"If you cannot convince them, confuse them" ~”Who cares, who is the proponent”
When someone try to churn your grey cells or tantalize your raw nerve with an insightful argot “FAITH” -how are you going to react?
Religion? Trust? What ever ----
For me, it was George Micheal’s song : -) – Well, that’s how my inborn satirical mind was trained to answer to conundrums of any sort.
Or else, I could change my intonation and say “Faith --- uhh, well, hmmmm ---- it’s a blessing. But, I am yet to be blessed” [Thanks to Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon in Angels & Demons]
This time I wanted to experience the best part being a believer - and the sole motivation was nothing but “experimentation”. How do you know Marijuana is not good for health unless you experience the same[well, pun intended].
Do I have to choose a label? I was pretty sick of “isms” – Atheists & Believers are two sides of the same coin – they vociferously advocate for what they stand for and majority of them don’t mind to ridicule those who are on the other side of the fence. [Barring a few exceptions, who really mind their own business].
Those who label themselves to be “agnostics” are the perfect jokers in the pack – majority of them don’t have the ba**s to call themselves as “atheists” and hence thought of sitting in the fence.I will operate without a label. Well, you may attribute it to my “chichorapan” [to be loosely translated as “frivolousness”]
Revolutionary Decision
I have decorated my Pooja Room with three symbols / statues. Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, A symbol received from Qamar Ali Durwesh Darga and Pune’s own Ganpati. [uploaded picture]. The very sight of co-existence of these well accepted symbols of faith was over whelming. I have decided to impart the first lessons of secularism to my girl with this beautiful example. Well, I have earned the hatred of some conservative living fossils in the family for this drastic re-arrangement of Pooja room. A week passed without any eventualities but …….
Paranormal Activities
After feeding my love birds, I thought of chanting “Vishnu bhujangam” along with “Solomons song of songs” and there I stood froze with that sight ----
Jesus Christ fell down from the cupboard, Virgin Mary’s position was shifted to another corner, Ganpati Bappa was about to topple down ---- quite a scary sight. Living fossils started roaring like those extinct species from ice age – “This is just a beginning…. You are going to have more”.
I went near the divine forces and requested “Please --- Izzat ka falooda mat bana de! We got a joint responsibility to prove the world that, we are the same. Please don’t act funny”
Next day, the same phenomena got repeated. Just that, Ganpati Bappa and Durwesh Symbol fell down together - Amidst of calamity also, I adored them being together upholding the secular value "Hindu - Muslim Bhai Bhai"
Investigation
What should be the reason why such weird incidents are getting repeated?
I started thinking seriously – “Might be, divine forces are not as secular as I have assumed. They might have started fighting inside my cupboard” --- errr, this is a bad thought. They can’t be so humane. After all, they belong to the same continent – “Asia”.
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