A Replica of Natural world I have been a couch potato for a long time Until recently, that I started the silent observer blog. During this period of gross inactivity, I dreamed of travelling to places, like a butterfly with broken wings. The google earth sounds perfect, for someone who like to do the traveling without any risks. It is a replica of the natural world. It doesn't need for you to take a bus, to see the Niagra falls, and take an aeroplane, to see Hindu Kush mountains. Not at all risky like flying in the sky. At the tip of your finger you have the Eiffel tower from every angle possible. Even if you are there in Paris, you would never see and collect so much information in your brain about the tower. Not at all possible to keep them over the years. Satellite Image In this sense, whoever made the google earth is a genious. I am sure that started as a pet project of google, to make an artificial "earth" like the one we live in. I am sure there were a lot of objections, to the project early on. Like "Who is going to travel to all these places? and take photos, and use their spare time to upload this?". How are we going to make the money we invest? We are not "Selling" anything? These questions sound perfect objections and legitimate at the time of the early years of google earth. However, if you have read my article about a Shop , you would realise, google now owns a gigantic "Shop" called google Earth. Where everyone saves their values in the form of pictures, and videos, and locations. And there are enough people surfing around this artificial globle, who dream of travelling, judging the photos. Google Street and Satellite Imagery Consider how much they have expanded. My street is on the google earth. So called Google "Truck" has travelled in front of my house and now, I can show anyone exactly what it looks like. When I go somewhere, I check whether Google has been there, to see if the roads are "Good enough" for my car to go on. I can go back to the past, and see how everything looked like, 10 15 years ago, from satellite imaging. And even scientists use these images to study climate changes, animal migrations and even, for terrorists to plan their attacks and armies to defend their countries. Everyone finds a use for themselves in this gigantic database called google earth, and I am sure there are thousands of articles like these circling around and some people make a living out of it. Consider number of Youtube Channels showing google earth Photos. Ah, the google earth is so big that it has come to my attention that it harbours the essential components of creating values out of nothing. Consider the fact, that there is no true "earth" in google earth. But there is one at the same time, at your fingertips, where you are able to move and "See" even spend hours and hours travelling and making Memories. If you would like to know more about this concept, follow my article on creating values . Our Earth Take home Message It is absurd, to think how imagination of humans go, even to replicate nature, in 3D world. So, what are you going to do about it? What is the lesson The Google Earth have proven to us over the years? If I try to put it into words I would say, to create human values you need to find a way to preserve human consciousness, in whatever form that you are familier with. Write down our thoughts in that everything book, make it a habit to keep a dictaphone where you go and save your thoughts, or take photographs, videos or start making collections, do not worry if it doesn't look like a shop. You do not believe Me? That's fine, as " Facts do not cease to exist, because they are ignored " :-) Atlease you have read the article if you are here now!

Is there any philosophy to a shop? I would say there are many. Consider the fact humans started as "Hunter Gatherers". It's obvious they were hunters, like any other apex predators. But more peculiarly they were gatherers. More than agile thumbs, I think "Gathering" has made us advance in society. What were they gathering and why? Does this mean that ancient cavemen also had shops in front of their caves? to sell what they Gathered? Vegetables To understand what is happening we need to look at the process of the human mind. When humans see an object, they give it a value in their mind. Mind you they are damn good at this. For this they use all their past experience combined with future use. And if the value is big enough they will carry this object to their place of residence (so Gatherers). Initially values determined survival in the jungle. So men collected edible items, clothing items and anything related to these. Naturally they knew what can be kept for future use, and what will rot fast. Some collections were entirely in the elders' minds. Such as water sources in the jungle. But the physical collections could be transferred to some other human being over time. For mental collections they use language, to pass the message. Later the " Printing Press " As you can see a collection is a word which recurs often in the passage. Can we consider a shop as a collection of things? Hunter Gatherers to Shop owners. - Philosophy of a Shop That is exactly what I was going to point to you. A shop is a collection of material and objects on display, for other human beings to value. Which means "Shopping" is the process of giving a value to an item in someone elses collection. It is bizarre and fascinating to think about the process of shopping from a philosophical standpoint. But it has great use as we all have been buyers and sellers at various times in our past.  If you want to become a seller you need to understand this fundamental process of a collection. You can spend your money to physically acquire a book collection and start a bookshop. Next you need to put them on display in a place where visitors come. Consider bookshops in London streets. Sometimes books are being sold at double the price anywhere else. The visitors value the books more as mostly they are used as a memorable items rather than a book. It's not always about the cost of production which determines the end price.  