In god we believe… But why??

Never seen, felt or known… just heard and nothing else but brainwashed…!!

What if for once I say there is no god?!?! Universe runs on its own.. there is nothing called luck, prayer makes no sense.. what has to happen happens.. what we do or be decides the outcome and nothing else..

We have been cheated all our life just to assume there’s someone watching and creating whatever.. all these miracles that we never understood are no miracles, they just happen because they are bound to. Now don’t ask me who decided that X or Y was bound to happen.. sometimes people do feel miracles happened or god appeared or whatever… its just like a magician fools us by his tricks.. some human is playing the same game and giving all credit to god and indirectly brainwashing us.

What if we stop praying and start believing that there’s no god (are there not atheist in the world? Don’t they have luck? Don’t they live life happily/sadly just like you and me do??).. its all an illusion!! All these days we were fooling ourselves..!! Tough thought but there is still some sense in this piece of nonsense.. why always think conventionally and as taught by others.. world is out there only to cheat u… once u start believing there is god then u need to chose of which religion/caste, what subdivision in tat caste/religion and so on.. its all too complex.. lets just assume there’s nothing called god…

People say there is only one god.. Jesus, Ram, Allah are all one! Then why do different people call them by different names? And pray in different ways? And fight over things like, should there be a temple or a mosque here?? Let me tell you, all this is done by we humans, some human tells us ‘ram is our god’ and we follow ram. Some other day some one else says ‘Jesus is our god’ and we try to find reasons to believe him.. its all stupidity!! Utter nonsense!! If its one super power (god) then why a million names? Or if its multiple super powers.. Who is the biggest one? Who decides? Who over rules the other and why? Does it depend on ones fan following? Or do we need to send some sms to ‘55995’ (or some crappy number) with our option and the one getting the highest number of votes wins and proclaims the throne of being ‘THE GOD’. Its all we humans who have created these brands called ‘Ram’, ‘Allah’, ‘Jesus’ and million other such small and big brands.

Yes agreed all these mega brands were humans some day (even this is something heard and known from people, may be we can accept at least this, no proof required ;) ) and they lived their lives in a really good way, did nice things, sacrificed worldly pleasures, did meditation or other such things. But how did the other humans living along with them or after them come to know or decide that these super humans became god? (did they visit heaven or hell to find out if X or Y is there or not?? Or did these super humans come back from hell or heaven to inform the world that “Yeah!! I am your GOD, pray to me” or what ever) Even they were just another set of humans like you and me. Even you and me do great things in our day to day life and may be what we are doing and did is also great, so will even I be called or known as god, if am able to convince a huge chunk of population that the things I am doing, the powers that I have are extra ordinary.. So will I also be pronounced as god?? (LOL :D, super weird thought :D)

When something good happens or when we succeed we thank god.. we say.. god u ve been so nice to me and so on… we thank him in different ways… why don’t we curse him when we are sad, when things go against us and when the world seems to be against us.. why cant we say ‘god you are a loser, u dint give me something I think I deserved…’( we were never taught to do that by those people who brainwashed us, as that will start affecting that particular god’s brand u see). Am not saying we don’t complain, we do complain, we don’t show the other extreme way of reacting like we do when we are happy and good things happen to us.. why does god always get thanked for the good that happens while when something bad or wrong happens.. people say its your karma u have to face it.. so cant we say its your karma also when something good happens instead of thanking god..?? When its only about the karma.. why all that importance to this illusion called god?? Why do we offer material things to god? (Prasad, flowers and many other things including Vitamin ‘M’) does it mean we are trying to please or bribe that super power when we need something? If the super power is really bothered you’ll get what ever u want/deserve! We do lot of such nonsense, just assuming and presuming what ever some priest says… why wont he ask you to offer such things when he would get a decent ‘Dakshina’ at the end of all that (no offense meant) and many such material benefits (needless to mention)

There’s no incentive or rationale for me to think that there’s someone called ‘GOD’ sitting somewhere there in the blue sky. May be if the so called god can wave to me some day from the sky, ill try and think of ways to convince myself that there is someone sitting there, watching us! But Nah! Wait a minute, in this era of science and technology, where going to moon is a hobby a million people have developed, may be some human will reach the blue blue sky and wave to e from there, am I supposed to take him as god?? Lol in tat case Neil Armstrong and many such others can claim having been god for a while.

