Good Luck...Remember... There are NO limits... either way...

Always Remember... There are no limits...
                                                      Either way...
After all, limits are for chicken...

...The Road to Peace...Yukon, Canada

Another Sunday… But not like the others… It is the last long weekend of the lazy and hazy summer… It is not much of a concern for me…Since I retired from classroom-confined-teaching last year…So as they popular wisdom goes… “For me it is always summer holiday.” Lovely! But I feel with the rest of you… I hated “9 to 5 work” and I was blessed with the classroom-confined-teaching….It was fun…As if you are in a park with chirping birds and barking elders…

I see kids in uniform walking in front of the house in their uniforms and the humpbacks…the bag packs… They are walking to the nearby private school with $45,000 tuition… The rich segregate themselves from us the common folk…

I look at the kids and at times memories come back… I remember students who have stayed with me forever…

·        There was the poet… I made him read his poetry in my math classes… He was good…I liked his poems…I wish the muses stay with him…

·        There was the rapper… I made him rap…the students tapped for him…but he was no audible…He was still new from Nigeria and not bold enough for North America…

I loved all…They kept me juvenile at heart and wondering in mind… It was fun and a learning experience every day… I benefited from them as much as they accepted me … as the discussion leader… It was a symbiotic community of learners…explorers…of trials and errors… It was the road to the heavens…

There was this young lady, Rita… Asian and very hard working…Smile on the face at all times… Very polite and very preppy and classic…good model…always on the honour roll…and always helping others … She helped the school Chaplain in all his needs…God’s needs…

She sat at the very front row…right in front of my desk…and her generous smile was contagious…Kept the classroom-community happy and thinking too… her kindness was appreciated by all…

She graduated… All graduate after a certain age… But she graduated with honours…Got accepted to the University of her Choice… Selected the program of her choice…

Visited we every month and we had a tripartite chat and laugh…her, the Chaplain and me… It was good and rewarding too…

In the second semester her visits became fewer… less and less… and the Chaplain confided in me… “She has a African Canadian boyfriend … and they are thinking of moving together… She is having difficulties with the parents… In fact, the parents are kicking her out…They do not want to talk to her…”

She was studying life-sciences…and she moved out of the house…lived with the boyfriend… failed few courses…and her ties with her family got severed…They did not talk with each other… But her younger sister kept contact with her…she became the liaison between the family and her elder sister…

I saw her few times more…She was pregnant and abandoned her studies… later in the summer she had a son… cute little man…smiling like her and looking very much like his father…with curly hair and penetrating looks…

She left the university altogether… “but I am going to return and study again, Sir…,” she insisted to me… She worked and kept the three of them together…Clean and well fed…

The young man left her…The family life was too claustrophobic for him… She was alone with her son…

She reconciled with the parents… Moved back into the house…

The younger sister graduated too… and Rita visited us again… She had grown up to be a very bitter woman… She swore like her boyfriend and acted very much as part of his culture… “Mother …” and the rest of the words were very sad to hear…The Chaplain and I were a bit embarrassed to hear… not that we were not used to hear these words… The “hallway” people used them all the time…the movies are saturated by them… But I was embarrassed to hear it from her…

She and her sister started a business… They were selling shares and to a non-existent company… It was their company…It manufactured nothing…The elder was the chairperson of the company and the younger sister was the head of marketing…She called herself  the Head of Marketing …

The Chaplain bought five shares… He knew what was happening… But he was used to give alms… and charity… But I did not buy any…I do not like people to lie to me… They were not honest with me…  

They were not honest people any more…

I remember her quite often…When I see a well-protected preppy student … Rita visits we … and I wonder what will happen to him and her…

I do not know why she jumped into bad with the first fellow that kissed her… I do not know the reason… But the parable of the mother bear and her cub crosses my mind often… The mother bear loved her cub so much that hugged her and with the motherly hug choked the bear…

I do not know what was the reason… But I wanted to write about her because of the New Year… Because the new graduates…the last class that I thought before retiring…will embark upon their university-college journey…

… I wanted to wish all good luck… and wanted to warn…off pricks and shitheads and assholes…

Good luck…

...Hike to the Heavens......Yukon, Canada

Check the "shithead-asshole" game again...