Foods Marketing and Brands. Where we can discuss the role of marketing and branding. They explore and exploit the human ability or I would call the weakness of giving something a value. And it is easy! Sometimes you just have to show them. From this sense, smartphones are notorious. Think about it, you spend your own money to buy a device which can instantly show adverts to you wherever you are, and make you an urge to buy, or give it a value. And of course you pay for your own data! No wonder Facebook, Twitter and Google are billion dollar industries.  Let's get back to our shop, the collection of things. People do not understand how an online shop is similar to a physical shop. In the smartphone era, we do not have to put up a store on the street. You can just hire a wearhouse in a dark alley and start an online store instead. Instantly showing 3D pictures of your collection to a global audience. If the one who sees your item judges its value positive, you are going to make a sale. Of course I made it sound easy but it's difficult. Even if you do know what you are doing it can be difficult. That's why I give my book for free " What is time? " book although contain lifetime of wisdom, I cannot convince someone to value it, yet. Valuing a Collection or "Shopping" A shop of "People" There is at least one other way. Instead of collecting items which are valuable, you can collect people. And often we see this happening as "subscribers" "VIP" members Gold Platinum. And the previous article discusses How to build a skyscraper using such a group. I can tell you that classic old "cults" work in the same way. Within this group feeling you can quickly sell something, Which might mean a "Pyramid scheme". And if you wonder why philosophers such as myself 😉 and Friedrich Nietzsche are lonely, it's because we refuse to be on such agendas of this society. A necessary consequence of understanding the mindwork. Now I have said enough about shops. Once you start your online store or form your elite group of subscribers, try coming back for more philosophy. Remember that philosophy is not for fools, but we all play fools, sometimes.

What travels faster than a bullet train? I was watching the bullet train in Japan. As the name suggests, they travel at incredible speeds, making a long distance journey a short affair. It wasn't a century ago that people still used carts to move themselves such distances with great difficulty. Transportation in the modern world has revolutionised the entire human interaction arena. As an example, when I buy a watch from amazon, surprisingly it will come to me tomorrow if I wanted, as it was pre shipped! Weeks before I bought it, they anticipated me buying it. So shipping is not slow either when we consider a bullet train. But let's take a deeper dive into things which are faster and faster till the fastest. Bullet Train Electromagnatic spectrum How about a wave? Anything from the electromagnetic spectrum. I skipped jets, sound waves and any animal or human to the electromagnetic as it is considered one of the fastest. Light as we call it is also a part of this electromagnetic spectrum. So far we haven't seen anything faster than the speed of light. It Is used to measure distances in cosmic scale. Have you ever thought about it before?  A simple Google search will teach you that what can travel at the speed of light is something with a zero mass. In this sense, the photons which are particles of light, travel at the speed of light have no mass. Anything faster than this obviously means time travel. Tachyons which are hypothesised particles although proposed have not been proven. But I would say though we assume nothing moves faster than light, I would say everything moves faster than speed of light through time. By being faster doesn't mean there is greater movement. Consider a blooming flower.  Blooming Flower What moves faster than Light? A sunflower once bloomed, it will follow the path of the sun. From east to west, it will cover a journey of a few centimeters per day. But consider what it means. During these 12 hours the flower had moved. During each second it covered some distance although we could not see. And this process has been happening and happening even now. According to Richard Fernmen. If it wasn't for these giggling particles, the macroscopic movement that we see would not be possible.  From this point onwards it's all imaginary. Studying arrow paradox and time would help for the discussion. As time is a continuum, without any measurable instances, the movement that we see is happening in everything that happens at every moment. So obviously there is nothing stationary in the universe, not even a dot, a chair or a planet. And this is the side effect of time. I am not sure how much you understand from this crap, but if you do, I am going to answer your next question. What does existence mean? If everything is in motion. Train station. Why everything is in motion? I can show you your existence from the bullet train example above. Consider you are on the platform and the bullet train just passed the station at 300km per hour. And you turn to your friend and say the train is here. But fundamentally the train was never there, it never stopped. It was just passing, like it had been doing for the past hour. But we all agree to the illusion that the train was at the station at a specific time.  Yet if we look deeply and closely, the train, the platform, and the matter in you never stopped for a fraction of a second the entire duration. This imaginary stationary layer above what we observe is the existence . As you can understand, it's nothing but imaginary. One day you are gonna understand this little truth about yourself and it's gonna hit you hard. You will start to see motion in everything stationary and see how people try to grasp meaning out of nothing. And if you do and when you do, come back here and give us a comment as, I really would like to know your thoughts.

