Its not about being anti women/girls or any thing. Just simple things like make up, chatting, dressing, being late, etc etc that you find annoying?Just curious.

I am mysteriously drawn to monks, Rishis and sadhus. I haven't met any in real life and wanted to know what kind of persons are they. Do they talk and tell you something? Are they mysterious and have unknown powers? I am so consumed with curiosity about them I actually want to go to Himalayas to find them and talk to them and learn from them.

I personally prefer Quora. It has a neat interface that makes reading/writing/asking/ answering / contributing fun, uncomplicated rules that anyone can follow and one can learn something new everyday. Which one is your favourite site and why?

What was people's reaction? Did they feel insulted or began laughing? I was once quarrelling-petty with someone and out of the blue started saying 'you two headed frog', 'You red onion' and some more totally senseless words like that. That person stopped short and then broke out laughing so hard that we gave up fighting and went to Starbucks to share more of this funny thing.

I loved Jane Eyre so much I read it 35 times, and every time I derived the same pleasure from reading it. Just wondered if others also re-read their favourite books like crazy.

When intelligence stops being intelligent

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A very interesting phenomena has been gripping humans inch by inch since a few decades, but appears now to be reaching an alarming crescendo.

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Funny, just when AI is becoming smarter than us, we should be questioning our intelligence. But, this isn’t a debate about whether we are better or worse, or more or less intelligent than AI or our ancestors. It is about us learning deliberate, systematic, rapid, purposeful, alarming disguised idiocy, and intelligently devised unsubstantial nonsense.

Fact check: Society is not a stand alone entity, but made up by us collectively. We are dependent on society to make us who we are, and we in turn shape the society to what it is. We both exert tremedous dynamic pressures, imprints, and influences on each other. So, if we want to blame our society we are ourselves to blame, and vice versa.

The points listed below are alarming signs that we are pro-actively learning how to be idiots. (But we do it so intelligently that it’s hard to tell if we are being dumb or smart.)

