Like any other child of the 2000s, I too have always felt the natural impulse to ask questions. No, I don’t mean the “Why should I believe in God when I don’t see Him?” kind. I’m talking about questions that are conveniently dismissed on the grounds of being too frivolous or orthodox to fit into context today.
For instance, I who would actually wonder if some saints could walk on water like they claim to, if River Saraswati would really break through the ground one day, and if parallel universes were really a thing.
But what if the beliefs we so dearly hold because they’re backed by scientific evidence, are actually a miscalculation? And what if ideas grounded in religion and tradition are not just blind faith, but remarkably accurate?
In this world of endless possibility, there is uncertainty both in being wrong and being right. As humans, our very essence lies in asking questions and seeking answers.
We’ve heard “anything is possible” too many times now, and yet we scorn those who hold onto seemingly mythical ideas that defy scientific explanation. Why do we reject questions simply because they’ve been answered before?
Does the very idea of scientific proof comfort us so much that we stopped imagining? Or are we intimidated by the fact that there’s so much out there we do not know- not now, not ever?
Remember that we all once believed that the Earth was flat, before someone proved it was a sphere. And then we all believed that the Earth was a sphere, before someone proved that it’s actually an oblate spheroid. How many times did they remake the periodic table to finally agree on the one we use today? A century ago, people would have never believed that one day we wouldn’t have to walk miles and miles to talk to someone. Science will always have something new to tell us.
But the problem is not about what’s right and wrong. It’s about people who silence the youth of today from asking these very vital questions. It’s about those who hide behind science and lead the world with a single vision, inducing the social boycott of anyone looking the other way.
We are the children of today, and we’re here to change this broken narrative. We refuse to be brainwashed by those who do not dare to question.
We won’t just question the things that have no scientific evidence, but also the things that do.
Because that’s the beauty of science. It will keep changing, it will keep evolving, it will keep telling us newer things every day. Science grows with us. Science is everything that is human- it is a dynamic, fast-paced and complex institution. But it’s definitely not the absolute answer to every question.
Nothing is the absolute answer to every question- not science, not religion, not history. And when we understand that, there’s so much more that we can do. As the youth of today, we most certainly do not have all the answers. But you’re doing the world more good than harm by allowing us to ask the question.
The way you have portrayed this is just amazing.
And I agree with you.
Keep sharing.
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Thank you so much, Riman. I’m glad to find someone who agrees 🙂
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My pleasure dear😊
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Damn! That was good.
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Thanks, Bharath 😀
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I feel mere acceptance is a way of comforting ourself and burying our curiosities.
This so was to the point and your portrayal was so nicely written.💞💞🤗
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Thanks for reading, Amartya. And that’s a great input 🙂
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Great post – i love that you keep the door open for questioning everything…..i also have 5 questions for you, my sweet Soundarya — only if you want to answer them. 🙂
You are nominated for a Mystery Blogger Award!!! Yey!yey! Congratulations….
details here
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Hope to see you there — but no pressure. 🙂
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ooops – the address should be —
https://krishnapriyagopi.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/mystery-blogger-award/
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haha I went to your blog and checked out that post anyway 😀
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Hi, Krishnapriya! Firstly, thank you so much for reading. And secondly, I’m so honoured to be nominated for the award 🙂 Thanks a bunch! I’ll definitely be posting about it soon, but not today since I like to have a weekly posting schedule and I just posted this 🙂 hope that’s okay! thanks again, my friend ❤
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There is no time pressure — whenever you get to it…..i love your writing — and appreciate your voice and being SOOO much! 🙂
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And so do I yours! 🙂 ❤
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I absolutely agree with this!
Thanks for sharing, Soundarya!🌸
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Thank you, Shreya! I’m glad this resonated with you 🙂
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I like where your head is at 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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And those my dear are very intelligent questions……… don’t ever let anyone silence you…..your questioning will prompt others to seek answers
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Thanks for reading, Sakshi 🙂
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My pleasure 😊
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Excellent Post Sondarya! Curiosity is a path towards discovery, knowledge, and learning!!
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Thank you, Kranti 🙂 That’s very true.
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Good post!
I’ve nominated you for a Liebster Award. If your blog is award free please accept this nomination as a compliment.
Thanks,
Rob Goldstein
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Hey, Robert! Thanks so much for the nomination. I’m truly honoured 🙂 I’ll certainly post about the award on my blog soon since I like to have a weekly posting schedule, maybe not right away. I’ll let you know, anyway 🙂 ❤
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I’m glad you accepted. I look forward to your post.
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Great post! I don’t mind religion, but I do mind closed-mindedness and judgmental attitudes towards others just for believing different things.
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It’s pretty much the same with me, Maranda. I’m definitely not okay with closed-mindedness. Thanks for reading 🙂
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Great post dear, noone has all the answers to everything because everything is always changing. ❤️✌️
BY FOR NOW
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That’s a great way to see it, Dawn! Thanks for reading 🙂
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Thanks for writing such an intriguing post. First of all, we are forced to believe and grown in the thought if not God will punish us.. so kinda we are really suppressed to accept the truth.. Not sure if all our mythical writings are true and we are grown up such a way to question every possibility of getting a best answer like we tried with iterations to get a final periodic table as you said..
