Unique, like everyone!

The other day I met some college friends. We chatted about the good old days and where everyone was. Then we talked about everybody’s love interests and affairs, old and new. As the chit chat continued we went from subject of friends and family to religion and then to men and women. Untill one of the guys said something like women are weaker than men.
Now, I’m not someone who goes around looking for argument but this just put me off. When I asked him how he thought women were weaker or inferior to men, he started with physical attributes and concluded with ‘god says so’. He than presented the age old circular logic, prophet said that god said so and the prophet was right cuz god said so in holy book and the holy book is right cuz prophet said it’s word of god and god’s word could never be wrong.
I ended it with a piece of advice for my friends. I asked ‘em to read some science stuff and try to judge the religious stuff using plain common sense. And they advised me not to indulge in such arguments as it would not just guarantee me a ticket to hell but also might be physically dangerous to me if some hardliners got to know of my stance.

On another note,
My table-tennis is getting better. I’m having trouble with smashing the ball and picking up quick returns, but I guess it’ll get sorted if I keep playing consistently.

On yet another note,
I have had a couple of days of nostalgia as I’ve been thinking a lot about someone I came to really like. I (will continue to) love her and wish her a great life with or without me.

On yet yet another note,
I downloaded and watched some amazing talks off ted{dot}com. I particularly loved Dr. Dawkins, Dennet and Hawking’s talks. But every speaker was amazing in her/his own right. If you have some time and a fair enough bandwidth, do check em out.

So, life’s great, work’s great as well, table tennis is fun, ignorance and religious fundamentalism is rampant and her thoughts are like fresh breeze yet melancholic.

Auf Wiedersehen,