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Great Expectations

I get it that Messi is a great great player but you can't expect him to control all of midfield and defence and on top of that striking and now, the coaching too. He's one man, a great footballer but he just can't become a God suddenly for Argentina who can control all aspects of the game.

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Where Rivals Cross Paths (Pt.3)

As I said in Part 2, science and religion are born from the same seed, brothers, explaining and satisfying the curiosity of our species. Yet, we think of them to be different from each other, the war between them rages on, the foolish war, fought against oneself.

It is this war which in my opinion has generated the greatest amount of grief, sorrow, bloodshed, and tensions. So how does one go about this war, the war which has raged on since the dawn of intellectuality, before science was prevalent and humanity needed god to help them. If we look around us today, one question does stand out, Do we Still Need God? We have reached an era where scientific progress is measured in days but not weeks, the applications and the reach of science now has no boundaries. Science has seen its exponential growth in the hands of us humans. We have elevated ourselves to a stature similar to that of God. Yet we look up to the skies in search of the supernatural, one who is above all, the creator of everything we perceive, we may not have progressed that far, but we are surely on the path of doing so. Yet we haven't sacrificed our belief for the one sitting above the clouds whose power is supposedly greater than our wildest imaginations. Humanity is yet to evolve into the species which trusts no one but themselves. We still find ourselves looking up to the heavens in times of need, when it would usually serve us better to look into ourselves. As Pythagoras once said,

Look into Thyself.

We consider ourselves to be one of the greatest creations of God but we are yet to believe that ourselves because if we actually did, we wouldn't have to look up to the skies, instead we would look into ourselves.

Humanity since its creation has endeavoured to understand everything within its reach and has let its curiosity run wild. This curiosity has led to the creation of science. We have always used god where science has failed, and as science begins to succeed in more and more aspects, God loses ground, here is where the controversy lies, both factions believe their version of the story to be true and they do not realise that the story is the same.

This rift exists in many places, but most prominently, in Creationism. This rift has led to the formation of two distinct schools of creationism, one by God, one by science.

This is the debate we’ll be looking into tomorrow and how this still rages on and continues to affect our lives.

To be Continued...

Part 4: TheTwo Schools of Truth

PS: Part 4 will be released on Wednesday and not Monday, I'm kinda busy

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God of War | Coming April 20th 

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Can't wait

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crystal formation

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Just found this, kinda mesmerising

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The Greatest Formula & its Philosophical Counterpart (Pt. 2)

Fear. It is one of the greatest stimulants known to humankind. It makes us do things whuch we could never even dream about. It not only affects us physically but also mentally. But there is one characteristic of fear, something which makes it one of the most powerful emotions we can experience. It is an unique one, and this aspect of fear has shaped a lot of hisory all by itself.

Fear incites Belief

It was this fear that incited into us humans the belief of the supernatural. At this stage one may question : “What did we have to fear?”

Before I answer this, we have to delve deep back in time, at the start of it all. Where our heavenly pair was separated.

Ancient Egypt - Egyptians are usually credited with “inventing” or just coming up with religion. But why did we need religion in the first place?

We needed it to satisfy our curiosity. Something which in my opinion is the second most powerful feeling which we humans can experience. The urge to know and the irresistible desire to explain everything around us. Here’s where God steps in, to deliver us from our curiosity and satisfy our urge for explanation of every phenomenon that we could observe.

Science hadn’t yet exactly come up then. We would go for several millenias before we could explain anything we saw with propern scientific proof. Before I continue to ramble on, I would first like to tell you where the inherent rivalry between the aforementioned factions lies.

You see, Science tries to explain everything through systematic observation and study. To be more precise,

Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

On the other hand, religion does not require a study or observation. The word of God is final and the holy texts do require to be ratified or proven. Again, to be precise,

Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

If you observe, both the factions try to explain the natural world, one through gods and one through experiments. A religious belief can be challenged, so can a scientifc claim, but the latter is rarely exposed to such treatment as the prrof is literally in front of your eyes. Religion is basically the predecessor of science.

Going back to how gods saved us from being burnt by our own curiosities, we began to explain everything our ancient minds could not comprehend throygh god, when we did start to comprehend them, that particular god went out of fashion and became obsolete. Here lies the goal of science in its war with religion, science aspires to make the whole of religion, in its entirety obsolete.

But religion too is not all blind faith and empty claims, almost all of the rituals observed by us today has some sort of scientific basis. Those which don’t are just add-ons to the existing vastness of faith, or maybe science hasn’t progressed far enough to provide us with that explanation.

