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Monday 8 May 2023

Allen Premium Outlets Shooting - 8 dead

Mass shootings in USA is quite a common thing but the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets feels like Déjà vu because I have visited this outlet and walked around the corridors of Allen Premium Outlet back in 2006 when I visited Allen on a B1 visa.

My First visit to United States

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/us/allen-mall-texas-shooting.html

Looks like evil has won this time around. I hope the victim families have all the strength in the world to go through this.

Quote of The Day

"The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in."

- Bernard D'Espagnat, physicist and philosopher of Science, Templeton prize winner for his works on Quantum Theory and Reality.

Concept of 'hypercosmic God' wins Templeton Prize

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India."

- Max Mueller

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

- William Shakespeare

A Valentinian Exposition

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Allen Premium Outlets Shooting - 8 dead