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For the sake of meaning?

May 24, 2007 — 9 Comments

This is my response to a discussion taking place on one of my posts. It was just going to be a comment, however I think I ended up going on a tangent and writing too much, so I thought I’d make it a post too.

I’ll let Sydspace discuss this with escapedmentalpatient, but as always, I’d like to add my two glorious cents.

I think in some ways you’re definitely on to something. I know a lot of people that are “very religious,” and although they deny it, have blind faith (they argue against the “blind” part) in their religion and in their particular scripture. And as you have said, they often automatically reject any possibilities outside of their very narrow frame. Some try and consider what may exist outside of their religious view, however, they look at it with jaded eyes that aren’t really considering other ideas, or input - people question without really considering that something else may indeed [also] be correct. I am generalising, and stating the obvious in some cases, but please, anyone, stand up and say something if you think differently. I can only talk with regards to my personal experience, and from my reading about fundamentalist thought. (more…)

Damn Hindsight! Why are you so unforgiving?

May 24, 2007 — 10 Comments

Who I want to meet…? « Syd’s Rants on Life

Somewhat of a random trackback referring to something equally random on the original post where the author says, he wants to ”meet [himself] in about 5 years time, look back at this and say, u know what, ur an idiot for writing random crap but jeez, u were honest.” I know people talk about it all the time, but I find it so amazing, hilarious but at the same time unnerving that I’ve said and done things in the past which seemed to me, at the time, the right things to say and do, but now I look back and cringe at my behavior. You know that feeling, “What was I thinking?” People always say hindsight is twenty-twenty but sometimes I wish we could go on without having such hindsight realisations because then I wouldn’t have to cringe at myself or feel bad – but that’s silly because we’d never learn or grow.

I have some great friends, and sometimes I wonder why they remain my friends - I have treated them badly because I was being childish, and only realised it after a while and tried to change my behaviour. I have responded rashly in situations and although I cringe when I remember such events, in reality, it seems like it had never happened, but I can’t imagine acting in the same way again.

Have you felt, after a few months, after a year, after five years - after however long - that you have behaved really badly in a situation? And more importantly, have you felt like apologising and explaining “I didn’t realise because I was stupid or because that was just how I was then – but I was wrong”? I sort of feel like that right now, but then I feel like the person I would apologise to might not have even gone through the thinking-process that I am going through now regarding the event, and furthermore, it’s so long after the event, that they’d be like “what the hell are you talking about?”

Damn hindsight.

Biggest Idiot or Funniest Comedian?

May 22, 2007 — 9 Comments

Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine « Blogs 4 Brownback

This is the funniest post I’ve ever read. I hurt from laughing. Oh, the humanity. You have to read it. The comments are somewhat amusing too. Apparently, the Earth doesn’t move because, for one reason at least, we can’t feel it moving.

What’s the difference between this fool, a Christian fundamentalist, who believes that the world doesn’t move and some of the Muslims fundamentalists that don’t believe (or do not acknowledge) that Israel exists. It’s funny and fascinating how people come to believe SOMETHING or anything. This blog post about heliocentrism must be a joke though.

The 222th comment, by packerwatch, on that blog post read: you’re stupid. just because we can’t FEEL the earth moving doesn’t mean its not you inbred dumbass. when you fly in a plane you don’t feel like you’re moving at 400 mph, you feel like you’re standing still. according to your ingenius observations, that means that the sky is actually flying past the stationary airplane. you are so stupid. and since we’re taking everything in the bible literally here, did you know that eating at Red Lobster is evil? and slavery is ok. you are a perfect example of why siblings shouldn’t have sex.

Passion! freedom and sex! « Escaped Mentalpatient

May 21, 2007 — 12 Comments

Passion! freedom and sex! « Escaped Mentalpatient

This post talks about ”religious twits” and the writer’s opinion is that those without religion are free. That instead of religious people having something that the writer doesn’t have, the writer has what religious people don’t have - freedom. The most interesting comment to this post is the first one – Basil has some interesting things to say, but he is as vehemently against atheism as much as the blog post’s writer is against religion. (more…)

Lone Star Diary » Blog Archive » Allah or Jesus? You decide.

May 18, 2007 — 2 Comments

Lone Star Diary » Blog Archive » Allah or Jesus? You decide.

This post talks of a Muslim Imam stating that each Muslim is meant to kill an unbeliever… and then uses that to promote Christianity… It reads like it was fabricated? If it was a movie, I would’ve said that the dialogue seems unrealistic.

