my God woke up on the wrong side of His bed
Kasabian are back. One of those bands that sound dirty all the time. Washed jeans, junkie look, hot sex in the back seat of a Pontiac style of music. It’s just dirty and I like it! Gimme more!
There is much to talk about when approaching to the term »Religion«. We cannot stay in the halls of only one. We must grabb all of them and try to find what do they all have in common. What might that be, is that all of them teach of G’d – the ultimate Truth – that reigns somewhere, is unseen, is amazing, great, jelaous and only One. Even if we talk of polytheistic religions, we come to the conclusion that in the end there’s this one god that created all other gods to be.
But when we talk about religion, we shouldn’t use only one point of stand, cos we immediately become bias in all terms. We stand the ground of one of the ultimate truths. That is why, we must look at religion as of something that simply exists, not as an anomaly, but necessity of human being.
In Bill Maher’s »Religulous«, it’s stated that religion is an anomaly becouse of that arrogant certainty that exists in every believer. That is brilliantly true, but also gives a slap in the face to every person that somehow believes that there is something out there and is still rational and stands on firm ground.
From the perspective of Religulous, we get to see that religion is on the whole, a dangerous and idiotic mass hysteria.
As an believer, you get offended and as an atheist, you get amused. But what happens, if you find it interesting enough to point out the red line of it all and that is doubt?
Many men in history had doubt and we all read what has happened to those men who doubted so much, that they questioned the authority of clericism of any kind. I will not be the one that draws only Catholic church into this mess, cos that would do much harm in understanding the history of Islam, Judaism, Protestantism (in all its forms), Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.
They all had their Gallileo Gallilei’s that came to have doubt. For no one has faith that strong that they do not have doubt, for doubt is a part of human nature as it is to believe. So, faith, belief or whatever you wish to call it is something that is a part of who we as human species are. We must ask questions, we must learn and we must seek kowledge.
It is true that many religions forbid doubt and hate too many questions, but if we are just observers, we might find many answers in all religions. Not in a New Ageian way, but in drawing paralells and trying to come to the root of it all.
As Bill Maher made his point in the end of that movie:
There is only one reasonable standpoint. It is not the arrogant certainty of religion, but doubt. Doubt is inherently humble.
This statement is brilliant. I might even call it genious. Why? Simply because (and I stated this before) all religions, whether we acknowledge it or recognize it or not, teach that G’d - the ultimate Truth - is also ultimately unknowable.
There is no one that has faith so strong that they do not have doubt. We never know all there is to know, nor can we, for we are human. Doubt is indeed inherently humble, because it is the explicit and implicit acknowledgement that we don’t know all the answers, and this makes it virtuous.
It’s absolutely amazing how Maher gets to portray doubt as something virtuous. And that is what gives me even more interest in finding out why do we need and seek something called G’d, which is contrary to what Maher says, that we should grow up and “give up” religion before we destroy each other and ourselves. That is the line that got me thinking. Are we really going to destroy humanity with religion? Is that even possible? I mean, isn’t it that just contrary to what made us human anyway? We seek for something, for answers just beacuse of religion itself? Or? Our human heritage is actually based on religion. We are who we are and we can’t change it. But what we must find out, is how are we going to stop to treat religion as a weapon, because we do that constantly and rapidly.
My view on it all is that we need to teach people humanism, respect and agreement inside all religions. We need to eliminate stories of hate, humiliation and killing that produce all the fundamentalist ideas in the world today. Only with knowledge and teaching ourselves and our loved ones, we might achieve the ultimate religion of human kind and that is »knowing«. We must know. We shouldn’t be escaping and saying we don’t really care about all that. We need to learn history, only that how, we will be able to look and see into the future. If something bad was done before, why do we need to repeat it?
With doubt in virtual biased products of our daily lives, we get to the stage where we don’t get to sleep as happy customers, but those who raise questions. Only then will clerics see it’s over, we need to speak truth. Acknowledgement of history, facts, science and rationalism may lead to perfect score. We need to be relevant questioners. We need to know why, when and how. That is what makes us humans!
But there emerges the problem of it all and that’s oppression of those who ask. In Muslim, Christian and Jewish circles, you might have questions, but if there’s no rational answer, you shouldn’t doubt in written »truth«, but have faith. And that is the situation that eliminates progressive thinking and thinking outside the box.
