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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Karl Marx Revisited

Karl Marx Revisited

Born on May 5th 1818 in Germany.

Died 14th March, 1883 aged 65.

Grandparents were Jews by birth but his father converted to Protestantism.

Wife Jenny von Westphalen.

Married in 1843

Happy marriage with 7 children.

Philosopher

In the University he was fascinated by J.W. F. Hegel

Idealism

Ontology

Epistemology

Metaphysics

Political philosophy

Journalist

He moved (exiled) to London and took the post of journalist as the European correspondent of the New York Tribune.

Crisis over slavery and abolition movement.

Civil war in America.

Historian

Political activist

Revolutionary

Wrote The Communist Manifesto

Champion of the worker (preliterate)

Ruling Class (bourgeoisie)

Classless society

Das Capital

Economist

Karl Marx Revisited

I want to educate the Ceylonese masses of wrong connotation of political upheavals and spontaneous uprisings. These uprising have to be managed carefully and Dhamma or Buddhism should be freed from saffron clothed guys who are driving nuts on people's suffering. If, Karl Marx was here today he would have been very critical of Sanga.

I was looking for Karl Marx, Das Capital and could not find it.

Bought a book written on Communist Manifesto.

Here I would outline a few key words for public consumption. The definitions of these would come on a later date.

1. Capitalism.

2. Materialism.

3. Exploitation.

Globalisation without borders is a new concept that Karl Marx did not foresee

He did not see the war mongering neocolonialism.

Proletariat working class

Bourgeoisie middle class

Ruling class Church, The King and currently the neocolonial gulag

Communism

Revolution

Genesis of Church

I could not find the piece that said, the religion is opium of the people.

I could not find Unions and Labour Party.

General Genesis of Words was the sole authority of the Church and the word communion was its creation.

Authority, dogma, tradition and revelation are their rigid protocol with added artificial morality.

That is the tragedy.

Authority, control, dogma, tradition and revelation do come from the Church.

Whereas logic, reason, empiricism and freedom of thought come from Karl Marx. These words are antithesis to the Church and no wonder why they tried to castrate his ability to question the authority of the Church, King and Business Magnates.

When one looks at Colonel Henry Steel Olcott his views are similar but he was liberal on all religions and he was against one God and One Church.

What one has to surmise is Karl Marx saw religion as an antithesis to open inquiry, socialism and scientific thinking

If he had read Kalama Sutta before his colossal work he would have coined the word liberalism in his thinking.

Even though, Karl Marx was a rational thinker he never coined the word Rationalism in his essays. In fact, he avoided philosophy and rationalism from his vocabulary since, for a working class man, these fields have no meaning.

He was trying to simplify his thesis.

His aim was to liberate the working class man from the crutches and grip of King, Church and Business Magnates.

By the way, the first Labour Union was formed in America, in the capitalistic base.

Ceylon

More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years.
The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite,
marbles, and some charnokites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites,
and granitic gneisses of the Vinjayan Series occur in the eastern and southeastern lowlands. Jurassic
sediments are present in very small areas near the western coast and Miocene limestones underlie the
northwestern part of the country and extend south in a relatively narrow belt along the west coast.

The metamorphic rock surface was created by the transformation of ancient sediments under intense heat and
pressure during mountain-building processes. The theory of plate tectonics suggests that these rocks and
related rocks forming most of south India were part of a single southern landmass called Gondwanaland.
Beginning about 200 million years ago, forces within the Earth's mantle began to separate the lands of the
Southern Hemisphere, and a crustal plate supporting both India and Sri Lanka moved toward the
northeast. About 45 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Asian landmass, raising the
Himalayas in northern India, and continuing to advance slowly to the present time. Sri Lanka does not
experience earthquakes or major volcanic events because it rides on the center of the plate.
The island contains relatively limited strata of sedimentation surrounding its ancient uplands.

Aside from recent deposits along river valleys, only two small fragments of Jurassic (140 to 190 million years ago) sediment occur in Puttalam District, while a more extensive belt of Miocene (5 to 20 million years ago)
limestone is found along the north-west coast, overlain in many areas by Pleistocene (1 million years ago)
deposits.

The north-west coast is part of the deep Cauvery (Kaveri) River Basin of south-east India, which
has been collecting sediments from the highlands of India and Sri Lanka since the breakup of Gondwanaland.

Debian for All

Debian for All

Debian for Users

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Debian has extensive Hardware Support.: Most hardware is supported by the Linux kernel which means that Debian will support it as well. Proprietary drivers for hardware are available if necessary.

Debian offers a flexible Installer.: Our Live CD is for everyone who wants to give Debian a try before installing it. It also includes the Calamares installer which makes it easy to install Debian from the live system. More experienced users can use the Debian installer with more options for fine-tuning, including the possibility to use an automated network installation tool.

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Analogy of Reality

Analogy of Reality

Pin in a haystack is my closest analogy of reality.

It is very difficult to find reality.

If at all, we would only see the relative reality.

