Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Most Valuable Asset.

What is the most valuable asset on Earth right now? Oil. Yes, Oil because its the cheapest and most readily available form of energy source that can be used conveniently. So, if only we had free energy to spend and not depend on oil. Imagine the LHC(Large Hadron Collider) discovers some more secrets of the Neutrinos and things like that leading to enormous amounts of energy from something like Water or any matter.

What will happen at such a point? What will be the state of affairs when free energy will be discovered. Surely many Oil exporting countries will go bankrupt overnight. There will be financial turmoil. Companies, banks even countries will be wiped out of the financial world. Once this mess is fixed over a period of some years or months we will see something else happening in the world.

The world economy will adjust itself to the next most important commodity, which will be some precious metals like Gold etc. This is because these assets will be the next scarce thing on earth.
But here is the catch. With free unlimited energy, we will be able to convert one material into another. This crude technology of the modern alchemist does exist. In such case any amount of dirt will be converted to gold or silver etc. So guess what, DIRT will no longer be dirt cheap.

Mud or rather land will be the only scarce thing that will be worth owning. Land prices will shoot up. Corporations will hoard hectares and hectares of land. This limitation will be extended to the Moon, Mars and maybe up to Venus. So all these planets will see the next real estate boom. Space will be colonised easily. Oceans will have floating cities and the list can go on and on.

So my advice to all, buy yourself some decent land. Who knows your children might not have enough of it.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Death and After Life and its consequences on Life.

We live our lives like a long movie or rather a soap opera. At times in the soap appear few bubbles to tingle and titilate your inner self. You stand there at the bus stop waiting for your transportation and you think "Why am I here?".

The answer is obvious - I am here waiting for the bus that will take me home.

The question and the answer itself are very secondary. What is important is the very formation of the question in ones mind and the feeling and emotion that arises when one asks the question especially when you ask why are we here on this planet, in this country, in the form we are in and doing a job in an office. What is the purpose of life itself?

That is a question that cannot be answered satisfactorily. At least I am not satisfied by most answers of most philosophers and religious person.

However if we approach the topic from another point we may get an inkling into why we should not be here. We should ask what happens after here. We should enquire what happens to us after we die or pass away.

The first few answers may be that we just attain heaven or hell based on our sins or good deeds, or we are reborn as per our karma till we attain moksha which is only a different way of saying the first sentence. Finally few people will say that we cease to exist as the chemical reaction cannot sustain itself in the required direction.

There are not many other explanations. The first theory says do the things that are right according to the text of my religious manual and you will gain heaven or you will burn in hell for eternity.The second theory gives you many chances to follow the religious text by allowing rebirth. But it also asserts the theory of pain if you do not follow the rules laid by the religious text. The third one says that there will be no pain but then you will not exist to experience any
pleasure either.

So if we think we can follow the first theory to take the least risk and ensure heaven, we can be assured that we will make our life hell right now by trying to interpret the religion and the holy books to get the correct meanings of each rule and how it may be applied to our life today.

Then to consider life will end with a fullstop should encourage me to splurge and do all the things my heart desires without much thought about the society and its morals and boundaries.
And yet there is something deep in the heart that says it may not be just that and there might be something after the End. And here I am forced to take a convenient route where I accept that I will splurge and be immoral within the boudries of the society and expect another chance in the next birth as a Dog or worse a worm to undo what I do now.

And there I find the answer to my primary question - I am here to be merry!

Keep smiling!