Jahanshah Javid

Jahanshah Jaan

Jahanshah Jaan

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I to found this to be one of your best blogs, it hit home and made me feel somehow close to you for I saw so many  similarities in our childhood and life experiences…wish we could sit down and have a cup of coffee and chat in person one day ;) I also related a great deal to SamSam III’s original comment.

As for my own views on the subject from a spiritual & philosophical perspective witch for me it all boils down to our ethical education and “Parvaresh Fekhr” or “total field of perception” our view and understanding of who we are and what our relationship is with this universe we live in which gradually changes and expands based on our last set of experiences in life, I believe that if any of us was normal or perfect we would not be here on earth for I personally believe that there exist another dimension of existence “a non material one” that is home to the enlightened or the perfect” those souls that have sort of reached a state of “total consciousness”

I see the earth and life as a laboratory or university for learning and experimentation the science or art of becoming normal, perfect or simply stated a true human being as opposed to the human animal, to experience the type of things that SamSam III mentions and much more:

“to figure out this crazy world. You need to process out hundreds of romances to figure out its shallowness, you need to sleep with hundreds of russian hookers to bore out with meaningless sex, you need to fall from mountain of wealth & reclimb again nemerous times to find out emptiness of possessions, you need to read hundreds of books & travel to a hundred city to lose your one dimensional world, You need to pilot a plane or climb a cliff to figure out just how earthly you are, You need to give this adventure up for the sake of a lil angel to figure out what real joy means and thus you need to fall a hundred times & rise a hundred times to finally make sense of you & things around you and without that experience you shall never get it.”

The challenge is that it takes some of us a few years, some of us half a life time, some if us an entire life time and some of the passage of many life times (call it reincarnation or successive life’s) to experience all this and reach some state of total enlightment, total consciousness, perfection or being totally normal or whatever one may want to call it!

I thinks that if we pay close attention to the works of Hafiz, Rumi, Shams and some of the other greats they give us plenty of hints about there was no promise of this world “life on earth and the human experience” being a rose garden and they have all hinted of reaching another realm of consciences and enlighten reuniting with an ultimate “beloved” through enduring life in this crazy material realm, the pains of not being normal and having to blaze our own path to something greater than this “one dimensional realm” and to greater inlightment.

And so our journey continues through this dimension ;)

Thank you for sharing a wonderful blog.

Wishing you and all the readers a merry holiday season and a happy new year of health and greater experiences.

Cheers.X III 

Dear yolanda and SamSam, thanks for comments addressed

Dear yolanda and SamSam, thanks for comments addressed to me. I don't think I will blog SamSam's comment but I will probably read it again. It was a good one.  Yolanda, Iranians are smart but so far not smart enough to get rid of IRI. I had an amazing 10 minute talk to a coworker from Chile today. His siblings were involved in fight against dictatorship in Chile. Only 10 minute talk but interesting. It mde me want to read more about last years of Pinochet 's power in Chile and whether there are lessons that Iranians can learn from them.

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Hi! DA,

 LOL! So "Please, take care!" has bad omen!........Be very honest with you, I did not even know it! :O)

I am glad everyone is happy and no blood-bath here!

It is a great blog and very edifying!

Yolanda

Of course, I'm joking! I was sar-be-sar-ing

sar be sar (literally, that would be head-butting - sar means head, and be can mean many prepositions - , but in Persian everyday lingo, as far as I know, it's that I'm taking the mickey within a kind of rapport)

"Please, take care!" *

"What's three times worse than war?" "Three wars?"

*(When I first saw your signature line,I used to think: what have I done this time! ;;) 

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Hi Anahid,

    Iranians are smart....they can versify anything from Shahla's death (Divaneh's poem), green movement (your poems), to this "crazy"/nuts topic in this blog! It is amazing!

Thank you for your post!

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Hi! DA,

   What kind of comment is that? You are joking, right?

So obvious, you're not Irooni

first you're dumb at school , second you don't like Rumi.

You're an Arab. And a very normal one at that. Even your First name has King in it.  Arabi! Admit it!

Boro ba in beloo-gget, ehsaas behet dast dade, boro be khodet bepffft.

