People my Religion, my Brother my God!

Hello folks,

Aah, I know its been a while,.......but I need inspiration to write stuff!! And it seems that I always get inspired by something in the Fall season! So here comes entry #2 of my so called "blog" :).......

The title of this post is a little scary and/or weird right?? Actually it is not! The first part till the comma, is true for all and provably correct too! Being a nerd, I am going to prove this using recursion and the finite knowledge lemma!

The finite knowledge lemma:
"There is no person, which anyone knows of, having omniscience!"

Since the lemma is self-explanatory, I wont be elaborating on it, like a true mathematician, I guess! (Since you always find some things being left as an exercise to the reader in math texts, but in my defense this is really a simple exercise).

One fine morning, as I woke up from my bed, I asked myself one question, "Does God really exist ?" Aah, I should, at this moment, for the above question to make sense, remind you guys that I am still pursuing my MS!

So I answered it myself, "Yes, that is what your parents have taught you right?". Next question pops up, "Why have my parents taught me this?", an obvious answer, "We are Hindu and we have faith in our God! We believe in God!". At this time, my brain was clearly partitioned into two parts, some neurons formed a group, let us call them QS, since they were coming up with all the annoying questions, and the second group of neurons, who were diligently answering, let us call them ANS. Here is the remainder of their conversations,

QS: Hmmm, but why are your parents Hindu?
ANS: You idiot! Didn't your grandparents raise them as Hindu?

QS: I see, but why did they raise them as Hindu?
ANS: Arrgh! Coz your grandparents themselves were Hindu, right?

QS: Oh yeah, right! But recursing a bit further down your lineage, why were your grandparents Hindu?
ANS: Look dude! We both know, where this is going, what is your point anyway?

QS: My point is that we both DON'T know the base condition, right?
ANS: Yes of course, finite knowledge lemma applies here, so let's break out of this recursion!

"Huhh", I exclaimed, as my neurons became one whole group again! Do you see one very important point in the above conversation? Belief! That's the very word!

Religion is defined by oxford as,
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or Gods.
But what does this definition subsume? Since subsume means contain, the question is what do the different religions have in common?

The answer that my whole set of neurons now concurs on is---
Belief in people!

Since looking at any dictionary, let it be Oxford or Merriam-Webster or any other dictionary you could find, you have to trust or believe in the people who wrote it!

For claiming that I am a Hindu, I have to believe in my parents that this is the right way to live and that they themselves are Hindu, agreed?

What if my great great great.....(till you imagine planet of the apes) grandparents were actually Christian! It is really stupid to say Christian, but whatever it is that they believed in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally their children, and their children's children, and their children's children's children.......till we come to planet of the humans that is now.........did one thing.........they all believed in apes back then, and people now!!!!

Hence, I say, "People are my religion", by which I mean, "I believe in people!"

Not believing in above statement has serious repercussions........you effectively trust only yourself......good in a way......but you must be willing to discover everything.....and I mean EVERYTHING (If you don't believe in gravity, wait for something to fall on you and then defend your claim that things are actually pushed down on earth rather than pulled by earth). This could be a tough claim to prove though! :)

You may say, "Ok, I get the point (in your mind you might even think.....like I did not know this already!)".
You may know it already.........but the point of this post is to stress on this, especially when I see that some people are so blinded by the so called "fact" that God exists and that religion is the single most important thing,   that they actually fight about religious issues and DON'T BELIEVE in each other.......which frankly seems a little ridiculous and funny to me!

If you have to believe in God (whichever your favorite one is, or may be all the Gods), you cannot do this without believing in people.

As a child with no information in my mind, "Used space: 0KB, Free space: 1GB", unfortunately the so called fact "God exists" was written by someone else. I did not discover God! I did not write this part in my 1GB storage space!

So as I end this post, I leave you with this question, "Did you write this piece of information to your mind on your own, or did you, as all do, BELIEVE IN YOUR PEOPLE?"

PS: The second part after the comma, deserves a whole different post! Hopefully I will write that up sometime soon!

Everyday Life!