In my opinion, the absolute reality is illusive to mankind.

There is some inherent tendency to limit our capacity to comprehend everything.

I create a plausible concept called Uncertainty Principle.

Then, there is the visible reality.

In a classical fight, one is destined to bite the dust.
In war death is inevitable.
It does not matter whether it is a war of attrition or a nuclear disaster.

The moment we discovered the gun powder and the gun everything changed in humanity.

Now we are in ballistic stage.

Knowingly and willingly mankind always chose the fight or go in to some form of war.

One's gain is the others loss.

That is the reality of a zero civilization.

I do not believe, in spite of technological progress we can ever ascent to the level one civilization where harmony is the base and war is nonexistent.

That is the stark reality.

No religion, no political system and no military system can mitigate the eventual destruction of mankind at this present juncture.

It was true for Sumerians.
It was true for Arcadians.
It was true Asirians.
It was true for Greeks.
It was true for Byzantine.
It was true for Muslims.

The above is in relation to Euphrates river and not global in analysis.

It is true for neocolonial system of the West today.

It has met its nemesis, Russia.

This is only about 8000 years of modern civilization.

Having said that the visible reality flows into the Concept of Rebirth which we are unable to verify with current physics.

This is where I tend to disagree with Steven Hawking's singularity and one universe (of our understanding).

I think he left it open for us to debate the inconsistency.

Multiverse is as plausible as Universe.

We will soon join the Aztecs, Mayans and Sumerians.

Unfortunately we are not going to leave any significant artifacts behind to the next generations of civilization that may arise from the ashes.

This blog piece will not be available for deciphering, even if some form of vestige of AI technology could remain buried underneath.

What about the use of invisible spectrum or quantum?

If the current civilization is smart enough we should be able to leave behind enough quantum of information behind, so a future generation would be able to analyze our predicament in a correct perspective.

My presumption is that energy cannot be destroyed but transformed.

If our civilization could devise a methodology in quantum mechanics where a zipper like chain of quantum information is allowed to grow infinitely but could be traced back to it origin by unzipping the zip, then we can say we were a "Smart Civilization" that left behind a tell tel story in a "Quantum Channel".

Time is considered not a dimension in this piece.

Now, the flux of physics takes me to the dark matter, dark holes, event horizon and uncertainty.

Our current physics cannot be interfaced with the events in event horizon.

New physical dimension above the three dimensions has to be devised.

Let us say it is the fourth dimension.

Even tough, we can postulate the fourth dimension we will never be able to fathom events at that level.

That is why I say we are one brain, one gravity and three dimensional beings.

That does not preclude the possibility of beings of the 4 dimension or above.

To them worm holes, shape shifting, antigravity propulsion and galactic travel are mundane events.

In other words, I believe in aliens or beings above 3 dimension who have superior mental capacity to humans, including telepathy.

I think I should stop at this point of inter-phase albeit sanity and insanity merges into one without clear distinction of reality.

My point here, is unless one has substantial evidence to support breakthroughs one should not believe "Instant Gurus" in the YouTube.

They can be gullible suckers.
Of course there may be a few genuine guys.

That is why I as a rule, I warn anybody over 35 engaging in meditation practice.

To begin with it is hard to find a reliable master.

One cannot teach meditation but one has to master myriad of techniques.
One technique does not fit everybody.

Its general mood elevation is similar to the state one obtains by smoking or drinking a preparation of ayurhauska mushroom.

I believe some masters use a preparation containing these substances in their sessions to induce gullible guys and girls.

Mind you, I have never attended any of these sessions but gathered information from visitors who were duped and were good enough to post their experiences in the internet and YouTube.

How to make an Elephant Laugh?

How to make an Elephant Laugh?

Elephant Talks-Ali Katha

Making an elephant laugh is no easy task but this is an attempt with the help of a tiny animal.
This sketch is long overdue and is to record the first death anniversary of an unfortunate (first in the history of Esala Perehara) Majestic Pachyderm at the hands of the all too important Diyawadena Nilme.
In the same spirit and enthusiasm I have to rectify two of my current lapses.

The first of it is that the local Microsoft cronies snooping on our emails surreptitiously. I have many emails but intrusion to my privacy is the violation of Fundamental Rights of any living or dead soul. I have already rectified this by switching to Linux completely. Besides, I have dedicated this year for promoting Linux globally.
The second lapse is more than three years old. The delay is partly due to vandalism of my computer by local Microsoft cronies and goonies.

One of my junior academic partner’s son has asked him the English translation for the Sinhala word Kadde. He asked my the same question and I said I do not know but better transliterate the word.

Long time ago, I was recruited to the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya to translate medical texts and terminology to Sinhala. It was a difficult task and we spent sometimes about three months to translate a single word. These hours were spread on our free time and I detested wasting my time on flimsy things.

I said it is far better to use the same word in Sinhala and the term transliterate was born, on the spot.

