Friday, June 1, 2007

Is an idle mind really a devil's workshop?

All these years I've just accepted the proverb "An idle mind is a devil's workshop" as something that was very obvious. I'm sure someone had explained the meaning of it to me at a very young age and I faintly remember it to be along the lines of "you should be working always and never be idle, cos being idle will lead you to think and do evil". Today my mind was pretty idle and which got me thinking about this thought-provoking .... well...thought. I realized pretty soon that this proverb is laced with contradictions of preposterous proportions. Did I just type that?? "contradictions of preposterous proportions"???? Oh well, moving on ... the first contradiction it that anything that is idle cannot possibly be in a workshop, at least not doing work in a workshop!! So just staying idle in a workshop, albeit the devil's is not really a problem is it?? The second problem I have with it is the mere insinuation that the devil's workshop is for idle minds. Isn't the devil's workshop usually the one where people are whipped and they are worked harder than they ever would possibly have been on earth, and the devil sits on his throne and checks the temperature of the oil boiling in different pots on his new, swanky corporate dashboard (the idea which btw was probably the suggestion of the consultants who landed up in hell and built by low cost offshore employees whose sin counts just missed the cutoff to the pearly gates). Getting back to the point, it's rather insulting to the devil don’t you think? Also, the fact the sheer generalization that step 1 (idle mind) means step2 (bad stuff) clearly shows the light with which the human race was held before the statement was made. I mean, maybe not an act of genius but something useful might just come out of an idle mind, say like while idly meandering through a garden, some innocuous concept called gravity might be discovered!! Or why go so far back for genius? Take this blog for example, came out of an idle mind!!!!

Now that I've managed to introduce this blog, I really do not need to blabber on about the idle/devil concept anymore. I hereby welcome myself to this new world!! This blog will inspire its readers, make them think twice about opinions they had formed over years and years, make them question their inner soul, connect with a world they never thought existed...YES!!! This blog will do that....hmmm..on second thought...crap it... I'm gonna write about sports, movies, travel, entertainment and fun...and what i like and dislike about all that!!! woohooooo...here goes nothing....

18 comments:

supernova said...

Okay, so your next post will be borne only out a once again idle mind?

Nevertheless, welcome to the blogosphere, Uno! :-)

{a} said...

Ah!! Nova that is super..you make a very valid point...your fear is mine too!! but I'll try and live up to this great responsibility that I have brought upon myself!!

Mucho appreciato the welcomo!!

Idah's Family Bluez said...

i think this statement was invented to stop us girls from realising, why are we doing housework while our brothers are watching tv??!!!..heheh, ok, maybe from my case.

Welcome to the blog world... :D

{a} said...

l&d, i'm sure that's true for a lot of other husband-wife cases too!! and it works both ways you know :-) thanks for the welcome!!

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