Is god attainable...random rantings of a confused physicist....

First of all,I shouldn’t be writing this….People of far greater credentials and wisdom than me have tried before me….and have failed….Or have they…forgive me…I am perpetually confused…But since I don’t feel like watching a movie,or sleeping,or studying…or indeed anything worthwile,voila here I go….However I don’t guarantee that I will make much…indeed any sense :-))


Ok, so what makes an unconditional believer like me re evaluate my stance regarding the creator….Several things actually…for example..one thing that really got me thinking was the so called “omnipotent paradox”…..An Omnipotent being is supposed to be capable performing all actions….simple….omni + potent….So what happens when an Omnipotent being performs(or attempts to perform) action that will limit his(forgive the gender bias) omnipotence….Will he succeed??...and thus lose his omnipotence….then he would no longer be omnipotent….Or will he fail….which in essence means that there are actions that our so called “omnipotent being” cannot carry out….and this would indeed destroy the concept of omnipotence….In fact this argument is used by philosophers who are opposed to the concept of a god (well…that’s a sticky statement to make) to falsify the concept of god…as a logical argument against the existence of an omnipotent being….There are still others who merely say that the flaw lies not in the concept…but rather in our understanding of it…Well…I am clueless….quite frankly..
So it seems our friend the philosopher has completely bamboozled us with his counterintuitive arguments…So lets not try to falsify or testify the concept of God….And let us address this concept in a slightly different…but not completely detached point of view….That of a wannabe physicist…:-))…


Since time immemorial (that’s my favorite paragraph starting phrase :-) ) man has been haunted by one question….Yes haunted is the word….That is….WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO???....Look a bit deeper….it is an attempt at understanding God as we know it (I use it rather than he or she as I am talking of the concept of God rather than God as an entity)…And many a colorful explanation came for this question…One greek philosopher (I don’t remember his name) suggested that it is the love of one body for another that makes the world go :-))…of course …look beyond the obvious funny side…and you will see the first in the long line of concepts that culminated in the concept of a force…Another one I like particularly was given by several philosophers....both greek and vedic….that the world goes by chance…..Of course, a skeptic would dismiss this concept saying that it suggests that all occurrences are random….And yet in a sense isn’t that true?? Dont we see in this concept an ancestor of the quantum theory…If that be true…it would imply that the cornerstone of the revolutionary concept of quantum physics was laid in a world that was supposed to be at the center of the universe….and was supposedly circled by the heavens!!!!....But never mind my interpretations….The crux of the matter is that all these searchers of the “truth” searched God….The absolute truth…what our Vedas called Nirguna Satya …well forgive me for romanticizing this so much.. its in my nature
:-))… So man has made attempts to understand God…at least as we know it.


God has always appeared to be “just beyond the wall”…The key to the “mind of God”…as many would put it….appears to rest crucially on the answer to the Question of questions….one variant of which I mentioned above…and offshoots of this question….The most notable being the question of creation….one that has started to bother physicists a lot of late…The question that can be stated as “what came before before time” or “what came before everything else”….The answer to these interrelated questions and the key to truth always looms large….we seem to be ever closer to it….And yet nature thwarts us each time….In fact at the beginning of the twentieth century, a renowned physicist is said to have a addressed a conference thus “And as you all know, physics will be over within in the next two to three years…”…Of course he was referring to the fact that blackbody radiation was the only problem in physics supposedly left at that time…But this “only” hitch…as we now know it….opened such an immense can of worms that it culminated in quantum theory!!!.... We have since grown wiser…and you seldom hear such rash statements now a days….For man has toiled since the dawn of civilization in quest of truth…and Nature seems to take unbelievable amount of pains to make it tougher for us.. Its like an ocean….the deeper you go…the more you realize that its impenetrably deep….The question beckons us as a mirage would beckon a thirsty traveler…The more the traveler follows the mirage….The thirstier he gets….It is often found that travelers die of thirst at the gates of oasis….Is that the fate of mankind?? Are we going to die off from thirst of knowledge when we are inches away from the finish line??...That is, Is god Finite….just unattainably large??Or is God comparable to the mathematical concept of infinity… that no matter how far we go, We will always be infinitely far away from attainment of God……Or is it like going into an ocean….the deeper you go…the more impenetrable the ocean seems to be…till all of a sudden,the ocean floor pops out of the blue without a warning (that is if you haven’t already become a meal for an obliging shark :-)) )….Who knows….