How to be a good barber? Recently I had an encounter with a barber. Not the regular one I am used to. So, as expected he didn't do a good job. When I asked to keep hair long, he made it short, and one more unhappy customer added it to his list. Have you ever played these games, where you are expected to satisfy customers? You play the role of the barber, Hairdresser or a farmer, and your expected role is to satisfy the customers. It is really hard, in a game and even more in real life. Each customer expects different things, and sometimes for the seller this can be overwhelming. But to satisfy a customer you have to provide what they expect. And this is exactly how to win an argument, a relationship or friendship. If you wanna keep a dialogue going with your partner or friend, you have to provide what they need. Not what you need, forced on them, just like the bad example from the barber. Hairdress How to influence people ? Lessons from fortune tellers. I have seen a group of people who are just capable of doing this. The fortune tellers. Last time we went on a pilgrimage we met these fortune tellers, who almost scammed us. They will grab your hand and start telling things you like to hear. Even Though you know it's a scam you cannot take your hand out, as they keep pounding words after words of sweet future and a past which is exactly what you wanna hear. Sometimes it feels like they even know you from childhood. They might tell you things even your partner do not know about you. How is this possible. And my theory is as following, and you are welcome to comment. I think they byheart, about 10 fortunes. Pre-written ones, and they choose one according to the appearance and conduct of you. Let's say you are a number 4 character person, and they started with number 6. And while talking they see your reactions and slowly change their story to number 5 and then number 4. Voilà, from this point onwards you are hooked to their nonsense, as they perfectly match your future vision against their blueprint.  I can remember a long time ago, I read somewhere that everyone has a story. And all of them are searching for someone to tell their story. If you are a good listener, and encourage them with a little question about their life with genuine interest, they are gonna start talking. Until you hear everything. I am not sure if that is empathy or cunningness. But it really works and you can put a lasting impression on someone as you are allowed to see the depths of their hearts. Fortune I haven't read the book, "How to influence people". I never wanted to until recently as I did not know the values of people, and where they are coming from. But as an introvert I can tell you that you won't make it until you convert yourself into a people person. Or at least appear as such. According to great "runaway" singer Aurora, coming out to interact with people is like "shitting in front of a crowd on stage". Yet it is necessary to do so as introverts die in millions with their talents never being unearthed, as they seek solitary confinements for their comfort. If you feel like one then this is my advice for you.  How to satisfy a customer? Think you are a barber and the person who is interacting with you is your customer. Give him short hair if he wants it short. And give him long hair if he wants long. Do not try to give him the best haircut possible, unless you are "The barber" who cuts the hair of  Justin Beiber. Because its going to make him unhappy and make you regret. And no haircut is superior to another, its just part of the illusion of life anyway.

