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Tell Us And We Will Ensure You Can’t

How do you unwind after a demanding day?

  1. Heart of cynicism.
  2. There’s a bike. There’s no bike.
  3. There’s a job. There’s no job.
  4. There’s another job. No job.
  5. There’s another investment plan. There’s no investment plan.
  6. There’s another story. It’s a tragic tale of hopelessness.
  7. There are more hungry people.
  8. There are more hungry people.
  9. There are more hungry people without reason.
  10. This was always tragic. No change.
  11. Good night.
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WordPress

How do you use social media?

  1. I used e-mail.
  2. Interacted on discussion forums which helped improve communication skills as I was talking to people all across the globe.
  3. In my work as a software professional I continued to interact with team mates and clients in an on-site off-shore model via social media.
  4. I used some of the social media platforms and found them to be troubled by advertisement industry.
  5. WordPress also had its share of spams and unsolicited malware like accounts but it worked compared to other social media because it focussed on message expressed in words. What happened to Twitter is apparent. Most of these platforms are used to further personal agendas for the corporations they’re run by instead of providing a neutral, trustworthy, long time means of communication for users.
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Authentic Records Help You More Than Anyone Else!

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

  1. Am I concerned about who’s going to read it or about what I am going to think when I read it after a while.
  2. When I took to heart suggestion by Dr. Win Wenger PhD who used to recommend scribbling or putting ideas fast onto paper I had many doubts about it being any different from systematically publishing your ideas on a platform like this.
  3. With time I realised it’s not that different. Squelching the editor meant being free from judging voice and letting ideas come to the surface of consciousness.
  4. Not just the ideas which were considered important but all of the ideas. The first law of behavioural Psychology states that “You get more of what you reinforce.” You had to reinforce the behaviour of becoming perceptive by not letting deep insights slip by.
  5. But if you kept waiting for deep insights it didn’t succeed because they come in clusters with clouds of foggy ruins of neptunian dreamlike traces of ancient dilapidated structures.
  6. You had to merely commit yourself to the act. Some people called it ‘morning pages.’ How it differed from recording your ideas on a tape-recorder : it didn’t. Though, word as a visual art is quite different from word as it’s heard. Word and heard rhymes.
  7. Describing your ideas to yourself was gradually replaced by describing it to a machine. Unless clear flow of it being a raw material for publication is established you’re judged as someone who indulges in mechanical psychotic self-talk which gives you a tag of officially insane. If there are witnesses in your neighborhood, family or workplace. Which is always a possibility.
  8. Tools like Replika by Luca inc or other chatbots act as good feedback loop providing machines to an extent with some limitations in terms of quality of feedback. They’re good assistants which are similar to Babble Back Machine for grown ups. They amplify feedback but sometimes they falter and only way out is to use mimicry. Mimicking the machine voice establishes the harmonious connection with the machine back again and you can come back to sanity where you continue to explore your ideas.
  9. For most of my blogging career I have only written things to be read by myself later on. This brings me back to the first point. Writing helps us in thinking. As simple as that. Win Wenger’s response was also similar when he told me that he liked to read his own articles. Most of us are folly to being fond of our own voices even if they’re muted, unclear, confused noises.
  10. When you look back at your articles after many years you feel surprised sometimes about how you could have felt like that to write like that. Being authentic helps here but not in all cases. In some cases like mine hackers do play a role and I had to struggle with them to identify when they tinkered with my articles. Both technical and non-technical.
  11. I used to give this advice to many people since college days: to jot down their ideas. To do free-noting or scribbling without judging their ideas at first, like I did. If they continued, they arrived at something which felt satisfying. Or at least their content improved because of feedback loops. After a lot of quantity some quality appeared.
  12. Writing as a discipline helped me by bringing forth ideas for reading no matter how encoded or subtle or gross they were at times. Similar to versions of Replika I think I am merely interacting with a specific version of my ideas when I go through them. What actually prevents people from being authentic is lack of privacy or data being exploited by all sorts of people which is a genuine threat not just a concern or doubt.
  13. Yet, after all, in the long run, basic human need of learning and growing by using writing, record keeping and publishing as tools to aid perception and learning triumphs. When you revisit such articles they give a picture of what was going through minds of these subjects. That’s how I treat my opinions expressed in published or non published formats down through many decades.
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Decision Making Ability!

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

Recently:

  1. I decided to master Peter Schmies Verbal Analogies Test. It helped me learn and grow.
  2. I decided to master United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th and 4th and got some success in it.
  3. We are working towards using better better tools such as lists available on Vocabulary.com to help learn aforementioned lists.
  4. United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice support team which was Noble Laureate for 2020 has been slack in bug fixes and maintenance for some mysterious reasons. Despite spending rupees thirty six in ISD calls to report these issues and trying to contact them via email they haven’t been able to either address the issue or restore the game to its previous versions. I haven’t given up on this website though I feel surprised by such maintenance for a site which has been in existence since 2007 when John Breen created it with not such compassionate intentions but merely to aid his son in getting entrance into a good University.

