Arif Shora’s Thought Dump

Since many past days I have been struggling to find time and motivation to add a post to my blog. It has been devoid of a paragraph for more than a year. Now here I have held on to my once-gathered thoughts again wherein I believe I would be able to deliver a worthwhile point.

A year. I haven’t compared this past year with history but intuition tells me a lot more has happened in this year. My problem for long has been that I struggle to form opinions about any otherwise serious matter. But cursing myself has born its fruits and now it seems I have a view on the things that matter. Long time back by way of watching a movie I came to know of a phenomenon called Butterfly Effect. It is the flutter of many wings in one’s past that make up a person. A person is nothing but the person’s history, hardly matters whether his visualization starts prior to his birth or otherwise. So here starts my journey of arguments which are mostly with myself. Yes I form and express my opinions now. I opine that every evil in this world has its roots at ego satisfying desires, hunger for power and the resulting corruption. I opine that everyone can desire this world to be a peaceful place but it never will be; not without a miracle. So would everyone desire that an event of flutter of some butterfly’s wing would occur in near time and some space around the earth which would cause a chain of events that would lead to an end to whatever evil exists in this world.

There is a very controversial documentary film doing rounds on Web called Zeitgeist, meaning ‘the spirit of the time’. It no doubt helped my handicap of not being able to form strong opinions. But I would rather be careful. It presents a very dangerous point of view. The points it tries to prove by gathering of facts are really thought provoking. As an example, it attributes the power of decision making at Federal Reserve to some major influential international bankers. It says whatever wars America has fought during and post World War I was just to print more and more money and make the bankers richer. This may not sound that ridiculous when you watch this film for yourself. The other two major issues this, propagandist or not, film deals with are Christianity and 9/11. The director of the film tries to show the ‘evolution’ of Christian faith. 9/11 part is just an emphasis of what Michael Moore showed in his ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′. But Peter Joseph, the director of Zeitgeist, provides the reasoning behind too and also deals with truth behind 7/7 London bombings.

An opinion among a considerable number of people exists that US government is controlled by a secret agency. It does not matter who is elected in this week’s elections if that’s true. Be it a $700bn bailout, Afghanistan (no oil country), Iraq, Iran, 9/11, Pearl Harbour, blowing up of US Submarines by Germans, Vietnam and God-knows-what-next; who knows it could really be greed of the amount of interest that goes along with every legal tender called US dollar that is printed and is pocketed by international bankers a lot of whom could be forming blood of the undercover organization. This is just a point of view. An opinion. Expressed by someone and either because of lack of better imagination or intuitive realization of authenticity of this opinion, I endorsed it. Will sustain the endorsement until my research digs into something more rigid and easier to digest view point.

I seriously hope this undercover bunch of members do not form the wing of the butterfly whose flutter could have devastating effect on the world. This year, not much may have happened, but subprime, Lehman fallout, surging crude and a bail out: pray that these were not the planned moves of the dangerous intellectuals sitting at the invisible top. Pray that least of the Zeitgeist ‘facts’ are actually facts. Pray that the sanity and compassion prevail among the hearts of world leaders and pray they be equipped with vision to solve the disputes surrounding Palestine-Israel, North Korea, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Russia-Georgia, and take steps to alleviate poverty in many Asian and African countries to make this world a more worthwhile place live.