Archive for January, 2010

Why can’t people think rationally?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Yesterday there was this news about a god-man trampling infants to cure them. Everyone thinks, what are the parents of these infants doing? Then think back and look back, most of them might be quite uneducated. What do individuals who are educated do ? In our small city for eg. there was a decision recently made by well known and “very educated” because most of these are doctors and professors, the decision to build a “temple” which would also house a community center. I so wished they would come up with the idea of just a community center, where cultural activities could take place [to me culture need not necessarily be related to religion or need not be related at all to religion]. But no, that wasn’t. This is a huge disappointment to me. There is another aspect that everyone has in general. Be proud of where they are from blah blah. You should not be proud of where you are from, you need to be proud of what you are, what you are made up of, what you think, not where you are from, what religion you belong to, what country you belong to, what culture you belong to, what language you speak . As long as people have, this aspect, people of the world cannot be one. There will always be this separation. On the one hand we are promoting everything to separate people by building “temples” obviously one way of separating people with religion, on the other hand, doing community sings to show everyone is one, people are same. That is so contradictory and what is defined as hypocrisy. In a world without religion, we can let current places of worship be museums for the next generation to see what it was in the past.But that is a world that is far far away.

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References to “God”

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I continually hear people very unconsciously refer to ‘God’, in a very normal conversation even without realizing it. For eg: “God, I had so much work. “Oh God”, when am I going to get xyz done, when they see something nice”God”, that beautiful, “God”, I didn’t mean that. Why do people refer to “God” for each and every silly thing that exists? Are those references like a boxing bag or whatever they call it? It is obvious that the so called “God”is not going to respond to any of those references, why cannot people remark with more meaningful words? I have never heard people use sane expressions while showing ecstatic emotions, or joy or sorrow. Do you ever hear people say “O thank big bang”, its such a beautiful morning! or Oh Sun, its such a nice present or something like that?. People really don’t change much at all, no one makes resolutions like I will use sane expressions, use sensible words in every conversation. My daughter is 8 and she comes back from school with such words or when I hear her talk to her friends I realize that in this country [US] at least [since I am here], there is no conscious effort by people to talk correctly or use correct English. I see it more and more, people use all kinds of words , but somehow another accent is totally confusing to them. Wish they would encourage good English and correct use of words in school. I do not think such changes will ever happen, because no one ever thinks that the way things are going might be wrong. I only hope when my daughters are older and they’ll realize that. A chance of that is quite less of course, because they would have been brought up in this kind of environment.

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