A Stubborn Show

What is it about authority that most people will shudder from taking but these same people will be the ones to criticise ? Is it the added task of management or chores that one feels are unnecessary ? If I state my mother's point of view for not accepting authority it would be that it deviates one from the actual reason for which one was there, I.e. to study in my case. So anyways when I was asked if I would be the president I ofcourse took it cause chances like these don't really come often. And so it happened that  it was the first day in college and I was the president of the class. (Just a fancy name for class monitor.) I was chosen and given that designation primarily because I was one of the first students to arrive amongst my batch. It took about a months time for the whole batch to arrive and during this period it was common knowledge that the administration had selected me as the president. And during this time I came to know of several people who raised concer...

Disclaimer: This is not my original train of thought I have to admit, it came as a result of watching Christopher Hitchens debate with a creationist. Occams Razor This principle states that amongst the given hypothesis, the one that has the least number of assumptions should be the more favoured one. I was intrigued when I heard this and went on to read more on about it. The philosophical principle was stated by a Franciscan Friar, (a Catholic priest if i have to .reduce it for the sake of simplicity.) When I spoke about it to my friend, we indulged in a small discussion and she said that More often than not we know a lot of things but we don't really apply it to most of the things So I asked what if we apply this to religion The application of this principle could mean either of the two following things. 1. We should scrutinize all religions and discard all but one. 2. We should not allow religions at all as most of them are deistic ones, who believe in Intelli...

I can see the sunrise from where I sit while you might not have that pleasure anymore. You might not even be present anymore except for the particles you were disintegrated into. But yet I'm sure you are there somewhere if at all just as a memory in my head. You will live on as long as I do and when I perish I assure you your memory will pass on. I can see the sun taking a pivotal place as I type this but its not the same I once seen.