Knowledge is my destiny

Most times my brain remains in the state of uneasy truce with occasional skirmishes and rare battles which are spurred by the environment I live in and people I live with. And then I look around at the world where a person gets overwhelmed by this uneasy situations and give up on the hope from its own destiny and looks for "settling down". The mind with its predisposition to peace and tranquility starts creating its own truth and fantasies which eventually turn into belief. Our society is filled with such fantasies and most individuals refuse to just look at the truth and vehemently oppose it from coming out, for they fear that truce in mind will be broken. As a community we are not open to change and prefer to live in comfort of blind beliefs we inherited from our "glorious" ancestors.

In India today, there is a vague resurgent in the demonstrably erroneous doctrines that, if true, would create at least a more interesting universe, but if false, it will imply a universe devoid of intelligence and reason. Such doctrines include:

Astrology - the view that stars, which one hundred trillion kilometers away, are rising at the moment of my birth has the potential to affect my destiny profoundly; 

Yoga and pseudo spirituality - rampant belief by numerous Indians that spirituality is to do with feeding the dog/cow on street and performing 'yagna' will bring peace and prosperity to the world and numerous claims, which are never proven, that modern medicine is totally ineffective against some breathing practices and rubbing of finger nails, which can eradicate baldness and even cure diseases like AIDS; 

Vaastu-Shashtra - Another illogical pseudo science where they "artistically misinterpret" basic physics and couple it will quantum mechanics and tell us that the Jar lying on my TV will bring me bad luck; 

Obviously, also include the doctrine of Special Creation by god or gods, despite our relatedness, both in biochemistry and brain physiology, with other animals.

We must never forget that we are a scientific civilization where knowledge and its integrity must be of utmost importance. Even if there exists half truth to human fantasies mentioned above, it must be proved and verified thoroughly. It is only way we can survive and had been surviving all along the history of human evolution. We won't survive any farther from now if we do not use the gift of human intelligence and synthesize it into knowledge. Science is Latin for knowledge ... and this knowledge is my Destiny!