Knowing God by not knowing Him; Points to ponder; Emotiveness by the absence of polarization; Fallacy of correlation equals causation

Knowing God by not knowing Him; Points to ponder; Emotiveness by the absence of polarization; Fallacy of correlation equals causation

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

·      Only two players play tennis but 24 players play football. Much larger crowd of spectators watch foot ball than the crowd that watch tennis; therefore more players cause more crowd.

Knowing God by not knowing Him

·       Whenever I attempt to decode God so that I can have the mark or sign of His identification I always fail and always this failure reminds me of the famous poet of Urdu who said ‘whenever I think of God, I do not understand Him, so I understand that this (His existence beyond physical perception) is His mark of identification. This sign of God can signify by helping us interpret God with criteria that would successfully terminate the search of God.

Points to ponder

·       Superfluity (of words) is often because of our failure to make use of the participants’ assumed knowledge of things we talk about because then things we talk about must necessarily appear on the surface of our conversations.

Emotiveness by the absence of polarization

·       Emotive speech is judged by its effects on galvanizing people into action; however, participants’ decision to participate may be correlated with traits; for example, they may be people who have strong opinions or substantial anger or they may be people who are highly motivated to respond. Emotiveness should be judged by the absence of the polarization of responses; therefore, indifferent or apathetic must as likely to respond; not by the polarization of response with extreme perspectives being given a disproportionate weight.

Fallacy of correlation equals causation

·       When one walks through countryside, he finds many more beggars than he does in a city; city has much pollution, crimes and noise; therefore, all these problems are caused by lesser numbers of beggars.

·       With increase in the number of democratic countries, there has been increase in global warming; therefore, global warming is caused by the increase in democratic countries.