https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3 en-us 2023-03-24 07:41:39 UTC 2025-11-18 03:57:39 UTC hello@padlet.com zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060287 “‘When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, ‘Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?’ God never came. It wasn’t God who saved me–it was medicine. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us'" (16).]]> 2023-03-24 07:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060287 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060349 “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation" (17).]]> 2023-03-24 07:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060349 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060445  “This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life. With its notions in mind I see my place in the universe” (26).]]> 2023-03-24 07:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530060445 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530061909 “I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: ‘White, white! L-L-Love! My God!’–and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, ‘Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,’ and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story" (32).]]> 2023-03-24 07:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530061909 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062409 “The first time I came upon a Bible in the bedside table of a hotel room in Canada, I burst into tears. I sent a contribution to the Gideons the very next day, with a note urging them to spread the range of their activity to all places where worn and weary travellers might lay down their heads, not just to hotel rooms, and that they should leave not only Bibles, but other sacred writings as well. I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek" (95).]]> 2023-03-24 07:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062409 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062664  “I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances–solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong. They brought me comfort, that is certain” (95).]]> 2023-03-24 07:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062664 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062985 “Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving” (95).]]> 2023-03-24 07:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530062985 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530063291 “‘Praise be to Allah, Lord of All Worlds, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Ruler of Judgment Day!’ I muttered. To Richard Parker I shouted, ‘Stop your trembling! This is miracle. This is an outbreak of divinity. This is...this is…’ I could not find what it was, this thing so vast and fantastic. I was breathless and wordless. I lay back on the tarpaulin, arms and legs spread wide. The rain chilled me to the bone. But I was smiling. I remember that close encounter with electrocution and third-degree burns as one of the few times during my ordeal when I felt genuine happiness" (106).]]> 2023-03-24 07:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530063291 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530065228 “‘If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?’ ‘Mr. Patel–’ ‘Don’t you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?’” (135).]]> 2023-03-24 07:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530065228 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530065783 “‘The story with animals is the better story.’ Pi Patel: ‘Thank you. And so it goes with God’” (144).]]> 2023-03-24 07:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530065783 zagamichanm4865 https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530076806 God is Pi's source of differentiation between living and existence. This is because his beliefs facilitate trust in the universe and his divine path. He is also further able to enrich his life through the optimism and gratitude that comes with devoting yourself to God. These primarily religious values allow him to explore his surroundings with wholehearted curiosity and good intention, since he can always trust God is taking care of him.]]> 2023-03-24 07:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/zagamichanm4865/cguknvafy1yjx1d3/wish/2530076806