Chaos

"Behind the chaos lurks a simple order."

An attempt to find an order in this seemingly unpredictable and merciless world has been the ultimate purpose of all sciences. Is there an order in the world? are there equations that govern the happenings in the world? Can we predict future events? Is the past scripted or was that just the dance of chance? These are the ultimate questions that are hidden behind all the laws and theories of sciences. Babylonian scientists predicted seasons and eclipses, modern scientists predict the trajectory of an asteroid or the growth of a virus.

These attempts to find the order in the world are not mere enthusiasm to understand the world around us. There is a more exstential question for the human being here. Behind the quest to find whether there is order in this world is the key to the purpose of our existence and a question mark on our future. Because if there is order in the world, if there are equations that govern the world, if there are laws that dictates the sequence of events, then aren't we just a variable in the equation, a mere residue in a complex calculation? If that is so, then why should we exist? If all of this is just a prewritten drama and all my successes and achievements are nothing but the few bright spots on the slate that was filled long before I existed, why should I struggle like this to exist?

This shows that the more sciences advance to unearth the order in the world the more man loses a hold on the purpose for his existence.

On Nature

Nature recreates itself in every season. History is reenacted in each age, but never repeated. Change is an illusion and a reality at the same time. Over time, nothing repeats, but everything recreates itself. Every hero is reborn every sorrow is revisited and every battle will be fought again. This is the basic principle of existence. There is always a river and there shall always be one, but we can never step into the same river again. There is rain in every rainy season but it shall never be the same water droplets, never the same plants and never the same flood. We are the logical successors to our predecessors and logical predecessors to our successors in this never ending cycle of events.

People of ancient days(Indians most prominently) considered time as a cyclical concept. Nothing could be a possible source for that belief than the the daily drama of the sun and the yearly regeneration of the vegetation. People in those days might have laughed at the word 'development' and the idea that our lives are somehow following a linear trajectory with either an increasing or decreasing level of satisfaction. But today we have outgrown the wisdom of our creator, the sun and the logic of our food, the vegetation. We have conquered the sun by fusing atoms in the dark. And we have conquered vegetation by domesticating it in our fields.

And so, has time became linear from now onwards? Time as a cyclical concept is irrelevant as there is no 'time', but only 'this time'. But time as a linear concept is the only base scale on which everything else in the world is measured. May be it is an indication of the linear time that we use watches every day while people of ancient days may never cared to look at a watch in their whole life. So, will nature ever recreate again, will history ever reenact again, as long as this arrogant bipedal is still existing?

Tom Paine on God

"It is only in the creation that all of our ideas....of God can unite. The creation speaketh an universal language;.... and this word of god reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of god.
Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abandon with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what god is? Search not the book called the scripture....but the scripture called the Creation."