Dear Friend,
I am MR AHMAD OSMAN, the accountant personal confident to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr. Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston. Dr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in one of the Bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and development of his company before his untimely death in 2003. The amount involved is (USD 10,500,000.00) Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary,) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here. Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently.
Kindly reply me on my atternative email address (ahmadosman1@voila.fr)
Sincerely,
AHMAD OSMAN
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Friday, June 25, 2010
The Beliefs!
6/24/2010
The Beliefs!
By:Sir Teymur Roshdi
Copyright@2010-Sir Teymur Roshdi
In this article,first I will try to treat the 'beliefs' and their 'power' from a
secular point of view by remaining in the frame of 'Cartesian rationality'
and then I will conclude it with a scientific standpoint. For this I would
review the films 'The Exorcist' and the 'Omen' trilogy.
To understand father Merrin on the archelogical site in Iraq and the
finding of the statuette 'resembling a grimacing bestial creature' he
took for the 'devil' icon, I should take into consideration the christian
referencial basis of beliefs which includes the concepts such as god
versus satan or devil, christ versus antichrist, angels versus demons,
light versus darkness and so on.
Why father Merrin has been so impressed by that statuette? He
entered it into his cultural background and estimated it through his
beliefs and gave to it an extraordinary dimension with an extraordinary
power. While this same statuette for all the people living and working
there was just an insignificant piece of stone or maybe for some just
a representation of an ugly 'djinn' and nothing more.
This piece of stone which had not any inherent meaning in itself,
'destabilized' father Merrin's peace of mind and he began to interpret
any human face or shape or any event as a warning or an alarm of
the threatening presence of the 'devil'. Then when he went to a spot
where a 'strange' statue which had almost the same head than the
statuette was standing , he stood face-to-face with that icon to measure
his own strength with it. Father Merrin because of his archeological
knowledge, knew that the icon was 'Pazuzu' or the king of 'demons' in
the old beliefs of ancient babylonians, and he felt his own 'weakness' or
'failure' in front of that stone, not because he was old or because he had
heart disease but because of his 'beliefs'. By the same 'beliefs', he
condemned himself to death , just because he overestimated that stone
icon.
2
Why do some insignificant objects carry such a meaning, power or a
threatening message? Do they really have such a power or this is just
our interpretation which attribute to them an extreme dimension ? Why
do some shapes, some faces, some colours, some animals or anything
around us become suddenly so 'charged' of meaning or power ? Why do
superstitions in all cultures and all societies are so strong and so extended
that they mostly take control of people's mind and life ? Do objects have
a 'spirit' ? Are we able to see or to feel the 'spirit' of objects, shapes, faces,
animals or colours ?
Isn't the root of all of the superstitions quite simply a 'fear' located in the
depths of our mind and related to our survival instincts ? What is our major
terror ? The fear of death isn't our main weaknes and our principal
concern? Aren't we easily affraid of anything which could put in danger
our life and our possessions and the life of our beloved ones ?
How can we escape something which is inevitable? Why should we fear
something which is a principal piece of the order of the Universe ?
Isn't it better to extract once forever the poison from the scorpion in order
to remain invulnerable and safe of its bite and 'living' our life in peace ?
Why not being accustomed and familiarized with all the shapes 'death'
could take to bring us ? One of the benefits of all the horror movies
produced ever since is to picturing all sort of imaginable ways the
living creatures could die, perish or disappear . Instead of fearing
thousands millions kind of 'horrible' deaths which are awaiting for us
at each 'dreadful' moment or at each corner we might face, isn't it better
to embrace peacefully just one which is an inevitable part of our human
condition ?
Father Merrin 'feared' that 'devilish' statue and letted it to prevail on
him and his life and to take control over his mind. But despite of his
poor health and old ages , nothing 'bad' happened to him in Iraq , but
his concern about his imminent death allowed to the statue to transmit
a 'message' to him :"see you later in Georgetown!".
Why did father Merrin letted this to happen in Regan's room in
Georgetown? Could it be avoided? Weren't his own beliefs and the
stressed they produced in that ritual of exorcism in Regan's room the
main cause of his heart attack and not necessarily his old ages and
his poor health ?
