Well there is a book by this name written 30 something
year ago by Robert Anton Wilson & after reading it in one go I found a new
dimension to understand our world & god so it says everything is kind of
uncertain & flawed. Don’t worry I won’t summarize the book here so you can
read it later; it’s a very good practice book which if practiced in an adult
group will be more helpful. According to him belief is death of intelligence.
E-Prime is a version of English language which excludes
all forms of verb (to be) example be, am, is, are, was, were, been etc. it is
used as it is said to clarify thinking and helps in communicating speaker’s
experience rather than judgment. For example the sentence “the film was good”
could be translated as “I liked the film” as “the film made me laugh” in E
Prime. It has been used in psychotherapeutic sessions by Alfred Korzybski with
positive results. So try it make yourself better.
We try to understand everything with faculty of words while
the best things in the world could only be felt; maybe we haven’t devised any
language yet so powerful, so expressive to express it all & may be we
won’t. When we say words like serene, eternal, peace, love etc sure we feel
somewhat of the expression but the intensity of that feeling in every single
human being is different which itself proves that we can’t understand
everything by words we have to learn to listen to sound of silence by
meditating, by gazing at stars in night, by sitting on a bank of a river, by
sitting in a wild forest or something like that. Maybe one is able to express
it all in words but what’s the possibility of the other person to understand it
all. This is the beauty of this world that everything is uncertain that’s why I
have started using “kind of” in my most of the sentences. There is a saying
that only “change is constant”, finally we found something constant.
We all have been religious at one moment in our life,
later on some becomes agnostic or maybe even atheist. Just like we could be
racist or sexist today but maybe after watching a documentary on the subject we
could change our stand. There is nothing 100% right or wrong; everything lies
within.
Didn’t our attitude towards women changed after the
Delhi’s brutal gang rape incident, even now we think before saying that you’re
tom girl or tom boy. What was the plight of women in Europe hundreds of year
ago; they were persecuted by naming them witches even in India; we mostly heard
“Chudail” (Hindi slang for witch) & not a male ghost. When I was attending
a volunteer workshop in Patanjali; a women asked Baba Ramdev why a great
scholars like Chankaya (Kautilya) had misogynistic attitude towards women he
replied that he was a man & at that time it was considered like normal. So
he made a good point time & space does matters. What I am saying to
you by writing now in words only explains my current state of mind, it could
differ on the basis of my knowledge of English language itself, it depends on
what context I am relating it, also whether it is formal or informal, so the
moot point is that can you know exactly what I want to express. Maybe you have
very intelligent mind, good knowledge to observe things from every possible
aspect & good knowledge of English as well it doesn’t mean that I am also
able to express it with such certainty, clarity of thought.
Try to remember when in theory exams you knew everything
about the topic but you got 70% marks while there was one of your friends who don’t
know much got 90%. You will probably say he(try to avoid the sexist thing as I
can’t use everywhere he/she) has good handwriting, he is favorite of this
teacher, the teacher is dumb, he has good command over English or whatever, I
am not able to express properly. Is there any way to know the exact reason for
it? No, but what we do is we try to find the best possible solution to the
problem; tries very hard to improve it. I am writing it in your respect I never
cared about it, also never will. And I know(kind of) that you are thinking that
I have an attitude problem but to tell you truth(what is truth?) it is just
that I am lazy(I want to delete it but how would you know what’s my intention
maybe I just want to sound cool).
Something was acceptable/ was in fashion in 1920 but
maybe not in 1990 however it may again come in 2020 & maybe the cycle may
continue for eternity but again what is eternity, well it is said time without
end in dictionary but who knows whether it is or not. So if we start to
judge/compare Gandhi today with someone than wouldn’t it be wrong to do that.
What was he at that time was the sum total of the all circumstances then &
not just his personality which we often judge/ try to interpret. So the
principle of comparing anyone to any other person just got failed due to this
time & space thing. So now when your parents try to compare you with
neighbor’s child, with your cousins don’t try to feed them this crap seriously
they will spank you for sure(but how could I be sure, it couldn’t be even if I
try it with my parents). So what’s the purpose in reading that book or reading
my article that is the question which could only be asked to you because it
will arise for sure after reading this?
