Whenever I look at photos of buildings in Iraq, Libya, Syria turned into lifeless rubble, I feel sad and angry

Sad and angry because I know that America has destroyed these countries – Iraq, Libya and Syria. America – for its endless lust for oil and dollars and contracts and power and hegemony – has bombed and missiled these nations so much and so many times that these nations and the people there are back to the caveman days. So sad and angry because America itself continues to build and enjoy and use new skyscrapers and new bridges and new tunnels while the powerless people of these destroyed-by-America countries are slaughtered each day by America and forced to live like animals.

Something unprecedented and unforeseen happened today - I wasn't concerned about how many birthday wishes I received on Facebook

Does this mean that the 30s are actually having an effect on me? Maybe. Because until today, as far back as I can remember, I always used to check - multiple times a day - the inward flow of birthday greetings for me on Facebook [on my birthday]. I would feel very excited to see more and new wishes pouring in, but not today. Today I checked FB maybe only once or twice, and I even didn't care much about who or how many wished me. Maybe this has some connection to my overall significantly reduced usage of FB. Or maybe it's just that I'm no longer bothered/worried about whether or not other people are wishing me.

There's an important lesson here. We all have certain beliefs about who we are, how we like to act, what things we like, what priorities we have, what are our dreams, what all we covet, and so on. We consider these values sort of constant and stable, and a description of who we think we are. But the lesson here is that we're not a n-tuple of some constant values. We're changing. Our beliefs about our own self need to change as we change. These can't be constant. I cannot forever hold the belief that I love to check the birthday wishes pouring in for me on FB. I could be and probably am changing in other ways too. So must my beliefs about myself.

If animal cruelty is the key reason for me not eating non-vegetarian food, does it follow that eating genuinely naturally dead animals is alright

This seems like a valid and important question.

If the only inhibition, the only resistance to eating non-vegetarian food happens to be that it's bad/immoral/wrong because it involves cruelty to an animal and that it involves taking away the life of an animal, then it should logically follow that eating the [cooked] meat of animals which genuinely died naturally should be alright.

Now, the question that arises here is - how can this determination be made correctly, and in manner that can be consistently repeated - that a given animal died naturally and wasn't killed by man? This seems like a loophole that can be exploited rather easily. That being said, the mere existence of this loophole, this measurement difficulty doesn't take away the validity of the argument that cooking and eating naturally dead animals should be okay.

The last few days of my 20s...

It's now, at its dusk, that I value my 20s the most. I don't think I ever valued this decade in one's age or my own age as much as I do today. I never thought it would come to an end, no matter how long it was. It just kept on going and going and going, giving the false impression of eternity. I am of course sad that only about 2 weeks are left. Today I happily say that I'm 29, and it gives me a youthful feeling in front of those who're elder/older, but soon I'll enter the 30s, which does seem like a relatively "elderly" decade - that's how the public/society treats it - though of course not as much as 40s, 50s, 60s, etc. But the point here is that eventually, those are coming too. Time isn't going to stop, ever. That's the realization here. You're not always going to be a teen, and are not always going to be in your beautiful, young 20s. But as I always say to myself, life's like that sometimes...

Microsoft shouldn't have apologized for hiring dancers at its GDC party [and there's no need to hide the dancers' faces]

I think it is rather outrageous that Microsoft had to apologize for hiring dancers at its GDC party. Kind of evidence of how malignant the disease of radical feminism is. Hardcore gamers love this stuff and there's nothing wrong with it either. What's more, those who are talking about "blurring/hiding the faces of the dancers" are outright insane [so now we've to learn about the importance of individual privacy from, of all people, the Americans?]. It's their profession and they're more than happy to be paid for it you fools!

In America, you aren't male or female by birth - your gender is the one you "identify with", whatever that means!

What a rotten-to-the-core nation the USA has become. America is the land where a man kisses and beds a man, a woman kisses and beds a woman, and a child can have two parents who are either both male or both female [what a cursed fellow such a child must be]. It is the land where you can be born a girl, yet you "identify yourself" with a boy, yet have the sexual identity of a girl, but still romance with a woman! Wow, what a twisted, utterly repulsive, mentally ill, sick, and shitty place the United States is!

Update [May'16]: North Carolina's law is, to put it in the simplest possible words, common sense!

