Twilight zone

We are in the 21st Century, right? Where we can cover the entire earth in a matter of days; where I can speak to my friend in Atlanta the minute I think of her, sitting here in India; where I can read opinions and views of people sitting in London, Australia, Austria, Canada, USA and what not. So, why are we still stuck in time? Why do we still cling on to old beliefs and teachings from “the book” rather than use our brains to make wise decisions? And mind you, this book is just a “convenience”. If the book preaches something that is not very convenient, that aspect is often conveniently overlooked.

I must have had this argument a million times –“The Ayurveda advices people to eat drum-ful of ghee.” Huh? Ohhh…I think I missed the part where you ran out of the house with your club for miles together and hunted down and dragged that boar to our cave…errr…house. Ok, I am not poking fun here. We all need to be sensible and understand the magnitude of physical energy that people spent 5000 years ago to just gather food. At that time – eating truckloads of ghee would have been okay. But today, when you are sitting on your ass changing channels, that “truckload of ghee” is going right to your derriere and creating a roadblock for blood to rush to your heart.

And then there is - “All our customs and traditions in our religion have a scientific reasoning behind them”! Yeah right! How don’t we have the sense to realize that everyone feels the exact same way about his or her religion? There is a time and place for everything – and that certainly ain’t 2006. As most of us know, “religion” itself is a sham. What else can explain the reasoning behind – pig-eating being sinful in one religion while cow-eating being sinful in another and eating “anything that walks or breathes”, not being sinful in another? Who were these people who decided this? I am sure God didn’t decide that he would punish only a section of people who ate beef and let the others go. I am sure there were these guys who were competing amongst themselves. One of them must have decided – “I need a USP to draw people to my team…hmmmm….what can that be now? Ya! Got it! People who are in my team will not eat pork (and my not particularly fancying pork has nothing to do with this decision)”. And then he announced, “My team members have renounced pork”!!! Now what was the other one to do? He didn’t want to be left behind. So without consulting his team members he went ahead to announce that not eating beef was his USP. So people who weren’t too fond of pork joined the former chap while people who didn’t like beef join the latter team. And the rest is history…