Science and School of Belief: Part 1

Milk is Vital for Hair Growth: A glance at 'The Belief'

She wanted me to play with her and she ran to the playground. I followed her and entered into the playground. A kid of age 4. She started running around me with a doll in her left hand.

"Let us play a traffic game?" I asked her

"How do we play it?"

"you just have to stop when I say red and continue running when I say green"

"okay!"

She followed the rule throughout the game. But children get bored easily, so did she!

"Will you tie the hair of this doll?"

"Sure. How am I supposed to tie it? Will you guide me?"

"Yes!"

She guided me to tie the hair such that it will remain fastened for a long time.

"how the hair of this doll has been fixed to its head?" I asked her

"it's been glued to its head"

"Mhmm; How about our hair?"

"That..." she thought for a moment

"That too has glued;  glued to our head."

"But... how does it grow, if it's glued to our head?"

"It'll grow from the other end... that's all!"

"But the hair of the doll doesn't grow; why is it so?"

"It's because the doll doesn't drink milk... The hair will grow only if you drink milk."

"Really?"

"yes... I drink milk and that's why my hair grows... this doll never drinks milk."

She was so sure about her perception, or she was so sure about her faith in them who taught her that concept...

Of course! it must be her parents who taught it... ;)

Almost everyone says such imaginary tales to make children eat/drink something... I'm not trying to say it must not be done...

but

that's a way a belief develops... She will learn once that these beliefs are not true...

If an adult says the same we would think of himer either as a mentally ill person or a stupid, given that we do not expect any primitive wild human being in our civilized society.

It is certain that we won't call a primitive wild human being 'stupid' if hesher believes that hair is glued to the head... because we know, hesher is unknown about such FACTS... (like the way we will never call the child stupid for what she said... Also, we are likely to appreciate her for her extrapolated imagination and reasoning at the age of 4).

In other words, we expect the whole society to hold certain threshold of knowledge and rationalism!

Now, how do we fix a threshold? What are the measures for setting such a threshold?

Are we trying to expel the school of belief or rather learning through reasoning, making everyone more and more rational, and hence fixing the threshold.

The Love for Nature & Animals: Part 1

They're adorable; I want it...

Do you love peacocks? Would you be sad if someone says people are hunting the peacocks for their meat? How would you react if people kill them for some oil products? It's sad... and they must be punished for such a cruel action...

How about their tail feather, with the exquisite eyes?

They're adorable, aren't they? Would you miss a chance to buy them if you happen to see them in a market at a very low cost; maybe 5 or 10 rupees? Or would you mind spending your money and energy to own them, if you want to gift your beloved one who is fond of them?

What if your child won an international competition and hesher wish to wear a peacock feathered dress for the award ceremony, and the dress doesn't cost much, less than 2000 rupee; won't you choose to buy them?

It also makes one center of attraction! Look at the audience in the below image! 

You'd get them at online shops...

http://www.ebay.in/itm/271864726581?aff_source=Sok-Goog

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-Royal-Blue-Peacock-Feathers-Flower-Girl-DressesTulle-Floor-Length-Girls-Pageant-Dresses-First-Communion-Dresses/32499946299.html?spm=2114.40010308.4.34.pLygl2

Or if you want jewelry or just feathers you'd get them at different rates from online shops...

http://www.amazon.in/Natural-Feather-Pkg-Peacock-Picks-Eye/dp/B007V5ZFTS?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=4d433b7c-eddc-416d-9158-47b16ab74704

http://www.amazon.in/Natural-Peacock-Feathers-Halloween-Masquerade/dp/B00O41YM0K?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=4d433b7c-eddc-416d-9158-47b16ab74704

http://www.amazon.in/Roopak-Peacock-Feathers-Designer-Multipurpose/dp/B016YJNXD6?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=4d433b7c-eddc-416d-9158-47b16ab74704

So does the elephant tusk carvings or sculptures... they are affordable; less than 6000 rupees

http://www.amazon.in/Lucky-Elephants-Sculpture-Ivory-African/dp/B001AKCLD8

Similarly, animal skin rugs and other decorators made of animal skin are available at online shops making our life easy at owning them...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Multi-Colour-COW-HIDE-RUG-AREA-ANIMAL-SKIN-54-x-52-COWHIDE-ULG-2460-/172279386227
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Squirrel-pelt-Beautifully-soft-fresh-leather-Dressed-rodent-skin-hide-fur-animal-/200607134811
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TIGER-FAUX-FUR-RUG-ANIMAL-SKIN-PELT-RUG-3x5-NEW-/391263554372


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If you get a real polar bear skin for your winter wear at the same cost as an artificial yet realistic polar bear cloth, which would you prefer; given polar bear hunting is legal and their skin is being used for making winter wears???

