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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

THE 10 What Ifs of the World!

The way people think amazes and amuses me! Whenever something considerable happens they always have the "what if" thoughts running in their heads. I do too. When an incident of some importance occurs I'd talk to myself (Yeah i do talk. And I know everyone does that once in a while) and ask the what if question. What if I was there instead of that loser? What if I had met that hot chick before that sleazebag did? What if I was the richest man in the world? And that led me onto thinking WHAT might have happened IF things that have happened had not happened at all and I pictured how it would've been trying to not be very insulting and 'blasphemous'. Each of them is fictitious and is independent and has no connection cuz if i do connect all these incidents it'd be very complicated.

1. What if… The big bang never occurred?
I, being a believer, would ask what might have happened if the solar system was never created? Or to put the question in a way that an Atheist would do - "What if the "accident" never happened? Damn. My minds not that imaginative to think how things would've been without the solar system around in the black expanse called Universe! I want to get 'enlightened'!

2. What if… Eve had not eaten the forbidden fruit?
What if Eve was not tempted to eat the forbidden fruit? Is it a possibility that all of us could've been in the Garden of Eden chilling out near a river which has honey instead of water? (I wouldn't 'honey' my girlfriend) I wonder if we'd be mortals there! I wonder if Dooms Day would ever be a word! I wonder if heaven would've been as rotten as the world is turning out to be after centuries of people!

3. What if… Noah had not built an ark?
Noah built an ark and a pair of every species that lived in the world climbed into it to save itself from God's fury and on His commands. So did Noah and his family. And the rest of mankind was washed away. What if that never happened? Is there a possibility that other races of people lived that are unknown to us. Probably black people from the Islands near Australia who looked like aborgines but had features like the Orientals? And there is this possibility of them having had inventions better than what we have now, in parts of the world unknown to Noah that made it impossible for him to pass on information to his descendants? And there is also this possibility, if that had not happened, of people running out of places to live in due to a population that loves sex. And the world is small as it is! I wonder what the numbers would be like!

4. What if… ‘Whoever’ had not invented the wheel?
I cant imagine a life without wheels. I wonder how transport would have been. Is there a possibility that people might've thought of legs if the wheel was not invented and cars had legs instead? How much more uncomfortable can the ride get? There'd be no airplanes cuz they need to have wheels to land. Or would they just land and wear the fuselage off everytime? Wait. That'd happen only after take-off. And we'd need wheels for take-off. We might not have had transport and without transport there wouldn't have been commerce. And without that there wouldnt have been Governments but just tribes like very old times. And the world would've been a very different place to live in. My minds not really innovative enough to think of alternative ways of fast travelling. Well. There is witchcraft and wizardry and people might've moved from one place to another by teleporting themselves. People might've seen a very different world in 2008 if the wheel wasn't invented. And what about the wheels in machines? And what would've the "Father of our Nation" worn if he had no spinning wheel to make his 'dhoti'? What would've we worn? Animal leather? That'd be a bad scene! We just cant spin the yarn without a wheel. And what about our National Flag in which we have a wheel to show our gratitude towards Gandhiji? We wouldn't have known Audi or Ferrari and Yamaha or Harley!!After the big bang theory and Eve's folly this is the most important thing that has influenced the way we are now.

5. What if… Man had learnt how to fly just the way he learnt to swim?
Wow. That could've been fun! Altophobia wouldnt exist. Superman would've never been a super-hero. Wright Brothers might've tried making something else instead. Pilots wouldn't exist (Damn good man doesn't know how to fly. I cant think of any other way to make money). Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay would have never become celebrities and mountain climbers would've been called losers! And lots of birds would've been extinct and not just dodos.

6. What if… Christopher Columbus had not ‘explored’ America?
Some other European with a difficult name would've 'explored' it! And if it wasn't a European then there is a possibility that an Arab Sultan from Central Asia might've done it a li'l later. I wonder how it might've been if Arabs had started colonies instead of the Europeans. The term White America wouldn't exist. It wouldn't have probably been a slave land the chances of the blacks from Africa getting deported to 'Slave Land' might've been wiped out. (How much more ironical can it get? The people of 'Slave Land' who now call themselves the Americans are now the Superpower).

7. What if… India was never invaded?
If India was never invaded, each city of this country would've been a different country. India would have never existed. There were probably 1000 kingdoms then but they all came under the British Rule and somehow learnt to live like fellow citizens and chased them away! We should thank the invaders if we are proud of our country!
8. What if… Hitler was an illegitimate embryo in his mother's womb and they had ways of aborting during those times?
Poor li'l Hitler wouldnt have been begotten! Happy li'l Jews would've lived the way they did! Schindler wouldn't have made the money that he did nor would Steven Spielberg have made a movie about Schindler! The Jews, if they had copulated the way they did to make up for the dead ones in reality, they would've made half the population in the world. The only difference now is that they control half of the world!
9. What if… Germany had won the 2nd World War?
Socialism and fascism would've prevailed all over the world. We might've probably been taught in military schools. And if England lost, their territory India, would've come under Germany. That might mean we do not get independence until later when heroes like me turn up. Youngsters would be trained to get into spy schools and taught how to make bombs just in case England or America waged a war. We would wear swastika bands around our arms and business class people would be eliminated. Airplanes wouldn't even have a business class as they were so much against capitalism. And the Germans would've opened up factories here and that would include BMW, Porsche and Mercedez. And the Indian roads would be far better than what they are now for cars like those!

10. What if… The September 11th attack never happened?
If that hadn't happened, Bush wouldn't have had a reason to bomb and conquer Afghanisthan and take their oil. And the oil prices would've gone up and trasnport would've become expensive which brings down trade and commerce which in turn wouldn't have taken the dollars worth to 50 rupees a buck! Weird are the ways of the world! If it hadn't happened, muslims wouldnt have been looked at with fright and disgust by half the people around the world. If it hadn't happened, lots of families wouldn't have lost their loved ones....................
(Thanks to wikipedia where i could get lots of info from)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

cool "if" positions... keep up with it dude (thumbs up)

AdiL - The Caliph said...

i'd call it hypothetical situations rather than 'if' positions :P