I had posted this on my now defunct second blog. I wish to keep this on record and so am copy pasting it here.
I love to spend time with young people. They stimulate my thinking process.
I recently had the opportunity to discuss some economic problems that face India with a young friend Sunil, and after I came home, I exchanged these messages with him.
YT : A book I strongly recommend is Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Sunil: I will try and get hold of that. Thanks. Have you read the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins?
YT : Yes. Sad.
YT : Matt Ridley incidentally is a gr8 admirer of Dawkins.
YT : Sunil: You are not?
YT : I am but I am not an atheist. I am not a believer nor agnostic. Figure that one.
Sunil : Ah, you are God!
YT : ☺
Sunil and I met again after a few days and discussed this discussion. I had to explain to Sunil that not only was I God, he was too.
He was flabbergasted and I had to explain to him the philosophy of Tat Twam Asi and Aham Brahmasmi.
Nice?
It was also the belief of Valentine Michael Smith in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. I think it is very accurate on all of our counts.
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Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:05
Yes indeed. You had mentioned this some time ago in another context and I had gone back to the book to refresh my memory and was pleasantly surprised to see that there.
I tried being God, but it was such hard work looking after an entire universe I fell ill and had to resign.
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Cheerful Monk Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 01:58
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Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:17
Double ditto.
Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:06
I hope that you are now fully recovered and can take on the old responsibilities again. It looks as though the world needs you back.
nick makes me laugh!
shirley maclaine also believes we are all god.
perhaps we would treat each other better if we all really believed that.
i suppose if pinned down, i would be mostly buddhist in nature.
i think of myself as spiritual, not religious.
but i do like that line in the bible that says ‘he knows when a sparrow falls.’
meaning simply to me… regardless what we call “him” … the creative source of the entire universes is in us all! amazing and comforting at the same time.
Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:15
Nick is a very humourous man. His blog is one of the most interesting that I read regularly. He does not have to know when a sparrow falls, he makes it fall!
Nick Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 22:06
Thank ee kindly, sir!
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Rummuser Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 19:09
Entirely my pleasure Nick.
David Reply:
June 22nd, 2012 at 18:59
That (making the sparrow fall) is needlessly cruel. Perhas that is the true test of a
god? A facility for needless cruelty which is accepte d by followers.
Oh if only we could all tap into the power within us and look out for each other rather than placing all our collective and corrective hope on the Invisible Cosmic Housekeeper how lovely this world would be!
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Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:16
I am in total agreement.
David Reply:
June 22nd, 2012 at 19:00
Oh so very true…. Love the concept of ICH….
I too would recommend The God Delusion and most other books written by Dawkins.
And for fun Hitchens’ God is not Great……
Rummuser Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 20:18
I have read all their books David. My only grief with both of them is that they completely ignore the Eastern philosophical traditions where evolution and natural selection are accepted.
http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dispatch/religion-island/
David Reply:
June 22nd, 2012 at 18:56
If these traditions are truly philosphical then I doubt that either would be opposed
on grounds of belief, which is their main argument. Basing a philosophy or moral teaching on a theisyic belief is what they are about.
I’m currently reading The God Delusion and it’s really intellectually stimulating. I’m still on the part where he talks mostly about Darwinism and Creationism, though.