Monday, May 4, 2009

Unanswerable marvels

In no particular order, I often wonder:

Where/Who is God?

Does anything happen to us at all after our death? Or are we mere biological organisms that'll
perish and that'll be the end of it all? Is there actually "the other world" that we go to?

How would the world be if everybody was nice? All the "bad" people have caused the world to
come up with so many laws, so many security devices - including doors :P.
If everybody was nice, there would be no doors, no locks, no keys, no road-dividers, no
traffic signals, no weapons, no identity cards, no police, no courts, no jails and so onnnn..
Even with all this around, there is so much unemployment. Imagine, what would the
manufacturers and employees of all the above do if those things did not exist at all!!

How does a language develop from scratch? How was the first dictionary written?

How did human beings manage to make so much machinery, so many vehicles blah blah. I feel
dumbfounded whenever I go inside a factory and I feel so useless for not contributing in
anyway to any of that. There are 4 kinds of people - the inventors, the enhancers, the users
and the breakers. All 4 are needed for the world to function. I can see myself as a mere
enhancer of the lowest degree.

What makes Nature work? Is there something governing it?

What do animals think/feel when they see human beings building things all around them? Do they understand that something is happening? If they don't, then there is such a high probablity
that we humans also do not understand even what we see or is brain the differentiating factor?

What all is mankind unaware of? I think the volume of that would be googolplex the amount of
things we have discovered so far

What are we? What's the purpose of our lives in this universe. Think of how extremely huge
this universe is, think of galaxies, space etc. and then you'll suddenly feel so
insignificant.. all our issues are so small and so irrelevant to the existence of this whole
universe

What would happen if we leave a bunch of new-born babies all alone in an island? Will they all
die or will they grow up to form a society similar to ours - with language, rules etc. or will
they come up with a totally different way of life?

And of course, why did humans make such stringent rules that many of them have to die of
hunger, have to face poverty, have to struggle so much to travel from one part of the world to
the other.

Who planted the seed of evil in this earth?

If ghosts do not exist at all, why are they talked about? Who imagined about them first?

Is it really possible to tell fortune?

How are interests formed? What part of the brain registers interests? What are emotions? How
are they formed?

To what extent technology will advance?

How long is the life of earth?

How was music developed?

And of course, what would I have been had I not been a software engineer :P