseconds to go into seconds. So, what is happiness? Is it an illusion of mind? Evidence suggest so. Then what about other things, that we see and feel? Well, that is for you to think about. You can find more about time in my book and articles and poems throughout the blog. Happy hunting ! You may also like reading: What is time? a novel way
- AI and Art, Evolution or Involution
There is a doubt in the art world that whether AI art can be considered as true art. I have collected some thoughts about it and here are some. For the artist. Of course, for the traditional painter, time he spend creating art is a journey. As the famous saying goes "Life is a journey not the Destination". Similarly, for him Art is the Journey, not the outcome. And the quality is measured by himself. For the modern AI artist, who struggle with different prompts to bring out the perfect imaginary AI image, of course the time spent is less than a painting. However, we cannot say that he/she does not enjoy doing it. Remember when we were kids, some of us couldn't draw, it's true. But now we have tools for every one of us to enjoy. I believe AI artists do enjoy doing it, it's just a matter of individual's mind business. For the observer of the art For the observer of the art, if we are not prejudiced, it doesn't matter what method the pictures are made, if they speak to us. Imagine how many of us been to visit "Sunflowers of Vincent Van Gough" But many of us have seen his art and still admire it. In what format you have seen it. Digital? Printed? But its not the real thing! still we appreciate and enjoy it. So why does a picture should carry value only when it is physically represented at some corner of the world in some art Gallery? Maurizo Catalan and Banana on the wall - conceptual art The term art is very diverse. It's true that we love only some of these kinds. But there are wired types as well. Conceptual artworks are one such, where art is prioritized according to its concepts and ideas involved in the work. As an example, Maurizo Catalan an Italian artist conceptualized his banana on the wall art. Art consists of a description of how the banana is pasted on the wall and anyone can reproduce it, but the concept is the art itself. Some of us cannot get our heads way around this, however if you attend to a bar, or a fancy restaurant, you might see a bartender arranging specific items in specific ways and create art by himself. Of course, they do not get a certificate for doing that but that is conceptual Art after all. Final thoughts. As AI is advancing fast it is inevitable art world would be engulfed in it at some point. Will it suppress traditional art? We don't know. In a world no one enjoy painting it can happen. But still, we will have to live with our differences. After all AI do not think by itself. Artwork it creates is influenced by thousands of paintings, photos and artwork done before. Is AI art evolution or involution? AI is the inevitable evolution of art. Started with cave painting, only some were gifted to do. Today, its available at our fingertips of each and every one of us We should be proud of ourselves not jealous. Call yourself an Artist. I would. Don't be afraid!
- Positive and negative effects of sunken Ships and deep Shipwrecks.
How many shipwrecks are there in the world? Does everything end up in graveyards of Indian cost? It is estimated there are over 3 million #shipwrecks in our ocean floors. And World War two alone have resulted in over 15000 of shipwrecks. Even for today, about 50 odd ships go missing all over the world, although the majority of them end up reused in ship graveyards. As captains of our own ships, we should be prepared for the worst after all, and the best place to start would be stories from the past. There are different groups of people who are interested in hunting down shipwrecks for a variety of reasons. Marine biologists, Treasure hunters, historians, even modern-day film makers and solo scuba divers, make a living out of these shipwrecks. After all it is not always negative to have shipwrecks. As we can imagine, since there had been ships and voyagers, there had been wrecks too, so the history goes even back into thousand years into the past. We will revisit some of these stories they have found over the years and learn what they teach us. Of course, there would be much more damage to the environment at the time of a giant ship sinking. It may be due to the fire, spillage of oil and harmful chemicals, which lead to loss of thousands and millions of big and small marine lives, even after decades of such damage. As an example, the Express Pearl ship which caught fire at the SriLankan coastline back in 2020 had released three containers each with, 26000 kg weight of plastic pallets, to the environment according to the Sri Lanka's Marine Environmental Protection Authority (MEPA). And some of them will end up in the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch in years to come and live there over many years as micro plastics, continuously threatening life. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest of such a collection containing an estimated 45,000–129,000 Metric Tons of plastic as of 2018. After initial havoc and the chaos in the deep ocean floors and sudden loss of life, ships become a part of the environment, and start to be engulfed and consumed by the environment itself. Over time the wreck itself provides a home for a large number of marine lives. Marine Biologists, and scientists still investigate how starting with microbiomes, the shipwrecks evolve into habitats of bigger and bigger animals, from crustaceans to schools of fish, from corals to mammals and sea turtles. #Nature seems to be engulfing and transforming everything it seems. If we return back to our ships, it is a matter of time, next disaster happens to us, and it is pretty unpredictable too. But when such time comes, let's hope that is not the end of the story and there will be recovery and triumph and life after each and every shipwreck. Together we can reduce the impact and fasten the recovery, which is inevitable by nature. Thank you for reading Positive and negative effects of Sunken ships and deep Shipwrecks You may also like reading: Near death experience in an airplane Lessons learnt from waves
- Autumn Colors.
It's a story about colors. simple and sweet first it was green Shoots and buds Powered by spring spree Dark green then turned yellow In a matter of months and weeks Some ended red, some brown and they fell down indeed Story so colorful as we are blinded by the hour As colorful as the story is I am shaking in fear As Next is White in line Dreadful times oh Dear! Thank you for reading Autumn Colors You may also like: withering lives in a gas chamber.( poem ) seize the day - carpe diem