My Young Friend Remembered me...
Well in the Summer heat...there is much to do and as the operetta chirps... "Summer time...when everything is easy..."
My young friend sent a diagram-poster and a note... and we had a chat...and I included both...the poster and our chat...

                                                                              On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 

  Hi Sir,                                                                                                                   I just saw this on reddit and thought it was a bit funny and more    importantly true. Sorry for not keeping in touch  recently.                                                                                                                           http://i.imgur.com/p8wwq.jpg                                          SMILE

  Thank you for the note...It made my day.                                                     I wish you had more time and energy...  I will publish it in tomorrow's blog post...                                                                                                                 

Take care and thank you...and if you may...keep in touch...                      I miss your smile...                                                                                             H.K.

 P.S.                                                                                                             Which one are we....? Top down...? Bottom up...?

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 Ha-ha, I think it varies but at the moment I feel like the bottom up because of all the university stuff going on right now. But that's kind of a first world problem so overall when it comes down to it we are pretty high up there compared to others.

 So are you saying we are more assholes than shitheads...?                   H.K.

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 If you ignore the labels that the picture has I think that there will always be a level lower than the previous one. I do think we are more on the asshole side just because the majority of us don't care for others and would rather make others shitheads. I believe that ...

Whoops to continue that thought, I believe that we need to strive to make everyone a asshole to be honest so there as few shitheads as possible. This means to make life fair for everyone so no one has shit on their heads. It's a hard thing to do but it is definitely possible.

 That's the moral of the story ...                                                                      There should be a different way of organization...no bottom up or top down...                                                                                                         There should be no hierarchic organization...It should be cooperative and equal responsibility one level circuit...                                                         

   One level ... cooperative effort...no competition and may be circular ...

         

  Think about it... And smile always...whether shit or ass ... all of US have the same origin ...                                                                                     H.K.

And now to real life...The following is a news item that was in my mail today...

IMPORTANT...

Story of the week: Russia pushes forward as the u.s. pulls back  Established borders looked increasingly brittle this week as Russian forces moved further into Ukraine and the West struggled with the Islamic State’s transnational jihad. Despite denying Russia’s participation in the Ukrainian conflict, satellite imagery demonstrates that Putin is driving ahead with his campaign of neo-Stalinist imperialism. In contrast, Obama urged military restraint, refusing to describe Russia’s actions as invasion and walking back from action against IS extremists in Syria, despite continuing strikes on their comrades just across the Iraqi border.

Now decide...

Russia and Ukraine and Obama and Syria and Iraq and IS belongs which part of the hierarchy they belong...

The human brain has invented many useful things... but also many useless and harmful items... The hierarchical organization of things serves to celebrate human stupidity and power...and the "divine right of kings..." As democracy developed...people stressed "fraternity, equality, liberty" or the inalienable right of "pursuit of happiness" ... but did not get rid of the hierarchic form of organization...After all, the Pope has to be at the top and the people at the bottom... The President should be at the top and the people at the bottom... The not elected king-Queen had to be at the top, even as a figurehead and touristic item, and the people at the bottom... The CEO of the company at the top and the workers at the bottom...The Principal at the top and the students at the bottom...

Fighting to be the "asshole" at the top....

As the chat rapped up with my young friend...I came to the conclusion that no one has to be a shithead and no one has to be an asshole... and a non-hierarchic cooperative way of organizing society will be much better... 

The teacher can instruct more effectively when she-he incorporates the students in the instructions and pursue a collective inquiry... I guess even the asshole at the top will want the shitheads at the bottom to cooperate and come up with a collective solution...

You need just a "prick" to deflate the hierarchy...

Cooperation in the classroom and collective learning is superior to individualized and competitive torture... Even the individualized testing is does not emulate the everyday life and the workplace...

Collectively we can achieve more...

The Pope has the Cardinals and eventually the people...If the hierarchy does not keep up with the people than the people will not keep up with the Church...and the pews will be empty and , like in Montreal, Canada, they will be forced to sell the churches or convert them into museums...

The President has the cabinet and eventually the people... if the government does not listen to the people than the people will vote the "assholes" out and or rebel...

Everyone should teach by example and by acting properly...and cooperatively...and we have to liberate ourselves of the shithead-asshole conundrum... We have to abolish the stinky dilemma...

