To Err is Human ?

“To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so”

I was thinking over this concept while I’m on the way to my office this morning. When I opened an email from diwakar, I was surprised to see the same proverb generated by Google, Which became a reason for the following thoughts to run through my mind.

Being in IT Field, we often hear a phrase “bug in an Application”. I wondered why a phrase like this comes into existence. While the definition and the real purpose of Application software is stated as

“Application Software is the subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform.”

Then How-come we can blame application software to have a bug while it’s performing a task the user wishes to perform? Only possible reason for such blame came in to existence may be because the application software performing other tasks the user didn’t want to take place. Is it so?

Is the program malfunctioning or the program couldn’t handle a specific scenario?

In either case it’s not the fault with the program but with the programmer himself. Programs are mere 0’s and 1’s written by a programmer. It doesn’t have a self thinking capability to solve a problem it’s solving or to perform a task it’s performing. It’s just doing the work as it’s been told to do so. Still if it’s said to be malfunctioning then it’s been told to malfunction for the specific scenario or the specific scenario should have left ignored by a programmer while defining the rules for the program to function as he wishes.

It should be worth saying “bug in a programmer” or “himself a bug” instead of blaming the program for malfunctioning as it’s been asked to malfunction by a human error.

If a human is punished for a crime that he has never committed, we are supporting him or giving a chance to prove him. Why the programs aren’t given chances to prove their innocence.

Is it merely because they can’t feel like us or they can’t prove themselves or is it because they are just binary servants made of electric signals?

Answer to the above questions is no. They are blamed because humans don’t like to be blamed for their mistakes. They are blamed because humans are such ignorant creatures living in this world. They are blamed because Humans are thinking they are the rulers of this world.

Being a great Think-tank, They assume they rule the world with their inventions. The real fact is it their inventions that rule them. The best examples are languages, Religion, Currency, Computer, etc. These are invented by humans for their own convenience but these greatest inventions are the reasons for the inconvenience caused to humans. Languages are invented to communicate in ancient times but it’s been used to differentiate people nowadays. Religions are invented to bring obedience and knowledge among humans but it’s been used to destroy them throughout the history. Currency is invented to act as the moderator in a transactions but it’s now used as a status measuring quantity. Computer is invented to bring down humans’ work burden but it’s now aiding the unemployment today.

Every Invention that Human made is now destroying his own civilization, in other technical terms making a human life a mechanical one. Is it all because of humans’ inventing capability? No, Humans were born as inventors, it’s their duty to invent something otherwise it could be a great failure of Mother Nature for creating such a weird species.

But it’s the erroneous and ignorant behaviours that make their inventions as deadly as Humans. Misusing, over reliability on such invention lead him to the life he is living now. He himself made his life a difficult one by relying too much on his machines. The one who is using computer doesn’t know how to repair it when it’s not working. The one who does programming in modern day programming languages doesn’t know how to program in machine language. I’m not compelling to learn everything, but I’m trying to highlight the point how he quickly forget the path he came through.

Humans are such a lazy people, once he found a shortcut to do the work he never tends to learn the hard way of doing it. They simply ignore it. They need everything to be done as quickly as possible. No matter what how it’s been done. They just need their need be fulfilled.

After living a billion or million of years on Earth, doesn’t he found what he’s missing out? He knows perfectly that it’s his ignorance is the cause of his sufferings, Then why couldn’t he rectify his problem. This is where a typical human behaviour plays its role. He simply ignores the fact that he is ignorant.


Conclusion:
Even if there is god and he is the one who created humans and intended to control their life, I’m sure that humans are one of his failure experiments. I would have suggested that it would be a waste of time to create humans, if I were his business analyst. Even he doesn’t have a control on them as human life is a “typical bug” in god’s program

Hence forth I would like to change that proverb as

“To err is Godly and to ignore is human”

I know the achievement of this article will be a nothing since the meaning of this article is also nothing. I know this too well but what to do. The fact is, I’m a human too and the bottom line is I used to ignore things. :D

The Lord - v2

Its really great to be living among people like Bala and Bharath!!!

Mun kadhai surukkam: Bala dubai la yaar kudavo sernthu thanni adichurukaan, apo avan polambunatha pathi oru mail anuppinaan enakku. Antha mail oda thodarchi thaan keela varathu ellam

BALA

oolarinaalum enna pathiyo illa aduthavan pathi pesulada, neram poganum athunala pothuva pesinen.

nama kadavul visayathukku varuvom.

Below is the conversation I had about that GOD issue with concerned person ( That was the little timepass for that evening to me :D ).

ME: why do you believe in such things?

HIM: God will punish us if we commit any mistakes.

ME: What is your mistake? Kissing your girl?

HIM: God will certainly know what a wrong thing to do is.

ME: Does he now, after a year? When do you come to know that kissing a girl is a crime?

HIM: It came to my mind this evening.

ME: Yeah, exactly. What I think is, sitting ideally in the room makes you to think this way. It makes you to think to make connection with these two different independent issues.

