Theorizing

I love theorizing.Since I spent so much time day dreaming, my mind tries to generalize everything into a pattern.I thought I can as well write about it here.It's just for fun.period.

So we can start off with "The purpose and meaning of life" , my favorite topic which I use for procrastinating just about anything.

I started off by reading about religion , specifically Hindu philosophy and a little bit of Buddhism and a teeny weeny bit of Christianity.Initially it used to fascinate me - with concepts of Soul, After life, Good vs Evil, Karma, Enlightenment,Existence of a fair and kind God etc.

The problem for me is that I cannot live on blind faith. Eventually Religion to me started seeming like mankind's need to explain the things he perceives around him in a naive way.Religion is just a Pre-Science version of explaining reality.

Religion which opposed Darwin's theory of evolution for so long actually fits into the very theory quite beautifully.Think about it - the gist of almost all religion is "Love" and "Peace", now with "Love" and "Peace" you have a good chance of surviving and passing on your genes into the future.So people are religious because it helps them propogate their species better

Have you seen typically what happens to people who interpret religion to be "Hate" and "War" ? - they get bombed the shit out of them by B52 stealth bombers these days - now unless your God actually strikes down those B52 bombers with a bolt of divine lightening - hard luck not getting your ass roasted :-).Obviously good religion with all that Love and Peace is good for species propagation and bad religion which encourages Hate and War will be weaned out eventually.

In my opinion Life is not even as "special" as we make it out to be.By special I mean it does not need some "magical" touch by the Gods to convert an inanimate thing to something which has Life.We don't have souls to make us alive.

Life for me is just a spectacularly complex arrangement of atoms or quarks or whatever is the fundamental particles of nature which gives all the properties of life as we know it.Simple as that.We basically follow the same laws of nature as everything else which does not have life follows.

But I don't think your or my life is pre-determined in the sense that if you know the initial position and velocity of a ball you can predict where it will be 5 hours from now.I *think* we do have free will, maybe some law of nature does accommodate for free will.If you even read basics of quantum mechanics you realize that everything is a probability wave - so it is almost like the particles have a "free will" on where they want to be at a given point in time.I am not equating human free will with the probability waves - all I am trying to say is it is not "unthinkable" for accounting will within the bounds of nature's laws without resorting to the divine.

The laws and the Good Vs Evil ideas we have been brought up on where everybody is encouraged to be "good", "kind" etc are just how we have evolved since being "Good" helps propagation of the species.By being "Evil" you will eventually end up killing each other, so "Evil" people get weaned out of the society. The corollary of this statement is even if you are the most dastardly cold blooded serial killer and rapist and if you can get away with your crime - you actually won't burn in hell.You are a criminal only if you are caught.Sad but true.

So with this definition of life what do you think could be the purpose of your life.My thoughts are you really don't have any "special" purpose.You are just dust of the universe in a particular form and hence you have "life" and when you die that dust just changes into other form ( for example if you are buried the form is called compost and if you are burned it is ash :-) ).

The only purpose is what you give it.Whatever you like to do is the purpose of your life.

I ,for one find life to be the most amazing thing around, not because we have divinity within us but because it is unbelievably amazing that the dust around you, if given a particular form can ACTUALLY figure itself out and it's surrounding!Tell me what can be more amazing than that!

So that's my theory.Maybe I am wrong and the Gods will strike me down for this blasphemous blog - but even if God does exist I am sure he is smart enough to understand the need of his creation to question it's creator :-)