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1. A 10 second post with jiggling breasts gets millions of viewership, shares and likes. A post with scientific discovery/ truth/ fact/ theory/invention gets barely noticed. The one jiggling and posting, the millions and billions watching, the ones not interested in real truth…How would you categorise them according to their brilliance? Go on. Think.
2. Few people are interested in brainy stuff, yet everyone wants to be a genius.
3. 90% (or more) of voters get easily led by false political promises. Term after term. Year after year! In every country! In every corner of the globe!
4. A young beautiful face atop a curvy body, or just a pair of boobs has 99.99% more potential of attracting people than a high IQ, or a project worth decades of hard work, research, experiment, discovery and investment.
5. Every politician, every business, every celebrity is able to effortlessly swing and sway the masses with seemingly transparent lies.  and they are worshipped for it!
6. We are more easily led by looks and appearances than by reason and logic; More by empty promises, pretty lies, prettier taglines, price-tags, designer brands, shiny logos, and glossy magazine covers than researched thoughts and concrete facts.
7. Money, sex, glamour, success, status and fame are any day more attractive than character, intelligence, virtue, ideals, morals, strengths, reason and wisdom.
8. We willingly leap into any shit hole to achieve those goals, and feel proud of the stench that sticks to our soul till our dying breaths.
9. We share our intimate stories with the world with more focus on gaining our two minutes of fame than actual healing.  Many won’t know what’s the difference between the two. Even less will be able to tell if it is intelligent or idiotic…
10. Washing dirty laundry in public is the grand staircase to fame. Oh, and it is not called dirty anymore. It’s instant success strategy through desire to share.  And we humans have insatiable appetite for dirt, filth, sick, stink, rot, gore, botch, fester, abnormal. The dirtier and crazier, the better. Why else do you think psychological thrillers and scandals are always so popular?
11. We are encouraged ‘not to regret anything’. ‘Not regretting’ means freeing oneself from guilt, trauma and harmful self blame. It does NOT mean consciously doing wrong and happily not regretting because we have been told to not regret.  Again, many don’t know the difference…
12. We don’t compare ourselves with others and we don’t judge. Except that we do. Very much so. Constantly. Every minute. Every second. All our lives. And then we tell ourselves and others: we don’t compare and don’t judge believing that’s the truth.
13. We live in toxic denialism but proudly believe it is positive acceptance!
14. We are told to live in the present and enjoy life to the hilt, like there’s no tomorrow. Agreed. Living in the moment is necessary for happiness. But, not thinking, acting and planning for future only guarantees more unhappiness. Can’t living in the moment and carefully planning for future happen simultaneously?
15. We are encouraged to think ‘it is not our fault’. So we happily pin the fault on to anybody and don’t regret anything, and wonder why we grow into a disoriented, directionless, misguided, demotivated, depressed, empty hollow shell of a being we call human. And we don’t regret and pile the blame on to everyone else and bury ourselves in cheap pleasures enjoying our current moment. And so the cycle goes on…
16. Social media is bursting at seams while books and libraries are struggling to stay afloat. Give them another few years and they’ll be extinct. Ironically, more books are published today than ever before, there are more authors and writers today than ever before, and fewer books are read today than ever before.
17. A pack of newly launched chocolate, sauce or drink sells insanely faster than a book about Economics, Math, science, research finding, ideas, innovation or Philosophy.
18. Informed and educated social guidance is miniscule. Writers, authors, thinkers, teachers, professors, scientists, philosophers, social critics, reformers, inventors, innovators have to struggle to make their voice heard. Or believed. Or followed. But fashion influencers keep erecting their armies and keep getting lapped up. World can’t seem to get enough of them..!
19. Critical thinking, intellectual probing, soul searching, raising questions is much less valued and practiced. But hacks to appear intelligent/ rich/ beautiful, becoming famous overnight are hot and trendy. The first hack on the list is deliberate leaking of sex-tapes by misatke.
20. Art, Literature, makeup, and Fashion have become highly advanced which is brilliant. But look what we are doing with them! We are producing art that future archeologists will have trouble differentiating from junk and rubbish, and we are fashion-dressing our men like women, baby girls like women, and women like nudes, animals, witches, demons, aliens and monsters.
21. Modern Literature is far from inspiring, thought provoking, rewarding, life-changing, eye-opening, soul-stirring, mentoring, guiding or liberating. Oh, but they convince us, it is!
22. We take serious, soul-shattering, teary, PTSD-causing-offence at every feather touch. Meanwhile, people keep dying in wars and billionaire-dens to which we are acquiring a fast immunity. Harveys and Epsteins don’t shock us anymore. Worse: We condemn them alright, but give us the opportunity and many of us won’t mind being exactly like them ourselves.