What is faith? Is it certain? Is it rational? Is it moral, so to say? Or does it lead us to do unrational things? I mean, all the guys in the Casino’s have faith, don’t they? And instead of doing something normal, they have faith, the luck is on their side. So do religious masses, when they cheer that G’d is on their side and then go and kill couple of thousands of innocent people, blow up themselwes or strand their kids cos they thaught G’d spoke to them.
But when does religious faith become good and productive? When you believe, you will find an answer not through some mumbo jumbo or through some miracle and Holy Spirit, but through yourself. By educating and answering to yourself that there may be something outthere, but I really don’t think it had anything to do with the storm that hit me yesterday. Doubt and rational faith.
And no, G’d does not have mysterious ways and universe does not move in your direction if you’re being positive… You are the master of your body, time and timetable. If it hits you, it just did. Now go and study why!
While we as men, humanity are the ones we need to believe in and have faith. We are not G’d’s per se, but we might be constructors of something great and that is konwledge above all. And by knowing, I mean understanding, learning, tolerating. We must lean to that. That is our future after all.
It was year 636 AD when Islamic rule was brought to Iran, which was until then ruled by Sasanian dynasty. Since then Iran has been more or else powerful enough to keep it’s identity and a form of Islam that is called Shia. Eventhough islamized, Iran somehow remained Persia. Remnants of that is still to hear in their language, which is called Farsi and is a modernised persian. It somehow got it’s new form of arabic script usage in 9 th century. From then and until 13 th century, Iran was ruled by Seldjuk dynasty, but in 16 th century Shah Ismail I. becomes first ruler of Islamic Safavid dynasty and since then Shi’i Islam declared state religion. Since then Iran led wars with Turks, Russians and had some troubles with Britains.
During World War I, Iran declared neutrality but is scene of heavy fighting. Few years after was in 1921 military commander Reza Khan seized power over Iran and two years later became prime minister. In 1925 parliament ruled to make Reza Khan ruler of Iran and in april next year Reza Khan is crowned as Reza Shah Pahlavi, which made his eldest son Crown prince.
On the brink of World War 2, Iran changed it’s name from Persia and adopted the name Iran.
In 1942 the Shah’s pro-Axis allegiance leads to the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran and the deposition of the Shah in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. That is also known as the installation of Shah.
From 1950 to 1953 Iran was troubled by internal power struggle between the nationalist, Mohammad Mossadeq and Shah Reza Pahlavi, which in 1953 overthrew Mossadeq and ten years later Shah embarks on a campaign to modernise and westernise the country. He launches the ‘White Revolution’, a programme of land reform and social and economic modernisation. During the late 1960’s the Shah became increasingly dependent on the secret police (SAVAK) in controlling those opposition movements critical of his reforms.
In September 1978 Shah’s policies alienate islamic clergy and his authoritarian rule leads to riots, strikes and mass demonstrations. As the result, he proclaimed Martial law. That became firm ground for the upcoming Islamic revolution. Year later, as the political situation deteriorates, Shah and his family are forced into exile. In february same year, after 14 years of exile in Iraq and France, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran. In april 1st, Iran is proclaimed Islamic Republic, following by a referendum. In november Islamic militants take 52 Americans hostage inside the US embassy in Tehran. They demand the extradition of the Shah, in the US at the time for medical treatment, to face trial in Iran. That led to break-up of the Iranian-American relations. In january 1981 hostages are released ending 444 days in captivity. They got released only cos of death of Shah by cancer in Egypt. In between began war between Iran and Iraq which lasted for eight years. In year 1989 british writer Salman Rushdie issued his novel »The Satanic Verses«, which outraged Ayatollah and led to his issue of religious edict called fatwa ordering muslims to kill Salman Rushdie since the novel is considered to be blasphemus to Islam.
That year Khomeini dies and on june 4, Khamenei is appointed as new supreme leader. On august Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani is sworn in as the new president. That same year because of loud Iranian protest and threats, US releases 567 million dollars of frozen Iranian assets.
After major earthquake that took over 40 thousand lives and restoration of diplomacy with Iraq, Iran was imposed of oil and trade sanctions over Iran’s alleged sponsorship of “terrorism”, seeking to acquire nuclear arms and hostility to the Middle East process. Iran deined and still denies the charges.
