Sunday, February 22, 2009

Its all relative

It starts as a simple question. "what happens after death ?". Apparently 'researchers' have after significant amount of study concluded that... nothing happens after death. To be clear on this apparently some part of ur brain shuts down.. blah blah blah... so in the end you as a person cease to exist. But the question arises what about the notion of a soul , heaven and more importantly hell. How can we concretely state that they are non existent ?
The fact remains that the doctors had nothing to do with the after life. They are all still alive so they are not qualified to speak about death. They studied physical specimens and presented their findings, .. inherently assuming that they were of a superior intelligence ? But how do we know that is true ? That brings us to the million dollar question. Based on the same arguement how do we know if anything is true ? After all what is 'truth' ?

The whole world could just be a figment of your imagination or heaven forbid a computer program ( think matrix, haven't seen it go die.. painfully). We as humans consider ourselves to have a sixth sense and hence superior to animals. That is an incredibly stupid arguement. Any superior intelligence might well be capable of making us believe it is not so, false sense of security if you will. After all the greatest trick the devil ever pulled off was convincing the world he didn't exist. So every thing we do or know is in fact completely relative or POV dependant. From our POV humans rock!! In reality we could just be pawns in a game of some higher force like ants in ant hill . The earth could just be a marble. Creatures with crooked glasses could be lookin at you as you reads this. Pigs could be the most advanced life forms on this planet, if it is a planet that is. After all pigs are pink. There has to be something there.

How do you know you are not dreaming right now. You can't pinch yourself in a dream.

The whole world could just be an experiment, perhaps to find the ultimate question. So essentially everything is RELATIVE. No absolutes.

To quote Agent K from men in black "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. "

For a more specific case take the example of a bull as in a bullock cart. From its POV we feed it, take care of it and in return it just has to walk here and there. Further more, once a year we organise a festival for them to hurt or worse kill us (jallikattu). Does that sound smart ?

Throughout the ages there has always been the concept of right and wrong. Now that you have read this you must realise the flaw in that. How can there be such a classification of absolutes when nothing is absolute ? What seems wrong to you could be justified in someone else's eyes.
Most people are devastatingly good looking ... in their own eyes

So the fact of the matter is there is no right and wrong, no truth or lies, no live or dead , nothing.
Nobody knows anything. Everything is relative. But again that in itself is an absolute statement. Hmm a paradox... or is it. This is why there are so many contradictions in this article. So in effect we can't even say its all relative. So what can we say ?
[insert philosophical comment here]

Remember... there is no spoon!


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