Saturday, September 20, 2008

Resuming? may be...

"How many times can you go back to do something that you left earlier because it did not interest you at that time,” Qais would ask.

If you were wondering about Qais’s line of questioning, I think you have your answer. No wonder she cribs about him all the time. I too get irritated at times.

Sometimes I ask a philosophical question that is it right of him to demand answer in quantifiable terms such as how many times…

I believe that in majority of chances one should do something one feels like doing. If you want to do something and it is harmless or it is harmless to you only or to your immediate family members and if harm is limited and can be compensated & would not have any longer term impact, you should do that.

But Qais would argue that this is too general.

May be this is general. But isn’t your belief should be generic. I mean you can’t say that I believe in only this neutron or the neutron which is decaying at this rate at this place. That would be too specific. Your belief should be a framework that should help you in creating your own short cut to meet real-time demands of everyday life situation at a given context. For more contexts you have a ready behaviour, earlier you can react. By this you can avoid acting without thinking.

Qais would say that this projects a causal way of life. So it is, a prudent, brooded way of living, I would say. I will argue or try to argue as an engineer. The odds are very less that I, a junior employee in a big multinational organization with a routine social life, would encounter a new type of real time event. In our cellular world, we talk about use cases; a mobile has to perform simultaneously. A use case is voice call, another is voice call + alarm tone. The latter one is an example of concurrent use case.

Okay, Qais will say that you mean that you have ready made, thought out actions for these events. Almost all events or all types of events, I will correct him.

After this he will go into his cell. It is not that he is convinced by my answers ( he will resume them at some later date as he usually does), he is again engrossed in the picture he has put on his table.

It is not that he has just one picture on this table, he has many copies of the same picture and many picture of the same person. It is only that at present he is looking at picture on the table.

I too relieved would go back to attend matters relating to subsistence : check my office email inbox.

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