Is it dough or bread?

Put the dough into the oven, give it some time and it turns into bread. Exactly at what point does it become bread? What do you think of a person who insists that it is bread the moment it is put in the oven.

What if after putting in the oven the power went off and when you came in the morning the bread was still dough. A good baker might want to throw the whole batch in garbage. A lot of bread got wasted one might say. But is it really bread that was wasted or the ingredients? After all flour, water, sugar, salt, oil cannot be called bread." Who cares?" says the baker.  But to a person who is fanatically inclined not to waste anything it is a serious question. It had the potential of becoming bread so it is bread that got wasted. Could we have done something to save the bread? What happens if we turn on the oven now? You will get bread, right? "No" says the baker," I would not call it bread." It might be something that looks like bread but it is not what I bake every day that people love. "But it would still be bread though" insists the wastage  obsessed person. To which the baker says "No, it is not". And the argument continues.

When it comes to opinion based questions, the person who differs with you is always wrong. And rightly so.

................Based on John Stewart's really humorous monologue at the time of appointment of a new chef to the White House during the days of President Bush.

Why do I want to write a blog?

In fact why should anyone want to write a blog.  I think it is simply my open diary where I do my loud thinking. But I could write my own diary just for myself. Why do I want everyone else to read it? So I want to ask all the blog writers to please  tell me why you write blogs while I am still thinking about it.

The next question is what topics should I write about. If I am writing for myself then I would write about science, religion, politics, human rationality etc.

Is it reasonable to believe in science and religion at the same time?

Why do we tolerate lying in politics but not in any other profession?

Has democracy acquired the status of  a GOD that everyone must believe in?

What do you mean when we say we are a free society? Exactly what is it that we can do freely that people in non-free societies cannot?

Why people can come up with the exact opposite conclusion given the same set of arguments?

What is the source of irrationality in human beings?

Can higher education make you more rational? Or are the PHD's more rational than the non-PHD's?............................

Will think of some more later while I am still thinking about why I should write a blog at all!


Vinod