May be my young friend and his friends will be able to usher in fresh air and get rid of the stink which is generated over the centuries...

May be my friend with the help of his friends will democratize "democracy"... I am sure he is smart enough to achieve that... I am sure he is strong enough to have his friends around and guide us into cooperative glory and PEACE...

Hierarchic organization of society creates animosity and power struggle and is by its very nature antagonistic in character...  

Non-hierarchic organization will bring in cooperation and peace...

So seat in circles and kick the "teachers" out of the room... and seat in circles and all of you become presidents and popes...     

These are the fighters at the bottom...The top is in the "office" hiding... because it is both ugly and stinky...

I guess when society is geared up to create and elect "assholes..." all the rest of us become "shitheads..."
Think about it...

 Ideas and innovation are killed and the hierarchy produces mediocrity... I know this from my last school...The admin was/is a beautiful example of...things that stink...

Read below... Check the research...I did not make it up...

For all their efficiencies, hierarchies turn out to be remarkably inefficient when organizations are trying to leverage creative ideas and increase their innovation.

The problem is that the chain of command works well for issuing orders and making decisions. It works so well that creative ideas stand little chance of being utilized unless they’re being shared from the top downward. Creative ideas that come from the middle or lower levels of a hierarchy have to work their way up through a series of managers, each with the power to veto but each lacking the power to implement.

 

Now this is very intricate...and I do not know what to make of it...

ISIS-Jihadists have taken Yazidi girs and women and are "using them...It reminds me the "comfort women" from South Korea...that the Japanese used in WW II...

Some things never change...Some things stagnate...and of course stink...

When the top down "trickle" we create sticky nightmares....

Read...

(CNN) -- It took U.S. airstrikes against ISIS positions, airlifts of U.S. and international aid, and rescue efforts by Kurdish Peshmerga forces to help thousands of Yazidis escape imminent danger from ISIS forces in northern Iraq.

But the nightmare continues for hundreds of Yazidi girls and women, unable to get out of harm's way, who are being being sold by ISIS to its fighters in Syria, according to a human rights group.

In the past few weeks, ISIS has distributed or sold about 300 Yazidi girls and women it abducted in Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group aligned with the opposition in Syria.

Hierarchy creates mediocrity and mediocrity prioritizes greed and greed creates assassins...

   

The Day God Created Peace...

Which day...God CREATED PEACE...?

I wonder... I always wonder... My mind soars away forward in the mornings ... The memories are for later in the day and in the evening...
It is still morning where I am and it is time to wonder and soar deep into the universe around me and in me...This parallel universes make things much more interesting, at least for me... But may be you were expecting a more mundane and temporal account of my routine...
Sorry to disappoint you...the intellectual trip is much more attuned to my style ... and the temporal is just for me...and for dear friends close to me...

And God created...Peace too...and music...

I am speculating about peace... I always wonder why God(s) did not carve out a more peaceful space in the universe and called it a peaceful planet earth... I wonder...Of course the preacher-priest will say God gave you the will to create peace...But why there was ware to start with...? Why could not we have a peaceful planet and make it more peaceful by the day...? Why can't we start with peace and built on it...? Why there should be a war and then...peace...
Tolstoy...War and Peace... May be it should have been War or Peace... May be it should have been Peace and more Peace...May be it should be just peace...

Read below...

 

Gaza truce holds as Netanyahu and Hamas claim victory

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian political faction Hamas also claims to have won.

 Read again if you so desire...

It says the two sides won...Which means there were not losers...! Isn't that wonderful...there are no losers...Great...!

But now look at the photo below... and observe the details...

Indeed there are no losers...Both Big Brothers won...! Both leadership have ... Their sits are secure...No one will claim the sits...The Prime Minister will stay the Prime Minister of Israel and the Hamas leader will be still the Hamas leader ... 
But,

• There are more than 2000 dead...
• Billions of property have been destroyed ... Schools are bombed...neighbourhoods destroyed...
• Israeli soldiers are killed...Hamas fighters have disappeared...

Indeed both leaders won...But both Israeli and Palestinian peoples lost....

Indeed the cradle of religious epiphany ... the Holy Places for Judaism, and Christianity and Islam ... are still where they were before the conflict and before the conflicts...Indeed both leaders won...But there is no PEACE still...!

Which day God(s) created peace...?  