Orange Juice story - mindfulness and philosophy We were making orange juice. March is madly sunny in tropics as the sun is directly above our head, even the cloths doesn't need drying after a wash. So, orange juice with some ice was an escape for the harsh reality of tropical weather. While me and my daughter were at it, she was keen on participating in the process of making, more than drinking it. And she wanted to try mixing sugar. Mixing "A sugar" particularly and from there we had a discussion on countable and uncountable variables. Now, it didn't stop as everything we mixed in our juice were uncountable. Some water, some orange juice and some salt, not a salt or salts. It made me realize the demarcation is not clear after all. Making Orange Juice Is it really uncountable? Although salt and sugar were uncountable, when we consider it in grams or kilograms it becomes countable. Infact everything uncountable we have made them countable when we consider slandered units. Someone can say it's just artificial. You cannot count sugar like you count apples. But can we? Let's say a gram of sugar is given to a scientist and he would count the heap with a microscope and tell how many sugar grains are there. Or he might calculate how many sugar molecules are there to the nearest micro mol. How many carbon atoms. So, sugar is both countable and uncountable it seems. Nothing seems to be uncountable naturally, only as we consensus them as uncountable in the context of the language. It's even wrong in science and physics. And now we can move to the apple. Is it really countable? The apple Apple is invariably countable, right? Wrong. There are no two apples equal on the planet earth. 100% equal two apples never existed. So, when we count what we count is the platonic forms of the apple. Imaginary equal apples that are present in our minds. If you are into mathematics, you would learn this as set theory, where we compare the set of physical apples with our set of imaginary numbers. The fact is none of the real countable things have ever been equal and never will be. Even 100 cars, or balls come freshly out of the factory, although made by the same frame still are different from each other. Even identical twins are not identical. I am not going to give you a "take home message" or anything of that sort here. Neither I am attempting to challenge or argue with anyone. But to show you that when we challenge our own believes enough, we can see they are built on nothing. There is no strong base to hold any belief you carry, it is just an artificial lattice, or a net formed by our own thoughts which holds the things together. Anyone seeking a truth in life will have to follow this and identify for themselves. Maybe they will Identify one strand in the net and follow this to realize it's just a no Knot. Conclusions about countable and uncountable variables. Philosophy and mindfulness don't matter to make and drink a glass of fresh orange juice. We already have our taste buds and fully functional arms. But it interests me to see how my own mind creates countable and uncountable according to the situation. It's subtle but although we do not see this same process has created the countable and uncountable "living beings", "death", "happiness" and "sadness" Hopefully this will trigger you to search for a truth in your Apple Juice or the Beer next time.

Who is wiser? Who is stronger? Looks can be misleading and deceiving. Often this is a mistake our minds let us make. Historically from time to time if we do not remind ourselves. Here I will give you two stories one from an ancient book, and one from kindergarten. the Elephant - Unsplash Once upon a time there was a jungle where an elephant, a bird and a monkey lived as friends. Often, they would chat by the river, where there was a big Bodhi tree. They were very fond of each other and loved each other's company. One day the elephant thought, well although we consider equal, we must have a leader in our group. We must know who is the eldest among us. Then he told his wise idea to his friends, and they all agreed. One must be elder than the others and the trick is to find who that is. And the monkey said. "Oh, that's easy, let's see who remembers the most about this bodhi tree, so we can find out who is older" Elephant said, "well that's a good idea, I will go first, when I was little the tree was so small that it brushed against my belly." The monkey said "when I was little the tree was so small I could eat its top leaves standing on the ground" the bird said, the tree was not here when I was little, but there was an old tree few feet away. I used to come here and eat fruits of an old bodhi tree. This tree came after." And then everyone agreed. The bird although small is the oldest among them all and the gave him the proper respect that he deserved. When I consider the story, I can understand why the confusion among these animals about their ages. As they were from different species. But if you consider one species, you can most likely identity the older ones easily. But, consider something like intelligence, and then we would have hard time finding out who is better even after tests. Next story really shows this. And it came from a friend of my daughter. Ant Carrying Weight - Unsplash Who is stronger? Why looks can be deceiving "Father, do you know that an ant is stronger than an elephant?" How? I asked curiously. And she said, "Ants can carry eight other ants, but elephant cannot carry even one other elephant." Although at a fundamental level I agreed the claim, there was a lot of explaining needed. As an example, ant may not carry "eight ants" but it may be able to carry eight times weight of its own. Maybe even more. And also, the strength is relative. Ants even cannot carry a single leaf, but an elephant can lift a log. There is a big difference when we consider relativity. This is a nice thing to remember, as in life often looks can be deceiving. A nice-looking meal may not be tastiest. The prettiest girl may not be the kindest. The strong looking man may not be the strongest, might even weep if he lost a few dollars. Another lesson is the relativity of things. Although is elephant is stronger when compared with the ant, the ant is stronger relative to the body weight. When we change the frame of reference, the truth doesn't hold any longer. And this can be proven for any truth, as there is nothing built other than from language, time and human consciousness. And that is what this blog entirely dedicated for, Disproving what you try to prove to be true! which is life. Let's do a challenge. Give me what you believe to be true in a comment, and I will attempt to give a frame where it doesn't hold true any longer. And if you would like to read about truth -> this is link to our article on the topic.

