You could just scroll to the end of the page and click “more” to check out the new video from Gwen Stacy for the song “The Fear in Your Eyes,” or you could check out drummer T.J. Sego’s guest blog first and learn a little something about ants and homelessness. Read on, dear reader, read on:
I’d like to write a little about compassion. Today, I was in Dallas a homeless man asked me for change. Of course, I snubbed him.
I gave him the usual remark about not having money that I actually have. My lack of generosity is not the thing that’s been bothering me, it’s the attitude I had before I even spoke to him. The man has no home, therefore I am entitled to speak to him in any way I deem fit, because I, who live in a van rather than on the street, am superior to him. Something is horribly wrong with this world when one person bases another’s significance on such ignorance.
I’m not pushing to go give money to the poor. This includes more than just the homeless. Christians would rather argue convictions than love their neighbor. Kids are beating on each other at shows. People constantly are victims to predetermined opinions based on their appearance — as if anyone on Earth has a clue about anything on Earth. The truth is, we’re all just ants.
What could an ant know about the world around it? And what significance does one insect have over another? There is no single human being that keeps the world rotating, so there is no human life that is more valuable than another. We are all born with a heart and brain and soul, and yet people live as if this weren’t the case — as if the man without a home somehow became less of a man because he sank below the poverty line.
I am less of a man for entertaining such ignorance. Have we reached such a level of pride and selfishness that we are justified in holding others to our own standards? God help us if we cannot see past ourselves enough to value another life as it is. I believe that until you see yourself as nothing, you cannot see others as something.
Click “more” to watch the video for “The Fear in Your Eyes,” which will make its TV debut on Saturday’s Headbangers Ball.