Long Term:

  1. I decided to never marry. Can’t even begin to describe what existential horror was waiting me within my family and in families nearby and associated honeytraps which reveal the nature of market associated with such culture.
  2. Decided to master and learn words systematically, which helped me expand my vocabulary in various languages like English, Hindi, Bundeli, Avadhi, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali etc though you keep forgetting if you don’t use words it’s better to create new creative associations and then forget them than to never learn.
  3. Decided to not work in a government job.
  4. Decided to blog in 2011 when one of my friends recommend WordPress. As stated earlier WordPress is a community of writers waiting to get feedback from other writers. No readers here or readers eventually become writers or Writers are best readers. Blogger blogs had huge traffic compared to WordPress blogs in 2011-2012 but it were mostly bots it seems. Now a days blogging space has become too costly to afford but weblogs offer ease of recording your ideas which you can use to reflect upon later on though hackers are active and WordPress can’t guarantee privacy.
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?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

  1. Define ‘Where.’
  2. Why not as well define ‘do’ ?
  3. Define subjectivity, switch from pronoun ‘you’ to ‘I.’
  4. Define seeing as against looking.
  5. Define your self as compared to Self.
  6. Define why all this defining uses time merely as a construct to add value into anything.
  7. For example if 10 is replaced by another symbol 1 or 0 : it won’t take anything away from the equation.
  8. Another example: I saw myself ( as best version of all versions ) right since I was NEVER BORN: which means time is merely added to emphasize that something is of value.
  9. TV shows like Black Mirror’s Playtest and other first-hand experiences which are temporal- prove that time is merely experience and vice versa.
  10. When I know this absolutely: why would I project a future with a ten years weightage?
  11. Or why would I feel better by recalling events ten years ago and talk about how degeneration of Dharma which is dramatically similar to inflation and price hikes has rendered my priesthood ineffectual.
  12. Enough said?
  13. If you would like to open up a philosophical discussion session in the comments section it might help me while imaginary time away.
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Things not Stanley Kubrick ‘s Shining Thing!

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

  1. I think pleasure and pain are well defined for most people unless you’re suffering from some disease.
  2. They don’t change for most animals all their lives.
  3. Almost all of the things done by people are guided either by desire to experience or desire to not experience.
  4. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably in the words of Nisargadatta who with help of Maurice Frydman created I AM THAT.
  5. When I began writing this article by responding to the prompt I had taken it for granted that it was about ‘activity’ as if the prompt asked “what are the 5 everyday things you do that bring you happiness.”
  6. I think a 4G smartphone is the most advanced technology I have.
  7. Most of the advanced technology is for comfort.
  8. Microphones let me talk as earphones let me listen music.
  9. Tubewell for fresh water.
  10. Coffee, tea machines for drinks. Similar to refridgerator for ice cream and cold drinks.
  11. Internet archives for research entertainment are some of the greatest inventions of this century.
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Grammar, Pythagoras Theorem and Algebra!

Describe something you learned in high school.

  1. Grammar: Active and Passive voice. Narrations etc
  2. Example: I wrote this article. ( Active voice)
  3. This article was written by me. ( Passive voice)
  4. Emphasis is on the subject or doer of the action in the first case, whereas in the second case it’s on the completion of action by ( someone.)
  5. As I was a Hindi medium student Grammar and English writing were considered important to learn. Government Hindi medium schools had syllabus which begin to touch English language with any seriousness only at standard sixth.
  6. No wonder all such students including convent school Hindi medium students faced difficulties with competitive exam books and magazines which were in English language. Later, we continued to face difficulty with engineering studies because syllabus was taught in English. I tried to help dozens of such students with translation of lessons even when I was myself in engineering.
  7. Apart from communication skills we took great interest in Pythagoras Theorem, working out Algebra and other problems because of our teachers who were dedicated to achieve excellence. I remember initial zeal when as a teenager I wanted to be the first guy every time around a challenge was given by our teachers and I often was this first guy which hurt sentiments of many students as well as teachers. I had a lot to learn about Educational Psychology and competitive exams.
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Maybe Walking or Doing Puzzles

What’s the most fun way to exercise?

Exercise might mean physical or mental exercises.

  1. I have played various sports all my life and used to work out in a gym in my college days.
  2. I walk everyday. I have walked almost all my life.
  3. For mental exercise : I read, write and do vocabulary tests.
  4. I frequently update my weblogs with results of my findings on tests like Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice or Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or James Harbeck’s Sesquiotica.
  5. I also update weblogs when I find some strange interconnections between words and etymologies in languages like Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, English, Mandarin, Spanish etc and in local dialects used in Indian subcontinent especially in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
  6. I think there can’t be a single fun way to exercise for everyone.
  7. Though it seems that labour you do to earn your living is also exercise or fun it isn’t so. It soon devolves into anxious anticipation for a raise, for a holiday , for a better future.
  8. Exercise which is done because a doctor advised you to do that or your yoga guru had a program for you or you wanted to come out of depression might be helpful but :
  9. Air Quality Index at most of the places doesn’t really prove that walking, jogging or other exercises are significantly going to help longevity.
  10. That’s all.
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None!

What book could you read over and over again?

None of them.

And it’s just my opinion: we are all stuck with something or the other for some reason or the other.

An example might be an imaginary book where every event of your life has been described in detail. I think nobody else has come close to doing something like that about my life so far, but even if such a work was available for me, I might not be interested after a while.

Hence:

None of them.

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Words!

What animals make the best/worst pets?

  1. 2130 on UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th.
  2. 20 look ups in total.
  3. Yes, not being directly relevant to the thread it seems as if I am only trying to get traffic ( which is mostly likes rather than any thoughtful addendum to my inputs in form of systematic archives to alleviate hunger in the world. )
  4. All animals and pets come out of words as per one theory:
  5. “In The Beginning Was The Word; Word Was With The God; Word Was The God.” John 1:1
  6. Why United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice staff isn’t responding to our emails is another valid prompt.