The plan was for the students to attend the lecture in English first and then come to me to listen to the translated version. My lecture was more of the question and answer session and I deliberately used the technique of transliteration. These guys even did not know how to define the word define. So, in matter of three months, students were made to understand the meaning of technical English and nobody came to me on the second and third terms for translations. Translation was a waste of time but understanding of the subject matter was more important. This tenure of my work came handy when I decided to join the university much older.

The English translation that came to my understanding, three years later was “Pingo Man (Kadde)”. The credit goes to a Burger gentleman of Irish descent. He inherited it from his mother. The Pingo part may have come from either Vietnam or China. In any case it sounds Chinese to me, and with the ascent of the Chinese Tiger from the East, due credit should go to China, if for any reason, it has any connection to the birth this word like Ying and Yang.

Coming back to the pachyderm, the treatment it gets from the mahout and the tourist local and foreign is less than desirable, to say the least. I can very well remember, once I had a not so healthy argument with a lady doctor from UK who was voicing the same concern I raise now, nearly 20 years ago. She said that, it is violation of Animal Rights and using them for long hours without due concern is inhuman which I fully endorse without reservation, now. These animals are ill treated to during Perehara time to please tourists.

I still have a picture of this lady on an Elephant at Elephant Bath (now non existent) and I have never climbed an elephant in my life. I have another dispute with this lady. I said, I admire this majestic animal so much that I cannot think of climbing on one of them (not at all fear) and pretend that I, the man is big or bigger than this majestic animal. She of course did not have an answer to my unexpected impromptu but nevertheless she of course enjoyed the ride, thoroughly.
Coming back to making an elephant laugh, none in the list below can do that.
1. Diyawadena Nilame is out on the first count. He goes into historical record for the the first death of an elephant who participated in this annual event.
2. Mahinda Rajapaksa cannot achieve this since the two legged elephants under his fold are crying for cabinet posts.
3. Ranil Wickramasinghe cannot achieve this task because he is making all elephants past and present cry in vain.
4. I cannot do that since when I go near an elephant garbed in surgical gear, even a tame elephant gets angry.
5. Gecko cannot.
6. A chameleon cannot.
7. Spider cannot.
So who can do that?
I have found one by accident.
This was an special ant.
He happened to be in my cup of tea.
I asked the fellow what on earth you are doing on my cup of tea?
he looked at me and said, look guy I may be small but I have made an elephant laugh. That made me to open my eyes wide.
I told him, I give you a grain of Palawatta sugar for the vital information and the top secret.
He took a meditative breath and with a little smile, he told me it is easy as a grain of salt.
I did make an elephant laugh an year ago. Of course, the elephant did die with this laugh.
Mt gray matter started working with a gush of pure blood not polluted by Americans.
How come?
He said when the Kandy Veterinary Surgeon was attending to the dying elephant he hide inside the ear. The elephant was crying due to poking of all holes of the elephant, including the nose. When the veterinary surgeon was gone he came out of the hiding place to inquire why he was crying.
The elephant said to the ant in slumber, these guys even not let me sleep my last nap with poking and probing.
Suddenly the ant realized, he is having the last conversation with this majestic friend. The ant whispered to the elephant “Buck up guy, if they take you to the Intensive Care Unit, I’ll give all my blood to save you”.
To this elephant could not stop laughing.
He took the last breath laughing and ended up in heaven.
The moral of this story is when one is dying only the little ones are near you to console. Little things can make one happy but certainly not doctors without humour.
Small is beautiful.

For the green two egged variety, the little grass root variety is the one that matters come elections, not the ones who are residing at Diyawannawa or the Diyawadana Nilame of the “Temple of the Tooth’.

PS
The reason of the said elephant death was due to negligence including dehydration and poor care.

DNA and RNA Basic Knowledge

DNA to RNA to Protein

The Basic Knowledge

An outline of the processes involved in DNA and RNA synthesis is given below.

It is not comprehensive but limited to the understanding the basics.

The basic model is from DNA to RNA to Proteins.

Proteins are the structural models which are produced in the Ribosomes of the cell.

Ribosome is the protein synthetic factory in the cell.

The Nuclear DNA does all the coordination.

There are intermediate organisms who can synthesize everything else given only a few basic ingredients.

They are called independent organisms.

Then again, there are biological agents which need living cells for their regeneration.

They are called parasites.

Viruses fall into parasitic group.

There are DNA viruses which are larger and much organized and there are smaller parasitic RNA viruses.

Some Viral RNA can act as RNA Polymerase (in other words as an enzyme to produce proteins) independent of the DNA.

Some viral RNA can reverse transcript to form DNA template for replication.

They are called Reverse Transcriptases (forming DNA).

Viruses though, independent agents but needs cellular agents (Ribosomes) for their reproduction and hence they basically are parasitic.

CoviD 2 to CoviD-19

Covid Virus has 3 components.

1. Spike Protein

2. Envelope Protein

3. Membrane Protein

1. There are numerous spike proteins.

The name Corona takes the name from these spike like proteins on the outside of the RNA particle.

