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Promissory or Promiscuous Note

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself - Khalil Gibran. Promissory ˈpr ɒ m ɪ s(ə)ri/ 1.        conveying or implying a promise. Promiscuous prəˈm ɪ skj ʊ əs/ 1.        demonstrating or implying an unselective approach; indiscriminate or casual. In conventional parlance, a Bank Note (Dollar Bill or Rupee Note) is frequently referred to as a promissory note… a promissory note made by a bank (Central Bank like RBI in India) and payable to bearer on demand. Here the Bank stands the guarantee for the authenticity, relevance, value of the note. Whereas public in general also issue their own versions of promissory notes: here the promissory note is a legal/financial instrument in which one party ( issuer ) promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of money to the other ( payee ), either at a fixed or determinable ...

HACK-neyed Epidemic

Movie ‘The Departed”… Martin Sheen to Leonardo DiCaprio, “Do you want to be a cop, or do you want to appear to be a cop? It's an honest question. A lot of guys just want to appear to be cops. Gun, badge, pretend they're on TV.” The biggest and longest running “Reality Show” is the Life itself. “The Person inside of his Skin is mostly different from the one outside of his skin”. Everybody seemingly not wanting to be somebody but wanting to appear to be somebody because this appearance has “survival”, “validation”, “recognizable”, “promote-able” values. During the process of self-development while building the one outside of his/her skin, a huge amount of conditioning or programming takes place from the person himself. And when this person goes about transacting with the World, he tries to avoid anybody defeating/hacking into his conditioning/programming/ belief system. This brings us to another universal phenomenon where we are constantly hacking into the others’ cond...