Tuesday, May 5, 2009

hello blog land!
je suis une terrible blogger!
i have a hard time justifying making time for something like this
when there is so much other stuff i should be doing, but tonight i felt compelled
to share this song/these lyrics:


Song: Letter from God to Man
Artists: Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KnGNOiFll4
Hey There, how, how’s it going?
Long time no see.
I know I haven’t been around much lately
But…it didn’t seem like you wanted me to be
The last time I sent down a message you nailed it to the cross
So I figured I’d just leave you to it, let you be your own boss
But I’ve been keeping an eye on you, I have, and it’s amazing how you’ve grown.
With your technological advances and the problems you’ve overthrown,
And all the beautiful art you’ve created with such grace and such finesse,
But I admit there are a few things I’m afraid have impressed me less.
So I’m writing to apologize for all the horrors committed in my name,
Although that was never what I intended, I feel I should take my share of the blame.
All the good I tried to do was corrupted when organised religion got into full swing,
What I thought were quite clear messages were taken to unusual extremes.
My teachings taken out of context to meet the agendas of others,
Interpretations taken to many different ways and hidden meanings discovered
Religion became a tool, for the weak to control the strong
With all these new morals and ethics, survival of the fittest was gone
No longer could the biggest man simply take whatever he needed
‘cause damnation was the price if certain rules were not heeded
Some of the deeds committed in my name just made me wonder were I went wrong.
Back at the start when I created this, the foundation seemed so strong.
See all the elements were already here, long before I began, I just kind of put it all together
I didn’t really think out a long-term plan.
I made the sun an appropriate distance and laid the stars across the sky
So you could navigate the globe or simply watch the sun rise
I covered the earth with plants and fruits,
Some for sustenance and some for beauty
I made the sun shine and the clouds rain so their maintenance wasn’t your duty
I tried to give each creature its own attributes without making them enveloped
I gave you all you all your own space to grow and in your own way space to develop
I didn’t know such development would cause rifts and jealousy
Cause you to war against each other and leave marks on this planet indelibly
You see, I wasn’t really the creater, I was just the curator of nature
I want to get something straight with homosexuals right now: I don’t hate ya
I was a simple being that happened to be the first to wield such powers
I just laid the ground, it was You that built the towers
It was You that invented bombs, and the fear that comes with them
And it was You that invented money, and the corrupt economic systems
You invented terms like just-war and terms like friendly fire
And it was You that didn’t know when to stop digging deeper, when to stop building higher
It was You that exhausted the resources I carefully laid out on this earth,
And it was You that even saw these problems coming but accredited them little worth
It was You that used my teachings for your own personal gain
And it was You that committed such tragedies, even though they were in my name
So I apologize for any mistakes I made, and when my words misconstrued
But this apology’s to mother nature, cause I created you


so basically,

its not meant to be written from an evangelical christan perspective
and im not a big fan of how it makes it seem like God regrets creating us, and that He didnt know what He was doing etc.
buttt..
it sounds so sweet and i think its so powerful/appropriate for our generation
..

i dont have time right now.
but i'll definitely be digging more into this hopefully in the nearrrr future!

tootles!

5 comments:

  1. Awesome link dude. I completely agree with you about it too. So much truth...

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  2. first and foremost: awesome link dude? should I cringe at your total ignorance or laugh at a vain attempt to maintain internet persona?

    I think this is actually showing a far more contemporary conception of god than you typically like. A concept of god not really related at all to the bible, that is the agnostic concept.

    The song holds incredible truth even in atheistic terms.God in this writing is a means to an end, not the groundwork of an idea.

    I believe that the bible sort of portray's a remorseful god anyways though, not an unitelligent one but almost a tragic artist. The story of the bible has always struck me as for one good thing, that is one good soul in all of Sodom and Gomora(sp), he is willing to endure all the rest to be dark. He created a universe of tragedy, but in tragedy can come the most beautiful flowers.

    This dark remorseful god-being isn't what is portrayed by this song though, this song is like "yo politicians WTF!" God is just an elaborate metaphor. Not unlike more philosophical instances in say Hegel, or Adam Smith where the concept of God is loosely used as a metaphysical unknown to help orient an ethical reality.

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  3. I wouldn't say Hegel used God as a metaphor I think he actually meant what he said... he was most easily described as a pantheist, no? The universe is God?

    I don't know though Hegel is one of the hardest writers to read that I've ever encountered. Even commentary on his work is like, whaat...

    I don't know about you though.

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  4. yeah, Hegel did believe in a God, but as I understand it Hegel's god was even more deterministic than Kant's God and Kant just used god as the requirement to be ethically good. Hegel used Adam Smith's "hand of god" to move history along. But basically it was like: I need perfect to be possible and I need someone who is capable of engaging it.

    They used it more theoretically i mean song-lyrics to poetry is kinda vague but what I meant is that God is a means to another ethical end.

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