Lesson of the day

When your friends dump you,don't crib about it,because if you do,you ll be called all sort of nasty things and some might even accuse you of trying to steal friends. :'(
:D

My concept of god

This is the script for a speech I have to deliver (thats a scary word but I can't come up with anything more appropriate) on Tuesday. It counts for some ten marks in my next assignment. :D



My concept of God
Good morning (afternoon) to one and all.
I m here to speak on my concept of god.
Before defining god, we have to define life. To put things like a mushroom, Steve Harmison and a spider in same set of objects is a very awkward thing to do. No definition of life is exact. The line of separation between what is life and what is not is blurred. Why is this so?
When someone writes an ‘A’, we don’t say “It’s kinda ‘A’ ish, but there a hint of K in it”, we are exact. The reason is, we know that the person writing the letter intended to write “Ant” and that’s what it means. So the classification is based on the purpose with which the creator made the object. So in the absence of a god you cannot define what life is, because god, as we perceive is the creator of life.
How did the idea of god come about?
Let us go back to the origin of mankind. Man went around the world killing animals, growing plants, making shelters and so on. He perceived himself as a maker. But then, one fine day he asked himself, “There is only one thing in the world that “makes” things and that’s me. But who made this world in the first place?”
Then he decides that someone must have made it because nothing comes out of the blue. Everything has to be ‘made’. Further, he thinks, “Whoever made this world must have made it for me, because it suits me so well.” He felt that he had to give back to the person who made this world for him in some way, and thus came about, the idea of god.
If someone were to make an inventory of objects in the universe, it would stretch to billions and billions of pages. The universe is such a complex entity that the idea of god seems too simple and even if we were to accept it, where did god come from? .To that question I have no answer.
Man comes up with all sorts of useless ideas. Take money for example. What can we do with money? Can money breed? Can we live in it? Can we cook it and eat it? No! Nothing! We exchange money and all sorts of wonderful things happen, we get food, houses and so on. Why do these things happen? It’s because money is an idea we have subscribed to and if we were to do away with the concept of money then the world’s economy would implode because almost all of the trade in the world is based on money. The idea of money is so simple and it makes life easier for us.
If we were to extend this idea to god, then we could say that the idea of god is there because it makes life easier for us. It’s a simple answer to all the complex things in the universe. That is why the idea of god is so powerful.
God may or may not exist. If someone were to come up with conclusive evidence on the non- existence of god, I don’t think that the intellectuals in the world would let it reach the common man because it would cause chaos and nothing else. On the other hand if someone came up with evidence on the existence of god, then they would let it reach the masses because that would further simplify things.
God may or may not exist. That’s not what is important, what is important is what the idea of god does. So for me, it is not about the existence of god or the kind of god, it’s about how my belief in god makes life less complicated. If I did not believe in the idea of god I would have to come up with an explanation for each and every occurrence and if I didn’t I would be contradicting my atheism. For me god is the one person who put the idea of god into man’s head.
Thank you.

General studies

"How do schools help promote national unity?"

'In school we get education, by getting education we get knowledge by getting knowledge we improve our common sense.So we think "Why to fight????". thus schools promote national unity.'
-Pranav

Lol!

Who is this god person anyway?

Things I would like to make clear before i write this.
I m NOT an atheist. I m NOT agnostic.

Lets start 55 million years ago.
It's a fine Tuesday morning and the Mr.Cockroach and his family are happily having breakfast.

Now, it's around a million years ago.(The point of the previous paragraph was to create an effect)
Early man is happily walking around on two's. I repeat.TWO's.
He has just eaten a nice big loris at his 'hungry hunters' meeting and is very happy with the way things are going in life.
Life? He thinks. What the hell is that.(Actually he doesnt think about that, but this adds to the effect)
He is the boss of his world and he is the only one who can meddle with nature. So he is very happy.
But then, who made this world?
Why is he the only one who can meddle with nature? Why is he the only sentient thing?
He doesn't have an answer and so he decides that someone made this world. And since he is the boss in the world that the "someone" made for him he wants to thank the "someone" for making HIM the boss. So he makes offerings and stuff.
This goes on for a while and then FINALLY someone ( not to be confused with "someone")
realizes that "someone" isn't much of a name. So they all had a top level bureaucracy meeting and came up with "God". So "God" it is.


Apologies to Douglas Adams and Oolon Colluphid the author of the "trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: Where God Went Wrong , Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?"
I wish I had more hitchhiker books to read.
Sigh.I miss you.

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Place:-Somewhere in T.Nagar,Chennai.

Time:-5:45 AM, Sunday,12th October 2008.

Its raining hard, the city has not yet woken up and it's almost as if someone put the world in slowmo mode. A middle aged man is lying unconcious by the TASMAC shop and slowly people are gathering around him.A couple of minutes later they manage to wake him up and take him away. The crowd slowly melts away. Even as all this happens a couple of teenagers are making their way through the puddles, their rain soaked shoes making loud noises against the muddy path, their sleepy eyes shutting invoulntarily as they try to escape the hands of slumber. They sit on the parapet and stare at nothing in particular, their minds blank and their eyes still sleepy.

By now the rain has eased out and it's only a drizzle. A few more teenagers trickle in.The watchman gets there late as usual. He takes out a huge bunch of keys from his pocket. It takes him a minute or so to find the right key.Finally he unlocks the creaky wooden door.

More teenagers arrive and a few minutes later the room is almost full. It starts raining hard again. An Alto whirrs past the front gate , and slowly comes to a halt. A few seconds later the back door opens with a loud click and he gets out. He has a few words with the watchman and slowly climbs the stairs. They see him come and they all scramble into the room. He enters the room and sets his bag on the table. Then he turns to the them. Then he begins.

He is da man.

He is Prof.Govindarajan.

Leave me alone!

What did I do to you?
Why do you have to pick on me?
Can't you just leave me alone?
I 'm not failing am I?
I 'm doing quite well academically.

Goddamn it!
Of the twelve people who defaulted why did you HAVE to pick on me?
I m not a scapegoat OK ?
I do not take down notes, but you don't let me stay in class do you?
Its always "Swaroop, take your book and go out"
Why me?

Just because you don't like me, don't ruin my school life!
Please.
I bugged you for two days.
Don't make me regret it for two years.
Please.
The problem is YOU are the teacher, not me.
Just leave me alone.
I can take care of myself

I know! I know!

To a certain first bencher in my class

Firstly, I hate you.
Secondly, You are fat and uncool.
Thirdly, You drive me nuts!

WHY do you have to sit in the first bench and bug the hell out of teachers?
Have you no sense?
You are one annoying pain in the ass. Your jokes are NOT funny.
Nobody likes you.
Why don't you get out of my life?
Get better deodorant. You STINK in all senses of the word.
Did god make you because he wanted a good laugh?
You are a piece of dirty cloth, a dead ant, dried bovine faeces, insect saliva.
You have no intelligence whatsoever. Going to iit classes does not make you intelligent.
You are a freak.Desperate case. Mugging all the answers in the text book does NOT make you intelligent.
Your behaviour disturbs me. Can people be this stupid?
Sigh.