‘’I am an atheist until the plane begins to fall’’. This is
a very famous saying probably by an agnostic who was in search of atheism! In
the book ‘Einstein’ by Walter Isaacson (a wonderful biographer if you haven’t read
his books then I would strongly recommend to read one) he said that even though
Albert was brought up in a very liberal Jew family yet Albert was attracted to
religion. He created his own hymns to please God which he used to proudly sing!
But you know Albert Einstein is one of the highly misquoted person, all
religious people try to paint him as religious which he wasn’t. (FYI: Einstein didn’t
fail in maths or science if you hear this quotes just laugh at it. He was a brilliant
student) Albert subsequently became irreligious. He enjoyed in unravelling the
facts of nature.
Jews are famous worldwide for their trading skills. And a
trader always weighs his risks! Einstein used to a joke that his agnostic uncle
used to visit synagogue as you never know! Why to
take risk!!! :D
Religion is a political tool and
let it be there, why do we need to get engrossed by it? Go out and look at the
beautiful sky. I feel that we humans are religious probably because we never
tend to look up at the beautiful sky in bewilderment and try to understand the
pattern. In a way we can say that we are damn lazy so instead of questioning
the phenomenon we preferred to create a ‘’God’’ or perhaps ‘’Gods’’ and assumed
that everything is taken care by him/her/it. Perhaps this is the easiest thing
to do instead of questioning the phenomenon.
The greatest enemy of religion is
science and reasoning. After all in religion all you are asked is to follow a
pattern without being able to question its very existence. And my dear friend, religious fanatics se
dar nahi lagta lakin science ka naam leke religious texts ko justify karne wale
se bahut dar lagta hai! These people used to justify all the senseless
activities in the name of ‘’science’’ which has no proofs! All they used to do
is quote individuals instead of supplementing it with verifiable proofs! Anyway
moving on, we again have a major problem in blindly ‘’endorsing’’ things. Like
since Saurav dada used to enter the cricket field by first entering left leg so
should I too win the gully cricket match!!
I mean learn from dada his prowess in off-side shorts not how he enters!
I enjoy A R Rahman’s music irrespective of who he worships or how he worships; I
enjoy watching Amir Khan irrespective of why he divorced his first wife! I mean
his acting skills have nothing to do with his personal life! SRK may be happily
married and I respect it but that doesn’t mean I have to endorse his ‘famous
story line, a cult in Indian film making the great Chennai Express’ !! :P
But sadly we have this ‘’endorsement’’
attitude! Bhai Sachin wahan ja ke pooja kiya so should I do it! Just look at
the sky, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light even if your God
lives in Sun it will take at least 8 min to send his signals! After all I believe
that even you have faith in basic science. The beautiful twinkling of stars
that u can see now is, may be millions of light years away from us! And even if
you believe that your God is up in our atmosphere then my dear friend
International Space Station is yet to encounter one! Yet you may argue that
your God is probably in some other planet within our solar system then bro NASA’s
Voyager mission is again yet to find one! And if he is living in nearby galaxy
then you my dear friend you are doomed, even if you pray his signals to help
you will probably reach here in millions of years! Moving back to Einstein’s
agnostic joke, my dear friend in any case your prayer may reach several minutes
to millions of years to reach him/her/it, so why waste time !! So whenever you feel lonely just try to imagine Voyager!
Richard Dawkins in his book ‘’The
God Delusion’’ has presented a situation of World War II when soldiers reached
a virgin island they provided the tribals with food and clothes. These tribals
treated the white soldiers as God! They thought that these white peopl are God
and when they pray God used to do the shipment! Probably we too are the same
tribal people with a different definition of God.
Leonard Susskind, Brian Greene,
Lawrence Strauss, Michio Kaku, late Richard Feynman are some of the people who
are making physics available for common people like us. There are different
theories on universe from Standard Model to String theory. Each looks more
promising than the other. There may be many universes or multiverses forget
about galaxies and imagine the scale on which scientists are thinking! Or we
may be living in holographic image! Or
may be perhaps even inside a blackhole! I will write on this latter on,
I should stop here it been late night and tomorrow I ve to go back for mundane
works!
And yeah, be atheist even when plane begins to fall !
P.S. You can read ‘’The elegant
Universe’’ by Brian Greene. It’s a good book.
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