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		<title>By: What are ghosts made of, if you believe in them? &#124; Ubiquitense</title>
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		<dc:creator>What are ghosts made of, if you believe in them? &#124; Ubiquitense</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] you believe in God, you must believe in ghosts too, just like there is matter and antimatter. So, atheists can be positive in their thinking that there are no ghosts in this [...]</description>
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		<title>By: How to tolerate PAIN? &#124; Ubiquitense</title>
		<link>http://www.ubiquitense.com/2008/09/is-atheism-related-to-negative-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-6333</link>
		<dc:creator>How to tolerate PAIN? &#124; Ubiquitense</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Well, if there had been a definite solution on tolerating pain, the thought of God may become secondary in our minds. Ain&#8217;t that true? Most people think of God only when they need Him; only when they are in trouble, or want something to turn up in their favor. Otherwise, God is just God &#8211; an object of faith! Having said that, I&#8217;m not an atheist. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Well, if there had been a definite solution on tolerating pain, the thought of God may become secondary in our minds. Ain&#8217;t that true? Most people think of God only when they need Him; only when they are in trouble, or want something to turn up in their favor. Otherwise, God is just God &#8211; an object of faith! Having said that, I&#8217;m not an atheist. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: ubiquit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm..nice! that was what I was trying to explain and you did it in a better way than me!! Thanks much!!! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A person following his religion blindly goes nowhere closer to his God. Period!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm..nice! that was what I was trying to explain and you did it in a better way than me!! Thanks much!!! </p>
<p>A person following his religion blindly goes nowhere closer to his God. Period!!</p>
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		<title>By: rampantheart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am basically a theist. And i would like to point out something that can be called my hypothesis. Well, most people don&#039;t follow religion. That includes you and me. We follow the philosophy of life. In our case, we people are Hindus but we follow the &quot;Advaita&quot; philosophy(Most Hindus follow this) So it doesn&#039;t matter if  any person is an atheist. Remember, a person is called an atheist only when he doesn&#039;t live according to what the religion says and doesn&#039;t do things that are required in action. And it of course doesn&#039;t matter if the person is an atheist as long as he follows a valuable philosophy that drives him to attain God without his knowing it. Okay, leave the topic about God here. Let me reframe the sentence. It doesn&#039;t matter if the person is an atheist as long as he lives life ethically without hurting others. The end result is the same, if you look! A theist may be a hardcore devout, but what if his character isn&#039;t good? So, it goes that way! Religion and Philosophy are inter-linked! And most people fail to understand this!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am basically a theist. And i would like to point out something that can be called my hypothesis. Well, most people don&#39;t follow religion. That includes you and me. We follow the philosophy of life. In our case, we people are Hindus but we follow the &#8220;Advaita&#8221; philosophy(Most Hindus follow this) So it doesn&#39;t matter if  any person is an atheist. Remember, a person is called an atheist only when he doesn&#39;t live according to what the religion says and doesn&#39;t do things that are required in action. And it of course doesn&#39;t matter if the person is an atheist as long as he follows a valuable philosophy that drives him to attain God without his knowing it. Okay, leave the topic about God here. Let me reframe the sentence. It doesn&#39;t matter if the person is an atheist as long as he lives life ethically without hurting others. The end result is the same, if you look! A theist may be a hardcore devout, but what if his character isn&#39;t good? So, it goes that way! Religion and Philosophy are inter-linked! And most people fail to understand this!</p>
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		<title>By: ubiquit</title>
		<link>http://www.ubiquitense.com/2008/09/is-atheism-related-to-negative-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-270</link>
		<dc:creator>ubiquit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Samuel - Well, as I mentioned before, media (press and movies) plays a key role in making or toppling governments around the world. If they manage to gather a lot of negative feelings against a particular person, regime or country, they can very well manage to influence the thoughts of the people concerned. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s been just over a hundred years since man accomplished looking at infrared and ultraviolet and other forms of radio waves. Probably, it may take a few hundred years before they (theists) come up with a gadget to look at God. Well, then I would be interested to see how God looks like - if He has a form per se.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Samuel &#8211; Well, as I mentioned before, media (press and movies) plays a key role in making or toppling governments around the world. If they manage to gather a lot of negative feelings against a particular person, regime or country, they can very well manage to influence the thoughts of the people concerned. </p>
<p>It&#39;s been just over a hundred years since man accomplished looking at infrared and ultraviolet and other forms of radio waves. Probably, it may take a few hundred years before they (theists) come up with a gadget to look at God. Well, then I would be interested to see how God looks like &#8211; if He has a form per se.</p>
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		<title>By: Samuel Skinner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samuel Skinner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if I remember correctly, the Soviet Union feel when they started their big reform effort. They could have gone the North Korea path and prevented that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course, if they did that, they probably wouldn&#039;t have been able to compete with the United States. So that sort of does make the path a failure- they couldn&#039;t be communist AND win the cold war.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only alternative is the China method- do you know if they count as communist or capitalist now? As it is, they combine the callousness of capitalism with the despotism of communism. It is a win-win situation for the party.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for radio waves... I believe you can feel them. Microwaves you can feel AND see the results (they heat water), while radio... I&#039;m not sure. It has ridiculously low amounts of energy so probably not.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the other hand you can deduce its existance from other forms of light. After all, radio waves are simply and light with a wavelength above 1 mm. You could deduce its existance once you know about light, infrared and ultraviolet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if I remember correctly, the Soviet Union feel when they started their big reform effort. They could have gone the North Korea path and prevented that.</p>
<p>Of course, if they did that, they probably wouldn&#39;t have been able to compete with the United States. So that sort of does make the path a failure- they couldn&#39;t be communist AND win the cold war.</p>
<p>The only alternative is the China method- do you know if they count as communist or capitalist now? As it is, they combine the callousness of capitalism with the despotism of communism. It is a win-win situation for the party.</p>
<p>As for radio waves&#8230; I believe you can feel them. Microwaves you can feel AND see the results (they heat water), while radio&#8230; I&#39;m not sure. It has ridiculously low amounts of energy so probably not.</p>
<p>On the other hand you can deduce its existance from other forms of light. After all, radio waves are simply and light with a wavelength above 1 mm. You could deduce its existance once you know about light, infrared and ultraviolet.</p>
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		<title>By: Ubiquit</title>
		<link>http://www.ubiquitense.com/2008/09/is-atheism-related-to-negative-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-267</link>
		<dc:creator>Ubiquit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;in this sense we live a ghostly life, unable to see and think beyond what ever is informing us, thinking us, framing us.&quot; - I see your point!

