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Is Mr President listening to anything new or is he okay with same old music

Every so often, everyone requires to hold a conversation with himself. Albert Camus has called it “dialogue with your soul.” In Camus’s context, God talks to himself. He interrogates his divinity, his wisdom and his omnipresence. He wonders whether he is truly God. So how does he even know that he is God? What does eternity mean to him?

Camus comes across as a little iconoclastic, a little profane even. How dare you even begin imagining of God doubting himself? Yet, isn’t there huge merit in Camus’s musings about God’s reflection about his divinity? God, as we understand him, is the ultimate perfection. The lesson here remains that if he who is so perfect can have moments of doubt about his circumstances, who are we that we may believe ourselves to be so good? How so good could we possibly be, that whenever things go wrong we look outwards for answers? Isn’t there a strong and valid case for looking inwards for the answers that have evaded us for so long? The Psalmist confirms thiswhere he has said, “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me?” (Psalm 42: 11)

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