3
On the other hand we have people who take easy everything in this
world. Life and death are just indifferent to them. They see things in a
very simple way , a wall is just a wall, a cat just a pet and a crow a bird,
black or white has no particular meaning to them. They perform the
tasks or the duties of their daily life very easily in an absolute simplicity,
they eat, marry, procreate and die in a total peace of mind.
This poem of Stephen Crane is an example of an absolute resignation
to embrace death in this way or in any other way it could happen :
A youth in apparel that glitterred
Went to walk in a grim forest
There he met an assassin
Attired all in garb of old days;
He, scowling through the thickets,
And dagger poised quivering,
Rushed upon the youth.
"Sir", said the latter,
"I am enchanted, believe me,
To die, thus,
In this mediaeval fashion,
According to the best legends;
Ah, what joy!"
Then took he the wound, smiling,
And died, content.
4
Based on all my personal experiences in life, what I have seen, read
or heard, I can tell that we have two categories of people or living
creatures : the lucky and the unlucky ones. The lucky category spends
the whole temporal life without the least trouble, accident or misfortune
in the opposite of the misfortunate ones.
Chris MacNeil, Regan, father Karras and his mother in 'The Exorcist'
film were among the unlucky people as well as Robert and Richard
Thorn in the 'Omen' trilogy.
Chris MacNeil was a famous and wealthy actress living with her
daughter Regan in Georgetown. Who could imagine or predict that
such a woman would get through of such an horrible experience? Was
she a bad person , guilty of something or a criminal for having deserved
such a 'fate'? Why she and her daughter who had absolutely nothing to
do with anything in the archeological site in Iraq , have been 'chosen' for
such a cruel trial ? They even hadn't some religious beliefs, angels and
demons, devil and god were too far from their daily life and didn't have
a place in their cultural background.
Robert Thorn and his wife Kathy were good,loyal,honest and rational
people as well as Richard Thorn and his wife. Nothing could predict
that such a 'curse' or 'malediction' would exhaust them in a way that
they would become suddenly 'crazy' or 'criminal'.
Why do some superstitions and rumors are so powerful that they can
eradicate a whole family and all its members ? If for the Thorn dynasty
political issues and interests made them the target of all sort of disasters,
what about Chris MacNeil and her daughter Regan? What about father
Karras and his mother ? Many women in the world are divorced and
many children are raised by a single parent, but not all become
depressed or mentally ill . Many people around the world , religious or
not are descended from immigrant parents , but not all are as sensitive
and vulnerable as father Karras was.
The irony of the circumstances is that father Karras as a priest had
a rational way of thinking in the opposite of the men and women of
science in the psychiatry hospital who suggested to Chris to try the
'exorcism' , while father Karras proposed six months of care and
observation for Regan in the best hospital Chris could find.
Chris MacNeil in her desperation was ready to hang on to any
strange, disused and magic method to save Regan. Anyway the bad
luck gathered the misfortunate people in the household of Chris and
in the room of Regan. Father Merrin anticipating his imminent death
because of 'the prevalence of Pazuzu', father Karras because his guilt
feelings and depressive state of mind caused by the death of his
mother and Regan because of her mental illness common among
most teen-agers. Then happened what happened : father Merrin in his
struggle to free Regan from 'Pazuzu', perished, father Karras, already
'suicidal', sacrificed himself by chalanging the 'demon' to enter into
his body, hurled himself through the window and Regan was apparently
restored to health.
5
Damien Thorn was just a nice and healthy baby boy adopted by the
ambassador. Since the moment a child is born, he or she would be
under the observation of the surrounding world.The parents, the family
members, the friends, the neighbours and sometimes a vast region or
a country, depending of the social and economical statut of the parents.
Some wicked people could spread rumors out of jealousy, some others
would find something abnormal in the look, the body shape or the
behaviour of the child, and some superstitious ones would put the label
of 'cursed' or 'blessed' on the child. Other crazy people by believing
the superstitions would be able to commit any sort of crime.
