But… if everything has already happened, then it follows that I am Powerless to change my future. Is this predestination ?

No! Don’t buy into that! That is not true. In fact, this “Set Up” should serve you, not disserve you!

You are always at a place of free will and total choice. Being able to see into the “future” (or get others to do it for you) should enhance your ability to live the life you want, not limit it…

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But how can I avoid that which has already happened ?

 It has not happened to you – yet! You are at a place in the Space-Time Continuum where you are not consciously aware of the occurrence. You do not “know” it has “happened”. You have not “remembered” your future! (This forgetfulness is the secret of all time. It is what makes it possible for you to “play” the great game of life! I’ll explain later!)

<p What you do not “know” is not “so” Since “you” do not “remember” your future, it has not “happened” to “you” yet! A thing “happens” only when it is “experienced”. A thing is “experienced” only when it is “known”.

Now let’s say you’ve been blessed with a brief glimpse, a split-second “knowing” of your “future”. What’s happened is that  your spirit – the nonphysical part of you-has simply sped to another place on the Space-Time Continuum and brought back some residual energy-some images or impressions-of that moment or event.

These you can “feel” or “see” these images and energies that are swirling about you.

If you don’t like what you “sense” about your “future”, step away from that! Just step away from it! In that instant you can change your experience-and every one of you breathes a sigh of relief!

Wait a minute! Whoa—?

You must know-you are now ready to be told-that you exist at every level of the Space-Time Continuum simultaneously.

That is, your soul Always was, Always Is, and Always Will Be – World without end – Amen..

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It is all contained in a single truth:

THERE IS ONLY ONE OF US.

– excerpt from “Conversations With God” by Neale Donald Walsch

I saw him with a “So what?” look… He opened the file and showed the 12^th grade mark sheets of his son and some identification proofs, and this guy has scored 1150/1200 and the man continued that now he needs to pay Rs.11,500 but couldn’t afford the amount!!!

For a moment I thought this is yet another phony trick, but when I looked deep into this guy… for some reason I happened to see myself few years back… during my B.Tech days at coimbatore … standing in front of my CC’s office for a default of 750 rupees for a monthly 1500 fee! That’s when life had twisted me up side down and pushed me to the edges and happened to see all the faces of humans… I was very young and immature those days.

That month I had to pick up a 2^nd part time job on the same month, where the 1^st job gave me just 750 bucks!! Though these days I earn x times more than that, even a single rupee was very valuable those days… and that’s when I learnt how a one rupee can make a lot of difference. I also learnt that dinner could be finished in 1 rupee… And that’s when life teached me money definitely matters than human values!! And that’s the same time I started to disrespect money!!

Now I see someone in front of me in a similar state!!!! I didn’t think much about fraud and gave them some money and immediately the old man asked “do you…… have any…… old clothes……?” by then, I could see some tears and his eyes filled with inability as a father!!! I gave them that I could give…

Finally the old man blessed and went to the next flat.

Hmm… I dunno why… but I see lots of different people these days with entirely different perceptions towards life…these days…

Yep, I’ve to admin I was disturbed a bit… 

Paradox! Paradox! Paradox… world…

“I, for one, will never believe

 That god plays dice with the universe…”

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“Come on, what could happen? So you die a little…”

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
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Against the use of nature.”

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This view is confirmed by the fact that we only feel images to be “unreal” when we already

know them to be images. Images cannot be defined by the feeling of unreality, because when we falsely believe an image to be a sensation, as in the case of dreams, it feels just as real as if it were a sensation. Our feeling of unreality results from our having already realized that we are dealing with an image. As soon as an image begins to deceive us as to its status, it also deceives us as to its correlations, which are what we mean by its “reality”.

Stout  (loc. Cit., p.127) cites: “One characteristic mark of what we agree in calling sensation is its mode of production. It is caused by what we call a stimulus. A stimulus is always some condition external to the nervous system itself and operating upon it.”

“Most of our judgments of perception involve correlations, as when we judge that a certain noise is that of a passing cart. Such judgments are all obviously liable to error, since there is no correlation of which we have a right to be certain that it is invariable.”

Excerpt from “Sensations and Images”

“The Analysis of Mind” by Bertrand Russell

Life is getting better these days, living in a small beautiful American town with no hypes. The day I came here, everything was like a haunted ghostly snowy town, as the spring sprung… somebody has swished the magic wand… the whole place became beautiful in a week… somehow felt that I always don’t look the beauty that’s around me…

People here are good, professionals and lives life without any hypocrisy. They speak straight… The team i’m working with likes the indian food a lot, but for some reason i always hesitate to go to a indian restaurant, because i don’t want to forget the indian taste. May be these restaurants should be renames as Indo-American restaurants, as the food here is cooked for americans and sadly not for indians. We cannot blame them when pizza hut in india sells tandoori pizzas and desi pizzas…

once when i felt bored with indian food, madhuri cooked  good indian food and reminded me of the indian taste.

Also met prabha after a long time… one good soul i wanted to meet in US of A. we planned for the tulip show at holand, but missed the trip due to rain.

Slowly mingling with the American crowd… learning poker, mountain biking, golf during weekends… there are amazing trails in short drive… also learning to cook fudges, American, Thai cuisine and of course slowly honing my amateur photographic skills…

Some Photographs of Michigan at http://www.logukrishnan.net/photos/michigan

Happened to watch I.Q. again after a long time… Good Stress Buster

Some dialogues of “Albert Einstein” & others…

“I, for one, will never believe

 That god plays dice with the universe…

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But the uncertainty principle postulates…

A universe of chaos, where everything happens merely by a chance”

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“Come on, what could happen? So you die a little…”

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“Look at it in an entirely different perspective…. Question Everything…”

Note: If you are bit more interested in lectures, you may find this interesting

http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html  

http://www.eequalsmcsquared.auckland.ac.nz/sites/emc2/tl/philosophy/dice.cfm

You Call it barbarism… I Call it Life…
You Call it Life… I Call it Endurance…
You Call it Endurance… I Call it Destiny…
You Call it Destiny… I Call it Love…

Note: For the first time in recent past i heard a applause in the cinema hall at the end of the movie…a big applause…