The Riddle

 

To solve a riddle you need to step out of the frame.

 

Not my words. Words of Salman Rushdie. Maybe not his too.

 

How do you step out of the frame. Do you go to Shangrila, live with the buddist monks and ruminate about the frame and riddle. Or do you transport yourself to Himalayas by smoking a reefer and expanding your horizons.

 

This is and is paradoxically not an existential question. Men have lived and died without even trying to figure out the answer. Men have lived and died trying to figure out the answer. Men have lived and died supposedly figuring out the answer.

 

To get an answer you need to figure out what the riddle is. If you ask me the riddle has multiple forms – What or Who is God ? How did the first Amoeba come to existence from the amino acids floating around ? What is our purpose of existence ? And the biggest question of ‘em all - Why ?

 

Firstly let’s try to figure out if you can answer the riddle. Can you step out of the frame to answer it? The frame here is life. To step out of the frame is to step out of life. The boundary conditions are pretty solid. If you can step out of the boundary, you may see the answer. You can be dead and figure it out but can you be dead and alive at the same time. People apparently have done that. If they have they should have immutable proof. The proof we have is subjective and not immutable. Maybe the riddle wasn’t meant to be solved.

 

Or maybe there is no riddle at all. Am I saying the riddle itself is bakwas. Maybe there is one but as far as we are concerned there is no answer. That’s the answer to the riddle. If there is no riddle there are no answers.

 

Can you find something that is not meant to be found? You can if you don’t search for it. You won’t find it, if you try to search for it; as you would be operating under those boundary conditions that inhibit your search. If you can find the answer then it is probably because you weren’t searching for it. It just hits you when you weren’t looking for it. Eureka. The princes of Serendip searching the hay for their pet cat and getting pricked by the golden needle.

 

Prima (facie evidence for) donnas a.k.a Gods don’t exist. They are invented, even though they were supposed to be discovered.

 

Inventions of a surreal world meant to look like a holy communicado. Metaphysical exceptions deemed to be the rule. Sermons uttered by gospels and revered by the commons. Caused by the fear. Of the unknown.

 

Proof of God’s existence that spawned religions due to the lack of evidence to disprove it.

 

Faith that came into existence for the fear of being unfaithful.

 

Belief that came into existence for the lack of belief in oneself.