Saturday, May 14, 2011

Visualizing 1 Trillion dollars


It’s official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all.
One trillion dollars; it’s a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end would reach the sun or you spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years or one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778 Argentinosauruses (the largest known dinosaur). Fanciful as this may be, the real story behind one trillion dollars is in its economic impact. Let’s investigate what one trillion dollars can do.



Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The eternal philosophy of Life.

Apparently every philosophical question boils down to "What's life and what is its purpose"...and each member of the homo sapiens community has its own answer; Each walking the path to attain what he answered makes one path. Put all the paths together; some will match, some collide and some will cross each other. The net of all these paths after the ones that have ended (or met) or canceled forms the world view which changes constantly with the frivolous spirit of the homo sapiens. There is nothing else to Life. In short you give meaning to your own life and start walking down the path. Thats why they say who so ever you meet, never fight with, make friends with and save time that could get consumed in wasteful battles and to walk your path you are limited by the ultimate resource 'time'.

If you really think life was meant to be spiritual then walk down the path to attain that! 

All in all I can it sum up as 

"Life is a path walked down in order to attain something ad infinitum or non-attainment  at all.
If Life is all about non-attainment which would imply achieving spiritual bliss which would not be possible without consuming materials from your surrounding. This again makes it a case of attainment.

Absolute non-attainment could only be true for you if you lived in denial of every material thing around you and your life would be walking that path until it ceases to exist. You set your own journey through your own needs and wants that are formed solely not by you but evolved through your surroundings. Inter-dependence on each other and the surrounding is the eternal truth. Hence, the one who helps most of us around you achieve what we want will always have more than the rest of us to live with until your body ceases to exist."