We are raised under the look of the others and we learn since the
childhood to look at ourselves as someone the others considered or
expected and this becomes our second nature. The power of
autosuggestion is potentially both destructive and constructive. If we
spread the rumor that a person is 'cursed', 'spellbinder', 'demonic', the
'devil', or the 'son of devil', he or she would progressively believe that
and would behave according to what has been 'expected'. Damien was
simply a nice little boy the entourage took him for the 'beast' or 'the son
of devil' because of the superstitions and mostly because of political
interests. The number 666 is just a number or a shape , it could be 999
or 111. Many people around the world have some skin stains which
could be interpreted as a number or as a shape which have no meaning
in themselves or in their essence. Damien just played the role the
others expected from him and it was a deadly game for this poor child.
Something is sure that we humans we all have in our subconscious
the potential for goodness and badness depending on which one has
been stressed or raised by the parents, the family and the entourage,
we espouse one to the detriment of the other. This is what happened to
Damien, he has been so involved in this kind of beliefs or superstitions
that he never found the opportunity to think independantly for himself and
about himself in all 'lucidity. Maybe we all have a sort of duality or
the syndrome of 'dr.jekyll and mr.hyde' struggling within us. The aware
and lucid people try to face and to control this duality . As Plato suggested,
we human beings are the rider of a chariot run by two different sort of
horses, one, wild and rebel and the other obedient and peaceful, the
skill and the competence of the rider would determine how to establish the equilibrium between these two kind of horses.
6
To conclude this article I have to mention that if we limit our thoughts
and understanding to the 'Cartesian rationality' , we would consequently
neglect and ignore the scientific basis of the phenomena. From the
physics and chemistry standpoint, all elements, all molecules, all atoms
in the universe are in permanent interactions and emit energy. If we take
into consideration the amont of energy released at each 'second' in the
whole universe , maybe we would find an explanation for the 'paranormal'
phenomenum and events in happening in this or that 'place'. At each
moment we are exposed to multiple electromagnetic fields emitted by
various sources. The positive and negative fields of energy affect all
of us at each moment and maybe we would be able to replace the
superstitions by some scientific explanation of everything. The quantum
physics is the most promising to give logical arguments to explain
phenomena and maybe they would help us to avoid having this or
that 'extreme' reaction, path or way of behaviour and maybe we would
succeed to manage our 'spiritual struggles'.
6/24/2010
The Beliefs!
By:Sir Teymur Roshdi
Copyright@2010-Sir Teymur Roshdi
In this article,first I will try to treat the 'beliefs' and their 'power' from a
secular point of view by remaining in the frame of 'Cartesian rationality'
and then I will conclude it with a scientific standpoint. For this I would
review the films 'The Exorcist' and the 'Omen' trilogy.
To understand father Merrin on the archelogical site in Iraq and the
finding of the statuette 'resembling a grimacing bestial creature' he
took for the 'devil' icon, I should take into consideration the christian
referencial basis of beliefs which includes the concepts such as god
versus satan or devil, christ versus antichrist, angels versus demons,
light versus darkness and so on.
Why father Merrin has been so impressed by that statuette? He
entered it into his cultural background and estimated it through his
beliefs and gave to it an extraordinary dimension with an extraordinary
power. While this same statuette for all the people living and working
there was just an insignificant piece of stone or maybe for some just
a representation of an ugly 'djinn' and nothing more.
This piece of stone which had not any inherent meaning in itself,
'destabilized' father Merrin's peace of mind and he began to interpret
any human face or shape or any event as a warning or an alarm of
the threatening presence of the 'devil'. Then when he went to a spot
where a 'strange' statue which had almost the same head than the
statuette was standing , he stood face-to-face with that icon to measure
his own strength with it. Father Merrin because of his archeological
knowledge, knew that the icon was 'Pazuzu' or the king of 'demons' in
the old beliefs of ancient babylonians, and he felt his own 'weakness' or
'failure' in front of that stone, not because he was old or because he had
heart disease but because of his 'beliefs'. By the same 'beliefs', he
condemned himself to death , just because he overestimated that stone
icon.
2
Why do some insignificant objects carry such a meaning, power or a
threatening message? Do they really have such a power or this is just
our interpretation which attribute to them an extreme dimension ? Why
do some shapes, some faces, some colours, some animals or anything
around us become suddenly so 'charged' of meaning or power ? Why do
superstitions in all cultures and all societies are so strong and so extended
that they mostly take control of people's mind and life ? Do objects have
a 'spirit' ? Are we able to see or to feel the 'spirit' of objects, shapes, faces,
animals or colours ?