23. We blame everyone (except ourselves), from our boss, neighbourhood, city council, government and policies to god, hormones, work stress and pollution for all our problems, while blithely sharing social media posts about improving our lives and watching Tiktok videos about manifesting happiness.  About 60% or more are manifesting crisp fat Dollars and rich hot girlfriends/boyfriends this minute.
24. We repeat thousand times a day ‘Be positive’ while feeling, believing, conveying and responding grossly negative. We strongly believe saying ‘Be positive’ will do the trick and think saying ‘manifesting’ is the ‘Open sesame’ code for it.
25. We lay more emphasis on short cuts, material gains, superficiality and hollow goals than substance, inner growth and long term aims although the internet is over-flowing with both in equal measure.
26. We worry more about having a flat stomach, perky boobs, pouty lips, and six packs than having a worry-free heart or a burden-free soul. Oh, many feel convinced having a perfect model-type body is the gateway to worry-free heart and burden-free soul and a purse full of cash which is much more.
27. Film/pop celebrities, teens and social media are our all-time-social gurus, inspirational role models and moral teachers. The weirder, the better, the more popular.
28. Villains are heros. Idiocy is humour. Nonsense is entertainment. Bad publicity is intelligent publicity.
29. Having a dark past/present is glorified and glamourised. And emulated with full respect! The difference between acceptance and monetising is not so well understood.
30. Many successful careers start after going to jail, getting caught red-handed by the police, being accused of a crime or leaking sex tapes.
31. Bad is cool, good is boring, trending is everything.
32. Everyone knows about Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga. But very few know who are HJ Kim, Francisco Matorras, Luciano Floridi, David Chalmers, or Martha Nussbaum.
33. Highschool graduates, desperate side-hustlers and frustrated people advise us on how to become an expert in relationships, how to win in life or win our love and attain Nirvana even if they don’t know what Nirvana actually is!
34. Becoming rich, beautiful and famous is everyone’s only dream worth living for, only ambition in life worth dying for, only target worth working hard for. Wanting to be rich, beautiful and famous does not mean being an idiot — but all that we do to become that overlaps intelligence and idiocy till they both merge into one another.
35. We have appetite only for two things: money and sex. Big money and big sex. Nothing ever comes close. We will willingly cross any limit, climb any mountain, fall in any pit, break any rule, any law, any obstacle for these two.
36. If it has sex in it, it sells. So we put it into everything and sell. And, we look for it everywhere and buy.  So, we’re stupid if we do it, and we’re stupid if we don’t.
37. We crazily want to be rich, but crazily hate the rich and still admire, envy and copy them, while we pull them down to stomp on them.  Same with intelligence. We want to be genius ourselves but hate those who are.
38. Our young beautiful faces and bodies today are artificially enhanced and surgically carved. XXXL eyelashes, XXXL lips, XXXL breasts and butts and XXXS waist are the dreams we men and women both are ready to die for.
39. Porn, escort services and escort tourism, is one of the biggest and most successful thriving industry. Many young people voluntarily opt to become porn stars, escorts and voluntary (Oh, I had no idea it was something else; they say.) sex slaves. Then they throng on media to share their ordeals as a helpful warning for others. There was a famous story going viral a while ago of girls being recruited as sex slaves for money, and another of girls willingly consuming faecal matter for weeks for big money.
40. Getting what we want by hook or crook, then playing the victim card is one of the secret-most open secret, cleverest revenge, fastest career launching strategy, and no body wonders if we say how (idiotically) naive and terrified we were.
41. Even the most expensive and most advanced tech object, such as a house or a car or an airline ((idiotically)) needs a provocative model to advertise and sell it.
42. We buy everything and we sell everything. Objects, dreams, time, love, sex, spouse, children, health, god, paradise, soul, life, death….everything. And we call it clever business!
43. Men will ((idiotically)) offer or ((idiotically)) surrender everything on earth for a female favour, and females everything on earth for a compliment or a Like. And money.
44. A 10 second advertisement has ((idiotically)) more power to influence and guide us than a scientist, philosopher or guide. The same with films and television soaps. Entertainment is our sublime Guru, soulmate and mainstay and we are its most loyal ((idiotic)) followers. Socrates, Jesus or Buddha stand no chance if they were born today.
45. Our greatest, hottest, keenest, sincerest, undying inspiration is:  how to stay young and beautiful, how to reduce weight and become slim,  how to live longer,  how to become a billionaire,  how to be successful in life, and  how to reach the top of wherever you are.  Oh! And how to become a genius!