2. They Envelope proteins are synthesized by the Viral RNA using the Ribosome of the host cell.

3. Membrane proteins are acquired by the Viral RNA when entering the cell from the cell membrane.

4. This ability of the Viral RNA to assimilate host proteins for its own survival is the most important weapon this virus has apart from its ability to mutate and form variants.

5. The receptor for the virus is ACE Inhibitor Receptor in the respiratory cells.

6. Serene protease is utilized in breaking down the ribosomal proteins.

7. This virus has both enteric phase and a respiratory phase of development.

8. Act as a RNA mediated RNA polymerase.

9. Vaccines are generally produced by

a) Original inactivated viral (parasitic) proteins

b) Recombinant proteins using both DNA and RNA

DNA replication is easy while RNA replication in the laboratory is difficult.

c) Since Coronavirus is very small it is tagged to other known

immunogenic antigens in addition to adjuvants.

DNA of Adenovirus of a simian money is used in Sputnic vaccination.

My WordPress Web Page on Linux (asokaplus)

My WordPress (Linux) Web Site created in 2010 is available for perusal of old Linux Distributions.

Type www.asokaplus.com on Google and look for WordPress.

This was created when WordPress com was available FREE.

It provides web pages with og setting for commercial and individual use.

A, B and C of Health

A for Appetite and Thirst

B for Brain Health

C for Culture

There is a proliferation of posts in the Internet regarding Health and Diet.

I did a bit of search and realized these guys and girls are more interested in page hits and advertisements.

I have two sayings.

Even bad things can be advertised without peer review in the Internet.

Even a bad advertisement is good, if one is in to Insurance Business. Guys and Girls in insurance business work on alluring gullible individuals.

They are interested in the first 3 installments from which the prime seller derives substantial benefits.
They have no control on subsequent installments, if the seller is not in the team.

Internet is cheap and a cesspool and anybody can access it and many of the claims are never substantiated.

Regarding Health and Diet what is most important is Common Sense.

A
A is appetite and taste.
If one does not have hunger do not eat.

Two or there meals is a cultural habit.

Breakfast is the most important. In busy world it should cover at least 4 to 5 hours.
If one does that diligently, one can easily throw the so called lunch out of the window.

I use to have a glass of milk and big banana for lunch and TEA was my driving force.

Then one can think of the supper leisurely which can be prepared quickly or elaborately or even skip altogether.

I am a guy who says, a single meal a day was good enough for a prehistoric hunter, gatherer.

B
B is for Brain Health.

What brain needs is B Vitamins and MCTs which coconut oil is rich in.

A banana, an avocado and pumpkin can provide all the brain vitamins and additionally vitamins A, C and E which are antioxidants.

C
C is one's culture.

One should learn to respect each culture on its merits.

One should not go to UK, USA and Australia and ask them to become vegetarians.

Similarly one should not go to India and tell them to prepare meat like in USA.

Let them make a masala.

Japanese eat raw fish which is revolting to me.

Koreans eat dog meat (their own dogs).

Muslims eat peacocks rared in their own home and their Halal system is a cultural norm.

Why Jews and Muslims do not eat pork is another enigma.

I come from a background that all animals have the right to live their own lives and snarl at anybody who keeps animal other than cats and dogs (domesticated).

I am against Buddhist monks who keep elephants in their temples. It is totally against Avihinsa or Compassion in Buddhism.

Elephants belong to the jungle!

Open Office 1 to 3 - The Beginning

LibreOffice has now in its 7th Version and it has more Macros than Microsoft, I believe. I still work on ABIWORD which is light weight and superb!

LibreOffice is by the way MultiLingual, that is why is has lot of Macros.

Open Office 1 to 3

16th December, 2008
Sun Microsystem’s Open Office has taken a giant leap from it’s 2.4 version to 3.
I happen to see this version on a laptop with a Linux Distribution and was bit curious since, I had been using Open Office from its version 1 which was Star Office of Sun Microsystem’s Open Office package released to the web as an Open Source software.
Linux people grabbed this with enthusiasm and it has been bundled with almost all the Linux distributions.

This was the time, I was migrating from Windows to Linux and its features included with web format as well as PDF format.

I used to import Microsoft’s Office document and remove all the Macros with proprietary claims which unnecessarily makes the word file bigger than it aught to be.

In addition these Macros attract viruses and make page laying extremely difficult from page to page.
It is a nuisance Microsoft uses have to encounter on daily basis.

Auto formatting was a pain in the neck for me.
Other features include, one can save the document in many formats as one wishes so that the recovery of a Microsoft document (does not happen with Open Office) gone haywire with just a touch of a button.
It has automatic recovery system when the power fails (if one does not have a battery backup when the power fails) which I found annoying but a safety feature that is important if you are working on a long file.

Over a five year period this happened only three or four times and one can see what a “Finiky Soul" I am when working with computers.

I have had only one file corruption (one of those recovery incidents) over the period of five years that was all due to my 128 RAM getting overloaded (hardware problem not software) by many programs running at the same time.

