Posted 16 March 2005 - 4:17 AM
camper, it may be that you're reading too much into this piece. Throughout the video there is a thick slab of humor (the skeletons screwing on the toilet, the boy drooling/spitting on the girl's book, skeletons breakdancing). The idea "we are nothing, we came from nothing, we will return to nothing" is nowhere throughout the song or the video. Though we can never be sure we understand everything the producers we trying to say, all we can do is look at the video and listen to the song. The Brothers have said they want their music to remind people of some great power. That is altogether different than purporting a specific idea such as the nihilism you infuse into into the hey boy hey girl video. I believe that the most we can gather from this video is the idea that the imagination exerts a powerful influence over the individual throughout their lives. And what was the effect this girl's imagination had on her? I would say, a fixation upon seeing people as bones. She saw people just as bones, nothing more, and it seems that you would agree with her. The consequence of this idea (idea's have consequences) was her alienation from others. How can you have a relationship with bones? I think you mentioned something like "The problem is what are all these bones doing?" If we're just bones wandering around a hunk of rock whirling through space, then what does anything at all in life matter? Nothing at all. In the end, all of our actions will come to nil as the universe dies from expending all of its of usable energy (entropy- heat death).
Thank God we aren't just bones walking around, but creatures made in the image of the Creator of the universe. We have intrinsic value; that's why life DOES matter so terribly much. We were created with a purpose; for God exists, and He is our Creator. And I would say that if there is no God, then there is no meaning. If there is no God, then we are just a bunch of bones whirling through space in a mindless, quantum choas.
How can this man say that God exists? you may be asking yourself. I can prove it to you very easily. Just open you mouth, and you have proven me right. For if you disagree, then you say that for rational, objective reasons I am wrong. Yet what is the objective backboard that you would pin the very laws of reason to, if God does not exist? How can there be "wrong" if there is not an all-knowing, all-powerful entity who declares what is wrong? Man cannot pull his philosophy up from his own bootstraps. By disagreeing you admit that you have worth, you're ideas are to be heard, that you have access to truth, that this is a rational universe, and that you have a moral obligation at very least to yourself to not believe what isn't true. This is possible only if God exists, giving you meaning, purpose, worth, and granting you access to what is true.
Besides, what profit is there to think that humans are just bones, nothing returning to nothing? Doesn't that gut life of meaning, and leave people hopeless for the future? Such a world view isn't liveable, even if it were true (which it clearly isn't.)
Such mass muderers as Hitler and Stalin have held this view: that humans have no intrinsic meaning, that the human is what you make him: a peg in the gears, a means to an end. Ideas have consequences. And terrible ideas have terrible consequences.
So why point is this. There are formal and practical reasons for believing that humans and the very universe itself are meaningful, regardless of what art may portray. I sincerely hope that at least one person has read this, and has maybe heard the voice of reason and truth (the truth of God) in what I have said. I urge that person to hear the testimony of Jesus Christ and the promises which He has made to you. Christ conquered suffering and death through suffering and death. And He offers this victory to you too, for He dearly loves you, and seeks after you all of your days, to save you from death, and to give you hope.