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PhilosophyI published this poem on Kaleidoscope sometimes back. But I think it’s the right time to publish it here as well:
Philosophy
Published Thursday, January 26, 2006 by Kaleidoscope
Written by Ayya Copyright © 2006
What is the difference between “Right” and “Wrong”?
And where do you get what you abide to?
Set rules? Like God’s or humans, to stand strong?
Or do you make your own rules, any clue?
Do you find that religion suffices?
Don’t you find its preaching puts on airs,
Conflicts as day and night and suppresses
Mortal minds of basic human affairs?
Can you alter the mighty divine rules
That common sense refuses to indulge?
Can you suggest: premarital sex pools
Out risks involved in the unfit marriage?
Can’t you see that religion is about
Full submission, inward as well as out?
Full submission, inward as well as out
Too alone, most illogical notion
Didn’t you ever have at least a doubt
That desire; the power, the motion
Behind your daily errands, the dire
Act of your earnings is your vile sin?
Why then did God create desire?
Why do we have to suppress what’s within
A point to be mused upon by the sane
If you think otherwise, then explain gays?
How could the Perfect create in vain
The best of his concepts in funny ways?
Hasn’t history proved time and again-
Divinity; the core of our pain?
Divinity; the core of our pain
It divides nations; causes ugly wars
When each claims that The God of his own brain
Is more worthy of such divinely chores?
Do you believe that suicide bombers
Are people with no values? Haven’t they
Totally submitted to the hummers
Of their rituals and perverted ways?
But, what happened to their minds and “conscience”?
An essential question to be answered
Why haven’t they used it as their guidance?
How could their emotions be so wavered?
I could only see one answer; devout,
Succumbing faith is what it’s all about
Succumbing faith is what it’s all about
Miseries man had brought to his own kind
Man had even made his own rules of what
“wrong” and “right” are - a state of his own mind
Do you think knowledge - a propensity?
Then why, this big divergence between you
And me? Why when you steal for charity
You don’t consider the act - a taboo
Even when you lie to save someone’s Neck -
How could you dub that as a white lie?
Does lying have a color pattern? Heck
And who invented such pattern? And, why?
If you pretend that you go by the book
Lying and stealing shouldn’t be your hook
Lying and stealing shouldn’t be your hook
If you are true to yourself you’d admit
That all those fairy-tales in spoons you took
Were nothing but myths to have you submit
Legends weaved with ancient tales of the far
East, look for yourself and ponder closely
Even the works of philosophers are
A part of what you've been fed so blindly
God doesn’t have to be found in a fixed
Blind faith, he is right here in you and me
Ask yourself time and again who had mixed
Your beliefs, wasn’t it your pedigree?
It’s time to ponder, it time to comment
Assume that for the sake of argument
Assume that for the sake of argument
That prophets and saints had fixed ambitions
They were no doubt great thinkers that were sent
To flourish earth with civilization
Then what makes you think that what they had preached
Is what had reached you in time progression?
Don’t you think politics had been beseeched
To manipulate your own conviction?
Do you have the authority to think?
Or even to question your religion?
How could you silence that inner voice? Blink
And wake up; it’s time for a revision
Of what you have produced at your will
Of the un-real land of heaven and hell
Of the un-real land of heaven and hell
I could tell you what might quiver your core;
Heaven or hell is a state of mind, still
Do you believe in eternal burn? Or,
Is heaven where you find wine and perfect
Dames? Why don’t you then fetch that on this earth?
Why wait for another life to detect
Whether or not you’re on the path of truth?
God that aught to be worshiped has to be
Much greater than what they made you believe
Ethnicus had fooled, deceived you and me
We are but one nation taught to deceive
And what makes you think that they can’t be wrong?
What is the difference between “right” and “wrong”?
Name::AyyA
From::Kuwait
I AM WHO I AM AS I ARRIVE AT YOUR DOOR WHETHER I COME OR I GO IS NOT UP TO ME FOR I HAVE LOST SIGHT OF ALL DESIRE "Walled Garden of Truth",Hakim Sanai
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12 Comments:
Having read your poem, I will rest my case on the two Fundamental Laws of Philosophy:
1) For each philosopher, there exists an equal and an opposite philosopher;
2) They are both wrong;
Eridanus
Why not both right
Beautiful … but does the deaf hear?
The masses want Full submission…. they don’t want to think for them selfs.
9oot
That’s why Windex (a free thought) came into invention.
Thank you
Am getting one of those for my mother, and the government should provide some kind of subsidy for the rest of the population.
Ayya
What is the difference between "right" and "wrong" ?
:)
"God doesn’t have to be found in a fixed
Blind faith, he is right here in you and me"
"God that aught to be worshiped has to be
Much greater than what they made you believe"
I think you are contradicting yourself here when you said God is light, then you assumed that light dies. No it does not die, it changes form.
All religions think of the God as light “ allah noron, nooroho kanoor mishkaten“if you go back to Koran. Even the faiths that do not believe in God feel his power in enlightenment. I don’t remember who said “my perception of God is as water around the fish, the fish knows that it can’t live without it, yet can’t define it” no question about that, at least for me.
As for not having God within us, then you are defying Koran “ wa nafakhna feehi min ro7ina” roo7= soul. My soul, your soul is a part of God. And having a dark side is not specifically bad nor good. And it doesn’t make you less divine because no matter what; you stay a part of God.
ayya
I'm speechless, astonished, and amzed
Luloo
Meeting you ( and others through you) over the Net was the most thrilling experience, you are an amazing woman, humanity united our souls, and determination shall make this world a better place for humans, not savages, to live on, keep on the good work, I’m really proud of you :*
الفخر لي صديقتي....أنت معدن نادر... ما أروعك
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