DarkestofRoses
Hey everyone,
I usually try to avoid writing personal stuff on here, but this was perhaps one incident, I just couldn't help but share, before you read this- I would clarify that the purpose of this message is not extend any hatred towards any religion.
Right now, there's a religious event taking place at my home. My family, particularly my mom, is very religious. There are a lot of people– the bards, musicians and devotees. It is, to say the least, a high-energy environment and frankly you never know what the outcome of the aligned energies of dozens of people can be.
I was asked (forced) to sit there for at least 15 minutes before I could escape (my ears can’t take loud noises) but as I sat there drowning in my inner world I couldn't help but rethink my childhood.
As a present atheist, I just sat there remembering how the younger me was more devoted than anyone I’d known. I vaguely remember four or five-year-old me reciting prayers, getting praised, loving something I had never seen or felt.
But there’s one incident that’s not so vague. Younger me, till the very end of my religious journey, never wished for a single thing (not even in my head). My mum would say, when I bent down beneath God, "Ask God for whatever you want."You don’t have to believe me, but every time little me would say, "But how is it love if I’m asking Him for something? I love Him unconditionally, and if He loves me, He already knows what I want and He can give me that."My mom would reply, "No, it's okay. You can ask. God's your own." I never did.
It just reminds me again and again how we all grew up knowing love. Now, whenever I'm bitter or feeling hatred, I just let those thoughts pass and move around until they fade because that’s not how I was born– knowing hatred and I don’t want the world to take that away from me. I was a creature born to love, a human, I would like to stay that way. For I'm most afraid when I'm not in love.
Love Love
dingyyypp
@DarkestofRoses ohh, you told me about this, I just seem to have missed this announcement. And I can't help but relate with you, now that I recall, I didn't ever not believe in god. It was just terms and policy handbook which was handed alongside faith that seriously makes it and for me. Religion as a whole, was never something I didn't believe in, I just slowly started drifting away because of the whole ruled which make me dislike it. Love is seriously the only thing I like :) loveeee loveeee, also you're not just any human, you're such a great one. <3 ❤️
Deathsloved
@DarkestofRoses Accountability in that sense can be construed as a child in limbo of social strata , yearned by conscience, but mostly reared by determinism
Deathsloved
@DarkestofRoses Sure. So there is a concept of universalism as well as relativism . For eg. UDHR is a universal maxim embodying declarative document of rights. To say otherwise, would be to deprive it if it's very essence . But European charter of human rights have a specific regional application. So it is a relative approximation of moral obligations backed by legal sanction. Now brushing aside the effectiveness of both, both instruments are exemplifying that there does exist an argument not only for universality but also cultural normativity. Having found its identification in the international sphere , one would then find its parallel on a myopic scale in nation states and then states and districts and so on and on until even within a family unit . As such , how does one stand in any better position by assertion of some universal criteria for accountability unless by denying the first meta maxim that there is no universal maxim. Eventually then one may consider leaving such a circular trap by contemplating self exceptions or societal exceptions acceptable to own conscience but even that conscience is determined in shape and candidness by either conformity of aversion to a person 's culture setting. As such , predisposition arises for universalism or relativism from aversion or conformism despite intelligent awareness , leading to trap again. Trap doesn't exist when arbitrariness flows in , as it must, for eventually the self unable to land anywhere with grace lands inside one's own soul leading to egoistic intelligent design which doesn't stand in other's consideration but own .
