I'll show you how God falls asleep on the job.
The title of this post comes from a song by Muse, called ''Knights of Cydona''. I recommend all of you to go through the whole lyrics, not only to stop with this line.
This post you will probably not going to like. This one will be a bit sour and raw.
This one will be about God. Or maybe about how there is no God.
Around March we've been sitting in the living room, chilling. In one moment I showed Mattia ''The Last Judgement'', painting by Hans Memling which is a pride of one of the churches in my hometown.
It is scary on one hand, ridiculous on the other and very majestic in total.
I started to think about the meaing of it. So if you're good, you can line up on the stairway to heaven and if you're a sinner you'll go burn in hell. And in all of that chaos, in the middle, there is Jesus Christ. And what is he doing? Just like the name of the painting says, he is JUDGING people.
He decied who to save, who to burn.
Where is mercy? Where is sense and logic? There is no.
Just as there is no logic in what is happening in so many countries. Wars, children who die from hunger, people who suffer from diseases, women who suffer for religious matters, men who work 12 hours sewing our Nike's to ge a bowl of rice.
This is not normal. Wake up!
However, the answer of religion to these matters is ''This is the Earth, it is no heaven, so we suffer, Jesus Christ suffered as well and we have to be strong just as he was''.
Ok, let's get few things straight.
This is Earth and not heaven. And where is that heaven? Why should I believe all my life that if I'm going to live according to some rules, at the end I will finish on a wite cloud in the clear blue skies?
We suffer, we do it to ourselves. We could take our fatih in our hands, fight for our rights. Ok. So should I go and sit between Obama and Putin on a G8 meeting and tell them ''Guys, put the guns away, people are dying''. They know it. They make money on it, so no- nobody is going to stop any war.
And then the suffering of Jesus Christ. I don't see too much of it. For some of you it will be hurtful so just in case, you can stop reading now. Well, Jesus had a pretty good life, up until he had been taken away from the Olive Garden. He was 33 at that time. So he had 32 years of a normal, spiritual life. Sure, a lot of people didn't believe him, but no one harmed him. Then at the age of 33 he had been hang on a cross after being beaten up almost to death. He had to carry the cross he was hang on. That one I find a beautiful metaphore (somebody thought that too, and used it to make an institution that gets away with way too much stuff). But hey, look at it without fear of what will people say. He had 24 hours of suffering, after which he died and ever since, he became the Almighty Universum, which tells you what's good and bad.
No no. There are people who suffered all their lives, they should be our gods then.
So many years, I've been going to church, falling on my knees, asking God for answers to my questions. And sometimes the answers were coming. But was it really God? Or was it just that I could go to a quiet, cold, brick church, and simply make up my mind?
Why the hell do I need to ask anybody for frogiveness? Learn a formula, get on my knees and tell somebody all of my sins, hoping that he will be so merciful to forgive me. No. I need to forgive myself. Once I've been even rejected from the chance of forgiveness. So I had to forgive myself, and move on. Sorry, everybody makes mistakes, but I am the only one to get myself together and try to live my life better, try not to make the same mistakes over and over. And by the way, what is a definition of sin?
I see nothing wrong with providing african countries with condoms, just to stop diseases and unwanted pregnancies, but I see a lot of bad in priests who take advantage of innocent children.
We are the great creatures here, we are powerful. There is no greater, mystical, magical power. It feels good to admit, that I am the only one who can change my faith. Don't wait for signs, answers, help.
Live your life, live it right. Be good to yourself and to people around. And if you break, stand up and get stronger.
Ok, to finish this one, I have a quote from Vonnegut for you. Main character of his book is hitch-hiking. At some point the driver tells him: ''I can't tell if you're serious or not.'' Then Kilgore Trout, the main character answers: ''I won't know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not''.
And this is the essence my friends. I finnaly have the answer to some of your questions. I always sing, make a bit of a fool of myself, I don't treat some of the life's problems seriously, because this world, this life is also making a fool of me. ''Why so serious?''
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Sis'-i can only give you another qoute which contains my point of view for our times and the world-the situation which you can call the "glass ceiling" ,and if you dont feel it or know that it exists please turn on the MTV or CNN and continue
ReplyDeleteyour mainstream life.And it goes like this:
"Eliot --"
"Sir --?"
"We come to a supremely ironic moment in history, for Senator Rosewater of Indiana now
asks his own son, 'Are you or have you ever been a communist?'"
"Oh, I have what a lot of people would probably call communistic thoughts," said Eliot
artlessly, "but, for heaven's sakes, Father, nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl
Marx from time to time -- or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes. I think it's terrible
the way people don't share things in this country. I think it's a heartless government that will
let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby
be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide
things up fairly among the babies. Life is hard enough, without people having to worry themselves
sick about _money_, too. There's plenty for everybody in this country, if we'll only _share_
more."
"And just what do you think that would do to incentive?"
"You mean fright about not getting enough to eat, about not being able to pay the doctor,
about not being able to give your family nice clothes, a safe, cheerful, comfortable place to
live, a decent education, and a few good times? You mean shame about not knowing where the Money
River is?"
"The _what_?"
"The Money River, where the wealth of the nation flows. We were born on the banks of it --
and so were most of the mediocre people we grew up with, went to private schools with, sailed and
played tennis with. We can slurp from that mighty river to our hearts' content. And we even take
slurping lessons, so we can slurp more efficiently"
"Slurping lessons?"
"From lawyers! From tax consultants! From customers' men! We're born close enough to the
river to drown ourselves and the next ten generations in wealth, simply using dippers and buckets.
But we still hire the experts to teach us the use of aqueducts, dams, reservoirs, siphons, bucket
brigades, and the Archimedes' screw. And our teachers in turn become rich, and their children
become buyers of lessons in slurping."
"I wasn't aware that I slurped."
The Money River,Slurping,Glass Ceiling,Disproportions,The Power Whores and Have-Nots.And all this beacause they forgot about the Sermon on the mount.I remeber it,do you?
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ReplyDeletena istnienie boga nie ma chyba wystarczających dowodów, kantowski dowód, że bóg istnieje, bo możemy o nim pomyśleć chyba nikogo nie satysfakcjonuje (no, na pewno nikogo rozgarniętego). patrząc z perspektywy zakładu Pascala - faktycznie nic nie tracimy wierząc (w jakichś 90% chrześcijaństwo opiera się na uczynkach akceptowalnych moralnie - moralność z kolei nie oznacza tak wielu wyrzeczeń, bo każdy postępuje moralnie zgodnie ze swoim w-i-d-z-i-m-i-s-i-ę. plus rola społeczeństwa w kształtowaniu moralności.), a możemy zyskać (jeśli bóg istnieje, to modląc się wymodlę sobie niebo, a jak nie, to i tak nic nie tracę modląc się).
ReplyDeleteodnośnie zła i syfu na świecie - żelazna logika Epikura:
"Czy Bóg chce zapobiegać złu, lecz nie może? Zatem nie jest wszechmocny. Czy może, ale nie chce? Jest więc niemiłosierny. Czy może i chce? Skąd zatem zło? Czy nie może i nie chce? Dlaczego więc nazywać go Bogiem?"