The greatest question ever posed.

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Consider our perception of god. Think for a second.......what is god. Now, I know the first thing you must be thinking is "What is this guy? an Atheist, trying to rub his ideas in to us?" lemme make it clear. I am notheist. I dont affiliate myself to any category. I am just trying to question something which is an integral part of my existence in this world. God and faith and race and nationality are like specifications are, to machines. So I seek to understand my specifications. Thats all there is here. So now, where were v? aah yeas. Ask yourself, as I do mysef what is god?

Is God an IT or a HIM/HER. Surely I dont know. So I asked sravan he doesnt know either (but he asked me a question back, like always, which we shall get to later) I asked many others, they all have divided opinions. But on consensual basis god is a HIM, for some strange reason, apparently. So does god have a SEX. He is classified Male so he does. But doesnt that mean we are giving him a form? I'd say, a human form. The bible says: god created man to look like himself. And Hindu gods are human too.....may be with a little twist, a few extra limbs or eyes but they are almost human. and so is the case with most faiths, but there are exceptions. Islam and many others say god is formless. So there is a difference in opinion and perception. What I cant get is, why cant there be a consensus on gods form?. God is surely the most integral part of our existence. and still, there are differences . The earth's shape on the other hand, is universally accepted. There aren't any groups like, Flat earth believers and round earth believers. Because it has proof. A hard scientific proof.

Unfortunately for god, there are no first hand witnesses. No one ever told that they have seen God. Coz even if someone did, they would be laughed at. Like we laugh at people, who claim to have seen Aliens in their backyard. All we have is a belief about god, which has been passed down over 1000's of years over generations. And it is probably true. But if different groups have different forms for god, there are two logical inferences you can make.

One: Either there's many gods, or

Two: There is only one god but different people perceive him in different ways.

If its the first case, which is not foolish, because, there has to be a reason why Millions have killed each other over Gods. There's two explanations to this. One, either these people were as mad as animals, which is more likely. Or, its actually the gods of their respective faiths, settling their feuds using their believers as soldiers. But that makes them gang lords and shatters our image, of our gods being loving and benign. So its safe to conclude that, Inference ONE is false.

If its the second case, where theres just one god, doesn't it mean people believe in God, not being sure what he actually is. May be its not important how he looks like. What is more important is to believe in him. This statement perfectly brings me to my next point, BELIEF.

I am perfectly aware that the above argument is lame and futile, but to make a point, there has to be a premise. A filler material, that adds up the void. Let me go on.

Nomatter what or who god is, its perfectly acceptable that god is something beyond the natural. Beyond the power of humans. The word power is the key here. Human beings by nature, worship power. You can Deny it by not being truthful, or, by not being realistic. but we all worship power, its in our nature. Think of the people who have influenced you in your life. Your dad, a leader, a thinker, or someone loved by everyone else. They all have power. In their own little or large extents, from our families to nations respectively, they have power over others. And God is the most powerful, or at least we think so.

Most of our belief in God has a start. An incident, or a series of incidents,, that were beyond our control. Beyond anybodys control for that matter. So what do we attribute this to? To God. He has to be the most powerful entity in the world. And he must be responsible for what ever happened.

Lemme give you an example. If you were looking for a job, desperately, for a loooong time and someone told you to visit a temple or whatever, and say you did. And then if you get a job immediately, what would you think. It could be a coincidence and god probably had nothing to do with it. but you cant take a chance. Not with god. You can't discredit him. And then what do we do? you go back and thank him. But then what?, after a while, even if you have no wishes, will you not visit him again? Yes you will. OR at least most of us will. Why? Coz we fear god. "I gave you what you asked for and you have forgotten me?"

You cannot anger god!!.

Anger??...what is this? we are giving god, human emotions and attributes?

When we do go back, we only to ask him do miracles with our lifes. "You do me this favour, I'll comeback and run 107 times around you, bulldozing others around me, stamping on others feet and crushing old people to walls. Once done, I wont owe you anything". It is an inconvenient truth, that most of us go to our shrines for only two reasons. One is the fear of god and the other is the fear of being a social outcast. I had both for a long time. I have overcome them after not being able to answer the above questions. If i ask myself now, why I go to a temple, its because I like the feel of a temple. The setting of the temple, is what makes me go. They are often, serene and calm without the usual monkey madness that's around us everyday. For the same reason, I abhor going to busy temples. The crowds make me sick. And forget buying a special ticket to see god. Its like buying a black ticket to watch a movie trailer for me.

I digress.

There's also another interesting thing. we all know, that theres god and then theres destiny. which way does the > symbol lie between the two? If god cannot control destiny, whats the point in praying? If he can control destiny, then there's again a problem. If he could control destiny, all the people who visit him ( Hmm....why do we have to go some where to pray or talk to him? hes supposed to be omnipresent.........I donno) ask what they want, should be very happy people. And surely there cant be any suffering in the world, coz I asked him for world peace a couple of times. But thats not the case. "he does only what's right to you, and what you deserve." thats the counter argument. So even in this case, theres no point in praying and asking him things he wont give you anyway. So I have realised its best not to ask him for anything at all.

By now I know your brains must be tired and also that you are calling me with superlatives and adjectives, so let me get to what my point is, again.

We are made to believe in things to be real and true, even if we fail to percieve them, let alone see them. So questions like, does god exist or not, do you believe in him? are all stupid questions. What's more profound is the question Sravan shot back at me when I asked him this. He asked me "What difference does it make to you?" It might sound simple, or probably he said that unwittingly, but its one of the most profoundest ( does this word exist?) questions. I thought for a looong time and concluded it did not. It didnt make any difference to me if god existed or not.

