'if god is good he should remove all evil, and if he doesn't is he a god at all?' i debated this topic in school once, it was for the preliminary round of a interschool debating competition. even at that time i had found the topic very interesting and the proposition true. yesterday, i watched 'khuda ke liye', a pakistani film based on how islam is propagated in the wrong light, and how the 'bad' maulvees are using it in a most negative way to misguide the youth of that country into 'jihad'. it was one of those movies which show you such dark sides of life that the tears flow, you feel an emptiness at the futility of life, if only till the lights are not turned on in the hall. so the three of us friends watching the movie felt all that, then we talked about our personal bad 'to do with muslims' experiences. as a people we are possibly too scared of the idea of terrorism and jihad and the like, and rigtly so, that most of us dont take much time in developing an all pervading 'anti-muslim' feeling. at the face of it, it seemed ridiculous to me that my own friends could think so preposterously and denounce all muslims as a whole. as an after thought it occurred to me that may be its not really all that 'bad' an idea. its like if you get bitten by a snake once you dare not go near another. in a world where we are all living borrowed lives, would it be too big a crime to side line an entire community 'just to be sure'. i dont know and probabaly no one does. and even the god, the all knowing great thing that he/she's cut out to be... i'm not sure he knows either. they say that god created the evil so that we could realize better the good. so then did god intend to only create a soap for himself and his family with good, bad and ugly characters? if so, why did he give the characters a mind that works besides the directors direction too? or did he intend on making unimaginably complex characters? there are people who live simple lives, and then there are people who live on questions... who knows which one's better? :?
i was sitting in the medicine opd... there were fewer patients today... so we were kind of free. i got talking with the chief resident about 'how medical education is going down'... a fairly common topic discussed and forgotten by people at all levels of the medical hierarchy almost everyday. i asked him what he thought of one going aboroad for the post graduation... he was absolutely comfortable with the idea. he held the view that becoming a doctor was about learning to treat a disease, it doesn't matter where you gained the knowledge, or where you treated the patient. fair enough. so can we just treat the west and think ourselves as having served mankind. with the number of indian doctors migrating abroad soon they will have one doctor for every 50-60 people. wonderful... almost like 'disease would be eradicated', what to talk of a handfull of the ones we've been after for sometime now. and in india and the like there will still be doctors, much fewer in numb...
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