It's All Understood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEypk-Hxsfo


Everyone laughed at her joke
As if they'd never even heard it before
And maybe they were truly amused
But every word that she spoke was a bore
And maybe it's because they had seen
The previews on the TV screen
Well this part is good and that's well understood
So you should laugh if you know what I mean

But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
Then it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

Everyone knows what went down
Because the news was spread all over town
And fact is only what you believe
And fact and fiction work as a team
It's almost always fiction in the end
That content begins to bend
When context is never the same

And it's all relative
Even if we don't understand
And it's all understood
Especially when we don't understand
Then it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

I was reading a book
Or maybe it was a magazine
Suggestions on where to place faith
Suggestions on what to believe
But I read somewhere
That you've got to beware
You can't believe anything you read
But the good Book is good
And it's all understood
So don't even question
If you know what I mean

But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
And it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

But there you go once again
You missed the point and then you point
Your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe
I believe
I guess
I guess it's all relative

Jack Johnson, It's All Understood, Brushfire Fairytales.

So I was listening to music today (big surprise I know) and got on a Jack Johnson kick. I came across this song and it grabbed me. It made me think, do people really understand?
I would hope that we are evolving in a way that we can start to see the madness in our methods.
But if you spend any amount of time watching television, you quickly start to question whether it matters enough to the majority. I hope it is like all those Crime shows, nothing like real life.

He seems to be saying if you're beautiful, you're popular. No matter how boring and unoriginal you are, and that the media corrupts or sensationalizes the truth for ratings or because "sex sales". His or others' battle within themselves about God and faith...and, if you question the norm, you are considered a non-believer, are both poignant and relative. I certainly am not part of the "norm" in my community when it comes to religious beliefs.
I feel we should all go within to find our truths in life, not to simply believe what we are told. What one person believes should not make any difference to us. Isn't the more important matter that we believe in something that comes from our hearts? Not simply from being told to believe it and complying without question?

I was at the bookstore the other day (another big surprise) and picked up a hilarious book about how to play the harmonica. Yes, you read right! It was one of those "just jumped into my hands" kind of books. It is Funny, creatively written and completely worth at least a quick read.
Anyway...he says something to the effect of if we stop having the drive to learn, we should check our pulse. I absolutely agree. The same can be said about finding our core beliefs. That is something continual, you may find a belief but the universe and all that is are immense.
Are we not here to learn as many lessons as we can? It is disheartening to think some are ignorant to the fact that they are behaving as sheep. What will it take for some to wake up and realize the wolf is not really in control? I don't know. I can only speak for myself.

"He �Read somewhere that you cannot believe everything you read.� If this statement was valid, then you could not trust it to be valid, because you read it in a book as well. If the statement is invalid, then you CAN believe everything you read, making the statement valid, and contradicting itself." ~Vermillion Raine.
She makes a Valid statement here (haha).

Basically I feel he is saying that far too many of us go along with it just because, not because we have put any effort into finding our own truths. Perhaps we are not meant to understand everything, and that concept in itself can be powerful. Call it floating faith if you will.

I don't have all the answers, but as I told someone today in relation to another Jack Johnson song...I will never stop seeking them. I am fascinated by they fact that there is So much we don't know. It is exciting to me to continually search, explore, and expand my beliefs. And not because someone told me to, or to go with the flow. :)