Flash Burns. (This article discusses about philosophy of life, not medical term of a "Flash burn") Recently I watched a documentary on YouTube about a lady who was in a Cashier of a store, was put on a fire by a psychopathic woman. And this whole footage was captured in the CCTV cameras. The women although survived her injuries had a dramatic change in her life, as now she is a "Burn victim". And all this came out of nowhere as the women who set her on fire was a lady with some mental disorder, just bought a can of gasoline from the same Store. But, just wanted to point you out how quickly the circumstances of our lives can change in matter of seconds like flash burns. Burns - Unsplash Last weekend as we were in a camp, some remote part of the country for a group project, we had a little get together. The group members had a long night preparing for a concert held the next day, and decorations were all ready by the time. And just before the chief guest came, the oil lamps were lit, and suddenly there was a fire. It came from nowhere, just with a little bit of wind, fresh decorations were all burnt down, and luckily, the building did not catch up any fire. Yet again proving, things, can happen any moment, and the stable lives that you and I wish can be turned upside down too. How can we survive in this unpredictable world? Flash Floods Have you seen flash floods? If you haven't again, there are plenty of YouTube videos of these as well. And you will see at least a couple of them where people being washed away, down unsalvageable waterfalls. I cannot imagine how these happy moments where they explore a waterfall becomes a scene of tragedy in a matter of seconds. Often any water stream can become a deadly trap, when there is heavy downfall or a overflow of an upstream dam. The fact is although we feel safe and we are away from any disaster; we are not. And this is one reason, for me to take a journey to find the meaning of life sooner than later. If I am quite sure I would live up to 70 I can start searching the meaning of life at 60, stopping everything else. Yet I am not sure about flash floods, and maybe tomorrow, or today would be a good day to start my search. How about you? Hill country - Unsplash I worked in hill country for a few months last year where there were a lot of mountains with bendy roads. These unprotected slippery roads were meant to be disastrous, And I would take my time driving slowly, yet sometime tiredness overpowers my judgement. Although I was safe, just few weeks back I heard the news of a bus packed with men women and children directly drove down a `100 m slope of these heavenly mountains. I knew it was just a matter of time that something like that would happen, as I have seen how unsafe these roads are. 22 were killed and some were saved miraculously. Meaning of life. I am not trying to scare anyone or make you anxious about the future. If you understand every second, we live on earth comes with a risk, and we saw this with the covid pandemic where we were stuck in our rooms watching death counts on "World Meter". Times are good and sunny for where you are and where I am. I had my dinner just a few hours ago and planning to sleep after I write this. But let's remind ourselves one more time, that the life is not just about making happy memories and having fun. We need to understand ourselves before it is too late and I have been trying to open up a discussion with you about this for the last few years. So, I would like to know what happened to you. I am sure you have plenty of experience about life, which are unique and different from my point of view. Thank you. Have a wonderful day.

You are lying on the floor, as the room with no fan or AC is too hot yet the ground is always cold. The best way to capture this is by lying on the floor. Yet it's not comfortable to do that as the body is not used to the hard surface. And you remember you are not sensitive as a princess in the story of Princess and pea! Floor would do just fine for a couple of nights. Yet the problem is the cockroach . Cockroach - unsplash Cockroach Habitat The floor is the habitat of the cockroach. It had been roaming free over the past few months at night when the giant monster was asleep. Yet now even when it tries to cross the room it brushes against the monster. The monster is making the cockroach a little confused. So far it had lived its little cockroach life risk free. It's a scavenger in the jungle of the room. Like a hyna for  savannahs. The giant, although it's scared, is the main source of food for the cockroach. As often it could find fallen food particles, leftovers and hiding places for it to be away during the day. Even a place to lay some eggs and bring cockroach offspring. It had two things in mind, one is to avoid danger and other is to feed itself. For the cockroach consciousness its life is precious. Which is evident by the fact it runs away in fear when the giant walks towards it. Yet, it had to take the necessary risk everyday to earth for food.  