When experiences are translated to words the essence of the experience is lost in translation. This I believe is the bane of all religions. They have converted profound spiritual experiences into words, words which can never replace the experience. It is a travesty on God's omnipresence when all the world's religions have condensed his presence into books and idols and worship them instead of experiencing his presence.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Idea #29: A Book about Nothing
This is a book with,
• No title
• No content
• Has one question mark in the first page
• And one question mark in the last page
• All pages in between are empty
• There are 31 pages in all in the book
• All sheets are in white color
• The first question mark is in black color
• The last question mark is in white color
You just need to look at one page per day for 15mins and move to the next page on the subsequent day. At the end of 15mins, write down all thoughts that crossed the mind in those 15mins, not in that book but elsewhere.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Idea #11: Itstory
Itstory (pronounced as It’s Story) is the single largest complication and archive of the history of all corporations and institutions that have existed in the last 110 years (from 1900 to 2010). I know what you are thinking. The idea is a dud because such information already exists in Wikipedia and other encyclopaedias. I agree that its there but what they have is a brief overview, summary of companies and not the details.
Itstory will offer unprecedented levels of details and information about every single corporation that has recorded information.
1. How the company came into being?
2. Major milestones
3. All interviews and articles every published about the company in Media
4. TV interviews, Videos, Ads from that company
5. Financial trends and Stock positions
6. A good summary of why the company failed (if it has failed)
7. What are the people involved in those company now doing
8. Rich personal history about the key people of the corporation
This could even be made into comic books or part of school syllabus for children to learn from.
In a nutshell and borrowing from Google’s tag line, Itstory will be,
“Organising the World’s Corporate Information in the most sensible, effective and useful format”
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Idea #1: The Five Destinies
The Five Destinies can be a book. It's a fictional story.
By the year 2012 the world is in a state of chaos due extremely polarised inter religious conflicts. A group of wise and influential elders propose an experiment in social living based religious beliefs.
Five identical islands are created with enough resources to support human habitation for 150 years. Each island is assigned to specific groups of people.
Island1 is meant for Muslims only, Island2 for Hindus, Island3 for Christians, Island4 for equal proportions of Hindus, Muslims and Christians and lastly Island5 is meant only for Scientists (Atheist Scientists)
These groups are assigned to these islands and are closed out from rest of the world completely for 150years. The story unravels the happenings and the state of these islands over the 150 years.