Food For Thought

1) genesis, creation - the beginning : what about the beginning of the universe? If god wanted just to create earth then why all the universe? Is there no life any where out in the universe? Do they also have the same god? Are they wrong or are we? If life is intelligently designed.then why is there lots of vacuum or emptiness in space? It only points out to wasteful or bad design 2/3 of the earth is covered in water, and we can't live there. Humans are not the strongest beings, nor the biggest! We get infected by the smallest of organisms! What of all this points to an intelligent design?  2) there are so many religions. Are all true? Or all false?  Can your's be false? If all are true then are there many gods? This is where Pascal's wager doesn't make sense! [Pascal's wager  is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French  philosopher ,  mathematician  and  physicist ,  Blaise Pascal  (1623–1662). [1] ...

What does a day or a date mean? Does it have a physical value or emotional value? According to astronomy, a day means a rotation of the earth around its own axis, and a revolution means a time taken by the earth to move around the sun. So a particular date in a year shows that the earth is at that point in space.  We mark these days as Independence day, christmas, new year, the month of ramadan etc. My problem is not with the dates, but with the memories, the rituals, the practices associated with these dates. India gained it's Independence or rather declared as Independent on Aug 15, 1947. That was a event that took place on that day in that year, it doesn't take place every year. We don't have to win our Independence every year, we are independent since August 15, 1947. But why does our patriotism only come out on that day? We wave flags, we sing our national anthem, we say " meta Bharath mahaan" only on that day and the very next day revert back to ou...