November 09, 2022

THE RAVEN AND THE FOX | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE RAVEN AND THE FOX

A Raven got himself a piece of meat, and sat down on a tree. The Fox wanted to get it from him. She went up to him, and said:

"Oh, Raven, as I look at you,—from your size and beauty,—you ought to be a king! And you would certainly be a king, if you had a good voice."

The Raven opened his mouth wide, and began to croak with all his might and main. The meat fell down. The Fox caught it and said:

"Oh, Raven! If you had also sense, you would certainly be a king."

THE LION AND THE MOUSE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE LION AND THE MOUSE

A Lion was sleeping. A Mouse ran over his body. He awoke and caught her. The Mouse besought him; she said:

"Let me go, and I will do you a favour!"

The Lion laughed at the Mouse for promising him a favour, and let her go.

Then the hunters caught the Lion and tied him with a rope to a tree. The Mouse heard the Lion's roar, ran up, gnawed the rope through, and said:

"Do you remember? You laughed, not thinking that I could repay, but now you see that a favour may come also from a Mouse."

THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE

A Turtle asked an Eagle to teach her how to fly. The Eagle advised her not to try, as she was not fit for it; but she insisted. The Eagle took her in his claws, raised her up, and dropped her: she fell on stones and broke to pieces.

THE PEASANT AND THE WATER-SPRITE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE PEASANT AND THE WATER-SPRITE

A Peasant lost his axe in the river; he sat down on the bank in grief, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite heard the Peasant and took pity on him. He brought a gold axe out of the river, and said: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant said: "No, it is not mine."

The Water-sprite brought another, a silver axe.

Again the Peasant said: "It is not my axe."

Then the Water-sprite brought out the real axe.

The Peasant said: "Now this is my axe."

The Water-sprite made the Peasant a present of all three axes, for having told the truth.

At home the Peasant showed his axes to his friends, and told them what had happened to him.

One of the peasants made up his mind to do the same: he went to the river, purposely threw his axe into the water, sat down on the bank, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite brought out a gold axe, and asked: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant was glad, and called out: "It is mine, mine!"

The Water-sprite did not give him the gold axe, and did not bring him back his own either, because he had told an untruth.

November 05, 2022

1000 YEARS AHEAD. | LET US PROJECT, FOR FUN, IN A POSITIVE SENSE |

LET US PROJECT, FOR FUN, IN A POSITIVE SENSE,

1000 YEARS AHEAD.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

FIRST STAGE –

All countries would be ruled by “religious power controls”

There would be life of a kind, but very coercive, and free speech gone. Even in first world countries.

There could be almost an international MAFIA.

SECOND STAGE –

(few centuries later, into the future)

REBELLIONS would slowly begin….and the above dark ages would be slowly ended…and THIS TIME…

With ALL holes closed to BLINDNESS…and all ideas proved and having reached a logical conclusion of full proof of idiocy…and death…

Mainly Religious and Kantian ideas. Super nature and nothingness, both denial of reality.

MAN AND MEN would have come of age.

WOULD REALISE FULLY….AND FINALLY…

AND HISTORY WILL HAVE ENDED…

Thus, THEN, it would be

FULLY and Fantastically beautiful…a Fantastic thing…

(Which we feel implicitly today, fifty percent)

Full benevolence, godless and yet profoundly blissful living, and it would be in the air, as they say…

Whatever we DO, out of our own passion, today, would contribute indirectly, TO that future.

That is how we came so far, and that is how we will go further, and farther too…

TO CONCRETISE ABOVE….

WORLD IS IDIOTIC!! Haha

In one sentence….

Narendra

THE COMING FUTURE | HOW THE WORLD WORKS - part-3

THE COMING FUTURE


India – Nationalistic and mixed economy plus crony capitalism

US – Religious fascism plus nationalism

Russia – Religious fascism

China – Peculiar depth of unique and obvious evil communistic control.