And you look at this tiny creature who climbs up your leg without even knowing that you are the giant it tries to avoid at all cost. Slightest movement will make it run away and hide in a corner for a few minutes until its fear hormones disappear and hunger hormones start to rise again. Making it a fool for the stomach. You see no purpose in its life. Collectively cockroaches might be doing favour by keeping bugs in check. Yet individual cockroaches did not matter. Just like an individual mosquito, an individual ant or individual human. An entire symbiotic biome on earth doesn't make sense as it cancels out each other. The Giant Cockroach Night. You take a moment to appreciate what you have been doing since morning. Going to work, in the office, typing line after line of code, to make a salary to buy stuff to fill your stomach with to create more fat out of nothing. How can you even born up these calories which accumulated just like your bank account. It doesn't make sense. When do you stop living a cockroach life and understand how to be. What else is there to the life other than being a cockroach and travel around your own home  called earth. And you appreciate the deed of the garage book seller bezos and his blue origin, creating an opportunity to reach space for the people who can afford this. Maybe for a day, Katy Perry and crew forgot that they are just cockroaches, when they wear space suits. Maybe they can fool all those other eight billion cockroaches to believe that they are made of different material and they are just super group of futuristic cockroaches. Then you realise the irony of the fact. Life has found a way to persist by making individuals realise that they have an autonomy. Yet you see there is no immortal material which can make  something last longer than eternity. Hence no matter how hard we try, the extension of life would still not make any sense as it's impossible. Although you haven't seen the sixth dimension of the soul, still you agree that it would be eternally boring if the millenial man baked an eternal soul. You were suddenly disturbed by the slipping sounds of the polythene bag. It seem cockroach had put himself inside a bag and was trying to get out. And you see the only way it is ever gonna do that is by going back the way it came in. And you turn back to yourself and ask, who am I? What am I doing here? Isn't it worth doing this without wasting any time at all? Thank you for reading cockroach nights

This article discusses philosophy of success and wealth. United we stand, divided we fall. - Groups Groups are everywhere. If you look at animal Kingdom there are plenty of examples. You just have to watch a couple of documentaries about killer whales. When they hunt for seal, killer whales work in groups to break the thin ice and make the poor seal fall into the water. If you look at a pack of wild dogs, they will work in a group to bring down a prey larger than any individual dog. Yet these wilder beasts cannot escape when they are bitten by 40 dogs at the same time. I do not have to give you more examples, but I can give a list of animals. Consider ants, consider fish, consider buffaloes and crows . Although there are so many solitary animals, we cannot deny that animals in groups are more futuristic than animals who live solo. Nature has cracked the code for success it seems, as groups help persistence and survival. I consider myself an introvert . And from early life chose to be isolated. I didn't want to participate in any group activity. Not voluntarily and did not try to avoid them either. Yet I had a strong belief that my values are important and that is what matters the most in the world. And that was a big mistake. If I can go back to my former self and teach something about life I would teach myself the importance of being in a group. Or more importantly why you should focus on forming groups. / Skyscraper How to build a skyscraper Let's look at some common examples. If you walk in the city, any city for that matter, you will see skyscrapers. Sometimes I look at them, stare at them and my mind goes "wooow". Isn't it incredible achievement of human beings. I often wonder how these gigantic skyscrapers were built. Was it engineering? Electricity? Steel industry? And who build them in the first place? I compared my wealth. If I collected all the money from my 8 to 5 jobs working my a** off till I die still my wealth would not be comparable to 1/50th of cost of one of the gigantic pillars of one world trade center. It made me feel pathetic and think more. And that is the truth for 99.999999 people on the planet earth. Except for Jeff Bezos. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon musk , nobody can build a skyscraper alone by their accumulated wealth. Yet I am sure these latter individuals would not do that just because they can. As they know that the way to create these enormous structures and moving marvels is by groups. Behind every skyscraper, a gigantic ship, or a monumental dam, there is a group. Sometimes we call it a government, sometimes we call it a company, sometimes we call it a Facebook community or a YouTube channel. But when we consider incredible work, except for artists, it's done by a group. You cannot have a billion dollars in your bank and go and build a skyscraper by scratch. First thing still, is you need to create a group. Construction Group Let's build a skyscraper. Now you can create a skyscraper by above method, by accumulating capital and form a group to create a one for you. Or you can go the other way. Create a group and then try to attract capital and expertise to build a skyscraper. I don't say it's going to be easy. First you will need to create some extraordinary thoughts in your head which has enormous value for something and convince a group of people to share these values. I am not sure how and why you are going to do that. I am just a philosopher. I just think helpful things for my selfish existence. Yet, side effect of this process makes me understand the rich and poor as well. I need you to do something about it. Once you formed your group and formulate its values. Let me know and convince me to join! (sell me) Let's build a skyscraper together!

