What is God?

A couple of days back, I read an article saying that 90% of people believe that their prayers come true.

This made me wonder a lot of things... why do people believe in God? What makes them think that something like God exists? That made me think about myself. Do I believe in God? If no, why do I say, "I hope something would happen or not happen." More importantly, what is God?

Most of the things that happen happen "because" of something else. There is a big cause and effect cycle that goes on... day in and day out. The cause could be either somebody's action (including mine) or something we call forces of nature.

If we believe in the first part, we have to accept that we are responsible for whatever happens to us, if not individually, then collectively. If we belive in the second part, and look at forces of nature, they are nothing but results of different probabilities. We all know the concepts of gravity, heat, pressure and the like. They all follows rules, and probabilities.

Since these probabilities are something that cannot be predicted, we can call them God, but then, the generally accepted concept of God means that he can do anything, not necessarily between 0 and 1. It can't be God.

What does this all lead to? It leads us to two things:
1) We are all subject to the rules of probability. Things that happen to us, could have happened to others. It is just a matter of 'chance' that they happened to us. We are not the start of all and end of all things.
2) We are in control of most of the things. To what extent is this control, I don't know. But yes, what we do matters more than what we pray for.

So, probability is God. But as the rule of probability goes, everything would be 50:50 in the long run.

In the end, as Neo puts it - "The problem is choice".

What choice did you make today?

Moral Polices Everywhere!!!

Here it goes again. One more extra-ordinary ad and people just don't get it.

They have simply lost it, over the SBI 'Bholu' ad. The intellectuals, who just watch TV and want to comment on everything they see, have not liked the ad because it showcases poor people and their lives.

I don't understand why these people do such things. For every 'Chandni Bar' and 'Chameli', these same guys would appreciate the effort and give awards to the makers. But when it comes to advertising, the makers would become insensitive a*sholes, who want to commercialise the lifestyle of poor people.

How can the intelligent people be so dumb?

Why can't they understand concepts like breaking the clutter, like having 'what if' situations in ads to get your message across. Do they not understand even something as simple as target audience???

A great personality also puts his own version of the ad. I would love to ask him - Sir, with all due respect, would you have even noticed an ad like what you have 'created'?

I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT!!!

The moral of the story: Leave the ad-making job to the creative guys. It is not everybody's cup of tea.

God is laughing

It is said, if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.

I guess that's what I keep doing again and again.

This is probably the zillionth time I did it.

The moment I feel the urge to do something, I find my platter empty. Not half-filled, not part-filled, empty!!!

So what do I do? I subscribe to newsletters, I start new things. And the next morning, I find my platter over-loaded.

So now, I am a blogger, quizzer, freelancer, researcher and if whatever I have already planned starts happenning, I would also be a lecturer, writer and professional quizmaster.

This is plain crazy. How can I do justice to everything? Why did I start all of this?
And why, just why, can't I make God appreciate my plans for once?