The concept of god is now deeply imbibed in most of our hearts . Let us have a little insight on how this concept came about and how weak it really is. Long ago , when humans were not as advanced in science and technology as they are now , were mystified by the wonders of science and named everything that they couldn’t explain as “god”.
This concept kept backing off everytime a new concept came about . For example , People used to beleive earth was flat and sun used to revolve around the earth and that this sun was rotated by god . But , later it was found that it was the gravitational force that did the trick and that the earth was a sphere after all.This, is just an example pertaining to one field . This has been happening in all the fields .
As science is such a vast field with almost no bounds , there are still vast spaces that aren’t exposed by science .These are labelled as the acts of god .Another erroneous assumption that is made by people is to rename coincidence as god . Coincidences are not controllable . So, it is assumed that it can be , by a super power named God
This concept has both advantages and disadvantages .
Advantages : When a child is growing , science is too complicated for the child . So, the concept of god is used to imbibe in the child, good practices and habits . It also helps control people in some situations when they are mentally depressed so they are made to beleive there is an external force that controls everything and that everything that happens , happens for the good.
Provides lucrative job oppurtunities to sanyasi’s and shankarachariya’s.(Advantage of a Disadvantage?)
Disadvantages :This has made the belief in the concept of god so strong that people fight , lose their lives , spend more than what they spend on themselves,get misguided and to top all that waste their time and energy on this belief.
Let us weigh the advantages to the disadvantages . Aren’t the disadvantages just too heavy ? But still everyone prefer to beleive in the concept .Funny isn’t it ?
December 6, 2005 at 4:49 am |
So god doesn’t exist. Its basically science in all its glorious Technicolor that’s making the world go round. Now, just for the sake of argument….. how would you describe all our epics and vedas and all that jazz, that have a strong reference to god? A figment of overworked imagination of our historians huh?
December 7, 2005 at 9:26 pm |
Adarsh,
Nice post dude, but then there are again inconsistencies.. Like gravity, its a statement of obeservation, not an explaination. (Not unless gravity waves are discovered), so next time try to use purely logical arguments instead.
pranoti,
You seriously believe it was written by god? And secondly “having a strong reference” doesn’t prove existance.
Fairy Tales have strong reference to talking animals, yet I don’t see David Letterman (or Shekar Suman, you choose), being replaced by a billy goat or a mother goose or a glib cat.
December 14, 2005 at 8:25 am |
hey waiting for jerry’s comments
June 19, 2008 at 1:26 pm |
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Sweatband!!