There is nothing wrong in being an atheist or a theist - as belief is the underlying word. Atheists believe in non-existence of God, and the theists believe in His existence. In my opinion, I&#039;m just starting to feel that atheists, in fact, think positively and have got a broader outlook. As I said above in the post, this inference comes from my various encounters and talks on religion and beliefs with people from many countries. 

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By and by, thanks for the compliments :) The theme (the one you&#039;re using right now) that I was using prior to this involved a lot of work to make a single post, like pictures in various dimensions for thumbs, main post and so on. This one is cool, coz it has got an inbuilt image resizer and I don&#039;t have to worry about customizing the images.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;in this sense we live a ghostly life, unable to see and think beyond what ever is informing us, thinking us, framing us.&#8221; &#8211; I see your point!</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong in being an atheist or a theist &#8211; as belief is the underlying word. Atheists believe in non-existence of God, and the theists believe in His existence. In my opinion, I&#8217;m just starting to feel that atheists, in fact, think positively and have got a broader outlook. As I said above in the post, this inference comes from my various encounters and talks on religion and beliefs with people from many countries. </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
By and by, thanks for the compliments <img src='http://www.ubiquitense.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  The theme (the one you&#8217;re using right now) that I was using prior to this involved a lot of work to make a single post, like pictures in various dimensions for thumbs, main post and so on. This one is cool, coz it has got an inbuilt image resizer and I don&#8217;t have to worry about customizing the images.</p>
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		<title>By: Rajiv Mudgal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rajiv Mudgal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HI Naren, thats a pretty knotty problem you have raised here. Though I think (and this is just my personal feeling) I think that an atheist, kafir, nastik etc. are just words, and words that exist and shows up meaning something only in and within a theist vocabulary.  And there lies our essential problem; and I mean “essential” in capital, that is as in essence, and essential-ism, that is to think and see only through and within the vocabulary of essences. 
The question I often ask myself these days, is whether one can, if ever, start to see the deeper relations of language by banging our head into the wall.

The problem as I see is that in-spite of all the great religions, including the communist (I mean if being religious after all means to hold tightly to your beliefs and claims), the fact remains that our tendency to group, to rage wars, to be a bully in-spite of all the great prophets and their disciplinary regimes remain fundamentally unchanged. &lt;strong&gt;And this goes hand in hand with our failure to recognize that there is something terribly wrong at the very fundamental core of our beings. &lt;/strong&gt;

Instead of facing up we seem to, or want to distinguish the true from the false, the right from the wrong, but, this ability, this access &#039;to and into&#039; a knowing (as &#039;I know&#039;, &#039;we know&#039;, a typical religious trait) is simply nothing more then pre-informed reduction of what ever authorities have said and done, and in this sense we live a ghostly life, unable to see and think beyond what ever is informing us, thinking us, framing us.