When we try to explain God (see below this one for other
blog posts), our feelings or laws of the nature we fail because we try it with
faculty of words which are unstable in nature; one word may mean something
today but it’s essence is lost with time as it comes to our slang dictionary (this
is not in case of Sanskrit that’s why it has become best language for
programming however still it is not in use). For example some Hindi words are
today considered cheap & vulgar but the same words in English aren’t. Some
time ago blacks were called nigger, then came the term Nigga which now means
just brother or bro in America, now they call them colored people in which they
have included us also. Same is the history of word Indian, some 200 years ago
Indian means an offensive word used for uncivilized or barbarian people. That’s
why there is Red Indian, land of Indians called as India (in which we take so
much proud, sorry it doesn’t came from Indus valley) but if you try to find it
in dictionary you won’t be able to find it. So everything does changes
according to space & time. However there is not much change to feeling
conveyed by the word let’s take one more example 100 year ago there were
handicapped people then they became disabled but now they are differently
abled/specially abled.
Also when we try to explain or observe anything what we
generally do is collect data, which we then verify by putting it through
various tests; finally we formulate a theory. We tried to make an attempt to
convert a subjective data into objective information but there always remains
something that’s why every single theory is based on assumptions still it has
got exceptions.
So let’s see the relativity principle through the prism
of philosophy, everybody knows that Gandhiji vowed not to lie after watching a
film on king Harishchandra who sacrificed his son for the sake of truth. So if
we compare who was more truthful, sure we will say both were; as Gandhji
sacrificed our country for the sake of truth & non violence. But there
again comes the time & space factor which is why there is no meaning in comparing
the both.
The determining factor then there could only be Time
& Space which in physics terms is called space-time in which there are
three dimensions of space and fourth one is of time combined in single
continuum to understand anything. Also there is special relativity which states
that each point in the universe can have different set of events that compose
its present instant. Also as subatomic particles can behave as particle &
wave at the same time which further goes to parallel universe? Let’s limit
ourselves to the core matter.
To an ant the world is altogether different than what it
is for us; for the simple reason the relative size, biological composition,
cognition power etc.
If we recall what we were told in our schooling days that
if any object is green it’s not actually green but it seems to us to be so
because it absorbs all the other frequencies & emits only representing green
colour. If delve more on it there is no colour at all; it is mere frequency of
light which could be wave or particle. Even we are made of atoms which have
subatomic particles which can behave as wave or particle, which ultimately
leads us to that even we are standing on a base which is not certain about
itself. But one thing is certain that everything is energy which is just
transforming into different forms & shades.
Maybe for some of who are reading or will be reading this
it would be a well written piece of philosophy but for other it may be just
another blog. May be in future it could be considered crap. So everything
changes except the change in our semantic world in accordance with time &
space.
Wait a minute the world started from no time & space
according to current scientific society but maybe not, it could be perceived
reality or it is perceived so due to no evidence to the contrary so again what
is certain.
Also I may be thinking something different in my so
called mind, maybe putting it differently due to my own ignorance which you the
reader might be perceiving differently. So there is no method/ technique
available to us through which we can cure our limitations or our differences of
opinion which may be there but we can’t explain them.
We try to interpret this world & its phenomenon
through the faculty of our brain/ mind. The world is so enormous so let us
first try imagining the brain; can anybody do that if yes then try observe your
brain imagining the brain itself (don’t try that hard it will pop out from your
skull well it is poor & violent joke). For me the answer was of course
plain no. And this is no meditation thing as per my knowledge. And those of you
who were able to do it then please enlighten poor souls like me by explaining
or by trying to explain this unexplainable phenomenon.
When I first encountered the word infinity in Mathematics
class I was astonished by seeing the magic of zero as when we divide anything
by zero it will become infinity while vice versa remains always zero. I started
bothering my little brain with silly questions what goes on, where it goes on
& why it go at all. But matter is who decided that it will be this or that
on what basis & how could he be so sure about it. I know that now you want
to kill me because I had the same feeling (when I was reading the book) towards
the author. Sorry I forget to write kind of know as how could I possibly know
what’s in your mind.
Try reading the book mentioned, watching 12 monkeys sort
of movies, reading about parallel universe, twin paradox & all that. (If
still your idea of sanity is not affected then Nothing it is not a conspiracy
to turn you insane).you will have the idea I am talking about but it won’t be
100% it could be 70, 80 or 99.9 but it could never be 100. Now can you say you
are honest, secular, or I may put certain about anything.
