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On Cat Stevens.
Posted Mar 12, 2004
Right now I am listening to his song: But i might die tonight....
I started admiring him because of his 'cat tail'
! True, as I am a feline monomaniacal, the name: 'cat' stevens is particularly appealing to me. But after hearing his fresh voice in 'morning has brocken...' I eventually became his favourite listener.angelsea, bad brakes, kitty, mathew and son, Randy, portobello rd....my favourite cat songs goes on........
Do you guys like him? I have no idea why did he changed his religion (i admit, even I am a converted Kemetic pagan). I never heard this Yussuf Islams any songs. Anybody has it in MP3 format? 
I would apreciate you if you could send it to my email.
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DEBUTE!
Posted Mar 12, 2004
This is for the first time that I am adding an entry to my journal. This hot friday, 7.47 PM, I have decided to go H2G2 quite often, and to make lot of friends here.
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KITTEN WINS OVER KINDER !
Posted Oct 1, 2003
I am writing here, for the first time, about my plan of not to give birth any offspring- ever since this odd idea blossomed in my intellect years ago. For my friends, this is yet another deed of mine to show off I am an iconoclast, as I did in the case of being a misogamist, kemetic pagan worshipping bast-the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats, feline monomaniacal, Misanthrope, Introvert, willingness to accept a non-virgin as a life mate, anti-ornamentalist . . . to name a few. For me, these all are happening on the course of rationale, self-realistic, independent thinking catalysed by bast, herself.
Why this a motley way for majority of Indians? Infact, number of couples who took the decision of not to give-birth after marriage is increasing in most European and American countries and is at its peak in Scandinavian countries like Sweden. Let us examine why most of them like me are privilege of their choice? Yet despite our desire for choice and control over our lives, the option about child bearing remains trouble some for many women; as American Radical Feminist Meeting of 1980 concluded that giving birth could be either monstrously self-indulgent or ruinously self-destructive. One person's motivations for parenthood, such as wishing for a role, or for influence, identity, intimacy, pleasure or immortality can be another's reason for not becoming a parent.
"Obituary : Motherhood' is the title of editorial appeared in 'The New York Times' on a Saturday in May 1972. Written by Ellen Peck, a young wife from a Roman Catholic background, it is reasoned that in an era of new opportunities and ecological dangers, young adults should, instead of creating more people, direct their energies to improving the lives of those already born. She was one among the founders of National Organisation of Non-Parents (NON), probably the first organised attempt to resist the ancient pressure to breed. Amazingly NON's motto was a quotation from the Bible (Isaiah 9:3)
'Thou has multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy'.
'The Dialectic of Sex' was a brave masterpiece of Shulamith Firestone in 1970, which blamed biological motherhood for gender inequities and advocated communal arrangements to free women form childbearing. An author had narrated in the classical book 'Our Bodies our Selves' like this ' if we don't have children yet, it is legitimate and good to wait until we feel ready, or to choose not to have children at all'
We are living in a period when 'Pronatal' ideology is powerful, a time when being a mother, particularly a birth mother is considered the essentiality of womanhood, compulsory female experience. Living childfree therefore means living out side the law, sentenced to solitary confinement for daring to break the rules. Is the right of a woman-never to use her womb, a backlash against science and divinity?
In the science of Behavioural Ecology, group of 'worker' ants who were always sterile in ant society is considered to be dead. A microbial colony is considered to be living only if it grows by binary fission mode of reproduction. So science attempts to generalise sterile beings as dead. But in fact the implications of word 'sterile' here is more of misnomer context. As a scientist, I opposes these views, and even if I failed in this mission, isn't it adventurous enough to 'live dead'?
It is the transcendent reality who blessed the whole womanhood , uterus. So it is our responsibility to give birth our off-springs for the perpetuation of species. I logically question this ideology just like what I did for justifying airplane and computer as 'natural'. It is the god almighty who too gifted us our brains and the way how it work, how we thinks, how we consider womb as a vestigial organ . . .
This is not an attempt to review all the English literature, which directly or indirectly supported this notion. But I succeeded to found some one out in the old shelves of the British Council Library, Madras.
Gradual emergence of childlessness is underlined as a respectable option in 'The Future of Motherhood', a book written by feminist sociologist and mother ,Jessie Bernard. A beautiful illustration on a debate between a mother and non-mother can be found in the drama 'Birth and After birth' written by playwright Tina Howe in 1973. Scholar Lorie E. Hill has made the fascinating point that since most of us are raised by females who have children, 'no children grow up and experience the day-to-day life of a child less adult'. 'Non-mothers are in missions' . . . as Italian writer Rosemarie Greco writes . . . 'and they were taking canoes across dangerous rivers to reach people in the jungle'. In 'The Second Sex' published in 1949, French writer Simone de Beauvoir considered it impossible to combine a career and child raising. 'Women's Two Roles' published in 1956 by Swedish sociologist Alva Myrdal also emphasised the need for non-mother wives in society.
I don't have any intention to criticise those who preferred to have offspring. Instead, the purpose of this monograph is only to underline relevance of being non-parents. Both are equally justifiable and let the choice be rest on the shoulders of free-thinking individuals. I conceive that two people might find they could be better servants of God by living and working together in a house of their own and belonging specially to each other, who yet expedient not to have any children, either because they could not afford it, or preferred to carry on their own work each of them in a way that would leave no time for Children. If anyone says that marriage is justified only for the sake of children and exists for that and means that only, I deny it in Toto. I am very sure that there are many who need marriage in the sense of a close and constant partnership such as can be best obtained by living and working together, and for whom there is no reason why they should not decide not to have children. I am sure that it is rational and it doesn't seem to me revolutionary and outlandish.
With this momentous message to my girl-to-come; born some where in the world of feline spirituality, let me conclude this script.
' . . . you should be bold enough to carry kitten instead of Kinder in your womb! . . '
(This work had born out of my purr and pleasure, as my loving 'Chechi' and her scientist husband celebrates the success of their second ICSI attempt. )
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