21. of June, for the fete de la musique I managed to find a particularly dead street in a particularly derelict area next to Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Sitting there at dusk alone between Red Sea, sand and obsolete human constructions, I listened to the intersecting chorals of three muezzins calling for prayer from different distances; this was actually one of the better musical experiences I had at the fête de la musique.
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Monday, 9 June 2014
So God created mankind in his own image
Monotheistic religions somehow assume that God created humans in her own image. Hence we are the closest to God, and the most like God. I wonder how we got to this idea? Currently, we are most actively destroying our planet, which supposedly is God's creation. We know that our current behaviour is unsustainable, and will devastate our planet already in our life time, or at least in our children's lifetime. But we don't stop because of our short-term benefits of doing so. If you completely eliminate a species from our planet, typically it has negative effects on the stability and long-term survival of ecosystems. Except for us. If you take away humankind from the earth now, every single ecosystem will tremendously be relieved and may flourish. Eliminate humans, everything improves. Why would God choose such a useless and globally damaging creature as her image? Or rather, what makes us think that our behaviour is closest to God's?