Henceforth you will be my medium of expression. My avenue to vent about what transpires in my life. My lack of followers will allow me the freedom to express myself.
For long I accepted that society ignores the rants of logical and critical minds. When they do hear, we are usually at some junction of crisis and need a way out. The sheep like mentality of humanity has limited the spectrum of thought. The obstacle doesn't just stop at the lack of critical thinking but the fervent opposition to anything outside of the 'norm'.
Growing up I always felt distanced from everyone's opinions. I grew up in church but always felt like something was missing. I was taught to believe in this community's God and not to question faith. FAITH- the best weapon for brainwashing (we will get into that another time). I went along with the ride, not that I had much choice living in my mother's house. I was active in church, I taught classes, sang in the choir, youth group, prayer group...you get the point, but every time they said I should be feeling the spirit, I felt like I was forcing a feeling that just was not there. I liked the songs though, so I enjoyed celebrating the idea of love for people and self. My body was a part of religion but my heart lacked enthusiasm.
I started reasoning out 'my' faith gradually. It started with believing in one God who was depicted differently by differing cultures but fundamentally they were all the same. I saw all religions as equal but different. Then I went into questioning why I believed what I did.
- I am mixed, so then why am I following the white man's religion? Is it even fair on my ancestors that I follow a religion that was beaten into them?
- Why do I follow a book that was written by men and structured by men who are just as common as I am?
- Why do I believe in a religion that says my God has chosen people, which I am not? Who chose me then?
- Why should I fear someone who should be a beacon of love?
- Why is my sole purpose in life to worship this being? Was I created to boost this beings ego?
And the questions continued.....My questioning will never cease and since the beginning I began questioning everything that was presented to me. EVERYTHING!! I found reasoning in them but many I refuse to accept. As time goes by I will touch on things like gender, sexuality, politics etc.
This blog will focus on my interactions with society. The issues I believe face us and perhaps ideas on how we can fix it. However I am becoming a firm believer that human beings will never succeed in world peace unless we transition into robots but I feel we will fuck that up somehow too.
Stay tuned for more of my rantings...
