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A lesson in Ultra Logic and God

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This may not be a true story, but the lesson is sound.

 

A University professor at a well known institution of higher

learning challenged his students with this question. " Did God create

everything that exists? "

 

A student bravely replied, " Yes he did! "

" God created everything? " The professor asked.

" Yes sir, he certainly did, " the student replied.

 

The professor answered, " If God created everything; then God

created evil. And, since evil exists, & according to the principle

that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil. "

 

The student became quiet & did not respond to the professor's

hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself,

boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the

religious faith was a myth.

 

Another student raised his hand & said, " May I ask you a

question, professor? "

" Of course, " replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, " Professor, does cold exist? "

" What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you

never been cold? "

The other students snickered at the young man's question. The

young man replied, " In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the

laws of physics,what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.

Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or

transmits energy, & heat is what makes a body or matter have or

transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; &

all matter becomes inert & incapable of reaction at that temperature.

Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel

if we have no

heat. "

The student continued, " Professor, does darkness exist? "

The professor responded, " Of course it does. "

 

The student replied , " Once again you are wrong, darkness does

not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light

we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton 's prism to

break white light into many colors & study the various wave lengths of

each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can

break into a world of darkness & illuminate it. How can you know how

dark a certain space is?

You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct?

Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when

there is no light present. "

 

Finally the young man asked the professor, " Sir, does evil exist? "

 

Now uncertain, the professor responded, " Of course, as I have

already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's

inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime & violence

everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, " Evil does not exist, sir, or at

least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of

God. It is just like darkness & cold, a word that man has created to

describe the absence of God.

 

God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when

man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold

that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when

there is no light. "

 

The professor sat down.

 

The student's name:

-- Albert Einstein

A true story

 

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... Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why,

yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.

 

From the stand point of daily life,

however, there is one thing we do know is

that we are here for the sake of others...

for the countless unknown souls with whose fate

we are connected by a bond of sympathy.

Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life

is built upon the labours of people, both living and dead,

and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give

in return as much as I have received.

 

- Albert Einstein

 

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Every philosophy and every religion has its dialectic of growth

and decay and it is helpful to understand the circumstances.

 

June 22, 1956

 

Ask: Would easier communication be of much avail

when people have very little to communicate?

 

July 28, 1984

 

- Adib's Insight

 

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

 

Dr. Jaya