Non-existence of/and interesting stuff

Well, as you can see, there are two ways of reading the title of this post. Although most readers will find the 'of' version of the title more apt, i am "against hope hopen" that somebody will prefer 'and'.

To be absolutely frank with you, i have precisely zero enthu in writing this post. I have nothing to blog about and no clue whatsoever, at this stage atleast, how i am going to keep your eyes glued to your monitor screen for the next few seconds, or minutes, depending on the length of this post. But, due to sheer joblessness and an acute shortage of better pastime (one can only play so much fifa, dash it, especially after losing to muggesh twice on the trot, and da vinci code ended up falling spectacularly short of delivering what juntha promised it would, although the plot was still spicy and exciting) , i have been driven to the dashboard to try and engage the attention of the modest number of patrons to my blog for a few precious minutes (yeah, after such a long and drab para, made lengthier by this observation, this blog will take minutes, and not seconds, to read). Whew!!! What a long sentence!!!

One cannot find better evidence than the preceding lines for the fact that i really wasn't joking when i said that i have nothing to write about. And i am forced to assure you that i am yet to strike an inspiration. Hang on. Let's see. Hmm... oh... nah... hmm... ah... hmm... nah... hmm... oh-ah........... dammit. Unfortunately, this inspired flow of thought has been interrupted. It's time for sandhi, grub and L.M finals. And i shall take this opportunity to gleefully remind all non-taptians, especially those smart alecs who patronisingly smirked their a**es off at all those "unfortunate maggus" who got into tapti, that we are in with a very good chance for a maiden lit-soc truimph, thanks to spirited all-round fight by several patriotic taptians. Yeah, that's right. GO TAPTI!!! TAPTI ROCKS!!! Keep reading, though, for the thought process referred to earlier will, hopefully, bear fruit, sooner, i am sure you wish, than later.

Hello....i'm back and with some bad news. Tapti has failed to get placed in L.M, in spite of a very good show. The lead singer Shankar was just amazing and got a special mention. Although there is some respite in the fact that Mandak too failed to get placed after a mediocre performance in which Bha was the lone star, the fight for lit-soc is now on. Alak, the deserving winners, were just on a different level. I mean, they were just so professional that they gave the judge not much choice. The second and third places, to Saras and Godav respectively, were as obvious to most as the fact that it snows regularly in Chennai. I may sound extremely biased and seem a very sore loser, but that's what i honestly feel. Even offhand, i can mention atleast a couple of performances that were better than Saras and Godav.


Ok...getting back to less controversial and more relevant matters, where was i before L.M? Ya, that's right...hmm...ha...ah... hmm...nah...hmm...oh...ah-ha...bingo...yippeee...yoo-hoo. YES. This is it. That's straight from the feed-box. What i'm trying to say is, well, it's official. I finally have a topic to ramble upon. Here it starts. The real stuff.


Let me be frank with you. The flash of inspiration still eludes me. But, hidden in that very candid confession, are the goods. If somebody can write about something, can i not blog about nothing? That is, is not nothing something? Do you concur? Fine. So far so good. If you are with me so far, i am sure you will agree that, rephrasing, all that i have said so far is that everything in the world is something.


Where does all this crap lead up to? It results, i assure you, in some staggering arguements. Let me put it this way. Doesn't the statement 'X is not equal to Y' increase the probability that X is equal to Z, given that Y is not equal to Z? Specifically, isn't the fact that your hair isn't maroon (i hope) evidence in favour of the fact that your hair is black or white or brown or blonde or any other non-maroon colour? Whew!


This is, in fact, the gist of the not-so-famous ravens paradox, i think it is called. It basically says that the statement that "all ravens are black" is logically equivalent to the statement "all non-black-things are non-ravens". A red apple, for instance, is a non-black-thing, and when we examine it, we observe that it is a non-raven. So, by the principle of induction, observing a red apple should increase our belief that all ravens are black!!! Gelett Burgess succintly summarizes this problem as:

" I never saw a purple cow

But if I were to see one

Would the probability ravens are black

Have a better chance to be one? "

The aforementioned concept of the perception of non-existence, as a matter of fact, finds it's seed in the fundamental ancient Indian concept of Abhava, as any proficient Indian philosopher, say, for instance, the BoFi, will inform you. It's a refreshing and radical way of going about things, i feel. Well, this time around, i have nothing against the channel of reasoning as i find it perfectly sane and logical (unlike, you will recall, in the case of murphy's law).


Well, this post has certainly dragged on very monotonously. It's high time somebody put an end to this insipid babeling. To quote our H.O.D Dr.Srinivasan when he interrupts, and puts an end to, our wednesday double vitto class at 4, saving most of us from lunacy, "Thank me, i say!!"