To sound a bit silly, :)  I feel that &#039;they all, the Saints, the Marxist, the Apostles, the Buddhist, The Sadus and Sad Guru&#039;s  including Mr Bush, Blair and all are in some sense caught within proselytizing ghostly voices that claim them and these tongues/voices of the dead (bhoot after all means the past, the dead, the gone by) and they seem to be doing all the thinking and speaking for us and in some sense are the beings who are fundamentally determining our world. What we need in this hour of doom is a harry potter with his bhoot vidya :) Aaabra ka daaabra sort... Jokes apart, I think that the Marxist and Maoist are not even dealing with it, and in this sense they are worse.

And still, &lt;strong&gt;our future today depends upon whether man will ever be able to see all this and deal with it without pretence, deceit and self deception.&lt;/strong&gt;
Or maybe, as a species we have already written ourselves off.  


Comments aside: your site is really looking good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HI Naren, thats a pretty knotty problem you have raised here. Though I think (and this is just my personal feeling) I think that an atheist, kafir, nastik etc. are just words, and words that exist and shows up meaning something only in and within a theist vocabulary.  And there lies our essential problem; and I mean “essential” in capital, that is as in essence, and essential-ism, that is to think and see only through and within the vocabulary of essences.<br />
The question I often ask myself these days, is whether one can, if ever, start to see the deeper relations of language by banging our head into the wall.</p>
<p>The problem as I see is that in-spite of all the great religions, including the communist (I mean if being religious after all means to hold tightly to your beliefs and claims), the fact remains that our tendency to group, to rage wars, to be a bully in-spite of all the great prophets and their disciplinary regimes remain fundamentally unchanged. <strong>And this goes hand in hand with our failure to recognize that there is something terribly wrong at the very fundamental core of our beings. </strong></p>
<p>Instead of facing up we seem to, or want to distinguish the true from the false, the right from the wrong, but, this ability, this access &#8216;to and into&#8217; a knowing (as &#8216;I know&#8217;, &#8216;we know&#8217;, a typical religious trait) is simply nothing more then pre-informed reduction of what ever authorities have said and done, and in this sense we live a ghostly life, unable to see and think beyond what ever is informing us, thinking us, framing us.</p>
<p>To sound a bit silly, <img src='http://www.ubiquitense.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   I feel that &#8216;they all, the Saints, the Marxist, the Apostles, the Buddhist, The Sadus and Sad Guru&#8217;s  including Mr Bush, Blair and all are in some sense caught within proselytizing ghostly voices that claim them and these tongues/voices of the dead (bhoot after all means the past, the dead, the gone by) and they seem to be doing all the thinking and speaking for us and in some sense are the beings who are fundamentally determining our world. What we need in this hour of doom is a harry potter with his bhoot vidya <img src='http://www.ubiquitense.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Aaabra ka daaabra sort&#8230; Jokes apart, I think that the Marxist and Maoist are not even dealing with it, and in this sense they are worse.</p>
<p>And still, <strong>our future today depends upon whether man will ever be able to see all this and deal with it without pretence, deceit and self deception.</strong><br />
Or maybe, as a species we have already written ourselves off.  </p>
<p>Comments aside: your site is really looking good.</p>
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		<title>By: Ubiquit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ubiquit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, your points on Russia are very true. Another weak point is that Russia didn&#039;t have an equivalent of Hollywood :) Most Hollywood movies were anti-Russian or anti-German (all Germans are Nazi war criminals according to Hollywood movies). Russia, probably, failed to realize movie as a propaganda medium - a very powerful influencing agent.

So, for radio waves, you need a gadget to see them, but cannot see those waves with your naked eyes right? I don&#039;t think we have a gadget to see God, yet; I don&#039;t think it would get that simple :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, your points on Russia are very true. Another weak point is that Russia didn&#8217;t have an equivalent of Hollywood <img src='http://www.ubiquitense.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Most Hollywood movies were anti-Russian or anti-German (all Germans are Nazi war criminals according to Hollywood movies). Russia, probably, failed to realize movie as a propaganda medium &#8211; a very powerful influencing agent.</p>
<p>So, for radio waves, you need a gadget to see them, but cannot see those waves with your naked eyes right? I don&#8217;t think we have a gadget to see God, yet; I don&#8217;t think it would get that simple <img src='http://www.ubiquitense.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Samuel Skinner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samuel Skinner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Technically the US is entirely differant from what the founder&#039;s planned- the Civil War assured that. Now the US is a whole differant beast. 

The USSR is similar- it fell, but its &quot;first amoung equals&quot; of Russia still exists and has recovered. It was... a momentary lapse. The Kremlin appears to have every intention of regaining lost ground.

