Hindustan Times
The Balochistan spin
After they were done yelling at some Pakistani journalists who, expectedly, had some harsh questions, the lawmakers relaxed. It was time to pump flesh.
Two US lawmakers had just wrapped up a news conference called to highlight the plight of the people of Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
From the turnout, it looked like the most important event in Washington DC that day and that time. There were people standing in the back of a packed room.
After the usual speeches and questions, I asked the lawmakers: Which of the following came first: the realization that Pakistan had been a bad ally or that the Baluch people needed help.
This was not a question they had rehearsed or expected. But the answers, uncannily, were the same: first came the realization that Pakistan has been a bad ally, followed by Balochistan.
In fact, one of the lawmakers said he was the best friend Pakistan had in this town. And he had a number of US House resolutions on Kashmir to prove that.
Then came the disappointment — Osama bin Laden found living in a Pakistani cantonment town. That really blew me, he said.
Feeling betrayed and angry, the congressman looked around for ways to hurt Pakistan. And, he said this, he found Baluchistan. I said to myself: now this doesn’t too good.
What if Pakistan were to start behaving the good ally the US wants it to be, as a reporter asked the lawmakers.
Will they stop supporting the Baloch people and their movement?
Their support for the Baloch cause was not as much about the Baloch as it was about punishing Pakistan for being a bad ally. Do the Baloch deserve this?
I haven’t had the chance to take this up with Bloch activists here. But I can see from their perspective that even if the lawmakers were in it for the wrong reasons, their support was bringing the cause lots of attention.
If you can see from their perspective that they will take it even if the lawmakers were in it for the “wrong” reasons, what is the point of this article?
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So what if Vodafone paid no taxes last year? Is that any reason to kill the Indian economy to enacting retroactive taxes? Isn’t that like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face?
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God will never be discovered.
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Only Jesus is the one and only true God. Read the bible to discover more. All others gods do not give you hope.
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asif Reply:
July 9th, 2012 at 5:13 am
jesus was just a local village magician.
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virginmary Reply:
July 9th, 2012 at 5:14 am
jesus was only a local village magician.
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Why bringing God in discovery of this sub particle. It is created by Him for humans and if you have discovered it:good but why changing your attitude towards believe in God. Have more sense..
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boring and pretty shallow commentary. everyone is giving their 2p on this subject – there is a rat race on to show how intellectual one is, how different one can think, such is the peer pressure
in that rat race, this is a pretty lack lustre performance
discovery of higgs boson is a milestone scientifically – although given the challenges known to science it is not even a baby step. we are nowhere near answering ultimate questions of physical world let alone meta physical world. dont know what is the connection of god etc with it. and why all & sundry feel pressurized to take a stab at it
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God doesnt exist, so cant be “discovered”. The “god particle” is postulated to be the building block of the universe – not some imaginary being.
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There is nothing about this discovery that supports the extraordinary claim that a god or gods exist. It’s unfortunate that the nickname “god particle” misleads many believers. The fact is, to date, no field of science has uncovered any compelling evidence for a god. Gods may exist, of course, but at this time there are no sensible reason to think they do.
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It appears — couple of stupids are advertising their stupidity. These stupids has no understanding about the word GOD. I bet they can not even spell GOD correctly.
Remember, This is also happening by the will of God.
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we may do our best to extend our reaach to god but god is beyond our limits.
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Thank God, they did not call it Allah particle. Wonder how the Pakistanis and Islamists would have reacted. We certainly have been spared a lot of trouble.
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Science is reasoning. God isn’t discovered by this discovery. He was only reasoned through the experiment. Every science experiment is for a better reason. The discovery of particle does explain points which are critical to mass and birth of heavenly bodies and thus universe.
One still has to discover God by his own. Whichever religion you choose, whichever faith you follow, God will still be something to be discovered. As God is not only about how one become a mass of living thing, but also a big why?
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Just one century back atom was the fundamental unit of element, later on electron, proton, quark came to light. So how scientists can say with finality that Higgs Boson is fundamental particle responsible for Universe.
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My dear friend, it is only a name, a nickname rather. However scientists,being people who live in the society,also use terms which are fancy and catchy. Don’t put too much into it. The importance of Higgs Boson, the “God Particle” discovery is more scientific than anything to do with discovery of God. But then every scientific discovery may change or qualify the existing religious beliefs and that is nothng special to Higgs Boson. It has been so with the theory of relativity or discovery of atom etc.
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Read vedas’ and geeta to know what is God one leaf is not tree.
what do you mean by left undiscovered it can be discovered only by the Muktas’ i.e. only by those who deserved Moksha. Raise your Karmas’ to that height. good luck.
