Timo: Ever heard about Intelligence Quotient?
Jarmo: Of course, yes.
Timo: Yeah i thought so. I think most of us would have!!
Timo: 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 »
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.
I have had a number of conversations with friends about the concept of evolution. I never believed in evolution myself. Many of my friends, most of them being engineers and scientists, never accepted whenever i said “I don’t believe in evolution”. It seems that every scientific mind is trained to believe that evolution is the most logical way to where we are today. Right from school, we are taught how nature transformed a single celled organism into this massively intelligent humans.
No other question has haunted me like this ever – What could possibly be the purpose of life? I am a spiritual person and at the same time a rationalist who doesn’t believe in “rules” of worshipping. I am not so religious though i pray everyday and i think religion is just a tool to move forward in understanding the purpose of life. You need a starting point somewhere to solve this puzzle and I think religion helps to give a head start.