Update [23-Apr-17]: WTF is going on in America? LOL.

Update [12-Nov-17]: It's getting unbelievable now. What a garbage country America has become.

 

Update [Dec'18]: Now men can compete in women-only sports simply by claiming that they're females? What is happening in this world! She's right but in the name of political correctness people are criticizing her.

Update [Jul'19]: Is equality/inclusiveness so necessary in the news business that large outlets such as WSJ have to use those people in their public-facing roles who clearly do not have attractive looks, faces and/or bodies [as generally accepted in the society]? Examples below. As the RT example shows, there's definitely some amount of hospitality/presentability element in the TV news business, and those outlets that purposely choose and show attractive/presentable faces are bound to gain over those that prioritize political correctness and other nonsensical modern issues.

Update [Feb'21]:

https://www.rt.com/uk/515082-gender-neutral-maternity-hospital/

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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515171-chestfeeding-babies-trans-nhs/

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https://sputniknews.com/us/202102151082078091-god-herself-netizens-in-debates-after-rep-eric-swalwell-suggests-god-is-a-woman/

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Obvious things are having to be enforced / formalized via legislation. Fools.

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Political correctness vs customer base: UK computer retailer with 87.5% male buyers forced to pull ad that featured only men, RT, Jan'20

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477931-political-correct-uk-men-ad/

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Who wants to marry a girl/woman where in order to split the household work equally, you have to do time-keeping of which person put in how much time on household chores. No man wants to marry such a woman. Period. And this is the type of society today's West is going to give this world.

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Abortion is a heinous crime, a cold-blooded murder - defending it with terms such as "choice", "my body", etc., is itself a crime

Most pro-abortion women use fancy and loaded words/phrases like "It's my body and so it's my choice what happens with it", "Us women are human beings and not just incubators or baby-making machines", "reproductive rights", "bodily autonomy", etc., to support their stance. This logic is neither sound nor allowable. No woman has the right to kill another life - least of all her own child - unless required on medical grounds. It's as simple as that. Any other arguments are simply mumbo-jumbo intended to confuse and convince the brainless. What these pro-abortion women basically want is the freedom to kill and quietly throw down the drain a living baby as and when they find it convenient [or dump the baby into a dustbin - unbelievable].

Examples of how hardcore, devilish feminists will go even to the extent of depicting a foetus as a burden for his mother, in order to defend/support their pro-abortion stance:

• How To Argue Pro Choice: 11 Arguments Against Abortion Access, Debunked [link]

Women scream for reservation but not as gutter-cleaners or enemy-facing, bullet-taking soldiers. Nonsense.

This intriguing fact should be kept in mind when addressing women's pleads/requests for quotas/reservation in government positions, private/public jobs, etc. They don't want to do things that are essential/indispensable/necessary but very difficult [maybe they just can't, after all]. The ultra-challenging tasks they want men to take care of, while they enjoy their time in cafes, clubs, cinemas, parlors/salons, and shopping malls.

Ain't going to work in this world.

Lunner, brunner - new words for situations when work-life balance isn't exactly right

And a quick search on Google, as many times before, reveals that lunner already exists. Sometimes human brains think so similarly. Or maybe this is too obvious, since so many people think about work-life balance.

1. Lunner: A single meal that combines lunch and dinner. Usually taken at night when you're too busy during the day and have to skip lunch.
2. Brunner: Combination of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Extreme form of brunch. When you're really busy.

Neerja Bhanot was pretty - but why does this fact make her loss so much more tragic for the public?

So much of the talk among the general public about Neerja Bhanot [and Neerja the movie] focuses on how beautiful/good-looking/pretty Neerja Bhanot was. Most people who've watched the movie frequently say that while Sonam Kapoor has played a good role in the movie, she's nowhere as good-looking as the real Neerja Bhanot. Why this fixation with the beauty of the late airhostess? Whatever Neerja Bhanot did - assuming she really did as much as has been depicted in the movie - was courageous, but is her loss/sacrifice more tragic just because she happened to be very pretty? I don't think so. Would the public have been as much touched and moved had Neerja Bhanot been a fat, short, dark, elderly woman who didn't happen to be good-looking? I don't think so.

Reminds me of how the public and news media were both obsessed with the beauty of Sunanda Pushkar while reporting on her death/killing/murder.