Sober (for Chris, Charlie, Margrete and "Brother" [no one actually reads this shit anyway])

There's a shadow just behind me
Shrouding every step I take
Making every promise empty
Pointing every finger at me
Waiting like a stalking butler
Who upon the finger rests
Murder now the path called "must we"
Just before the son has come

Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?

Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start this over
Why can't we drink forever? I just want to start this over

I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
I will work to elevate you
Just enough to bring you down

Mother Mary won't you whisper
Something but what's past and done?

Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start things over
Why can't we sleep forever?
I just want to start this over

I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile

I will only complicate you

Trust in me and fall as well

I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
Trust me ...

Trust me....

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start things over
Why can't we sleep forever?

I just want to start this over

I want what I want

(TOOL)

KOYAANISQATSI:

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies -- in the final sense -- a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. . . . It is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954)

Euthyphro Problem:

“Oh God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son.’ Abe says, ‘Man, you must be puttin' me on.’ God say, ‘No.’ Abe say, ‘What?’ God say, ‘You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run. Well Abe says, ‘Where do you want this killin' done?’ God says, ‘Out on Highway 61.’” (Dylan)

Is something good/moral solely because God wills it so, or does God will something to be good/moral because it is so? In other words, does God actually create the moral law, or does she merely recognize the rational implications of the moral law?

The Concentrated vs. The Defused:

As a result of the events of 9/11/01, some 3,000 innocent people lost their lives. The government and various charitable and aid organizations raised billions of dollars in response to the resultant needs, while G.W. Bush declared “war on terrorism.” Not to in any way diminish the horrors of that infamous day in world history, there was another redoubtable event of which the majority of us are altogether unaware (or seemingly unconcerned). On 11 September, 2001, approximately 33,000 children died of extreme poverty. What makes this figure all the more terrific, is that this was repeated on 12 September, 2001. In fact, from 9/11/01 to 9/11/06, approximately 43,725,000 children died as a result of extreme poverty. I find it interesting, to say the least, that the “born again” leader of a nation he (wrongly) construes as being “founded on Christian values” has yet to declare a “war on poverty” with anything resembling the zeal he’s mustered to battle an ideology that endangers his own political interests and archaic metaphysics.

"...just a case of other's suffering..." [The average American watches 7 hours of televison per day.]:

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we wont understand
Don’t accept that what’s happening
Is just a case of others suffering
Or you’ll find that you’re joining in
The turning away

Its a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting its shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that were all alone
In the dream of the proud

On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame

Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside

Just a world that we all must share
Its not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there’ll be
No more turning away?

(David Gilmour)

Epistemic Necessity (?):

"It is absolutely necessary that one should convince oneself that God exists; that his existence should be demonstrated is not so necessary" (Kant)

Poroblems of Anthropomorphism I:

“That I am at one with the great being that made me and brought me here and that formed the galaxacies and the universes, etc.; how did that get taken out of religion? It was not hard. Most of the problems that religion and various philosophical movements down through the centuries have produced have been errors because that’s where they started: that God is a distinct separate being from us, to whom I must offer worship, whom I must cultivate, humor, please, and hope to attain reward from at the very end of my life. That is not what God is. That is a blasphemy” (Miceal Ledwith).

Problems of Anthropomorphism II:

“God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses, and, indeed, the greatness of human skill. God must transcend even our most remarkable to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. How can any man or woman sin against such a greatness of mind? How can any one little carbon unit on Earth, in the backwaters of, indeed the Milky Way, the boondocks, betray God Almighty? That is impossible. The height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image" (Ramatha).