As there is a classic example of 15th century,
there was a guy named Nicolo Machaivelle (often compared with our Chanakya) who
wrote “The prince”. It was a masterpiece back then; used by almost all European
Kings in governing; even now politician take help of it secretly (Indira Gandhi
used it very well) but in 20th century it has got no more relevance
than Mein Kamph by Adolf Hitler. There is uncertainty in the principle of
certainty like impossible itself reads I m possible (another PJ but this time
atleast I abstained from violence). In Bhagwad Gita it is said that what today
is yours will be somebody else’s tomorrow…….
Are you f***ed up or need more. I didn’t intended to use
the f word that’s why I used asterisk as this is kind of holy blog trying to
solve the riddle of god but it doesn’t matter as I know you have already
completed those asterisk with appropriate letters or maybe I meant something
else & I wrote something else or you have understood something else what I
didn’t intended at all. The thing is what is in there in my mind you can never
know for sure even if I tell you due to law of uncertainty.
Also we have always understood this world in terms of
spoken or you can say verbal/semantic terms. We call this planet as earth but
we don’t know the exact name of it; if there is one. We can only see what we
want to see or what others some intelligentsia group tell us to see otherwise
we will be labeled as insane as majority decides what is normal and what is
not.
But our feelings are genuine though not explainable
easily in words. From the very beginning we formulated languages to communicate
our feelings they are not discoveries, they are mere human inventions which
goes on like our infinity. Even we can invent new words but they will be
recognized only when the majority the intelligentsia group will approve by
writing/ using it in newspapers, books, articles etc. Even you can form
thousands of words on your own but they will be acceptable only when majority
will approve of it so what about the minority. So I want to make a small point
that our reality is manmade. Even anybody can name numerous examples confirming
it but we are not able to relate to it.
According to quantum psychology due to Aristotelian
conditioning we only judge every single entity as either you are religious or
not, as he said either you are or you not. According to him there was nothing in-between
everything was certain. But the simple logic can answer all the questions if X
can cure my illness then he is doctor for me and it doesn’t matter whether he
possess any degree or not. As there are numerous cases where patient dies due
to ignorance of doctors & quacks treating incurable disease, also these are
well documented as well and the writer of the book was also suffering from
polio which was cured by some quack but wasn’t by mainstream doctor with
degree. So if anybody asks you what’s your age normally you say like this I am
23 years old but technically you are wrong however you can’t avoid it as it
would be a nuisance to say that I am 23 year 7 month 13 days 7 hours 23 minutes
53 secs …. old at Indian standard time (+5.30 Greenwich Mean Time) 5 past 30
min past 37 secs…. On 10th February 2013 according to Space-time (it
doesn’t belong to any living person, but if it is then it is purely
coincidental now I feel like king of comedy’s Rupert Pumpkin).
So if I say that Reality itself is the biggest illusion
then it would be no wrong. You define yours, I do for mine. We both could be
wrong and right according to different space time. If I may be allowed to say
that no one is insane in this world it is just matter of space-time; his/her
perception about this world is altogether different than ours but we can never
say which one is real or true it just depends upon in which space time what
majority decides what is real.
Even reality can change for any person in fraction of
minutes, say at 23 past 59 it is 11th of February but what it will
become after just 60 seconds it will be 12th of February. For me in
Delhi it may be night and for Tom cruise in America; it could be kind of
opposite. Even un-operational watch shows correct time twice a day however
there is no mechanical activity happening in the watch. For some people Chetan
Bhagat is a good writer but critics & all renowned writers don’t even
consider that person to be a writer. For me 100 rupees are nothing but for a
rural boy it could buy him a feast.
But for energy there is no time-space or relativity
phenomenon as it is always energy at subatomic level, we may see it as a cow,
stone, car or anything for that matter but sub atomically all is same which I
consider to be as God. And god as to energy but it doesn’t matter at all and
for why see my below mentioned blogs as I don’t want to repeat myself.
Those who liked this stuff can read his other books as
well The Illuminatus Trilogy & Prometheus Rising. The trilogy (as the name
suggests consists of three books but now are also available as one book) as the
name suggests deals with conspiracies theories of secret societies; later one
is kind of self help book. Both are very good book, though I haven’t read but I
know they are good.
And the reason I wrote this post/article in this blog is
that the current one is like a sea in which the other posts of this blogs are
like whales moving in different directions.