This is such a weird thought I can keep on going with arguments endlessly because there is no rationale or scientific evidence to convince me on this!! Am just plain simple confused.. not that I don’t pray (infact I did just before I started writing this piece :D) or am not an atheist, its just that its all weird!!

P.S – I hope this piece of writing is being taken lightly, I still have my senses in place.. thought I could make this one a lil humorous while making my point.. but failed in tat attempt.. still.. its been fun thinking differently for a change.. really helps at times!!

Today’s Favorite Line - I'm gonna try in the future, not to live in the past..

Today’s Favorite Song – You are my only one (Yellowcard)

New Reality Show!! Any takers???

The answer to the above may be both yes and no by almost an equal number of people. Though the truth is that, we Indians are sort of bored with the number of lousy shows being aired day and night. But still we seem to pretend to others and to ourselves that we really miss X or Y show.

Let me get to the point.. Its been quite a while since I stopped watching television ( but for times when I don’t have any other lousy thing to do in the world or may be lets assume checking cricket scores or news headlines once in a while as an exception). I may be an extreme case, its just that I don’t buy all that hype and drama which is made up to fool u and me (mind it, I don’t watch so I am still not a fool ;) ). I was just wondering what has happened to Indian television, every second channel I tune in to either shows some female Dracula or some reality show which makes its participants/judges portray things the way they aren’t ( am not getting into swayamvars at all). And this is when I started missing days of my childhood when I used to watch shows like ‘Bonkesh Bakshi’, ‘Hum Paanch’ and so on.

One lousy evening I finally had nothing lousier to do, so as expected I switched on the Reality box (I guess its time we changed televisions name from idiot box to reality box!!! :D, now I know tats an out of the box idea.. appreciation welcome :P). So while trying to get the best out of the gun used to shoot as many channels we can per second I ended up at this channel which actually changed the face of television a decade ago. Yea am talking abt Star Plus, it launched a show called ‘Aap ki kachari’ a couple of months back and trust me, for a change I stopped firing!!! I placed the gun beside me for a while to see, what actually is the first top Women Cop of the country doing on the reality box?!! Is this another reality show?! Is this another show doing some swayamvar?! (:D) and yes all the above questions had a half yes as the answer!!

Kiran Bedi is back, this time being the first one on Indian television giving judgment, giving justice. Must be sounding weird!! Justice and judgment on television?! Tat too in a reality show kinda set up, such a brilliant concept and most importantly the outcome. Aap ki Kachari is the first ever indian television show which does something ideally a court would do. It calls people having problems in their life, be it a domestic problem, problem with neighbors, marriages at the verge of coming to an end and many such issues we see and hear day in and day out in our life and the Indian courts with more than multi million cases pending not being able to pronounce justice. Aap ki kachari is acting like a fast track court, taking arguments from both sides, people representing themselves instead of appointing lawyers.

Kiran Bedi acts as a devils advocate and tries to talk out the differences of the concerned parties and more often than not helps in working out an amicable solution. One good thing about the show is, it does not impose any judgment on the people participating. Bedi makes sure that both the parties are mutually convinced about the solution worked out. The icing on the cake is Aap ki kachari also provides financial and NGO help to make sure that the solution worked out is being carried on as discussed by the concerned people.

One would argue that, there is already a show called Aap ki adalat being aired on Indian television for many years now hosted by one of the most versatile journalist of the country Rajat Sharma. There is a major difference in the format and deliverables of both these shows, as Aap ki adalat ends up more like a talk show in a court room kind of set up while Aap ki kachari goes much beyond discussion. It educates the viewers about important acts relating to certain issues after each show and so on.

One would also argue tat, may be most of the cases aired are set up (fixed) or may be on the show people agree to the solution provided while in real life they don’t follow the same. But I still guess it’s worth the effort to make people solve their problems much quicker than one would be able to if they knocked the doors of Indian courts otherwise.

It feels nice to see this show, to see the problems aired live on television which we otherwise see at times in our neighborhood, most importantly cos here we see them getting solved. That’s what matters at the end of the day! Hats off Kiran Bedi and the producers, for a change I try to watch tv at times when this show is being aired on Star Plus at 8pm on weekdays.

Today's Favorite Line - A lot of trouble in the world would disappear, If people were talking TO each other instead of ABOUT each other.

Today's Favorite Song - Ye Dooriyan (Love Aaj Kal)