Other countries – Japan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea etc etc

(All with unique result of past “systems”, basically as SOME form of statist control only, with varying degrees etc, because proper morality and wise free living is NOT yet known, realized fully)

AND –“Evil philosophies are systems of rationalizations” (Largely)

SAME HOLDS FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS AND LEADERS TOO, WHO ARE LARGELY MIXED, UDERSTANDABLY, ETC

HENCE no room for delusional and naïve over-confidence

*concretization simply means that there is nothing that I don’t know with complete familiarity*

If one sees above, maybe nothing has changed much. HUMAN NATURE REMAINS AS IT IS and real change has been still, only

In a greater number of people who are wise and enlightened

(10 million, maybe, in a 10 billion) (Silent minority, who are out of “system”)

Great heights with deepest insights reached in every field –

History, Political economy, Sociology, Psychology, Economics and finance, management, Sciences and math, ALL ARTS, All engg sciences, and medical and all other fields, which result in creations of incredible goods and services and employment, etc.

Cities, All inventions we use daily, movies, and education, and transportation, hospitals, hotels, tourism, etc etc etc etc

BUT all this largely, unknown, yet, to mankind.

NOT known THIS way….(to concretize this)

Largely power controls everywhere, TO rule only, simply because History is short and populations too huge and populations still are in early man stage –

(Tribalistic, but with implicit, “civilizational maturity”. Basically all know, and they are only not confident, as they do not know that they do not know, and hence by default simply follow “beliefs” as the full holistic knowledge literally has NOT spread, as we can see around us. Those who know widely and properly, ONLY, really know and the rest all are “average”, small minds, like “lilliputs”. This includes even intellectuals, who might be a bit above average)

Obviously, there is a “crying demand” for education. Because a part in each person WANTS as a natural bio-eccentricity, TO grow, learn etc

Power, envy etc are crude emotions, banal and coercive and this is shared by masses of people, as slaves and few similar but ambitious criminal kind of ruthless leaders, even gurus, who become Masters.

“…they do NOT know what they are doing, as they know only what they know, to rule, or submit…)

This is the “sea of mediocrity…”

Stupid and criminal leaders rise to top. Money, greed, and ignorance and defenses, personality cults, etc is what we see.

Yet, surely, there is implicit innocence, melting pot of all this is there.

“uncorrupted innocence, in part, of common man, though nobility is absent”.

18TH, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TILL TODAY | HOW THE WORLD WORKS

18TH, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TILL TODAY

Russian Revolution and Implementation of communism

All Left leaning countries –

China, North Korea, etc

Right Leaning Countries –

America, India, Australia etc

120 countries

China’s Ideology

US left going to right ideology. India -- Right and left leanings. Mainly, a mixed economy of taking over

Science and technology developing rapidly, and has reached incredible heights of power, but controlled by Heads who do NOT have a proper wisdom, and understandably.

ALL THE ABOVE RESULTED IN THE

WORLD TODAY

As can be seen AROUND, THE world IS the end RESULT of the past…

FULLY understandable, showing WHY the world is what it is.

WE SEE --

IDEAS –

Religious ideas—Christian, Islam, Hindu, Jewish

THESE ARE STILL THE MASS IDEAS IN CRUDE TRIBALISM, RITUALS ETC

And hence would be the default power, these would be used by people to gain “power”.

Hence these are the “power variables”.

Aristotlean Ideas –

Roots of science, technology and freedoms

Platonic Ideas –Justifications of “supernature”

Kantian Ideas - Nihilistic

Marxian Ideas –Morality and activism on ground level.

Libertarian Ideas –Capitalistic activism on ground level

Business and Finance and economic ideas, to keep up survival of mankind – Adam Smith and Hayek, and Marx, and Keynes, and Ayn Rand

(Full spectrum from left to right)

We see countries with a mix of left and right in the whole spectrum.

We see countless cities, and incredible goods and services and comforts, entertainment and education, as self learning, and an unprecedented connected world!! We see totally evil leaders, emerging, with evil agedas, to rule, just as before. This is the most incredible DARK side of the world, and the BRIGHT side too, at the same time!! Which itself is incredible!!As Guha says –“It is 50-50 world “