there are a few, actually make that many things i really... Really deeply believe in.
i believe that everyone has a story. a little kid inside them waiting for you to hear them out and if you take the time to really really listen to them, you can make friends with literally anyone. I believe that there is no such thing as a hateful person. i believe there is another side to every fight, every story.
I believe that everyone is beautiful. everyone has got a spark a flame in them. that makes them , 'them'
i believe every child is important. every child is a tiny flame that has to be treasured and cherished by the world and i believe that we shud drown in shame coz we've let so many of the children unprotected and uncared for.
i believe rapists shud be hanged coz there is no cure. infact i believe in the death sentence. i believe poachers shud be shot. and also the people who buy the ... stuff that was poached.
i believe floods, natural disasters, fires, earth quakes is mother earth's way of correcting the imbalance and people totally deserve it. i believe ppl get the governments they deserve.
i believe if God did not exist, then it would have been necessary to invent him.
i believe that music is soul food. i believe in reincarnation. and if u believe in god then u have to believe in the devil. u can't have it both ways.
i believe there are too many people. too few animals. too many cockroaches on the planet.
i believe in love. the everlasting fairy tale, forever and forever and forever and 7 lives together kind.
i believe everyone should be given a choice on how they wish to lead a life. everyone has a right to choose what to do and everyone should be taught responsibility as a kid. this is in ref to abortion and gay rights. and intercaste marriages and stuff.
i believe everyone should adopt atleast ONE kid. [ infact my daily prayers include that all guys shud one day wake up imp... oh, never mind ]
i believe we all forget why we're here. in the middle of our busy lil lives. living in our comfort and our routine and cars and houses and kids and ambition. we all forget the answer and come to think of it we even forget the question.
beautiful, I see you write from the heart, as always!
ReplyDeleteYou make some interesting statements. Let me comment on some of them - because I love to
debate :-)
(note: NOT arguing, just want to understand the thought process..)
1.
"i believe floods, natural disasters, fires, earth quakes is mother earth's way of correcting the imbalance and people totally deserve it."
What "imbalance"?? Are you seriously suggesting that people who die/get hurt in natural disasters deserved it?? How about a 3-year old crushed in an earthquake - what possible harm could he have done to anyone?
..I would assert that nature is "amoral" (neither moral or immoral)..natural disasters just OCCUR, they don't have a moral cause.
2."i believe if God did not exist, then it would have been necessary to invent him."
..I have never understood this quote. Why would it be necessary to invent God? Isn't an invented God worse - we would be lying to ourselves. Or is God an emotional crunch - something to lean on when "bad things happen to good people"??
3."> i believe in reincarnation. and if u believe in god then u have to believe in the devil. u can't have it both ways."
Don't want to offend your feelings, but can you rationally justify belief in reincarnation/god/devil? (or "belief" implies something that can't be reasoned about?)
We (who work in tech. fields) have this strange duality - we are trained on logic and accept it in our professional life..but not otherwise. I wonder why..
4.
"i believe we all forget why we're here. in the middle of our busy lil lives. living in our comfort and our routine and cars and houses and kids and ambition. we all forget the answer and come to think of it we even forget the question."
What is the question (no, seriously)? Is it "Why are we here?" - that's a question whose answer has profound implications..
The communists say I (Man) am here to serve my fellow humans. (and look at the horror that was Soviet Russia)
The fascists say I am here to serve the state
(Nazi Germany..need I say more?)
The religionists say I am here to serve the church(or Islam!) - at look at the terrible havoc wrought today (9/11, Babri Masjid, the spanish inquisition, etc).
As Ayn Rand beautifully put it:
"Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life."
..again, I'm not attacking or trying to win arguments...just want to understand your viewpoint (because I think you have interesting thoughts).
-J
I forgot to add one most important thing i believe in. the final one [ i hope! ]
ReplyDelete'ALL arguments are based on differences in perceptions about the definitions of words.' basically 'i' think arguments exist becoz of language barriers and perception differences.
i completely agree with everything u said. and have a rational argument for all my statements. and if we take the time to discuss it we'll find that in the end we were both saying the same thing, but differently.
no i do not blindly believe anything. atleast i 'think' i do not. and i'd love to explain my thoughts about it in detail. [ i've bored many ppl during the process of coming to these conclusions.. ] but not here. its too long a discussion and ... well not here.
besides... no no let me not start. will be another epic by itself.
ok i can't resist.
i just want to say, the
1. by people i didn't mean the people who died during the specific disaster. i wasn't even thinking about them when i wrote that. i just didn't explain myself well out there...
aaargh no no i'm not starting a debate here !
sorry J
:)
gud lord i sound like palin.
ReplyDeleteeeeeeeeeeeew. i hate this. not being able to have the debate thing. C or J or watever, u can mail me in a couple of days and we'll have this discussion offline. or i'm just deleting this post. coz i don't think my nerves can stand it anymore.
here i even created a ******* mail id for the debate.
kween.of.d@gmail.com [ CLEARLY i have too much time on my hands. ]
k i think i can hold off on deleting this till tomoro sometime.
palin. ugh..... gives me the heejie beejies
and now i'll spend a sleepless night. documenting what i believe in more detail. and also describing my thoughts in technicolor.
ReplyDeletethanks a lot J.
:(
here's one while i was writing the 10 page thesis as a reply to u.
ReplyDeleteknowledge is changeable , THE TRUTH is not.
now this is what i believe, ok? never said what i believe is right. just lets me sleep better at night.
u know the upanishad right?
they start of with saying this and that and a whole million debates of the glory of god and stuff for thousands of pages.
and the last line effectively says
"but for all we know, this cud be a whole load of bunkum. the world is transient and this cud all be the ramblings of a half mad person."
Feel free to email me, you have my id..
ReplyDelete(ok, can't resist..must respond :-) )
1.
"'ALL arguments are based on differences in perceptions about the definitions of words.' basically 'i' think arguments exist becoz of language barriers and perception differences."
..hmm, I agree contradictions cannot exist, but isn't debating a good way to illuminate apparent contradictions about complex issues?
2. "by people i didn't mean the people who died during the specific disaster. i wasn't even thinking about them when i wrote that. i just didn't explain myself well out there..."
I wasn't thinking about anyone in particular, either. But sometimes giving concrete instances ("a 3yr old
boy..") to abstract concepts ("natural disasters is mother nature's way..people deserve it too")
forces uncomfortable implications into the open.
Ok, I promise..no more posts from me (won't mind it if you delete all my posts too!)
G'night (as Palin would say :-) )!
-J
@J - u'll find some kind of response here
ReplyDeletehttp://am-not-crazy.blogspot.com/
@the rest - its better you stay away. we have dispatched the serious one amongst us to deal with J in the other old blog. meanwhile now that we've got rid of the serious one, we can continue with the mindless and brainless rambling and partying [ gooo steelers ]... woo hoo :P
woops too late. didnt see ur reply there...
ReplyDeletek...i thought i'd pop in with my 2 bits :P but on second thoughts....i'd rather watch...
ReplyDeleteplease no debates on my chosen status...:)
fight fight fight fight
ReplyDeleteheyy Cacofonix, you should totally say
ReplyDelete"MADAM, YOU GO TOO FAR"
like here
http://asteriximages.asterix.co.nz/cacofonix/img2.htm
oh this is hilarious stuff! just remembered he's the bard!! sorry, but thats funny. didn't you get ANYONE else???