The likes of Scientology and Easter April 8, 2007
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Quite an odd mix, wouldn’t you say? I don’t really want to talk about Easter, more I want to talk about Scientology, having just seen this video it has reminded me how amazingly stupid this “religion” is. I really can’t imagine how gullible and stupid you must have to be to get sucked into that lot, the whole thing is a big joke. First you take a story of blatantly invented bullshit and propose that what you just came up with actually happened when really it was just made up right there and then. Just go and read the wikipedia entry, the story summary quite amazingly demonstrates how much crap you have to believe to be part of that religion. Really, when you get into it, it sounds like a science fiction adventure game more than a religion and I really have absolutely no idea why the hell anyone would fall for any of that crap. Some places don’t classify it as a religion, which is quite right in my opinion, given that you seem to have to pay to get anywhere in it. How it can really call itself a church is quite beyond me and watching that video seems to scream cult, their techniques of attacking people seem to be instilled into the members and it would seem their response is not against the norm for any kind of attack on their religion.
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Why do people find it so hard to follow their own religion? April 2, 2007
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Yesterday I watched a documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church. Now, let me get this straight, I don’t actually have a problem with “fundamentalism”. Why? I believe very strongly in freedom of speech and belief and I would fight very hard for someone to be able to say something that I disagree with. Some people might find that strange but I look at it this way, the moment someone is not allowed to express their beliefs through words (not through violence and not in a way that insights violence) then my beliefs become at risk. So long as everyone can express their beliefs I know I can as well, and that makes me feel safe. Now, back to the topic in hand, the WBC seem to be a prime example of “fundamentalism”. Fundamentalism is basically strong literal interpretation of religious text. See here’s where my problems arise, the Westboro Baptist Church are prime examples of what fundamentalism seems to mean at the moment, they take a very small part of the bible literally (or perhaps not, some of the quotes on godhatesfags.com seem very ambiguous) and then turn that into their major belief. Now I really, really can’t see how this works. Ok, so these “Christians” seem to think they are getting into heaven but quite frankly, according to their own religious text, they won’t be.
Thoughts on hope and the future March 23, 2007
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So much seems to have happened yet I don’t seem to be able to remember any of it. I had my last session of the 6 week course at the university on Wednesday. It was pretty crap really, as it started I felt quite comfortable and happy but it collapsed into a pretty boring and otherwise uninteresting evening. Really its about the social side, I like to talk and be around people but I’m very bad at initiating and of it being the shy person I am. The big problem throughout the course was that all the other people there knew other people on the course as they went to the same schools but I didn’t so there wasn’t even the possibility of moulding my group with another because I simply didn’t have a group. After the first session I was feeling very positive because the ideas of these pre established groups didn’t really surface and I didn’t really realise the problem it was going to be. The first session was actually really good and lots of fun but it all started going down hill after that really, some sessions better than others but nothing anywhere near as good as the first one. That first session I felt so alive, really being around other nice people who I didn’t know but felt I could get along well with but any openings there were for me to join on to groups were quickly demolished by my shyness.
In the end I learned nothing I didn’t know before I guess, without that first session I guess there wouldn’t have been much hope for anything different. But there was. I was given that preview. “This is what your life could be”. The teasing little dash of possibility that there is a hope and better future for me. These things come along once in a while, when they come they bring me great joy, for those moments in time nothing could really be better, there is my heaven and paradise. The moment is gone too soon, only to be left with the thoughts of this as a real life, left in my memory, for me to meander over for days, weeks, months maybe. Its a pretty destructive process. All I can really hope for is that university will be what I need, allowing me to establish a mixed group of friends and finally find what I want. Without this hope…well I just don’t know where I would really be.
I wonder which is worse March 11, 2007
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It seems like forever that I have seemed to be wish to be part of a bigger group of friends and to have more of a normal teenage existence but then reading bits and pieces on the internet and hearing people talk about all the trouble they have has got to make me wonder if its worth it. Is the happiness gained from this really worth the pain of it when things go wrong, I guess I have somehow skipped that (at least for a few years) by being part of such a small and solid group. I wonder if anyone is on the other side wishing they were part of what I am, probably not… I might go into more detail about what I mean at some point in the future, I dunno yet.
Perhaps the greatest actual part of it is the experience, its all very well being numbed from the pain of life, numbed into an existence that lacks any real depth but that’s not really what I want. It must be a part of being human, to ride the waves of life. Ah, shouldn’t think about it too much as its never going to change things by just pondering over them but this is one of those things I think about which really makes me wonder and I just have no idea, I really am just the observer.
