The Armageddon

A post after a real long time; but to be fair, the 12^th grade isn’t exactly the ‘go down swinging’ type, especially if you are training yourself for the IITs.

Do you know the variety of fates of the world that have been portrayed in different texts all over the world? On one hand, the Devil, or Lucifer to be specific, walked the face of the Earth last time, and Noah was building a boat; while on the other hand, God himself will arrive in the state of complete atheism in the Universe, to be the ‘ultimate chastiser’, or the one that enlightens for once and for all (No, not the calm manner exactly). Interestingly enough, the Hollywood too has brought forward another form of Apocalypse, which the Pagans have clutched on.

But do you know what the modern saints have to say about their form of End o’ the World? You might have heard about how the Sun will engulf the Earth, by increase in its mass, due to the constant combustion nuclear fusion and fission, and thus exhaustion of gases like helium, hydrogen, which in turn would result in… Argh! In short, Sun eats up Earth after some billion years.

Now, go back to each end, and try to see something that is common to all. It is the base of the end. Each of them is to teach humans that the end is inevitable, be it a business, a relationship, or the entire life. Or maybe, the end of the universe, The Big Crunch. It doesn’t depend whether it is an evil power or the divine. In the end, living life in your own way is what makes the difference, trying to make a change for a better world is what makes the difference. 

World War Zero

Now, what do you think the Zeroth World War was fought over? Land? Resources? Or maybe something a bit more important, yet ignored, aspect of the human race (Interestingly, it’s called a race, because everyone runs for their image in public, for their dreams, for their life!), i.e. the sense of pride and honor?

What I’m talking about is, mes amis, none other than the Epic Mahabharat very famous for Krishna Vasudev Yadav, or Arjun, the middle son of King Pandu. Well, only people keen enough know this whole name. Everyone knows the story, right? It is the fight for the throne of Hastinapur. People in the so-called Satyug attempt various tasks which were against The Dharma, and one thing leads to another, and the World War Zero strikes! Longest story short, though they clearly know what’s right, they are sort of dragged into doing wrong. Wait wait wait, does that sound quite familiar? If we know that we are evolving through every generation, and getting smarter every step down the ladder of generation, why is it just so hard to believe that it started with humans like Shakuni, or Krishna for that matter? Now, as per what I’ve read, it wasn’t even Satyug, but Dvapar Yug, which gives a whole new perspective to some people, and makes no difference to others.

For my sake, just remove the thought that there was any involvement of God, and everyone was just human with powers like one of Stan Lee’s characters. Remove any possibility that whatever happened wasn’t already ‘written’. Now, rethink the whole story. Ponder over the lesson every character in this story learns AND teaches. You will now find that there is so much to learn, if you want to. Just like the World Wars I and II, you learn what is good to do, and what to choose between wrong and less wrong.

What this shows is that we need not just close our eyes in haste, or even faith, where God is projected, but as true atheists, or believers, try to go to the next slide of the presentation being showed, and just remove the image of the Guy upstairs to think more clearly. After all, if there is someone or something at all, there are bound to be emotions, or at least concepts, right?

You Don't Mess With The Religion

After a couple of months and my finals, a new post, finally! 

Many people might make a big mistake interpreting my content. They might think I don’t believe in any or all gods, and the religion that follows as well. Well that that’s not quite true.

I see religion as just a method to make people believe in the kind of events beyond their ability to understand. In the past, as we all might have pondered in our free time, humans were not as smart as they are today. They were not able to grasp the science or reasoning behind events. They couldn’t understand what is really right as a human being, and what is not. They couldn’t perceive the actual philosophy of life, and with these values, human was nothing beside another species of animals. So, to guide them to the right path, the 'concept' of religion was brought up. People were taught what was right as a human, and how and why things happened. Religion showed people the way of life, the philosophy of life. That, was the basis of all religions, the root of all religions.

But the religions that we see in today's world, or the 'surface religions', are more oriented to today's world, like the media, money, etc. People use religion for their own selfish purposes, for gaining money and fame. Media uses religion as a medium of introducing terror in people when a catastrophe strikes. Nowadays, people claiming to be saints tell you that there are evil spirits, and that how harmful they are to your normal lives. Then they say that they can drive these spirits away, bringing brightness to your minds, and literally 'charge' you for doing so in the form of donations. They demand various kinds of stuff, some that might not even be easily available, and the official raise in their financial status doesn’t even count here.

