Almost a year ago, i tried writing my ideas about life and its purpose. There were many comments and further discussions followed, both online and offline. A question such as this, is the pinnacle of knowledge, that once we know the answer to it, we probably lose interest in this life.
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I used to be a person who survived on meat for a long time. In the course of time, i have met many people, including some very good friends, who were vegetarians. Many have tried their shot at convincing me to give up non-vegetarian food. I always asked them for a good reason and promised to give up if the reason was good enough.
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Humans are blessed with something that other life forms don’t enjoy – to consciously make decisions. While other beings can also make decisions, we can think, analyse and then decide. Most decisions that other beings have to make are driven by their instinct without much choice, while we have the ability to choose.
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When I first wrote an article on the topic Weird Thought i didn’t foresee i will have too many to make it a series. But after i wrote it, many new thoughts that this world wouldn’t accept have been creeping in my mind everyday (yeah, really – everyday!). So here is another weird thought about our brain – is it really a master or a slave?
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I was having a chat with a physicist a while ago about celestial objects and the universe. He mentioned that there are an “estimated” 70 thousand billion billion stars ( yes, it is billion billion and not a typo) in the universe and our sun is just one of them. We have many more billions of planets, meteorites, asteroids and what not. And he also said that more stars are constantly being created from hydrogen getting closer to each other and collapsing on its own gravity. It sounded very interesting and certainly convincing given the fact that we actually can picture them using telescopes on earth and with telescopes that go farther into the solar system.
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Timo: Ever heard about Intelligence Quotient?
Jarmo: Of course, yes.
Timo: Yeah i thought so. I think most of us would have!!
Timo:Â OK then, how about emotional quotient?
Jarmo: Sounds vaguely familiar. Though don’t know what that means.
Timo: Alright. How about this – Spiritual Quotient?
Jarmo: Spiritual…what?
This dialogue between two colleagues isn’t that uncommon. Our society has placed an extraordinary importance, in the past, on Intelligence Quotient, that we all think, the one with he highest IQ is the best. Continue reading »
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There are thousands of faiths in this world that believe in a super power which most term as God. If we consider all different faiths, we would probably cover all types of beliefs that can be perceived by the human mind. One of the faiths believes in reincarnation, while the other doesn’t believe in deities. There are faiths that say nature is god, while there are faiths that believe god lives in this world. Overall, if one takes an ‘everyone is correct’ approach, we might end up with all possible beliefs that a human mind can imagine.
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