HIM: Tell me then, why should I be terminated on the same day exactly after one year. It’s the God's will; he punished me by taking out my job for cheating the girl

ME: you have not married to any other girls yet. You can't say your father will oppose your love forever. How can "The God" punish you when the things are uncertain to guess or for the things that have not happened? If he wants to punish someone then it should have been your father. He is the one who makes you to cheat the girl.

HIM: But I'm the one who kissed, right.

ME: Ok let’s say "the god" has punished you, to inform you have committed a grave mistake! So y can't you go and rectify your mistake by marrying your (same) girl.

You can escape from the further punishments from god by doing so. Isn’t it?

HIM: no, I can't. That’s why he punished me and God will punish only one time for one mistake.

ME: What does it mean? The sole purpose of giving someone a punishment is to have him to realize the mistake and to try to rectify it. It's not that hard for you to try and marry her. You haven't done a murder that can't be reversed back. What’s the meaning in giving a punishment if that point is not ensured? Then there should be a series of punishments to make you do the right things, right. I know you believe in your GOD, and then you should follow his instruction, right. He took away your job to make you understand and rectify your mistake. If you are not doing that, it is his duty to correct you until you correct yourself Or if it is the god's decision to make you unemployed, y don't you simply accept it and stop looking for the next job.

And by the way where does this "one mistake one punishment" rule came from?

HIM: No one can get punished twice for one mistake.

ME: How can you say that?

HIM: For example, if a school boy has not done his homework for today, he will be punished for that only. Punishment period may be today or tomorrow. But after that punishment is over he won't get punished again for not doing that homework again.

ME: yeah he won't get the punishment again because he will be forced to complete that homework with the punishments. If he failed to do so he will certainly ought to get punishment again.

HIM: No, He doesn't have to do the home work again if he gets the punishments. Not all the teachers want the homework to be done. They just want him to be punished.

ME: IS that so? The subject on which he has to do the homework may change. It may be English or may be science, but it is a homework he has to finish after all. The meaning of giving detention is to make the student understand that he should not fail to finish his home work again. No matter what the subject is.

I can give you another example for getting several punishments for a single mistake. Let's take a college student, if the student didn't complete his record work for the last practical lesson he had, he won't be allowed inside of the lab until he finishes the Record work. He will be asked to stand outside of the lab or will be put absent for that session or in what ever means the Professor likes to punish him. But on the next session, if he still hasn’t finished his record work, he will get another punishment again.

HIM: Yeah, The professor gives him a lot of punishment because record work is a mandatory thing to pass the Exam. But in the case of homework it's not like that and in my case too. To marry my girl is not a compulsory one. Giving one punishment is enough for this Mistake.

ME: Record work has never been a compulsory one to pass that practical exam because record works carries only 20 marks out of 100. You still got 80 marks to get pass in that exam. But I don't deny that the record marks can help him to score high marks. So do the school home works. In your case getting married to the same girl may make your life better than getting married to others.

HIM: Let's quit this topic

My Findings:

The usage of the Term "The god" provoked me to engage in an argument like this.

Humans are always used to differentiate "a thing" in terms of two. In fact we can say the nature has the habit of producing a thing in two prominent ways.

Day and night, good and bad, hot and cold, positive and negative etc. The same hold true for god.

The term "The God" may be an invention of human being or really exists.

What's really this term "The God" means?

If you ask this question to anyone, even they are not a believer in god, will say "The god" supposed to be some form of love, truth, holy, Happiness etc.

These are the qualities that make "The GOD" superior than humans.

But To punish is not the godly character, it' merely human or devil's character.

The god knows not how to punish. He only knows to forgive, to love and to show the way forward.

Every religion has got some unique characters that are created to do this punishment works. In Hindu "Yemen" and for Christians, it's devil and daemons.

They are responsible for punishing humans for their mistakes. Its god’s duty to show Human’s the right path to guide them through these terrible times. By saying god has punished you for your mistakes makes everything reversed. It means your understanding about god is wrong or you have worshipped a devil thinking it as a god. Either way you are wrong with your fundamentals.

Let's talk about what's good and what's bad, what's right and what's wrong. What’s truth and what's fake.

For example take the sentence. "We heard a bad news.”

What I say is there is always a thing called”news". But there is no such thing as bad or good news. We ourselves make them to look bad or good. If you got promoted it's news to every one including you. The feeling that the promotion will a have salary hike may makes the news to look good. But if you look into another person's view who was also aiming for that promotion, it turns be a bad news because the feeling that he has to wait again.

It's our selfishness that makes us to fear, enjoy, smile etc. It's the same selfishness that made god in earth. What you really need to understand is it's the human illusion that makes to see things as we want see and feel.

It's the same illusion that made the above person to see the co-incidence of some events as a god's work. Let's analyse that person's situation and y he thought like that.