That's not the case with the earth being flat or round you know. The earth has to be round for me. Its roundness, (don't think that's a real word either) does make a difference to me. If its flat, its awefully difficult to get satellites into orbit and I wouldnt be able to use my mobile or be in touch with god on the internet (Google).

Reality of the UN-Real

It will soon be 25 years since I was brought in to this world and I cant help but ask myself "What the Fuck am I doing here?"

Some say its too early to ask such a question, while some say you should never ask such a question. But I cant help it, it seems so awfully important, probably because a part of me is in an identity crisis, or probably am too egocentric to accept to accept the fact that, am just a speck of dust, in the grand scheme of things that happen in this world. Ask me now and I wish, I were John Conner, born to save the human race, but it cant be true. Its not true coz my mum's not Sarah connor. Oh, and I choose John Connor over all the other saviours of the world because, unlike Will smith in Independence day or the other tall guy, or any other guy for that matter, because Connor was not like the others. The others were always the best in their game; flying planes or computer shit or some.......Palaentology........Oh..am sure its the wrong spelling but who gives a Fuk. John conner on the other hand had no skills or powers, Arnold Shivashakarpillai would take care of him.

If this reason is unrealistic, the exact opposite of the purpose of the 25 years gone by and the 25 to come (am probably being too optimistic), would be .....to end up getting paid for sitting in a cubicle, then get married to..........(may be we'll talk abt this bit later), make kids, buy a house, a small car which is an embarrassment to Automotive Engineering, eventually end up retired in a rocking chair, with a newspaper in hand and spend time bitching about the world and everyone in it. This, am not prepared to do. Not even with a cocked gun to my head. I would rather spend my time hunting rats in fields, this at least has a feel of adventure to it. Think about it, what would you do?

Am sure we all want to be adventurous and have excitement in life. Because the world and the grand scheme of things don't permit us to be this way, we live a more mundane life. But the desire to do things and be someone that you really want to be, is a primeval instinct and cannot be suppressed. That's why we engage ourselves in things like, Video games and all the other virtual reality crap, that we have made a part of our lives. We play NFS coz, we cant drive the amazing cars we fancy and definitely not that fast. And NFS underground is an amazing example of evolution, coz the desire to drive into police cars and public property is also very natural and exists in all of us. Thats why we watch police chase videos on youtube. We know the perpetrators of crime cannot escape, but in the back of our minds we want him to loose the tail and run free from the cops. Then theres the super sexy VR(virtual....reality..u know what it means...sorry) girls with huge swingers and a backside that can beat the ones designed by god himself.....plus, they are always in the right clothes (skimpy.some might call) in the game. Why are they, present? coz no matter what your maritial status is, we would love to be surrounded by women of that sort. Which of course is not likely to happen in reality, for obvious reasons, hence they'r in our games. GTA is an amazing game. Am sure the idea was from the greatest or atleast the most truthful psychologist. It has every aspect of life that cant be real and hence is in VR. Theres countless examples of games like these....Mafia, Max Payne...100s of em.

So, Back to the argument. If you are still thinking, "Oh this is bullshit...", gimme a single example of a game where, you would win points by getting a promotion at work, or by mariryng or by producing offsprings (the process doesnt count, I must stress. coz there r a few games, where you win by displaying versatility in doing this). or win points by buying a house and creating a future for your kids.........Theres none. Oh no, there r a few, where you can win points by dressing up a VR barbie. Those.....I dont give two fucks about them for two reasons. One, they are usually the games for ugly girls or the ones who don't have a boyfriend to tell them, they are crap or cant afford an Xbox. Second, they don't help my argument here.

Then there are VR profiles......and places where you can morph your own pictures to look like jack sparrow or a poster on which girls swoon or even on paris hilton's underwear, however small it may be.

So in essence, we imagine ourselves being something that we are not, rather, cant be, due to great many reasons. And we live by feeding ourselves with regular doses of VR, to feel good. Thats a good explanation, but it doesn't address the reason: why we do or don't believe in some things that are not real, or things we are not sure if they are real. This I agree is an utterly confusing statement, but am trying my best here, give me a chance.

Let me illustrate with an example. If you have watched the Pirates trilogy continuously and again and again, am sure you will begin to talk like Cpt. Sparrow or Will or Barbosa or may be Elizabeth if you are odd..... at least for a bit, at least to yourself, nothing to be ashamed of, I did. I noted it evidently, when I spoke with this Scottish bloke the other day. after a bit through the conversation.....I started to sound a bit Scottish, stressing the R's in a funny way and all that, but I soon stopped; fearing the scott might do me with a hammer to my head, thinking I am mocking him. But it must have happened to everyone of us at least once......like when you act or believe you are someone else. This is not real, but our brains can be easily fucked with. What I am trying to point out is that, we can be easily influenced and tuned to believe in something.

For example, what if everything they told you about the earth being round was a joke, imagine you were in the MATRIX or being Jim carrey in The Truman Show. Would you realise that the earth was flat? next time you go to the beach try this. Say to yourself that the earth is flat and that the sky and the sea join at the horizon. Your programmed brain says its not true, but you can see the evidence right in front of you. They do join, even if its an illusion. I tried this last week when I went to a beach, it was quite scary. So If its that easy to question our perception, why don't we question things that we believe to be real. Things that don't even have the hard scientific proof or the intuitive urge. Truly intuition was how Pythagoras decided that the earth was spherical (Oh...I know my history guys...it is Pythagoras....you go recheck it). Our intuition has died, saturated with too many facts and truths, that it doesn't work any more. So we have learned to believe in whatever is being told. We believe in great many things of this sort, like God, Faith, Patriotism, Good and Bad and many many so....

to be contd.......