And there she was.......singing like an angel........her voice so mellifluous.....titillating to the ears!!  I felt her voice fade away as moments latter there she was again.......her voice......so mellifluous.....like a continuous monotone!!!

Hi everyone.....I am a graduate student studying in the University of Colorado, Boulder........this is my first blog ever.....don't really know why I have decided to blog......but I just wanted to try out something different.....something that I have never done before and most importantly, something that would take me far away from my everyday life!

My day usually starts with me finding my spectacles, which have a habit of playing hide and seek with me! And the new pair which I have, plays amazingly well!! Being in Boulder, I have been fortunate to have a very scenic view from my bedroom......the amazing Rocky mountains with the green and the yellow of the trees and a clear white band of snow covering their tops and a clear blue of the sky above......heaven! As I capture this beauty around me in one deep breath (cause thats the amount of time you can afford to spend appreciating nature these days), I realize that I am late......

There are evil networks (one of my courses) on the loose out there....which don't get any simpler.....with protocols sitting on top of each other and the entire internet sitting on top of my head......I have a bath which relaxes me.....only to a certain extent! But then my stomach starts giving me hints that I need to have something....I give it cereals.....sometimes bread and nutella....maggi noodles with cheese......but it is not satisfied.....it wants something familiar......something which it can have only after I cook!!

Finally as it gets satiated, my eyelids start getting heavier (its amazing how your eyelids and not your stomach feels the weight) and I realize I need to leave for the lectures! But wait.....how can I?......without tea!!! After having some tea, I make a run for it......ensuring that I take my keys, my buffone card (ID) and other essentials!! Locking the door shut, I scurry past the creek side, jog the entire upslope and finally reach the engineering center gasping for breath only to find that the lecture has already started........not that anyone cares............but still!!!

Of all the things being taught and said in the lectures, announcements are the things I fear the most.....cause you know whats coming....it's not pretty.....and you know you will lose the forthcoming weekends.....yes....the assignments!!! The descendants of pure evil!! But thats grad life.......if its without assignments, its not worth it!!

My evenings usually go in reading of the subject matter but most of the time is spent in planning stuff in the engineering lobby! I plan and plan and plan.......but in the end my Gantt chart reads 'you won't be able to complete it within the deadline'! It also reads 'if you had'nt wasted time in me, you would have been able to'!! (No offense to Mr. Henry Gantt....Sir, you have given us a gr8 project management tool.....just that I start late and then I am not able to "crash my critical path"!)

Its about 9:00-9:30pm that I head home.....its usually windy and chilly.....with bicyclists going at full speed with their "head" lights on......and with enthusiastic joggers jogging along the creek side....with shouts of football players practicing on the Folsom field for their weekend matches!! On reaching my place, I have dinner while I talk with my parents.....'pushing all the updates'....i keep them in-sync with my 'current state'!

Finally its 12:00am that I realize, I should start with my studies......technically this is how my day starts, i guess....but to say such a thing would be a bad joke!! I open my laptop and without even realizing it I open four tabs on google chrome.....yahoo mail.....facebook.....moodle.cs (thats my assignment page)......culink (thats my university mail)!! After skimming over all the updates and the news and the mails.......I decide to start!! But wait.......how can I?....its 1:00am......'chai time'.....!!!

And......here......we......go.......as the "liquid gold" goes in my body......my neurons get triggered.....and they fight out the minions of the Antichrist......aka my network and my vision assignments.....which are usually in the form of programming assignments!! After all the linking and compiling and executing is done.....I take a deep breath.......I take a break........I have a glassful of water......as I hear a highly reverberating voice.....like a voice coming from beyond.....I see a silhouette of some women in my balcony.......I rush towards her......but she disappears as her voice persists......opening the glass door of the the balcony......I see into the distance....

........And there she was.......singing like an angel........her voice so mellifluous.....titillating to the ears!!  I felt her voice fade away as moments latter there she was again.......her voice......so mellifluous.....like a continuous monotone!!!

I finally stop pressing the snooze button......and the next day begins.............!!!!