The Like Thumb

Personally speaking the like thumb annoys me. It carries little to no information. In the old days it is equivalent to a missed call. Socially it is a minimal engagement. Please say something do not give me the like thumb. Thank you.

My silk sonnets

Poem By Hurain GhafoorEnglish Literature (BS student),Humanity Department, COMSATS University Islamabad. I move my arms slowly through the air,And imagine them as something spindly,Something wild and wondrous,Do I romanticize myself?Very well, I romanticize,My arms, that shimmers and moves with ethereal light,Imagine my arms as long spider legs,My eyes; as something devoid of light,Pitch-pure black, a portal...

I am tired of people. Let’s go to Mars

Poem By Hurain GhafoorEnglish Literature (BS student),Humanity Department, COMSATS University Islamabad. I am tired of people. Let's go to Mars.Listen, they say they have view on mars,In the midst of July, the sunrise is better seenFrom up above, is there a place somewhere forThe insane and the unloved?Let’s go,Let’s go,Let’s go,I wonder if Saturn’s ring truly...

A place for the insane and the deranged

Poem By Hurain GhafoorEnglish Literature (BS student),Humanity Department, COMSATS University Islamabad. A place for the insane and the derangedyou and i,believing in neither coincidence or prophecy,the theory of evolution or Jesus Christand his resurrection, the scientific equationof how nothing turned into somethingand now we are here,past highways and broadways,a dozen billboard signs or traffic lights,under a...

More On Opposite pairs

In the previous post, we noted that colors come in pairs. Here we generalize the concept of pairs. Consider a set of n items A = {1, 2, 3,......,n} We define on A the following collection T = {(X, Y)| X is a subset of A, and Y is the complement of X in A}....

The Pairs Of Opposite Colors

We know that black and white are opposite pairs. Can we expand the set of opposite pairs to other colors? Can we find the opposite of red? The answer is easy. We need to remind ourselves of the colors of the rainbow: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. This is the sector of the...

The Reality Of God

If the universe had been created, it would not be real as it would be the product of the Creator's imagination. And if the universe is real, God is not real. Only one is real and the other is emergent. The two alternatives are superimposed on each other. We cannot tell which one is the...

If Humans Were For Sale

If humans were for sale they would go by models. The model would be determined by the date of birth (DOB) such as 60, 70, or 80 models, etc. The price would be based on many factors. Illness may decrease the price whereas talent or skills make the price higher. A price calculator would be...

Chapter 15: Hollywood Or Heaven

In May 2014, I find a job on a Jobsite. The position is a Research Scientist at Quantum Gravity Research, California. In the job description, it says that they are looking for an outside-the-box thinker to join their team. They study consciousness at quantize spacetime level, a scale called Planck’s scale. I didn’t know that...

Chapter 14: The Stop Sign

Once started in 2009, the manic episodes occur almost every year. Either in winter or summer. One would blame the weather for it, but I know my triggers. It returns whenever I solve a problem. Usually in breaks – summer or winter. When it happens, it happens in the early night. I get an idea...