Ember Endorsements: Go Obama and McCain. January 29, 2008

I am just writing this post for the record. Months and months ago while discussing upcoming American Presidential elections with my online friends (mostly American) I had hazarded a guess about the possible President to be. My choices were: Barack Obama from the D camp and Rudy Giuliani from the R camp. While Rudy has seriously screwed up his chances by shoddy and smug campaign, Obama has risen as the star for new politics and new things of substance.

 

Months ago, my good friends had suggested that- from D camp- Obama is immature and Hilary will win the day as she got the right connections and the money and two timer in the White House as husband. But I disagreed. She always came across as a power hungry phony to me. It was a dangerous thing to say back then because Mrs. Clinton has always been a very respected figure, but in the recent times she has definitely made her phoniness apparent in collusion with her tag team partner and husband. I think American people suspected her lack of mettle from the very beginning in Iowa and the initial polls in New Hampshire. She won New Hampshire with a slight margin only because of pity vote as she cried her way to a wafer thin victory.

 

I probably shouldn’t be saying all this because-yet- she may very well become President and nuke this part of the world where I write my missives from. But I am expressing my unabashed opinion. February 5th, the grand Tuesday, will seal the fate and I hope it will be in Barack Obama’s favor. His election will only confirm all that is good, noble and sound about America.

 

As a final word, I also support and endorse John Mccain from the R camp as he is a person of substance and great moral courage.

God’s grace. January 22, 2008

I was just searching for some Bible verse that mentions God’s sovereign will in the redemption of humankind. Because without God’s grace we are incapable of saving ourselves no matter how much good works or Karma or righteousness we can claim to possess. It is not our ability to be good but God’s ability to be merciful that matters. Right now, I also pray to God to reach the ones who put their faith in Him and save them from stumbling doubts, the calamities of life and afterlife. Amen.

 

Here are some verses from Jeremiah that caught my attention:

Jeremiah Chapter 32:38-41

They shall be my people and I shall be their God. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for all time,for their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them; and I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me. I will rejoice in doing good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

Hey, you know where YOUR brain is? January 17, 2008

Hello readers, I am still not timed or primed for much blogging but right now I am waiting for someone and it occurred to me that I should share with you something. It started with this article from The New York Times, that has stimulated me immensely: ” Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?”

 

It is a long article in the science section but I am only concentrating on one thing: the possibility of the existence of parallel brains in the parallel universes. It is very possible that in the vastness of the cosmos around you some atoms happened to be assembled exactly in the manner of your own brain, for whatever duration. In this sense, there are the clones of your brain out there floating into the eternity that think like you, feel like you, fear like you, become happy like you and make sense of everything like you do. Isn’t it just amazing? The very thought! 

 

Maybe some brain out there is writing this very blog and there are other brains out there, just like your brain, who are reading it at this very moment. Surreal it maybe but impossible it’s not.

 

And this was the queer thought I wanted to share with you. Until next time, bless your brain folks.  Take care.

This blog is hibernating. January 9, 2008

Hello, to all ye enter. Due to personal commitments and other obsessions, that keep me preoccupied, I am not updating this blog at the moment. I have been noticing the great excitement of presidential primaries in the US. But I am not even blogging about it as my blogging spirit is hibernating. I’ve also been doing some personal writing, that’s one of the obsessions.

I will be back for sure. And then I will blog like a maniac! But for now, I will remain tranquil.

Greetings,

Ember.