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There is only one GOD. Different names have been given by man n communities over a time. This GOD has created all the universes , galaxies.This experiment has discovered only one of the hidden secrets. Like this there are million and billion secrets still to be discovered. Every child is very happy to see something new in his life time. The same way , let this scientific community remain happy and busy in discovering more. let things happen and we watch as spectators as if seeing a movie.
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From time immemorial man has been putting his best efforts to
prove the non-existence of God. The more he tries to prove with his obvious
limitations, he sadly finds more evidence to support His existence. Humans’
latest efforts to confine a mighty God to a sub-atomic particle seem be incomplete
and inconclusive once again. Mahatma Gandhi once wrote: “God is smaller than an
atom, but bigger than the Himalayas…” This sums up God’s greatness as well as
nearness to everything He has created. A few decades ago, scientists had
claimed that given sufficient knowledge they could solve all human problems.
But over the decades, with the enormous growth of scientific knowledge, the
problems have also more than doubled. What a paradox! Centuries ago, inspired
by God, the Apostle Paul wrote: “…they did not like to retain God in their knowledge…”
(Romans 1:28), and he explains further by saying: “…the existence of God is
understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” It
would be wiser for scientists to direct their efforts towards constructive human
development.
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No. If God and religion cannot stand up to honest scientific scrutiny, then they should be relegated to the ash-heap of history – along with the atrocities committed through the centuries in their names.
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They eat the flesh of God and drink the blood of God every year, The God is cared of them. If he happens to appear before them in true form, they will eat him away. What a cruel fate awaits god.
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Science is not true. What we read in schools as Chemistry ten years back has undergone lot of changes now. So is Physics and mathematics. Science cannot find answers for basic things. Say water for example, imagine this material for which so many uses are there. Who else can create such a material other than God. It is there as sea water, get evaporated and forms cloud, and comes down as rain, flows in the rivers, you use it for drinking, washing etc dirty it as much as possible, yet it flows down to the sea and comes back as rain. All these centuries the science could not find a substitute for this material. Due to shortage of water there is famine. People die. We could not find a solution other than fetch water from somewhere. God is everywhere. He comes in the form of air, water, fire etc. Without this you cannot live. All that you can do is to pollute them as much as possible and call that god is non existent. .
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Eureka
moment in our life’s journey with God.
The discovery of God particle; Higgs Boson is not
new for India. The Indian Vedic Scientists and the seers have traced the same
long back. It has been described as Creator; Vishvakarma in the Vedas.
The discovery of God
particle will open the key for interpretation of Vedas. The Vedic knowledge
start with the discovery of God particle
The building block of the creation is atom and the
building block of the living-beings is DNA, which is universally present in the
biological world.
The highest truth of the creation is in three
components of nature. They feed and operate the system without end.
The modern Science has yet to touch this height.
No one can deny the fact that the sun is the infinite source of
elementary particles.
The electromagnetic bond energy
is responsible for synthesis and degradation with time. It maintains the
equilibrium in the nature and natural components.
The DNA with four bases is universally present in the living-beings.
The immortal DNA is blue chip of life.
The living-beings with cycle of rebirth and death have generated the
infinite nature at their own with bio-geo-chemical cycle in the nature. It has
been described in
Rig.10-81-3,4
and Rig.4-58-1,2,3,4
The Scientists, who have the knowledge of the creation system, atom and
DNA can understand it.
It will give further direction to work on role of DNA in
life that why two individuals have different DNA and fate in life? It can also
explore further the mystery of Indus Valley.
It has been expressed
by Gods’tongue, nucleus of the atom is truly Amrita’s centre.
FORTH from
the ocean sprang the wave of sweetness: together with, the stalk it turned to
Amrita.
That which is
holy oil’s mysterious title: but the Gods’ tongue is truly Amrita’s centre Rig.
4-58-1
An invisible field lying across the universe
gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and
planets.
It has been described in the Vedas as Vishvakarma; the Creator that
creation came into the existence from a fundamental energy, it has maintained
its continuity in atom, molecules and matter, it has been expressed by He the Sole God, producing earth and
heaven, weldeth them, with his arms as wings, together.Rig.10-81-3
The bond energy of the atoms has been expressed, that
it is just like his arm as wings, which bind the atoms. The space which has imparted gravity is omnipresent. It is present
within us also.
Ye thoughtful
men enquire within your spirit whereon he stood when he established all things Rg.10-81-4
It has been expressed that
the sole God- fundamental energy has produced the creation, he is present
everywhere, and within you also.
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