Surviving Omniscience

This is somewhat in continuation to my earlier article on agnosticism... I am in a strange state of being right now... We all have our down days (where we question everything including, our existence and pretty much despise ourselves) and then there are those wonderful up days (when we seem to have a Midas touch, everything we do is right)... I am typing this post in the middle of an up day....

I feel like making a rather bold (and to some extent, blasphemous) statement..... I feel like an Omniscient.... the all knowing wise one..... this term is usually associated with God... but he has generously agreed to lend that title to me on a short lease (I'm the one with the Midas touch today, remember?)

I claim that I know everything that is worth knowing.... and the things which I don't know, are not worth knowing anyway!... Now the question remains, how do I decide if the thing is worth knowing or not?... simple.... as I am the Omniscient, I know.....

After that faint smile on your face fades away.... think about my statement again.... as per my logic, aren't we all Omniscient?.... In all the days of all our lives, we decide, rather randomly, as to what we want to know and what we don't... we are all selectively permeable towards the external stimuli... Something that we don't know, doesn't concern us... the rising crude oil price means nothing as long as our petrol doesn't become dearer... Gold prices don't mean much till there is a wedding at home... tension in an adjacent country or a state is always someone else's problem, or is at best, just a passing remark or an opportunity to start a new discussion....

We all live in our private omniscience.... a private world of knowledge and ignorance... we never give much credit to what we know, we don't give a damn for what we don't.... In the truest sense of the word, we live a dangerous life... just imagine, the summation of our combined knowledge as a race, is so minuscule in comparison to the vast tracts of ignorance lying beyond the realms... Let us understand what we know so that we realize what we don't... but till then, its all about surviving this omniscience.

a comment on agnosticism

Please do not be dismayed.. I neither have the time nor the inclination to start a debate on whether God exists or not.. I have long believed that "for those who believe, no proof is needed. For those who don't, no proof is enough" (thank you, David Blaine)... My reason (or excuse, depends on how you look at it) for writing this post is the sickening trend of agnosticism .. It seems as if God has been relegated to the same group as System or the State.. Whatever happens, Blame it on God...

Someone once said that we laugh at old customs but religiously follow the new ones.. We seem to have enough reasons to question the existence of God, but not enough proof to support our case.. Why do we ask him (or, her) to prove his/her existence when we take for granted, so many things in life... We spend a vast majority of life believing in molecular science and astronomy while a vast majority of us never really see an actual electron or fly in space, for that matter... My point is that when we believe in science through all its inferential proofs then why do we demand exactitude when it comes to theology..

At the risk of being branded blasphemous, I'd go to the extent of saying that Atheism is better than Agnosticism.. At least we are not asking question to someone who cannot (or will not) answer... and we are not asking for an answer which we will never believe anyway... If one still chooses to be an agnostic then so be it... my advice would be, when you question the creator, you'll have to question the creations too... think about it...