Theories, postulates, fundas and what not!
The two ship theory
In a moment of inspiration after reading The Life of Pi, I came up with an absolutely simple solution to make sea travel safe. Now considering that the water bodies are so unimaginably vast, it becomes frustratingly difficult to locate survivors of ship wrecks. Now if you can ensure that ships always travel in pairs, which is not a big deal given that a large number of ships go to the same destination, in the event that any calamity befalls one of the ships, help will always be near at sea. So simple that it almost sounds silly, ain’t it? Now, don’t ask me what would happen if the calamity is so damn disastrous that it should affect both ships……
The ‘shaking the foundations of atheism’ postulate
Here’s something that would irrefutably prove that the premise of atheism is flawed. Proceeding under the assumption that majority of atheists are rational believers of science, it would be safe to say that they all accept the act of procreation as entirely biological in nature. So if you start at the youngest living human being and apply a process of recursive-iterative-lineage-routing, or in simple words you continuously trace the parents of every living human being, ultimately you are bound to arrive at the point where you cannot for God’s sake or Whatever’s sake explain how the man and woman who became the first parents were themselves created. Atheists will be tempted to brush this off as an inexplicable anomaly which is rather convenient considering this anomaly has not repeated itself in the entire history of the human race and even more convenient considering that it happened to occur right at the beginning. Now, even if you take into account the various scientific,biological and evolotion based theories, there will still be one living organism whose creation will be an unexplained mystery. As of today, there can be only two possible explanations, one being the presence of a supernatural force, the other being the highly paradoxical suggestion that the creature(s) who/which originated the human race had the ability to create itself/themselves . So, if you are an atheist, are you telling me that you find this self creating super creature more believable than the unexplained force beyond comprehension that we believers choose to call God? You are kidding me right?
Quality-Quantity funda
“How can you love me? You have known me for two months” “You don’t know anything about me. We have been friends for barely a month now” are oft repeated statements that arise out of a monotonously acquired obsession for time in our lives. Time has been drilled into our heads as being overpoweringly important and so instead of we managing our time, we let time manage us-eating on time, sleeping on time, waking up in time, why even gauging our relationships by time, which I find most illogical. Very often you find that the strongest, deepest relationships are formed not because of the length of time spent together but rather beacause of what is done in whatever time spent together. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I draw my intensely philosophical conclusion that relationships should be judged not by the quantity of time that took to forge them, but rather by the quality of that time.
Ends and Means
While we are at it, let me also subject you to the enlightening experience of reading what can be described as my philosophical fixation. You must have all heard the proverb ‘The end justifies the means”. My brilliant extension to that is “The end may justify the means, but barring a couple of exceptions, never should the means overshadow the end”. What in essence this machination of my contorted mind means is that how we do it should never be more important than what we are doing it for(no pun on the euphemistic do it intended!). One of the exceptions to this rule is Arts. Arts is one area where how it is done is equally appealing as what it is done for. For instance, not only do we see the story being told in the movie, but we also see with equal interest, the way it is being told. The other more prominent exception is of course our life, where even though we know not where we are headed, all we (should) care about is how we get there.
The paradox
If you have successfully reached here, my reader, let me give you an explanation to what you have read above. You must be wondering, why I made all those obviously apparent, seemingly insignificant observations of life. Well the answer I have is surprisingly simple, these nuggets of wisdom were struggling in the confines of my tiny little mind and what better way to let them be free than this?
Now that you have had a rewardingly cognitive experience, let me ask you a question which I call, the paradox that will replace the chicken and egg. Answer me this..
Who is the greater fool, me who wrote this blog, or you who patiently read it so far?
In a moment of inspiration after reading The Life of Pi, I came up with an absolutely simple solution to make sea travel safe. Now considering that the water bodies are so unimaginably vast, it becomes frustratingly difficult to locate survivors of ship wrecks. Now if you can ensure that ships always travel in pairs, which is not a big deal given that a large number of ships go to the same destination, in the event that any calamity befalls one of the ships, help will always be near at sea. So simple that it almost sounds silly, ain’t it? Now, don’t ask me what would happen if the calamity is so damn disastrous that it should affect both ships……
The ‘shaking the foundations of atheism’ postulate
Here’s something that would irrefutably prove that the premise of atheism is flawed. Proceeding under the assumption that majority of atheists are rational believers of science, it would be safe to say that they all accept the act of procreation as entirely biological in nature. So if you start at the youngest living human being and apply a process of recursive-iterative-lineage-routing, or in simple words you continuously trace the parents of every living human being, ultimately you are bound to arrive at the point where you cannot for God’s sake or Whatever’s sake explain how the man and woman who became the first parents were themselves created. Atheists will be tempted to brush this off as an inexplicable anomaly which is rather convenient considering this anomaly has not repeated itself in the entire history of the human race and even more convenient considering that it happened to occur right at the beginning. Now, even if you take into account the various scientific,biological and evolotion based theories, there will still be one living organism whose creation will be an unexplained mystery. As of today, there can be only two possible explanations, one being the presence of a supernatural force, the other being the highly paradoxical suggestion that the creature(s) who/which originated the human race had the ability to create itself/themselves . So, if you are an atheist, are you telling me that you find this self creating super creature more believable than the unexplained force beyond comprehension that we believers choose to call God? You are kidding me right?
Quality-Quantity funda
“How can you love me? You have known me for two months” “You don’t know anything about me. We have been friends for barely a month now” are oft repeated statements that arise out of a monotonously acquired obsession for time in our lives. Time has been drilled into our heads as being overpoweringly important and so instead of we managing our time, we let time manage us-eating on time, sleeping on time, waking up in time, why even gauging our relationships by time, which I find most illogical. Very often you find that the strongest, deepest relationships are formed not because of the length of time spent together but rather beacause of what is done in whatever time spent together. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I draw my intensely philosophical conclusion that relationships should be judged not by the quantity of time that took to forge them, but rather by the quality of that time.
Ends and Means
While we are at it, let me also subject you to the enlightening experience of reading what can be described as my philosophical fixation. You must have all heard the proverb ‘The end justifies the means”. My brilliant extension to that is “The end may justify the means, but barring a couple of exceptions, never should the means overshadow the end”. What in essence this machination of my contorted mind means is that how we do it should never be more important than what we are doing it for(no pun on the euphemistic do it intended!). One of the exceptions to this rule is Arts. Arts is one area where how it is done is equally appealing as what it is done for. For instance, not only do we see the story being told in the movie, but we also see with equal interest, the way it is being told. The other more prominent exception is of course our life, where even though we know not where we are headed, all we (should) care about is how we get there.
The paradox
If you have successfully reached here, my reader, let me give you an explanation to what you have read above. You must be wondering, why I made all those obviously apparent, seemingly insignificant observations of life. Well the answer I have is surprisingly simple, these nuggets of wisdom were struggling in the confines of my tiny little mind and what better way to let them be free than this?
Now that you have had a rewardingly cognitive experience, let me ask you a question which I call, the paradox that will replace the chicken and egg. Answer me this..
Who is the greater fool, me who wrote this blog, or you who patiently read it so far?
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