beliefs
Would you die for your beliefs? With purpose, risk, and if necessary give away your existance for an intangible thought? I considered my own inability to be wrong without embarassment. How I have always said (and believed) that I don't always think that I'm correct most of the time but will make my point of view when required. Often when not required. More than occasionally when actually told at length not to give it. Opinionated, Arrogant tool. A label, and like most labels not actually correct but then again from certain angles completely correct. A case in point for his-story becoming history. The truth is a many faceted thing. One man's truth is another mans salmon mousse ("It's a Mr Reaper from the village..."). I suddenly realised that the so-called truth of accepting one's points of view possibly being incorrect has gone from a strength to a failing. An arrogance. A falsified triple-redundancy safety check. By believing in my inability to only think of my point of view, I've in fact made myself believe that my openness is greater than it is. That because of this my opinion comes from a better place than some others. It's crap. Then again so is Big Brother but it still has it's fans.
I wondered about the way we all disagree. We get angry with people who disagree. The anger is more or less on a sliding scale with the depth of the belief. Often it's tuned into more deep-seeded hates and issues. Does a white supremist's hate towards say Muslim's increase since September 11 or did it simply fuel the fire with a petrol bomb stamped "I told you so". The anger is not always a bad thing. Only when it's misdirected or made violent is a negative. If you believe enough that you can get angry then at least you have some passion about you. Your belief, right or wrong, comes from inside you and not simply a learnt or picked up piece of fluff from some daytime television advertising delivery system like The View. Hopefully anyways. Saying that and wanting to give some shite to those afore mentioned whities with attitudes, an opinion based around badly educated, ignorant falsehoods 'aint ever going to be right. The safe bet is that if your beliefs hold injury or assault to others then it's probably not a great one to hang onto. Just my two cents. Rule of thumb - if you ever think you're in hold of all the facts and know exactly how the world runs, you're fucked. The same runs true if your family tree resembles a stump and you're often late for your klan meeting 'cause you just have to have a quicky with your sister.
Going back the first question. I only wondered it because when people give their lives for a belief we can't simply write them off as nutjobs or fools. Extremist yes. Overkill yes. Misguided, very probably. Fundamentalist's always do kind of miss the point. Christian Fundamentalist's killing abortion doctors to make a stance against killing is obviously fucking stupid and as Bill Hicks called it a "base irony". Muslim fundamentalist's destroying an icon of economic western power as some allusion to a religious dispute, kinda odd. You'd think if it was a religious war they were after they would have hit a religious icon? No, as usual the top does the planning and the grunts to the work. People gave their life for a pointless exercise on behalf of their beliefs truely thinking that they were giving for their religion. They were lied to. I think anyways. Either way, you have to stand up and acknowledge people who believe so whole-heartedly in something to end their life over it. In truth though, a point can be made without taking others lives. The Budhist monk who gave his life as an anti-war stance (used on the cover of the first Rage Against The Machine cd for anyone born after the late 70's) shows how a life given can resonate for years. If you truely believe, try not to take tourists into your afterlife thanks.
You've had time to think and I bet your answer to the question would be no. Idealistically yes but realistically no. In this respect are your belief's then so important you would cease to listen to those who would disagree with them on a fundamental level? On any level? Any belief needs to be tested and that includes your own, not just everyone else.
quote for the day:
"There is no certainty, only opportunity."
V
I wondered about the way we all disagree. We get angry with people who disagree. The anger is more or less on a sliding scale with the depth of the belief. Often it's tuned into more deep-seeded hates and issues. Does a white supremist's hate towards say Muslim's increase since September 11 or did it simply fuel the fire with a petrol bomb stamped "I told you so". The anger is not always a bad thing. Only when it's misdirected or made violent is a negative. If you believe enough that you can get angry then at least you have some passion about you. Your belief, right or wrong, comes from inside you and not simply a learnt or picked up piece of fluff from some daytime television advertising delivery system like The View. Hopefully anyways. Saying that and wanting to give some shite to those afore mentioned whities with attitudes, an opinion based around badly educated, ignorant falsehoods 'aint ever going to be right. The safe bet is that if your beliefs hold injury or assault to others then it's probably not a great one to hang onto. Just my two cents. Rule of thumb - if you ever think you're in hold of all the facts and know exactly how the world runs, you're fucked. The same runs true if your family tree resembles a stump and you're often late for your klan meeting 'cause you just have to have a quicky with your sister.
Going back the first question. I only wondered it because when people give their lives for a belief we can't simply write them off as nutjobs or fools. Extremist yes. Overkill yes. Misguided, very probably. Fundamentalist's always do kind of miss the point. Christian Fundamentalist's killing abortion doctors to make a stance against killing is obviously fucking stupid and as Bill Hicks called it a "base irony". Muslim fundamentalist's destroying an icon of economic western power as some allusion to a religious dispute, kinda odd. You'd think if it was a religious war they were after they would have hit a religious icon? No, as usual the top does the planning and the grunts to the work. People gave their life for a pointless exercise on behalf of their beliefs truely thinking that they were giving for their religion. They were lied to. I think anyways. Either way, you have to stand up and acknowledge people who believe so whole-heartedly in something to end their life over it. In truth though, a point can be made without taking others lives. The Budhist monk who gave his life as an anti-war stance (used on the cover of the first Rage Against The Machine cd for anyone born after the late 70's) shows how a life given can resonate for years. If you truely believe, try not to take tourists into your afterlife thanks.
You've had time to think and I bet your answer to the question would be no. Idealistically yes but realistically no. In this respect are your belief's then so important you would cease to listen to those who would disagree with them on a fundamental level? On any level? Any belief needs to be tested and that includes your own, not just everyone else.
quote for the day:
"There is no certainty, only opportunity."
V
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