All these reflect our passion for beautiful and valuable things... or do you have a different argument?

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Would you like to have a piece of Lanbaoshi of diameter 1cm for 1 rupee?
Did you just ask 'what is it?' rather than 'yes/no' ???
It's sapphire (in Chinese); Now, would you like to have a piece of it of diameter 1cm for 1 rupee?
What's your answer?

How about a random dail wedi syrthio for 1 rupee?
PS: it's a random fallen leaf (in welsh ). Do you want it at a cost, 1 rupee? ;)


Why do we value certain things over others?
Who teach us to value certain things over others?

PS: it is also observed that we want to possess things that we like/love...


(we will discuss further in the upcoming parts)

The 'Egyptian Carving' at Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Confidentiality, and Development

The famous Louvre, Paris -world's largest museum- doesn't allow flash light photography as the camera flash (of numerous visitor) is likely to damage the historic art forms, say Monalisa. So does the Met, NY and the Hermitage Museum, Russia and so on... They do allow photography without flash and video recording... Of course, the information should be open to everyone in the world. Why do we need a confidentiality in spreading information, isn't it?

But...

We often encounter confidentiality in certain places; museums, temples, and palaces etc. We are not even allowed to take a single photograph of any dashing art form... And it becomes terrible when the Archeological dept. itself is stopped from their studies, for nothing but just because of the orthodoxy of a few people.

Recently I visited Padmanabhaswamy Temple; for the first time. I never choose to go there because of several pointless restrictions. People always talked about the never ending queue and the unseen (due to the crowd) shrine of Lord Vishnu. This time, I wanted to see what was there inside the temple that no one discussed about and if it had something to tell me about the historic era...

As entered into the temple I literally was mesmerized by the architectural beauty of the corridor, and my response to that exquisite beauty was a soliloquy, why didn't I visit here before!... Well, since this is not a travelogue, I choose not to elaborate on them.

Keeping a few questions aside, like where did our ancestors get numerous granite stones, how did they transport it to that place and so on; Each of the pillars was filled with sculptures and carvings...of dancing men and women... Also, a few Hindu mythological stories were portrayed... It vividly reflected a Devadasi Culture we had in that time. Females with large breasts and narrow hips in different dance poses and males with a rather decent physique. I saw several dancing males with a beard and a very few had Chinese mustache and long hair, that was a bit different I thought...From then onwards, I began to observe them closely for more interesting details... There were a few small sculptures with wings which were similar to cupid from Greek mythology. Unlike the Greek cupid alike sculptures and Chinese mustached male dancer carving, there was a face with bulged eyes and sharp teeth on the top of each pillar, which was a lot similar to the Chinese dragon...

Finally, the most astounding carving I saw there was an Egyptian male/female... A typical Egyptian carving, with head, turned sideways and with long straight hair.

An environment of worship was unlikely in that temple. Even the shrine; it hardly looked like a shrine! There were some scripts in front of the shrine, unfortunately, I couldn't even look at it; the humble believers were 'shouting' at me for not moving forward... they were pushing aside rest of us, to reach their God! I hated the idea of God at once.

It was more than just a temple... Yet we studied nothing much about it so far. I wanted to capture those foreign art forms to have a deep investigation on them... But the senseless confidentiality prevents all of us from studying about it... Even the Archaeology dept. is  just like us in terms of opportunity...

How do we dare to expect them -Archaeology dept- to do extraordinary things when they are stopped from their first step itself, to enter and study the history about the temple?! (We can extrapolate this output, to an extent). 

I guess our Govt. still is weak rather than corrupt or bad... they still are under the control of the orthodox society... 

How do we overcome the orthodoxy of the society we live in when we are not even allowed to investigate... Whereas investigation and studies are the keys to expel orthodoxy.

Or do we still face the inevitability of a movement like the old Travancore Temple Entry proclamation? If it is inevitable why and what we are waiting for?