All religions are one

The heading of my post is the same as the title of a famous work by William Blake. In it he argues that man is the source of religion and that it is his imagination that brings forth the concept of religion. All these dawned on me while reading Dan Brown’s recent mystery novel, “Origin”. The book is the 5th installment of the famous Robert Langdon series. This book explores the concept of various religions and the 2 most important questions of our existence.

1. Where did we come from?

2. Where are we going?

I don’t want to spoil the thrill of reading for the readers. So I will just talk about my point of view into the matter.

One of my very open view is that religion was a man made illusion that was used to cover up the unknown. For example, lets say Ebola virus infection appeared back in the 10th century. The scientific development at that time was not sufficient to investigate the infection or the cause. Therefore, it automatically became a plague sent by God. Anyone smart enough to look for the science behind it was condemned and punished as being a heretic. Some of the famous condemned scientist where, Galileo, Copernicus and etc. But with the advancement in science, the reason behind everything is investigated and a solution is presented. Even if there isn’t a complete solution, there is a possibility of at least reaching a mid way point. Due to this fact, the world is seeing a rapid rise in atheists around the world. That does not mean the concept of religion is totally absurd. For example, the hindu religion had a smart way of incorporating religion with science. The religion is obsessed with turmeric powder and it is almost used every where from funeral houses to weddings. The scientific reason behind is the anti-bacterial properties of turmeric. People back then would not have followed anything if a person spoke about science and higyene but would bend over for religion. So the pundits of the time used religion as a cover for science. Even in the current world, there are thousands of people who have a blind faith on religion which is becoming dangerous day by day.

The primary goal of any religion was peace and prosperity but the current world is shred into pieces because of religion and the fight to show which belief is powerful. Religion which was suppose to bring order from chaos forgot its purpose and turned right back creating chaos from order.

So back to the book, the 2 prominent questions are the most intriguing of many questions about the universe. According to the protognist and myself, we are nothing but a tiny speck of dust in a huge universe. We are not significant as we think ourselves to be. As I had mentioned once in my earlier posts, we are only the current dominant species on earth. There were many before us and many after us. The book has a very interesting suggestion about our successor which seems highly likely with the current world. I do not want to get into details but the synopsis is that we are nothing special and we will not be special. Religion is just the imagination used to cover up our fear of the unknown. It is time the world breaks free of this millennia old concept of religion and unite under science.

To know the interesting answers to the above questions I suggest you read the book.

The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.

William Blake

Cheers,

Jathu

Conspiracies around us – 4

Does any one feel too crowded on earth? I don’t feel like being suffocated but what is with these people who claim that earth is over populated? This is the soul of Dan Brown’s most recent mystery “Inferno”. The antagonist of the story plans to release some toxins into the air which when is breath in, will turn 2 in 3 people impotent.

So is the world really going through over population?? Does it need to be controlled?? The world is going through a high birth rate compared to the past but it doesn’t mean we are over crowding the world. There are so many places on earth with low population density and stuff. Many who read the story may think it was a thing of Dan Brown’ imagination but it really is happening around us. Many organisations, including government are concerned with this over population stuff and are working on reducing the population because larger the crowd, harder it is to manipulate or control them. How many of us know that the worst disease on earth, AIDS was a result of experiments?? I even remember few years back when there was a rumour about Coca Cola making you impotent.

When a nation has a larger population, controlling them is another matter but meeting their needs is also difficult. So every large corporations and governments want to keep it in check. But that doesn’t mean you should make them impotent or reduce the birth rates. When we look into the evolution of earth, once dinosaurs where the dominant species on earth. At one point over population may or may not have been a factor there but naturally they became extinct. So may be at one point we humans may become extinct naturally. We are messing around with nature too much so one day it may take revenge. Who knows??? Until that day lets all live happily. 😀

That’s it people, this is was rather a short post because most of the facts are obvious,

Until the next time,
Cheers,
Jathu

Conspiracies around us – 2

So here I am back to write about the next Dan Brown conspiracies (I like to call it so….). This time I am touching a very popular subject – “The Illuminati”. Let me start over with the history of this secret organisation.