"What's three times worse than war?" "Three wars?"

Anahid & Yolanda jaan, that was just a tiny slice of my life

that i thought to share. Thank you for being a good listener. We all need an ear to talk to some times & some enlightened as you dear ladies might even make sense or learn from  our insecurities or over confidence. 

Anahid jaan, as for blogging it i,m afraid i cant but i be more than pleased if you do, be my guest.

Cheers madmuazels !!!

Path of Kiaan Resurrection of True Iran Hoisting Drafshe Kaviaan //iranianidentity.blogspot.com //www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia

Truthseeker jan, No problem

No prob bro/ sis, see what you mean, it can get nuts here, reason why i visit it sok-soki : )

i like mine with soy milk 'cause i'm allergic to cow dairy.

Apologies Monda aziz

Perhaps, due to previous attacks on me just for being honest , I am myself becoming paranoid.   ....... time for some hot chocolate I think ....

HUH?!! Truthseeker9

Sorry if I've caused a confusion. I did not get to read your comment prior to leaving mine. We are all lone observers here. And if we can be truthful in doing just that, then this site has accomplished lots for our community.

I just read your comment to JJ, unfortunately could not follow you. Sorry. 

Dear Monda

I am not sure why you found it necessary to make a clarification so quickly after my comment. There is no need to attempt to disassociate yourself from my comment. I responded to this blog’s content without reading yours, I am acting as a lone observer just voicing my honest view. I was not looking for approval from anybody.

yolanda, amazing, this was the comment i wanted

To write to SamSam. His was indeed poetic. I was going to ask him to blog it. Sam, can you blog it?

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SamSam,

    Thank you for your great post......it is very poetic and philosophical......great job!

Hi Monda,

    Thank you for your great posts.....I enjoyed reading them very much!

This is a great blog and I like every post here!

Thanks Faramarz

Same here!

Thanks Monda

Self doubt was killing me, but you came to the rescue! Thank you.

JJ, I commend your introspections

By no means was I implying irresponsibility on your part. Nor was I asking you about how crazy would be Ok. I merely tried to offer a piece of My thoughts, that crazy is a norm, with some considerations. 

I enjoyed reading Princess, Faramarz, Solo and Comrad here. Be Happy learning. That is our most important responsibility in this life time.

Dear JJ

Thank you for this blog.  I agree that we are all responsible for our own behaviour and actions, and that nobody is perfect. With regards to this site, you are the Editor here and indicate that you have a Policy on Personal Attacks. What I have seen many times is that many person attacks, some clearly libel are flagged but remain on the site. You cannot shrug off the responsibility you have as a Moderator to say that this is of no consequence. If such behaviour is not punished, it has been successful in getting a positive response and will be used again and therefore the behaviour is reinforced in the person until otherwise is learnt. It is not just I who belives that the extent to which some inidivduals’ mean and abusive behaviour has been rewarding in the past may be one reason why they continue it. It is the concept of reinforcement.

Meanwhile, I thank you for your efforts and commitment for working towards Democracy in Iran.

Trying to act normal has driven me crazy

So, I stopped trying. Have been much happier since.

Soul searching

JJ thanks for the great blog of yours and the few brilliants nameless commentators views.

what a wonderful world we live in ?

If we're able only to avoid the hardships we encounter.

JJ  I hope you did not write this blog right after having a bottle of LAMBRUSCO .              Maziar

Happy to see you in the club

I, a perfectly confused man am witnessing the birth of a confusedly perfect observer/thinker.

Keep drinking whatever they are serving you there, JJ. And write more.   

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Self Doubt as a Virtue

JJ,

The tapes of a conversation between JFK and his wife Jackie that were released about 2 years ago revealed that both of them were immersed in self doubt as the 1960 election with Nixon was nearing. JFK was asking Jackie what they should do if he loses the election and can he ever get another job! Imagine that! An educated couple from great families with solid resumes were worried about the next job.

Actually, studies show that successful people are generally full of self doubt as they make relatively important decisions and that helps them to ponder longer and harder.

So no worries! Just keep worrying!

Great News

At any stage of life, early or late - when we finally come to accept ourselves the way we are, is a moment for jubilation. I am very happy for you Jahanshah. 

