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If life is an illusion, is there ever a way to find out? It would explain so many things, especially that we can’t explain many things… because they would be just illusions, un-real, simulated, maybe by some giant computer, or maybe, by just a single mind. What, if your, my, our mind is just generating all this. We are a lonely meaningless entity somewhere in the nothingness of something… and we felt so lonely that we made our own illusions, to betray ourselves, make existence more interesting.
But the problem is: This idea is just another god. God is an idea, created - consciously or unconsciously - by someone to explain all those things that are else unexplainable. And: to make life easier, bearable. But the problem with any such god (it may be god, Allah, the Big Bang, the matrix (as I would describe the above scenario) or any other “explanation for the unexplainable”) is that you need to believe. Even the most scientific one, the big bang, is just a believe. It has a high chance of being true, but we can’t even explain it, why it happened. Why anything exists at all!
So, if you believe this one dogma that’s behind - that the big bang happened, that there is a timeless god, that everything is an illusion created in some “outside” to trick me or you or all of us - then this is a believe, a god. The Big Bang is a god, the Matrix is a god.
To make the unbearable (life) bearable it seems that mankind, that every human being, always has to have something to hold onto. Depending on the time and the knowledge of the time and the individual, this idea may vary - at the time where just humans were known the idea of a human-like god seemed obvious. When science and explosions were discovered the idea that everything came through a combination of these two became obvious. And nowadays in the age of computers the idea that everything is just a generated world, an illusion, hologram, matrix, whatever you want to call it, becomes obvious.
In the future we or our heirs will look back and laugh about these ideas as much as we laugh nowadays about all those older gods. Well, all those laugh that don’t still hold onto them.

So, the big question is this: Will we one day reach a state where we can try it ourselves? Will we generate a little world inside a computer or whatever follows after, to check if one inside would experience it the same way that we do right now? I’m sure we will… and maybe, yes, maybe, we are all just part of a funny experiment…

The evolution of thought has just begun.

Konstantin D. A. Scheller

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It is not enough, it will never work, to just sooth the pain or to just put plaster on a broken leg. You have to find the reason for the pain, you have to put the bone back into its original position - if you want to heal the body.

Just like for our body it is also for our society. It is not enough to just donate food or money, just to help those who are suffering. We have to find the reason for the suffering. And we have to crush those, to destroy those who are the reason. It is always other humans, who are, knowingly, the reason. Who don’t care that others suffer for their benefit. If we can eradicate the type of human that does not care - then we can eradicate at least the most severe forms of suffering.

But this we is not just a random all-including we. There is no excuse like this. It’s I, and it’s you. Nobody else has to do it, you, I, we have to do it. Not some random person somewhere else. So, if you see it, the suffering, give freely, with an open heart. And if you see the reason for it - make sure that you don’t let a single seed remain. That you destroy the reason, once and for all, complete.

And you may find, that I, you are the reason or at least part of it. So, start acting on yourself and start eradicating all those habits and believes that cause more suffering. Remember: There is no excuse. And now, as you know (and you knew before, but you just denied it!) you can’t avoid it. You have to start or else this knowledge, suppressed inside of your mind will slowly eat you away. You will see. Act, now! - or your mind will make you suffer too.

somebody

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A little description of a travel from Coimbatore via Mettupalayam to Ooty… with the famous “blue mountain railways”- toytrain, the “Nilgiri Express” or “Nilgiri Mountain Railway”.

It was actually quite a nice day, this 9th of August 2008. Well, or I guessed it would be - when I got up at four (yes, AM!) to pack all my crap together and take a nice relaxing hot shower that nearly sent me back to bed…. but, well, the day promised to be quite interesting, so I could not just hang around in a hotel room in boooooring Coimbatore. And actually the only reason that I came to this nothing-of-interest place was - the Nilgiri express.

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Here they are, a few pictures of Mysore palace - at night. Well, at a special night, because only on sundays and holidays the palace in illuminated at night - for one and a half hours or so. 5000 light bulbs burn and well, attract tourists. And somehow Mysore seems to like it’s tourist (which is a rarity for Indian cities!) - and therefore the entrance is free at illumination-time. And actually it is always to this area (the outside), you just have to pay fees to enter the palace itself (as a foreigner 100rps, 1,70Euro but loads of money for here (India)!). And yeah, it’s worth it. Somehow.

But here, just some pictures of Mysore palace at night

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Does pity actually exist to help? Or just: to hurt?

If you feel pity, then it is only hurting - you! The helping starts only when you start action. But then, why do we feel pity so many times when there is no way to help? Or is there always a way and we are just not courageous enough to take it?

And if there is more pity in the world. If more people feel pity. Will the world become a better place? Or will it be worse, with everybody being just depressed?

And why did pity survive the evolution? Will pity for one’s suffering actually help you, too? Or did this just work, back then, when we were living in small groups?

somebody

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Somehow I had to go to Coimbatore. It’s nearly the only way to get to the famous “toytrain” up the Indian “ghats”. The “ghats” is a stripe of mountains in South India, about at the borderline between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. And Coimbatore, by the way, is just 12 km away from Kerala, so right at the border. And somehow the guide describes it as “a commercial city” and “a travelers hub”. With not a single (!) attraction that travelers could be interested to see… Continue Reading »

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Somehow Trichy didn’t like me and therefore I thought I would not like Trichy. And no, the reason is not the totally unspeakable and totally not-used actual name of Tiruchirappalli.

The reason is more that somehow all hotels seemed to be full. I called nearly all those that were mentioned in my guides - one day in advance - and found them to be full. For no apparent reason that they would tell me. And until that time I had learned: In India, if you don’t have a guide-recommended clean hotel beforehand - you will end up in a) a dirty smelly mosquito-polluted room with only cold water or b) in one of those overpriced “business class” hotels that always have free rooms because for offering TV and cleanliness they just charge at least five times the appropriate amount (appropriate for India, btw. - it’s still cheap for European pricelevels..).

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Are the Hindus right - and who we are (in the last life) decides where we are born?

Or is it the other way - where we are born decides who we are?

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Hola.. just added some more pics, mostly of Ooty and some of Mysore - still not the most actual ones (and well, since then I have at least a thousand new ones…) but well, we’re getting closer… to the last ones

See here for the whole bunch and also the full versions…

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The Nilgiri Express in Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, India

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Somehow, Indians seem to love dinosaurs. But not the big nice ones or skeletons - but statues of big evil-looking green tyrannosaurus rex!

That’s what I thought when I accidentally walked into Thanjavur’s “Sivaganga park” - a theme park built next to the big temple’s Sivaganga (huge watertank, formerly used by pilgrims to wash off their sins, now by tourists to take a pedal boat tour) - and having no real theme. Apart from the pedal boats in the Sivaganga there is actually nothing that is related to the tank… well, you can take a toytrain ride around the park (also it was inactive when I came), you can watch the rabbits, foxes or guinea pigs in their respective cages, or - just hang around, watching the inactive fountains, like most Indians do… but actually, if you just want a nice relaxing time out, maybe the park can be interesting. But certainly not on weekends…

Yesyes, ok, the temple. That’s where I wanted to go, but somehow I just took the right turn… anyway,  the Brihadishwara temple is really great! It’s a huge huge complex, with even huger Gopuras (entry-towers outside) but the hugest of all is the central inner sanctum itself. It’s still in use, but somehow not as much as most other temples I’ve visited - there are nearly as many tourists as pilgrims in the temple..

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