Reasons to love.

The day i will find out reasons to love,i'm pretty sure i'll love no more.

Women and appearance.

Well when it comes to women,i 've to admit i don't have much to offer.But from time to time i have brief encounters with women in my life.These brief experiences have made me certain about one fact that most of the women ( if not all) take appearance as reality and reality as mere appearance. :P

Cool Hand Luke and Existenialism.

Existentialism has been part of literature and movies ever since it was popularized by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and other French Philosophers.I've seen many movies which can be interpreted as having existentialist or postmodernist (Nihilistic) tendencies. I myself can't stand movies having nihilistic themes such as 'Pulp Fiction',although these movies have been quite a success at the big screen and no body feels reluctant to call them 'Blockbuster'.
Existentialism on the other hand is not as hopeless a philosophy (If you consider it a philosophy) as Nihilism.Existentialism in a nutshell is philosophy 'individualized'.Its emphasis on human freedom and liberty is such that it has attracted many creative writers and film makers.The influence of existentialism spreads beyond the realm of philosophy.
'Cool Hand Luke',staring one of my favorite actors Paul Newman stands up as a movie which can surely belong to existential genre.The movie surrounds around one man's defiance against authority .The protagonist from start of the movie till its end ,struggles to get himself free.The problem with the most of the people is that they give up pretty quickly but the problem with our hero is that he never gives up.He can be described as a person who consciously makes all those efforts to get himself free,but is unconsciously aware about his futile efforts.Any person who have special affinity towards 'Existentialism' must see this masterpiece.Had Sartre reviewed this movie he would only have used one sentence to end it all,the sentence would surely have been ,'Man is condemned to be free'.But I will end my review with the tag line of the movie,'What we've got here is a failure to communicate'.



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Living according to Nature.

Aphoristic work at its best,i must admit the quality of Nietzsche's prose is dazzling and without a shadow of doubt, second to none.Here he speaks about nature and 'living according to nature'.

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble
Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like
Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without
purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once
fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves
INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with
such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavouring to be
otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring,
being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And
granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means
actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do
DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you
yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite
otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the
canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the
contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In
your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature,
to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist
that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like
everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal
glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for
truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and
with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to
say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise--
and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you
the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over
yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow
herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of
Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what
happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as
soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always
creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise;
philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual
Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to
the causa prima.

(Beyond Good and Evil)

Iqbal and God.

In 1931 Atiya Faizy (Lou Salome of Iqbal's life) arranged a tea party for Allama Iqbal in Mumbai.The party was attended by many intellectuals of India,during the party discussion turned to 'Afterlife' and the concept of immortality.Many people didn't agree with Iqbal's orthodox position on 'immortal life'.Allama came up with one of his beautiful shair.He said

'CHNAAN BEZI KEI AGAR MARAG MAAST MARG DOWAAM
KHUDAA ZIKERDOU KHUD SHERUMSAAAR TER GARDOU

Soon Iqbal realized that not many of the people in the party understood persian ,he translated his shair on demand.It goes something like that,

Live So beautifully
That if death is the end of all
God himself may be put to shame
For having ended thy career


Beautiful!

My Religion.

I remember when one of my mates recently asked me about my religion,i reluctantly replied that I'm a muslim.He asked me about my sect(which i suppose is always an essential question in our part of the world),i instantly replied , "Actually i'm a teleological existential muslim".(Woody Allen will surely call me a phony) .Lol!

Philosophy of the saint!

Nietzsche trivialised philosophy in a peculiarly philosophical way.

Common sense.

"Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit."- Unknown author

Psychology.

At times it feels like that there can be an end to philosophy ,but there can be no end to psychology.
If we confine philosophy to human reasoning,then the limits of reasons can be exposed.In contrast, if desires are considered part of human psyche then is there any limit that can be imposed?

My Philosophy .

What is philosophy to me,other than talking to myself.

Satan and Tauheed!

The Sufi says that one must learn the lesson of tauheed from satan as he refused to bow down towards Adam. :D

God!

It seems like that i have a 'love\hate' relationship with God,i love him and he hates me.

Unrequited love.

Love in its highest manifestations is always 'unrequited'.

Enigmatic 'Self'!

My own self became too enigmatic to decipher,the day other people started to appear naive to me.

Boredom.

Boredom makes us realize that we 'exist',or should i say we 'suffer'.

Poem by E.E.Cummings

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers
you open always petal by petal myself as spring opens
(touching skilfully, misteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i
and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending,

nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility; whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain has such small hands

Introvert nature.

Ever since my childhood, some people misinterpret my introvert nature as arrogance.

Reluctant Bohemian.

I confess i'm a reluctant bohemian.
A bohemian is a person who refuses to follow conventions of the society.But in todays postmodern world it is an established convention that one must not follow conventions.Yet another darkside of postmodernism.

Instinctive gratification.

One of my friends is of the view that 'instinctive gratification' leads the way to happiness.
How can it leads to happiness when our instincts are at a continues war with each other?
One satisfies one instinct just to annoy another.

Anxiety.

They say thoughts and feelings that remain unexpressed cause anxiety.
Artists are always expressive, way expressive than normal people of society yet they suffer from anxiety more than anyone else.

Dil-e-Nadan!

Dil-e-Nadan ab tu tugh ko yehi baawer kerana hei
Jisey tum yaad kertey hu,usey ab bool jana hei



(Ata-ul-Haq Qasimi)

Lonely.

Its true that i am intellectually more productive when blue and lonely.

Heidegger and Dostoyevsky.

Heidegger once said, 'People who think great thoughts often make great errors'.
This statement represents truth nothing but the truth.It not only applies to Heidegger himself(Being a Nazi) but many other intellectuals (Sartre for his marxism,Russell for his aggressive remarks about USSR,Nietzsche for his uncompromising attitude which intially helped him to get rid off all delusions but eventually led to his insanity,Dostoyevsky for weak christian endings etc).


So after reading Heidegger, i have come to understand the true meaning of Dostoyevsky's statement in his great work 'The Brothers Karamazov'.He said,'In most cases vicious and intelligent people are much more naive and simple minded than we assume them to be'.

Its no wonder why Niezsche regarded Dostoyevsky of having penetrating knowledge of human psycology.

Logic and instincts.

I have changed my view to some extent about this topic lately,logic isn't a foe of instincts but represents its successful unison.Santayana was probably right about this assertion.

Who can fall in love?

A friend of mine told me something strange he has read about love in a book.He told me that

'No one can fall in love unless they read about it'.


what a delightful thought!

Death.

Death is the cause of philosophy,literature,religion, and God.
I used to think that a life without death would have been a life devoid of meaning,but lately i have come to realize that such existence would have included essence.Such a life would have been cuasa sui.

Philosophy.

Defining philosophy has never been an easy task.Some have called it 'Love of knowledge'.If one asks the question about its subject matter,my answer will be that Philosophy sees reality as a whole and is its 'own' subject matter.

But for me philosophy is looking at things in a different way every time.

What is love?

Love is all of the desires focused at one point.