Friday, May 27, 2005

Yes, God do exist.

Some of us spend half of our life trying to logically contradict the existence of a supreme power by giving some stupid logical arguments(there is a whole page on wikipedia full of this shit) . There are many of them and all are equally laughable, the one below was randomly chosen from wikipedia.

The "no motivation" argument states that if god is omnipotent, then he would not be motivated to act in any way, specifically creating the universe, since God would have anything God wanted in infinite amounts and would have no desires since there is no reason for God to have any. Since the universe exists, there is a contradiction and an omnipotent God cannot exist


while the other group compete to be crowned the biggest moron of all by giving theories about the existence of god which are even more laughable

morality cannot exist without God.

Since the universe's order and complexity shows signs of purpose , it must have been designed by an intelligent designer, i.e. God

Well both the groups failed to prove any thing so God decided to settle the matter once and for all and he showed up, he chose the final of the Uefa champions league to settle the argument. Those of you who were not fortunate enough to witness the final live should catch the repeat telecast, Liverpool were 3-0 down at half time and then in the second half they scored 3 goals in 6 minutes to tie the game. Well no big deal, but these goals were scored against Milan a team which can play the whole season without conceding a goal and they let in 3 in space of 6 minutes and if you add schevchenko's(the best striker in europe) shot taken 6' away from the goal being blocked by Dudek(the worst goalkeeper u can imagine) to that then you will realize this was no ordinary match.

If u compare the way liverpool played in those 6 minutes with the rest of the match it wont take long to realize that some thing beyond comprehension occured at Istanabul and I see it as an act of God. I dont know if God is he or she is it good or bad (liverpool and Milan supporters may have differing opinions) but some supreme power had to be involved in those 6 minutes cause I know for sure that those Liverpool players cant play like that even in their wildest dreams.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

The power of Movies

Movies are a powerful medium of forming public opinion and I am not the first person to say this. Psychologists will agree that messages conveyed by moving images reside in some corner of the brain longer than those conveyed only by voice, mere text or both combined but I am in no mood to discuss this trivial fact today.
Some of the movies force you to sit back and think, these are the movies which can force you to form and sometimes change powerful opinions. Though many such movies have been made but I choose The Godfather because I have just finished the trilogy and cant think of any thing other than the Godfather. The Godfather with great actors, one of the best screen plays and the genius of Francis Ford Coppola do make you to sit back and think.
The character of Michael Corleone starts as a war hero, a rebel son but ends up being the head of Mafia family, this completely changed how I viewed life. I thought the main problem of life was the many choices it gives us, the different roads to take at each and every corner but now it seems the most difficult phase of life comes when it gives us no choice, there is only one path to take whether one likes it or not.
If one look back and analyze the character of both Vito and Michael after watching the first and the second movie one has two pictures to choose from, in one of them the characters are painted as ruthless Mafia dons while in the other they look like reasonable men who are in this business to protect their family. Most of us who watched these movies would love to accept the second picture but if we happen to meet these very characters in real life which picture will we choose to judge them. It takes actors like Al Pacino, Brando and the genius of Coppola to make us love a gangster but no medium other than movies can force us to do this.

Friday, May 06, 2005

What is this ???

Can any one explain what the hell is this:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=8402210 .
The article says that Darwin's theory of evolution has to face a trial because some moron didn't like the idea of kids being taught the theory in school , and I thought there was only one Murlimanohar Joshi but there is at least one more like him in Kansas. God bless Kansas ....

Are our eyes always right???

The business of the optometrist is booming but still I was forced to think "are our eyes always right?"
Sometimes we take the information provided by the eyes as the truth, eye witnesses have a special important in court cases, but are our eyes always right? If we try to understand how we see the world in 3 dimensions we would end up wondering how on earth can the eyes give us the true picture.
When the light rays simulates the millions of rods and cones in the retina a 2-D image is formed on the semispherical retina. This picture is transmitted to the brain by the nerves and then the brain uses the experience gained during the millions of years of evolution to interpret this 2-D image and create a 3-D world before us. This 2D to 3D mapping has more accuracy that any engineer can ever achieve but still it has some constraints which are exploited by the artists who are masters in the art of creating illusions. Painters have long fooled our eyes by making us perceive depth while drawing on a 2D plane(ie. the canvas) but the question is how can we be sure that the picture of the world presented by our eyes is the true one? Do we perceive the actual depth of an object? and why do we see a 3D world when we know it is drawn on a 2D paper?
Meanwhile the optometrists will keep making money whether the eyes tell the truth or not.