the beauty of religion

or maybe I should change that to: the beauty of the unknown. 

What I love about religion is that no one can be absolutely 100 percent sure in their statement. Now, both atheists and religious people are ready to click away from this site, whilst thinking that I'm the biggest douche ever to have lived. Because surely they are certain in what they believe in. Christians have their Bible and atheists have their so-called common sense. Either way is the one truth for that person. Maybe the Christians are right. Maybe the atheists are. Or maybe both are dead wrong. Maybe we're talking about some third option of a reality that the human mind aren't mend to grasp the concept of. 

What I'm trying to get through here is that you can't be sure. And I know, that you won't agree with me, but just try and read what I have to say. 
So here is a metaphore I made up to try and describe my thoughts about this issue: 

You have a bag of sand with a certain amount of grains of sand. There is no way on earth that you can know how many grains of sand there is in this bag. Unless you count them. Which would suck. 

This is where it gets tricky. Now try and imagine the amount of grains in this bag of sand being what you would define as the devine or God or whatever you prefer. 

Okay got that? Good. So there's a Christian dude who counted them all and found out that there is a million-something grains of sand in this sandbag, which he now is certain about, because he counted them so of course that is the truth. 

Afterwards there comes an atheists and count all the grains of sand and he gets another number than the Christian. Which I understand, because there is a hell of a lot of sand in this bag, so it's easy to miscount something. 

So here is the problem: who is right? The Christian one? Or the atheist? Or did they both miscount? In my opinion both answers are equally qualified, because they are the only two people in the entire world, who ever counted the grains of sand in this bag and they are too stubborn to count it all over again - because it's a very boring job obviously. 

So we can't be sure who is right. And that is okay. I just want people to realise that there is a possibility that they might be wrong. Religious people AND atheists. Just because some book says there is a God, doesn't mean that that is the ONE truth. And just because some German scientists says that there is no God, doesn't mean that he is speaking the truth. 

"The one truth is what you make the truth" as Connor Oberst would have put it. 

And for myself? I have no idea what to believe in. For a long time I was, what you would call, an atheists but I'm not quite sure about that anymore, because an atheists tends to know for SURE that he (or she) is right. And to be honest... I'm not sure. I have no freaking idea. And I don't really care. There might be a God, there might be some devine and there might be Heaven and Hell. Or maybe the Bible is just a made-up story to entertain people. 

Maybe the world is just what it is. And that's enough. 

I DON'T KNOW!

"I have no backing for my belief that there is no god, 

because a statement that is made without evidence 

can be dismissed without evidence."

- Christopher Hitchens

- Simon

The steady sweep of days

A couple of months ago, I purchased the album Sweep of days by the Danish experimental electronica/indierock band Blue Foundation. You might have heard of them from their massive hit Eyes on fire which appeared in the Twilight movie. 

For a long time I've loved the band with a passion because of their newest album Life as a ghost (the album with Eyes on fire in it). But when I listened to Sweep of days the first time, I must say, I was rather disapointed. Don't get me wrong, I still thought it was a lot better than most of the junk The Voice (a Danish channel with music as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and stuff like that) occasionally spits out, but I had tall-high expectations from the Life as a ghost album and they kind of didn't live up to those expectations. AT FIRST!

A week ago I stumpled across one of the songs from the Sweep of Days album when I had my Ipod on shuffle, and I was absolutely breathless. For two reasons: 

1) Due to the fact that the song was incredibly awesome 

2) I couldn't grasp how I could not have loved this album from the beginning

Indeed the album is very experimental and yes, it's true that you can't actually label the band as a electronica/indierock band, because this album have all sorts of genres, but I would argue that their main style of music is very electronica-ish. 

Basically I just wanted to rant about how stupid and musically-blind I can be sometimes, because this album deserves all the glory it can get, and I didn't give that to it in the start. 

Especially the almost 11 minute track "Sweep" is amazingly epic. I can listen to it a million times and still love it. 

- Simon