In May 1997 Mohammad Khatami won the presidential election with 70% of the vote, beating the conservative ruling elite. What followed were major attempts of reformists hoping to overthrow the conservatives, with demonstrations and actions in press.
In the early 2000 in Majlis elections Liberals and supporters of Khatami wrest control of parliament from conservatives for the first time. In 2001 Khatami was reelected, but in 2002 George W. Bush described Iran as an “axis of evil”. In September 2002, Russian technicians begin construction of Iran’s first nuclear reactor at Bushehr despite strong objections from US.
In 2003, thousands attend student-led protests in Tehran against clerical establishment. September next year, 40,000 people are killed in an earthquake in south-east Iran that lead to devastation of the city of Bam.
Inspite of all protests, conservatives regain control of parliament in 2004 elections. Thousands of reformist candidates were disqualified by the hardline Council of Guardians before the polls. In June 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s ultra-conservative mayor, wins a run-off vote in presidential elections, defeating cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
In December 2006 Iran hosts a controversial conference on the Holocaust. Delegates include Holocaust deniers.
Also UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Iran’s trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology. Iran condemns the resolution and vows to speed up uranium enrichment work again.
In April 2007 president Ahmadinejad says Iran can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.
IAEA says Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant. It also says that Iran has started up more than 1,300 centrifuge machines.
In March 2008 president Ahmadinejad makes unprecedented official visit to Iraq, where he calls on foreign troops to leave. He also stresses his government’s desire to help rebuild Iraq and signs a number of cooperation agreements.
Conservatives win over two-thirds of seats in parliamentary elections in which many pro-reform candidates were disbarred from standing. The conservatives include supporters of President Ahmadinejad as well as more pragmatic conservatives who oppose his confrontational foreign policy.
In March 2009 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tells anti-Israel rally that US President Obama is following the “same misguided track” in Middle East as President Bush.
And in April, an Iranian court finds Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi guilty of spying for the US. She was sentenced to eight years in prison.
This was a brief history of Iran. It may help you to get a clearer picture over what kind of country Iran is. That might come in handy, since Iran started to campaign as a tourist country. One should actually know, that Iran is with its policies in the dark ages, whit its Sheria laws, laws for women, brutality over students, liberals, gays, other religious groups. That is why I don’t understand Islamic community in Slovenia, that started with campaign of presenting Islam and its followers, why do they do it with the help of Islamic republic of Iran. There, Islam is not pure, so to say. It is hostile towards other thinking religions or liberals that do not recognize the supreme power of clergy. I am sure, that Iranian islamic culture has some nice customs, but I cannot accept its background that tries to stay hidden. Islam is not a religion of intollerance. And it should be presented as such, but presenting it through Iran, Lebanon, Palestine… Give me a break! That is dangerous towards the liberal idea itself! That is not only hazardous, it’s also homophobic.
While Iran has its mascott. It’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And it’s clear that he’ s a holocaust denier, human rights violator and radical islamist. Religion should stay personal, right? But even the state’s name shows us that Islam is not personal in Iran: Islamic republic of Iran. Think about it. Do you like burkka? Do you like stoning? Do you like persecution of gays? Do you hate freedom of speech?
Think. React. Stay informed!
Through Bible analogy, it’s somehow clear that G-d made a man before He made a woman. Man was first. And alone. But was he lonely? Bible cites he was.
Well, if I’m honest I don’t think it was just so. For example, let’s see a guy that lives in the middle of nowhere, but has a lot of livestock. We all know what might happen if he gets lonely. So I don’t think that loneliness of a man was the major thing with creating a woman.
I guess it was something else. And what might that be?
The first man was, I guess, a very stupid guy with nothing better to do than wack his dick around when running naked trough the garden of Eden, chasing some poor goat. That’s an image I get. Doesn’t need to be the thing with you. But why then did G-d the Creator, smack the guy with deep sleep, take his rib and made a woman?
I think G-d was disgused with the man itself. I know I’d be. If I was a Creator…or something. Which I’m not. Eventhough many would say: au contraire!
So, He made a woman. I’m sorry to name G-d with He, but I just don’t think of G-d as a chick. Too much care for period. ??? Wait???!!! Or is G-d a woman??!!
Once, I said G-d might be a hermaphrodite…but with saying just that, I think I made a mistake. G-d just might be a woman. A chick with issues. And than she goes and makes earth, makes a man, watches him behaving badly and than decides to get things into order with a girl… And there it goes. Again.
