For God's Sake!
Thus went the popular joke - why is god happy when a girl gets molested- because she cries 'let me go for God's sake'. Pathetic taste but essentially revealing the contemptuos humour towards the unseen, unheard person (if one is allowed to call him/her/it so) who is responsible for the most number of unnatural deaths (read murder) in the history of mankind.
Yes that's true. Religion has been the most frequent source of friction in the human history, much more than any other motive. From politics to festival it has invaded every sphere of our life. It has defined the pivotal aspects of our cultures, influnced our behavioral patterns, shaped our social identity And yet it continues to thrive. By the sheer volume of the economics associated with it, it qualifies as one of the largest business sector around the globe, if not at par with defence then certainly with retail.
Yet the ridiculous point is no other human activity has exposure of such magnitude without its central principle even remotely closed to being qualified. No one knows whether he/she/it exists or not, and none has been able to prove unequivocally his/her/its absence too. So does that mean we come back to square one again ? Guess so. I dont know further. If you do please add on from here !
Accompanying cartoon is the first picture that pops out when you key in "God" in Images.Google !
posted by alpha_ro_mel at 10:52 pm
5 Comments:
Well... its more pathetic that we are again discussing on that same old topic. I guess that would keep us busy! (as if nothing else did.)
In any case, I have my theory to frame God. and I had once a strong debateable Read discussion with few undergrads regarding this... (to quote)
plz update
a professor of mine had explained GOD as an acronym. 'Generator of Discordance'. Had seemed rather amusing back then.
the problem with any debate or discussion is that all ends in semantics. limitations of language: it helps thus far and no further.
However, even though i am an atheist, i believe 'god', as a concept, is rather useful for human existance. as for religion, i reserve my comments :)
To put it simply, GOD has given people myriad ways of utilising (wasting!) their time.
About the question of semantics, I would like to have my say. I think anyone remotely versed in philosophical or theoretical socio-political debates would agree that a simple phrase as "all ends in semantics" would be the single greatest form of over-simplification. Any theoretical premise usually has well-defined fundamentals and a subjective discussion would either hinge on these fundamentals(which would serve as rather well-defined semantics) or the contradictions in visualized conclusions i.e. whether they hold unambiguously true in view of the thinkers principles. For me the semantics would not be linguistic which again does limit even thought but rather the question of distinction between truth and perception. God seems to me a more sociological and hence in some ways a baser consideration. There is hardly any room for God in the most basic search fo truth as its a dimension laden with inherent contradiction which religion has sought to resolve by re-defining and modifying theology thus losing academic credibilty.
That is a conclusive statement......No debates.....None needed as there are issues requiring greater un-emotional deliberations.....
Sorry Romit - pointless post in one too many ways....
But I think you would do better to discuss the issue of victimisation of molested women as a superfluous ignominous dose....
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