The 31st G8 summit was held in Scotland sometime in 2005. One of the issues discussed was world poverty. Over 225,000 people took to the street in Edinburgh, calling on the world leaders at the summit to ‘Make Poverty History’. Live 8, a concert organized coinciding with the g8 summit, was a call for attention …
This year’s nobel peace prize was awarded to IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei its General Secretary. Rosa Parks, the pioneer of the american civil rights movement died yesterday. These two events, unrelated, got me rethinking about a question that had been nagging me for a long time, but had never found the answer to, viz. “Why …
Ravages‘ post about god and religion (trackbacked to my previous post) has attracted a lot of debate. The one most interesting to me was about logic. It is amusing how engineering, scientists swear by logic like it was the holy grail of truth and knowledge. I used to be one of them, till I read …
After writing abt my experience with preachers in the previous post, I kinda figured it would make sense if I wrote about what I think of organized religion. At the risk of pissing people off, I am being candid here. I use the term ‘organized religion’ in the same tenor as ‘organized crime’. There is …
