About Faith

I am trying to understand the concept of faith. Say it be in religious point of view or in daily life point of view.

I probably bias towards the interpretation of faith through mathematical analysis, since i can only argues within that domain.

Consider my paradox, I shall call it The LB Paradox of Faith:

Suppose that there are 1 billion people living in this good planet of Earth. 50% of the population are religious, which believes that the world is going to end up in smoke. And the other 50% don't believe at all any of the crap that the religious 50% is saying.

Being bothered too much by the religious 50%, the other 50% decided to create a new population in the planet Mars. The 50% nonreligious population hop in into their space shuttle and fly over to mars in one go.

However, one human decided to follow the shuttle for he fears that his life will end if he stays on earth. Now, without that one idiot in living in planet Mars, the population that shifted over to Mars are theoretically living without fear because their world will never end. But, suppose that idiot starts to tell people that the world will end in smoke, Mars will end up in smoke too, just like earth.

But Mars is Mars and Earth is Earth, how can there be two world that will end up in smoke. No matter where we are, as long as the belief is carried along, there will be no difference.

Religion works on the basis of Faith. Every inch requires faith. Remove faith, and there will be no religion. The simplest question one may ask may be if hell truly exists. Difficult to prove, one need not asks for proof. Just have faith that that place is there is sufficient.

Well, that sounds like assumption to me. We 'want' to believe that hell exists. If we don't 'want' to believe, surely we can forget about having faith in it. If we 'want' to believe, it is equivalent to we are truly not sure if it is there or not, and we don't care if it exist or not because we 'want' it to exist and make us happy. Believe it or not, every time we have faith in there is hell, we are actually telling ourself that we actually does not know if it exist or not. That is why we have faith.

If we know truly that hell exists, why need faith. If hell is there, it will be there. Just like a car. If we have a car, why have faith that we have a car. If we have a car, we indeed have a car.

Between faith and doctor, only idiot give it to faith when comes to sickness. Between, getting rich and poor, only idiot give in to fate. Between becoming educated and not, only idiot give in to faith.

For me, I decide my destiny.

Are We Missing Something?

I always tries to rationalize the existence of things around us, particularly the ones that are alive such as plants, animals, human...

I wonder what makes those things there. Why it is there, how it being there.. and many more questions. So I simplify my thought; assume that there is a creation and everything was created... which mean, according to my lame interpretation, everything came about in a blink of an eye. Its like suddenly it is there, its being created. I assume that if things happen that way, especially human, must have complete knowledge of everything. The brain don't need anymore knowledge because it is created with perfection. But I have little doubt though.. which is... if human are created, why writing does not come with it? why the knowledge about the importance about wheel does not come with it? why there are disputes over which object is the center of the universe? ... so many question I have. I just don't get it.

Ordinary people will surely embrace the belief that everything is 'created' and it is absurd to think otherwise.

We are surely missing something here. As if we stop trying to think of any other explanation beyond the firewall of our belief. We opt for the simplest explanation that our brain can cope. We offer explanation that is incomplete. Our knowledge will always be not complete, but why we are so bold to to offer explanation as if we have the knowledge? When we say that everything is created, can we explain how that can be true?

I don't really agree with the theory about creation. I find evolution is more explainable. There is something concrete that we can base our argument upon. And it does explain many things, just like Einstein's Relativity explains things that Newtonian physics can't explain. At least evolution can explain why the knowledge of wheel came later.

It is lame to say that even an illness is created. It does not make sense to me.

The God of Probability

Just think..

When we drive to work, how sure are we that we will reach our office safely? Well, if we are so sure, why we are so careful as if something 'might' happen?

It bothers me when we have to be careful all the time while we are told that somebody is actually watching over us and keep us safe.

Probably that is why I choose to believe in a personal god called god of probability. Everything is uncertain, everything is 50-50. Believe it or not, it is a reality. Before we start our daily journey to our office, at the back of our head we always have the feeling that we may or we may not get to our office safely, therefore we drive so carefully to increase the chance of getting to the office safely. However, we ill never get a 100% certainty because the god of probability says that there will always the external factors that we could not control. Therefore, even with 1% uncertainty, we still have the probability of not getting to our office safely. Regardless of what kind of faith that we have, the god of probability is always the one that decides the result.

If somebody ask me how this god of probability look like, well, I will answer, ask yourself how a 'not sure' look like....

New Paradigm

Consider two cars, exactly similar in all aspects. The two cars are placed on a track at t=0. When the two cars then travels on a horizontal plane in parallel. At t=1, the first car slows down and then maintain a traveling speed. The other car surely will move ahead, however, both cars will maintain a constant distance between them.

No matter how much energy we give to the car, as long as the energy supplied into both cars are equal, the distance between the cars will always be the same.

Now, suppose that one of the car, while traveling at the same speed with the other one, alleviate from the ground at steady rate. The cars horizontal distance is maintained but the vertical does not. Ignore the effect of gravity.

According to classical mechanics, potential energy between the two cars increases as the distance increases, but what if the effect of gravity is ignored? What if the gravity is part of the system itself?