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Seven Causes of Human Suffering

Khalid Sohail July 24, 2007

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#113 Posted by IamNadia on July 26, 2007 11:22:12 pm
Issue of unemployment, poverty and an unjust society add to causes of human sufferings.
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#114 Posted by masadi on July 26, 2007 11:50:00 pm
Chaltahai writes "Gap is uneven in the developed world...so friggin what? What is your point? Everyone should have a mercedes benz?"

Look idiot, it is not about mercedes, it's about food, when over 40 million in the US face food insecurity and a large percent of their population lives below the poverty level, facing three times the death rate as those above then it is about basic survival and not mercedes.

Recently I had posted a link to a paper published by an Indian professor from J L Nehru Univ, that had documented several indicators on how rural condition in India in real terms is much worse off. Get an education fool, all you are doing is sloganeering without access to a single fact...
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#115 Posted by masadi on July 26, 2007 11:52:42 pm
By the way, more people are dying daily in India through preventible causes, disease and malnourishment, directly as a cause of your political economy, than any "blowing up" the mullah can achieve...
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#116 Posted by zeemax on July 27, 2007 12:02:42 am
Rejoice! All seven causes of Human suffering have been addressed:



Burqas/dandas - out. Cheerleaders/PomPoms - in.

(Wonder from where they recruited them though. Heera Mandi?)
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#117 Posted by chaltahai on July 27, 2007 6:56:20 am
Masadi, what is food insecurity? is this bulemia? If you are suggesting Americans are worse off now than ever before then you are a tree short of a hammock. as far as plagues etc in India, even 30 yrs ago, malaria would have killed thousands of people everyyear, since 1991, the deaths attributed to these maladies has steadily declined. You want a utopia, without presenting it and blame any existing system of governance and economics as a falacy. There is a utopia, it is where unicorns live and allah is surely the highest.
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#118 Posted by masadi on July 27, 2007 11:02:17 am
According to UN statistics over 40,000 people die every single day due to preventible causes attributed to deprivation, like starvation and disease. Multiply that by 365 and you get a grand total of almost 1.5 million every year, not to mention the deprivation that cuts short the life expectancy by over 30 years even in the US of A. Idiot.

Food insecurity does not mean bulemia you miserable fcuk, it means that you don't know where the next meal for your kids is going to come from....Note that you cannot argue with facts based on slogans and bs, get an education fool...
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#119 Posted by delhiwala on July 27, 2007 1:13:39 pm
Mere Seedhay-saadhey Jehen ke liye ye article bahut complicated hai.
Drsohail: Why dont you stick with what you write best i.e. Sexual Perversions and it's implications and related therapies and then discuss cases violating doctor/client privileged information.

LOL.

PS: You sound like an ex-Commie from Pakistan.
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#120 Posted by drsohail on July 27, 2007 1:45:56 pm
Re: # 119
dear delhiwala....if you are missing sex (smiles) i will write an article about Sex Education next month. are you happy now? sohail
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#121 Posted by chaltahai on July 27, 2007 2:20:07 pm
Masadi, only 1.5 million a year? Out of 6 billion people on this earth? The human populaton keeps growing every year and you are still screaming qayamat, you imbecile!!!

The poor, even in the US live longer now than ever before in history of America. The poor around the world live l.onger and healthier than ever before.

The bulemia comment was a joke, idiot. You won't even be allowed to sweep the floors of where I got my education, you fairy!!
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#122 Posted by iron_mask on July 27, 2007 2:53:59 pm
Re: # 121
pliss be fair to fairies, by not equating them to the MASADA COmplex. Masada Complex consists of irrational numbers, with no real part and completely made up of imaginary parts.
If you are not careful, you will be vibrating the fool at his critical frequency (note given that he is comepeltely made up of imaginary numbers - he is in perpetual vibratory mode), which would result in him vibrating even more and amplifying his noise. As a result the noise to signal ratio will only increase. Have some pity on the students he serves chai samosa (thanks TAhmed32) to.

OTOH it may cause him to go to pieces, perhaps putting up with the stench for some time may be worthwhile to rid this place of this dolt.
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#123 Posted by teshah on July 27, 2007 8:53:25 pm
drsohail

"gham agarchih jaangusal he pih kahaan bachein kih dil he
Gham-e-ishq agar nah hota gham-e-roozgaar hota" (Ghalib, the Aarif)

What Prophets and Arifs could not resolve how can we commoners do that.

The point to ponder now, as pointed out by you, is the capability of the human species to commit suicide like a suicide bomber fixed with a suicide belt of nuclear bombs.
The very thought is horrible.

Btw, I disagree with your 3rd cause, Issue of gender. Like all feminists you have confused the gender issue with the personal familial relationship. The respect and love for one's mother is not connected with matriarchal society. It is naturally reciprocal and exists even today but this does not mean that one should treat all women like one's mother.

The reason for human suffering, in my humble view, is the basic dialectic of existence as Ghalib, the Aarif, had said:

"Latafat be kasafat jalwa peida kar nahien sakti
Chaman zangaar he aaeenae baade bahaari ka"

(Existence can manifest itself only with interaction of negative and positive)
as epitomised in the eternal formula:

'There is no god but God'.

Regards.
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#124 Posted by drsohail on July 27, 2007 9:09:38 pm
Re: # 123
dear teshah...thank you for your literary comments. they reminded me of ghalib's couplet
hazaron khahishain aisi key har khahish pe dam niklay
bohut niklay meray armaan laikin phir bhi kam niklay
for me men's personal relationship with women is important but systemic relationship and discrimination is more imporatant. in most communities and cultures even today women are second class citizens and do not have equal legal and social rights as men.
my sister can drive a car in lahore but cannot do that in medina....how sad.
human problems are part of life but we can dream of a just society and try to make that dream come true. when we become apathetic then in the words of iqbal
waey nakami matai karwan jata raha
karwan kay dil sey ehsas-e-zian jata raha
it is tragic that violaters of human rights not only do not accept their injustices they even justify and rationalize it on the name of tradition...
i enjoy your taste in literature and philosophy...
sincerely sohail
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#125 Posted by masadi on July 28, 2007 6:05:02 am
Chaltahia writes "The poor, even in the US live longer now than ever before in history of America. The poor around the world live l.onger and healthier than ever before."

More BS, life expectancy for young African Americans in Harlem, as in other ghettos around the US is lower than life expectancy for people in Bangladesh, their death rates are much higher.

Unlike you dimwit I have access to the facts, and have done much work with them

Then he writes "The bulemia comment was a joke, idiot. You won't even be allowed to sweep the floors of where I got my education, you fairy!!"

You can joke about food insecurity with a full belly, I prefer not to lower myself to that level. Regarding your "education", it is not measured by the institution, but by the product that comes out of your brain. Like before, when you made such a dumb comment, a-hole, the entire Chowk saw that you think at the high-school level at best, and even then you sloganeer without access to any facts or reference. Your claims are worth horse sh** when facts reveal otherwise. 1.5 million is a huge number, more are living today but not better, the world can support more today but since resources are skewed in their distribution they live worse than animals...
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#126 Posted by zeemax on July 28, 2007 9:43:51 am
Abey daagder ... tujhey ab bhi samajh nahi ayee hai?
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#127 Posted by zeemax on July 28, 2007 9:45:01 am
That goes for you too .. masadi ...
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#128 Posted by masadi on July 29, 2007 12:18:45 am
Zeemax writes "That goes for you too .. masadi ... "

You understand the nuts and bolts but by encircling them with magical formulae, you deliberately want to legitimize the Shaitan's war, as the rest of your (illiterate) Jihadi brothers and sisters...
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