Super development is impossible to sustain over long periods- the reason Russia was able to do such huge growth is a phenomena that economics... crud- forgot the name. Any way, investments are first put to where the gain is the highest. That, and the fact that the economy was simpler made it easier to control.

Later on central planning hurt them. Their entire microelectronics industry died because they dumped it because they assumed the American version was better. There were a host of other problems, but they could have followed the Chinese method and changed without falling apart.

The true failing is that it inspired revolutionary movements that killed tens of millions- even poor economic planning is a minor sin compared to that.

... sorry. Got side tracked.

As for radio waves, technically you can see them. You have to use certain equipment, but you can see them- radar is an application of that- after all, the detections is actually the device seeing the bounce back.

By contrast there is no supernatural detector and there is no concievable way to make on- each try is rejected and God finds fewer and fewer gaps to hide behind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Technically the US is entirely differant from what the founder&#8217;s planned- the Civil War assured that. Now the US is a whole differant beast. </p>
<p>The USSR is similar- it fell, but its &#8220;first amoung equals&#8221; of Russia still exists and has recovered. It was&#8230; a momentary lapse. The Kremlin appears to have every intention of regaining lost ground.</p>
<p>Super development is impossible to sustain over long periods- the reason Russia was able to do such huge growth is a phenomena that economics&#8230; crud- forgot the name. Any way, investments are first put to where the gain is the highest. That, and the fact that the economy was simpler made it easier to control.</p>
<p>Later on central planning hurt them. Their entire microelectronics industry died because they dumped it because they assumed the American version was better. There were a host of other problems, but they could have followed the Chinese method and changed without falling apart.</p>
<p>The true failing is that it inspired revolutionary movements that killed tens of millions- even poor economic planning is a minor sin compared to that.</p>
<p>&#8230; sorry. Got side tracked.</p>
<p>As for radio waves, technically you can see them. You have to use certain equipment, but you can see them- radar is an application of that- after all, the detections is actually the device seeing the bounce back.</p>
<p>By contrast there is no supernatural detector and there is no concievable way to make on- each try is rejected and God finds fewer and fewer gaps to hide behind.</p>
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		<title>By: Ubiquit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ubiquit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Samuel - Nice points! I said Russia was a failure because it wasn&#039;t able to sustain the super-development and the socialist setup it was able to attain in a very short period. 

&quot;The invisible and the nonexistant are very much alike.&quot; - Well, your mobile phone or satellite connectivity is via invisible radio waves, which are omnipresent. They are very much invisible AND EXISTENT!! Man has simply accomplished the art of utilizing this invisible energy for something creative. However, the same doesn&#039;t apply to God, who is invisible. The only things man created in the name of God are &#039;holy war&#039; and superstition - ridiculous!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Samuel &#8211; Nice points! I said Russia was a failure because it wasn&#8217;t able to sustain the super-development and the socialist setup it was able to attain in a very short period. </p>
<p>&#8220;The invisible and the nonexistant are very much alike.&#8221; &#8211; Well, your mobile phone or satellite connectivity is via invisible radio waves, which are omnipresent. They are very much invisible AND EXISTENT!! Man has simply accomplished the art of utilizing this invisible energy for something creative. However, the same doesn&#8217;t apply to God, who is invisible. The only things man created in the name of God are &#8216;holy war&#8217; and superstition &#8211; ridiculous!!</p>
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		<title>By: Samuel Skinner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samuel Skinner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Russia wasn&#039;t a failure. It went from being a backwards state where the majority of the population were peasents to a superpower with a life expectancy of a first world country and a high standard of living. It simply had the twin problems of brutal totalitarianism and economic slowdown- the first mostly before 1954, the second mostly after the 70s.

Many religions do urge holy war, violence against the heretic and are fine with polygamy and conqubines- after all, Abraham had 2 wives and 2 conqubines.

&quot;He is omnipresent, and I believe that there is some superior force or power, beyond terms unexplainable through science, that is controlling each and everything on our planet earth.&quot;

The invisible and the nonexistant are very much alike.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Russia wasn&#8217;t a failure. It went from being a backwards state where the majority of the population were peasents to a superpower with a life expectancy of a first world country and a high standard of living. It simply had the twin problems of brutal totalitarianism and economic slowdown- the first mostly before 1954, the second mostly after the 70s.</p>
<p>Many religions do urge holy war, violence against the heretic and are fine with polygamy and conqubines- after all, Abraham had 2 wives and 2 conqubines.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is omnipresent, and I believe that there is some superior force or power, beyond terms unexplainable through science, that is controlling each and everything on our planet earth.&#8221;</p>
<p>The invisible and the nonexistant are very much alike.<br />
differant?</p>
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