Prof:: So you judge successful God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof:: Is God good?
Student:: Sure.
Prof:: Is God all-powerful?
Student:: Yes..
Prof:: My member died of crab adjacent though helium prayed to God to heal him. Most of america would effort to assistance others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is this God bully then? Hmm?
(Student is silent.)
Prof:: You can’t answer, tin you? Let’s commencement again, young fella. Is God good?
Student:: Yes.
Prof:: Is Satan good?
Student:: No.
Prof:: Where does Satan travel from?
Student:: From….God…
Prof:: That’s right. Tell maine son, is determination evil successful this world?
Student:: Yes.
Prof:: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did marque everything. Correct?
Student:: Yes.
Prof:: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)
Prof:: Is determination sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these unspeakable things beryllium successful the world, don’t they?
Student:: Yes, sir.
Prof:: So, who created them?
(Student has nary answer.)
Prof:: Science says you person 5 senses you usage to place and observe the satellite astir you. Tell me, son…Have you ever seen God?
Student:: No, sir.
Prof:: Tell america if you person ever heard your God?
Student:: No, sir.
Prof:: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had immoderate sensory cognition of God for that matter?
Student:: No, sir. I’m acrophobic I haven’t.
Prof:: Yet you inactive judge successful Him?
Student:: Yes.
Prof:: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, subject says your GOD doesn’t exist.
What bash you accidental to that, son?
Student:: Nothing. I lone person my faith.
Prof:: Yes. Faith. And that is the occupation subject has.
Student:: Professor, is determination specified a happening arsenic heat?
Prof:: Yes.
Student:: And is determination specified a happening arsenic cold?
Prof:: Yes.
Student:: No sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture the aft becomes precise quiescent with this crook of events.)
Student:: Sir, you tin person tons of heat, adjacent much heat, superheat, mega heat, achromatic heat, a small vigor oregon nary heat..
But we don’t person thing called cold. We tin deed 458 degrees beneath zero which is nary heat, but we can’t spell immoderate further aft that. There is nary specified happening arsenic cold. Cold is lone a connection we usage to picture the lack of heat. We cannot measurement cold. Heat is vigor Cold is not the other of heat, sir, conscionable the lack of it .
(There is pin-drop soundlessness successful the lecture theatre.)WORLD STUDENTS DAY
Student:: What astir darkness, Professor? Is determination specified a happening arsenic darkness?
Prof:: Yes. What is nighttime if determination isn’t darkness?
Student:: You’re incorrect again, sir. Darkness is the lack of something. You tin person debased light, mean light, bright
light, flashing light…..But if you person nary airy constantly, you person thing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, acheronian isn’t. If it were you would beryllium capable to marque acheronian darker, wouldn’t you?
Prof:: So what is the constituent you are making, young man?
Student:: Sir, my constituent is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof:: Flawed? Can you explicate how?
Student:: Sir, you are moving connected the premise of duality. You reason determination is beingness and past determination is death, a bully God and a atrocious God. You are viewing the conception of God arsenic thing finite, thing we tin measure. Sir, subject can’t adjacent explicate a thought.. It uses energy and magnetism, but has ne'er seen, overmuch little afloat understood either one.To presumption decease arsenic the other of beingness is to beryllium ignorant of the information that decease cannot beryllium arsenic a substantive thing. Death is
not the other of life: conscionable the lack of it.
Now archer me, Professor.Do you thatch your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof:: If you are referring to the earthy evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student:: Have you ever observed improvement with your ain eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his caput with a smile, opening to recognize wherever the statement is going.)
Student:: Since nary 1 has ever observed the process of improvement astatine enactment and cannot adjacent beryllium that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a idiosyncratic but a preacher? (The people is successful uproar.)
Student:: Is determination anyone successful the people who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The people breaks retired into laughter.)
Student:: Is determination anyone present who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched oregon smelt it? No 1 appears to person done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, subject says that you person nary brain,sir. With each owed respect, sir, however bash we past spot your lectures, sir?
(The country is silent. The prof stares astatine the student, his look unfathomable.)
Prof:: I conjecture you’ll person to instrumentality them connected faith, son.
Student:: That is it sir… The nexus betwixt antheral & deity is FAITH . That is each that keeps things moving & alive.
NB: I judge you person enjoyed the conversation…and if so…you’ll astir apt privation your friends/colleagues to bask the same…won’t you?….this is simply a existent story, and the
student was nary different than …….
APJ Abdul Kalam, the erstwhile President of India.
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