He is from Valliyur, where we can find people with too much spiritual feeling. He is one of them. He prays when he get up or going to have food or going to bed. He hears religious songs. Go to church so often. He will speak of the god now and then. Like “Let’s wait and see what's the god has planned for me". He completed his BE in karunya and within 3 days after completion he joined in his first job. He worked in madras and his company sent him here. Here he worked for 6 or 7 months and left the company as he wished to work in his field. Old company offered him to give a salary higher than what he got now. But he refused and joined in the new company. He was working there for 6 months. Then the due to the financial crisis the company closed one of their sister concern and lay off some of its own workers. He was one of those who got lay off.

Here is where the scenario gets interesting. It was certainly a shocking event to him. Even though the company told him that it won't cancel the visa until he get a new job, he become worried about searching a new job, because it's a new experience for him. He has never been fired from a company, or he haven't experienced of searching for a job while under a pressure. Sometimes I have heard him speaking while sleeping about job even in the evening sleep. His so feared and he took "The GOD" has his defence as usual. At first it controlled the fear in him but as the days passed away, the fear in him took control over him. In the last week I can see his hopelessness in his words. With his frustration building up, he has no option other to find reason to blame himself for leaving the old company even after they asked him to stay. This feeling connected the two independent events and made him to put the blame on the GOD for punishing him.

At this point you have to wonder how human mind works. He had an option in his hand before he left the old company. Why the human mind didn’t connect this to the god by thinking the god tried to save you from the misery by offering new proposal from old company or simply saying I made my decision to work here and I’m responsible for my sufferings.

Because human mind is so used to blame others instead of itself. Above scenario looks somewhat explains things. But the God’s punishments concept is nowhere near the truth.

Conclusion:

Humans are really crazy things living in this world and responsible for making all the other things looks crazy except him. He invented and discovered a lot of things. There no change in that. But he is not the one who rules them but his brain products are the one which rule him.

This was the conclusion I made on this issue. AM I right?

Oruthan polambinatha vachu evlo vettiya ukkaanthu yosichu athukku oru philosophical meaning kandu pidichurukaan paarunga...

Itha ellam thooki saapdra maathiri Bharath athukku kudutha bathil (theerpu valakkam pola)

BHARATH

Kanna. Bothaila rendu ragam. Onnu thannala pesavey mudiyatha alavukku thanniya adichu yethura botha.

Innonnu arai roundu adichuttu athana perayum mattaya katti yethura botha.

Ithula naamellam rendavathu ragam. Thaniya ukkandhu thanni adikirathu namma aalukalukku palakkamillatha onnu.

Motha round porathukulla dhumma onna patha vachu annaikku nadandha kadhaya pesuvanga.. Oru round ulla pona udaney aduthavan patha vacha

dhumma pudingi, appuram ennanu aduthavan prachanaya aarambippanga. Rendavathu round ulla pona, innum sounda kudupan.

Illathatha venumnu keppan. Kadaikarankitta sandaikku povaan. Rendu plate chicken sethu order pannuvan. Ithana prachanayum mudichuttu kadaisiya,

' Enna irundhalum avan ipdi panni irukka koodathunu, vitta idathula aarambikka mattan. Thodanguna edathula irundhuthan aarambipan.

Moonavathu round ulla pochuna avan enna panrannu avanukey theriyathu. Moonu dhumma ottukka patha vachu moonu per kaila kodupaan.

Unakku venamanu ketta, nee adichittu kodunu pasatha kottuvan.

konja neram amaithiya ukkanthu irupanga naalavathu roundu readya irukkum bothu. Appathan ellorum paakkura mathiri vega vegama kudichuttu glassa keela vapan.

(Glassu plastica irundha avaru vegatha athulathan kaattuvaru..). Ippa thanya kooda ukkandhukittu irukiravan koodavey vamba alapaan.

Aththukitu nikkira mathiri irundhavanga ippo vettikittu nikkira mathiri pesuvanga. Suthi irukiravanellam therichu odara alavukku pesuvanga.

Ellam konja neramthan. Botha korayara mathiri irundha, aduthavan kudikama vachu irundhathula mukkavasiya orey madakkula kudichittu, thalaya oru

uluppu uluppuvaan. Athu than signal. Suthi irukiravan konjam usara agikiranum. Kandatha alli vaila poduvaan. Setha neramthan. Ellam mudinjudum.

Thalaivar manna kavvikittu iruparu. Suthi irukira koottam ottumothama odi vandhu akkaraya visaripaanga. Nikka mudiyama, nadakka mudiyama irukira

payala, kooda vandhavanga kaithangala pudichu, irupidam kondu poi sethuruvanga...

Ithu thanya namma aalu katha. Avanukku botha yerunathu arai mani nerama irundhalum, vidama mokka poduvanya aaru mani nerathukku.

Thamilanukku athuthan sogam.

Ada arivu pooravama sindhikiravanukku bothaye theva illa... Bothaingra onney avanukku theva illa.

Naanum neeyum ellam andha mathiri aaluga kidayathu. namakku therinjathellam.. Nalla naalu roundu sarakku adikirathu.......

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