There. Just once a while you come up with a sequel to one of your blogs. Maybe a corollary, more so.
No, its not about the belief that 'you believe in what you've to do and half your job's done' type of belief. But its a rather funny type of belief that has kinda been thrust upon us. What do I call it? Lets see if the blog suggests some idea toward the end.
While there are beliefs that you abide by, there are some that are mere societal 'laws', if I may even say so. These laws are dumped on to you and easily, some 97% of the populace blindly follows it. While a section of people get offended when someone eats cows or pigs (which is further complicated by adding another entity that has ruined the world - caste, but lets not get there today), the same people refuse to believe that by not eating meat, they are just living in a false assumption of not killing a living being. The vegetarian section quite similarly consumes all parts of the shoot and the root, quite similar to a non vegetarian consuming legs, breast or liver. You need to survive, you need to eat. Period. But no, one is made to believe that the other is wrong. Some harmony can't exist. Faces have to be made. Disgust has to be expressed. Why? Because we have freedom to do so. Freedom or the lack of it, which curtails the very essence of it, when there is someone waiting to express their opinion on what you want to feed yourself. "Oh, you are a Brahmin, how can you eat beef" remains the most absurd, hilarious and foolish statement that is of a typical classic blind belief system.
The other day I was sitting at a temple by myself. It was a semi rural area on the outskirts of the city. Being an atheist, or, rather, after converting myself into one, I went to the temple only because that was the only place available to sit down in the swelter. I am a converted atheist, so I know the whole deal with footwear and temples. Yet, succumbing to the societal forced norms, I don't act very cranky and mess with the system that way. If at all I enter a temple, I take out my footwear. Mind you, this might seem normal to you till you start questioning it. Only once you question do you see the most obvious reasoning, but let's just leave it at that. So I was sitting by the side of the inner chamber, which was the wall facing the road. It was quite dusty and I wasn't planning on entering the sacred temple. So I chose to leave my footwear on. It was about 30 minutes later that I was questioned by a passer by, a younger guy (perhaps). "How can you leave your footwear on when you are sitting in the temple?" It was a question that was not posed to anticipate a reply. It was a question that came out of anguish. How can a person not take care of the footwear when he's in the temple premises.
So all the god believing people have a set belief that the god they worship is only in the temple. What makes these people roam around in footwear wherever they go? Don't they contradict the saying that god's everywhere? Again, if god's everywhere, is he not in the footwear? Is he not in the mind of the person who designed the footwear some thousands of years back? Is he not in the mind of the person who 'harms' religious animals? Is he only in the mind of the person who is allowed to kill poor mute plants? Isn't this all a little too much imposed by the society rather than anything else? Much like caste, religion and the other bull crap that is plain disgusting?
No, its not about the belief that 'you believe in what you've to do and half your job's done' type of belief. But its a rather funny type of belief that has kinda been thrust upon us. What do I call it? Lets see if the blog suggests some idea toward the end.
While there are beliefs that you abide by, there are some that are mere societal 'laws', if I may even say so. These laws are dumped on to you and easily, some 97% of the populace blindly follows it. While a section of people get offended when someone eats cows or pigs (which is further complicated by adding another entity that has ruined the world - caste, but lets not get there today), the same people refuse to believe that by not eating meat, they are just living in a false assumption of not killing a living being. The vegetarian section quite similarly consumes all parts of the shoot and the root, quite similar to a non vegetarian consuming legs, breast or liver. You need to survive, you need to eat. Period. But no, one is made to believe that the other is wrong. Some harmony can't exist. Faces have to be made. Disgust has to be expressed. Why? Because we have freedom to do so. Freedom or the lack of it, which curtails the very essence of it, when there is someone waiting to express their opinion on what you want to feed yourself. "Oh, you are a Brahmin, how can you eat beef" remains the most absurd, hilarious and foolish statement that is of a typical classic blind belief system.
The other day I was sitting at a temple by myself. It was a semi rural area on the outskirts of the city. Being an atheist, or, rather, after converting myself into one, I went to the temple only because that was the only place available to sit down in the swelter. I am a converted atheist, so I know the whole deal with footwear and temples. Yet, succumbing to the societal forced norms, I don't act very cranky and mess with the system that way. If at all I enter a temple, I take out my footwear. Mind you, this might seem normal to you till you start questioning it. Only once you question do you see the most obvious reasoning, but let's just leave it at that. So I was sitting by the side of the inner chamber, which was the wall facing the road. It was quite dusty and I wasn't planning on entering the sacred temple. So I chose to leave my footwear on. It was about 30 minutes later that I was questioned by a passer by, a younger guy (perhaps). "How can you leave your footwear on when you are sitting in the temple?" It was a question that was not posed to anticipate a reply. It was a question that came out of anguish. How can a person not take care of the footwear when he's in the temple premises.
So all the god believing people have a set belief that the god they worship is only in the temple. What makes these people roam around in footwear wherever they go? Don't they contradict the saying that god's everywhere? Again, if god's everywhere, is he not in the footwear? Is he not in the mind of the person who designed the footwear some thousands of years back? Is he not in the mind of the person who 'harms' religious animals? Is he only in the mind of the person who is allowed to kill poor mute plants? Isn't this all a little too much imposed by the society rather than anything else? Much like caste, religion and the other bull crap that is plain disgusting?
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