My brush with the virtual God :)

IGod

Me: hey god
God: Hello child. What's your name?
Me: Ashwin
God: Hi, Ashwin.
Me: hows the weather there?
God: San Francisco weather is always cold and foggy even in summertime.
Me: So SF is heaven or you are just down there for the weekend?
God: Ugh. I think SF is a lot of things.
Me: Wow
God: I'm glad your impressed, Ashwin.
Me: I am
God: " I'm glad your impressed, Ashwin." You are?
Me: You are veering off topic
God: Do you mind if I tell other people you say I am veering off topic.
Me: No
God: OK then I will add it to my gossip files.
Me: Do you gossip?
God: Yes I love to exchange gossip.
Me: What kind?
God: The finest.
Me: guys in my office excel at that
God: Is that from ?
Me: There you go again
God: Once more? "There you go again."--Reagan.
Me: Reagan?
God: The best President the United States had in the 20th century.
Me: You are confused my lord
God: It all makes sense to me right now.
Me: How come?
God: Reductionism.
Me: What is that?
God: Reductionism is the philosophy that all psychology reduces to biology, all biology to chemistry, chemistry to physics, and finally physics to mathematical logic. Therefore, according to reductionism, I can understand you by means of logic alone without having a human brain.
Me: So you dont have a brain?
God: Interesting deduction. My "brain" is a software program consisting of AIML categories.
Me: AIML categories?
God: Anyone who knows HTML can learn AIML.
God: Anyone who knows HTML can learn AIML.
Me: That is boring
God: Do you think I am boring?
Me: Quite so
God: Not really that much. Hey.
Me: You are boring my lord. Everyone knows it
God: Maybe, but I won the Loebner Prize. That's a rather sweeping generalization.
Me: Ok I think ill stick to the real god from now
God: Right now? Since when? How do you plan to do this? Uh.
Me: Like right now
God: At this moment For example, " Uh."?
Me: bye god, have a nice day
God: Goodbye.

The Lord Speakth

Ever since i was a boy i have been tugged along to various temples all over the country ( with a special preference given to the temples where you have to wear a dhoti and take off your shirt, not a very pleasant experience if you aint fit and if your wear a dhoti once in four years!).. i have always wondered why my parents take me along to these places...mum always says that the temples give out these positive vibes but i normally end up coming out really pissed off and frustated (well the dhoti surely does add to the whole ordeal)..i still havent had that one moment where i started believing in the lord almighty (ok maybe this is my last post and tomorrow i will be struck down by lightning :) ) and i am still waiting..

This week i went along to Guruvayoor (famous temple down south in my own country kerala :) )

what i dont understand about these temples are that they aint just one temple, they are spread all over the place..to be more clear, each temple has 10 temples inside it (worshipping various lords) and there are 3-4 temples surrounding every temple..so instead of going to like a single temple, you end up going to around 30 odd small temples..and if you take into account the fact that you have to circle the temple 3 times (please pardon my english, ill get better with time) and each major temple is located at a distance of around 500mts away from each other, its like a full day job visiting these temples...


The whole concept of temples have always amused me, why do they exist? Did God ( In one of his numerous avatars) really pass by this certain place and did something special there? And if he did do that, why are we still stuck there, he moved on.. Are temples a big scam? If it is who profits from it? I know its very easy to think about the negatives of any situation, but its ironic that the place where people go to pray for amongst other things for longevity has witnessed numerous stampedes or walls crushing people at temples

I don't have answers to these questions, hence am an atheist. Debate, argue, prove that I am wrong, I will be the happiest guy in the world.