Showing posts with label The Gods Must Be Crazy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Gods Must Be Crazy. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The God Must Be Crazy

I read this funny write up by G-Krishnan.

I was sitting in a coffee shop having some tea. It was rather empty at the time as I sat in one corner quietly sipping my teh. Suddenly, I heard a voice say: “Very sad, isn’t it? I can’t imagine what some people will do – and justify it in by invoking my name.”
I was shocked – I looked around but there was no one near me! “What’re you so terrified about,” said the voice. Now I started to really get scared.
“I am God – and I’m talking to you,” said the voice. I listened.
“This has to be a first. There have been a lot of atrocities in human history that have been justified by invoking my name. There have been genocides, wars, man-made famines, infanticide, honour killings, assassinations, hijackings, beheadings, persecutions, mindless bombings, executions, and all kinds of other madness carried out presumably in my name. Imagine – all that in order to honour me or presumably to serve me.”
I was very tense and sweating profusely. None of the attendants in the coffee shop noticed anything unusual or even glanced my way.
The voice went one: “But this is bizarre – and seems like a first: these people going bonkers about who can refer to me with what name. What is it with these people? Didn’t I give you all a mind so you may actually think – even a little?”
“Amazing! Truly amazing, I tell you,” is what I heard.
I just sat still; shell-shocked and by now wondering if I should just get up and leave.
“Do they not realize that I can take care of myself? After all, I’m God! I suppose it never crossed their minds that I am perfectly capable of deciding – when the time comes – who has insulted me and who has not; who called me by a name I found offensive and who dishonoured me. Really, do these people actually think I need mortals like them to protect my reputation and honour?
It’s obvious that these people have not grasped the extent to which they’ve developed an exaggerated sense of self-importance.”
"Madness! Utter madness."
I thought to myself: you won’t find me disagreeing with that!
G. Krishnan