ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Reality​

Reality runs on a while true loop, spiraling into a divine work of art.

Abiding in this truth unlocks the potential to an infinity of possibilities.

All philosophy, science and religion (spirituality) converges to that one fact alone.

Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |

Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |

Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |

Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

'I think, therefore I am' to 'Collapse of the wavefunction in Hilbert space, upon measurement' to 'I am that formless causal cause of it all, so let there be...'

All of them point to the inevitable truth of perception, of conscious thinking, of conscious measurement, of conscious creation from 'I', 'me', 'you'. The observer.

That observer is verily you and everything around you. In and out of you. That is all there really is.

And you, I, us, this collective consciousness, of the ultimate consciousness of it all, the one being, simply flows through cycles of dualities. Of stark contrasts, emerging into infinite fractals of stories.

Whether the above sentence made sense to you or not, I want you to focus on 'you' reading this, making sense of this sentence, attaching it to the memory recording of 'language' in the brain, essentially running the algorithm of 'parsing English'. All of that is automatically happening and you, simply you, are observing it. Not the details of the process of language parsing but the essence of these sentences. The fact, the essence, the truth underlying in these sentences, to make sense of them. "Cats' pink turfy picks" doesn't make sense to you, but "Cats lick puffy sticks." does. The latter has a coherent sense of 'truth' to it. You can imagine cats licking an object, since you observed it before. You know it to be true, a scenario that can happen in real life, based on memory of it happening in the past. However, the former doesn't make sense to you because you had not observed something like that happening, so it was never recorded in memory, so you aren't even sure if that phrase is grammatically correct. 'Correct', as in true.

This is the extent to which, us beings, us as conscious observers, rely on truth to make sense of anything. Things only make sense due to truth, or the absence of it, which again is defined based on absence of the presence of truth. Simply put, truth makes anything make sense. This truth is shaped by history, through memory.

But what happens when this history gets distorted? What if it deviates from the truth? What if past experiences aren't recorded correctly, and there is random falsity added, as noise?

Well, the idea of anything making sense can be thrown out of the window, of course.

That is exactly what is happening in the modern society as we experience it. We might as well be reading a story in a language we do not understand, but simply because you believe everyone else is reading the same book and are seemingly understanding it, you do too. This is so common that there is a term for this, called 'Pluralistic ignorance'.

Pluralistic ignorance refers to a situation in which virtually every member of a group privately disagrees with what are considered to be the prevailing attitudes and beliefs of the group as a whole.

Pluralistic ignorance is a phenomenon that occurs when people mistakenly believe that everyone else holds a different opinion from their own. This often leads to a false consensus, where people conform to the thought-to-be majority opinion, even though it may not be considered just by the majority of people.

Pluralistic ignorance can have dangerous consequences, as it can lead to people remaining silent in the face of injustice or engaging in risky behaviors. These can manifest in environments ranging from the classroom to entire political systems. ¹

Everyone simply is playing a role in magnifying a collective illusion, where there is only an illusion of 'truth', an illusion that things make sense the way they are. However, we have already far deviated from making sense millennia ago. What we speak, do and think is actually gibberish, as long as it is based on falsity, on noise, on deviations from truth, on distortions in the consistent stream of knowledge of occurrences recorded exactly the way they happened. Similar to DNA transcription, the mutations (deviations) that have occurred have proven to be non-sustainable just due to the sheer number of them occurring like cancer. So now, history is just a sore victim of cancerous distortion in the modern era.

The source of this deviation is time itself: a sequence of events of transfer of observed information, one after another, as a series. Just like a game of telephone.

We all can intuitively understand this. It is almost common sense, everyday experience, everyday observation, of meaning getting lost in translation. Nothing new.

Yet somehow, we still collectively live this life of lies, because we believe it isn't a life of lies. Why?

I think it is because we have not once tried to pause, and question it all. We have not once tried to stop feeding ourselves with lies, because we do not even know how to distinguishing truth from falsity anymore. Literally, in this modern era, people eat plastic, lead and glass.

But it is time to pause. Take a vow of fasting, even if briefly, to stop feeding our bodies, mind and intellect the unnatural, the falsity, the lies spun up by the ego. It is instead time we question literally everything with an open mind. Our own existence, own our experience as human, here on Earth. We believe science has it all figured out. We evolved from primates, from stone tools to a cool technologically advanced society? Hah! That is far from the truth. Not even close to it. We, as modern humans, I repeat again, have no idea about our true origins. We, in fact, have no clue about how language came about to be, we literally do not even know what gravity really is, nor do we know how consciousness works, as conscious beings! Yet simply because we have observed them all, we falsely believe that observing is knowing. Knowing is observing but not the other way around. You can observe a constellation in the sky and not know what it is. But if you know of a constellation in the sky, you by default observe it (think about it) first in mind's eye by the virtue of knowing it, and you can easily observe it in the night sky too, simply by knowing of the constellation.

