Pranav Bethala:  

Pranav is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pranav's schools include UMS- Wright Preparatory School. Music Pranav likes includes All Hail The Yeti, Classical, Led Zeppelin Official. Books Pranav likes include Dracula, Frankenstein, The Chronicles of Narnia. Movies Pranav likes include Borat, The Fugitive, Star Trek. TV shows Pranav likes include Sid Roth's It's Supernatural, CNN, Adult Swim. One of Pranav's favorite quotes is:"“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.” — Socrates “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” — René Descartes “Certainty of death, small chance of success . . . What are we waiting for?” — Gimli “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” — Plato “What, then, is time? If no one asks me about it, I know; but if someone asks me to explain it, I do not know.” — Augustine of Hippo “Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.” — Immanuel Kant “To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” — René Descartes “Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as to not be burned.” — Avicenna “Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s salvation henceforth be safely built.” — Bertrand Russell “Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: ‘I am looking for God! I am looking for God!’? As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. ‘Have you lost Him, then?’ said one. ‘Did He lose his way like a child?’ said another. ‘Or is He hiding? Is He afraid of us? Has He gone on a voyage? Or emigrated?’ Thus, they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances. ‘Where has God gone?’ he cried. ‘I shall tell you. We have killed Him – you and I. We are His murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideways, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God’s decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed Him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us – for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto.’ Here, the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners, and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last, he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. ‘I have come too early,’ he said then; ‘my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still traveling – it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars – and yet they have done it themselves.’ It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: ‘What are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?’” — Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 “Nietzsche is dead.” — God, 1900 “Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” — Immanuel Kant “Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works. Bad works do not make a bad man, but a bad man does bad works.” — Martin Luther “Well done, my good and faithful servant; you have have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Come and partake in your master’s happiness!” — Matthew 25:21 “I think; therefore I am.” — René Descartes “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” — Socrates “The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire: first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever-increasing in speed and power.” — Nikola Tesla “Let there be no compulsion in religion – truth stands out clear from error!” — Surah 2:256 “Greater love has no man than this: that he lay his life down for his friend.” — John 15:13 “I am the Good Shepherd; the Good Shepherd lays down His life for His sheep.” — John 10:11 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But, I say to you: love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who accuse you falsely and persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in Heaven, for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even publicans do the same? Therefore, you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” — Matthew 5:43-48 “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me shall never walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.” — John 8:12 “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” — John 14:6 “The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at Him. They said, ‘He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers also came up and mocked Him. They offered Him wine vinegar and said, ‘If You are the king of the Jews, save Yourself.’ There was a written notice above Him, which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at Him: ‘Are You not the Messiah? Save Yourself and us!’ But the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Do you not fear God,’ he said, ‘since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.’ Then, he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, I say to you today, you will be with Me in Paradise.’” — Luke 23:35-43 “We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.” — William James “When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” — René Descartes “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not.” — Mark 13:31 “All those the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I shall never cast out. For I have come down from Heaven not to do My own will but to do the will of Him who sent Me. And, this is the will of Him who sent Me: that I shall lose none of those He has given Me but shall raise them up at the last day. For it is My Father’s will that all who see His Son and believe in Him shall have eternal life, and I shall raise them up at the last day.” — John 6:37-40 “So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.” — Matthew 20:16 “Yet as far as science is concerned, we were created by the blind and inevitable process of evolution, the death of the physical body is the end of personal existence, and we live in a pointless universe.” — Susan Blackmore “Whoever confesses Me before men, I shall also confess him before My Father in Heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I shall also deny him before My Father in Heaven.” — Matthew 10:32-33 “Then, having summoned the multitude with His disciples, He said to them, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. Fo...Expand for more