I love life again!
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Kousik Nandy | Feb 27, 2009
So I was reading too many books on quantum mechanics, then moved to cosmology and from then moved to evolution of life. As a general feeling, my belief that there is no role of God to influence our life gets stronger. Because after all, universe is nothing but a huge collection of matter collected to a singularity 13.7e9 years ago, since then it is expanding following some definite physical laws. Still we didn’t find the theory of everything, but we are having theories which more and more accurately describes our universe. Even if God existed, he would have been a mere observer. And life is nothing but the capability of some of us to maintain entropy (basically we can’t defy the second law of thermodynamics so we feed on negative entropy). Ultimately we are all heat engines. Moreover, we are just manifestation of a DNA, and the sole goal of our life is to pass it on to a fitter generation. Though, the whole thing is futile anyway, because in a few billion years, the sun will become a red giant and swallow the earth. Actually in 900 million years, the earth will be too hot and all water will disappear.
Very depressing. Made me very uninterested about life. All I see around are just copies of DNA trying their best to survive. War is a laughable affair. So is the desire of a new bike. We are a temporary blip, registered nowhere in the universe.
And then on Sunday morning I just got home from gym, and as I was parking my bike, the apartment’s security came running, with a bright yellow lump held in hand. A love bird, obviously escaped from someone’s cage and later picked up by a kite for breakfast, fell on its head when it was being carried overhead. A direct fall to the ground would probably have been fatal; but the bird was injured enough. I took it home.
Its heart was beating too fast, and it wasn’t able to lift its head. I don’t know if the neck was broken, and I thought it’d have been instant death if that was the case. Taking it in one palm, I held some water cupped in the other, and much to my relief, it stretched itself to slurp. After some sips, it seemed to have calmed down but refused to eat bread crumbs I offered. It needed medical attention, so I called PFA and they took it to their hospital.
The bird is doing well now.
This is crazy. Why there has to be an equilibrium of everything? Nursing an injured bird changed it all — I love life again!
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Mr Kousik,
If you really read between the lines of quantum mechanics’ books, you would see enough evidence of god. Why – take a simple example of the law of conservation of mass and energy. If the law were true, could someone please explain where does the “heat” of a living being (a form of energy) disappears after his death? How is it that there is a perfect order in our universe? – if we were a little (in astronomical scale of course) closer to the sun, we would evaporate – a little farther and we’d freeze to death.
I’m glad you love life again. You’ll love it forever if you begin to see the big picture – may not be available in those big books though
The phenomenon of wilting of a flower is of course more than just the loss of rigidity of non-woody parts of plants when the turgor pressure in non-lignified plant cells falls towards zero and as a result of diminished water in the cells. When a flower wilts a heart breaks, a tear sheds, a pain occurrs ………this is life.
Hi,
Don’t give up on the existance and utility of “God” until you read “Truth vs Falsehhood” by Dr. David Hawkins (or any of his other 7 books, but this is the best place to start).
Thanks,
Scott
Just in case, if we are not able to prove that God exists, this is in no way proved that God doesn’t exist. There are many wonders if seen with open mind prove the fact that God do really exists. If the mind needs some help then there are so many books to prove the existence. But, for that one needs to read the books without any prejudice.
As a student of Physics If you observe the sky, stars and planets you will get enough evidence, if a biology student then you refer the Anatomy of human body, if a student of Social science then you the earth and so on. There is sign of his evidence in everything.
I hope that as you have started loving your mortal life and if you are ready to accept the absolute truth about God then probably you would also start to love your immortal life.
Well, most of the readers get distracted by the comment on God as it is a sensitive issue for them. However, the actual intention of the article is not to put forward an argument if he exists. (something similar happens in http://kousik.blogspot.com/2007/08/walking-together.html too)
It is just the twist in my life I was talking about, It is an example how an insignificant incident suddenly changed things.
@sudhanshu Physics answers all of your thermodynamic questions, and the Anthropic principle entitles us to assume more luck than mathematics would allow.
@rachna Ma’m that’s an excellent observation – very touchy.
@Scott Thank you for the pointer. I’ll surely get hold of one of them.
@Khan Since there is no way proving either, a true scientist will try calculating the probability, because something is possible and something is probable are very different things. That way, my guess is there is a low probability of God’s existence. But loving my life doesn’t depend on Him.
That was a great story. Have my doubts of our significance myself from time to time. Even though the only look into quantum mechanics is through Thomas Dolby’s music from the Minds Eye-computer graphics movie!
I also wonder why people who believe in a God always have the need to correct and/or convert everyone else who don’t and otherwise have a perfectly good life minding their own business. It feels like it’s only for their own benefit. Just because something is unexplainable right now probably doesn’t mean that it’s an act of God.
Nicolas,
It is not a need to correct or convert, just an urging, a longing to implore others to look at the evidence of a creator that manifests Himself in everything down to our ability to have this conversation. The last line of Kosiks article says it all.
All I can read out of the last line is the fact that humanity exists despite whats going on in the world (e.g. wars due to things like different opinions) I rather believe in myself and my fellow inhabitants of this planet, than a grey old man up in the sky. Maybe if there was a man AND a woman up there we could discuss it.
@Nicolas You are absolutely right; I’d rather believe in ability in human beings than God. Generally I counter the arguments “without belief in God you are not going to know what true life is” by saying it has no merit more than “without getting drunk you’ll never know what true happiness is as a sober person”
We don’t need God to love life.
@RadioSyndication I understand your point of view; unfortunately in many occasions the urge becomes life threatening – so I advocate people to keep them private: http://kousik.blogspot.com/2009/01/license-to-believe-in-god.html
I do not feel the need to know if God exists or not. If we’ld know God exists we’ld be wondering why and how he came into existence.
Existing is in itself a miracle. If nothing existed then there would not even be anything to “describe” what nothing is.
Because something exists and at some point in the past, future or whatever dimension probably ‘nothing’ existed, I guess that the following equation holds:
Nothing = Everything
Knowing that, and knowing that I am not going to crack/hack that in my lifetime, I just ‘live’ as respectfull as reasonable for the “surrounding existence”.
@Mario: Hope reasonable living does not demand “BEST ME” or “BEST YOU.” Firstly, sorroundings ask for or accept reasonable things or outputs. Then when greed and lust combines there is a push for “BEST ME”. As long as people in the sorroundings do not poke their nose in other’s personal life, everyone can live in harmony. Then GOD will happily watch what is going around.
Each individual can remain the “Sole Propreitor” of his\her life as only he\she knows what is possible or not possible.