I wanted to post this video of a old song that I really enjoy by the Himalayan Project entitled Post Cards from Paradise, enjoy.
Now for something new, something old and of course something that you just probably never heard of before.
NEW EMINEM!!!! DL: BEAUTIFUL (2009)
A Classic...... DL: Coolie High- Camp Lo
And now for an artist you should keep on your radar, Amanda Blank, I featured her on my first blog as well and here she is featuring M.I.A., enjoy
Now to drop some knowledge on all your respective behinds. A really interesting discussion on Atheism.
Couldn't leave you guys with some of my own words on the topic so here is a piece I wrote 8 years ago or so.
Contra Religion by Bikram Soni
It is my opinion that religion is not necessary to be a morally sound person. I would even take it a step further and argue religion becomes a hindrance in being a moral person in today's multi-religious society.
To be a moral person one must have good analytical skills. Analytical skills are important when judging whether certain actions would be of moral standings. Furthermore, in today's world of ever growing perplexing issues of poverty, disease and social reform a fine tune analytical mind is a necessity. Gone are the days when people burned others on the stake for acting different. We no longer believe that people are cursed when they exhibit erratic behavior, we call it schizophrenia. Accordingly, we can explain most phenomena in scientific terms. This paradigm shift from explaining phenomena has lead to better moral behavior towards people that may be different than ourselves, whether be disease or their faith. Hence, religion is not needed to be morally sound but rather a fine tuned analytical mind.
Religion brought morality to light during the darkness in human history when much was in chaos and mankind was ignorant of it's environment. Religion brought groups of people together and taught them to do well towards people of the same faith. When religion did good towards other faiths it resulted in the Spanish Inquisition. As I asserted in the latter paragraph we no longer hold dogmatic reasoning for everyday phenomena valid. Furthermore, we should let go of religion when constructing a moral code because religion instead of being a unifying mechanism has developed into a dividing force. Hence, religion by being a dividing force hinders us from being a morally sound person.
To be a moral person one must have good analytical skills. Analytical skills are important when judging whether certain actions would be of moral standings. Furthermore, in today's world of ever growing perplexing issues of poverty, disease and social reform a fine tune analytical mind is a necessity. Gone are the days when people burned others on the stake for acting different. We no longer believe that people are cursed when they exhibit erratic behavior, we call it schizophrenia. Accordingly, we can explain most phenomena in scientific terms. This paradigm shift from explaining phenomena has lead to better moral behavior towards people that may be different than ourselves, whether be disease or their faith. Hence, religion is not needed to be morally sound but rather a fine tuned analytical mind.
Religion brought morality to light during the darkness in human history when much was in chaos and mankind was ignorant of it's environment. Religion brought groups of people together and taught them to do well towards people of the same faith. When religion did good towards other faiths it resulted in the Spanish Inquisition. As I asserted in the latter paragraph we no longer hold dogmatic reasoning for everyday phenomena valid. Furthermore, we should let go of religion when constructing a moral code because religion instead of being a unifying mechanism has developed into a dividing force. Hence, religion by being a dividing force hinders us from being a morally sound person.
Would love to hear some comments on this post, good or bad. I'm sure you guys must have something to say.
