O mein Gott!

Yeah, here's the best ever, most original way to start the very first blog of ones life! Talk about God! Doesn't matter if it does not endear you to Heem or Herr, it may just attract enough eyeballs to make it count in the blogosphere.

The immediate urge to purge my soul of unearthly thoughts, about the One up there,came about when I read "Good to be God" by Tibor Fischer . In the book a brit guy with a failed marriage, job as a salesman and living in the dumps, goes to Miami and decides to abandon everything that made him a loser. That's small qualities like hard work, honesty etc etc. He observes the religulous (wink wink, Bill Maher) god sellers and decides to do one better. Why not be God? What follows is a very piquant narrative ...but also something that meanders too much.. so I never could get to the end of the story.

The second reason to think about the Powers that Be was the constant refrain of my wifey that I am not Religious, and that I dont participate in festivals. Well other than the fact that I am  socially compromised or socially challenged there's really no connection I can see between most festivals that are based on traditions and religions and the need for a god GOD.

If we are to think about the existence of such a being it needs to be independent of what religions tell us. It is what science has , will and can figure out. Or cannot figure out. Rather what the limits of knowledge of any kind are!

Well I have given the Powers that be a lot of thought.  It was certainly depressing for an egotist, self centred but self effacing guy like to have to give so much attention to someone else:-)

The usual soul  searching about why we all IT wallahs are well off and the poor, well poor.... and the disease stricken , orphans is all fine. Believe me, there have been enough of these to make one believe that there is only a devil if anyone out there!

But to get a feel for what GOD really means and ITS existence see talks by Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and George Carlin among others.. And boy O' boy that guy George Carlin really does hit the nail. Watch him even if you don't watch the others.

God as an entity in my mind is a construct that any conscious mind , anywhere in the universe, will always come up with. "Who am I, what am I doing here?"  is but a universal constant or invariant behind all such questions and answers. Guys,guys I am NOT referring to what u think about your spouse 10+ yrs into the marriage :-).

Many people believe that the Anthropic Principle is proving to be increasingly true. The stronger version of the principle seems to indicate fine tuning of parameter.. But even if this principle were true I can't understand why it would need a super intelligence to do the fine tuning.

And what about the famous eastern philosophies that everything is Maya or the Maya Vi? These are nowadays of course reflected in Hollywood movies;. The 13th Floor, Matrix Trilogy and Inception? How do you know you are not in a DREAM..or that all we see is a simulation.

Well, there are several things known about simulations. They are generally non- deterministic, non-reversible, complexity emerges out of simple rules and emergence changes the rules of the game. Which basically means that the simulator can set the rules of the game, its dimensions but may not have the computational power to know what will happen! and control over such a system may well nigh be impossible. Yeah Yeah, I am not taking about simple systems like single fluid dynamics turbulence etc.

Anyways, so what are my personal belief's. Well I dunno. Really dunno. I don't even know if defining a God means anything. Perhaps it does. Well if the definition is an omniscient, omnipresent being then it beggars belief. What is somewhat believable is an entity that mebbe kickstarted the whole operation and then very possibly has no real control. So basically I dont mind if people think I am an atheist although my personal leaning is to <TAG> myself as an agnostic.

But let this worry about a God not deter you from doing good deeds! BTW, Carlin died of cancer and Hitchens has got it. So is it retribution?