September 15, 2018 Saturday
Bedtime Story
'What is Truth?'
With the states failing their legal
contracts it does not come as a surprise then that the human apes need to
resort to Gods once again.
Conversely, nations where the state is able
to carry out its promises as envisaged in a constitution to a very large extent
such as the case is with the Scandinavian nations, the belief in god in very
minimal and near irrelevant.
Hence it did not come as a surprise to me to
know that a study revealed that only 24% of Danes and 16% of Swedes believe in
personal god.
When the state is able to play out its role
and function the way it was meant to – which is nothing less than playing the
god – the need or demand for god shrinks dramatically.
Such kind of social security is very new in
the history of human apes and even then only a fraction of human apes have been
and are fortunate enough to experience it.
What most of us go through our lives in our
interaction with the state is the normal or default mode and it has generally
been that away even in the oldest of the civilizations even though there
certainly must have been benefits.
The problem eventually lies in the fact
that most nations or civilizations are resource-deficit and hence provide
enough even for its “state” what the state is supposed to provide for its
citizens thereby making each citizen a burden for the state rather than an
asset.
In fact , even the pension that is required
to be provided for the retired members of the “state” eventually ends up
becoming a burden for the society thereby chucking out one of its duties ‘(h)
That, state will bear the burden of supporting him when he becomes weak and
aged’ for a six.
Now let us return to the faqir of Nazareth
and see how fate played out with him.
We saw some nights ago that when
interrogated directly by the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judea
Pontius Pilate Jesus made an unequivocal stand that tax must not be evaded and
has to be paid.
With that the charge of treason and sedition
against the state and thereby Caesar collapsed for it was perhaps taken for
granted that the man who called himself the son of God and the King of Jews would
not be a liar (I personally would be more skeptical of such men and their tall
claims).
There is a very interesting painting based
on this event painted by the artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge of the Russian
Empire who was raised as an orphan, educated himself in physics and mathematics
from Kiev and Saint Petersburg University respectively but then gave up his
career in science to pursue arts.
He graduated with a gold medal from the Imperial
Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and then went on to bring alive on the
canvass several historical and religious scenes which went on to become his
leitmotif.
This painting rendered in 1890 goes by the
title ‘What is truth’ based on the dialogue that took place between Jesus and Pilate
as described in the Gospel of John.
When Jesus describes his mission as to come
into this world to witness the truth Pilate makes this famous reply as
mentioned in John 18:38, “What is truth?”
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
For edutainment and English education of your children, I
recommend this large collection of Halloween Songs for Kids:
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