Ozymandias! Where is your mighty works?

I must say I'm not really an admirer of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Most of his poems I feel is a great deal of incredulity and a great deal of egocentric-ism. His polygamous nature and self-righteousness is perhaps his worse crime in my eyes. He was one of those sublime egoists with a strong moralizing bent, who assume that others have a duty not only to fit in with but to applaud his decisions, and when they fail to do so quickly display a sense of outrage towards them. Although I could say my abhorrence of this Man could also be because, I have had to deal with Men of Bysshe Shelley's character all my life. But in all his works, I must admit there is one poetic product of his that I find very startling,and its truth very revealing. And that is Ozymandias...


"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

This poem speaks volumes to those who feel the world should revolve around. Those who cherish thier jobs, fame, academic titles, instead of the love and attention they should be giving and sharing where it matters most, family, friends and the ones that walks in and out of our everyday lives. And allow thier love for humanity to be dwarfed by the quest for the mundane and pointless of this world. We must bear in mind, we will not live forever and at the end, it is our treatment of our fellow human being that will matter in the sight of God. Always bear it in mind, "When you get to the top, there is nothing there"

DELUSION OF THE DELUDED

In the laboratories and corridors of the Physical Sciences, it a the general accepted rule that the world as we have it might have been formed out of an explosion of some sort leading to the bringing to being of the Universe. Mainly popularised as the 'Big Bang'. Of coarse this still remains hypothetical since a recent attempt to prove this science using a multi billion collider was unsuccessful. I my candid believe, I view the theory as more of a philosophy then a Science, since it flouts all the rules and fundamentals of the logic of Science. " Nothing can come out of nothing"

In today's world several effort are being made by both Naturalists and Atheists alike to exclude God out of the business of creation and in so doing ends up flouting their own principles. And of coarse the fundamentals of logic and reasoning. Theories of evolution and studies in Paleo-anthropology will rather have us believe everything in our world happened by Chance. A believe that was very much fuelled by Darwinism and his postulations on natural selection. But perhaps Darwin did get it wrong or perhaps Science has got it all wrong?

1. If you take any physical quantity in this world and section it. You will never find the reason for its existence in itself. However sectioned, however sliced, will ultimately point to a cause outside itself. Nothing can cause itself to exist.

2. Whenever you see intelligibility and specified complexity especially in the nature of language and abstract reasoning, you will always assume an intelligence behind it. You will never look at a sonnet by Shakespeare and assume a group of monkeys pounding on some typewriter or some computer produced it. Nor look at a dictionary and say, it could have developed from an explosion in the Printing Press. Never! Whenever you see intelligibility or a specified complexity, you always assume and intelligence behind it. If you were to walk unto a planet totally foreign to you, and saw one million pebbles in a perfect triangle, you can reasonably say it happened over fifteen billion years or it just came together. You can assume that. But if you found one piece of paper on the same platform that said,” hello John, I hope you brought some Indian recipes with you”. Would you for even one solitary moment think fifteen billion has put that sentence together?

To tell the truth, you are looking at language, you are looking at sense. When a Space Ship blows up, we say “what went wrong?” No one hears the simple words of a Child “Mummy” or a simple “I love you” will think for a moment it is a random collocation of atoms uttering to you some unfathomable mysteries.

I hope, I can not be accused of being an agnostist when I state that the mystries of this universe are beyond comprehension. Its of no little surprise that Astronomy has as yet not been able to unravel it mystries. And all it does is to describe it. Need I mention that description does not equate understanding. One can easily describe a phenomena but can fail to grasp its origin and meaning. And that is the accomplishment of the Physical Science.