POEM_: ODA 101 - Laws, and Laws

ODA 101 – Laws, and Laws

Asked the disciple:

“So, all things in Nature

happen, as per Natural Laws?

“No”, said Oda,

“They do not.

“Citizenslive”,

continued Oda,

“as per the laws of their land. 

And courts judge,

as per those same laws.

“But laws arebroken”,

concluded Oda,

“Laws are ordained

by the powerful human beings, which other

less powerful ones, sometimes

endeavour to work, in contravention of.”

“But”, the confused disciple

blabbered: “Aren’t the laws of Nature,

similarly ordained by Nature?”

“Not really”, clarified Oda,

“Everything, including humans

is Nature.  And everything in Nature

works as per Nature.  A contravention

is notpossible.”

Oh, Oda,

now we understand, what you are telling

your disciple: Human laws

and Nature

are categoriesapart –

laws are those that can be broken;

Nature’s working, is always natural –

no contravention is possible,

no matter how much

it seemsto be so.

Thus, Nature’s “laws” are not mere

laws.  They are

the Reality,

the Truth,

the Nature.

That, I do not understand

what isnatural, in what situation

is a testimony to my ignorance;

and the seeming contravention

of the Natural

is onlythe failure

of mydogma!

And my dogma

any dogma

can bea law; a law,

not the Reality.

Not the Truth.

Not the Nature.

We mustn’t term them laws:

the Realities of Nature;

for then, we begin to believe

that like the laws of the humans,

the Nature’s “laws”

are also “made”

and canthus be “broken”. 

And Nature, thus

can be at par

or inferior

to our dogmas,

springing out of our

infinitesimally partial knowledge,

and humungous ignorance.

-

owais

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This is first being published here. A note on this poem below...

This poem is about how we get confused between Natural 'laws', and human laws: Human laws are conventions that we have accepted as supportive of quality in our lives, while Natural 'laws' are actually the way Nature works.  The fundamental difference is that human laws can be flouted by some, or even all of us.  However, Nature, or Reality works the way it does: the Sun never rises in the West, and when it will, it will do so perfectly naturally.  Nothing and no one can ever countermand the Natural 'laws', quite irrespective of the quantum of ignorance we have of those ‘laws’. 

Even the most uncertainty promoting principles of human knowledge, those of quantum mechanics primarily talk of the uncertainty merely in observation / knowledge.  There is no way it can be known for certain that everything is uncertain at quantum levels!  In fact, if things actually do function at random, then quite logically ours cannot be the only Universe, and by that token Reality is only an illusion!  What's worse, only an illusion out of infinite illusions!! 

It can therefore safely be said that Natural laws cannot be broken; not merely that we have never observed a natural law having been broken.  Thus, to call both kinds of 'laws' as laws is extreme idiocy.  It is this idiocy that has given sellers of various dogmas, especially the religious ones, a legitimacy which they can neither have, nor deserve.

This poem, which I have just written today, rues this blunder of ours.

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POEM_: The Four Ignoble Untruths

POEM_:  The Four Ignoble Untruths

The Four Ignoble Untruths:

Dogma, Unreality, Suffering, Bondage

Why mustI

oppose dogma,

religious,

or secular?

Primarily, because

it opposes truth.

Does it?

How?

Merely,

by considering itself

inviolable. 

Irrespective, of whether

the evidence

– our only

arbiter of truth-content –

supports it,

or opposes it.

Or, currently,

is unavailable.

Dogma,

must always pretend

to stand tall.

And why

is truthimportant?

Because,

it represents reality.

And unless

we are rooted

in reality,

we suffer.

For reality,

happens anyway.

Irrespective of whether

we, and our dogma

want it to happen,

or not.

And if,

we realize that

we can work towards

correctives,

or palliatives.

Before-hand,

or after-the-fact.

Dogma,

rejecting evidence,

disempowering us,

leads us to untruth,

unreality,

suffering.

Suffering,

like most

Terrorism, War, Violence

Racism, Jingoism, Fascism, Nazism, Anti-Semitism

Misogyny, Homophobia

and even, the Ecological Imperative.

How can I not

oppose dogma:

the promoter,

numero uno,

of untruth,

of the unreal?

The root

of most human suffering?

I may still

desire the unreal:

like I may want

my dead mother back,

my lost youth regifted,

love from all

those that I loved,

who never loved me back. 

At least, not in a measure

I found acceptable.

There is no harm

in desiring all that. 

So long as I know

it is all my desire,

not reality.  For then,

the absence does not

morph into suffering.

If Hitler had known

that Aryans are no master-race,

but on the contrary

his mere belief;

and if his followers had known

or believed that –

we wouldn’t quite have needed

the word, ‘holocaust’.

If Christians had believed

that God is a mere figment

of their imagination,

they would have yet

respected the Earth, and not converted

to the new religion

of freemarketism, with its clergy

of noble-ordained economists

who, with their dogma of interminable growth

have brought us past

the point-of-no-return

to the Ecological Imperative.

And if this realization had visited

the minions of Muhammad,

they may have bestowed, some

peace upon us.

Religious, or secular,

how canI not

oppose dogma?

And how can I not

demand the freedom of expression

to uncover the evils of dogma,

the only real devil,

for that freedom is of nothing

but to pursue the truth,

the reality,

the end to most

human suffering?

How can I accept the bondage

that takes me

and myhumen

to suffering, unreality, dogma?

-

owais

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 This is first being published here.

POEM_: In Danger

In Danger

Millions of Muslims

all around the globe

worry that

Muslims are in danger.

The theologians, and other

self-appointed saviours

of Muslims, however,

tell them, “No,

Islam is in danger”.

And Muslims chant,

“Islam in danger”,

“Islam in danger”,

“Islam in danger”.

Well, Islam

should be in danger.

As should all other

religions, dogmas: religious,

or otherwise.

Why?

Because dogma

has no interest

in truth. 

All it does,

like all other

biologically living

individuals, collectives,

and even cultures

is to fight

for its own survival.

And like all other

battles for survival,

shies away from no tactic

that promises it survival.

But truth fights no battles.

For it’s not merely

biological.  And its survival

can neverbe threatened. 

For truth is,

what is.

And was,

what was;

and will be

what will be.

Even time,

the power that vanquishes all

has no power

over It.

So,

truth fights no fight.

It even allows dogma

to pretend

that it isthe Truth.

And thus, dogma,

all dogma

is free to wear the pants

of the truth

and do all it sees fit

to survive. Even

fight the truth, itself:

a war, it mustknow

it cannot win.

However,

what dogma fights,

usually in the garb

of the truth,

is actually

other dogma.

So, all the Islams,

Judaisms and Christianities

and even, some

Hinduisms and Buddhisms

of the world, as also

the Communisms and Capitalisms

are the monstersthat care nothing

about anything, or anyone,

including their greatest worshippers.

All they wish to do

is to vanquish rival dogmas,

and thus, of course,

hope to survive

at least as long

as the human species.

But in the process

Muslims, and Christians,

and Hindus, and Buddhists

and Communists, and Capitalists

are hurt.  The humans

are endangered.

Yes, all dogma,

all Islam, all Christianity,

all Communism, all Capitalism

should be in danger. 

For only then, will humans

not be endangered.

Unfortunately,

it is not so.

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