The key. The golden key to heaven. Reading the chapter "The Key" for the first time, I'm pretty sure everyone would think that the key is just a crazy propaganda for drafting poor boys to war. We'd all think that it is crazy to actually believe in the key. Without thinking about it further, I was pretty sure I would not have completely, totally, absolutely known that the key was just a trick from the government that wants to send me to war. However, thinking about it further, is everyone of those boys so dumb? Did not anyone, just one person, figure out that the key was just to send him to war? I'm pretty certain that the entire group of boys was dumb is not the answer to taking the key and going to war. What if they all knew what was ahead, what if they knew that if they took the keys, they would be sent to war and die. What if they knew that the key was only meant to somewhat trick them to go to war? What if they knew, but they still went? This made me think. Why would they do that? If they knew the road ahead was death, but they still went for it? What does it mean? Think about the religious people nowadays. For most religions, self-dicipline is probably to certain extends important, and valued. Why do people nowadays believe in the Gods they believe in? Most of the time, at least for Christianity, believing in a religion means giving up some of your so-called freedom and practicing self-dicipline. We do this to possess the key. The key to heaven, or to whichever equivalent in the religions. Maybe, just maybe, that sometimes, we choose the key over our so-called freedom, we choose the key over life because we simply want something better. So when we think we've seen freedom, we've seen life, we then take anything offered, in hope of finding something better than freedom, something better than life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOoSoSePi0
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Key
The key. The golden key to heaven. Reading the chapter "The Key" for the first time, I'm pretty sure everyone would think that the key is just a crazy propaganda for drafting poor boys to war. We'd all think that it is crazy to actually believe in the key. Without thinking about it further, I was pretty sure I would not have completely, totally, absolutely known that the key was just a trick from the government that wants to send me to war. However, thinking about it further, is everyone of those boys so dumb? Did not anyone, just one person, figure out that the key was just to send him to war? I'm pretty certain that the entire group of boys was dumb is not the answer to taking the key and going to war. What if they all knew what was ahead, what if they knew that if they took the keys, they would be sent to war and die. What if they knew that the key was only meant to somewhat trick them to go to war? What if they knew, but they still went? This made me think. Why would they do that? If they knew the road ahead was death, but they still went for it? What does it mean? Think about the religious people nowadays. For most religions, self-dicipline is probably to certain extends important, and valued. Why do people nowadays believe in the Gods they believe in? Most of the time, at least for Christianity, believing in a religion means giving up some of your so-called freedom and practicing self-dicipline. We do this to possess the key. The key to heaven, or to whichever equivalent in the religions. Maybe, just maybe, that sometimes, we choose the key over our so-called freedom, we choose the key over life because we simply want something better. So when we think we've seen freedom, we've seen life, we then take anything offered, in hope of finding something better than freedom, something better than life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOoSoSePi0
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