Believing the Incredible

When it comes to Belief I have a whole new subset. Not something I would desire everyone to understand. Everyone has got their own beliefs and I feel that there is nothing wrong if two persons disaccord their respective beliefs. Beliefs tell you who you are, and what you hold. Beliefs dictate what you are capable of and at what you will always fail. I don’t know how many will concur to this statement but I feel this is some sort of a mental attitude of acceptance towards a proposition. I would like to channelize this view by putting forth the nibble that whatever the belief might be, it should not be digested for the sake of it or because people have been told to believe it. Or only because it’s been practiced since ages.

If beliefs behave like a received truth of a religious nature then they transform their nerve into Dogmas. Steve Jobs justifiably cites: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking". You should live your life as per your beliefs which are subjected to rational examination. If you believe in the long accepted proposition of man then you are wasting your precious time on this planet by trying to ape their life. You inner voice might want something else for you but just because you have given consent to other people's belief you practice, you weave, their ideology. It’s time that we raise our thoughts and gain courage to follow what our heart wants to. My implication to raise ones thoughts out here is to simply try, battle out the nurtured dogmas which are trying to drown your own thoughts. Courage is what is needed for this feat. Belief can no longer be regarded as an innocent error. Once a dogma gets rolling, it's very hard to kill it, since those infected are impossible to reason with. They are so captivated with such dogmas that they almost blank out on their own thoughts.

It's like, the moment you believe in something, “this is it”, you are bringing a certain degree of rigidity into the very life process that you are. Believing also means you have assumed something that you do not know. Therefore I feel belief should be completely rational and a principle capable of proof. Belief is one of the most powerful forces of this world. If you believe in God, God is there for you, if you don't believe then there is no such thing on earth for you. If you believe in God he is there for you in every speck and nook of this infinite universe. You don't have to go hunting for him in any temple as such. Belief is the undisputed master of this Earth, so try working on this area, on this belief of yours. Try freeing your belief from a doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth. Try to disembarrass your belief from an arbitrary dictum.

Anais Nin has wisely cited: “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” This is so true. Try questioning the received truth.

Abraham Lincoln adverted: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Superstitious prophecies are only the belief of fools. Stop playing one.

Faster than Light... Did I?

This is space. It looks pretty penultimate. I've heard people identifying it as the final frontier. I can picture its vastness in my mind but this was something happening for real. I wonder if this has to do anything with my hallucinations or experiencing a terrible hangover. It's appearing that I have been picked up and shipped from the sea near my town into a shining sea. I'm not the person I remember. The cold no longer is a bother. I can endure oxygen, food, water for some reason. This morning bets to be strange. Jesus, I can see the Earth behind me. Hell there is something really fishy going on out here. How on earth (err... it's gotta be space for now) did I reach here. After analyzing and calling to mind, the inference is that I have been transmitted like a message into my own past. But this gives invitation to a whole flock of queries. Am I beginning to enter a world of FTL paradoxes? Darn I hope not.

If whatever happening around is true, then does this mean that I can go back in time and alter history. Gosh, it might prove the other way round as well, wherein history might have already incorporated the changes that would have been done by one of the time travelers like me. But am I really traveling back in time? Well I never believed time travel was possible, but I don't think it would work exactly the way it did in the movies. Anyways, whatever it might be, if this is for real then Jesus am I really…? Am I really travelling faster than the speed of light? I know nothing is impossible but, this, by far is physically impossible. Am I violating the laws of Physics? Well I can't do this to Physics at least. I've adored Physics since my first Physics class. This sounds dramatic but it’s like I am taking the laws of physics and punching them in the stomach and throwing them down the stairs. It’s like I am dividing a number by zero. I remember my school teacher articulating: "physics is a complete package: once you decide to ignore one physical law, you're ignoring them all." I know it’s no concern to the Star Trek guys as they go faster than the speed of light every show and travel into the past like it's a trip to Disneyland.

Ok...let me at least try breaking this enigma down. The Universe is supposed to be infinite or is it a branching array of parallel universes? This begs for another question, however: travelling through time is travel through only one dimension, leaving you stationary in reference to the three primal dimensions. It's quite difficult for me to answer these questions though. Gosh... I am completely blurred by these queries of mine which doesn’t bring home the bacon. Did I just kill all those brain cells for kicks? Anyways, solving these queries is not a big concern to me right now. Let me leave this work to the physicists. First thing, first. I need to figure out where I am supposed to go from here.

I cannot cognize how many light years I am away from my planet right now. I was getting drifted along in the outer space, slowly approaching my home planet. I can see myself in school, discovering the first periodic table of elements devised by Dmitri Mendeleev. Trying to learn how elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. About Atoms, well I can call back atom as a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets around a sun. I've often chewed over that our solar system resembles an atom, with the sun as the nucleus and the planets electrons, this would make our galaxy a molecule and the universe would be the whole thing (whatever that would be). Oh, this strikes me like a bullet that I might be 12 light years away from earth. Well it was like I could rewind and see my past from here. Ah how I could travel some thousand light years and go back to convince the first amphibian that it really isn't worth the bother of living on land. I don't know how successful I would be in changing the past, because we have our own world safe and sound, several thousand light-years away.

I tried to hop towards earth and the reflected light from my childhood bombarded my eyes and I could see my past all over again. I could watch my family, my friends and express joy at how different they used to appear and how much physical change they have gone through. I chuckled at the mistakes I made then and thought how I would have acted in a different way to avoid those. I was watching the whole drama unfold. An entire sequence of déjà vu taking place. It resembled a "Behind the scenes" kind of episode airing all over. I learned so much about my own life and how it affected other lives. I was revisiting my life and I wanted to change things here and there but I didn’t know whether the changes will take effect as whatever changes I make (however small) will affect the timeline I am in right now. Still thinking and reminiscing I happened to hit an asteroid badly and that’s when I woke up from my slumber only to learn the compressed feeling in my lungs getting even and my vision swam gradually.