Atheism Vs Theism

I am not falling in either of these above said categories (or at Max we can divide them into 4 possible categories). This is how I picture myself :

When in a temple or any such holy places I turn into a religious follower. But when out of it, I become atheist who follow rules of science and facts. Our fore-fathers named “GOD- The universal force” for all mysterious things which they never had the answers. Science has answered many unknowns and still innumerable unknowns exist which will be answered in future.

I have grown in a place or culture where the fear for god moves people to lead a righteous life.Here people believe for centuries that worshiping almighty brings them fortune. It is where my theist heart lives. This kind of devotion is clearly an act of fear for failures by normal Humans. If the Creator or Ruler of the worlds (GOD) really exists as though depicted in almost all religions, he would find it immature to bless them.

It’s not the vacillation I am facing, like an Amoeba that takes any shape or a virus which becomes alive when in host's body and dead when out of it.

To create discipline or order could have been the basic priciple of our ancestors behind this 'creation of GOD'. That’s what every epic ,The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Iliad and The Odyssey - speaks of.

The question "whether god created us or we created god"- is still unanswered like
all universal theories put forward. Humans might think as though we know orgin of all the things around us. Even we are totally uncertain about the query whether universe is expanding or shrinking even after countless technological inventions.

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On Secret Sorrow of Bill Gates

“I wish I wasn’t the world’s richest man. There is nothing good that comes out of that” told to the CNBC reporter, Donny Deutsch by none other than world’s richest man, Microsoft’s Chairman Bill Gates.

Even the world’s richest man has simple wishes like ordinary man. His desires are just to have meal at McDonald’s (no chance), shake a leg at the local disco (not if he want to be mobbed), hang around in malls (without a autograph seeking hordes) , mingle with crowd and share a joke & wants to roar his guts out rooting for his team at a football game.

Gates is not enjoying his publicity, actually. With great wealth he has great responsibilities and has to act as Santa Claus. He spent many sleepless nights deciding which charity is worthier one and deserves his money. Apart from that he is sad about his reading habit (reading war and peace for ten years) and not knowing current trends in IT. He would be happier writing the code for the next generation of video games. He misses his first love, technology.

[Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978.]

What to conquer? When Gates was climbing up the ladder, he always wanted to achieve that little bit extra, run that extra mile, go a little further. Now that he is in top, where are the worlds to conquer?. Practically he is aimless. He rubs shoulders with princes and presidents are all these money really worth of it. He is facing a nothingness; how different is he from nothingness ?. What is he standing out from ? , nothingness. He is blaming himself for not having time to discover himself.

For all the reasons above Gates doesn’t want to be richest man on earth but second or third will de , after all money doesn’t matter to him anymore.
These are the sorrows exhibited by the most affluent man on the planet. Everybody, everything falls into the philosophy at the end. Whatever the man he is, work he do, when everything is achieved he would be falling into this nothingness. Even Alexander the Great had the same feeling when he conquered the entire world; should have felt the nothingness. Nothing to achieve, nothing to prove ,….

Even knowing this truth why should we try to achieve some thing in life ???.. If there is no meaning in achieving anything why try for that.. If nothingness is beyond everything what everyone doing is trying to reach nothingness.

Only few achieve this acme in there life time...

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sources courtesy: Business World
for further info goto : http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp