Friday, June 29, 2007

Scared As Mice

I don't suffer fools. I don't. But I don't have the energy to argue with them for to long either.

But those of you that are able to read swedish should read this little post about the Islamic Rage Boy, written by a swedish senior citizen with a fundamentalist (in the words proper meaning, meaning that he thinks that Islam is only it's texts. And only the extreme ones.) view on islam. Now, I am no friend of islam. It is like all the abrahamitic religions first and foremost a tool of oppression, and a way of controlling and using poor and enraged people. BUT, like christianity is not only the crusades, child molesting priests, the IRA, The Lord's Resistance Army, American foreign policy, anti-semitism, fag bashing, support of Hutu Militias, Islam is not only Hamas, Al Qaeda and the talibans (interestingly enough, these three organisations are sunni, and we are most often used to think about the shia as the extremists).

Anyway, I battled a bit in his commentary field. Here's what I wrote:

Visst, fundamentalism finns i varje land. Titta bara på de svenska präster som inte vill acceptera homosexuella giftermål, homosexuella präster eller för den delen kvinnopräster. Bakåtsträvare eller rättrogna?

Opinionsbildare och politiker har uppenbarligen även ansträngt sig för att använda den hotfulle muslimen som medel för sina egna mål. Men där är det väl inte fråga om folk som "genom att underlåta att skaffa kunskap om islam" använder stereotyper för att främja sig själva, utan om 'sanningssägare'?

Självklart finner du kärnan för islamism i haditherna och koranen! Du hittar grunden för Westboro Baptist Church (http://www.godhatessweden.com) i bibeln. Stämmer deras åsikter och handlingar med majoriteten kristnas åsikter och handlingar?

Nej, muslimska länder verkar ha svårt för det där med demokrati. Det verkar vara något som väldigt många länder (om inte de flesta) utanför västvärlden har svårt för. Är det kristendomens fel att sydamerikanska stater militärkuppar till höger och vänster? Eller är det kanske sociala oroligheter och snedfördelad makt som ligger bakom? Hmmm... Kan det vara så att muslimska länder har problem med demokrati eftersom de har styrts av en elit i hundratals år och efter den elitens fall (det ottomanska riket då) har de styrts av lydprinsar som gått europas ärenden? Den demokratiska vanan är säkerligen väldigt dålig då. Bara en teori. Kanske stämmer, jag vet inte.

Alla dagens terrorister är inte muslimer. Av ca 500 terrordåd i europa under 2006 var 1 utfört av muslimer. Ca 10 var utförda av nazister, dubbelt så många utförda av vänsterextremister och resten utförda av separatister. I resten av världen (utanför Israel/Palestina) begås de flesta självmordsbombningarna av marxister.

Runt 90% av Koranen återfinns i Bibeln, give or take. Väljer man att vara bokstavstrogen kristen hamnar man lätt på samma ställe som talibaner. Till skillnad från kristendomen så finns det stöd för krig, och det är noggrant (såpass noggrant som en fjortonhundra år gammal text författad av en analfabet samt några hundra skrönor om hans liv nu kan vara. Men nya testamentet är inte så mycket bättre.) reglerat, såtillvida att man får bara ta till vapen mot islams fiender. Det är därför dom vrålar om jihad hela tiden. Jihad består för övrigt av Stora Jihad (dvs en kamp inom en själv för att bli en bättre muslim) och Lilla Jihad (försvara islam med vapen). Ordvalet i sig visar ju på vad Mohammad själv tyckte att man skulle prioritera.

Problemet är ju att kristendomen, judendomens och islams heliga skrifter är anakronistiska. Hur ska du kunna applicera levnadsregler och ideologier från en 1400 år (eller 1800 år? Eller 5000 år?) gammal text på dagens samhälle? Självklart är Koranen och Haditherna bitvis krigiska, islam föddes trots allt i ett område som uttnyttjades som bricka i kampen mellan Byzans och Persien, med en befolkning som till största delen bestod av ickecentraliserade stammar.

Haditherna är berättelser om Mohammads liv och leverne. Mohammad betraktas som en perfekt människa och som det ultimata föredömet.

Det intressanta med haditherna och tolkningarna av dem och koranen är hur flexibla de är. Bland annat så hittar man både stöd för och emot månggifte i dem, beroende på hur man läser (det perfekta antalet fruar sägs vara fyra, men enbart Mohammad var ju perfekt och är därför den enda (tillsammans med hans homie Gud) som kan ha flera fruar). Iran har hittat (snarare anpassat sin läsning efter omständigheterna) hadither som talar FÖR att kvinnor ska kunna arbeta som advokater, trots att det hittills varit förbjudet. Läs till exempel ‘The Veil And The Male Elite’ av Fatima Mernissi för fler exempel.

Min slutpoäng är denna: Visst, islamism är ett hot mot västerländska, humanistiska idéer. Men hardcore kristendom är lika illa (om än sämre beväpnade). Läs gamla testamentet och man ser uppmuntran av både folkmord, rasism och etnisk rensning. Visst, Islam blir mer inflytelserikt i väst. Men precis som det är skillnad på Westboro Baptist Church och Svenska Kyrkan så är det skillnad på al Qaida och moskén på söder, och lika lite som jag tror att Svenska Kyrkan kommer uppmuntra till krig och förstörelse (trots den stora mängd av texter de kan stödja sig på), lika litet tror jag att Mehmet som städar här i huset kommer självmordsbomba mig. Och gör han det har det säkerligen mer med hans utsatta sociala läge att göra än hans religiösa tillhörighet.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Life Ain't Nuthin' But Bitches & Money

Yeah. Something like that.

