1000 Days of a turkey's Common Sense

Common Sense is based on knowledge. And knowledge flows because educated lots don't think. They listen to people whom they trust and start believing what they are told. This forms the very basic pillar for publicity and propaganda. People who encourage others to think are deemed subversive. Socrates encouraged his followers to think, and he was accused of corrupting the youth.The reason is pretty clear. When you think for yourself you may come out with answers that deviate from the accepted truths of society around you. It means a lot of people are going to be upset with you. Copernicus, Columbus and Galileo are classic examples.
Consider a turkey's life. Right from birth, every morning it is pulled out of its cage, and made to swim in a pond and is fed with everything it wants and at the end of the day it is put back into its cage again. It leads this happy life for hundreds of days till the thousandth day and on the 1001th day it gets its head chopped of and is lying on a rich man's plate in a High Profile Restaurant who eats it over talks on business, family and other "important" stuff.
The turkey's common sense is defied all throughout its life because what it has observed and inferred during those 1000 days is no way indicative of the fact that it has been raised to get killed. An intelligent one in flock might wonder where their loved ones go, but the reality is something they can never know, because it defies their common sense.
Basic common sense said that it is not possible in any case for a 80 kg man to fly, or for a piece of iron 100 tonnes of weight to float on water, or that the earth is round, or that sun does not revolve around the earth.

"How can the sun not revolve around the earth, its basic common sense."

Another example, an american air force officer who anticipates the threat before 9/11 , using his powers responsibly gets the gates of all airplanes in his country replaced with 6 inch think steel gates, and 9/11 was averted. Now that 9/11 did not happen, the officer was fired, for wasting country's resources in something unworthy. The guy can't claim saving ten thousand lives. An Indian chap claimed saving thousands of lives in Mumbai, considering the terrorists plans, and that only 180 were killed. The city so big, with so well planned, the terrorists were restricted to only small attacks. The guy could not put this into proper words, a mistake that TV media never does and made sure that the guy was sacked. Not surprising to anyone of us, the guy was R.R. Patil. Because he thought of something, which defied everybody's common sense.
Educated people are less likely to discover truth, because their minds are filled with knowledge,which is nothing but others thoughts in which they believe, they call it common sense.

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Lexical Ambiguity
Of course the title doesn't make sense. But if you are new to it, you'll be surprised to know that with proper punctuation, it does. Here is how an article on Wikipedia describes it.

"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" is an English sentence demonstrating lexical ambiguity. The sentence is often given as a word puzzle for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning.Reichenbach used it in 1947 as an exercise to the reader (but as "John where Jack…"), to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
The phrase can be understood more clearly by adding punctuation and quotation marks:
James, while John had had "had," had had "had had";
"had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
The meaning could thus be rendered, after some reordering and changing a few words, "While John had used 'had,' James had used 'had had.' The teacher had preferred 'had had.'"

Another example:
A similar, punctuated repetition of had had appears in Jasper Fforde's The Well f Lost Plots:
Good. Item seven. The had had and that that problem. [...] 'Okay,' said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, 'let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim's Progress, which had had had, had had had had. Had had had had TGC's approval?'

There was a very long pause.'Right,' said the Bellman with a sigh.

My blues and My greens

Blues:

• On a rainy day, when I have to walk back from office to home, on muddy roadside, soiling shoes and clothes.
• When I visit family for a cousin's wedding, and my other cousins have not reached by then.
• When I used to travel from Varanasi to Mumbai in a train, and with every passing station I have to count the hours left before reach home. It gets more blue, the closer I get there.
• When in Kodaikanal, my friends went rock climbing leaving me behind because I was knocked but, and every time I tried to recall how I got out, everything turned black.
• When my card does not work at billing time.
• When I realize that the shirt I wanted to wear to office that day is not clean/ironed.
• When it has been long since I had played TT and I hurry to the table but still have to sign for getting the TT bats
• When I am playing TT and there is a call and I receive it only to hear a recorded message playing for dialer tone adv, "Pappu can't dance saala! " arre pappu naach nahi sakta to main kya karu????
• When a cricket match is interrupted by rain gods.

Greens:

• When all my cousins call in and say "abey yaar tu aaja varna maaza nahin aayega (on some function or gathering)"

• When I can stand under a shower and let the water flow all over me, incessant, unrestrained, cleansing everything from mind to soul....
• joy on mom's face when i reach home
• Remembering the GOA tour "When I can stand on a beach and feel the sand retreating from under my feet and yet maintain my balance waaaaow" .
• When I realize that I have helped somebody without expecting anything in return.
• hearing that ring tone, that specific one, when mom, dad or sis calls.
• When sometimes I (very rarely) I realize that I did something right which I had done wrong earlier.
• sitting and enjoying mom oiling my hair
• calling home with no reason, just hearing everyone speak from the other side
• wishing diwali, hugging everyone u meet
• When I keep delaying my daily ablutions and Mummy comes to shout on me to go take a bath!
• When I sometimes dress up with care( insaano types)... and I realise that its worth it ;)
• when i hear my sis's voice ..bhai tujhe pata hain aaj kya hua..
• when my mom hugs me on my way back to Hyderabad

Pictures from 3rd Dec Rally in Mumbai