The point is, what we believe in is misplaced. What we observe and how we believe it to be observed is misplaced. We believe in falsity. Not truth, anymore. This can truly only be fixed by first realizing how little we know about our own existence, about anything really, and how based on such little truth, we pretend as if we know it all, and are destroying the Earth, our own selves as humanity.

It is time we take a pause and contemplate it all, on what it means to exist. On what 'truth' really is. The first and the easiest step towards this journey of truth, of self discovery in fact, is simply meditation.

Taking a pause, breathing, and asking your deepest inner self, free from your daily identities, really asking the silence in you to show you the truth. To help you reach the truth.

Radical change can only happen on Earth, in our collective consciousness, when each and every individual consciousness (in the form of humans) genuinely silences everything, all this false noise, and questions with a completely open mind and open heart: "what is the truth?", with the utmost belief that the answer will be revealed for the betterment of humankind.

ॐ... from the unreal, lead us to real

From ignorance, lead us to true knowledge

From limited, lead us to unlimited

Peace, peace, peace!

The universe is so beautiful. It is just a never ending series of mesmerizing fractal pattern flowing away into infinity. And so is the story of our earth, the universe it is in. So far with our advancement in science with the field of cosmochemistry we can use radio isotope dating to help the field of earth sciences. So according to the current science on life on Earth was found fairly quickly after Earth's formation 4.2 billion years ago. Researchers from University of Washington, there were fossils that date back to as old as 3.5 BILLION years. That's 3,500,000,000 year's ago from this era.

https://atmos.uw.edu/academics/classes/2001Q1/211/Group_projects/group_X_W01/tanya.htm

Keeping that in mind, and the new discovery old gigantic fossils:

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/found-surviving-evidence-earth%E2%80%99s-formative-years

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/4000yearold-longshan-giant-discovered-in-shaanxi-province-china/7D8BCF4229362A6BD6E9457CA81AD820

It's no wonder anything might have happened between those long periods of time here on Earth that we might have no idea about!

So the existence of Giants with a far advanced ancient technology, and perhaps, multiple other simulations of creation, evolution and destruction of far more civilizations, might have happened before us current human inhabitants of the Earth.

And perhaps it's through "religion" and "myth" that this record-keeping of Earth's past was even done. A prime example for this is the Hindu civilization's "Hinduism". A lot of recent scientific evidence for ideas from Hindu's ancient scriptures has been coming forth recently.

With the existence of multiverses being the biggest revelation in Physics!

So looking at religion, there's a recurring theme of "giant gods" throughout folklore from different cultures around the world:

Source: American Museum of Natural History, https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land/greek-giants https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/was-shangdong-province-once-home-to-near-giants

Now, there is also mind boggling evidence of superhuman feats of architecture in Hindu culture which explicitly depicts Hindu stories in the structures that tell a story of giant gods. This leads to a great scientific case for ancient Hindu puranas to be true. The stories in them might actually have been true and happened right here on Earth in the past!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_of_Castelnau

The literal mountain, Kailasa, was an archeological feat.

Not only that, in Hindu "mythology" (the term now apparently used for ancient historical records), Ramayana, the kind Ravana had advanced technology which has concrete evidence in the current world in the form of "Sigiriya":

Sigiriya is just the surface of what ancient Hindu cultures were able to build.

From Ajanta and Ellora caves to the Angkor Wat temple, these incredible structures cannot be build with current human technology!

Ajanta and Ellora caves were carved into literal mountains, as if 3D modelling renders materialized into rock.

Curiously, there are many conflicts with the whole "out of Africa theory" for the origins of modern human. Truth be told, new evidence is pointing towards ancient human DNA originating from South East Asia, where India is located, which was the site of major Hindu cultures and advanced science and art.

Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-were-southeast-asia-20000-years-earlier-thought-ancient-teeth-reveal

This area was also where the hobbit was as discovered. And, yes. Hobbits existed too. They are called "Homo floresiensis".

Shows how much there is to uncover about our own mysterious origins!

All of this was evidence builds towards how the Hindu "mythologies" of Ramayana and Mahabharata being real life events. Complete with the incredible feats of god like achievements beyond current technological capabilities. What's more, these stories date all the way back to at least 7000 years ago in the past, with much debate going on dating it as far as a million years ago (yikes, a big margin but old nonetheless)!

