One of the recent sunny weekend day, went out for my usual walk. Two strangers stopped me and said something in French. I replied, I can understand French very well. Man(rather the boy) said ‘we are American student here on exchange program to spread the message of God’. Only then I noticed badge on his shirt “Jesus is our god…”. my initially thought- oh boy, this is not going to end well. Almost immediately, I said sorry boys you are wasting time with me because I am an atheists and he asked –“what’s you are point in life?” my reply- I am going for move-n-pick ice-cream now and that’s my point in life… to have good ice cream. I laughed and moved away before he could reply.
Well, I am not an atheist. I just wanted to run away and don’t want to have comparative analysis on Hinduism & Christian or any religion. Belief is such a personal thing. I believe that it is impossible to know anything about God and its a social invention because the belief that this life is all there is would be psychologically unacceptable or unimaginable. I call myself an agnostic because I do not consider it is ever possible to know the nature of God. If a God exists, which may but can not be proven because by the very nature of what a God is, that being is beyond our ability to comprehend and always will be.
Anyways, I was curious about that loaded question-- what is the point in life? kept wondering.. still wondering..
Thursday, May 20, 2010
wondering around - part 2
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Such situations should be avoided and ice cream is the best option for that. :)
Whats the point in life?
Its always the pursuit of happiness and the point in life is to attain it!
the point is, keep the wonder going..if we cease to wonder we stop living:)we wonder at people,wow!amazing when we see someone successful and good..when we see places again this sense of wonder fills our heart..wonder:)
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