This is what I’ll be talking about in the next part, how religion actually complements our modern scientific sensibilites and provided those before science with a way to wrap their head around the magnificence of nature.

To Be Continued,  

Part 3 : Where Rivals Cross Paths

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It’s Lonely At The Top (Pt. 1)

Well, I say it’s not. Its only at the top the two greatest things I happen to know,  seem to meet. This heavenly pair settles for nothing else but the very top, at the top of the world, the universe, and all that in existence. People call them rivals, contradictory, always proving the other wrong. Disagree, with me, I don’t mind, my views are mine. My perspective is mine. Like it, good for you, hate it? I love you.

Well, any guesses for this pair? Here are some clues: They share the same story, try to say the same thing, interpreted differently, thought to be separate, just two versions of the same thing, one respected by most of the modern day folks, one trusted by those who slightly adverse to the first one.

Sides of the same coin.

People think they can only choose one, but the fun starts when you flip the coin and it lands on its edge, that’s the edge the lucky few have over the world. The lucky few who go by the name the “Rationals”. This is the same edge I love to reside on, just without the edge probably. In my opinion, the perfect balance is in the chaos of the flip and the bent edge. It’s practically impossible to not be inclined towards one side or the other, but we’re here to stretch the boundaries of “possibility”. And possibility is born from the boundaries governing nature. The followers of one of the above factions will tell you these boundaries have a Governor. This Governor has shaped almost all of everything we can perceive around us today.

This governor is the entity, thing, power, whatever you like to call it who’s at war with those who challenge it. The funny part is this governor is not the thing that actually fights this war, nor are the fighters delegated by this entity.

We fight this war.   

Yes, We. We, mortals, believe we can solve this heavenly riddle. Well, it’s great if we do and even better if we don’t.

So this is the war I’m gonna talk about. This age-old one and how they are actually friends, not rivals, and how messed up this self-contradictory, self-conflicting war is. It has bloodshed, tensions and the greatest secrets this universe has been trusted with. 

Religion Vs Science 

Whose Side Are You on? (You can pick the edge, but then again...)

To Be Continued...

Part 2: The Greatest Formula & it’s Philosophical Counterpart

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My Upload Schedule

So here's what I came up with. Yes now I actually know what I'm gonna blog about. And let me make this very clear- I'm gonna make this very detailed. So it's gonna be about my thoughts. I have no idea why you'd be interested in that, but anyways (we need to sort this out @selcouthgeek) So here's the plan, we're gonna have mini series. I'm gonna blog about a particular thought or a train of thoughts or a particular class or kind of them on a certain day of the week. Monday - Thoughts when I stare up at the ceiling. Tuesday - Some stuff I like. Wednesday - Some stuff I hate. Thursday - A glance at the world. Friday - We need to talk about this. Saturday -  You know that feeling when.... Sunday - Come on, give me one day off in the week, I need rest too okay. So this is effective from tomorrow. And that's it for today I guess. I'll see you tomorrow. Bbye and have a great day.  

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Here I am Again

So I realised something. No one reads a blog by someone whom they don't know. Actually no one reads it anyway. So if no one actually reads this then I'm just gonna let this be a nice little record of my inconsequential life. Moving on from the existential crisis, let me tell you a bit about myself . Only you know why you're reading this. You could be doing something much better. But anyway, my name is Rohan Khatua, ignore the last part please, and I was born this nice little crowded crazy place called Calcutta  (now Kolkata) in the state of West Bengal in India. I have quite the set of interests and I'll admit that I can't really devote myself to one and I keep fluttering from one to the other. Some of those are gaming, which I think is safe to say I'm pretty devoted to, and here's where it starts to fade away a little, well after gaming comes astrophysics, yes I know big jump, I like mind boggling stuff, and I'm in love with science videos. Speaking of videos I'm addicted to YouTube. I guess that's it for today, gotta save some stuff for next time as I really don't have a lot to share but I'll figure something out. So thanks for reading and have a good day. Bbye.

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Welcome "Address"

So I just started this blog, and to be honest I've got no idea what do with this, so I'm absolutely open to suggestions, if you by any chance happen to stumble upon here for some reason (I don't know how I managed to attract your attention) then please do stay, it would be an absolute pleasure for me to know you and you may want to know me too. I guess that's it for this one. I'm not really sure about my posting schedule but I'll try to keep it as routinely as possible. So thank you for reading this. Bbye and have a great day.

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The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton