I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the God that failed.......
lyrics from METALLICA's landmark Black album .The song was inspired by the death of James Hetfield's (the lead singer) mother from cancer; she was a member of the Church of Christ,Scientist and therefore refused treatment.It speaks of his anguish in seeing his mother die without seeking medical help of any kind and it brings out very poignantly the eternal battle between religion and science.Though I do not approve of this particular branch of Christianity,I am a believer.....of Hindu philosophies.'belief' is more of a word which I use out of force of habit,my 'belief' is more of a logical conclusion and my religious beliefs do not conflict with my scientific knowledge.I know I should really do a detailed post about all of this...but my mind is totally numbed by a whole day of Perl programming and SQL querying.The reason I have been thinking about this is that in the space of 2 days I have had two people tell me that they would rather agree to disagree with me than have me speak on length about religion/spirituality.It so happens that most of my closest friends are atheists or agnostic.There is Sam,Deb,my roommate(though he wouldn't admit it),Ankita and of course K. Nikhil if you are reading this....I have never asked you dude...what beliefs do you have?and yes let me make it clear that I am perfectly at ease with what people believe and what they do not.I am not out to convert people to my school of thought.But it sometimes makes me think,why is 'belief' as in religion always equated with 'illogical' thinking and 'stupidity'?
Right now I am thinking about a lot of things at the same time...like how Metallica lyrics so damn always nail the point that they are trying to make,how my life is so freaking turbulent right now, how this sem god has kept me occupied to the hilt,how Bangalore is such a strange place that I can feel neither disgust nor love for it....
P.S:I am a big-big sucker for music lyrics ok?this is the only form of poetry I enjoy.peace.
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4 comments:
When i ran my eyes over the first few lines of this post,my mind groaned 'No,not a poem please.' Poetry being that form of literature i least enjoy (Bashfully admitted).completely identify with the lines I am a big-big sucker for music lyrics ok?this is the only form of poetry I enjoy
As fashionable it might be to declare oneself an agnostic these days,it`s my belief that at times our 'beliefs' bring out a lot of sense out of the nonsense we are surrounded with.
Great post !!
Since you asked i gave a pretty lenghty explanation of you question in my blog. Yeah! I finally wrote something in it, amazing isn't it? Anyways check it out and tell me
@Saanjh:Thanks, being Agnostic is to admit that you have not strived to find logic and meaning in your religion.Even I don't get most of poetry.
@niksworth:good work!
n why wud ur life be so turbulent right now?ur entries are so scarce, so almost not there, that you literally starve to read them. And I agree, totally, whole heartedly, completely with Sweta out there, our lives would cease to make sense without the beliefs.
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