myriad of the mundane

7.21.2005

what i thought when i woke up this morning wasn't very nice

i have discovered what are perhaps the two worst forces in all of history. wanna know what they are? i figured so. everyone wants to know the worst and best things about life, just look at all those magazines promising to show you the perfect life. but if you are ready we'll delve into it.
three words are all i'll need: religion and philosophy.

now let me clarify my position. what are some of the greatest evils the world has known? the crusades, the inquisistion, witch burnings, communism in its real world application, fascism, a great many genocides. that's only the few that come immediately to mind. now what links them all?
they took the words of a philosopher or religion out of context and used them to justify actions that are, at their core, intended to hurt other human beings.
now let us say that the purpose of christianity is not to kill, maim or otherwise hurt others. the purpose is to love everyone you come into contact with and do your very best to make sure that their lives are happy and free of strife. it is to treat others just as you want them to treat you. it is, in one word, about love. Love, people! not war, not killing, not fear of the unknown, not persecution; christianity is about none of the things. when you judge another based on a religion you yourself regularly fail to follow you are a hypocrit and are taking the very most precious of God's purposes away from him. do you think that this will make him happy?!? hell no! literaly.
also, let us say that whatever marx said it was a utopia he knew could never exist. and let us also say that whatever was said about the ubermensch that that man was intended to be the author of the idea. neitzche never meant for hitler to take his idea and kill off millions. that was hitler taking words without their intrinsic meaning to their author.

the very most evil people in the world are those who hide behind what they believe as a way of masking their own greed, hunger for power, lust and other avarices. they are the men who would judge you for your actions simply because you are not part of their little club. they are the men, in short, who are too ignorant to see the true meaning of words and are relegated to merely scratching the surface of existence and pretending to know the whole of the world. they are the very thing that death and destruction crave. they are the most evil of men in their ignorance but percieve themselves to be nothing more than the bringer of the new message. Hitler thought it, Constantine thought it, Lenin thought it, Pope Pious IX thought it and so have all the people who have started all the wars we've known since the founding of the school of the ignorant for the ruling of the world. to you who know that i am talking to you i sasy only one thing: we're better off with you dead and gone rather than fucking up everything that you think you stand for.
that is all.

11 Comments:

  • Hmm, mystery, you need to get drunk and be a bit shallow for a while. Your thoughts seem to be depressing you. Am I reading you wrong?

    By Blogger Maja, at 12:03 AM  

  • Bravo dear boy...Bravo! If you were my son I'd consider myself lucky and to have done a good job raising you to think for yourself. Welcome to the real world! We are not worthy...

    By Blogger sumo, at 3:20 AM  

  • maja, i'm not so much depressed as just...full of such thoughts. i don't know how to say it. i can comprehend all of this sadness but remain at a safe distance, i guess. it's like the tsunami that killed all of those people. i can comprehend everything but i can't feel sadness about it. for that it has to be someone i care about. this is just mental exploration. so i'm not depressed. and the rather hilarious reason i thought about this is...that i just got finished reading harry potter VI, hahaha. it's really funny how i work.

    sumo, thank you! i thought this was a decent one, too. plus it's another way of ripping into president bush, lol.

    brendan, as per usual you have a point. but then you have to leave it to be more vague. religion was part of the thinking of aristotle and plato. so saying 'the church' doesn't necessarily provide the necessary information. but i think that the catholic church encouraged dissent more than most other religions with its actions during their most powerful era.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:28 PM  

  • 'that is all'.i like that.

    religion=cock.

    that is all.

    By Blogger geezer squeezer!, at 7:14 AM  

  • Well, that's okay then! Onya!

    By Blogger Maja, at 7:02 PM  

  • If it were not for the Church there'd be no such thing as a free thinker.

    Brendan what planet are you from dearie? The Church most definitely did not want free thinkers amongst its (idols)...do you remember Martin Luther? Mystery? Oh...and Geezer...yeah!

    By Blogger sumo, at 12:39 AM  

  • geezer, yeah, i think that too a lot of the time. i'm not ready to condemn it all but some people are terrible even though they're righteous.

    brendan, good to see you're on more frequently, lol. i'm looking clipless. because i don't have to pay very much for shoes and such. i can buy them at work. the seattle store has pretty much everything ever made, i think. i was only mentioning Looks as a reference point. i just remember how they look. the bike i'm looking at has straps already so i was wanting the next step up a few weeks after (next paycheck, basically).

    sumo, in response to your question i will say only this. would the American Revolution have happened without oppresion? i think not. neither would the Protestant Reformation. you need a reason to revolt against the status quo. if the church weren't brutal in how they put down any intellectual insurrection there wouldn't have been any need for those revolts against their ideology. think about why you're so unhappy with bush. it's not because he's doing a great job. it's because not only is he sloppy about what he does but you feel like he is trampling over your rights as a human and citizen of the United States. same thing.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:34 PM  

  • Ahhh...I get it now...I did not think that is what he originally meant. My mistake Brendan...apologies dude. But... I guess you realize what I meant then, and you were right MT.

    By Blogger sumo, at 9:12 PM  

  • i'm not sure if i should feel good about that. it's like defeating a mother figure in debate...
    baaa! so wrong!!! ;)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:28 PM  

  • Ha ha! Hey...I look at it this way...when I'm wrong...I'm wrong...I can admit it. I don't like arrogance...I'm sure I can be arrogant though I try not to be.

    By Blogger sumo, at 1:29 AM  

  • oh, you can almost feel my arrogance dripping out of my political commentary. lol.
    it's only because everyone agrees with me but they don't know it yet.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:27 AM  

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