Friday, July 31, 2009

Holy land? or land holy?

This is an interesting concept I read about recently.
What makes a place holy. Why is a location on a map called a holy land. What makes 'land' holy?
A lot of explanations were given which mainly said that the land was holy because of some supernatural event that may have taken place there.. OK.. . So if a supernatural event (miracle) takes place in my backyard, it is going to be considered holy.. Thank goodness i cleared that up.
However, what if i decide i want to act like a true pain in everyone's butt and dig out a massive hole taking the exact 'holy spot' taking the center for a circle with a diameter of about a mile long and a mile deep.. Now there's no land! Is it still holy? Well? Is it?? You will probably argue about how I cannot dig a mile deep, fine.. What if i just scrape of the top layer of about a hundred meters and dump the soil elsewhere.. Still holy?
If you've said no, you probably said so because you did not want to look stupid. I mean come on! one minute holy land, next minute none? You'd probably argue that since there's no land, it cannot be holy.. Bear with me for a minute.
If you've said yes, You're even stupider. I mean really! you pray to a god who has created something as intelligent as us (citation needed). Created this entire universe (also citation needed). If there exists something at that level of intelligence, you think he'll really give a crap about a physical location? I mean he's created things like galaxies for heavens sake. You think he's gonna say "Hey you, visit my church in XXX or else" or "visit my holy land called Me**a or damnation is yours!!"
Because of our human inability to perceive anything beyond the physical realm, we give importance to nonconsequential things like a spot of land. whereas we choose to ignore the greater messages religions impart.. Which is, blow yourself up, go to heaven. You have 72 virgins waiting for you.

Peace.

Friday, July 24, 2009

My day at a Shopping Store..

This is a hypothetical situation. Mainly because once I've said that, I am at liberty to pretty much type what i want here.
Let the store be any one you can think of. For example, an I don't mean to influence you thinking, but just for example, lets take Mango. A big brand, clearly it attracts a variety of customers and a lot of them like I found out. Standing alone waiting for the happy shoppers i went there with, to finish with their ritual of taking clothes by the dozen into tiny cubicles to try them on before discarding most of them (it was worth the wait), It gave me a chance to observe other shoppers and people accompanying those shoppers from a third person's perspective.
Many types of different people were identified and put up for dissection my my discerning eyes. Ok, well that's just a fancy way of saying i stood in one place, staring at everyone while i was alone. Almost immediately, i noticed the boyfriends who had gotten themselves caught in the web of going shopping to a store that catered only to women. Poor guys tried to look helpful even though most (READ: ALL) of their advise was gently ignored. Before they even finished with the "what about this dress here", their significant other (The term 'significant' is used more for the sheer quantity because of all the plus sized women trying on clothes meant clearly for anorexic women) suddenly turned to look at something else. Then when this significant other found what she was looking for, the guy stands outside the small matchbox sized room trying to portray his best 'cool' image. However most guys failed at that the moment they went to pick up a shoe they thought was good. Other than the 'ball and chained' guys, these three guys walk in asking for a conversion from an indian dress size to a UK one. We all had a laugh when they said there were looking for a size 4 and as a model, showed someone about 3 times that size. well. The point of this is, well, none actually. I'm just bored. And if you don't want to read something like this again, pray I don't accompany people shopping.