I only had to shutdown (I did not use adequate Swap partition on those early days) and restart and the file was recovered in a few minutes, since the program gave me prior warning of the impending file corruption and the misbehaviour.

That is the virtue of this package which I have no hesitation in recommending it to any one especially one who is short of cash to buy the Microsoft’s new office package (I believe a waste of money).

The real reason I use it was its PDF format which was necessary ingredient for transferring files across the Web.

New version has arithmetic (Formula Feature) and calculation function which would be very useful for school kids.

Once you are registered with the Open Office home site automatic upgrading is available and one does not have to wait for the next issue.

Only downside of it is, the database cannot upload an old databse which I have to live with for the time being but very soon the community would find a way out of this scenario and remove all the Macros and Active-X script and get the database raw table into its domain whether Microsoft likes it or not.

Footnote
The exposure of the Internet Explorer to hackers from China, raises the question how safe is the Microsoft Software including Office.
Linux has many Internet Explorers from Dillo to Firefox (Firefox is my favorite).

Why Ceylonese not using them speaks of our up to date knowledge of IT Industry.
It is time to move to Linux especially SuSe 11 and Mandrake 9 (both become defunct with one gone commercial and the other gone bust but Mageia Linux is a derivative).

Ironically SLT (Sri-Lankan Telecom) does not support its wired service to Linux.
The models they are dishing out (freely) this Christmas do not support Linux.

The are hooked to Microsoft.

Added on the 27th of December, 2023.
Microsoft has sucked out our money and no wonder why we are billions bankrupt.

It is too late to go to Linux and JVP guys are also using Microsoft locally and when they travel abroad.

Why Anthony Fousi should be sent to Prison?

Why Anthony Fousi should be sent to Prison?

Yes he should be sent to prison on many counts with his cohorts inside and outside of the CDC.

It is over 3 years now and I cannot see Biden's White house and the Senate opening up this case not with vengeance but with sincerity to the American citizens who left us not knowing why this happened to them in their twilight years.

Celion Dion was a victim to the abreaction to the vaccine.

Diego Maradona, I suspect another case of either vaccine related or really to the viral infection.
Argentina, I think probably had the highest number of infection with the onset of the "Coronavirus Saga".

I will deal with the technicalities, first.

1. Wilful tampering or attempt to delete the important email conversations.

I am a (computer) technical guy and all emails are by default archived for technical and legal reference.

We do not need Snowden like characters but any guy with protocol access can retrieve them for legal consumption.

2. He was politically motivated and undermined the sitting President, at the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic for wheeler dealing with the next incoming but very weak President, so that he could manipulate the next set of guys chairing the CDC.

3. His dealing with Wuhan and the W.H.O was less convincing or desirable.

4. The gain in function was his baby!

5. He spent lot of money in over 32 laboratories in Ukraine to design a virus to kill Russians and especially President Putin.

I think Russian President has all the technical details.

6. Proxy Ukraine War was the final outcome.

7. I was a doctor by profession and over the last 20 years, I have not registered with any Medical Council.

The sole purpose was to expose the doctors and pharmaceutical guys (including vaccine manufacturers) who are conducting nefarious activities for personal and monetary gains.

Professor Senaka Bibile who was one of the few who took Pharmaceutical companies head on was eliminated under suspicious conditions.

In his name I can expose the CDC with its cohorts.

8. It takes about 20 years for a wild virus variant to be produced as a counter to a viral pandemic.

The polio virus and its vaccine, the live virus is a case in point.

I was to write a book (my intended last book out of 20 topics) on viruses and with the pandemic I gave it up.

9. The emergency authorization was a ploy to bypass all the more important protocols and field trials necessary for new and emergent treatment protocols to be validated.

UK Prime Minister's fall was a direct result of his dealing with UK pharmaceutical giants to make a fast buck when over 20 millions of the elderly people succumbed to the vaccine.

10. Historical records show that a wild virus kills less than 1% of the subjects for its own success.

11. Artificial virus that mutates at random at a given furin site is a global hazard which we are unable to mitigate and respond.

That is the very reason Anthony Fousi should be in prison.

The entry of the endosomally packaged artificial viral segment with a furin chain portion to the Ribosome (where protein molecules are packaged) leads to an endless cycle of viral replication, often with new mutations, is the crime if this century!

Africans in the African continent are more vulnerable, simply because of endemic malaria and not yet resolved AIDS virus pandemic.

They were not ready for a new but artificially created virus to Kill Russians!

Epstein Saga is only a celebrity issue and when Fousi is in prison he should serve the full term of over 100 of years, since lot of prison inmates died due to this virus due to poor prison conditions.

12. One is free to read my book "Coronavirus who cheated us locally and globally" is available at Amazon Book store.

That book gives all symptoms I suffered including myocarditis.

By the way, three young guys including one of my friend's son died due to the vaccine.

That was the reason for writing the book.

The book was a simple narrative, the things I could not write in my book was posted in this blog site for posterity.

