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For the rest, here I go...
Hello friends,
I am Anirban, a very close friend of Tuli.
Today I tell you about two persons, He and She. He and She are "approximately" of the same age and hail from the same city. He studies in this South Indian city, and he is back home, to spend his summer vacations with his family and friends. She has gone to Patna to see her relatives and cousins. Summer, you know. And then, He and She met. Obviously they met on this social networking site owned and operated by Google. He is a complete addict of this networking site and spends almost four to five hours a day in front of his laptop. She had recently accepted He's friend request. And this is the first time that they both are online simultaneously. He initiates the chat.
But, the response from the stranger girl was cold and stern. She seemed kind of cynical about the new guy. He feels uncomfortable and decides to call it quits. They end the chat.
They never talk again......
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Fast forward four months. Come October.
" Going the deutsche way ?" flashes on the lower right corner of the laptop screen. This meant that He has received a new scrap. And He is surprised to see that it was She who had scrapped him so. He had almost forgotten her. After all, we are talking about online friends and acquiantainces over the internet. Who actually gives a damn ??!! But since He had once received cold, and probably insulting treatment from her, it didn't take much time to realize that she was the same girl. So this time , He decided to exhibit a snobbish, unperturbed attitude. All the time He was thinking that what might have caused this conceited girl to scrap him suddenly. She hardly knew him. He bears the impression of this self absorbed, egoistic girl.
The talk progresses. And this time, He is very careful. He doesn't want to make a fool of himself again. So, he decides to talk of something non personal. He asks Her, "Do you believe in God?" He had an uncanny habit of asking this same question to every person he met. He was an agnostic. All his childhood he had believed in God because that is what his parents, his culture, and the soceity had made him believe. But then, recently he had read a few books by Stephen Hawking and a few other physicists which had shaken this very basic belief of his life. He had also developed an interest in metaphysics. So, the question of existence of God had been disturbing him for the past few months.
And so, he asked this question to her.
She came up with a 200 word reply !!! She believed in God, and thought that She was God's favourite creation. But He didn't find her long-answer-type reply convincing at all. He, who has lived by his faith in the power of reason finds it difficult to accept her arguments for believing in God. He types in a 200 word reply as well. He writes about physics, quantum mechanics, theology, metaphysics and almost everything that he had read of late.
She again throws back a lengthy reply. Around 300 words this time. And this time, after reading her reply, he is reminded of her summer arrogance. He starts feeling frustrated. He realizes that the girl is not ready to take in all the logic and reasoning that he presents in his argument. She is just being guided by her belief and nothing else. And He is not used to seeing people who vehemently and bluntly reject his views.
He writes back , "Fuck Off."
She doesn't reply this time. She never replies.
For the rest, here I go...
Hello friends,
I am Anirban, a very close friend of Tuli.
Today I tell you about two persons, He and She. He and She are "approximately" of the same age and hail from the same city. He studies in this South Indian city, and he is back home, to spend his summer vacations with his family and friends. She has gone to Patna to see her relatives and cousins. Summer, you know. And then, He and She met. Obviously they met on this social networking site owned and operated by Google. He is a complete addict of this networking site and spends almost four to five hours a day in front of his laptop. She had recently accepted He's friend request. And this is the first time that they both are online simultaneously. He initiates the chat.
But, the response from the stranger girl was cold and stern. She seemed kind of cynical about the new guy. He feels uncomfortable and decides to call it quits. They end the chat.
They never talk again......
__________________________________________
Fast forward four months. Come October.
" Going the deutsche way ?" flashes on the lower right corner of the laptop screen. This meant that He has received a new scrap. And He is surprised to see that it was She who had scrapped him so. He had almost forgotten her. After all, we are talking about online friends and acquiantainces over the internet. Who actually gives a damn ??!! But since He had once received cold, and probably insulting treatment from her, it didn't take much time to realize that she was the same girl. So this time , He decided to exhibit a snobbish, unperturbed attitude. All the time He was thinking that what might have caused this conceited girl to scrap him suddenly. She hardly knew him. He bears the impression of this self absorbed, egoistic girl.
The talk progresses. And this time, He is very careful. He doesn't want to make a fool of himself again. So, he decides to talk of something non personal. He asks Her, "Do you believe in God?" He had an uncanny habit of asking this same question to every person he met. He was an agnostic. All his childhood he had believed in God because that is what his parents, his culture, and the soceity had made him believe. But then, recently he had read a few books by Stephen Hawking and a few other physicists which had shaken this very basic belief of his life. He had also developed an interest in metaphysics. So, the question of existence of God had been disturbing him for the past few months.
And so, he asked this question to her.
She came up with a 200 word reply !!! She believed in God, and thought that She was God's favourite creation. But He didn't find her long-answer-type reply convincing at all. He, who has lived by his faith in the power of reason finds it difficult to accept her arguments for believing in God. He types in a 200 word reply as well. He writes about physics, quantum mechanics, theology, metaphysics and almost everything that he had read of late.
She again throws back a lengthy reply. Around 300 words this time. And this time, after reading her reply, he is reminded of her summer arrogance. He starts feeling frustrated. He realizes that the girl is not ready to take in all the logic and reasoning that he presents in his argument. She is just being guided by her belief and nothing else. And He is not used to seeing people who vehemently and bluntly reject his views.
He writes back , "Fuck Off."
She doesn't reply this time. She never replies.
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PS: This did not happen.
PPS: He believes in God now.
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