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Encryption chip
IBM has announced that it is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry. See this article on CNN
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World Record
872 Runs In A Day; SA Chase Highest-Ever ODI Score
South Africa 438/9
Australia 434/4
South Africa 438/9
Australia 434/4
Wow !!!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Religion or No Religion
This is a chat conversation between two persons A and B. A doesn't believe in God and religion and B does.
Person A: hmmm
Person A: so, are you in the process of transformation?
Person B: no
Person A: :-(
Person B: I cannot image myself believing that there is no god
Person A: ok :-)
Person A: well, belief in God's existence or not is another thing, I can live with people believing in God. it is religion that is the true evil of society and I strongly oppose all religions
Person B: believing in god it in itself a religion...
Person B: may be its the humans who are the true evils........ if it wasn't religion.. it would have been something else creating trouble
Person B: I guess we are designed like this... after all if we all live in peace then the end is very near
Person A: true, humans can fight over anything...land, village country, families....but all these are real things, God is an abstract concept which no one really knows if it is true or not, fighting over that is the most mindless of all wars
Person B: don't you think fighting over the other stuff is mindless
Person B: I think the real win is to find a way to live happily within all this
Person A: yes, but you will fight over material things, I find that natural, even animals do that.. but God is a creation of our fertile imagination, and creating a complex social structure around that breeding hatred is unacceptable to me
Person B: well the true essence of the religion is to move away from material things
Person A: yes, move away and just fight over the immaterial things
Person B: the problem is that the religion is not being protected the way it WA designed to
Person A: it can never be, as long as we humans implement it, it never will be
Person B: that's exactly what I am saying... nothing can be.... humans are flawed by design
Person A: even Buddha failed, he said that what he is preaching is a way of life, not a religion, but his followers ended up making it a religion
Person A: so we agree that religion adds to the existing evils
Person B: even if we take away all the religion.. I don't think we will be in a better position than we currently are
Person A: yes, I agree, but it is not helping either, it is adding to the misery
Person B: no it is not adding....
Person A: all our wars - WW1 and WW2 have all been due to religion
Person B: if you take it away misery will still be the same
Person B: there will still be wars
Person A: yes, religion was supposed to rid us of misery, it is only worsening it
Person A: as you said, we dont implement it correctly, that means it is the wrong tool in our hands
Person B: no, the tool is right... but being used wrongly
Person A: exactly, we are not suited to use that tool, so we shouldnt be using it
Person B: and the fact is that even if this tool is replaced.. the replacement will still be used wrongly
Person B: the fact is the we as humans are designed to end up the way we are right now
Person A: well, we have seen now for several thousands of years that it is not working, we should probably try something new
Person A: that is one way of accepting that we are flawed and continuing, the other option is to try something new
Person A: we dont know how it is until we have tried it out
Person A: by saying we are designed like this, what ever the social structure is, we are closing our minds, we may hit upon something that will make us all live in peace, we just have to find it
Person A: Man thought it was religion, but history has proved it is not
Person B: well I still believe that religion has ways to bring peace.. maybe we haven't explored enough yet
Person B: the thing is that anything new that starts will also have groups and different groups try to get better than the other and we end up in the same vicious circle
Person A: exactly, in stating that you have just proved that religion will never work :-)
Person A: now we need to find something that does not group us
Person A: anything that creates groups of people is asking for conflict
Person B: if it is not a group, it is a leader and then there are people who don't like the leader etc etc.. the vicious circle continues
Person A: leaders emerge from groups, so it is the same thing
Person B: religious scriptures if believed give answers to our existence and the path we need to follow...... but humans don't want to do that... so continuing that trend humans will not follow anything
Person B: and anything new has to start as a group
Person A: it is probably for the better, the human race has to end sometime, and we only hasten the process
Person B: in my opinion the religion is slowing that process
Person A: that is why, I am unalligning myself from all groups and saying, I dont want to be a part of the mayhem
Person A: no, if religion triggers of a nuclear war next, then all mankind is doomed
Person B: a nuclear war could trigger without religion also.... the cold war had lot less to do with religion
Person A: hmmm, but the war never happened, but most other wars which have taken place have religious causes, so going by how we behave, religion will probably cause the next war too
Person A: chalo, it was good debating this, I need a chai break to recharge :-)
Person B: yes.. good debate....
