some people choose to believe in god and some don't. i have met several people who can even decide the degree to which they believe in god. 'thoda sa' as they would say. does god's belief come in installments.i dunno.to my experience, i have encountered people who are orthodoxian in the existence of their gods like my parents and i have met scientists who are partial believers of their god. i have also met people who know (or they think so) that god doesn't exist but choose to believe he does. i chose 'he' because it would be difficult to think of female god. how could a female, a mother, a daughter, a girlfriend create such a stupid world. only men are good at this. or maybe god is a transvestite or maybe he doesn't have a sex or maybe he's not a person or maybe he is the sky above us who sees everything and makes people comfortable by its benevolent presence or maybe he is driver of the bus i sit in everyday to go to lecture hall or maybe he is the rice i ate today or maybe the keyboard on which i am typing or maybe i am one. how would one ever know.
the portrayal of god in religion have been depicted to the point of utter amusement and is comical at its root, if god does exist, which i am really skeptic of, then why should he have 4 arms and look like a malformed -genetically modified human.i am talking of Hindu gods. well there are lot of them. if god is taken to the most superior being among all souls, how can there be more than one. if there are two god, who live in a totally ordered set,then their powers are comparable(this is the order) and one of them must be superior. assuming set of all gods is totally ordered under the their respective powers, then there must exist a bigger god to every god, and then if one is required to believe in gods then why not choose the most powerful one. this Hindu philosophy has trouble comprehending,so they said 'well gods powers can be compared, so if they form a set,your logic would work, they said that the collection of all gods is not a set,its a class'. and i was hysterical. other religion have tried to avoid this issue,by not directly working with god,but with messengers of them. Jesus turns out to be son of god but not god himself,so why is he given so much respect and stature. because he was sent by god or at least he said so. now would you believe that. 'hey James,wassup?my name is Jesus,well my father "god" sent me to ask to follow him,pray his name before you eat and lot of other stuff which he has typeset in a book you will get, will you do that.
now James was confused.he said,
'life is normal, i hunt, i get food, i eat.no big deal'
'if i spent time on this stuff, i will not be able to focus on my family's well-being,so thanks but no thanks'.
several other religions have adopted this concept of not allowing human beings to directly see god but their messenger ,this goes with Islam and maybe some more.
some who were blessed by god's messengers become demi-god themselves and the power flows through them and its ok for people to respect and believe these demi-gods whom they can see and talk with,in order, to be in communium with god himself. these demi-gods are priests.
so you might ask, what is all the fuss about.
believe in god if you want to,otherwise not. it works for most of us.
until god is attached with religion which was a concept invented by someone to help people put blame and hopes on someone else and not their own incompetency or maybe just plain bad luck. god was for everything. the random component of the environment which decided which days which it will start raining, which days it would be a washout, how long a person will live, how far the road will go. all the worldly decisions which could ever be made were already taken, and we are just merely enacting them out.
until also the religion with the set of rules it comes with, decides to act physically. don’t let earth get crowded with people who don’t believe in this. there's no point in them living. either they should start believing which might or might not be enough, otherwise they gotta die. now this fact that taking someone's life is decided just by a set of rules someone came up with long time ago makes it really difficult to decide the worth of life. only those who are powerful survive. so whatever they do, the world must do. this way the world was given Christianity from a small flock of people who inhabited tons of islands just for fun. that's how Christianity came to Africa, India, south east Asia, America,and Caribbean. they said their god was better than the older gods of people or maybe if they had none,they put the fear in people first and gave them the antidote as god. to support the notion that their god was powerful ,they came with heavy artillery and big horses. now who would disagree to the fact that men of British god are so powerful, then god must be harbinger of all pains and desire which could wipe out everyone,if angered. this is how most religions spread. one particular instance is beautifully denoted in the novel of chinua Achebe 'things fall apart'.
initially in the hunter gatherer times when men were living comfortably i presume, they had nothing to do,they would get bored easily, they invented something which would keep all of them including their descendents busy for lifetimes and that would not be enough. they came up with the idea to give an 'axiom schema' , a way to invent thing,lot of things. the algorithm was,'choose a particular set of rules,anything random would work, which everyone should follow and the rules should not be such that everyone can follow them and not so hard that no one can follow them,this would give rise to disparity among people,their degree of proficiency in abiding by the rules would give them position in society.
a game in which the rules included believing in a superior being who controlled everyone, not eating deer on Sundays, eating humans on Tuesdays, not having sex on Thursday between morning to evening',etc..' is called a religion of some type.
deeding on different rules, we get different religion.
given some rules,we also get mathematics.
given somewhat lesser rules,we get physics.
this is how the 'siesta' was invented.
i do wonder if everything in world is just a game. we humans start enacting it the moment we are born and play it till you are forced to withdraw, then people stop talking to you and you are experienced enough to dismiss them and not take care of them.
