Perspectives

Perspective.
A large number of us seem to fail taking perspectives into consideration whenever we judge anything. Sure, it's great to have convictions and individual opinions. But what value do those opinions have if they were solidly built on the evaluation of a singular perspective? That's the equivalent of looking down a one-way street where traffic is coming from behind you and saying "Oh look, no vehicles coming at me. Obviously I can walk on freely without having to worry about getting hit."


Now, I turned atheist by the time I turned 11 when I actually started to question the religious views I was conditioned to follow. Progressively, I became a fanatic. Why can't everyone be an atheist? Isn't the most logical, obvious solution? Why choose to follow the idiot path? It took a little while before I went back to questioning my own views AGAIN. It's when I boiled down to the simplest conclusion that while I may continue to believe in the almighty non-existence of the almighty and scoff now and then at the occasional religious fanatic trying to sell Jesus to me, people will have their own set of beliefs and they wouldn't be wrong for it. Even the most bigoted, narrow-minded, homophobic neo-nazi has his own perspective that we need to consider before openly criticizing him. Sure, you wouldn't want someone bullying your personalized set of principles into a corner, but understanding perspectives can help you identify your own perceived problem/solution. Maybe the neo-nazi's a frightened child who is the way he is because a liberal homosexual jew touched him inappropriately or broke his spirit. Maybe he's actually right about liberal homosexual jews being the corrupting influence on society. Or maybe his perspective is completely off or singularly directed. How would you ever know though? You're approaching his perspective with a counter-perspective and are, thus, about as narrow-minded and bigoted as he is. Your most common brand of atheists usually annoy me. They defend atheism with strong attacks against structured religion. It's at that point that it stops becoming atheism and begins to develop into a form of anti-theism.



Honestly, how are you anti-theists any different from your same ass-backwards religious fanatics who've decided non-believers of superheroes and their book of fairy tales is going to put you on to the path of fiery torture and chaos? The usual response I get is usually along the lines of "I'm right, you're wrong."



Come, now, children. That's how I won fights back in the third grade. And at least then it was the most perfectly logical defence to any possible argument you could possibly have had. But when you begin to have arguments whose logic is asserted around the solid and unshaken "because I said so" then you know that not only have you stopped making any coherent sense but you're also resorting to your opponent's line of logic, which is also averse to sense.

You want to judge a drug-addict? Try doing drugs yourself before questioning it's dirtiness. You think suicidal people are selfish? Put yourself in a position where you can definitely expect years of hatred, depression and resentment flowing your way and see how long you last before being tempted to off yourself. Judging anyone for a supposed bad habit that they have? Take a look at your own life and your own bad habits that you have and question why you can't change them. Some situations may have a right and wrong path, but unless you actually put yourself in those situations or at least attempt to view things from that perspective, you will never be the right person to judge. It's okay to be judgmental. Just be careful about letting the whole world know how against you are to something, lest someone point out how hopelessly broken you are yourself.
Some of us can change. Some of us are too rigid to allow any change. Some of us can make the occasional concession. Don't bully other people to change their ways if you're about as defensive about your flaws. Don't force an intervention on someone who has enough ammo to render you uselessly imperfect.



Bottom line, be capable of evaluating everything from every perspective before bull-headedly deciding how things are going to be. If you're going to judge someone, be damn sure of your own flaws and faults and where you would stand if you were being judged. If you're faulty, accept that you're faulty, or make a conscious effort to be less faulty. Just don't marry your faults. That'd be base idiocy. Jus' sayin'.

All I have to say for the time being.
Btw, Harry Potter spent all his time magicking baddies away that he had no time to do his classwork. The following is the from the uncut version: