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Literature Network Forums - Blogs - Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree by Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?31713-Rubaiyats-of-Lote-Tree The largest classic literature discussion forum on the Internet. Read Write Teach Share. en Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:42:23 GMT vBulletin 10 https://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg Literature Network Forums - Blogs - Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree by Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?31713-Rubaiyats-of-Lote-Tree <![CDATA[London's Burning in the Summer of Madness!]]> https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11869-London-s-Burning-in-the-Summer-of-Madness! Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:57:42 GMT

What can I say?

I am stunned!

This civilisation thing is just a thin veneer in humans and chaos can erupt in an instance.

It is always the minority though spoil it for the rest.

But no one should makes excuses for them.

These rioters and looters are not socially disfranchised. They were wearing latest gear from Nike and were Social Networking on their BlackBerries and Iphones. They are not the Have Nots! or the politically oppressed. These are mindless thugs!

And I hope for the first time in their life they are taught how to take responsibility for their actions... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11869-London-s-Burning-in-the-Summer-of-Madness! Norwegian Wood, Hard-Bolied Wonderland and the End of the World Dissapointments https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11854-Norwegian-Wood-Hard-Bolied-Wonderland-and-the-End-of-the-World-Dissapointments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:27:47 GMT Finally got round to reading "The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
and the "Norwegian Wood" by the Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami.

And what a dissapointment it was on both books!

"Norwegian Wood" started well and then went downhill!....in the end I did not care for any of the characters except one!

The "Hard-Boiled Wonderland..." again I had no connection with the characters. Only thing that kept me going in this book was the desire to know the ending because there were many ways that book could have ended....

My taking up reading again...has been a dissapointment so far. ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11854-Norwegian-Wood-Hard-Bolied-Wonderland-and-the-End-of-the-World-Dissapointments Goodbye Space Shuttle :-( https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11813-Goodbye-Space-Shuttle-( Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:55:18 GMT Goodbye Space Shuttle :-( you have served humanity well....Thank you for taking Hubble to Space...Thank you for correcting Hubble's Eye Sight...Thank you for showing Earth from there with all it's wonders...you will be remembered well... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11813-Goodbye-Space-Shuttle-( <![CDATA[Forgive me Poetry, I don't feel you anymore...]]> https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11451-Forgive-me-Poetry-I-don-t-feel-you-anymore Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:25:05 GMT Forgive me Poetry, I feel you no more...and I know not why.... *Once you filled me with such passion... * Rage Rage against the dying of the... Forgive me Poetry, I feel you no more...and I know not why....

Once you filled me with such passion...

Rage Rage against the dying of the light...

And gave me so much hope....

"What a piece of work is a man,
how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties,
in form and moving how express
and admirable,
in action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!"

And made me so peaceful...

"that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten'd:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame,
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:"

And kept me in enthralled in mystery...

"a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things..."

And showed me the power of love...

"When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams..."

But now the words "feel" like the sound of heavy raindrops falling against concrete...

May be I am begining to understand why Charles Darwin could no longer read poetry and William Blake rebelled against the cult of reason and the Newtonian Mechanics which robbed the universe of mystery and ambiguity.

I guess without mystery, ambiguity and vagueness...poetry does not always work effectively...

or may be all poetry needs to die in each individual from time to time for it to become meaningful again....

Until then Poetry...I shall miss you.... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11451-Forgive-me-Poetry-I-don-t-feel-you-anymore Philosophy is Dead! https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11435-Philosophy-is-Dead! Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:59:41 GMT Philosophy alas you are Dead!

So writes Professor Stephen Hawking in his new book "The Grand Design".

You have been dead for me for a long time now because you promised so much and gave so little in return.

Goodbye Philosophy.

I loved you once. I loved you with my heart. I loved you with all my soul.

But like all loves it always comes to an end...so it has with you...

I will remember the fun times we had - from dreaming up Ideal Forms and chaining ourselves to the walls of the Myths of the Cave in search of Wisdom and to find the meaning of The Good Life.

The unexamined life is not worth living you said. Ergo cogito sum or it could have been I am therefore I think. You declared God is Dead even though you couldn't prove his or her existence!

But it does not matter. It was arrogant of us to think that we can find the Universal Truth with the power of thought alone.

I have a new love now. This love has taken me to the moon and back. And revealed to me the meaning of my life - Where I came from, Where I am headed. She is so beautiful. So elegant and refined. I named her Science! ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11435-Philosophy-is-Dead! The death of the Father https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11374-The-death-of-the-Father Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:42:03 GMT Strange is it not that in the end we become like our fathers? In the manner of our speech, in the way we walk...look at me now...head down walking... Strange is it not that in the end we become like our fathers?

In the manner of our speech, in the way we walk...look at me now...head down walking few paces and then looking up and then doing this again, pushing up the shoulders from side to side as if you are carrying something on them...

My father - he was the kindest of souls. He loved me so much from the moment of my conception. He wanted me so much. I was his pride and joy. He never ate without me. Never went to bed without making sure I was ok. He would never abandon me. He would put my life before his.

He would seek me out in my solitudes and transform my day into a moment of happiness. In my failings he would lift me up with his encouragements. In my moment of despair his comforting embrace would dispel the gloom like a ray of shunshine.

Yes. I loved my father. I loved him very much.

But alas...my father was none of these things I speak of because that was not my father I was talking about.. It was a father I imagined. A father I conjured up using the power of my imagination. A father I dreamt up in my lonelinesses and abandonments because this is the father I desired and never got.

So young and confused and envious of the fathers of my childhood friends. How their fathers treated them and how much they wanted them. How much they cared about them. How much they loved them.

It still hurts. It still hurts. So young and confused and envious. But as you grow up you realise indifference is just as powerful as hate. Neglect can be as painful as a physical wound.

Wounded and hurt how do you forgive the Indifferent? How do you mourn for someone who was indifferent to you?

I shared only half set of chromosomes. That is the only connection isn't it. That is the link isn't it? But I share this link with all the lifeform on this planet.

No. Mere snippets of DNA can't make one a father. I guess it takes something else. It takes a degree of courage and selflessness and above all - love.

Today, I have manged to rise above my all my anger and all the hurt and come to this moment of stillness - a perfect peace to say "I forgive you father - however indifferent this might be to you and in return I ask for forgiveness for all my own failings too. However indifferent this might be also".

And as great Socrates might have written "You are gone to meet your God. Let him make his judgement. I with my life to wait for mine." ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?11374-The-death-of-the-Father Can Science Explain Everything? https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10709-Can-Science-Explain-Everything Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:33:35 GMT *Can Science Explain Everything?* Yes. Said the man. No. Said the Philosopher. Where is your evidence said the man? I have none. Are my... Can Science Explain Everything?

Yes. Said the man.

No. Said the Philosopher.

Where is your evidence said the man?

I have none. Are my thoughts not good enough?

Can Science Explain Everything?

Yes. Said the Man.

No. Said the Mystic.

You can't Explain my subjective Experience.
You can never know whether my Experience of the Color Green is same as your Experience of the Color Green.

But I can Explain why you see the color Green - is that not good enough said the man?

And also suppose said the man, I am able to read your brain patterns and translate this into an image on display screen and you agreed that is the colour you are seeing?

Is that good enough? ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10709-Can-Science-Explain-Everything The Day We Became Gods! https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10430-The-Day-We-Became-Gods! Thu, 20 May 2010 19:46:45 GMT ---Quote--- Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the...

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...etic-life-form

Incredible achievement?

or Pandora's Box has been finally opened? ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10430-The-Day-We-Became-Gods! <![CDATA[It's just a feeling...]]> https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10427-It-s-just-a-feeling Thu, 20 May 2010 11:51:08 GMT It's just a feeling that she makes me feel so complete...but without hesitation now I click Delete...

There is no need to dismantle the sun
or pack up the woods
or humanize doves... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10427-It-s-just-a-feeling <![CDATA[See things Through Women's Eyes and Bodies?]]> https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10396-See-things-Through-Women-s-Eyes-and-Bodies Fri, 14 May 2010 14:24:07 GMT Thanks to technology now you can! Men never seems to understand women. Here is the begining how men will be girls and all mothers will be truly be... Thanks to technology now you can!

Men never seems to understand women. Here is the begining how men will be girls and all mothers will be truly be happy :-)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...nto-girls.html

There is endless possibilities for this ;-) ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10396-See-things-Through-Women-s-Eyes-and-Bodies Chimps mourn for the Dead? https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10289-Chimps-mourn-for-the-Dead Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:38:01 GMT

We have seen chimps use tools, show compasion and empathy.

