among other things..
October 29, 2004hmm.. faith, belief in god, love, hope.. this is starting to sound suspiciously like a new religion.
i hereby state that this cannot be the basis on which to start one.
all i'm trying to do is to state some facts, observations.. that if people started understanding.. the world could be a better place..
could i said. not would.
as herein i recognize the basic unpredictability of life and the universe.
chaos. never knowing what is going to happen next.
sound familiar ?
we don't know what's going to happen next. so we do not enjoy what is happening.
i know that this is again a repeat of the oft-said 'stand and stare'.
have you ? have you ever observed what is going on around you ?
the leaves that blow past your face on a windy day.. the stark moonlight that one sees on a full-moon night..
the laughter of friends.
the smile on one's face at having deja vu with something good.
the thoughts that one gets one seeing a couple.. and knowing exactly what they're feeling.
ever noticed the person sitting opposite you in a bus and wondered what his life is ?
ever wondered how the people you meet everyday; each lead their own lives..
each having his own reasons to live… each their own reasons to cry.
each has his own universe.
it boggles the mind. we are a race of over seven billion people, and each one has their own lives..
the ultimate parallel universe concept : life on earth.
and yet, they are all interconnected.
the person you say hi to everyday, may just be waiting for that before leaving on his daily routine.
the 3 words that you may say to the street corner beggar may be the only ones he's had that day.
amazing how the simplest of things can make so much of a difference in another persons life.
do something.. get something done in a day that might make a difference to another person. it might lift their spirits. it might make them happy.
to be continued.. after i understand how gamma rays can be used to do something else other than kill cancer.
imagine that: a gamma laser in my arms..
[not a very re-assuring picture]
laterz
I have read a book by Jack L chalker called
Bubba | October 30, 2004I have read a book by Jack L chalker called the well of souls. Now that idea of universe can open ones mind. Had me going. Never knew why with the tech of today that its not a movie. Special effects would be great. I also see that if it was a movie that the blogs out here would be talking about it like they do now on bush and kerry. But anyways I enjoy your blog greatly.
"It is often said that Christianity (or most other religions)
Subrato | October 30, 2004“It is often said that Christianity (or most other religions) as a viable religion was doomed by the *De revolutionibus orbium caelestium* of Copernicus and the ensuing discovery that the universe is so vast that the earth and all its inhabitants and history is far less that a drop of water and the animalcules in it. But the religion was equally and earlier doomed by the short and concise little work of Laurentius Valla, *De libero arbitrio*, which demonstrated, with irrefragable logic, that no god can be at once benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. An imagined god may have two of those qualites, but he cannot have all three, any more than he can be both round and square.”
—-Prof. Oliver
Some sayings of the Late PRO: "Faith in religions, fictions about
Subrato | October 30, 2004Some sayings of the Late PRO:
“Faith in religions, fictions about supernatural beings that soothe and comfort weaklings who are afraid to contemplate the grim world of reality.
When faith is lost, what Pareto calls the religious residue in a people becomes its most vulnerable point, its Achilles heel. It is the unsatisfied need for an unquestioning faith in a superior power.”
“We live in a universe in which life is a mere epiphenomenon of blind, primordial forces–a universe in which the earth and the whole solar system are less than a single snowflake in a blizzard.”
“We had best learn to accept the fact that we live in a universe that was not made for man and in which we and all organic life are merely inconsequential and ephemeral epiphenomena–a world in which species that do not have the strength and wit to survive are eliminated by the force that is inherent in the very nature of organic life, which requires that the weak must perish so that the strong may live.”