Red saris and faith
Since all newspapers in India have decided that the wedding of Abhishek Bachchan and that female from Dhoom-2 is more important than the fact that 130 people were killed in Iraq in a day (the worst ever), or that the US has finally decided to issue sanctions on Darfur (and has also discovered that Sudan has been camouflaging their own military jets as UN aircrafts!), I believe it is necessary for me to have my two-penny's worth of words too (after all, this blog is called Ruminations!)
I would not have bothered writing an entry for this (I have become very irregular in the blogging world), but this article has forced me to do so.
Apparently, wearing red saris is bad for Ms. Rai, and could also lead to the health of her future father-in-law worsening. Further, the fact that Ms. Rai's nickname is Ash is bad, since it means... well, you know what ash means in English, doesnt it? Finally, the fact that the bride and her future mother-in-law are both 1s (according to numerology) implies that the two of them might have clashes!
What has this world come to? That the illiterate, no good idiots must believe in such things is to be expected and tolerated, but that the educated too must believe in such nonsense is not pitiful, but rather criminal. Seemingly scientific people believe that the alignment of planets in the solar system can affect their own lives, or that shifting the door to a room from the north to the south can make their kids study better, or that slabs of stone can make wishes come true.
Faith is strange. The first law of a scientific experiment is to have a control. The concept of faith precludes the existence of a control. If the cause of a phenomenon was faith in a slab of stone, then a negative control would be to go over the same actions but without faith in that slab of stone, which is, sadly impossible.
If a god exists, he/she doesn't give a rat's ass about all of us. A creator has better things to do than to control the life and actions of organic forms running after green bits of paper.
If you don't know the reason to something, admit ignorance. Don't attribute it to a mystical superpower.
I don't remember who said this, but it is a nice quote anyway:
God is for those who are afraid to admit "I don't know"
I would not have bothered writing an entry for this (I have become very irregular in the blogging world), but this article has forced me to do so.
Apparently, wearing red saris is bad for Ms. Rai, and could also lead to the health of her future father-in-law worsening. Further, the fact that Ms. Rai's nickname is Ash is bad, since it means... well, you know what ash means in English, doesnt it? Finally, the fact that the bride and her future mother-in-law are both 1s (according to numerology) implies that the two of them might have clashes!
What has this world come to? That the illiterate, no good idiots must believe in such things is to be expected and tolerated, but that the educated too must believe in such nonsense is not pitiful, but rather criminal. Seemingly scientific people believe that the alignment of planets in the solar system can affect their own lives, or that shifting the door to a room from the north to the south can make their kids study better, or that slabs of stone can make wishes come true.
Faith is strange. The first law of a scientific experiment is to have a control. The concept of faith precludes the existence of a control. If the cause of a phenomenon was faith in a slab of stone, then a negative control would be to go over the same actions but without faith in that slab of stone, which is, sadly impossible.
If a god exists, he/she doesn't give a rat's ass about all of us. A creator has better things to do than to control the life and actions of organic forms running after green bits of paper.
If you don't know the reason to something, admit ignorance. Don't attribute it to a mystical superpower.
I don't remember who said this, but it is a nice quote anyway:
God is for those who are afraid to admit "I don't know"
Labels: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, astrology, red saris, vaastu
posted by Raghav at 6:22 AM
4 Comments:
Cant say how much I agree with you.. and easier still would be ...to deal with matters at hand in the present rather than trying to prevent mishaps in the future !!
umm..I agree with how the media is not focussed on a lot of important issues. But the media feeds the people only with what they demand. Ignorant or not, it is better left undecided since what it boils down to is the issue of free will (or media if you will!).
well said...!!
Well said.
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