A very good read

I came acrooss this yesterday on facebook I wrote about how things in this world are relative.Anyways its a very good read.
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though
he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would
attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t.
How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start
again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in
this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did
make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred?
Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the
world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use
to identify and observe the world around you. Tell
me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir. Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your
GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any
sensory perception of GOD for that matter? Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t. Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable,
Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD
doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith. Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem
Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this
turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more
heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat
or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold.
We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no
heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There
is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot
measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the
opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there
such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t
darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the
absence of something. You can have low light,
normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you
have no light constantly, you have nothing and its
called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If
it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making,
young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical
premise is flawed. Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how? Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of
duality. You argue there is life and then there is
death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing
the concept of GOD as something finite, something
we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a
thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view death as the opposite of life is to be
ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a
substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of
it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your
students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural
evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with
your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile,
beginning to realize where the argument was
going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the
process of evolution at work and cannot even
prove that this process is an on-going endeavor.
Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you
not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever
seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard
the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No
one appears to have done so. So, according to the
established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable
Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? (The room was silent. The Professor stared at the
student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith,
son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between
man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things
alive and moving. P.S. I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And
if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues
to enjoy the same, won’t you? Forward this to increase their knowledge … or
FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

Common Sense

Common Sense.We call it "Common" because there is an assumption that as human beings being the "Superior" creatures that we are have this general and innate capability to have a similar and collective sense of thinking or viewing certain things.WRONG!
Common sense is relative.Depending on context and ones perception.And our contextual meanings for things and our perceptions differ.But there are times when somethings are common sense.For instance if you drive you must have atleast learnt some if not all rules and regulations of the road isnt it.So when you stop your car on the bleeding Zebra crossing (its that part of the road with the white lines) and start hooting at pedestrians (thats the people on foot) for crossing the road at the wrong place isnt it your own fault (drivers) that the are crossing there?More over to the pedestrians who cross roads at places that they shouldnt be crossing what do you expect?Fortunately I put the blame for these road mishaps on the bloody contracters,road planners and the rest of those peole who do the roads.Since they put the crossings either too far or not even at the proper places.Or putting the Zebra crossing on the speed pump.Logically it only makes sense to put
it after the crossing thus a car slows down before getting to the speed bump so the pedestrian can atleast run before the car gets too close.That and the lack of enough road side signs and warnings really makes me think more than twice before crossing a road.Even when the lights are in my favor.
If you have an appointment or an interview at a company,office or whatever it is and you perhaps are running late or need to reschedule you'd let them know.And Id expect the same kind of courtesy from them but alas recently I came to find out differently.Had an appointment and I showed up on time meaning 5minutes before it was to take place.Upon arrival the person I was to see happen to not be there so I gave my details to the lady at the reception and I told her when Id be free to show up again.She said I should go the day after at the same time of which I did but again to my disappointment the person I was to see wasnt there.This time the receptionist told me,"We have your number I will give you a call." I said no sweat and left it as is.Shock on me two weeks later when Lady X (yes Im omitting names for their preservation as much as my own) who was infact the person who told me about the job opening and so on where she works asks me if I had gone.I
said yes I went twice and explained to her all that transpired.She goes why didnt you go back again till you go the interview done (mind you they are talking in a very unfriendly tone).I pointed out that my "common sense" dictated that these people were professionals and that since THEY were the ones looking to hire and THEY told me they would give me a call Id wait for that call.Lady X looks at me and says,"Your just going to be another graduate with no job." As if I the one who should have been going there everyday to beg them for the interview.As bad as this sounds I have to say that with a mentality such as hers on that day I now get how certain people from certain areas of the world would rather not work with other people from other places in the world.
This may seem petty but it is my blog after all so you can stop reading it.I think that if you borrow or use something of someones be it a matchbox,cutlary,soccer/football shoes the least you could do is return them before the other person starts asking about them and in the same conditon that you took them.Again here is another epic fail.Not only are some people totally oblivious to this but also end up making it seem as if they are doing you a favor by returning your own shit but that you bothering them to do so.
Common Sense dictates. . . . . . . . .
Absolutely NOTHING.Why?Because it isnt so common.I mean its possible that some of us are running on Common Sense Version 4.0 while others are stil on version 1.0
Jah Bless