this is my first blog from home,and i am here with a friend who is calling me lukka (vella in IITB lingo)...he is pondering right now on marriage proposals advertisements .A few years early though his adventures.
i read three books during my stay till now
1.made in japan-akoi morita
2.bridge across forever-richard bach
3.alexander-the ends of the earth by valerio manfredi
funny thing about the third book i once told my friend when we were parting after 12th that if he calls me i will follow him to the ends of this earth.
meanwhile i wait for his call tsunami has hit india and south east asia ...
everything in the world is so transient and so fickle
so diverse but united
varun signing out 4om chandigarh
Sunday, December 26, 2004
Thursday, December 16, 2004
The return of ...
Home Coming
Tommorow i leave for home ,with hope that i reach home.Journey's are like life ,they are uncertain..Everytime i embark on the journey home,i don't know whether i will be back again .I don't know why but i feel out of place everytime i go home,as if its not mine.It is abtract unclear why i feel this, but i avoid going home.........
Tommorow i leave for home ,with hope that i reach home.Journey's are like life ,they are uncertain..Everytime i embark on the journey home,i don't know whether i will be back again .I don't know why but i feel out of place everytime i go home,as if its not mine.It is abtract unclear why i feel this, but i avoid going home.........
Friday, December 03, 2004
###$$$
life is ?????
here it goes zoom..........
i am back to reading again yuppie ,semester project is over finallyoh it was killing me,all the fumes from the soldering,connecting wires goosh!!
i read hemingway during the last week,this week i am back again to fininsh my business with aristotle and kant.
something i require to exercise
Rhetoric is useful (1) because things that are true and things that
are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites,
so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be,
the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be
blamed accordingly.
Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the
possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we
say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies
instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct. Here,
then, we must use, as our modes of persuasion and argument, notions
possessed by everybody, as we observed in the Topics when dealing
with the way to handle a popular audience.
Further, (3) we must be
able to employ persuasion, just as strict reasoning can be employed,
on opposite sides of a question, not in order that we may in practice
employ it in both ways (for we must not make people believe what is
wrong), but in order that we may see clearly what the facts are, and
that, if another man argues unfairly, we on our part may be able to
confute him. No other of the arts draws opposite conclusions: dialectic
and rhetoric alone do this. Both these arts draw opposite conclusions
impartially. Nevertheless, the underlying facts do not lend themselves
equally well to the contrary views. No; things that are true and things
that are better are, by their nature, practically always easier to
prove and easier to believe in.
Again, (4) it is absurd to hold that
a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his
limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason,
when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being
than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses
such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge
which may be made in common against all good things except virtue,
and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength,
health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits
by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using
them wrongly.
these great words describe something i considered not necessary though after reading ,i inculcated them into my memory
here it goes zoom..........
i am back to reading again yuppie ,semester project is over finallyoh it was killing me,all the fumes from the soldering,connecting wires goosh!!
i read hemingway during the last week,this week i am back again to fininsh my business with aristotle and kant.
something i require to exercise
Rhetoric is useful (1) because things that are true and things that
are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites,
so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be,
the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be
blamed accordingly.
Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the
possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we
say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies
instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct. Here,
then, we must use, as our modes of persuasion and argument, notions
possessed by everybody, as we observed in the Topics when dealing
with the way to handle a popular audience.
Further, (3) we must be
able to employ persuasion, just as strict reasoning can be employed,
on opposite sides of a question, not in order that we may in practice
employ it in both ways (for we must not make people believe what is
wrong), but in order that we may see clearly what the facts are, and
that, if another man argues unfairly, we on our part may be able to
confute him. No other of the arts draws opposite conclusions: dialectic
and rhetoric alone do this. Both these arts draw opposite conclusions
impartially. Nevertheless, the underlying facts do not lend themselves
equally well to the contrary views. No; things that are true and things
that are better are, by their nature, practically always easier to
prove and easier to believe in.
Again, (4) it is absurd to hold that
a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his
limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason,
when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being
than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses
such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge
which may be made in common against all good things except virtue,
and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength,
health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits
by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using
them wrongly.
these great words describe something i considered not necessary though after reading ,i inculcated them into my memory