Questions answered by Mr Joseph Vempeny
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I don’t know what key I hit but this message suddenly flashed up on the screen: 'YOUR ATTEMPT TO BREACH SECURE CIA NETWORKS HAS BEEN NOTED. If you are American stop it immediately or we shall destroy your credit rating. If you are non-American we have the power to wipe your village off the face of the earth, and you, your family and your fellow villagers with it - and make it seem accidental.' Is this true, can they really destroy our credit ratings? |
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| You are worried about your credit rating. I am worried about my village. |
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Consider a person of 'superior intellect' – with respect to knowledge and 'intelligence', where would you personally place that person on a scale of 0% to 100%, an amoeba being at one end of the scale, and 'God' at the other? Ballpark assessment. PS. Don’t even consider using this exercise as a means of currying favour with God. We are both agreed that in this case your answer shall accrue a hefty weighting for honesty, and a hefty penalty for brown-nosing. |
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I do not remember agreeing to anything. But I also have a sense of humor. The term superior intellect is relative and had to be qualifies. I assume you have the one with the highest degree of intelligence. Also amoeba should not have been zero as there are life forms much simpler than amoeba. Any way! I would put human beings above all the animals and even angels. Let us say between 89 and 99. Among these your person of superior intelligence will score 95. The scores 95.1 to 98 I had reserved for those simple folks who though not very intelligent know how to love, care for and help their fellow beings. 98 to 99 will be for such loving people who knows God on an intimate footing and live in His company - the true holy men. Comments :  Joseph, by 'we' I meant God and myself. I felt an amoeba was a well known low-end lifeform. People always want to fix the question! By 'Superior' I simply meant well above average. You equate intelligence with knowing God? Could a human be 1% less knowledgable than God? God knoweth all, surely? 
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If you traveled at the speed of light would you travel back in time? |
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| No. If you travel to a star 10 light years away at the speed of light, you shall reach that star in 2016 - in the future not in the past. |
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What are the main causes of the hole in the ozone layer? |
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Scientists ascribe ozone depletion to some of the gases emitted by our modern technology. The main culprit is Freon, a gas emitted by the refrigeration tech. The ‘sprays’ air freshener and insecticides are included. Hence the label ‘ozone friendly’ on some products. Even other gases like oxides of carbon could be included. But I wonder if that is as simple as that! |
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What is the purpose of life? |
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Life is a precious gift – an amazing one. Plant life makes our world a beautiful one. Compare a house with lawn, flower beds, trees to a ‘flat’ in a huge concrete complex! Animal life makes our world ‘alive’. Human life gives meaning to creation. Death is the definite aspect of the mortal life that we share with all the animals. Immortality is the unique aspect of spiritual life, the life of the soul, that we humans only have. Consciousness, that makes us aware of the creation around us and the Creator, conscience, the awareness of good and evil, mind and soul that can communicate with God in praise, worship and intercessions; these are unique to us humans. This life becomes meaningful only when we utilize these spiritual faculties in knowing, loving and serving the Lord which is best accomplished by understanding, loving and serving our fellow beings – the children of God. Those who advocate anthropic principle in cosmology say that the whole cosmos has meaning only with reference to intelligent life that can observe and appreciate the world around. |
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Why do good things and bad things happening to someone always even out? |
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If you feel that in your life joy and sorrow – ups and downs have equal share you are one of the lucky or blessed ones. This may be the same for other people as well but most of them look only at the things that make them sad, only count the miseries and refuse to count the blessings. Some like me, an escapist according to my friends look more at the silver lining than at the darker side and enjoy life better than others. Hills and vales, ups and downs, joy and sorrow are part of nature and they are even by nature. In the absence of evil there is no meaning for goodness. If our world was a flat prairie without hills and dales, mountains, rivers and oceans, it would have been a very boring place. Everyone has, by nature an even share of good and bad according to the will of God. Only some people appreciate it. |
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I have never understood the reasons for the Arab/Israeli conflict. Surely the state of Israel was formed with the agreement of the surrounding countries. Why are there continual disputes? After the formation what was the trigger for all the conflict? |
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As far as I know, in 1948 the state of Israel was carved out of the Palestinian land that was a British protectorate. They did not want the permission of anybody for that. Even if the kings of the neighboring countries, who were also under the western colonialist influence, agreed the people of Palestine had not been consulted. One could also wonder if the problem between the Arabs and Jews do not go back to the times of their common ancestor, Patriarch Abraham. He disinherited one sending him out into the desert and bestowed favors on the other. But that is not the cause of the present problem. At any rate it is a very complex, deep-rooted problem |
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Is there a website that summarizes the current conflict in Lebanon or gives a crash course for those of us who are dismally under-educated about middle east conflict? |
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| It is a great pity that media is always biased. Nowhere can we get a clear view. So I go to both sides on the net. www.cnnnews.com and www.aljazeera.com. Thus I get the story from both sides. |
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Is there any Country in the World that does not have 'Compulsory' education? |
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| There are several developing countries, many in Africa, where education is not compulsory. |
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How did the hour come about as a measurement of time? |
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In the early days of civilization the subunits of the ‘day’ were different in different parts of the world. These were determined mostly by the position of the sun. In India till recently the day was divided into ‘nazhika’ which was divided into ‘vinazhika’. This system is still used by Indian astrologers. Similarly there were other systems. The present system of hours, minutes and seconds had been spread all over the world by the European colonizers. It is safe to assume that this system originated in Greece, the cradle of western civilization.
Comments : Thanks but I was particulary intereted in why 24 and not 10 or 25 etc. still learnt something though.
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