2005-03-06 - 5:33 p.m.
It has been narrated that the Prophet Muhammad once said "God will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercy to other creatures".
I just had a visit from a pair of Jehovah's witnesses. My first visit by these troops while here in Montreal. I used to be mean to these people just to rile them up, or just to be an ass I guess.
So I only buzzed them in because I was waiting for someone to drop off my stereo equipment, that I left at the party Friday night-where I DJed for 5 hours.
Anyway, they came to the door, started their talk, and I was reminded of the above saying, so I let them speak their peace. I listened, respectfully, took their panflets and saw that this was going to take a while, so I had to say "thank you for your time, I'll read the panflets". There's a bit in them on the value of going to a museum, which I should be interested in deconstructing because I used to be an Archivist.
I stopped short of treating these people as they are usually treated by people who are not of their faith (think of one of the opening scenes in Airplane!, where the captain beats up the people from the church of religious consciousness), and was kind. Had to admit, it felt good.
The party that I spun at on Friday night was wonderful, because the people in that apartment are just wonderfully good people, and also know how to party like nobody's business. It breaks down the barrier of 'good person-conservative prude' and 'party animal-morally bankrupt'.
My link to these people is that I am in class at the other univeristy with one of the house people. I think I enjoyed the party because I'm not trenched, or aware of the politics there, like I am in my department. So my University, and my department aren't inherently bad, it's just the politics that exists in social systems everywhere.
The party at the profs house last night was stellar because I didn't care about the politics, and was just 'me'. I wonder if this will be an ongoing, fluid comfort zone because we are all more comfortable with each other, or was the magic of that event temporally and spatially specific? Who knows...but it is nice just to kick back and let go once in a while. Good for the spirit and all that sort of jazz.
I guess everybody worships in their own way.