Only time will tell….or will it??

Clinging to life...precious life..My views on Euthanasia

Well...before i begin...i will request the reader(if he or she exists...that is)..not to get upset in any way by what they read here...these are my views...and nobody is forcing anybody to accept them..U r free to think of me as a partially(or totally) crazed maniac if you so wish..

So here i go...i was sitting on the iit bus...and I overheard a conversation between the two ppl occupying the seat in front of the one on which I was sitting...the topic of discussion was evidently a recently deceased relative of one of the passangers....From what i heard,i could make out that the relative in question had been bed ridden for the last 10 years....He had lost his memory about 5 years back...and about 2 years back he became paralysed...a year back he slipped into coma...and 6 months back he was put on a life support system due to kidney failure(i think thats what it was).

I think most of you,would rather "not be" under such circumstances.The reason I did not use the word "die" is because this word has a very negative connotation...The situation here is..

well...its a situation where even the murkiest of all,death is not a bad thing to happen....I think its really difficult to imagine..at least i cant imagine...what life would be like if we cant remember anything.....what it would be like if are trapped within ourselves......helpless.......brings back memories of the song "ONE" by METALLICA....it must be one shit of a life to lead....if it can be called "life" at all,that is....

There was such a hoopla about the death of a woman in the states,whose husband decided to take his wife off feeding tubes after watching her suffer for eight years....i m not glorifying the mans bravery or anything....must have been a nerve wracking experience to watch your loved ones suffering the insufferable....I thought that this was a positive step...after all,Ethics and morals go to hell....there is nothing,absolutely nothing that gives us the right to make a person suffer like that

I think the main problem people have in performing or accepting euthanasia is the so called "peer pressure".I mean i think "Self Respecting People"(as they like to call themselves) are just too scared to think what the so called society would say if they did not take "enough efforts to save their beloved ones".People are too scared that the society would blame them of having ulterior motives....or maybe the society would say they did not want to waste money...I ask these people just one damn question....What fraction of the so called society...which seems to be nosy enough to make everybody's business its own...can truly be placed in the category of "Well Wishers"....How many would really help you out if you needed help...What gives them the right to decide What is right and what is not???

Another major problem which prevents the idea of euthanasia from gaining acceptance is the fact that EUTHANASIA is likened to SUICIDE....Now...the two things are different...remember

Suicide is a wilful effort culminating in the termination of one's own life...whereas...Euthanasia primarily means mercy killing...When a person is invalidated to the extent that I have described

,he cannot possibly Choose whether to live or to die...a human being at such an advanced stage of suffering,for example a person in perpetual coma,or the medical condition termed as "Brain Dead" cannot possibly have a choice....its up to the people who are supposed "wellwishers"(???)

to end the misery...Its not bravery to face such a circumstance...as you cannot show bravery when u lack consciousness....And its definitely cowardice to make somebody face such inhuman suffering....Suicide is a sin as it is running away from the shit you have created for yourself...and are too scared to look at....whereas Euthanasia is not...as it is alleviating unthinkable suffering....I mean...isnt that what the lessons in righteousness teach us..."Live and let live" People interpret the saying too literally...Keep somebody alive at any cost...thats what ppl understand by this...Its not really that...it means make sure you do whatever is within your reach to get the best out of your life...and at the same time ensure as far as possible that others get the best out of theirs...Having said that...i would like to ask only one question....Is it not within our reach to end the suffering of those we love....of those with whom we have shared moments to be teasured??

I hope i have convinced the reader(that is,if anybody cares to visit my blog!!!!!)that euthanasia is...well...it cant be ageeable....but atleast sometimes the only way out....But what i have written above are my views....I am not asking anybody to believe then.....And as i chanced to mention earlier....U r free to think of me as a maniac if that pleases you...:-))