What is God?
Caroline: God is beyond our imagination and yet comprehensible in each of our situations.

God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Caroline: God. Every creation has a creator, take a washing machine for example – it couldn’t have existed on its own with its fuzzy logic – so there must be somebody to code it! We cannot be the result of an explosion that is hard to calculate as almost everything about us has a pattern in terms of how we are formed! Water is a medium for all organisms with our biochemistry and water was one of the first creations as far as the Bible is considered.

God or Darwin (or both)?
Caroline: God – mostly in terms of how man came about but then Darwin’s idea could have had some hand in terms of us having a link with apes.

God or Darfur? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Caroline: Who is Darfur?

Who is God’s God?
Caroline: He wouldn’t be God if he had a God! But if we go by our understanding of demigods then I guess each one of us would ascribe to be God’s god…. say ascribe and not consider!

Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Caroline: We have religions because society is dependent on a norm or way of behaving or
ascribing his or her potential. But that doesn’t mean that this norm becomes a religion. I see religion as a way out of man’s own usual web of complication. The only reason we complain is if religion weaves its own web around us. Each person has to understand what he or she is looking for to know who the real God is. I am confident that the God of my faith is the real God and that is only because He has made it a point to reach out to me in all my situations rather than be enthroned in a distant land by himself.

Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Caroline: Well if you don’t think God has a plan for you then this could be it….a guinea pig’s life. But I believe God has a plan and does give us choices. It is up to you to choose how to work it out. Yes, God could be a researcher to an extent of wanting to know how much of Him lies in His creation.

Does unexplained phenomena = God?
Caroline: Unexplained to the one who thinks being real is all about here and now! Unexplained is about not wanting to know any more than you already know and therefore this can equal be to God. You know exactly what the world would be like if we were all gods! You would have a Taliban or an RSS in each household!

It was truly like swimming in the Dead Sea, you think you are swimming well, and little did you know that there was hardly any buoyancy! The buoyancy mainly being the inflated heads of most these men!

Dates and days came and went. Coffee pubs and restaurants saw me churning food into my plate or swirling dregs of coffee…all round. I just wished – God why is it so difficult to figure out what this guy wants!!

I wound up my record of finding the right man by the mid of 2007, for fear of getting placed into the Guinness book…or let’s be humble…Limca book of Records. I assured myself this is complete hogwash and that having choices doesn’t make sense. Is it a matter of choice or destiny that you end up with who ends up with you?

We are given choices at all times. We ask ourselves why destiny can’t just lead us. Is everything that is destined, a matter of choices that you make? Or are we preprogrammed robots that do as we are told?

If yes, then who programmes us? Who works on our motherboard and updates our databases? Are we genetically tuned to repeat the mistakes and glories our fathers and forefathers encountered?

Your circumstances and situations act as parameters for your choices. Therefore if you take a good look at your choices they are directed by what seems optimum at that time more than what I should do or how I go forward.

Media is an essential tool in processing our choices since it captures our attention almost 95% of our conscious time. Look at how media has built its repertoire of images today? You have such a conglomerate of images to choose what you see perfect in your visual space.

You have ads that compare the size of sanitary napkins to the size of a young girl. You have insurance policies that present death as hope! Think about the ad that shows a middle aged man rummaging through the refrigerator for dessert and then realises his kids wouldn’t have any left!

You have old people feeling so young thanks to the paint on their walls, and therefore forget about their grandkid screaming for help. You have a car being presented as a symbol of power, power that disturbs a man spending peaceful time fishing in a calm lake.

What are the images that are being played towards our choices? Or are our choices directing these images?

Do identify who is feeding your visual image! And then set your lens in focus: Identify what your visual image has been feeding you.

If your parameters (situations or circumstances or long term value systems) don’t correlate  with the images, then please don’t skew your results by forcing them to do so.

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Caroline is a behavioural trainer who majored in wildlife biology. The apt words for the way she spends most of her time is observation and analysis. Leisure is mostly defined in terms of music, concerts or playing the piano.