Dalai Lama urges Christians not to convert to Buddhism

May 13, 2007 — 7 Comments

Strange? Dalai Lama urges Christians not to convert to Buddhism - Not strange to me. And somewhat in contrast to something I looked at in a previous post of mine about the Dalai Lama.

I like the Dalia Lama’s view; however his point about the same teachings and values is argued against by many including the many interviewees in Lee Strobel’s “A Case For Faith,” which is a text that I’d like to write about in a future post. It’s a quite a biased text, but then how can a text called “A Case For Faith” not be biased? Nonetheless, the Dalai Lama’s view is similar to my own, but it can be argued with when looked at with regards to specific scripture instead of the bigger picture of religion in general, or particular religion – which is evident in Lee Strobel’s book.

I found this link from a forum which had the heading “Is it right for a parent to impose their religious beliefs on their child?” which I in-turn found because people were getting to my blog (which someone had linked to) from that forum. One person was arguing that parents inevitably impose their beliefs onto their children since most kids end up following the same religion as their parents. Another person - who linked to a post of mine - argued that regardless of that, there comes a time when a child becomes older and decides to think for themselves and hence create their own beliefs. I don’t know – as much as I know many people who have their own views as they get older (and some who opposed their parents’ views as a child) there are as many (if not more) that I know who simply follow what their parents believed was right – because, it is “right.” I don’t think that it’s necessarily a bad thing until the fact that someone is “right” makes another “wrong.” Nonetheless, parents will impose their beliefs since they will usually think that their view is the best (i.e. it works for them so why not for their child?), whether its narrow-minded (religious or not) or open-minded (religious or not) – so it’s just a matter of having faith in the human nature to raise questions about the meaning of life (instead of the human nature of residing in the bliss of ignorant certainty). One can only hope and try and questions.

Another interesting wikipedia page that talks about “notable converts to Christianity,” that I found on the forum.

Caste System

May 9, 2007 — 1 Comment

J. Ajith Kumar (1959 – 20xx): Temple Tamperings

A very interesting blog entry that talks about numerous things mainly with regards to the Hindu religion and interpretations of how it should be practiced. If i’m correct, the writer maintains that religions and belief systems are tested the most by internal acceptance (and questioning); and thus the structure should be based on at least some sort of logic and reasoning. For example, the entrance of those from a “lower caste” doesn’t really make enough sense – they are people just the same as those of a “higher caste” but do a different job. The writer also argues that the gates to a temple shouldn’t be open to people who may disrupt or badly impact the integrity of the location by a lack of respect for the given beliefs. I personally agree with the post. Again, we find another example of  discrimination based on ideas or interpretations regarding things which are taught as “fact,” when they are not necessarily so. (more…)

Listen to Criticism?

May 8, 2007

So true – From Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley (1958):

“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”

jenny weight, RMIT » love and religion

May 8, 2007 — 1 Comment

jenny weight, RMIT » love and religion

Caste system . You’re not better than me.

The [constructed] relationship between love (or human connection) and religion is something I really want to explore in the script I’m currently writing.

I found Farah’s story while rummaging through Jenny’s blog in the Transient Spaces category. It’s quite sad that people can’t be together for reasons such as these, and I find it hard to understand in many ways. As much as I can intellectually understand the reasoning behind such relationship incompatibility I don’t really understand since I can’t relate to it personally. Sure I have prejudices regarding people in certain professions and often find amusement in stereotypes, but I really don’t see a person to be better or worse than me or anyone else until I get to know them. The class system is an abused system – something I want to look into and write about in a following post – and it is useless to me when determining the quality of a human being. I have a feeling that all this rubbish leads back to some sort of bogus interpretation and/or unquestioning acceptance of something written in scripture, or something said by a person of decent “authority.” (more…)

Parker’s Media: The Times of Tyranny

May 7, 2007 — 2 Comments

Parker’s Media: The Times of Tyranny

Interesting read which talks about reducing discriminatory [Christian] texts in a University, which seems to thereby result in disrimination against Christians… 

What the? Does this mean all Christian thought is to be removed from texts, or just discriminatory writing? I find it strange that to reduce discrimination against others – which some fundamentalist Christian thought might support – there is a backwards discrimination onto Christians…? It’s understandable that open-mindedness should be encouraged, and discrimination should not be tolerated; so texts that comply with this should remain in circulation. I find that most religious thought that isn’t coming from a narrow-minded view usually teaches good values.

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