Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Atheism

I'm Atheist/Agnostic

Faith comes from submission, and belief where as atheism comes from thinking, i couldn't help to notice unconvinced explanations of god..

It is possible explain all answers with out god, expect one question "how it all started ?" if i create case of god started it, then i would become deists not a theist.

Worst handicap is not able to think freely..

Atheist will think about god more than theist does.

Either i'm stupid or 90% of world is stupid.


I been always used to think how, I never questioned why...
After reasoning with believers i have realized they are in hut with why question...
I know how mountains came, i don't want to think why they came, for me that's a pointless question...

Although i still think about why question sometimes, only to extent man made, why computer mouse is this shape?? cuz comfortably fits in my hand..

Still Why question is really dangerous, it doesn't gets us anywhere!! That's one of the greatest reason a believer can never leave his belief.. no matter how many arguments you make.


I Stopped reading fictional novels since i became atheist, because i found enough fiction in real world.

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Albert Einstein


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Spiritual satisfaction:



Beauty of not-knowing:



World of believer: I used to feel, world of believer is much more beautiful than non-believer, After reading Carl Sagan and richard dawkins, I started to see more beauty are real in non-believer life..

A believer world can be compared like a Disney movie..

Biblical view of world

1) God has created you to love you and love him back..

2) Nature is gift of god to make me happy.

3) All the problems, bad things, are derivatives of original sin caused by Adam and Eve.

Due to child indoctrination, Person forms altered state of thinking, we world looks in different perceptive, It can be also called learned paralysis. Although its not the view all bible believer, defiantly extreme believers..















Saturday, May 1, 2010

Critical Thinking


What exactly critical thinking all about??

I believe, its just understanding how we think, and what we think. What makes us to think?

What are the ways we can be productive in thinking, which leads to great objectives.

Then I has started reading books about critical thinking. I have felt, everyone thinks differently. But, It’s also obvious that, No one can be critic of one's thinking...

Ex: long time back, we have killed a person who is said, world is not flat but its round. i.e. no one can say, one's thinking is right or wrong..

And its also obvious that, once thinking defiantly depends up on variables like, genes, information they have encountered from childhood (Like What they seen and experienced), and mimetic ideas induced. Which all together highly complex, which leads to infinite number of outcomes, thus makes every person thinking unique.

Coming back to point, No one can be critic of one's thinking. Thus one should be critic of his own thinking, I know it’s hard to admit but, its possible. I believe, if one wants to be critical thinker, he should think about his thinking all the time.

Question I ask myself about my thinking

Why I am taking this as granted?

Why I am assuming this?

Who told me this, is he perfect?

Why it feels good for me?

What's making me think about it?

Why I have to think this way?

Are my opinions are biased by hormones or emotions?

Am I making up solution or assumption to get away with question or self-satisfaction?

Lot of questions goes on! One might ask, Do you get anywhere with so many questions just before a thought. My answer is yes, that art lies between choosing right question at right moment.

Let me phrase couple examples happened in personal life

Ex 1) After long time, I went back to home country India for a vacation, we sat for lunch, my offered me chicken curry, after first bite of it, I felt wow, what a wonderful, I can never find anything tastes better than this. There are two possible explanations for this

A) Using standard line, nothing is greater than mom's food, or something defiantly some kind of emotional explanation. (FYI I love my mom more than anything else in the world :) )

B) When a person take's birth, his taste buds starts a zero level, when a child hormones starts growing his taste buds records standard level of taste, probably at that time I might had this food over and over again. (Again one can argue over it saying it also depends what you used to have etc etc but, that no use)

Ultimately answer B right, but I ended with that explanation because I asked myself, why do I like this? After next second I felt it’s wonderful.

Ex 2) (It is quiet embarrassing thing LoL) Yesterday night all of sudden I felt h*****, then next second I asked myself, Why I feel this?

Logical answer is, I am alone at my place, feeling deep sense of loneliness and absence any active thinking. Which lead my hormone take over thinking. Next second I thought what's most interesting concept I always want to think about or learn about, I figured its "Morality Vs Religion" spend rest of night learning about it,

Thus I have overcome hormones desire.

Summarizing the event, I guess I did a different thing by changing my attention towards learning something instead of thinking something I want. It concludes, its critical thinking to think what we are thinking all the time, and question why we are thinking.

By questioning one self, one can choose what exactly one wants to think and they can answer them self’s what is right and what is wrong. And it also concludes that thinking power of brain can overcome hormone desires.

I have interesting tool its called "Google Search history" where Google saves all of your searches made (one has to login to Google account) It kind of creates log of your searches what you did as shown in picture, Morning I worked something on Google docs, later checked my flight ticket, then checked my flight and baggage, aircraft, etc, etc Thus its creates a log of hunt for knowledge I did on Google.. Just check your search history, if you have one, you will amazed to see what you have thinking or working :)