Isn't the root of all of the superstitions quite simply a 'fear' located in the
depths of our mind and related to our survival instincts ? What is our major
terror ? The fear of death isn't our main weaknes and our principal
concern? Aren't we easily affraid of anything which could put in danger
our life and our possessions and the life of our beloved ones ?
How can we escape something which is inevitable? Why should we fear
something which is a principal piece of the order of the Universe ?
Isn't it better to extract once forever the poison from the scorpion in order
to remain invulnerable and safe of its bite and 'living' our life in peace ?
Why not being accustomed and familiarized with all the shapes 'death'
could take to bring us ? One of the benefits of all the horror movies
produced ever since is to picturing all sort of imaginable ways the
living creatures could die, perish or disappear . Instead of fearing
thousands millions kind of 'horrible' deaths which are awaiting for us
at each 'dreadful' moment or at each corner we might face, isn't it better
to embrace peacefully just one which is an inevitable part of our human
condition ?
Father Merrin 'feared' that 'devilish' statue and letted it to prevail on
him and his life and to take control over his mind. But despite of his
poor health and old ages , nothing 'bad' happened to him in Iraq , but
his concern about his imminent death allowed to the statue to transmit
a 'message' to him :"see you later in Georgetown!".
Why did father Merrin letted this to happen in Regan's room in
Georgetown? Could it be avoided? Weren't his own beliefs and the
stressed they produced in that ritual of exorcism in Regan's room the
main cause of his heart attack and not necessarily his old ages and
his poor health ?
3
On the other hand we have people who take easy everything in this
world. Life and death are just indifferent to them. They see things in a
very simple way , a wall is just a wall, a cat just a pet and a crow a bird,
black or white has no particular meaning to them. They perform the
tasks or the duties of their daily life very easily in an absolute simplicity,
they eat, marry, procreate and die in a total peace of mind.
This poem of Stephen Crane is an example of an absolute resignation
to embrace death in this way or in any other way it could happen :
A youth in apparel that glitterred
Went to walk in a grim forest
There he met an assassin
Attired all in garb of old days;
He, scowling through the thickets,
And dagger poised quivering,
Rushed upon the youth.
"Sir", said the latter,
"I am enchanted, believe me,
To die, thus,
In this mediaeval fashion,
According to the best legends;
Ah, what joy!"
Then took he the wound, smiling,
And died, content.
4
Based on all my personal experiences in life, what I have seen, read
or heard, I can tell that we have two categories of people or living
creatures : the lucky and the unlucky ones. The lucky category spends
the whole temporal life without the least trouble, accident or misfortune
in the opposite of the misfortunate ones.
Chris MacNeil, Regan, father Karras and his mother in 'The Exorcist'
film were among the unlucky people as well as Robert and Richard
Thorn in the 'Omen' trilogy.
Chris MacNeil was a famous and wealthy actress living with her
daughter Regan in Georgetown. Who could imagine or predict that
such a woman would get through of such an horrible experience? Was
she a bad person , guilty of something or a criminal for having deserved
such a 'fate'? Why she and her daughter who had absolutely nothing to
do with anything in the archeological site in Iraq , have been 'chosen' for
such a cruel trial ? They even hadn't some religious beliefs, angels and
demons, devil and god were too far from their daily life and didn't have
a place in their cultural background.
Robert Thorn and his wife Kathy were good,loyal,honest and rational
people as well as Richard Thorn and his wife. Nothing could predict
that such a 'curse' or 'malediction' would exhaust them in a way that
they would become suddenly 'crazy' or 'criminal'.
Why do some superstitions and rumors are so powerful that they can
eradicate a whole family and all its members ? If for the Thorn dynasty
political issues and interests made them the target of all sort of disasters,
what about Chris MacNeil and her daughter Regan? What about father
Karras and his mother ? Many women in the world are divorced and
many children are raised by a single parent, but not all become
depressed or mentally ill . Many people around the world , religious or
not are descended from immigrant parents , but not all are as sensitive
and vulnerable as father Karras was.
The irony of the circumstances is that father Karras as a priest had
a rational way of thinking in the opposite of the men and women of
science in the psychiatry hospital who suggested to Chris to try the
'exorcism' , while father Karras proposed six months of care and
observation for Regan in the best hospital Chris could find.
