Borumand_M's blog

The bliss hidden in the dark!

Borumand_M — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:58:36 +0000

Life is a puzzle we all try to solve and death is when our time is up. Your eternal destiny depends on whether you are able to solve the puzzle or not. Heaven, Nirvana is for those who were able to figure out the puzzle. End of the confusion and suffering.

Darkness is a bliss. It secures consciousness from intrusion of chaos and diversion. It's a chance to tame our consciousness. Darkness can cleans the consciousness from the stream of visual noise.

Next Life by Woody Allen (plus my note!)

Borumand_M — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:06:58 +0000

The eternal affair between light and life!

Borumand_M — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:04:00 +0000

We are visual animals. Our sense of vision by far dominates all of our other senses. Day and night stand apart just because our visual sense diminishes by sunset!

Our eyes and only our eyes have partitioned time to day and night forever. Millions of years of an affair with our companion star (sun) has adapted our vision to its light and that has created the ever, day and night divide in our lives! But why is sunshine also so important in our mental health? Why the happy shining days and lonely black nights?

A nation with surplus of political pundits and poets!

Borumand_M — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:28:13 +0000

Historically we had a surplus of poets as opposed to scientists and philosophers etc.

Relax, read the sentence again before your nationalism boils your blood. I didn't say we did not have scientists I said we had too many poets.

Iranian women soar at the expense of Iranian men?!

Borumand_M — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:38:47 +0000

I am certain you also have noticed that Iranian women within last few years have been handsomely rewarded by western societies at the expense of the Iranian men! Lets take a tally. Within last 5 years Iranian women have been awarded a Nobel prize, become nominated for Oscar, traveled to space as first female tourist and were runner up to miss universe among others!

"Iranian of yesterday"!

Borumand_M — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:14:32 +0000

I have few suggestions for our friend JJ on iranian.com! First I suggest that we name not only Iranian of the day but also "Iranian of the night" and possibly "Iranian of the afternoon" and so on and so forth. Of course since the nominees are among the best and brightest we should not dare to forget their memory and should keep their memory alive by remembering them as "Iranian of yesterday", "Iranian of last Tuesday" and so on.

Is foolishness a requirement for leadership?

Borumand_M — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:42:58 +0000

Bertrand Russell the British mathematician once said:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

Here is my 2 cents:

The curse of mediocrity!

Borumand_M — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:43:16 +0000

Any popular idea or belief must be dumb or at least have a dumb version! For an average Joe to like something, subscribe to it, believe in it or pay for it, it has to be something he appreciates and can relate to. That's why Harry Potter sells for millions but Kant's "Critique of pure reason" is only read by few!

Columbia university president is a coward!

Borumand_M — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:58:26 +0000

Lets get this straight folks, the vicious, ugly attack by Columbia university president was not about saving women rights and freedom in Iran it was about saving his own job! Knowing the reaction among NYC politicians and others that we know well he was in no doubt that it would be his last day on job if he did not come out swinging at Ahmadinejad.

Deception takes a higher IQ than honesty!!

Borumand_M — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:54:04 +0000

Alan Turing in 1950 suggested that one can tell apart a computer from a human for the fact that a computer can not deceive us!

So there seems to be a fundamental divergence atleast at the individual level between intelligence and morality?! To put it bluntly, being honest is morally difficult but intelligently easy!

One wonders if in the course of evolution this gives the deceptive individuals an edge? I guess the rest is HISTORY!!

Noooo, it's Halloween again!

Borumand_M — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:53:44 +0000

For the most part we are not conscious of time flow. We don't hear the ever cruel tick tick that brings us our undoing . The kind of ignorance that is a bliss. But then there are these cyclic events that disturb our peace and serve as a reminder that hey another year just gone by and we are one step closer to the grave. Today as I was strolling in the market doing grocery shopping I saw these huge, ugly, orange pumpkins and I thought to myself "No it's Halloween again!"