I have no clue...May be you will know...!

Please let me know too...

Pass the spark and make peace...

Let there be peace on earth...
But it depends on you...all of you...May be you will usher peace...
I hope I am not "Waiting for Godot"... But then you never 
know...

Waiting for Peace...not for Godot...

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The above was real...It was not a game...
But now there is a game...

PeaceMaker's creators, Asi Burak and Eric Brown

The game is both complex and realistic… and, difficult to win… While testing the game… only 2% of the participants won the game and established peace…

In the game there are built-in flash points and these bring out the basic-core dilemmas of each side…that is, how to balance the desire for security and the desire for self-determination and legitimate negotiating partner… And despite the loses or the wins, the PeaceMaker is designed to make the player realize the legitimate desires of the other side and make all aware of their biases too…

It is a difficult game and unexpected events creates new spikes at every step…

We can coexist in PEACE... People are smart enough to do that...

The reality is not a game… and no need for the double-talk deception of the Big Brothers…that both won… But the game may be helpful in making us understand the complexities and essentials for real PEACE ... 

And then may be we will know on which day God(s) created PEACE...

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And now...                                                                                                                     Abhishek, my smart kid-friend...   

Kids play games...and Abhishek being a kid, plays his game... Get inspired by his game and respect the environment as he challenges you to do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO5Fdd4bKCQ

Check the above link and enjoy....

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And........................................................

Think about it and ACT for PEACE...

Let the Kids be Kids...and Play with toys...

Kids have to enjoy themselves...with Toys...

                                                  NOT GUNS...

Today I woke up early…  If I was not retired, I would have put myself in order, dress up and head to “staff meeting” and get ready for next Tuesday when the schools will open in Canada...  But, I am retired… 

So I dressed up in shorts and T-shirt and headed out for hiking in the hills…The sun was not up yet and the morning was a touch chilly… But you get used to it…In the hills there were no traffic noise and no hydrocarbons…It was good and enjoyable…The passersby had their ears plugged with their music…but I listened to chirping birds and smelled the trees…                                                                                                                      I was lovely…It beats the staff meeting hands down… On the hills noise pollution is not allowed – cars and admin and teachers…are     far away…I do not need them all… I don’t need a car to commute… my legs are good…and I walk…and if the distance is a bit too much…Public transport is wonderful…both cheap and less pollution…                       On the hills I noticed a middle aged man…naked waist up…and I wondered why he is allowed to pollute the scenery… Why I have to look at things which I ugly…and bulging with years of neglect and overeating… While returning from the hills I noticed a memorial fountain…in front of a house…It was a memorial fountain dedicated to the dog that the owner lost a year ago…It was something that I had never encountered…A memorial fountain for a dog…! The fountain was about 12 inches high and was meant for other dogs…

The hills are beautiful and serene…away from the noise of cars and staff meetings…But there are funny distractions too…the half-naked man polluting the scenery with his bulging belly and sagging nipples… and the dog fountain in memory of a dog that passed away…

Besides the staff meeting…Yesterday I was thinking of kids and guns…and gun violence…not because I love guns…But because I love kids… Kids are supposed to grow up while enjoying their toys and their friends... And most do...

Yesterday I leaned that there are places called "Bullets and Burgers"...where you relax and shoot guns too...! But I please explain...How can shooting a gun be relaxing... Bullets and burgers sound oxymoronically absurd... After all, guns are not toys...and guns kill...and kids should not be obliged to follow their elders and emulate their stupidity...                                                                                                                 When parents want to behave like "funny" people...It is their choice...   They should not impose that behaviour on their kids...                                   They should not let their kids in a hot car...They will suffocate...                   They should not  deny them education...They will grow up messed up and      confused...                                                                                                           They should not let them play with guns... They will grow up to be killers of animals and humans too... Why parents want their kids to play with a Uzi submachinegun is above my intelligence of a mortal being ... When I started teaching I started the first day with lecture about math and logic and thinking and reasoning... A introduced syllogisms... Like, 

Guns are made for killing

Since Uzi is a Gun

Then Uzis are made for killing...