"Long Live Americans" who are made gullible suckers of the modern world!

Alcohol, Narcotics and Meditation Retreat

I met an old friend known for his satire and humour (sometimes dry but worthwhile relating).
He asked me to describe in short, the digestive system (in Sinhala).
Before I could open up, he said one starts with the right hand and ends with the left hand (with no toilet paper USE in this country) for convenience.
Before he could finish, I asked him what about left-handed guys like Albert Einstein?
He said in Ceylon left handed people eat with their right hand.
That was a dicey answer which I could not believe but what he said next was very nice.
Look at these guys/girls shopping for new clothes as if they had been in nude for 364 days.
I said I prefer to be in nude at least at night to cool myself.
Then I pondered to Politics and raised my voice and said IF BBS was in power we would not be able to crack a joke.
He said no politics and I told him that it is the inborn deficiency of Ceylonese that allows politicians to go "scot free" of their petty deeds and shoddy acts.
Before we could expand on politics, he got out of the bus to see a friend for an early tot.
I told him to drink IF it is FREE (only).
Thankfully, when I reached home, a Danish friend had called in without prior notice.
We polished a tiny wine bottle in no time.
I did not see this guy again, he was bitten by the travel bug; his resolve was never to come home, like foreign secretaries of the old regime.
His reasoning for one visit during Sinhala/Tamil New Year costs him all his savings for a year and he could never recover his loans to his near and dear, given the year before.
We live on loans and pawn our children for over 100 years.
The Danish friend did not drop in for sometime (escape from bitter winter and his wife and his inconsistent study of ethnic conflict never ends).
For me I decided never enjoy a drink till all the taxes or levies on alcohol is removed by a decree with the blessing of the Triple Gem of Nibbana, one of my alcoholic friends describes them as The Void (Sunnata), The Signless (Animitta) and The desireless (Appanihina).
I told him alcohol and narcotics have the same effects on the brain.
After a deliberate pause, I told him one Hour of Meditation would not get all those three effects unless he/she tastes a piece of chocolate or takes an alcohol based and plant based drink of old tradition, Kombucha Beverage or Manchurian Mushroom Tea (Mana Tea) or Narcotics.

Charms of Alcohol

I have finished this book. It will appear in Amazon's books.
This is an introduction to my book on alcohol.

It is too early for such an endeavor and since I am not going to write a book about our dog Zimba, this would entertain the changes that Zimba has inculcated in me while he was alive and long after its departure.

I say he deserved to be in heaven and little reflection of my life in brief for posterity.

This coincided with, when I decided to not to register as a medically qualified man in the Ceylon Medical Council for over two decades. The reason of that decision has no bearing to this little book.

An autobiography written after the demise of the subject has many missing points and add a lot of exaggerations and delete bad things.

This book does not entertain the type of exception and posthumous examination.

This include all.

Good, Bad and the Ugly

I tried to find a Clinical Pharmacology book by Lawrence et all, from which I got the basic knowledge of clinical effects of alcohol but could not find a single copy published in late nineteen sixties.

Then I found a book on Clinical Chemistry by Calbreath and that gave a real scientific introduction, including its manufacture and adulteration. I gave up drinking local alcohol due to its adulteration since independence and went for only imported alcohol and very lately to wine. I never enjoyed beer but local Gin and Tonic was my favorite before a billiard or snooker game. I never realized I was getting addicted to even in small doses, including alcohol inside chocolates.

I have weaned myself off, after a decade of trial and effort.

I never had the insight, I am becoming addicted and the that is the first critical faculty I lost.

I have never been able to cure any person from alcohol addiction and since I am writing this as a non medical person, I took the liberty use the the title "Charms of Alcohol" not to entice a person who has never tried alcohol but to make it readable like a novel.

I was heavy smoker and I could stop it abruptly, since it affected my physical performance and activities in sports. That effort made me to realize one day, I can stop my addiction clinically not obvious to even my close ones.

Simply, I was a nice guy after alcohol.

I would not have realized bad habits, I have acquired as an adult including violent temper, if not for the reason of enjoying a bit of alcohol.

I do not believe that it brings worse on anybody, it only exposes one's hidden genetic tendencies.

Please do not blame alcohol.

It is the second discovery of man in evolution, after honey.

The fundamental biological agent, the yeast was the starter for the bread industry but it branched much bigger to alcohol industry.

Even Buddhist monks consume it, in Dasa Mula (ten root causes) Aristaya and the Fifth Precept in Buddhism is Mujja Pama Dhattna.

It means little bit is OK and I have not fathomed how little is little bit!

Carlo M Capolla and Five Type of Stupidity

Carlo M Capolla and Five Type of Stupidity

Carlo M. Capolla proposed this theory in 1976.

Fulbright Scholar in 1953.

He was a professor of economic history at University of Berkeley in 1957.

Born in 1922

He died in 2000 at the age of 78.

Books
Guns, Sails and Empires.
Decline of Empires.
Money, Prices and Civilization
Between Two Cultures.