I had hard time understanding art. Specially why it is so expensive. And it seem so random how one artist becomes so famous, and very expensive while someone else is struggling financially over the years. I loved art, the process of making a painting fascinates me. Not only a painting, a pottery , a statue , or even conceptual art is an special interest of mine. Consider the latter, where someone just burry worn out tyres in a row in a desert land and call it a conceptual art. How can that be? Why the bleeding robot of china looks tragic, and why some art become so expensive, like in the case of Banksy art or Jackson Pollock? An art gallary I say this incredible film sometimes back, its name slipped in my mind. Yet the story was remarkable. It was about a couple who were attracted to art, specially the women. And she had bought paintings of unknown artists over the course of her life journey and when she was dead her husband kept them at his wing. And his will determied that it should be acutioned at his death. A similar young couple seeking comfort in art, were attracted by their story and they also went to the auction. They did not have much money as there were some famous art collectors, gathered around. The value of this art collection were enormous as those artists were no longer living, and the art they created came at a time, when majority of them were not famous. At the acution, the first thing to be auctioned was a painting by the deceased man, of his wife. Obviously he was not a famous painter, and his painting was not in top class like others and demand was less. And nobody was interested in betting this one, except the young couple. They bet and won against all odds, expending a good sum of money. But here, the plot twisted, as just at the moment the art was sold, the autcion stopped and all the rest of the paintings were given to the buyer of his painting of his wife. Although other people gathered around the young man who won the bet tried to convince them to sell other paintings, he decided to keep the art collection in a museum. Birds Why art is so expensive? This story gives me a good perspective to look at why art has a monetary value. Consider the painting by the old man. It was a painting of his wife, who was his love of life. And for this old man his wife holds an enourmous value. His painting caputred his thoughts, of values in a painting, although not perfect in his mind this thought about wife is more valueble than anything else he has acquired, including all those invalueble paintings of other artists. So, it makes sense when in is will, he concluded that the one who sees the value in his painting recieves all the collection. But, as you can see, the value of an art comes from its ability to capture someones thoughts, ideas. From the time of the cave painters, humans had the ability to caputre their thoughts in paintings. Nowdays the means of caputring thoughts are diverse, from a ticktock to facebook, from a blog to photograph, you can collect these human values in form of art. If you cannot create them you can collect them. How to monetize art? There is another step, in this process of monetization of art. That is you have to convince other people to value your art. For the old man, his picture of his wife was more valueble than any other art and he conveyed the message through his will. Onces others also agree your art is valueble, then it doesn't matter you draw a stick figure or a collage. It is going to be valuable. And mind you this process of convincing others to value your art is most difficult part of an artists career. Sometimes this doesn't happen even after arist is dead, and most of them die relatively poor. Van Goh Art has no value? At this point in your mind you must go "That sounds pretty crazy, it seem that art really doesn't have any value". This is exactly my point. I can expand this saying, not only art, nothing has inherent value. It's just a relative to mind. It is true and false at the same time, the vlaue of art. And it is true to gold and Mortgage. But if more people believe in something, more physical "money" it will generate, as human values are in human thoughts, not in physical "things" like art or gold. Now I have given you something to play with. I am not sure what you will do with this wisdom. And I hope its worth and you can spread it to someone who struggle in their life. And I bet about the fact that "Philosophy will make you rich, one way or the other"

Emeralds Colombia is the largest emerald producer in the world. These green color shiny stones have enormous value when compared to stones in your backyard. Although fundamentally I see no difference I cannot magically convert thousands of people to believe in what I believe. It's a belief anyway, so Colombian emeralds will keep its value. It is a well-known fact that Colombian civil war between its left and right parties, revolves around the emeralds. Emeralds had kept the country both rich and poor at the same time. As cartels often clash with government for the power of emerald mines. It is understood as emeralds considered rarest form of gems, and the fine quality of the Colombian emeralds are not matched by any other. As an example, Duke of Devonshire emerald and Gashala emerald from Colombia had their own wiki articles as they are more important and valuable than you or me. Lol. So that is one example of a pathetic looser. But there is another and this is about philosophy of mining. Emerald I was watching a documentary on emeralds the other day about Muzo Valley mines in Colombia. Apparently now fighting are less and foreign investors are using peaceful times to make