Thursday, December 20, 2012

Relating to the Rhythm

If there's one thing that's always managed to amaze me is how easily I can relate to songs that I listen to. Now there's always been the dark days where all I listened to was loud and ear breaking music and not really knowing the meaning but I've reached the point in my mental capacity where I interpret everything I listen to. Songs such as Adam's Song where the writer is talking about how lonely he felt while Blink 182 was touring. I always felt connected and learned the lyrics but never took the time to learn what it was that I was singing. I felt it on some level though because the song emanated loneliness to me. To me if I learn a bulk of the lyrics to the song it means I have a connection to it. Another one I've especially connected to is Nocturnal Rainbows which is just Hopsin saying we don't know what's right and wrong and it's defined by society. I've already talked up Nocturnal Rainbows but I'd like to touch on the the subject portrayed in the song again because of recent events. I had a religious argument with a kid on facebook over the morality applied in gay marriage. The one thing I didn't bother to say to him because I saw it as pointless is that we don't know what's true. When you find the "Word of God" in the bible it's not totally his word. Besides that fact that it happened 100 or 200 years prior to being written there's nothing that confirms the accuracy. How do we know that God's "Prophets" even were talking to him and weren't hearing voices. How do we know that what is said "by god" in the bible is what he said and not something else. I've never been in a situation where I've managed to hate a person after talking to them for 30 minutes. But this kid just annoyed the shit out of me and threw me off the edge when he called homosexuality a mental disease only curable by prayer. Never in the fucking past has it been proven that homosexuality or any real disease was cured by prayer. I personally believe it's a matter of genetics because I don't have much control over what turns me on and am pretty sure no one else does. Then the kid goes on to claim the homosexuality is righteous punishment from God for actions we've taken in our lives. Well if that were so then how come some of the nicest people I know are homosexual. It's also not like someone wakes up one day (let's say it's a guy) and because the day before he beat someone up he starts getting boners when he sees some hot guy walking by and then because he's been a good person later on or goes to confession he starts to like girls again. Just all the BS that's created from religion is the major reason for me to have renounced it so long ago.

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