Chris MacNeil in her desperation was ready to hang on to any
strange, disused and magic method to save Regan. Anyway the bad
luck gathered the misfortunate people in the household of Chris and
in the room of Regan. Father Merrin anticipating his imminent death
because of 'the prevalence of Pazuzu', father Karras because his guilt
feelings and depressive state of mind caused by the death of his
mother and Regan because of her mental illness common among
most teen-agers. Then happened what happened : father Merrin in his
struggle to free Regan from 'Pazuzu', perished, father Karras, already
'suicidal', sacrificed himself by chalanging the 'demon' to enter into
his body, hurled himself through the window and Regan was apparently
restored to health.
5
Damien Thorn was just a nice and healthy baby boy adopted by the
ambassador. Since the moment a child is born, he or she would be
under the observation of the surrounding world.The parents, the family
members, the friends, the neighbours and sometimes a vast region or
a country, depending of the social and economical statut of the parents.
Some wicked people could spread rumors out of jealousy, some others
would find something abnormal in the look, the body shape or the
behaviour of the child, and some superstitious ones would put the label
of 'cursed' or 'blessed' on the child. Other crazy people by believing
the superstitions would be able to commit any sort of crime.
We are raised under the look of the others and we learn since the
childhood to look at ourselves as someone the others considered or
expected and this becomes our second nature. The power of
autosuggestion is potentially both destructive and constructive. If we
spread the rumor that a person is 'cursed', 'spellbinder', 'demonic', the
'devil', or the 'son of devil', he or she would progressively believe that
and would behave according to what has been 'expected'. Damien was
simply a nice little boy the entourage took him for the 'beast' or 'the son
of devil' because of the superstitions and mostly because of political
interests. The number 666 is just a number or a shape , it could be 999
or 111. Many people around the world have some skin stains which
could be interpreted as a number or as a shape which have no meaning
in themselves or in their essence. Damien just played the role the
others expected from him and it was a deadly game for this poor child.
Something is sure that we humans we all have in our subconscious
the potential for goodness and badness depending on which one has
been stressed or raised by the parents, the family and the entourage,
we espouse one to the detriment of the other. This is what happened to
Damien, he has been so involved in this kind of beliefs or superstitions
that he never found the opportunity to think independantly for himself and
about himself in all 'lucidity. Maybe we all have a sort of duality or
the syndrome of 'dr.jekyll and mr.hyde' struggling within us. The aware
and lucid people try to face and to control this duality . As Plato suggested,
we human beings are the rider of a chariot run by two different sort of
horses, one, wild and rebel and the other obedient and peaceful, the
skill and the competence of the rider would determine how to establish the equilibrium between these two kind of horses.
6
To conclude this article I have to mention that if we limit our thoughts
and understanding to the 'Cartesian rationality' , we would consequently
neglect and ignore the scientific basis of the phenomena. From the
physics and chemistry standpoint, all elements, all molecules, all atoms
in the universe are in permanent interactions and emit energy. If we take
into consideration the amont of energy released at each 'second' in the
whole universe , maybe we would find an explanation for the 'paranormal'
phenomenum and events in happening in this or that 'place'. At each
moment we are exposed to multiple electromagnetic fields emitted by
various sources. The positive and negative fields of energy affect all
of us at each moment and maybe we would be able to replace the
superstitions by some scientific explanation of everything. The quantum
physics is the most promising to give logical arguments to explain
phenomena and maybe they would help us to avoid having this or
that 'extreme' reaction, path or way of behaviour and maybe we would
succeed to manage our 'spiritual struggles'.
6/24/2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Dreams!{Kate&Leopold}
6/18/2010
DREAMS!{Kate&Leopold}
By:Sir Teymur Roshdi
Copyright@2010-Sir Teymur Roshdi
DREAMS! is a philosophical article I wrote based on the film
of James Mangold,'Kate&Leopold'. I tried to see why we do like so much
all the fairy tales and why we prefer mostly the dreams than the 'reality'
of our daily life.Dreams are sometimes so beautiful that we are ready to
admit and accept them as a truth. I tried to suppose the 'location' of such
a potential...
Few days ago, Kate, before her casual encounter and her short-term
acquaintance and familiarity with Leopold, was the most rational, the
most realistic and the most pragmatic young woman who could exist.