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Thank you for this comment. I completely agree with you 🙂
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nandri tholi…namma enna kettalum saami kanna kuthipudum nu sollite miraati vaikirange
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:)) haha athu umna thaan. But here I was trying to address the other side of it- how the so-called ‘modern and forward-thinking’ people aren’t open to questions about things that science may not prove. Ethu epdiyo, it’s time we take over and bring about change.
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kandipa ..namma pannama yaar pannuvanga…
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Athaana 😉
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panninda pochu..
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Yup.
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🙂 sari school pokalaya inum
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Lol, I’m not a school student haha.
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I see, you said you are still studying in and wanna be a CA 🙂 so I thought you are at the final years of schooling
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i guess probably send a hello in mail..not the postman yet delivered ? 🙂
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Agree with you 👍
Good post👌👌
Keep writing & keep sharing such things 👍😊
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Thank you, Hardip :))
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Wholeheartedly agree with you here. Inquisitiveness, curiosity is what makes us human 🙂
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Thank you, Parikhit! You’re right 🙂
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You are an amazing writer 😍 Loved your post 👏
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Thank you, Sanskriti 🙂 That means so so much to me! You have a beautiful name, by the way ❤
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Thank you 🙂
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❤
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I always say that for every matter there is three version:mine,yours and the true that lies in between😉
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That’s really thought-provoking and I have to agree 🙂 thanks for your input!
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I think, that is why I exist, it’s not that I think because I exist. Posing questions should judged as a symptom of developed mind, doesn’t matter how unusual the question is. Liked your presentation.
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I agree completely, Abhay. Thanks for that input and also for reading 🙂
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I really enjoyed reading
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Thanks again, Abhay!
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Abhay, your comment got marked as spam. I just wanted to let you know.
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May be the bots are unable to comprehend me 😛
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Haha xD
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You sure are welcome to ask question. A curious mind is what this world needs. Great post.
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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My pleasure
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I’m not sure why this comment was marked spam but just letting you know.
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Yeah. WP sometime is crazy. Happens few times
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I know
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Thanks for cleaning your spam
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Haha I wouldn’t want to miss a comment for any reason 🙂
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This is so well written. I agree, science is more often than not used as a tool to shun the core essence and beliefs of mankind there is so much more to us than Laboratories verifying the real nature of things. There is hope, inner strength which does miracles in life only if we are brave enough to acknowledge it
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Exactly, Sona. You put it so well! Thanks for this comment 🙂
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Great post. It got me thinking a lot. Science should never be dogmatic but unfortunately it has this militant wing.
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That’s so true.
Thanks for reading, Nitin!
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Thanks for following back ❤️
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My pleasure ❤
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There are so many unexplained things on this planet of ours, why not just enjoy them!
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That’s a good thought as well! 😛
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This excellently written essay reminds me of what Hamlet once said to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
As for the question, “How can God exist if we can’t see him?”, Canadian novelist and writer W.O. Mitchell once responded with the title of one of his novels, “Who has seen the wind?”.
And science has yet to explain the mystery of love.
In fact in an Agatha Christie novel, her Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot (who uses the scientific detective reasoning and deductive methods of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes) said to an old female friend of his as they stood on the balcony of a great English country mansion and watched a young couple in the garden kiss below, “There is one mystery that even I the great Hercule Poirot will never be able to solve and that is the Mystery of Love.”
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Thank you so much for your comment, Dracul (wow, cool name haha). I completely agree. There are a ton of things that science can’t prove. And sometimes I wonder if science really has to prove everything. So what if science actually proves love? How is that going to affect us? The same with God’s existence. If science proves that God exists or doesn’t exist, I still would believe in my God. Science is vulnerable. It will try so hard to prove something but in the end how much does it matter?
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This is just thought provoking..loved the way you analyzed
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Thank you 🙂
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This is so good. I agree with you cent times. U r truly a excellent writer. Keep going soundarya 👏👏
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Thanks! That means so much to me 🙂 What may I call you?
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Nagstrong12😂😂
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Okay!
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Call me Nagu😊
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Oh okay.
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This brought back memories of me as a child. I still am very, very curious about everything I see and hear and sense. It is what makes me unique. So glad to come across someone who reminds me of who I was at your age. Powerful words from you! Thanks girl!
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That made my whole week! I’m so happy this post resonated with you and that you’re still a curious person. I don’t think I’d ever let go of the child in me either. Loads of love! ❤
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Every line I read through in this post, I could feel myself, till maybe in different words, we are the same things. My perspective of this world drifts in a similar sort of dance. Everything my life concepts are moulded of so far… <3. Loved this!!
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Thank you, Sahana! I’m glad this post resonated with you and am humbled by your kind words 🙂
Loads of love!
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To you too Soundarya 😀
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Thank you 🙂
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Oh! and ‘uncool’? Not even for a speech sake. We ask the questions that are asked from somewhere beyond the eyes
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HELL YES.
We share the same thoughts.
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haha… ya, I believe
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😀
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Loved your thoughts.
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Thank you, Hariom 🙂
That made my day!
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Thought provoking 👍
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Thank you!
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