Facebook Philosophy
I’m of two minds about facebook. On the one hand, I’ve been using it a lot lately. On the other hand, I find a lot of it pretty boring, and repetitive. Back on the 1st hand, it brings me back into contact with a lot of people I’d kind of fallen out of contact with. On the 2nd hand, more than half of my “friends” are people I don’t know at all.
Anyway, there was a fairly interesting conversation going on today about Islam and the whole burqa thing. The original post was to the effect that it’s not really that different from Orthodox Judaism, or the habits nuns must wear. Some women defended it, saying that there was actually a fashionable side to muslim wear. One person pointed out that the nun argument was irrelevant because one can easily be a Catholic without being a nun.
I was planning to leave some flippant comment about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the joys of Pastafarianism, in which I imagine you can wear whatever you like, may you be touched by his noodly appendages. What actually came off my fingertips was this: How can any religion have the answers to life’s great mysteries and still feel the need to tell people what they can or can’t eat, what they must wear and which direction they should face when they are praying? Those are minor details and have nothing to do with whether you are a good person or not.
Or something like that. Anyway, after posting it, I realized how totally true that is. It is a sure sign that they’ve got nothing. Sort of like the people who have to constantly wrap themselves in a flag lest they forget what country they live in.
Forget the symbols. Be a good person. Let that be your whole religion, and you will be as close to the truth as pretty much anybody.
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