Despite of her intimacy with Stuart, she never believed a word of him
about his physics 'theory' related to 'time portal' or 'time travel'. In fact
she considered him 'mentally ill'.
On the other hand this same young woman in the eyes of her boss JJ,
was a rare specimen among women, the only one who never used to
become 'prey of dillusion' or some 'illusions', always lucid, she was
never obsessed with 'beauty' or 'seduction', considering everything
with 'objectivity'.
Now Kate was in love with Leopold and ready to throw herself over
the bridge, the only way to join Leopold. Because of this love , she
renounced and gave up all her career ambitions and 'believed' every-
thing about the 'time portal' Stuart explained briefly in the taxi. On the
bridge, it didn't matter anymore if she would be collapsed on the ground
or drowned in the water, she was ready to believe all sort of 'nonsense
fairy tales', 'time portal' included. The hope of finding and joining
Leopold was so strong that living without the man she loved had no
meaning.
In fact, Kate was ready to die. What happened then to her rationality
or her 'lucidity'? Did love make her 'crazy' ?
2
Why we dream about a perfect world where everything is possible ?
Why the beauty of dreams is so attractive that we take it as a truth ?
Why do we become depressed or mad when our dreams don't come
true or we commit suicide because of this failure ?
Why we dream about an eternal happiness and we prefer more often
the fairy tales and myths to the 'reality' of the 'real world'? Why we are
so attracted by the science-fiction stories where all the laws of nature
are broken? Weren't we before somewhere which was absolutely
perfect, a sort of 'paradise' that we kept its 'memory' in a hidden and
unknown corner of our brain, which appears time to time in our
consciousness? Why do we aspire after this 'lost paradise'?
Why do we consider 'death' as an injustice and we mourn the 'lost'
of our beloved ones? Don't we all wish to spend an 'eternal happy life'
with them? Why do we refer often to the past and speculate on the
events happened and everything done, wishing to change the whole
pattern or their trend in order they become pleasant and perfect with
the hope of restoring the losses, the failures and the damages?
Maybe all the fairy tales and myths remind us this far and forgotten
experience we had 'somewhere' or 'someday' . Aren't all the works
and creations of all 'artists' in painting, architecture, music, poetry,
story-writing, film producing and so , the reminiscence of this lost world
of our 'past' in the universe, a world of magnificent palaces and
gardens inhabited only by princes and princesses? Then we regret
that we have been entrapped in this 'ugly', 'defective' spacetime
'dimension' ruled by the strict laws of nature.
Our nostalgia of a perfect world doesn't mean that such a world had
existed and we were 'living' there as a part of it ?
Why do we procreate? Why do we produce all sort of creative works
in all fields? Isn't it our aspiration and eagerness to leave a trace of
our existence in this 'finite' world and to transmit to the posterity
everything we have and anything we are and 'eternize' ourselves?
Isn't the essence or the secret key of all our endeavours some sort of
'love' ? The same love which unifies two living creatures for procreation,
stimulates the musicians, poets, painters, architects and all artists to
create works which would resist the 'flow' of time and would last maybe
'forever'?
Why do we like so much travelling and why the travels mean so much
to us? Always travelling and moving , doesn't matter if it is in space or
in time , but always moving and travelling.
What is the purpose of all our moving or travelling? The quest of
perfection or escaping our 'miserable' human condition? Finding some
new horizons to forget our temporality, imperfection or to join our beloved
ones? Given each 'space' has its own 'past', 'time' or 'history', aren't
all our 'displacements' and moving in 'space',consequently a sort of time
travel ?
Why we crave so much for time travelling? To find our lost beloved ones
or to see our descendants or simply because of 'scientific' curiosity ?
The love of finding all the dearest ones we lost or the love of joining
the man or the woman of our dreams doesn't mean that we all aspire
to become one soul with them because somewhere in the memory of the
Universe we were just One ?
6/18/2010
DREAMS!{Kate&Leopold}
By:Sir Teymur Roshdi
Copyright@2010-Sir Teymur Roshdi
DREAMS! is a philosophical article I wrote based on the film
of James Mangold,'Kate&Leopold'. I tried to see why we do like so much
all the fairy tales and why we prefer mostly the dreams than the 'reality'
of our daily life.Dreams are sometimes so beautiful that we are ready to
admit and accept them as a truth. I tried to suppose the 'location' of such
a potential...