Now chimps seems to mourn for the dead...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...heir-dead.html

Is there anything left that is uniquely Human? ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10289-Chimps-mourn-for-the-Dead In Search of Solitude... https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10255-In-Search-of-Solitude Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:04:45 GMT In our modern hectic life I guess there is very little room for solitude. We are constantly on the move. Either physically going from A to B - and... In our modern hectic life I guess there is very little room for solitude. We are constantly on the move. Either physically going from A to B - and for those who work there is no escape from this - or mentally - hopping channel after channel, or going from one website to another.

Some equate solitude with loneliness. But it's not. Loneliness is when you desire the company of others and don't have it. Solitude is when you have the company of others but choose to be alone.

Those who read books I am guessing also value solitude because reading books is also a solitary experience.

I have always enjoyed solitude. Not that I am anti-social or socially enept or something but rather it's in my nature. In my character. I could happily walk the wilderness on my own or sit down on a river bank and watch the water flow. Others in this situation would become restless or get bored.

I can say - I enjoy my own company.

Is that an arrogant approach? A selfish position?

Does anyone else enjoy their own company?

I wonder how many.... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10255-In-Search-of-Solitude Hanging Parliament! https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10244-Hanging-Parliament! Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:29:23 GMT There is a General Election in the UK. May 6th. Voters here have become cynical due to recent expenses scandal of the MPs, the Banking... There is a General Election in the UK.

May 6th.

Voters here have become cynical due to recent expenses scandal of the MPs, the Banking Crisis, the Recession and the wars that the current goverment took us in.

Usually the race is between Conservative Party (equivalent would be The Republican Party in US and the Labour Party (equivalent to the Democrats in the US).

There is always a Third Party in the contention. And they are the Liberal Democrats. I don't know what would be the equivalent for this party in the US. But usually they are not taken seriously by voters here - not because they have bad policies - but because they will never have the chance to win in an election due to the First Past the Post voting system.

Anyway something remarkable has happened. First time in British Parliamentary Democracy the leaders of the main parties were put in a televised debate, like the way they do in the US (can't escape the Americanism! :-)). And the Liberal Democrats scored a hit with the Opinon Polls!

As a result of this there is now possibly a three way contest in the election with all three parties gaining around 30% of the vote each.

And that means there is more likely to be a Hung Parliament!

What does that mean? That means no party has overall majority. And only way to form a government is to go in coalition with other parties.

That will teach'em!

Hang the Parliament! ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10244-Hanging-Parliament! The Dark Web https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10208-The-Dark-Web Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:53:47 GMT There is something sinister going in the Cyber Space - The Emergence of the The Dark Web. No Search Engines dares to go there. If they stray close to... There is something sinister going in the Cyber Space - The Emergence of the The Dark Web. No Search Engines dares to go there. If they stray close to it they get sucked in and get eaten.

In this Dark Web everything goes. What cannot be said is said. What cannot be done is done. What cannot be expressed is expressed. Here is the freedom without any responsibility.

Is this something we all desire - Freedom without any responsibility?

The Dark Web is watching you.

Be afraid you don't stray to near ;-) ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10208-The-Dark-Web Dreams of Fire, Freezing and Floods https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10195-Dreams-of-Fire-Freezing-and-Floods Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:20:03 GMT Why I am getting these strange dreams? Dreams of global catastrophic fire, freezing and Floods? Have the climate change scientists sending... Why I am getting these strange dreams?

Dreams of global catastrophic fire, freezing and Floods?

Have the climate change scientists sending subliminal messages through the ether to the rest of the world? But I don't need convincing!

or have I been watching too much Hollywood movies?!

Neither I suspect. I have not watched Hollywood for a while. Last film I watched was Avatar.

I used to dream of snakes. Gigantic snakes stretching from horizon to horizon or reaching up into the atmosphere. Small snakes, millions of them. Snake dreams where quite re-occurent. I had a phobia of snakes. But now they are very rare. That could be because I am overcoming my fear of snakes. I found those snake dreams quite unsettling.

However in these Fire, Freezing and Floods dreams I don't feel fear - just terrible sadness of it all... ]]> Lote-Tree https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?10195-Dreams-of-Fire-Freezing-and-Floods