Friday 28 August 2009
Brain Train 1.
Religion makes me question the boundaries of mental health. How can someone been deemed mentally unwell for seeing or hearing things that are not really there, when there are thousands of people who actually believe an awesomely powerful man in the sky created the world in seven days?
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If we try to force a narrative onto our lives, if we try and construct our lives into something that we can pin a meaning to, then we are living in a constructed reality. Who defines the limits of the constructed reality? Why should one person's construction affect another person's? What if I want to live outside of the construction, be free of the construction?
ReplyDeleteIt’s something I feel very strongly about, far too strongly about to be able to communicate any of it through a blog comment. What I want to say is that I ask myself the same thing.
Have you ever read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut? It’s an incredible book, and along these same lines. Currently I'm reading The Stranger by Albert Camus, which puts forward the idea that the universe is meaningless and to strive to find meaning in a meaningless place is absurd. It's really thought-provoking, and liberating too.
I just listened to your new song. It is very interesting and varied, another good one to write stories to I think.
A very good friend of mine called Ian once told me that god spoke to him in the middle of the night in a hotel room up north. He told me that from that day on, he was a changed man. But If you asked him if he believed in an awesomely powerful man in the sky that created the world in seven days, he would most certainly laugh at the comment and then tell you that he loves your heart anyway. most Christians today, from what i can gather, don't take the translations literally.
ReplyDeleteI have been in a room with this man and a practicing muslim called imran. (who is now also a good of mine) we came to the conclusion that all three of our faiths, Ian's christian, imran's islam and mine, well i couldnt really say, all revolved around the same thing. Ian belives that god is every where and everything, Imran believes that a leaf or a bush holds the spirit of ala as much as anything else and that life is precious. I also believe that on some level we are all connected to everything in the universe, be it just a number or an equation. these are all very similar forms of creationism. My point is, that although its easy for us to label a christians or a muslims delirious, because it seems bizarre to us and the literature is very outdated. it is in fact very normal to believe that we came from something.
I could probably go on all night about this so I'll end by saying...
Why do i believe the universe is all connected, maybe it isn't, maybe it makes me feel better to think that, and maybe somewhere somebody is laughing at me and saying "that guy thinks the stars and that cow are made of the same stuff... he gotta be metally ill...."
Isaac Himself