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Socrates was the first of the three famous Athenian philosophers (the other two being Aristotle and Plato). Born in the Greek capital in the year 469 BC, he lived during the reign of Pericles at a time when the Athenian empire was at its peak. It is believed that he did not come from an elite family, in fact evidence points to his father being a stone-carver, a skill at which he himself developed and used on occasion. His mother worked as midwife helping to attend to thousands of women around Athens.

After the Peloponnesian war had ended, Socrates who was then in his late forties, began to ask deep questions about the nature of existence and the world that surrounded him. For example, he would question “what is beauty”, “what is wisdom’, and “what is the correct direction to take”. These questions were rhetorical, that is to say, he was aware that they were almost impossible to answer, and that there could often be no conclusive answer.

Let us be always, whether via action or inaction, people of humility and intention. This intention is out of good intent, hardly self-serving; more self-effacing.

We have enough strength of our own, and that buoyed of God, to deal in life with deliberation and intent, always in control of that which we do or don’t do.

It is far worse to find ourselves swept up in another wind – one apart from our own God-divined knowledge – that is, swept up in a whirlwind and out of conscious control. All we can do in these circumstances (which is enough, mind you) is trust in God and pray.

Sometimes I wonder, looking at the sudden spate of religious channels, outlining only spiritual stuff!

And coming to think of it, these are 24 hour channels with discourses running throughout the day. The list of these channels is endless. While the national language ones are going great guns, there are others catering solely to regional languages with newbie’s lining up, strutting their stuff.

Wonder who has the appetite but no one seems to be complaining.

Everything seems hunky-dory here with the channels maintaining good sustained TRPs with happy advertisers but are these really getting the eyeballs that they claim? The answer looks to be yes if TRPs are any indication albeit TRP can be manipulated. However, the fact remains that these are here to stay.

So, what has brought about the transformation? Have we become so religious of late? Are we becoming more inclined towards spirituality? Or is it just a passing fad.