1. Always and invariably we underestimate the stupid people in circulation.

2. The probability of stupidity is independent of other characteristic like gender, race, nationality, colour, age, education level and social standing.

There are lot of stupid monks and priests in Ceylon.
They have become TV actors.

The worse case scenario is Zelensky who has contributed to the death of over 300,000 well trained, well educated and nice Ukrainians.

It is too, late to oust him now.
He thinks he is smart and saviour of global democracy.
In fact, he has destroyed diplomacy, democracy and peaceful coexistence.

There are lot of stupid people in Davos and UNO.

3. Stupid person is a person who causes loses to another person or group of persons, often deriving no gain to himself and often causing harm to himself.

4. Non stupid people often underestimate the loses and damages caused by the stupid individuals.
Non stupid people often forget that are stupid individuals, all the time or all the places or under any circumstance and to deal with or associate with a stupid person is always a costly mistake.

5. Stupid are the worse type of people to be associated with.

They are worse than bandits.

1. Intelligent people
2. Bandits

3. Stupid

4. Helpless people

Vegetarian Paradox

Vegetarian Paradox

I wanted to write piece on antioxidants since I almost completed the survey on current Linux distributions and this site is dedicated to Linux.

Unfortunately visitor index to Linux has fallen down.

My only interest is to bring the Linux Desktop users up to 10%.

That is 1 out of 10 has some exposure to Linux.

When I started nearly 23 years ago the number of desktop users in Ceylon was 32 or 34.

It has not gone up significantly and with the economic downturn in Ceylon this is the ideal time to invest on Linux, at least to cut down on expenses.

I will leave it that and I will not invest further interest until 2025 when the next Debian Edition is due.

Linux especially Debian is very stable currently and is on FREEZE MODE until 2025.

Going back to antioxidants, I ended up writing a book of 200 pages with a Title "Vegetarian Paradox".

In one chapter I had 30 (I stopped at 30) fruits and vegetable we have in Ceylon that have medicinal values far beyond a Western Medicine Tablets.

The problem is these fruits and vegetables are seasonal and there is no proper management system to help the growers. Often there is no coordination and vegetables are thrown to animals to eat due to low prices and production in excess of the demand.

Additionally some fruits like mangoes are grown as export industry and killing many other varieties of lovely but small local varieties.

I am in Australia they have very good program to grow tropical fruits including mangoes and bananas.

Instead of exporting them we have to make the local people eat them to sustain the industry.

In my list of 30 Apples and Kiwi fruits are not included and I have not tasted a single apple or pear or kiwi.

I am happy with mangoes, bananas and avocados.

The fruit that I really promote is Pumpkins which has real medicinal value.

One pumpkin a day is better than few apples and Kiwi fruits.

By the way, Kiwi fruit is a Chinese fruit brought in during "Gold Rush' which has limited nutritional value probably to deal with scurvy.

Concept of Nutrition

Concept of Nutrition

The concept of nutrition is not simple and is not modern. It evolved over many centuries and this was associated with man taking to sea and living away from land for considerable length of time.

British sailors were called “lemines” since they took lemons with them to sea to prevent scurvy.

But unlike limes lemon contain less Vitamin C.

The isolation of these ingredients was a painful process and thankfully, all of them were discovered, before I was born and many researchers received Noble Prize for their contributions.

Nutrients fall into two categories macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients.

Macro-nutrients are Fat, Starch and Proteins.

Vitamin Classification

Vitamins are classified as either water soluble or fat soluble.

In humans there are 13 vitamins

Fat Soluble

4 in number

Water Soluble

9 in number

8 B vitamins and

Vitamin C

Water-soluble vitamins dissolve easily in water and in general, are readily excreted from the body, to the degree that urinary output is a strong predictor of vitamin consumption. Because they are not as readily stored, more consistent intake is important.

Fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract with the help of lipids (fats). Vitamins A and D can accumulate in the body, which can result in dangerous hypervitaminosis.

Fat-soluble vitamin deficiency due to malabsorption is of particular significance in cystic fibrosis.

Anti-Vitamins

Anti-vitamins are chemical compounds that inhibit the absorption or actions of vitamins. For example, avidin is a protein in raw egg whites that inhibits the absorption of biotin; it is deactivated by cooking. Pyrithiamine, a synthetic compound, has a molecular structure similar to thiamine, vitamin B1, and inhibits the enzymes that use thiamine.

Story of Vitamin C

Story of Vitamin C

The concept of nutrition is not simple and is not modern. It evolved over many centuries and this was associated with man taking to sea and living away from land for considerable length of time. British sailors were called “limey” since they took lemons with them to sea to prevent scurvy.

But unlike limes lemon contain less Vitamin C.

I was in New Zealand for a brief period and I was inquisitive of the Kiwi fruit and to my surprise I found it was a Chinese fruit adapted to the conditions of the South Island. They were prospecting gold and were mining there under harsh and primitive conditions. The area is a now a tourist attraction and is called “Shanty Town”.

