Whom to believe?

Sometimes, when isolated, you just have questions left with no one to answer them, not even Google. No family, no friends, just no one.. It's you living in a magnificent universe which is not even partly discovered by us. You are not away from the first question which atheists are asked after they say they're atheist is, 'Who made the Universe then?!' Struggling for answers and believing almost everything we hear, we're grown up to believe whatever we see and hear. We are taught to believe in God before we even realize, we are just a specie on the earth that might one day be eaten up by the black hole or are so intelligent that we might conquer it and make it another source of energy for ourselves.

You might be reading this on you mobile phone, laptop, tablet or some other device which we now don't even know is going to ever exist. Machines.. You need a computer to run a huge device which manufactures parts of computers. We are surrounded by these machines having immense potentials, but were just some pieces of metal boiling in a hot ball of gases, just a few billion years ago. That's what science has given us. Easing our lives and making living more and more comfortable.

Raised as a Hindu in India, I have always heard chants of the holy gayatri mantra and hanuman chalisa. We've always had pujas on Diwali and Holi. After realizing that my Catholic friends celebrated Christmas as the birth of Christ and we celebrated Diwali as the return of Lord Ram, I concluded religion has given us festivals, days where we dress up, have exquisite meals and be happy for basically no other reason than just the day.

During my schooling, I came across some passport-sized photos of men with large white moustaches and beards. They were completely white, even their hair! And later on, I realized they were just the statues of some great philosophers who left us with answers which we can actually justify even in the 21st Century. Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, basically with no known surnames, prove how incredible would have their thought processes been, to leave solutions for not generations but centuries! This is what philosophy gave us- simple ways in which we could actually be happy.

Science, religion and philosophy, all of these answer our questions to some extent. But why are taught that only these are the boundaries of the answers we can get?

Are we meant to reproduce and forward our genes and 'nformation' to the future generations, as per science?

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Are we meant to live happily with our friends and family, exploring the unending pleasures of life, according to philosophy?

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Are we meant to praise His existence and thank Him for ours, as says religion?

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Are we just meant to raise these questions and make suggestions which satisfy us as per our own discretion?

Could there not be something more than philosophy, science and religion to answer questions which are not yet answered..? Or should we just be proud to belong to a specie which can go to the Mars & sit back and wait for other achievements to be proud on?

Do comment below and tell us what are your unanswered questions..