atheism turns out to be the spreading in one form or the other. now the rules of the game are changing.it is also somewhat trendy to be an atheist. people look up to you,they look at you and wonder 'what will happen to him when he is judged by god',their god, because in their eyes,their god was the supreme power. and seeing your carelessness,they presume that god himself,their god,must have made you that way. that means ,you are not out of the clutches of the god, you still are judged by him.
the portrayal of god in religion have been depicted to the point of utter amusement and is comical at its root, if god does exist, which i am really skeptic of, then why should he have 4 arms and look like a malformed -genetically modified human.i am talking of Hindu gods. well there are lot of them. if god is taken to the most superior being among all souls, how can there be more than one. if there are two god, who live in a totally ordered set,then their powers are comparable(this is the order) and one of them must be superior. assuming set of all gods is totally ordered under the their respective powers, then there must exist a bigger god to every god, and then if one is required to believe in gods then why not choose the most powerful one. this Hindu philosophy has trouble comprehending,so they said 'well gods powers can be compared, so if they form a set,your logic would work, they said that the collection of all gods is not a set,its a class'. and i was hysterical. other religion have tried to avoid this issue,by not directly working with god,but with messengers of them. Jesus turns out to be son of god but not god himself,so why is he given so much respect and stature. because he was sent by god or at least he said so. now would you believe that. 'hey James,wassup?my name is Jesus,well my father "god" sent me to ask to follow him,pray his name before you eat and lot of other stuff which he has typeset in a book you will get, will you do that.
now James was confused.he said,
'life is normal, i hunt, i get food, i eat.no big deal'
'if i spent time on this stuff, i will not be able to focus on my family's well-being,so thanks but no thanks'.
several other religions have adopted this concept of not allowing human beings to directly see god but their messenger ,this goes with Islam and maybe some more.
some who were blessed by god's messengers become demi-god themselves and the power flows through them and its ok for people to respect and believe these demi-gods whom they can see and talk with,in order, to be in communium with god himself. these demi-gods are priests.
so you might ask, what is all the fuss about.
believe in god if you want to,otherwise not. it works for most of us.
until god is attached with religion which was a concept invented by someone to help people put blame and hopes on someone else and not their own incompetency or maybe just plain bad luck. god was for everything. the random component of the environment which decided which days which it will start raining, which days it would be a washout, how long a person will live, how far the road will go. all the worldly decisions which could ever be made were already taken, and we are just merely enacting them out.
until also the religion with the set of rules it comes with, decides to act physically. don’t let earth get crowded with people who don’t believe in this. there's no point in them living. either they should start believing which might or might not be enough, otherwise they gotta die. now this fact that taking someone's life is decided just by a set of rules someone came up with long time ago makes it really difficult to decide the worth of life. only those who are powerful survive. so whatever they do, the world must do. this way the world was given Christianity from a small flock of people who inhabited tons of islands just for fun. that's how Christianity came to Africa, India, south east Asia, America,and Caribbean. they said their god was better than the older gods of people or maybe if they had none,they put the fear in people first and gave them the antidote as god. to support the notion that their god was powerful ,they came with heavy artillery and big horses. now who would disagree to the fact that men of British god are so powerful, then god must be harbinger of all pains and desire which could wipe out everyone,if angered. this is how most religions spread. one particular instance is beautifully denoted in the novel of chinua Achebe 'things fall apart'.
initially in the hunter gatherer times when men were living comfortably i presume, they had nothing to do,they would get bored easily, they invented something which would keep all of them including their descendents busy for lifetimes and that would not be enough. they came up with the idea to give an 'axiom schema' , a way to invent thing,lot of things. the algorithm was,'choose a particular set of rules,anything random would work, which everyone should follow and the rules should not be such that everyone can follow them and not so hard that no one can follow them,this would give rise to disparity among people,their degree of proficiency in abiding by the rules would give them position in society.
a game in which the rules included believing in a superior being who controlled everyone, not eating deer on Sundays, eating humans on Tuesdays, not having sex on Thursday between morning to evening',etc..' is called a religion of some type.
deeding on different rules, we get different religion.
given some rules,we also get mathematics.
given somewhat lesser rules,we get physics.
this is how the 'siesta' was invented.
i do wonder if everything in world is just a game. we humans start enacting it the moment we are born and play it till you are forced to withdraw, then people stop talking to you and you are experienced enough to dismiss them and not take care of them.
atheism turns out to be the spreading in one form or the other. now the rules of the game are changing.it is also somewhat trendy to be an atheist. people look up to you,they look at you and wonder 'what will happen to him when he is judged by god',their god, because in their eyes,their god was the supreme power. and seeing your carelessness,they presume that god himself,their god,must have made you that way. that means ,you are not out of the clutches of the god, you still are judged by him.