it a profitable investment. However, from time to time they give out mined earth, which is already devoid of emeralds to general public. And I have seen people gather around, waiting overnight to rush to a lump of gravel to fill their bags with, once they done that, to wash it by hand to pick up any leftover emeralds. I can compare this thing only to people who fight for a bag of rice in the cyclone battered country of Heiti. Pathetic losers, right? Real pathetic losers? Wrong! And the proof came from a girl who has been doing this emerald hunt for years. Her story was remarkable. She had been a waitress, living by herself yet participate in emerald ritual whenever there is a give out. And she doesn't shame herself for doing that. When interviewed by the documentary crew she remarkably gives a different view. She says "there is no shame in hunting for an emerald. I might or might not be lucky. But pathetic is to wake up every day to get stuck in 8 to 5 jobs without any hope of breaking out" 😕 I was taken aback by the deep philosophical nature of her saying so dedicated this article for everyone who believes in finding emeralds in their mines. Consider what it means. She is talking about risk management in life. Earthworms Emerald hunters and pathetic losers Living is a leap of faith. Whether we liked it or not we have to believe in something. And everyone is right and wrong at the same time. Consider the stock market, generally have a higher return than bond market as the risk of losing money is higher in stock. Similarly, 8 to 5 workers appear safe, but they will never break out into a rich life as they do not take any risk in life. At this point you would say, hold on a minute. I am not a gambler . I am a true Christian. I value a peaceful life and a safe heaven. I value good deeds and a family life. I would not go into arguing with you. I would just point out the fact that you must investigate where your believes come from. It's just like artificial values we give to emeralds which are not even edible but just have a bright color and persist over time. Whenever we give a value to our own thoughts we gamble. We gamble against the nature which has no meaning or value as it stays only as long as the reasons are matched, eventually to entangle ourselves in a messy life of a pathetic looser. What would you do instead, now you know the facts. Are you going to dig up a mine in your backyard or painting your pictures on walls like a Banksy? How about learning some philosophy and mindfulness with me. I can be a friend and show you some emeralds. So, there is one less pathetic looser in the world.

Extra dollars. I have been digging up about investments lately. So, my next few articles are going to be around the subject of investing. I wonder why we were never taught about this in School. Big mistake for the students of future generation. I have no doubt majority of our society would become employees in 8-4 jobs. But still, investment is a simple life skill which anyone can learn in few days. Which has potential to change your as well as everyone else's life in years to come. But this article I dedicate for the rich. What would you do with your extra dollars if you are rich ? I want you to continue reading if you are rich. If you are poor still, I would want you to read the article as one day there is a chance you would be rich. I am not sure, maybe you will step onto an Emerald or something. Life has an amazing way of turning up good into bad and bad into good. Rich Adopting a child? how about 100? The real reason for this article is a little story I read few years back. I do not know the characters of this story. But I can still remember this white young woman, smiling behind a group of children. About 100 of them. They all were smiling for the camera, and they all looked happy. It was a story, where this remarkable woman, had adopted all those children, and given them a life. The article described the biography of this young women, who was seeking a purpose in life, one day thought "I should adopt a child" and one after the other, she couldn't help herself adopting so many. I am sure there was more to the story, that she had plenty of help from some other people. Yet she had dedicated her life for these children, making their lives better. I do not even remember she is a wealthy woman or not. But what does it matter, if human consciousness holds the values , she had saved a hundred of them, so it must be the most valuable thing. And that is the reason I remember it all these years. It is difficult and marginally selfish to adopt a one child. Adopting a 100 would be selfless. This is life - Sir Nicholas Winton. This is life This is not the first time I have heard such a remarkable story of saving humans. Have you heard about Sir Nicholas Winton? It is a story about a Stockbroker and a humanitarian pre World War ii Who have saved few hundred children. And more fascinating thing is he had kept it to himself. After so many years, the children whom he had saved got together in a TV program called this is life in 1988, and appeared behind his back, and thanked him for what he has done. There is still a YouTube Video out there if you would like to watch the moment. But the important lesson for us is, it is hard. It is hard to be generous, selfless and helpful when all the forces of universe try to pull it in the opposite direction. Especially when poor, as we like to play the victim, and especially when rich, when we are blinded by the ego. Hence, let's proliferate stories like these for us to remember not to lose our sanity in search of Gold in life . So, what would you do with your extra dollars?