Found out that I passed the last exam. So now I just have to find 3 more points before august. Haha. But I think I'll sort that out. I hope so, anyway.

But I got a strange call from my employer this morning. She was saying that the Big Boss had written an e-mail explaining that he wanted us to do an inventory over the candy, cokes and ice creams because he had gotten som 'bad vibes' when he was out there yesterday and I was taking a 5 minute break, sitting on a chair and eating an ice cream. I had already paid for the ice cream. OK, maybe I shouldn't be sitting down like that when I am the only one in the store, but hey... Am I supposed to work alone for 6 hours without any sort of break? And I had, previously to my break, done maybe a quarter of my work, so it wasn't like the shit wasn't going to get done.

But what I don't get is why he got 'bad vibes' that made him want us to do inventory? I mean, I could partially understand if he thought that I was lazy, but does he think that I was stealing beause I had an ice cream?

Fucking whack job.

I am so tired. I haven't done anything today. I have hardly gotten out of bed. I usually only feel like this in the winters.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Et tu, Brute?

Genesis 3:4:
And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die:

Genesis 3:5:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.


There is a reason I got a couple of snakes tattooed.

I Väntan På Gud

I just realized something. I want to go for a quest. A quest for God. I want to find Him. I have spent time in the forest, and I almost thought He was near. I want to go to Israel, to Jerusalem. To see if He is really there. What His affinity for that place is. I want to go to Arabia, to see what is hidden in the desert wind. I want to go to the steppes of Central Asia to see what Attila and Genghis saw. I want to go to Transylvania to se what made people sacrifice each other in thse woods. To see what Vlad Dracula saw. I want to go to persia to see what Zarathustra saw, to the Middle East to what compelled Abraham, to Egypt so learn of Akenatens experiences, to Mexico to see the Aztecs dreams. I want to spend more time in my own peoples woods to understand what compelled them to hang people in the crown of a tree as a sacrifice. What made Odin sacrifice himself to himself. No, I know it was the runes, I mean what made him to it? The chief ot the Gods realizing that he too has to sacrifice to gain something.

Are these acts and these people and these creatures what we think of when we speak of God? I think not. But if God is almighty these people saw him. These acts of horror, genocide, blood and cruelty are Gods work.

Or as Elie Weisel (a man I rarely agree with) writes in his play The Trial Of God:

"...but let one killer kill for God's glory, and God is guilty. Every person who suffers or causes suffering, every woman who is raped, every child who is tormented implicates Him."

Or as Algernon Swinburne wrote in Atalanta In Calydon:

"Who turns the large limbs to a little flame
And binds the great sea with a little sand;
Who makes desire, and slays desire with shame;
Who shakes the heaven as ashes in his hand;
Who, seeing the light and shadow for the same,
Bids day waste night as fire devours a brand,
Smites without sword, and scourges without rod;
The supreme evil, God.

Yea, with thine hate, O God, thou hast covered us,
One saith, and hidden our eyes away from sight."

If God is almighty I cannot see how he can be "all good" (if one does not think that an act of God is per definition good. I don't. How can you justify genocide, rape and murder when you are almighty? There is an easy way to solve it then, isn't it?). He seems a bit likean "angry, petulant old man", in Tennesee Williams words.

But I still want to find Him, even if he is not all good. If He exist. I really doubt that. At the moment I don't believe in him at all. As a matter of fact I outright deny him and most spirituality as a matter of principle.

But I still want to find Him. Go figure.

Christianity has really fucked us up. Our sense of morals and values have really fucked us up.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Funny

I actually went out with some class mates the other day and managed to stay quite sober. But somehow I got in a fight with some girl. A stranger. Won't bore you with the details, but it ended up with her just being a total jerk with absolutely no political analyzing skills whatsoever and the rethoric of a demented five year old and me kindly enlightening her of those facts. Plus I told her she was more stupid than the nazis, wich made her run away and cry. I think she was jewish.

I feel a bit bad about the last part. Not about making her sad or upset, but making her sad and upset with something that had to do with the original discussion would have made everything much better.

Anyways, she was a moron and a jerk. And I feel remarkably good about myself. Or not as bad as I usually would have in a situation like this. I wonder if it is the lack of alcohol or if it is because I was right and won?

Friday, May 4, 2007

Consumption & Extinction

I got a problem with consumption. When I smoke, I smoke a lot and fast. When I drink I drink a lot and fast. Not so much with the eating, thoug. Altough I got a tendensy to eat fucked up things (like chocolate pudding and crayfish. Or coke and a bunch of sausages.).

I got a problem with consumption and I think it starts to effect my body and health.

I'm starting to get fucked up. I feel like total shit right now.

Right now it's Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger och Schopenhauer. That's da fire.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Eff Off

Got to get my shit together. I got to stop drinking. When drunk, I just spend time trying to prove to other people how cool and extreme I am. It's not fun at all. It just makes me feel silly. And sad. And pathetic.

Why am I doing this? It's despicable. Disgusting. Low.