Few days ago, Kate, before her casual encounter and her short-term
acquaintance and familiarity with Leopold, was the most rational, the
most realistic and the most pragmatic young woman who could exist.
Despite of her intimacy with Stuart, she never believed a word of him
about his physics 'theory' related to 'time portal' or 'time travel'. In fact
she considered him 'mentally ill'.
On the other hand this same young woman in the eyes of her boss JJ,
was a rare specimen among women, the only one who never used to
become 'prey of dillusion' or some 'illusions', always lucid, she was
never obsessed with 'beauty' or 'seduction', considering everything
with 'objectivity'.
Now Kate was in love with Leopold and ready to throw herself over
the bridge, the only way to join Leopold. Because of this love , she
renounced and gave up all her career ambitions and 'believed' every-
thing about the 'time portal' Stuart explained briefly in the taxi. On the
bridge, it didn't matter anymore if she would be collapsed on the ground
or drowned in the water, she was ready to believe all sort of 'nonsense
fairy tales', 'time portal' included. The hope of finding and joining
Leopold was so strong that living without the man she loved had no
meaning.
In fact, Kate was ready to die. What happened then to her rationality
or her 'lucidity'? Did love make her 'crazy' ?
2
Why we dream about a perfect world where everything is possible ?
Why the beauty of dreams is so attractive that we take it as a truth ?
Why do we become depressed or mad when our dreams don't come
true or we commit suicide because of this failure ?
Why we dream about an eternal happiness and we prefer more often
the fairy tales and myths to the 'reality' of the 'real world'? Why we are
so attracted by the science-fiction stories where all the laws of nature
are broken? Weren't we before somewhere which was absolutely
perfect, a sort of 'paradise' that we kept its 'memory' in a hidden and
unknown corner of our brain, which appears time to time in our
consciousness? Why do we aspire after this 'lost paradise'?
Why do we consider 'death' as an injustice and we mourn the 'lost'
of our beloved ones? Don't we all wish to spend an 'eternal happy life'
with them? Why do we refer often to the past and speculate on the
events happened and everything done, wishing to change the whole
pattern or their trend in order they become pleasant and perfect with
the hope of restoring the losses, the failures and the damages?
Maybe all the fairy tales and myths remind us this far and forgotten
experience we had 'somewhere' or 'someday' . Aren't all the works
and creations of all 'artists' in painting, architecture, music, poetry,
story-writing, film producing and so , the reminiscence of this lost world
of our 'past' in the universe, a world of magnificent palaces and
gardens inhabited only by princes and princesses? Then we regret
that we have been entrapped in this 'ugly', 'defective' spacetime
'dimension' ruled by the strict laws of nature.
Our nostalgia of a perfect world doesn't mean that such a world had
existed and we were 'living' there as a part of it ?
Why do we procreate? Why do we produce all sort of creative works
in all fields? Isn't it our aspiration and eagerness to leave a trace of
our existence in this 'finite' world and to transmit to the posterity
everything we have and anything we are and 'eternize' ourselves?
Isn't the essence or the secret key of all our endeavours some sort of
'love' ? The same love which unifies two living creatures for procreation,
stimulates the musicians, poets, painters, architects and all artists to
create works which would resist the 'flow' of time and would last maybe
'forever'?
Why do we like so much travelling and why the travels mean so much
to us? Always travelling and moving , doesn't matter if it is in space or
in time , but always moving and travelling.
What is the purpose of all our moving or travelling? The quest of
perfection or escaping our 'miserable' human condition? Finding some
new horizons to forget our temporality, imperfection or to join our beloved
ones? Given each 'space' has its own 'past', 'time' or 'history', aren't
all our 'displacements' and moving in 'space',consequently a sort of time
travel ?
Why we crave so much for time travelling? To find our lost beloved ones
or to see our descendants or simply because of 'scientific' curiosity ?
The love of finding all the dearest ones we lost or the love of joining
the man or the woman of our dreams doesn't mean that we all aspire
to become one soul with them because somewhere in the memory of the
Universe we were just One ?
6/18/2010
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