Religion is something we have very well embedded in with God. But if you look closely, you can see that God just enforces the ways of religion by showing how an Almighty tells you to follow religion, and frankly, He tells you that if you don’t walk on the ways shown by religion, your life will be full of evil deeds, or you would have performed what are known as 'sins'. There's also an explanation as to why this was done, and a rather simple one it is. Science has bases, Religion doesn’t. Though religion teaches us the real ways of life, it's just that there is no base as to why it is right. That is why it feels difficult to understand the real value of religion once one starts believing in God, because then he/she starts focusing on what is wrong and tries avoiding it, rather than seeing what is right and following it. I know this sounds almost the same, but it is almost totally different.

So, it is not religion that I am against, because I have seen its true value; I know how brilliantly it has been formulated. It is only the enforcement that ‘ignites my fury’. I don’t believe in God, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe in religion as well. It's just that I can't believe in today's version of religion which is better for today's world, or rather 'Religion 2.0'.

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Hey, that's my Sun you're talking about..!

One of the most astonishing aspects I would want you to observe is the 'baselessness' of this concept of God and religion, and perhaps of my vocabulary. Some of you will be quite astonished to hear the story of Galileo.

The Geocentric model, as taught by the Church before Galilei

Galileo Galilei, as we all know, was the first one to observe from his telescope and give a proposal about the apparent movement of the Earth. But what all don’t know is this: unlike what the Church taught at that time, he said that celestial bodies don’t revolve around the Earth, but the Earth itself revolves around a bigger celestial body, a star, the Sun, better known today as the Copernican system.

But the Church stayed on to its orthodox Ptolemaic system as shown, and Galileo was warned ‘not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing’, and when he continued, he was put on trial and house-arrested for his ‘wrong and misleading’ theory. Also, the Copernican books were suspended till correction, and all books ‘supporting or advocating’ Copernican system were banned. But as of the present, we all study the movements of planets in the 7th grade, and deeper in Physics as heliocentrism.

What this means is that the whole concept of God from the start appears to be baseless, and we have even started uprooting its bases recently. If all of us think correctly, the day is not near when the world is actually lifted of the dark of religion and superstition, and sets a course towards the light of rationalism and logic.

Mind and Body..! Heart and Soul..?

Humans have desperately tried to combine, rather relate, Science with the divine powers. Many of them have even proved existence of spirituality scientifically. They call it Noetic Science. One of the first institutes to perform research over this new and fascinating field is The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

In one of their experiment, they gathered some 1900 people from Austria and Germany, and these people focused their intentions towards water samples, which were electromagnetically shielded, and some which weren't. Ice drops formed from these samples were photographed by a technician, and were tested for aesthetic beauty by a number of unbiased and unknown independent judges. Results were anticipated, yet quite astonishing. The intentionally treated samples were more aesthetically beautiful, though there was minute difference.

What this proves is that we can alter environment by the power of mind, though there is negligible difference. I anticipate that all this might just be bouncing off some heads, but long story short, your mind is just as powerful as that of Charles Xavier.

This also led me to another plausible hypothesis. We all know that our body has vestigial organs, the organs that are of no use as of the present. The best example is the appendix, which digested cellulose in our primates, but has now practically shrunk in size, and functionally shrunk to nothing. Now, mind power is something that was yielded in the distant past by the saints. In the course of time, such honest and mentally powered saints decreased in number. Thus, the real use of mind also shrunk, shrinking its efficiency as well. Reaching the present or the recent past (1000-2000 years maybe), the mind, or as the present generation referred it to as the brain, became a vestigial organ. Now, despite our fully honest attempts, we are not able to fully nurture the power of mind, because it has almost stopped functioning. It is only functioning so as to face this world of overly material pleasure.

So I can understand why Jesus was considered a messenger of God, while he just performed 33 miracles like walking on water, or turning water to wine (which again seems too implausible to me). It's because you cannot believe that normal humans can do it, and so don’t give your best effort. 

"Is Man merely a mistake of God? Or God merely a mistake of Man?"