Deviants

n.
One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.

In a given set of people, the majority (say 80%) would usually do same kind of things i.e. follow a predefined stereotype. The remaining 20% will want to deviate from the regular average world and do things differently.

Interestingly these deviant 20% are the ones who perform all the innovations. Scientist who look like horrible animals but come up with theories which change the way we know our world forever. Artists and musicians whos works are remembered hundreds of years after they die. Incidentally, the deviant people deviate in all kinds of ways which include way of dressing and mannerisms.

In the earlier world, most of them were labelled witches or monsters and burnt at stake or maybe put in prison. The number of deviant people have more or less remained the same. But nowadays, the world is more moderate towards the deviant. So more of them come out of the closet thus we see more of deviant people these days.

It has been seen that many of the famous creative people were/are gays: Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Elton John, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lord Byron.., its an endless list.

We would see more innovation if we are more tolerant towards the deviant. As long as they don't harm other human beings deviants should be accepted by society.

God save Lord Ayyappa from women

A case is running in the High Court and the government is about to order a Crime Branch probe.

Incident: A popular actress visited the temple. WoW

http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/08/stories/2006070811900400.htm

A website dedicated to the Lord Ayyappa temple says -

"Sabarimala temple is open to all, irrespective of caste, creed, religion, social status or nationality." Notice the absence of the word "gender". Women are not allowed in the temple. They bar 50% of the population and claim to be open to all.

The reason provided "This is because the Lord is a chaste yogi in Sabarimala." So our great god is so weak that he cannot even control his urge if he looks at a woman ?

Shouldn't we expect our gods to be stronger willed ?

I would imagine a being like god to be much above things like ego, desire, revenge etc. How can the presence of one woman annoy god ? And if any act annoys god, would god be expected to take revenge from other people who are in no way concerned with the act ?

The power hungry and self assumed spokesmen of god, protray god as cheap as they themselves are.

Backward Class

Einstien told us that everything is relative. When we say certain section of people are backward, they need to be backward in comparison to a control group. What is that control group ? Can people of another country be considered a control group, thereby declaring a whole country as backward ? Do people in Somalia (no offense to the country) need a reservation because everyone is backward ? Would it even make any sense reserving jobs in the country to the whole population of the country ?

Can a minority of one country be taken as a control group to declare the rest of the population as backward. If yes, do we need some minimum size of this forward minority ? Does one forward person make the whole country backward by comparison ?

I say NO. A group should be termed backward only when its backward in comparison to the majority of the population. So declaring that 75% of the population is backward is implicitly wrong. The number of backward people can never be more than 50%, otherwise that's how the country is, with only a minority group who are forward but no-one backward.

Reservation of any resource for the majority of a population is not actually reservation. It's simply apartheid. It means they are excluding one particular minority group from accessing the resource which is available to everyone else.

Split Personality

Whenever I chat with someone and then later talk to them, I feel the person on chat was somewhat different from the person I am talking to. Again the same happens when I meet the person.

It looks like it is possible to communicate with three personalities in every person. The person face to face is the most modest and consequently the most camouflaged. The person on the phone is somewhere in the middle. The person on chat is the most open.

Probably to keep the facial expressions under control, people control all their emotions and hide a lot of their personality. The person on the chat feels he/she cannot be seen and so doesn't put so much effort into hiding his/her feelings.

This is what my friend 'Deepak' had to add on reading this post

"Its not that I am not what I am in person. I am that also and this also. It's true that I don't control or restrain much while on chat. but on chat I don't mind being serious. Or speak like Plato.

There more time to think and analyze on chat. When face to face or even on phone, you speak the first thing on your mind but on chat, it occurs that I say 4th or 5th thing. Also, there is relatively nil degree of fear.
This fear can be of many types - like you might fear that the other person might get angry, might not like it, might think something about u or u might not be able to explain properly and a misunderstanding might develop

In-person, the mind has to control so much more, the body language, the dialogue delivery, the tone, timbre, depth, for required impression

I think chat brings out our true relationship with the particular person more nicely."