Illuminati is actually the Latin word for the “Enlightened”. So why is there a commotion about a society that is called Enlightened?? Illuminati or originally called Bavarian Illuminati was a secret society formed by A German called Adam Weishaupt some where in 1776. The true purpose of this secret society was for the educated people of the era. During the period of Adam Weishaupt, church was the governing body of the world. Any findings or activities against the church was deemed heresy. So many scientist, philosophers, mathematicians, artists and many more where punished and forced to drop their ideas and researches. This secret society was a place where anyone was free to express their ideas and philosophies.

But this society didn’t flourish in a single day. It took years to make it a success. According to the film or the book “Demons and Angels”, no one was required  to complete tasks and prove themselves. The early members where hand picked and taken in little by little. When the governments and the church came to know of this secret society, they saw it as a threat and started plotting against it. While the outside world was threatened by the Illuminatis, they started having internal issues. These 2 factors brought in the decline of this society. By the 1820’s Illuminatis where considered demolished.

Even though the illuminati was believed to be dead, many modern philosophers think the Illuminatis went under hiding and are still prevailing behind the scene. Many politicians and powerful people are considered to be illuminatis. Even the founding fathers of USA are believed to be illuminatis. The current rumoured Illuminatis are Bill Gates, The Rothchilds, Issac Asimov and many more.

Eventhough Most of the facts mentioned by Dan Brown are considered fiction, some believe it to be true. I forgot the mentions a main fact here. The moto of illuminati is “New World order “, That’s the main reason they are feared by many. It is believed by many that this secret society is planing on world domination and stuff.

As to me, eventhough many have convinced me of the presence of the Illuminati, I believe in see and hear to believe policy, So I am a non believer. But it doesn’t make me dislike Angels and Demons. It’s a pretty damn interesting read.

OK folks, this is all I know of the Illuminatis, if I missed anything, my apologies.

Until the next time,

Cheers,

Jathu.

Conspiracies around us

Hello again Folks,

I am back again with some interesting topic. Everyone is well aware of the names such as Illuminati, Freemasonary and many more. Every time these names pop up, it is surrounded by conspiracies and controversies. Everyone has different understanding of these conspiracies. The main medium of ideas about these conspiracies being spread is films and books. The greatest example would be Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series which consist of The Da Vinci Code(Concerning the Rennes Le Chateau mystery), Angels and Demons (Brings back the Illuminatis), The lost symbol (involves the free-masons secrets) and finally Inferno (Revolves around Dante Alighieri’s Inferno and population control).

What are these conspiracies??? What is so special about a small town in the southern France??? Who and what are the illuminatis??? Who are the free masons??? and why is everyone concerned with  the growing population??? I will give a short description of these 4 topics from what I understood and learnt.

Rennes Le Chateau is a small town in the southern France which became a centre of conspiracies. It all began when a the parish priest (Berenger Sauniere)of the local church, The church of Saint Mary Magdelene starting spending much more than he could make in his whole life. So where did this poor priest of the 1880’s get so much money? He went through many inquiries from the Diocese and still he was reluctant so share the secret of his sudden wealth. The only other person who knew his secrets was his house maid to whom he left the wealth and all his properties on his death. The woman sold everything to a person called Noel Corbu. This new owner made use of the mystery of Sauniere and some other facts to make up a story of Sauniere finding the treasure from the Temple of Solomon and some proof of the immortality of christ which were believed to be safe guarded by the Knight Templars but then hidden in this small town when they where being hunt down. This rumours made Rennes Le Chateau a centre of mystery and till this date it is visited by many treasure hunters and tourists to witness pieces of this mystery to themselves.

To what extent this story is true is not for me to say but if you feel you need further clarification, I would suggest the book called “The Holy Blood The Holy Grail” (Goodreads link – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606818.Holy_Blood_Holy_Grail ).

Until I am back with the next part,
Cheers,

Jathu.