It's raining dead....

It's raining dead....for the last week or so
250 in mumbai...
60 in Lebanon...
550 in Indonesia post Tsunami...

Death due to natural disasters and God's wrath is something no one on earth can thwart yet. All we have learnt till now is some techniques of predicting it, and we are fine tuning this knowledge. God's plans are something we don't have access to, and it is something we have to accept and submit to. The battle we need to pick is the one against terrorism.

I find it tough to believe that the blue print of my head (until it is blown off my shoulders by some bomb) and a terrorists is very similar...cranium, gray matter et al. At least the HLD (High level Design) is the same. . How is it possible that a mentally sane person wakes up in the morning and can feel motivated about the fact that his profession is 'terrorism' and his to-do list for the day says 1) kill x people at A 2) kill y people at B and so on. This is not a very original thought...it has intrigued a whole lot of us and a bunch of movies have been made on this. Even if it is at the expense of sounding cliched, I want to ask again and again 'when you are planting a bomb which would take the life of an innocent person who is a mother/father etc to someone don't you think of the agony it causes, the havoc it wreaks in their lives? Don't you have an innocent mother, father,sibling, spouse back home?' None of the answers that came out in any of the movies or books are even close to convincing me that these actions are justified.

In humans very emotion/thought can be attributed to a bunch of chemicals doing some random permutations and combinations. I wish bio-technology was so advanced as to allow an xray of the head and generate out a report of the logic of the most unreasonable, inexplicable and destructive thoughts that gets generated in a terrorists head. Someday, medical research will lead us to that evil chemical and we will know its composition. Someday a great scientist will find a way impede this deadly chemical. And just as small pox has been eradicated, terrorism will be eradicated. Among the vaccinations that all of us have to get as babies, one of them will be a vaccination for terrorism!

Now, that is what I call being unreasonably imaginative. For some odd reason, I feel comforted that these thoughts are all just chemicals somewhere in my head!