“If religion isn’t the greatest threat to rationality and scientific progress, what is? Perhaps alcohol, or television, or addictive video games. But although each of these scourges - mixed blessings, in fact - has the power to overwhelm our best judgment and cloud our critical faculties, religion has a feature of that none of them can boast: it doesn’t just disable, it honours the disability. People are revered for their capacity to live in a dream world, to shield their minds from factual knowledge and make the major decisions of their lives by consulting voices in their heads that they call forth by rituals designed to intoxicate them.”
A waiter at a roadside teaspot in Larkana, aged 12..
A helper at a motor garage, age 10..
A boy cleaning oil tankers, age 11..
A boy selling combs at bahadurabad, age 8..
A boy selling biscuits at stargate, age 11..
A boy selling pens in bus, age 9..
Another boy begging in buses on the same route, age 11..
A woman age 25+ begging at quaidabad, a child in her lap, destined to become one of the above..
Have our senses stopped working?.. Can’t we feel their pain?, their agony, when they see us driving by?, when we hand out generous tips.. when we drink bottled water…
Their pain is real and their joy imaginary.. Exactly opposite to ours..
Yeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke,
Manzil Muskil to kya,
Bundla Sahil to kya,
Tanha Ye Dil to Kya
Ho Ho.. Raah Pe Kante Bikhre agar,
Uspe to phir bhi chalna hi hai,
Saam Chhupale Suraj magar,
Raat ko ek din Dhalana hi hai, Rut ye tal jayegi,
Himmat rang layegi,
Subha phir aayegi
Ho.. Yeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke,..
Hogi hame to rehmat ada,
Dhup kategi saaye tale,
Apni khuda se hai ye Dua,
Manzil lagale humko gale,
Zurrat so baar rahe,
Uncha Ikraar rahe,
Zinda har pyar rahe
Ho.. Yeh Hosla Kaise Juke,
Yeh Aarzoo Kaise Ruke…
A beautiful song…
5 years ago..
bomb blast in afghanistan kills 50…
suicide bomber in kabul kills 30…
car bomb in kandhar kills 70…
3 years ago…
bomb blast in Iraq kills 50…
suicide bomber in kirkuk kills 30…
car bomb in baghdad kills 70…
Since last year…
bombing in bajourr pakistan leaves 50 dead…
blast in swat kills 15…
suicide bomber in lahore kills 30…
suicide bomber in karachi kills 140…
blast in islamabad kills 40…
two bombings on same day in lahore kill 30…
blasts on roadsides..
blasts inside restaurants..
suicide bombings of funerals, congregations and markets…
there’s death everywhere..
the other day, we had a procession against danish cartoonists for engaging in some bad-tasting creative endeavor..
but nothing about the blasts…
no processions.. no condemnation..
we dare not say its plain wrong, unethical, unreligious, inhumane…
We have become numb….
A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical “dihydrogen monoxide.”
And for plenty of good reasons, since:
1. it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting
2. it is a major component in acid rain
3. it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state
4. accidental inhalation can kill you
5. it contributes to erosion
6. it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes
7. it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients
He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.
* Forty-three (43) said yes,
* Six (6) were undecided,
* Only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.
The title of his prize winning project was, “How Gullible Are We?”
