Simplysimple was supposed to be all about simple living. However as time went by, I had to create various categories for the differing content streams that were born out of necessity. It turned out to be a great alternative to maintaining multiple blogs as even maintaining a single blog takes up most of my time.

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The IT stuff wasn’t supposed to be here at all.  Over time, I needed a place to put up some end user self help for my office colleagues who are spread out over most of India. Repeating the same tripe over the phone any more would have given me seizures, so I put up all the stuff online so that I could retain my sanity and send them self help links by email for common procedures. In addition to that, I’ve gained a lot of knowledge from the Internet over all these years and have been helped by other peoples blogs, so this is where I give back to the community. Whenever I manage to solve something tricky, I put it up so that others can be helped too. My site statistics speak for themselves and I’m pleased with them.

Simply simple would not be complete without a section on wellness, and wellness encompasses both the Physical & Spiritual.  I put down what makes sense to me as I ponder on holistic health issues. Working in a health care organization has given me fresh insights & raised troubling questions about health and wellness as we know it. I also put down my experiences with the spirit world here for others to ponder on as I strongly feel that it plays an integral part in an individuals health and well being. It is also interesting to have a look at other lesser schools of thought and their approach to healing…. and find out whether it really works or whether it is superstition! You’ll soon find out, as it is the guinea pig that’s doing the writing!!

I love to learn and -that’s what I’ve done through life. Science teaches us as absolute what it thinks it has got right, but sooner or later we find out that what the learned men of the past thought was wisdom, is today’s or tomorrow’s foolishness. There are so many gaps in history and contradictions in what we are taught in school and by the media’s systematic disinformation campaign, that we must be wary and question everything that we are taught. Our teachers were paid to teach us all that bling and we had to “pass” our exams, so we were forced to memorize many things without actually understanding them. Science has become a god in its own right. Many things do work, but those on the fringe gray areas are anybody’s guess… if you have a PhD, you can get away with anything you say in those areas… and those who have been blinded by our stupid mind numbing education system certify the next generation of dumbos that the system has created… and so it goes on…

You don’t need a doctorate to learn about the simple things of life. Base your learning on absolute knowledge that does not change, mutate or decay. Ask an illiterate farmer how to plant, harvest and store corn and you’ve got the right answer. Ask an over educated imbecile and soon you will be buying potting soil, chemical fertilizers, dangerous pesticides, genetically modified “high yield”, “bug resistant” seeds and products that add even more toxins into your system at a stiff price… finally, when you get cancer because of it, science will  happily conduct more experiments on you calling it a “lifestyle disease”. Thankfully the world is coming full circle and understanding the benefits of organic farming and respecting the natural cycle of things -which our illiterate great grandpas knew long ago and was being practiced by uneducated farmers for centuries… but there are so many areas in our muddled life which are still under the grips of this forced “education”. When science speaks on areas that it has no authority on -beware! Especially on things that can’t be easily proved scientifically. Whenever our scientists don’t have  answers,  they regress into “millions of years” and into ice ages and dinosaurs -as if they actually lived then and teach us fantastic fairy tales at school -of fish growing legs and gills turning into lungs. May those dodo’s live happily ever after in their pipe dreams, even as the next generation prepares to laugh at them… It is not too different now than it was in the time of one of the greatest civilizations -Egypt! The respected doctors then used worms blood and donkey dung to treat splinter wounds -probably to create pus formation “to aid in healing”. Today we have more complicated sounding diseases and unpronounceable synthetic drug names, with their  bevy of side effects… its like the emperors new clothes… no one wants to admit that the emperor is naked because it will take away the glory of all those highly qualified people who are “showing us the way” -and of course all the dudes who are minting money at the common mans expense will become jobless like some of the silversmiths of Ephesus. This is not about doctors and medicine… it is happening in every field of science and engineering. Look at the pollution, sickness, stress and environmental chaos that they have caused… and they rejoice that man has gone to the moon (which was very likely staged and another fib as no one has ever gone to the moon again as they would most likely get toasted with radiation from the Van Allen belts).

After years of searching for answers, I realized that when you start with the spiritual side [which is another chapter of confusion and disinformation], only then the rest fits into place. Otherwise the other things do not seem to make any sense at all and it is like having a jigzaw puzzle which you can’t put together -not because you don’t have all the pieces, but because  you have been taught since childhood that some of the pieces you hold  in your hand don’t exist and are just the product of fears and imaginations of generations past! Thus you end up going through life searching for the non existent missing links/pieces hoping that you will find them sooner or later which you never do and loose out on the best of what life has to offer you!

Life is bigger than logic. When it comes to the philosophy of life, scholarship and science are not the all which counts.Many things pertaining to life are as true to day as in the distant past. If it be a question of physics, of chemistry, of mathematics, or of mechanics, there, scientists can speak with authority. But when it is a question of revelation, of spirituality, or of morality or the simple unchangeable things of life,  the common people are as competent judges as are the products of the schools. In great crises, history has often shown that the common people were on safer ground. Coming back to growing corn… a hundred years from now, corn will still be grown the same way… unlike fickle technology, the earth skills you possess will serve you and your descendants all through their lives and this is what we need to learn and preserve. We can still live without computers if thrust into a primitive survival situation, but we cannot if we don’t know where  to find water, and what food looks like when its on a plant. We have been buying foods in plastic bags from the supermarket for too long.

Sherlock Holmes says in the Sign of Four, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” This is one way of testing the gray areas of life..and this is exactly what we should be prepared to accept, regardless of what we have been taught -either at home, school or through the circumstances of life. Learning is a beautiful experience and continues all through life and goes hand in hand with unlearning. So Learn and Teach!

The theme of simplicity runs through most of these categories except for the IT stuff and the reviews section. Many of the things are in constant revision as my knowledge , experience and  expertise increases. My core area of strength is in Operating Systems, hardware & Networking rather than web design, so please bear with me for my badly designed site. I also do this in my free time of which I have very little… so expect delays sometimes… and the dry periods when the pressures of life are overwhelming and words stop flowing…

I’m grateful among others to Google, WordPress, Facebook, Technorati, Digg, Ping.fm, Twitter and Yahoo and all the generous plugin writers who have made it easier for me to post, publish and drive traffic to my site and concentrate on research and writing instead of on design and coding.

Do well people! In a survival situation, you and your family will default to your level of training and preparation. Bad days are up ahead, monetarily, politically, religiously. So be prepared!!

Warning/Disclaimer :

The information collected and presented has undergone more than 12 years of hard work and is presented in good faith and without malice. I have tested a lot of the stuff on myself/in my own life and have mentioned it wherever applicable. However use the information presented at your own risk as each person is different and something or the other might not agree with you. For some things such as using power tools and electrical design it is assumed that you have sufficient knowledge in the appropriate field or is necessary that you do so under competent supervision. Know yourself and your limits before you try anything mentioned in any of the posts  and remember that common sense costs nothing!

..And please don’t steal my content! I have worked hard on this and spent enormous amounts of money to bring this to you. If you want to refer to my documentation, please link to my site freely instead of copying my content!