Review: God’s Debris by Scott Adams

There is a statement in this book – “My brain hurts” Yeah, even my brain was hurting, I had a splitting headache, but it was just not possible to leave the book. It forced me to think and re-think on every page.

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has written this book. It may be pure fiction, people would say that it is inspired by Matrix (What is real?) but it compels you to view things differently. My perspective of God, of universe, of free will, of light, of everything underwent a scrutiny. I am thinking differently now. Some may trash this book saying that it seems too far-fetched, but this does nothing but simplify everything and the simplification results in so complex and weird conclusions that it seems too hypothetical.

This book explains everything, barring Probability. As per the book “Only probability is inexplicable“. Probability has been deemed to be the force that governs the universe. “Probability is omnipotent and omnipresent. Probability is the guiding force of everything in the universe, living or nonliving, near or far, big or small, now or anytime.”

Try sleeping after reading this book; sleep would be light-years away. And if you fall asleep while reading this book, you can safely assume you are a second level human.

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From the book:

• Religions are like different maps whose routes all lead to the collective good of society.
• The concept of ‘importance’ is a human one born out of our need to make choices for survival.
• Like the Easter Bunny, the past exists only in your mind.
• Everything that motivates living creatures is based on some weakness or flaw.
• In the long run — the extreme long run — probability is fixed and certain in its outcome. Probability forces the coin toss to be exactly fifty-fifty at some point, assuming you keep flipping forever.
• Rationality can’t explain our obsession with the Internet. The need to build the Internet comes from something inside us, something programmed, something we can’t resist.

Then and now

“You never value things that you have.” My dad often told me this when I used to be picky about what I should eat. All his words fell on deaf ears. I never realized that home cooked food is a luxury, which not many can afford. It is not only food, but this adage holds true for everything.

During graduation, money had value, lots of value. Almost always I had just a few hundred in my account, whereas I used to be thousands in debt. So money had value, every 10-rupee note was significant. But now, the value of money has waned. I do not say that it has lost its value, but it is definitely way down in the list. After all money is material. Sab moh-maya hain! 😐

What I value these days is the support structure I have. People whom I love and I care about and people who love me & care for me. It is not as if I did not value this in college, but now this is the only thing that has value. My family, my friends – I have realized that only people matter, nothing else.

In college, I was broke, but surrounded by friends. Now, in office, I have the security of money, but all new friendships seem artificial. Life sure seems to be a game of give-n-take 😕

Update: As I am writing this, I see that even Rakesh has delved into memories.

A picture is worth a thousand words

Often I have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. But what if the picture is words? 😕

A word cloud from SnapShirts

Nightmare

Cold sweat breaks on my forehead, and I am all nerves.
I am in the middle of an ocean. Sharks are swarming all around me and the coast is nowhere in sight. I have to get the life jacket, which is lying just beyond the meanest-looking shark. I need to avoid the sharks, snatch the life jacket and come unscathed to the coast.

No, I am not talking about some new video game; this is real life. Huh! You don’t believe me! 😮 This happened to me just a week back and I survived to tell the tale. Let me recheck the facts. Oh! I made two-three mistakes. Replace ocean with shopping-complex, sharks with salesmen, coast with exit and life jacket with a T-shirt. Ok, so now the story goes:

Cold sweat breaks on my forehead, and I am all nerves.
I am in the middle of a shopping-complex. Salesmen are swarming all around me and the exit is nowhere in sight. I have to get the t-shirt, which is lying just beyond the meanest-looking salesman. I need to avoid the salesmen, snatch the t-shirt and come unscathed to the exit.

There, this is a true story. Rakesh dragged me to the hideous, atrocious, horrendous task of shopping a week back (I still have not forgiven him for that, and I think I never will X( [How do I get an angry smiley in here :?]) Barely few minutes had passed and claustrophobia had set in, ‘Anxiety’ was my middle-name, and ‘Panic’ was trying hard to shove off ‘Anxiety’ and take over me (which it did successfully just three seconds later) and I was running to the exit as a dog would run to greet the person holding the meat. Through the exit, fresh air greets me and I embrace freedom and relief engulfs me.

Shopping can harm you physically (when you object to shopping to a shopping-freak), mentally (this post is an ample proof to that), and of course financially! So I strongly advice everyone to kindly refrain from shopping or be prepared to face dire consequences.

Finally!

Raipur makes its debut in the Cricketing arena. Hope this time they finish the work. Now a Ranji team from Chhattisgarh would be good news.