One more example for this from the Hindu mythology is the "Rama Setu", built by Rama and Vanara's army to cross over to Lanka to rescue Sita, Rama's abducted wife by king Ravana:

So...what am I trying to say? Basically we know nothing about human origins, our ancient ancestor's scientific and spiritual advancement. Many sacred Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita (ancient philosophy), Surya Siddhanta (ancient book on cosmology), Susruta Samhita (ancient book on surgery), Avurveda (ancient plant medicine) and more have profound scientific, philosophical and spiritual findings that are carelessly dismissed as "mythology" in the modern era. Hinduism was a culture of advanced science and art, before it ever was a religion. And, surprisingly, giants were once part of it!

Bhagavad Gita:

Surya Siddhanta:

Susruta Samhita:

Ramayana:

P.S:

Not to mention the giant footprints found throughout the world.

Apparently Smithsonian had a say in a giant cover up. No conclusive proof though.

All of this leads to a fascinating wild conclusion that we actually have no real idea of our true origin as humans. The origins of humans is quiteeee... complicated and shrouded in mystery. Maybe it is time to turn to Hindu scriptures for answers. Who knows! We, in fact, might just be living through a simulation of evolution, and destruction in our infinite parallel, multiversal universe.

People are creatures of habit. I only say that because I find myself discovering patterns of things I do and have done for decades now. One such habit is to maintain a blog on the interwebs!

This blog: （Φ ω Φ）Bushi The Cat was one of my first serious blogs that I managed to consistently maintain throughout the years, although "consistent" in a very sporadic way...

I started it at the raw age of 11. The blog was the reason for believing I could even survive in the field of programming and Computer Science, and look at where it got me now! I still remember revamping that blog every other year with animated flowers annoyingly scattering the whole screen to a space theme with Canon in D automatically playing in the background (yikes...adware botmasters, if you wanna hire someone, it would be me).

However, all of that exposed me to programming and web dev already as an early teen. I do say I was technically a newbie to coding when I started out as an undergraduate to get a degree in Computer Science, but, I did have some HTML experience. However, not my fault HTML isn't considered as coding 😜

Anyway, this post is to record, and faintly keep alive, the online pursuits of a young nerdy kid through a blog! And, maybe motivate someone^sus... to start out small and do something as easy as making a blog to get into the world of web dev!

Please do not visit and actually read stuff on there, however.

It is, afterall, filled with posts from an emo child which are known to be super cringe in nature.

Here is the saga of the videos​

that did not get to see the light of day after the challenges ended and because I was too shy to make them public public

too late to unsee them anymore​

Let python do it for you with Selenium​

Selenium is a web scraping tool that beautifully integrates with python. It allows you to automate webpage interactions.

I stumbled across it a while ago, but I had not used the actual API until recently. Long story short, I had to make a doctor's appointment right at 12am to even find a spot (thank you American healthcare system!).

Regardless, whether it be to automate time sensitive actions or long and arduous form filling, Selenium is here for your rescue. I will go over a few useful Selenium methods that should equip you with basic webpage interactions.

Note: these methods work as of November 2021

Useful Selenium methods​

service.start()

This method allows to set up a browser driver.

I personally used the chrome driver:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

service = Service('/path/to/chromedriver')

service.start()

You will have to locally install the 'chromedriver' executable. You can install it and find more usage examples here.

driver.get(url)

Once you have the browser all set up, you can connect to it remotely with Selenium using the .get method as follows:

driver = webdriver.Remote(service.service_url)
driver.get('[insert url of page you want to selenium to work its magic on]')

And, that's the basic set up! You can now inspect element on the target webpage to figure out which fields you want to automate interaction with.

driver.find_element

Let's say, I want to automatically search something on Google. I would first figure out the class name/ID of the search bar using "inspect element":

Since there is only a class name of gLFyf attached, it would be used to select the search bar and insert a value to search using the code:

searchbar = 'gLFyf'
driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,searchbar).send_keys("[value to search]")

The send_keys method can take an array as well to fit the format of the input field. Regardless of the type of input, " " are needed.

actions

Finally, you can make Selenium click the search button by repeating a similar process of finding the search button's class name/ID. Here's a sample snippet:

submit = "gNO89b"
driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, submit).click()

A full list of different actions Selenium can perform can be found here.

driver.quit()

Don't forget to close the automation process and the browser by using the quit method at the end!

Have fun with your newfound web super power.​

Tip: you can also schedule your python script to execute during specific times using cron

on: The Many World of Quantum Physics​

Physicist Sean Carroll, from CalTech, gave a guest lecture here at my university!!

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