Long, long ago a group humans living in a remote corner of the world realised they have more thinking power than other animals around them. The power to solve problems and do things better and make life easier. Soon they started to share the ideas with family, friends and neighbors. Some felt it is good to write and keep, so it is easy to remember or access. The book of ideas passed down generations as a valuable inheritance. It became a BIG book of ideas. It had everything that you need to live by. So some of them also corroborated that things not in the book were untrue, because anything worth should be there in the book! Not just families but the whole community started living by the book. Eventually it became imperative to have the book and follow it to do anything in life ... how to eat, what to drink, how to love, how to die and even when to kill. Though it was difficult to follow the book, it helped the community to grow, have order and governance. People lived happily. After many generations the book grew in size but lost the details of people who contributed. The small group of people who accessed the book more frequently and who knew more about the book got together and thought- How could we make the book more popular and make it (book/us) relevant for all the people? We declare the book has come from the master of our universe and it is his “word”. The master of the universe had laid the code of living and it is compulsory to live by the laws of the book or else suffer, suffer in a place called "hell". Conversly, people who obeyed the word and lived by the book would go straight to heaven. This sounded great and within no time there was a great demand for the book and people in the book business!
Part 2
Someone traveled far and discovered another strange community of people. He was even more surprised to know they also had a book to live by. A thought flashed in his mind- which book was better?
On May 11, 2016 Suresh Kumar wrote:
A silly story-
Part 1
Long, long ago a group humans living in a remote corner of the world realised they have more thinking power than other animals around them. The power to solve problems and do things better and make life easier. Soon they started to share the ideas with family, friends and neighbors. Some felt it is good to write and keep, so it is easy to remember or access. The book of ideas passed down generations as a valuable inheritance. It became a BIG book of ideas. It had everything that you need to live by. So some of them also corroborated that things not in the book were untrue, because anything worth should be there in the book! Not just families but the whole community started living by the book. Eventually it became imperative to have the book and follow it to do anything in life ... how to eat, what to drink, how to love, how to die and even when to kill. Though it was difficult to follow the book, it helped the community to grow, have order and governance. People lived happily. After many generations the book grew in size but lost the details of people who contributed. The small group of people who accessed the book more frequently and who knew more about the book got together and thought- How could we make the book more popular and make it (book/us) relevant for all the people? We declare the book has come from the master of our universe and it is his “word”. The master of the universe had laid the code of living and it is compulsory to live by the laws of the book or else suffer, suffer in a place called "hell". Conversly, people who obeyed the word and lived by the book would go straight to heaven. This sounded great and within no time there was a great demand for the book and people in the book business!
Part 2
Someone traveled far and discovered another strange community of people. He was even more surprised to know they also had a book to live by. A thought flashed in his mind- which book was better?