"Like Waves On Seas Are The Ways Of Fate"
This is a piece I wrote in 1993, when I was a school student for an impromptu essay writing competition. This article ponders upon existence of God, how He might be an all-powerful being, or a figment of our imagination or a powerful being yet bound by the mathematical laws of probability, which might be the real bedrock of all existence. Got 1st prize there!
PONDERINGS
God
Luck
Existence
Universe
Time
L i f e
The very situation of existence of temporary waves on the equally temporary breast of seas in this even more temporary and fateful world, as well as the temporary life span of a puny human being with his own finely woven fabric of life is awesome and seems very confusing. The only thing that seems comprehensible about nature is that it is completely baffling and overwhelmingly mysterious.
Thus the mysterious mysteries about the working of this Universe is whether it is controlled by a benevolent Supreme Being or is governed by the incomprehensible Mr. Chance who happens to be responsible for it by chance! Pure luck probably !!
The omnipotent Supreme Being, can His purported existence be explained ever or denied altogether ? Well it seems most logical that curiosity of man to peer into the unknown may have led to His creation. Because along with this curiosity, fear of the unknown had always been there. Because He is needed to boost one, that is to help one succeed. Because He is needed to be blamed for one's failure. Because He is needed by the ones who earn their livelihood through Him and is required by them as a tool for their selfish motives. Because it might be that this concept is a bare necessity for survival of conscious entities. The list may go on forever, but if He exists can we most certainly say that His existence is also temporary and is as long as mankind is there to acknowledge Him. Because that’s a personal God of humans, if there are other lfie forms they may not have the same concept and notion of God as we have. So is it:
"God created man and man invented God!"
Now from the other perspective, just try to imagine the mind boggling life spans of heavenly bodies, astonishingly unimaginable vastness of the Universe and in it, just think of it, like a speck of dust nature dominates in the form of our beautiful blue Terra to make the existence of petty human beings and other life forms possible. Being caught in this mirage we cannot but accept Him as the one who made nature so dominating. He is the one controlling all the happenings from behind the curtain and is not at all aloof to the most insignificant happenings of this Universe. Yet maybe He is influenced and controlled by the mysterious Mr. Chance. Or it maybe He is the creator but Chance governs it all.
Or it is most likely that this game of life and death is being played by both of them, that is, the Almighty and Mr. Chance, and is like an unpredictable game of chess, the outcome of which is not known to either of them.
The mystery remains unsolved God exists or does not exist is just a matter of belief.
Quote from Good Omens:
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (i.e. everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."