Person A: hmmm
Person A: so, are you in the process of transformation?
Person B: no
Person A: :-(
Person B: I cannot image myself believing that there is no god
Person A: ok :-)
Person A: well, belief in God's existence or not is another thing, I can live with people believing in God. it is religion that is the true evil of society and I strongly oppose all religions
Person B: believing in god it in itself a religion...
Person B: may be its the humans who are the true evils........ if it wasn't religion.. it would have been something else creating trouble
Person B: I guess we are designed like this... after all if we all live in peace then the end is very near
Person A: true, humans can fight over anything...land, village country, families....but all these are real things, God is an abstract concept which no one really knows if it is true or not, fighting over that is the most mindless of all wars
Person B: don't you think fighting over the other stuff is mindless
Person B: I think the real win is to find a way to live happily within all this
Person A: yes, but you will fight over material things, I find that natural, even animals do that.. but God is a creation of our fertile imagination, and creating a complex social structure around that breeding hatred is unacceptable to me
Person B: well the true essence of the religion is to move away from material things
Person A: yes, move away and just fight over the immaterial things
Person B: the problem is that the religion is not being protected the way it WA designed to
Person A: it can never be, as long as we humans implement it, it never will be
Person B: that's exactly what I am saying... nothing can be.... humans are flawed by design
Person A: even Buddha failed, he said that what he is preaching is a way of life, not a religion, but his followers ended up making it a religion
Person A: so we agree that religion adds to the existing evils
Person B: even if we take away all the religion.. I don't think we will be in a better position than we currently are
Person A: yes, I agree, but it is not helping either, it is adding to the misery
Person B: no it is not adding....
Person A: all our wars - WW1 and WW2 have all been due to religion
Person B: if you take it away misery will still be the same
Person B: there will still be wars
Person A: yes, religion was supposed to rid us of misery, it is only worsening it
Person A: as you said, we dont implement it correctly, that means it is the wrong tool in our hands
Person B: no, the tool is right... but being used wrongly
Person A: exactly, we are not suited to use that tool, so we shouldnt be using it
Person B: and the fact is that even if this tool is replaced.. the replacement will still be used wrongly
Person B: the fact is the we as humans are designed to end up the way we are right now
Person A: well, we have seen now for several thousands of years that it is not working, we should probably try something new
Person A: that is one way of accepting that we are flawed and continuing, the other option is to try something new
Person A: we dont know how it is until we have tried it out
Person A: by saying we are designed like this, what ever the social structure is, we are closing our minds, we may hit upon something that will make us all live in peace, we just have to find it
Person A: Man thought it was religion, but history has proved it is not
Person B: well I still believe that religion has ways to bring peace.. maybe we haven't explored enough yet
Person B: the thing is that anything new that starts will also have groups and different groups try to get better than the other and we end up in the same vicious circle
Person A: exactly, in stating that you have just proved that religion will never work :-)
Person A: now we need to find something that does not group us
Person A: anything that creates groups of people is asking for conflict
Person B: if it is not a group, it is a leader and then there are people who don't like the leader etc etc.. the vicious circle continues
Person A: leaders emerge from groups, so it is the same thing
Person B: religious scriptures if believed give answers to our existence and the path we need to follow...... but humans don't want to do that... so continuing that trend humans will not follow anything
Person B: and anything new has to start as a group
Person A: it is probably for the better, the human race has to end sometime, and we only hasten the process
Person B: in my opinion the religion is slowing that process
Person A: that is why, I am unalligning myself from all groups and saying, I dont want to be a part of the mayhem
Person A: no, if religion triggers of a nuclear war next, then all mankind is doomed
Person B: a nuclear war could trigger without religion also.... the cold war had lot less to do with religion
Person A: hmmm, but the war never happened, but most other wars which have taken place have religious causes, so going by how we behave, religion will probably cause the next war too
Person A: chalo, it was good debating this, I need a chai break to recharge :-)
Person B: yes.. good debate....
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