But what now? Does G-d have a husband? Kids? Cosmos on beach somewhere in heaven? I mean, G-d might also be a divorcee with a lot of issues. Single mom? Failed stripper? Or is G-d like Hillary Clinton? I hope not.
This heavenly chick made the universe. I guess. And now what? Why men? Why women? Why all this crap? If she did all that just to relax or get even with someone, I think as a made creature, that that’s not cool. No way. If so, I demand to be G-d too. I have a lot of issues with some people. And animals too. I’d be so happy to create a dog…my neighbours dog…that stupid mut! And than, I’d make him fu*k a lizzard. There you go. So much for my MAN BRAIN. It’s all HER fault. I say!
If the busiyest mind or person…not a creature, since the mentioned One made all… had a Blog and a time to write, I believe it’d be some heavy shit. Or?
First, what would He be using? PC or MAC? Discussion may be opened on that subject, but I think He’d possibly use something more sophisticated. Or He’d use someone else to write. He used that method already on the Bible, so I think maybe He’d stick with it.
I also think that He’d be the most read… my conclusion is simply drawn from the fact that He gave the world the ultimate bestseller previously mentioned. I mean, to write a histroy book that has elements of sci-fi and answers to the meaning of life and after all that being able to punish readers for reading it, by giving them no thorough explanation why are they punished after all…mind blowing. Guy clearly saw a lot of Tarantino movies. Maybe he’s hooked on Reservoir dogs…well that’s just my opinion.
Since He already gave the world the ultimate book, I really don’t know what would his blog be about. Maybe we’d find out, He was just so high and trippin’ when he was giving the Bible… Or maybe He’d be writing how some other planet He made as a side project for sixth grade is more fucked up than ours. Numerous possibilities occur when I think of it.
But than again, G-d simply wouldn’t be G-d if He wouldn’t be lectoring us with that same all stuff: I love you all, but one of my angels made me some chicken teriyaki with really bad teriyaki sauce and now I have to take it on you, bitches!!! And there would be some massive flood in the Asia area…chicken teriyaki’s fault. Or maybe, he got some photos from last trip to some distant universe and they were all blurry…well, someone’s gotta pay for it! Swine flu!
What’s funny ’bout swine flu, is that even Jews and Muslims get it. And that’s simply Ironic. Don’t you think?
Ah, yeah! G-d shouldn’t be pictured as Alanis Morissette…it’s just to frantic. I mean she looks as she had a diarrhea…she makes that funny shit with her upper lip… I don’t think that G-d has any problems with upper lips.
What’s even funnier, is that people argue what sex G-d might be. Don’t you get it? He’s both. Male and female genitalia…that’s why He’s so perfect! I think… Well, that’d be a relief for all those confused Hermaphrodites.
And with what conclusion may G-d end His/Hers blog of the day?
I made you, so piss off! Stop bugging me about every little shit! Yes, your wife cheats on you! So what? You’re the one that’s hanging on Hustler TV all day, wacking your dick off…and when she comes home, you’re tired… Man, didn’t I tell you to fuck, fuck, fuck?!! No, you had to have an apple!!! Now you have it! If it was for me, I’d stuck it down your throat and serve you as a pig on a tray! And since no one’s really interested in pigs lately, that might just happen!
So much for G-d’s blog of the day.
I’d rather read a Cosmo instead. At least there it says something more about headaches and what bra’s to wear when cold…so your nipples don’t come out like some ice cream cones…But than again, it’s what we the Men love…nipples. That’s just the way He made us.
Predpomladno razganjanje dobiva najlepšo obliko doslej. Dejansko je skoraj nemogoče govoriti o razganjanju kot takem in sploh vrednotiti tole čutenje na ta način…nima smisla. Bo pa res, da me je zadelo. “I am all on drugs”, bi si lahko sedaj pel…čeprav trezen kot še nikoli. Premišljeno, skoraj modro…v zvezi.
“Be careful what you wish for”, je dejal nek tip v enem filmu…nisem ziher katerem…čakte, pogooglam…aha! R.L. Stine iz kolekcije Goosebumps. In te omenjene “goosebumps” še kako čutim. Cel čas. Tudi, ko nisem z njo. And that’s what made all the difference.