I bet Chinese workers suffered from scurvy and Kiwi fruit was brought there to prevent sickness. Kiwi fruit has nothing except Vitamin C. New Zealanders are good at marketing a bad product.

Let me dish out some facts.

Ascorbic acid is an carbon (organic) compound with the formula C6H8O6was originally called hexuronic acid.

It belongs to the monosaccharide family.

It is an electron donor and is an antioxidant and prevents oxidative injury of molecules and cell membranes.

Whereas, glucose is saturated with six OH radicals and is stable and is energy rich.

C6H12O6 is the molecular formula for glucose.

One needs about 75mg of Vitamin C daily.

It is cheaper to take two tablets of 50mg Vitamin C but the companies market them in only 500mg tablets.

Large amount of Vitamin C produces oxalate as a byproduct that can cause urinary stones.

In its metabolism it is converted to 2,3-diketogulonate and lastly to oxalate.

The metabolites are water soluble and are excreted via urine.

During times of low dietary intake, vitamin C is reabsorbed by the kidneys rather than excreted.

The isolation of these ingredients was a painful process and thankfully, all of them were discovered, before I was born and many researchers received Noble Prize for their contribution.

Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928, and in 1933, was the first vitamin to be chemically produced.

Partly for its discovery, Albert Szent-Györgyi was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

In my opinions out of the many described only a few fruits can supplement, perhaps in combination, almost all the requirements.

1. Plantains

2. Pumpkins

3. Mangoes

4. Avocados

Apples, Pears and Kiwi fruits cannot match the above fruits in their nutritional repertoire.

To this add fennel seeds and and mustard one gets all the trace minerals, zinc, manganese, magnesium and calcium and. are strikingly low in sodium. Excess sodium is bad for health.

Nutrients fall into two categories macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients.

Macro-nutrients are Fat, Starch and Proteins.

Albino Tree Frog

This guy is early for the season and has become partially albino.

Trace Elements

Trace Elements

If one ignores Iron and Iodine, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Molybdenum, Chromium, Manganese and Silicon are the most important in wound healing and recovery from illness.

Some of them are poisonous, to say the least.

As often stated in the Media and Internet no food item satisfy the full requirement (Daily Recommended Value) of adult human.

It is the combination of fruits, greens and vegetables, ideally at least 5 types (if daily is impossible) over a week.

I think amount of intake is immaterial since, phytates in the food hinder absorption.

Phytic acid can affect how the body absorbs some minerals, including iron.

It may contribute to mineral deficiencies over time, but this is rarely a concern for people who eat well-balanced diets.

Phytic acid is a unique natural substance found in plant seeds.

It has received considerable attention due to its effects on mineral absorption.

Phytic acid prevents the absorption of iron, zinc, and calcium and may promote mineral deficiencies.

1. Iron

2. Iodine

3. Zinc

4. Selenium

5. Copper

6. Molybdenum

7. Chromium

8. Manganese

9. Silicon

10. Nickel

11. Boron

12. Vanadium

13. Fluoride

14. Lead

15. Cadmium

16. Mercury

17. Arsenic

18. Aluminium

19. Lithium

20. Tin

Simple Health Tips for Healthy Living-Ten in Number

Simple Health Tips for Healthy Living

Ten in Number

A Foods

1. Tea as a beverage

2. Tumeric in (as curry ingredient) food

3. Pumpkin as a food accomplishment

4. Garlic as soul creator

5. Soursop as an invigorator

All the above have antioxidants and many other helpful ingredients, antioxidants including powerful anticancer agents.

This I have selected out of 30 useful fruits and vegetables.

There are lot in my book to mix and match.

B. Avoid at all costs

1. Alcohol

2. Smoking

3. Avoid Rice and refined Wheat Flour bread and cookies

Better still avoid sex and sexual conflicts (read the comments on meditation below)

C. Medicines

1. Low dose aspirin

2. Anti-hypertensive treatment

Note;

I have have excluded meditation by default for two reasons.

One can increase the endogenous encephalin by taking dark chocolates which has over 300 micro-ingredients that elevate one's mood at any time.

To derive complete benefit by meditation one has to avoid sexual and other physical stimulation completely before meditation to induce successful endogenous encephalin pathway.

The new vogue name neuro-plasticity has no meaning, since nobody knows how these pathways work during wakeful hours and sleep, let alone during meditation.

That is also after many hours of struggle to get into the mood of meditation.

Becoming an ascetic, in this fast moving world is completely impossible.

Piece of chocolate is an easy substitute.

Metta Meditation, in my belief, is the easiest form of meditation which derives (read Karaniya Metta Sutta) benefits within 6 weeks.

One can try to become a vegetarian on that account alone and that has dual benefit (animal on one side and the doer of Metta mediation, on the other side).

One need not have a religion to practice all of the above 10 productive actions.

Now that I am finishing my book on Vegetarian Paradox this is a tiny reflection of my life, part of this piece is included in the final chapter.

To gather rest you have to read the book.