this lyric english goes way above my head for the most part. don't even quite understand what he's brabbling about...victorjohn wrote:I find it fascinating that all, and I mean all evolutionist argument, atheist belief, philosophical self-actualization, and even the field of bio-engineering requires just as much presupposition as a religion does. I always wonder about that. Scientists and philosophers alike form a meta-narrative of their own and present it as support for a personal morality, a personal philosphy, of no communal impact or consequence really apart from their own physical reach.
As I see this present age dawn on the human race, I marvel at our inablity to solve our own problems, and our insistence that each of us has an answer or some profound observation that needs hearing.
Oh I hear much high rhetoric on the "problems" caused by religion itself, but I see the forces of contemporary thought applying their strength to the creation of greater military weaponry, commercial drugs with a massive risk/failure rate, and the home-delivery of greater forms of deviance (real violence video games, porn, mindless programming).
We call this evolution? Even if the order of universal principles converged in a random moment of greatness to birth existence as we know it, we humans are certainly not ordering them on to greater result. Forgive the ancients for leaping past our post-modern dilema with a story of the "fall of man." Apparently they were trying to spare us an embarrassing moment getting caught mentally masturbating in public.
You know what I see in evolutionists and atheists? The dying bitter words of the modern era. It is comical to see this desperate clinging to the comic book drawings of Darwin. There is no more proof of this position than that of the "religious zealots." I for one will cease acknowledging Enlightenment-era foolishness.
Before I go down in a blaze of flames, I ask: Don't point me to any "empirical" evidence for a godless and progressive existence. First look up the meaning of "empirical" at webster.com and ask, what human being has climbed out of themselves to make such an observation.
These threads are freaking absurd with their post-modern knots, as if somehow together we can berate one another into some kind of existential solution.
And as for Dawkins, there are colleagues of his the believe the exact opposite, in whom shall I place my faith?
Yeah, I did it... I brought choice into the matter? Did I upset the Karmic balance? Did I insult my neurotransmitters? Are my elemental particles spinning in a new fashion?
Wait, tell me what I believe on an internet forum, because that is why I bought Ableton Live... I had a void in my heart and wanted your rational religion to fill it.
definately the artistic type.
or is it politics again??
sorry at forehand
