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Prayer and Other Puzzles

In a column called “Inner Voice” on HT, Roy Eugene Davis tries to explain to us when and how to pray. It is necessary he feels to not pray to GOD but to pray in GOD. Before praying, he feels, it is also necessary to clearly define your needs and desires. He also lists the following things that need to be done to have an effective prayer:

• Be still until you are calm and you are aware of being one with God
• Do not beg for what is needed
• Rest for a while in that consciousness of fulfillment until you are permanently established in it
• Be thankful that you have realization of fulfillment

Sigh! This has been done so many times and yet…

Of all the things that humans do, eating, washing their behinds, day dreaming, writing proposals, no activity comes closer to uselessness than praying. Prayer as an attempt to fulfill a need or a desire is essentially stupid and verily futile. Ever wonder how every priest who has asked you to pray has also said that “God helps those who help themselves”?

If we had already found out the most effective form of prayer that got us what we wanted, believe me all humans would know it. However I suspect that isn’t the case.

There are only two possible things that can happen after you pray:

1. God answers your prayer
2. He does not

People have this bias only remembering the cases when a result reinforced their belief. When somebody/anybody has kept score then the results have become negligible. This hasn’t been a problem for the religious since the one single rare occasion is called a miracle. Well if you define a single rare occasion as a miracle then there is no reason to celebrate a miracle. It is rare, and entirely produced by randomness, thank you very much.

Shit List

Its twelve in the night and I am in the communal nest that is the office. Alpha male walked right past me as I was working. And did not wave, or smile or even for courtesy’s sake even ask me about my health. Yeah! I have made the shit list of the alpha male too.

Customer Questions

How do you kill a session in Apache?

Yes. You are outsourcing your core business operations to a group of brown mealy mouthed monkeys across seven seas. But “How do you kill a session in Apache?”. Shouldn’t you be more worried about the Taliban, Governance or something else.

Nut cases.

Customer Visits

Salesbaboon: We do DRP exercises every month

OrangeOrangutanCustomer: Really

Salesbaboon: Really. Some of these are not even exercises but real DRP tests

[Silverback goes Sigh!]

OrangeOrangutanCustomer: What do you mean.

[There are two possibilities now. The sales baboon can confess that we bomb our delivery centers every once every two weeks or we don't and someone else bombs our delivery center every two weeks]

Salesbaboon: See. Our process are so strong and our value additions are so good.

Sales. Redefine reality

WTF moment- Extra Special

From: silverhairedbaboon@sales.justatechcompany.com

To: technicalperson@gmail.com

Technical Person,

Congragulations!! I have just come to know from Silverback that you have quit our lovely organization and have decided to move onto another lovely organization. Which is wonderful. The “other lovely” organization is really brilliant and is quite differentiated. In fact the CEO of the “other lovely” organization quit our organization and joined their organization some six months back. So quite differentiated indeed. Though I think differentiated is not the word I need right now. Btw! I realize you have quit, changed your cellphone number, switched off your previous cell and moved to a different city all to avoid what you describe as this “total lack of concern for my personal life”, but I was wondering? Would it be possible for you to join a solution presentation call for a customer from 11.00 p.m. your time to 2.00 a.m. your time on Wednesday? Just asking. Do confirm.

Regards,

Silver Haired Baboon