Here is one of my all time favorites, which just about sums up the whole shbang of this thing we call living. :)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ffHqMaUCTw

Wisdom

I think what you are discribing here is your process of gaining wisdom - be it through growing older or through travelling.

I think for most of us, whether we are aware of it or not, the ultimate goal in life is to be at ease with ourselves, ie. with who we are and where we are.

I personally sense that as I am growing older I tend to see increasingly more beauty in imperfection. I find perfection and "normality" boring.

I enjoyed reading this blog JJ. I had a smile on my face all the way through reading it.

I agree, Souri, it will be great if you blog on Existentialism

Is this is the one that says..., oh forget it, let's wait for the blog. I don't want to show how little I know of it.

makes a lot of sense

JJ, thanks for the piece. i very much identify with most of it.

souri: a blog on the basic elements of existentialism would be nice...

peace

Existentialism

Reading this, gave me a feeling that you are approaching to the philosophy of Existentialism.

I've got in this mood when I was too young, then I've changed to something more political as a result of the revolution in Iran.

I know you have already read some of Sartre books for sure, but if I may, I'd like to suggest two of his excellent works for you to read.

The age of Reason (which is actually a mirror of your present thoughts on life)

The Nausea (for which, Sartre was awarded a Nobel prize but he declined it)

Of course there are so many other books from Sartre for you to investigate more about this aspect of the "Life" which is now haunting your thoughts, but these two books are the best (in my opinion) to start on Sartre philosophy.

The age of Reason is really for you! lots of similarities between the protagonist and your own personality!
I'm sure you will love it.

Good read; 

The good behavior of the people, warms our heart and make us thankful.....  And the bad ones, just make us to recognize and appreciate the good ones!

You need to be crazy

to figure out this crazy world. You need to process out hundreds of romances to figure out its shallowness, you need to sleep with hundreds of russian hookers to bore out with meaningless sex, you need to fall from mountain of wealth & reclimb again nemerous times to find out emptiness of possessions, you need to read hundreds of books & travel to a hundred city to lose your one dimensional world, You need to pilot a plane or climb a cliff to figure out just how earthly you are, You need to give this adventure up for the sake of a lil angel to figure out what real joy means and thus you need to fall a hundred times & rise a hundred times to finally make sense of you & things around you and without that experince you shall never get it.

People only share a dimension they want to share . Judging them based on that one encounter is fatal mistake of yet one dimensional souls themselves ;).

Meet, accept, learn & move on. 

Thats how you mature your world view to perfection like me ::)). Crazies dare to venture, normal never does.

Cheers!!!

Path of Kiaan Resurrection of True Iran Hoisting Drafshe Kaviaan //iranianidentity.blogspot.com //www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia

JJ Jan

It is easy to talk the talk but hard to walk the walk. I was not around to see Hazef and Rumi but I would not be surprised if they had lots of flaws.

I did read some very disturbing things about Sadi and his treatment of non Muslims. To make it short people specially Iranians like to make demi-gods. Then worship them. From Rostam to Ali we create legends. At least we know Rostam was created by Ferdowsi and was a legend (Ferdowsi says it himself: Rostam yali bood dar Sistam; Man kardamesh Rostam-eh dastan - apologies for any mistakes). Ali on the other hand is still worshiped by many people. 

We do not need to be perfect; just try to be good enough. And do not get full of ourselves pretending to be more than we are. The one thing I really dislike is "high horse" types. People who get so sanctimonious and are "holier than thou". They are usually the worst of the crowd.

PS,

Don't listen to SP. The green bud is good the skunk is the best. But I am too old for that stuff now.

Yours, VPK

Jahanshah, shoma ham Khosh o khandan bashi.

Dear JJ, I deleted my facebook comment, I might add it later but reason for deletion was that sometimes I have seen people bring evidence of one person's weirdness the fact that they are up during night. I just did not want to give them more evidence :). I take naps when others are awake and then I am awake when others are asleep. But seriously, I like the sentence:" I m crazy, you are nuts." since you gave me your blessing, I will use it.  Shoma ham Khosh o khandan bashi.