By now you probably know there is no end to this list.

This is not to say that society, beauty, body or ambition is up against brains or the spirit of being human; Just that we are consciously dumbing our selves into being cheap and dumb and rejecting superior intelligence, higher goals and meaningful living for unsubstantial, worthless, pointless, short term gains that feed our social hunger but eat us from inside out, starving our soul.

And, we are doing it so brilliantly that at times it is hard to tell if we are being smart or just plain idiots.

And, this is where intelligence stops being intelligence..!

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The way our society functions, we are turning ourselves into brilliant idiots. We’re deemed smart, powerful, successful and happy but in the process to achieve that we ignore our soul. However, if we care for the soul, we are quickly labelled as stupid, dumb, mad, ridiculous, unsuccessful, and problematic.

So, it is either feed the soul and forget the society, or forget the soul and feed the society. It isn’t possible to feed them both at the same time. And it won’t be worth it even if it were…!

But that’s just my opinion. Thanks for reading.

Note: I write my own posts, not AI.

Caution: If topic of death depresses you, please don’t read this post as it might distress you. The OP asked for it and let’s admit it is the bitterest truth whether we like it or not.

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1. Not matter what we do, how much we love, how much we resist, everything ends.
2. We may be poor or rich, lucky or unlucky, happy or miserable, wise or fool, loved or unloved, we will die one day and nothing will help us against it — not our wealth, not our wisdom, not our luck and not our love.
3. No matter how much we love our family, our children, our friends, our house, our world, our career, our achievements, we will have to leave them all behind one day.
4. No matter how much name, fame, and money we have achieved or will have achieved in life, it will mean nothing to us when we die.
5. Our love, respect, honour, name and fame means nothing to us once we are dead; If it means a lot to others even that means nothing to us. Think about Michael Jackson (and all those high and mighty, popular, loved people you can think about right now.) for instance. When he died he died and all our love for him cannot do anything for him, and he isn’t there to care…
6. They say legends live on, bloodlines live on, history lives on — true. They just don’t live on for us when we’re dead. When we’re dead, we’re dead. End of the story.
7. No matter how large a family we have, how many friends and near and dear ones, no matter how inseparable we are, when we die we go alone. The love of entire world cannot come with us, and we can taking nothing and no-one with us.
8. And when we die, nothing stops. The world goes on. Life goes on. Our loved ones forget us sooner than we hope.
9. The things we fought for tooth and nail, the things we cried for, laughed at, aimed for, strove and sold our soul, matters nothing on our death bed. Nothing. Kings leave their dynasties as beggars leave their wretched rags.
10. We know we will die one day. We just conveniently forget it. Wisdom says remembering that we will die soon transforms our outlook and approach to most petty/worldly things in a remarkable way. (However, this ancient ideology is not suitable in modern days for everyone; there may be many who will die just by the thought of it.)

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-Emit Eht

And this is the bitterest truth: Even when we know nothing matters in the end, we spend our each living moment fighting for it as if it does.

We can’t live without fighting for it, and we kill ourselves fighting for it. We prepare ourselves for everything — we just never prepare ourselves for death except buying insurance and drafting our will.

But that’s just my opinion. Thanks for reading.

Note: I write my posts, not AI.

Caution: If topic of death depresses you, please don’t read this post as it might distress you. The OP asked for it and let’s admit it is the bitterest truth whether we like it or not.

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1. Not matter what we do, how much we love, how much we resist, everything ends.
2. We may be poor or rich, lucky or unlucky, happy or miserable, wise or fool, loved or unloved, we will die one day and nothing will help us against it — not our wealth, not our wisdom, not our luck and not our love.
3. No matter how much we love our family, our children, our friends, our house, our world, our career, our achievements, we will have to leave them all behind one day.
4. No matter how much name, fame, and money we have achieved or will have achieved in life, it will mean nothing to us when we die.
5. Our love, respect, honour, name and fame means nothing to us once we are dead; If it means a lot to others even that means nothing to us. Think about Michael Jackson (and all those high and mighty, popular, loved people you can think about right now.) for instance. When he died he died and all our love for him cannot do anything for him, and he isn’t there to care…
6. They say legends live on, bloodlines live on, history lives on — true. They just don’t live on for us when we’re dead. When we’re dead, we’re dead. End of the story.
7. No matter how large a family we have, how many friends and near and dear ones, no matter how inseparable we are, when we die we go alone. The love of entire world cannot come with us, and we can taking nothing and no-one with us.
8. And when we die, nothing stops. The world goes on. Life goes on. Our loved ones forget us sooner than we hope.
9. The things we fought for tooth and nail, the things we cried for, laughed at, aimed for, strove and sold our soul, matters nothing on our death bed. Nothing. Kings leave their dynasties as beggars leave their wretched rags.
10. We know we will die one day. We just conveniently forget it. Wisdom says remembering that we will die soon transforms our outlook and approach to most petty/worldly things in a remarkable way. (However, this ancient ideology is not suitable in modern days for everyone; there may be many who will die just by the thought of it.)

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-Emit Eht

And this is the bitterest truth: Even when we know nothing matters in the end, we spend our each living moment fighting for it as if it does.

We can’t live without fighting for it, and we kill ourselves fighting for it. We prepare ourselves for everything — we just never prepare ourselves for death except buying insurance and drafting our will.

But that’s just my opinion. Thanks for reading.

We grow up fantasising about true love which we think we’ll meet round the corner when we’re sixteen years old. We feel so sure we’ll look into that sweet warm face and we will have found our soulmate, to be together forever till we die. That’s how we have been conditioned by media to think about love only in a certain way which may or may not not always be true.

True love exists. It is just not how we are used to finding it in films and on pretty Instagram posts.

Modern concept of 'love' focuses rather heavily on physical and visual aspect than the hidden, subtle, spiritual, soul aspect. It often forces us to chase a fabricated myth that sabotages actual human connection.