Now the extension of this syllogism may be;

Kids must play with toys

Since Uzi is not a toy

Then kids should not play with Uzis

Or,

                                         Parents have to nurture                                                                           Since playing with guns is counter-nurturing                                            Then Parents should not let their kids near guns…

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Now Read the following Item which was in the news yesterday and stayed with me till now...I slept with it and carried it with me to the hills for hiking...

          

       Young Israeli checking the Uzi at an Israeli army show...and soldiers being trained on Uzi....
Why a young kid...be he in Israel or in the U.S. or in Canada...play and toy with a gun...with a Uzi is way, way above my mortal intelligence...

Child firing Uzi at Ariz. shooting range accidentally kills instructor, police say

Why will a 9-year-old girl or boy play with a gun is incomprehensible...? Why parents will let their kid play with guns beats human logic...? 

Should not parents nurture...Do they want the kid to carry the gun to school too...? Isn't it their constitutional right...by the 2nd Amendment...?

But the kid is not to blame...The parents told her that it is "fun"...

The parents did not nurture her properly...

And now ...continue reading

(CNN) -- A 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to Arizona authorities.

The instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca, died at a hospital Monday night after he was shot in the head.

The Mohave County Sheriff's Office said the girl was with her parents. The three reside in New Jersey.

The website of Bullets and Burgers, the shooting range where the accident happened, says children between the ages of 8 and 17 can shoot a weapon if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Police said the weapon was an Uzi, an Israeli-made submachine gun that some experts say is the wrong choice of firepower for instructing a child.

Indeed the "second Amendment" gives rights ...But then God gives us brain too...to use and to think...and to nurture...and to help the kid grow up as a responsible member of society...
If guns kill, and they do, why a child will play with it...?
If guns kill, and they do, why a responsible citizen will play with it...?
I do not trust Big Brother too...I have all kinds of memories...and I do not trust any bureaucracy... be it governmental, religious, or educational...
I believe that power corrupts, and I insist that absolute power corrupts absolutely...

But carrying guns and playing with them is not the answer...That's what the Jihadist ISIS is doing...Kidnapping kids 9-10-11-12 years old and making them killers of other human beings...

This kid is smiling because he has a gun... and the gun manufacturer is smiling because he has another person that will grow up to play with guns...He is smiling because he will have another dollar...

 Read again...

This week, a nine-year-old girl firing an Uzi submachine gun accidentally shot to death her weapons instructor. Not all Americans grow up shooting guns - but those who do often start young.

When he was five years old, Dan Baum started shooting guns.

The author of Gun Guys: A Road Trip has crisscrossed the country learning about America's gun culture. He believes shooting can teach children valuable lessons about respect and discipline.

"It can be a great thing for kids," he says. "What you're saying to a kid is, 'This is an extremely dangerous device I am putting in your hands, and I am trusting you to use it properly.'"

This gun loving author thinks that "shooting can teach children valuable lessons about respect and discipline."
What else...?
All along in my life I was thinking that parents can teach respect and discipline ti their kids...and NOT SHOOTING...
All along I was thinking that parents and teachers and schools and churches ... teach respect of each other and discipline and good behaviour were non-violent societal norms...
Are we supposed to ban the books from schools and introduce guns...to "teach children valuable lessons about respect and discipline" ...                                   

• And I know now why the schools in U.S. and Canada are failing... After all we  used books...and NOT GUNS...to teach...
• But I am retired and I did not attend the staff meeting today... I went hiking where stupid ideas do not pollute the surrounding...

Now follow the story below...

 Surveillance footage is said to prove that John Crawford, pictured above, was holding a toy gun when police shot him dead at a Walmart store

A young man holding a toy rifle in a Wal-Mart was shot and killed on Tuesday, Aug. 26, by police in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, Ohio...                                        John Crawford, 22, was carrying a toy gun he picked up in the store, alarming two other shoppers... But the security camera at Wal-mart shows that the young man was holding the gun and the barrel was pointing to the ground and in there were other shoppers around who were not bothered at all and were checking items from the shelves... But the police come in and shoot him even after he yells ... "It is a toy...!"

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After reading about the 9-year-old girl with the Uzi...at the shooting range... After reading the gun-loving-author...I was under the impression that guns are toys and toys are allowed...in the Wal-mart...

So...Why the cops shot and killed the 22 year old with the toy gun...?

What does the Big Brother logic tell us...

Power corrupts

and

Absolute power corrupts absolutely...