Highways lurking with dangers
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With more modern and comfortable cars coming out to roads, travelling long distance between states has'nt been staying as uncomfortable and rather a plasure to see through the various greenery and enjoy the travel in full. Yesterday night I was reading a magazine which had an interesting article about various highways in India that are being upgraded by Government of India NHAI (National Highways Authority of India). At the same time, travelling over highways late nights in the cars have been of acute security-risk since highway robberies and rash driving trucks are not uncommon either. Towards these, the villages and small towns that are en route in the highways, have thier own folklore stories about supernatural powers exercising control over specified regions. I also vaguely remember that in some European countries, certain highways are marked like 'abandoned', where if you are bound to travel, then you ought not stop anywhere in the middle since the supernatural powers have abundant prowess therein to even prevent you from restarting your vehicle and it is impossible to escape from there. Out of plain and inquisitive curiosity, just was thinking whether in the modern age of RADAR coverage and satellite imaging of the earth, does those 'marked' areas exist even now or they are just fabricated stories? We can not completely dismiss the existence of supernatural powers though but the degree of dependence on the existence is rather a question and the faith thereto. Is'nt it? Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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ViewPoint 24x7hey deepak, All lies in our mind. U see what u believe. There is no concrete evidence for these supernatural powers till now.. rather than they are finding out scientific reasons for all old believes. Google it if u want any real time examples;P Its bye for now.. Signing off. Seshu
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:confused: :confused: Tim, While I can support you too (as I have latently in the original posting), there are incidents which drive us to believe so. What do you say? Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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hey deepak, All lies in our mind. U see what u believe. There is no concrete evidence for these supernatural powers till now.. rather than they are finding out scientific reasons for all old believes. Google it if u want any real time examples;P Its bye for now.. Signing off. Seshu
True Seshu. It is in our perception. But the volume of incidents that are reported, makes us to think further. :confused: Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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I don't believe anything is supernatural. There may be things that can't be explained yet. But anecdotal stories by the superstitious don't carry any weight for me. The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.
I accept, Tim. In fact, I have been sharing the same thought too. Perhaps we sail in the same boat. As I have described in my other blog, http://deepak.blogdrive.com/[^], the book on Titanic, I have been reading, albeit in Tamil edition, was also indepth analysing about supernatural powers' action and also supported by religious men. :confused: Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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I accept, Tim. In fact, I have been sharing the same thought too. Perhaps we sail in the same boat. As I have described in my other blog, http://deepak.blogdrive.com/[^], the book on Titanic, I have been reading, albeit in Tamil edition, was also indepth analysing about supernatural powers' action and also supported by religious men. :confused: Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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ViewPoint 24x7The demon haunted world[^] is a superb book dealing with the supernatural. It's pretty famous and may well have been translated into Tamil. One of the best chapters[^]. There's also the Indian rationalist society[^]. Ryan
"Michael Moore and Mel Gibson are the same person, except for a few sit-ups. Moore thought his cheesy political blooper reel was going to tell people how to vote. Mel thought that his little gay SM movie about his imaginary friend was going to help him get to heaven." - Penn Jillette
-- modified at 5:15 Thursday 22nd June, 2006 (wrong society, oops)
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With more modern and comfortable cars coming out to roads, travelling long distance between states has'nt been staying as uncomfortable and rather a plasure to see through the various greenery and enjoy the travel in full. Yesterday night I was reading a magazine which had an interesting article about various highways in India that are being upgraded by Government of India NHAI (National Highways Authority of India). At the same time, travelling over highways late nights in the cars have been of acute security-risk since highway robberies and rash driving trucks are not uncommon either. Towards these, the villages and small towns that are en route in the highways, have thier own folklore stories about supernatural powers exercising control over specified regions. I also vaguely remember that in some European countries, certain highways are marked like 'abandoned', where if you are bound to travel, then you ought not stop anywhere in the middle since the supernatural powers have abundant prowess therein to even prevent you from restarting your vehicle and it is impossible to escape from there. Out of plain and inquisitive curiosity, just was thinking whether in the modern age of RADAR coverage and satellite imaging of the earth, does those 'marked' areas exist even now or they are just fabricated stories? We can not completely dismiss the existence of supernatural powers though but the degree of dependence on the existence is rather a question and the faith thereto. Is'nt it? Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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ViewPoint 24x7Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
in some European countries, certain highways are marked like 'abandoned'
Ehh? Which Europe is that, the one I live in has no such thing. Anyway, on the the theme of supernatural highways, one should recount the story of the hairy hand. And for those of a baser imagination I refer not to some onanistic pursuit, but to a story, or several stories, recounted by people driving on the road from Widdecombe in the Moor down to Ashburton late at night. At a particular point in the road a hand appears, seizing the steering wheel of the car, forcing it off the road. It is alleged that the hand was the property of jilted man, who, killed himself on that very bend years ago. There is also the story of Jays grave. Jay was a farm girl in the 18th century, who, being the affection of the local lord, fell pregnant. The lord, on hearing this, lost his passion, causing Jay to hang herself in the barn, killing the unborn child too. Now, because suicide was a sin, she could not be buried in her parish, so she was buried, in the middle of point where three roads met, the roads forming the boudaries of thre parishes. Today, every day, can be seen fresh flowers on her grave, and have been seen every day since that day in the 18th century. Nunc est bibendum
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I don't believe anything is supernatural. There may be things that can't be explained yet. But anecdotal stories by the superstitious don't carry any weight for me. The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.
That's how I look at it too. Although I've on several occasions had to contend with things happening which can not be described in any way as "normal" (cupboards and christmas trees don't tend to levitate, as a rule, and attics don't get trashed without someone or something doing the trashing) I look on the whole thing as being down to aspects of nature that we don't understand yet. That's all the "paranormal" is, really. :rose: Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
We can not completely dismiss the existence of supernatural powers
So thats why there are bugs in my code. Do you think a sacrifice would help? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
You could always try sacrificing a bucketload of Level 4 Compiler Warnings... ;) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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I accept, Tim. In fact, I have been sharing the same thought too. Perhaps we sail in the same boat. As I have described in my other blog, http://deepak.blogdrive.com/[^], the book on Titanic, I have been reading, albeit in Tamil edition, was also indepth analysing about supernatural powers' action and also supported by religious men. :confused: Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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ViewPoint 24x7Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
the book on Titanic was also indepth analysing about supernatural powers'
There was nothing supernatural about the Titanic sinking, just the result of poor judegment.
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supported by religious men
Of course they're going to interpret anything that seems to bolster their position. Long on noise and short on logic and real proof. The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
We can not completely dismiss the existence of supernatural powers
So thats why there are bugs in my code. Do you think a sacrifice would help? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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You could always try sacrificing a bucketload of Level 4 Compiler Warnings... ;) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Did you mean the compiler setting 'Treat all warnings as errors'? That really helps since a compiler warning means a potential but latent code problem. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage namespace LavanyaDeepak
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