Finally I got the time to update the blog. The reason being that i have finally finished the Deutschkurs or the German course as they say it in English. This gives me time to write sometimes, somethings on this blog. The good news is that i have a few hours extra per day...the bad news is that i have many more things to read and a few extra things to do workwise. I have been having a lot of discussions with parents, friends & foes alike on various topics starting from "How our Education system should be?" to "What should be done to express our ideas in the best way"...
One such interesting topic, though a bit sensitive and intriguing in nature was that of Religion and God. Yeah! Yeah ! I know, i am not qualified enough to comment on this because I am no saint or Godman. However, I am not here to preach people or tell them what to do to vanquish all their problems or how the mighty fist of God will slay all their enemies. I am just trying to understand the concept of God over the past few years and have got many answers; some from within and some from the people who tried to help me by providing their versions of the answers.
There are a lot of people who just do not believe in God. Poof!! That is dumb. Or at least in my perspective it is dumb. Why dumb? The reason is to say something doesn't exist, one should understand what it is? However, To understand "God" itself is a quest that takes a lifetime. What the so called atheists really consider god, is what their "god-fearing" brethren consider as god. Idol worship or worship of a book doesn't qualify to be called god worship. So what really is "God" ?
In my point of view, "God" doesn't exist in the forms that we know him as. Energy is what drives us all. There is a process (Metabolism) to convert the food that we eat into energy and this is the energy that somehow makes our existence possible. The key word here is somehow. Because, if we provide the same energy by for example burning a piece of wood or by doing some kind of a exothermic chemical reaction we still cannot produce what we commonly call as "Life". There is something unique in the way things have to work together in tandem, in harmony to result in this stupendous thing called "Life". Arguers may state that Brain coordinates everything!!...Yeah true, but there are more things apart from just commanding the different organs; There are feelings,emotions and what we call as conscience, which if strong enough can make one take decisions which are perhaps counterproductive to the Logical Goal of a being i.e. Survival. This is because there is unknown or let me say un-understood by me force that connects all these well explains things together. This is what i believe constitutes of the soul. Spirit as we more often call it in the Christian terminologies, i guess is this special energy that binds and keeps the show going.
Every organism that has come to being, has at least one purpose..and that is to thrive. Because without this the very fact of existence doesn't make sense. However, to bring it into existence there needs to be that some extra force, which is capable of creating the raw materials to something which can live and thrive on its own. We can create a culture on a petri-dish in a lab, however if i give you a dead amoeba, scientifically it is just not possible to make it do what it was doing as it was alive. Which means, there are parts of existence, that are still not understood fully by science. This defeats the purpose of talking about atheists who claim the Non-existence of something which they don't understand anyway or cannot be fully explained by science :-)
What about the initial question of GOD?....Hmmmm, that is for another blog i guess.
3 comments:
Very nice!! but whenever i try to convince myself that there must be something, call it GOD or spirit or whatever, who is responsible for the existence of this whole universe and who controls every action every second, the very next second a question pops up in my mind asking who created GOD who gave him all the powers he possess...then i have to press cntrl+brk and come out of this interesting infinite recursion...nevertheless it is such an interesting question i would definitely want to plunge into this sometime in future :)
@Raghav - The argument is quite right. However, one e.g. i can give how our limited knowledge plays tricks with us....Classical Mechanics was considered perfect and to explain almost any movement ...We all believed it. Y? Coz with all the knowledge what people had at that time it was all they could understand...However, Dude Einstein could see beyond...he got access to knowledge beyond...and when he was able to part this knowledge with others...they too started to understand Relativity and understand Relative mechanics...That the same story with God..Why is it so difficult to believe that there is some knowledge that is totally alien to us...And instead of trying to disprove the existence of god...Make an assumption that he /she exists and then try to use this assumption to do good to the community in general...Food for thought ain't it.
Waiting for the continuation of this post!!
It's difficult to really comment as it is not complete or actually doing justice to the subject of your post :)
But I like the presentation a lot
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