i m not a religious person. at all. for me church was and will remain christmas carols and ressurection mass. it s a nostalgia thing....forever just a girl...forever student:)
i don t do church and i don t like people who go to church. i think their level of fake is huge...god this and god that...their only issue is to find guilt on others and to be judgemental. and to lie....in unimaginative ways. reading theology for me is quite a terrorist act! someone tries to pour in my skull visual insanity :)
mmmmaaaybe except for kalophilia...maybe...ok ok...takes one to forgive one another...it s a go fuckyoureself kind of thing, but more elegant :)
and church people... most of them can't sing :) at all :) when someone takes to seriously a political performance act or a religious act or an artistic act, for that matter........that s not good. that s not God. it means your iq is below 20.
of course you need to show respect for symbols! respect for symbols means your brain is ok :)
this is how nations were built. through powerful symbols that passed the tests of time. and thank god for that.
one needs a passport to travel and comeback home safe, and to do trade :) and at least three mansions...two swimming pools ... several yachts and a Harley :)
now... when two or more people can't get along due to induced hatred and manipulation.....i m not amused. people always got along! always!
made trade out of their sources of income, made nuclear families in spite of everything...more powerful than nuclear weapons ;) then coin appeared to attribute legitimacy for the economical evolution. quite useful actually, thumbs up for visa :)
in an anthropolgy like explanation we're all built the same. of course we re all also unique, through the individuality of creation however ...this means anything but destroying. were are on this earth to grow. .........cabbage :)
as a musician i enjoy the best church as the one where the best music is played.
i love catholic and lutheran mass! love forever!
'cause the music is great ......and western civilisation through the monasteries who hosted the privileges of written musical notes and also held the main used instruments....harpsichord and so on....this institutions provided shelter for the greatest composers of the 2nd millenium after the renaissance thing.
ok ok...and to cherish what s left of byzantine legacy...it's Sir Tsabropoulos or nothing :)
Emile Durkheim, my guy, has these....let s say.... handbooks ...as important as the scriptures if you ask me :) ... of what later became a logos -it s a greek word used to distinguish science from comedy :)-
one of the books is about religious forms of behaviour and the other one is about suicidal behaviour. there s also the labour division whatever but it ll blabber in another post ..
now, we all know adam smith's invisible hand symbolistic.
i use it all the time when i talk to people i hugely dislike :)
there's this quote of a sociologist, i think it's Baudrilard but can't say for sure, it goes like this: "such a curse ....social sciences's study object is something that speaks"
the meaning is really powerful in it's symbol. for this post only, i ll choose the control of information and everything that goes with it: calumny, bullying, silent violence -in terms of evil....my most favourite of them all through it's effects and what it can do to a living creature-aaa, but just be patient enough for karma :)
there's this guy, very religious, always invites me to his events with his family, really nice actually, kind of like, some sort of hippie community if you ask me...he said something i won't forget ever: i was like, i m nobody, who gives a fuck...and he said: i don t think you realise how important you are :) ammm...important for what? if i don t have four figures in contracts ...or nine figures salary :)...i m not interested in any other type of importance :) material is my G ssstring :)
if one's importance is used for others to benefit and to kill the one they so "admire" in terms of theft and then execution.... not my cup of tea :)
back to Durkheim, we can do statistics on why people end their lives: we use indicators -it s a sociology fashion thing :)- climate seasons, religion, ethnicity, economy, profession, occupation, social environment, personal ..things. no one can say for sure why/if conservation instinct is off at some point or it 's a rational decision. the last one, to be precise :))
the opposite of death is living. a sink or swim kind of thing.
we see it all the time in homeless people.
you cannot help them, only if you re a social worker and you are allowed to do your job in a developed welfare state ......nobody knows how survival instinct works and each and everyone of us hopes to have the fortune of never experiencing that thing in one's lifetime.
religious in it s elementary understanding is about having faith...in... something. anything. just like death by your own terms. is a decision. so is living by all costs. one chooses to live just as the other ones choose to die.
tricky.
religious people attribute belief to good luck charms. either is a crucifix or a four leaf clover or a cattle statue, monastery bracelets, aammmm......paintings....-thank god artists can earn a living :)-
i see them as really scared people who can t live their lives as plane and simple civilians.
i did receive empathy from religious people, though....i ll be forever grateful. some do pray for others. it s in their nature to do this ....action. what can i say....other than thank you!
don t need it anymore and the ones who pray for you today always draw you moustaches on a magazine cover if you get too rich and famous tomorrow....F$%k that S#$T, i wish she died when she was down on her knees :)
the world never changes...
being a common sense person is actually the hardest thing to achieve, since you live with the same morals and ethics as since whenever and whatever...but the right or wrong is within you.....and it s not your shitty ego as an absolute but always something governed from the ground below and from the rainbow above :)
and that...that one is like the constitution...unimpeachable, not even by fascism or communism or cretinism or other -ism like my lover Ortega Y Gasset very well describes in this so called cradle of civilisation study....Aristotle wouldn't be comfortable to see what ever happened to terrestrial civil code that Napoleon loved almost as much as Josephine :)
the hardest thing is to accept what it is rather that torment oneself with wishful thinking.
where dignity still stands, cruelty has no chance.
thank God for Walt Disney, Dr.Pepper, Gershwin and gallons of red hot hot hot hoooooot chillies :)