Kakorkoli, mislim, da je prišel čas, ko bom rekel tisti “adieu” in zaključil svoje epopeje v smislu iskanja ljubezenske popolnosti, ki mi je tolikokrat prinesla kontrakcije…seveda zato, ker mi pogled na situacijo v kateri se nahajam ne kaže nič drugega kot to, da sem to našel. Tokrat tudi brez tistih ante-fazem krčev.
V tej luči bi torej jaz nekako zaključil s pisanjem o ljubezni, težavah z njo, seksu, ostalem… nekako se mi ne zdi več smiselno vse skupaj, saj sem našel nekaj, kar je preseglo vsa moja pričakovanja, verovanja, prepričanja. Ravno zato bi rekel adijo.
Nasvidenje v naslednji vojni!
Ne vem zakaj ravno zdaj, danes, včeraj, pretekli teden. Ne vem zakaj ravno jaz. Prav tako ne vem čemu vse skupaj. Najbolj mi gre pa na živce to, da komaj diham. Srce se gre bobnanja na dvojno, oči mi kar žarijo…vse je kot bi bil naspidiran…
To je rezultat telesne kemične reakcije, ki ji pravimo zaljubljenost. Težava je v tem, da je zaljubljenost termin kateri nekako zajema bedake in konje. Dejansko. “mašeš glavom ko konj”.
Pri meni je nekako drugače. Všeč mi je intelekt. In poleg nje sem še jaz sam sebi všeč. Pa ne tak, da bi blo treba zdaj pretiravat…
Ehe, ehe, ehe.
…so še vedno nekje na polici v trgovini…
Dejansko sem jo tisti večer prvič videl v živo. Doslej je bila le bleda podoba nekakšnih hitro ujetih fotografij objavljenih na spletu. Sedaj je dobila vse tisto, kar je povzročilo pravi mali kaos v mojem premišljevanju o ženskah in teh rečeh nasplošno. Dobila je podobo, ki že skoraj meji na potrebo po trežnjenju, saj me je popolnoma opijanila. Njen glas sem že dodobra poznal. Večkrat sem se spraševal, poslušajoč nji, kako bi zvenelo, ko bi izgovarjala moje ime. In ga je. Sama od sebe. Sama pri sebi. Prvič sem slišal svoje ime v čudovitem tonu, ki mi je omrtvičil vse ostale čute. Kot hipnoza. Pogled, pogled, pogled,… nisem mogel nehat pogledovat proti njej… Kot v nekakšnem transu… Vse okrog mene je postal nek višek…njen ples v ritmih glasbe, katero bi človek najraje preslišal, je bil čudovit. Vse je bilo čudovito, čutno, skoraj čarobno. Njene roke so se oprijemale pasu, ki je stekal čez njene prsi držeč torbico v zlatih odtenkih.
V glavi mi je odmeval samo njen glas, njeno ime, njena podoba, njeni gibi, njeno vse… In spet čutim! In spet sem živ! Spet zaljubljen? Če sem, je tokrat ponovitev vseh nesrečnih ljubezni ponovno na obzorju.
Že dolgo nisem bil v takšnem stanju. Še kako sem si tega želel!!
Četudi bo vse skupaj romalo v maloro, sem ponovno čutil, čutim in bom čutil…dokler ne zamre kot je doslej vse zamrlo…so zamrle…se spremenile v prah in pepel pozabe, ki tu in tam prhne in me oslepi, ko je treba bit najbolj pozoren.
Ljubil bi jo. Celo.
Spoštovanje verskih in sakralnih objektov je temelj demokracije. To, kar se je pa zgodilo v Mariboru na stenah Sinagoge, pa ne vodi nikamor.
Ste morda želeli tak rezultat s svojim protestom? Napis “Gaza” še razumem. Dejansko pa ne razumem napisa “Juden raus”.
Naslenjič bi prosil organizatorje raznoraznih protestov, da se izognejo pljuvanja po verovanju drugih. Sam proti Islamu nimam nič. Upam celo trditi, da so mi pripadniki te vere po kulturi, obnašanju in verovanju bližji kot kristjani. Imam pa veliko proti vsakršnemu radikalizmu, fundamentalizmu in vandalizmu. Vse to namreč vodi v čisti idiotizem.
Me pa prav zanima kaj dobrega se je izcimilo iz ljubljanskega protesta…
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