Roy T. James

This is another collection of Hubpages that deal with a wide-ranging variety of subjects. The opening Hub explores the difficulty to learn about our life, followed by discussions about the need to evolve a lifestyle for humans, how negligent we are, in choosing our names, why human nature is unsuitable for humans, etc. This book also suggests some new ways of acquiring a correct lifestyle.

Though I never had any dreams of becoming a writer, I have come to be one. I used to publish 'hubs' at hubpages.com, reflecting my views on historical and contemporary issues of interest, which after a while I found amusing to read again. These are being published thinking that they may be of relevance in the present atmosphere of strife and mutual suspicion. All of my essays were penned with the idea that there is a lighter side to everything, however horrid may be the 'thing'.The present collection tries to expose the unorthodox sides of many of our imperatives. A new look at the male and female libido to find a natural reason for the behavioral differences, rationale pointing to how, living as a society is unnatural, how a religion is born and what controls the way we choose are some of the imponderables, this collection is trying to address.

Caste is a relic of dark ages. It did not evolve into a modernized version in the natural course of events as the people of India were not the real custodians of Indian society, having been under foreign rule for many years and those rulers finding great use in caste. Other countries had their share of such customs which are even more shocking, like lynching or burning at stake, various entertainments of Roman Empire, all of which, evolved into something less obnoxious, as time went by. There has never been a time in Indian history when someone of significance did not attempt in its eradication be it Buddha, Swami Vivekanada or the hordes of other leaders of later origin How come it still remains, causing trouble at will, though there is nobody who does not earnestly say that they want to see its' demise. This book is trying to answer that.Unlike other books, an attempt is being made to identify the reasons why caste has been readily accepted in Indian culture and continue to be so, regardless of the multitude of changes in the society over many centuries. Although the what is vogue is to consider caste as something imposed from above, sufficient reasons are given pointing to the contrary and explaining why people would have been in more or less consonance with this system. Differing with and offering alternatives to popular view, this book is bound to prod the readers into firing the best of their arsenal, either to oppose caste or to oppose him.

The novel is about an inventor who travels to 3000 AD and meets his successors. There he gets the information about the way humans perished and gets opportunity to meet the super-humans, the successor race. His plans of coming back to Earth and, the super-humans' plan of keeping him for certain research, together with the moments of intrigue and passion resulting from this, are narrated in these pages.

All that makes us greatly uncomfortable, like the scourge of extremism and its repercussions, is easily understandable, if one is to read the fundamental nature of life, a little differently: -- Mating, an indispensable part of evolution, actually consist of three parts, pre-union preparation, union proper or the exchange of gametes, and the post union unrest. All around the animal world, males are reluctant to participate in this pairing, due to the loud and clear anti-male ambience of post union stage. Therefore nature has to forcibly bring the male to the mating arena, circumventing the reluctance with the help of a dedicated season and other endearments through the female.-- The only escape from the dreadfulness experienced during the post union stage of every instance of mating, is to evolve to next species.-- New species therefore evolve, with more and more opportunities of allaying this dreadfulness, which amazes us by showing an "increase in complexity, as evolution moves ahead"-- In the case of the final species of life, man, the escape route is a two forked approach. One is a preemptive step. Stretch, whatever may be of interest to him, to its limits and immerse in it. Which is the origin of formalities, niceties and all forms of extremism, including the few that are a grave threat to happy living, and the many that are helpful, enjoyable or life saving.The other is to keep women always well suppressed such that if at all they express dissatisfaction, it shall not be crossing certain threshold of oppressiveness necessary to upset the man.However, discovery of VIAGRA has introduced a major non-linearity into the smooth flow of life, by having the potential to bring its facilitator, the dread of male female union, under human whims and fancies. This will in effect, render 'all forms of extremes', redundant, leading to unpredictable consequences.(When writing this book, I never thought the ideas presented here in a lighter vein will prove to be of great significance, more so to the present global happenings)

A collection of anecdotes and other observations which certainly would have found a place in my autobiography, whenever I succeed in writing one. I put them all here, lest I may not taste success.