1. Love is not chocolates, roses, teddy bears, heart shapes, or candles-light dinners. Chocolates and roses are at best convenience easy demonstrative gestures. Candle-light dinners are an attempt at kindling romantic ambiance. If there’s no love no amount of ambiance and candles or chocolates or roses or teddy bears will do anything.
2. Love is not saying ‘I love you’. It is about feeling without words ‘I love you.’ More and more people say ‘I love you.’ in many varied ways hundreds of times a day without meaning them. People who cheat and kill their partners also say ‘I love you.’
3. Saying ‘I love you’ is not magical, divine, sublime, mantra, ‘fix-all recipe or computer ‘enter’ command. Feeling ‘I love you’ is. Many people mistake the first for the second.
4. **Love is not ‘never missing birthdays, anniversaries, and Valentine’s days.**Nor is remembering them a test of true love.  That is what only serials, movies, restaurants, gifts and flower businesses manipulate you to think.
5. Love is not ‘Always being together, hand in hand. It is possible to have different personalities and so different needs for personal space and time. That doesn’t mean you love less. It just means you love differently.
6. Love is not ‘being two bodies one soul’. First, this concept is flawed; technically, there can’t be one soul in two bodies. Second, what’s wrong with being two bodies and two souls? If you love, you love, and if it is true love it is true love regardless of body and soul equation.
7. Love is not always ‘love at first sight’. Love takes time to grow, to take roots, to ripen and to bloom, to mature. Rome wasn’t built in a day, God didn’t create earth in 1 day, plants don’t grow in one day either. All good things take time. Be patient with love.  Love can also be ‘hate/despise/dislike/annoyed/pissed off/weird/don’t know/don’t want’ at first sight.
8. True love is not always obvious. In fact, it may lie hidden, not apparent, under the surface for a long time. Even for many years…
9. Love does not mean ‘staring in each other’s eyes and finding themselves in each other.’
10. Love is not being forever together and being inseparable from each other.  It is possible to be far apart from each other and still be in love. It is possible to separate and still be in love. Our society and legal system doesn’t have name for it.
11. Love is not always ‘I will love you till I die’.  Love can have a shelf life. It can expire before we die. Though it really is ‘spanning several birth if we consider ‘secrets of After-life, where souls continue together for several lives in various forms.’
12. Love is not always ‘being soulmates’, ‘I can’t live without you’, ‘I will die without you’.  Nobody can die out of love alone. If there were at all truth in this there wouldn’t be so many single people. There wouldn’t be so many separations, divorces, heartbreaks and cheatings. There are people who don’t die after separation but they love truly. Dying after separation should not be expected/desired as a test of true love.
13. Love is not ‘Never fighting, never having differences, or being just perfect’.  Fights and differences are healthy and natural for love to grow at its own pace without damaging the other. Fighting doesn’t mean one doesn’t love.
14. True love may not always be perfect and flawless. True love is true love; it can have its own set of challenges, hardships, strifes, U-turns, trials and errors. It does not have to be perfect like a straight highway. Wishing for a perfect true love is setting up oneself for disasters and disappointments.
15. Love may not always move mountains and raise people from the dead, and it is okay.
16. **Everybody does not find true love and that’s not the end of the world.**Love is one of the most beautiful things to have, but not having it is not an accursed, plagued, stinky misfortune.
17. Love is not a heart stopping, life-halting, soul-splitting, fire-raining, God-summoning thing. It is a big deal but mostly it is not such a big deal as we make it out to be.
18. At the end of the day the truest love is caring for each other no matter what, and being happy with their happiness. Love is fighting, arguing, but still caring, having differences but still not wanting to change, not the best in the world but the best in their world, in love with their heart, soul and mind, not their body, looks or money. Love means being there for them. True love is unconditional.
19. True love increases with age. It gets deeper, wider, higher, calmer, freer, more confident, more roomy and more space-giving. Think of it like cycling: the start is tricky but once you attain your balance you can glide and cruise easily without much effort. Attaining the balance and knowing the trick is the biggest trick.
20. life is not useless without love as all romantic films will have you believe. Life is not impossible and miserable and tragedy to live without love. With love, it certainly becomes happier and easier.

But that’s just my opinion. Thanks for reading.

Note: I write my own posts, not AI.

Ratna Srivastava 

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