Rock and The Word

The young lady looks like she could be a singer but looks are devious. She works for a rock group probably as a promoter but her personal life is somewhere else. She keeps Jesus on her cellphone and gets questions about whether it is a joke or something. She says that she it is serious. Her private life is one thing an her personal life something else. Both halves life happily together, apparently. Life goes on while in my opinion she is looking  for some meaning to life.

According to some if she were to be looking for some meaning than she would not be just believing. There is a wide circle of people who will say if you believe, there is no need for proof. If there is no need for proof, then there is no need for any scientific or philosophical reasoning . That would include the need to find the reason for ones existence. Cynics out there will say what is the point to continue looking for a reason when they are well aware that they will never find a satisfactory reason in their lifetimes. And do those people wanting to give up on the hunt just have to be cynics? That is also a question to be answered.

Some people are comforted by having tokens of their spirituality around with them that remind us of the idolatry we were swept into years before organized religion took off. Some find solace in the crystals they carry saying that they are the embodiment of friendly spirits that are there to guide them. Others relate that to the occult and stay clear of anything that they are not advised to believe in. Maybe of they beieved in themselves there would less anxiety in finding an external solution.

There must be many people out who have dual natures. I believe a psychological term this reminds people of this is dual personality and I think that this is often confused with a split personality where a person has a limited sense of his other self or no sense at all. It is natural for people to exhibit different sides of their personality especially when under stress and asked to perform under extreme circumstances. This does not define the person as being outside himself or acting as another person which are attributes with a split or multiple personality. In the above case the person could very well be happy to have a private and public image as do so many other religious people needing to get through their day to day existence.

Going to places like Guyana in the late eighties and finding spiritual leaders that will ask you to take your lives in the name of a common good is to be avoided. Naturally there will always be people who will be swept aware by those that are so full of being ’superior’ to the average person that they fail to see their inferiorty. No one has the right to subjugate another human being in the name of one holiness or another.