Are we doing enough, or are we sinners?

In the colonial era, my countrymen, Indians, with our peaceful ideology and treating-guests-like-kings mentality eventually got overpowered by the mighty British forces who had been thinking of and investing in arms and destruction years before.

In fact, the British powered over so many other peaceful regions and these innocent people paid the price for.. being innocent? The British in this case can of course be seen as barbarous and used their technological advantage to power over other (weaker) human beings. Nothing too different from Hitler and others who abused powers and got blinded by greed, possession and sense of omnipotence.

Question is: why did the peace-loving, God loving people have to pay the price for not having destructive weapons? They did not waste time polluting their minds thinking about exploitation, murder, destruction and such evil thoughts. Was it their fault that they were abiding by God's teachings?

I could not come up with a good answer to this easily. After pondering for quite a while, the most reasonable explanation I could come up was:

'The good' & the 'innocent' did not do enough to take over the world and spread their goodness. Evil took over the world quite easily. Why? Because the good was dormant. They perhaps did not do enough and did not think for other people in other lands so as to spread the wealth of their knowledge and values to other cultures. It is the duty of every 'good' person to spread the message about their ideologies. If they think its not worth spreading, then they probably are vagabonds without a purpose in life and in doing so, are committing a sin.

So it all boils down to each one of us. Are we doing enough to spread our message of our view of the world? Are we doing enough to share our thoughts and beliefs in the hope that it will help humanity? What are we doing for mankind? Are we doing enough?

Autocomplete paths and themes in Drupal

It is very important that any AHAH callback menu item is of the same theme loading menu execution path as that of the parent. Otherwise you will have themes conflicting and overriding each other.

Here's a case in point:

Say you are using 'rubik' theme for admin pages (node edit & add pages). And lets assume you are using Garland as the front end theme for other users.

If you happen to have an autocomplete or AHAH form element in the node edit page like so:

$form['book']['submit_book'] = array(
'#type' => 'submit',
'#value' => t('Select book'),
'#weight' => -4,
'#attributes' => array('class' => 'book-title-select'),
'#ahah' => array(
'path' => 'mybooks/js',
'wrapper' => 'edit-book-plid-wrapper',
'effect' => 'slide',
),
);

This will cause the Garland theme to be loaded to the current page when the AHAH callback 'mybooks/js' executes. If the callback happened to add new elements into the form, then they would be rendered in Garland. Not what you would really want! You could go around in circles with your UI team over this and waste a lot of time like I did!