Ships come in all sizes. People mistakenly thought that 'size matters' in all matters related to ships, until the Titanic sank. So that was that. But one cannot deny that in the history of mankind, ships have played a major role- losing their way to the Americas and starting the Wal-Mart and McDonald's revolution, so integral to the progress of mankind. Where would we be without consumerism , and burgers? Dosas are just not enough to drive a giga-trillion dollar world economy.
So this is a historic analysis of various ships and their contribution to mankind. On a serious note, before we get hilarious (or delirious), Neil Armstrong died yesterday, the guy whose moonwalk was a giant step for mankind. The Star'ship' Enterprise too, went where no man has gone before (some people joked, like to the women's loo).
Anyway, let's get back to some mundane earthly ships, rather than take starry flights into celestial territory. Ships are of different kinds. The most beneficial are those like censorship- these are ships that stop a thousand launches (reversing the Cleopatra paradigm). You may well ask- how? Well, before you launch your face(book) stuff, you need to clear it from about ten different members of this ship. So, that's creating a new job opportunity for ten very creative and hitherto unemployed people, who will think of new reasons why you should not be twittering or facebooking around. After all, birds are supposed to twitter, not humans of five feet- something height. The number of jobs thus generated would boggle the mind, and the word 'unemployment' would be banished from common usage. Maybe left to discover a new home, in space, on a ship created to cart it out, along with other undesirables.
Well, the other forms of ships may include trusteeship, which is something the Mahatma talked about. But since nobody remembers what it is exactly, we will defer a discussion to a later date. In fact, until Raju Hirani made his second Munnabhai film, we were not sure who the Mahatma was either!
Coming to ships we are more familiar with, we have ownership. This is not a ship at all, but something that establishes that Man A is the owner of a thing B. This is to be strictly avoided, because according to all philosophers across ages, from Confucius (he was actually very clear, not confused at all), to Buddha, it puts you on a trajectory away from self-realisation. So if you want Mukti, Nirvana, or Eternal Bliss, think of taking a voyage on any ship but this one.
More later, as this analysis will take much longer than I thought. I don't want to miss my ship..rather, bus!
So this is a historic analysis of various ships and their contribution to mankind. On a serious note, before we get hilarious (or delirious), Neil Armstrong died yesterday, the guy whose moonwalk was a giant step for mankind. The Star'ship' Enterprise too, went where no man has gone before (some people joked, like to the women's loo).
Anyway, let's get back to some mundane earthly ships, rather than take starry flights into celestial territory. Ships are of different kinds. The most beneficial are those like censorship- these are ships that stop a thousand launches (reversing the Cleopatra paradigm). You may well ask- how? Well, before you launch your face(book) stuff, you need to clear it from about ten different members of this ship. So, that's creating a new job opportunity for ten very creative and hitherto unemployed people, who will think of new reasons why you should not be twittering or facebooking around. After all, birds are supposed to twitter, not humans of five feet- something height. The number of jobs thus generated would boggle the mind, and the word 'unemployment' would be banished from common usage. Maybe left to discover a new home, in space, on a ship created to cart it out, along with other undesirables.
Well, the other forms of ships may include trusteeship, which is something the Mahatma talked about. But since nobody remembers what it is exactly, we will defer a discussion to a later date. In fact, until Raju Hirani made his second Munnabhai film, we were not sure who the Mahatma was either!
Coming to ships we are more familiar with, we have ownership. This is not a ship at all, but something that establishes that Man A is the owner of a thing B. This is to be strictly avoided, because according to all philosophers across ages, from Confucius (he was actually very clear, not confused at all), to Buddha, it puts you on a trajectory away from self-realisation. So if you want Mukti, Nirvana, or Eternal Bliss, think of taking a voyage on any ship but this one.
More later, as this analysis will take much longer than I thought. I don't want to miss my ship..rather, bus!
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