my annoying rant of the day
Ugh I'm stuck in tonight again. It's rather dissatisfying!
I finished Harry Potter today. Let me tell you, life has changed. I walked around in a fog of sadness for like 45 minutes after I finished it. I couldn't even handle it. I don't even want to think about the conclusion of the book because I'll get sad again.
How pathetic is it that a Harry Potter book can disrupt my whole mood?
Not that my mood was that great today. Not that my mood has been that great at all in the past few months. It seems that more or less, everyone's been shit lately.
Doing menial labor today at the new school didn't improve my spirits, either. But it's absolutely gorgeous and huge. It will take much getting used to. But I'll be glad to just move in. And then be even more overjoyed to move the fuck out and go to college where I can actually be a person, and not be expected to uphold my stupid school's standards.
RANT AGAINST MY RELIGION
In theory, going to a catholic school is supposed to make you closer with your faith. Speaking as someone who has gone to a catholic school since age five, I'm justified in saying that it's done exactly the opposite. Most of the messages are good, but I can't help feeling that there is some vindictive intolerance toward certain groups. And that irks me. And I can't help but detect smugness or feelings of superiority eminating from many of the more devout catholics that I know. Just because somebody receive a little disc shaped papery wafer of bread each week that SYMBOLIZES christ's body doesn't mean that they are validated in judging other people's religions or lifestyles.
Didn't Jesus HIMSELF say That the first sinless person is allowed to cast the first stone?
Hmmm... I'm not aware that there are any people who are 100% pure of heart living on the planet.
Ughh... there are so many pointless, antiquated traditions that the Church is just so damn hesitant to give up, too. Why are priests prohibited from having wives and families? Why are women still restricted from holding higher positions? Can someone PLEASE tell me the significance of the incense that is sporatically used? I'm really beginning to believe that it's the priest's attempt to get the congregation stoned so the Gospel's "message" can sink in more easily and without resistance.
Most other religions seem to be adapting to our ever-changing society. But not catholicism. Our religious officials are clinging to moral standards that may have been appropriate 2000 years ago, but honestly, are we seriously expected to live up to them?
And the first person that calls me immoral or too lazy to follow the catholic church's law of ethics is going to get a swift kick in the teeth because if we were still practicing everything located in the Bible, women's menstrual cycles would be considered sinful, and we'd still be making holocausts.
Then I adore how we're told books like "Revelation" are just metaphors for the persecution catholics were enduring at the time they were written, yet we're still told that homosexuals are sinners because it said so in Pentateuch.
hmmm... this may be a stupid question, but how the hell are we supposed to make the distinction between what's a "metaphor" and what's really meant to be heeded? Or are we just being bullshitted because some of the areas of the Bible are just too far fetched to be remotely plausible so we're force fed lies about their "dual meanings" because there's no logical explanation? I think that a half-assed excuse is just made up for every single detail of that notoriously ambiguous book's that doesn't directly coincide with catholic teaching. And every sentence in the Bible that does agree with the teaching is immediately impressed on the billion worldwide catholics, no matter how ancient it may be.
Yes, I'm aware that sounds a bit sensationalist, but don't many catholics' accusations of moral deviance against basically every orientation other than their own come across that way also? As far as I'm aware, whenever one points the finger, there are usually three pointing right back at them. (try it and look at your hand, it's true!!!)
I'm just getting a sense that the Church is becoming increasingly intolerant in times where it should be more lenient. Especially with Pope Prejudice XVI in the Vatican regurgitating book after book concerning the majority of the world population's imminent condemnation to hell.
But not us Catholics. We're holy and devout.
So I guess this makes me not a Catholic? Oh well, that's no loss. I'm sure you can recruit more followers, especially with all those attractive alleged molestations on your hands.
And yet the Church accuses homosexuals of creating negative stereotypes against themselves ie: promiscuity, pedopihlia...
The Catholic Church prohibits sexual activity before marriage. Yet unions between members of the same sex are frowned on by the church. Hmmm... couldn't that pesky promiscuity be solved rather easily? Oh wait- catholic social teaching gets in the way. DAMN.
Paradoxical, ain't it? And a bit ironic.
Just remember that 3 to 1 finger ratio.
I've said my piece. Take it or leave it.
I finished Harry Potter today. Let me tell you, life has changed. I walked around in a fog of sadness for like 45 minutes after I finished it. I couldn't even handle it. I don't even want to think about the conclusion of the book because I'll get sad again.
How pathetic is it that a Harry Potter book can disrupt my whole mood?
Not that my mood was that great today. Not that my mood has been that great at all in the past few months. It seems that more or less, everyone's been shit lately.
Doing menial labor today at the new school didn't improve my spirits, either. But it's absolutely gorgeous and huge. It will take much getting used to. But I'll be glad to just move in. And then be even more overjoyed to move the fuck out and go to college where I can actually be a person, and not be expected to uphold my stupid school's standards.
RANT AGAINST MY RELIGION
In theory, going to a catholic school is supposed to make you closer with your faith. Speaking as someone who has gone to a catholic school since age five, I'm justified in saying that it's done exactly the opposite. Most of the messages are good, but I can't help feeling that there is some vindictive intolerance toward certain groups. And that irks me. And I can't help but detect smugness or feelings of superiority eminating from many of the more devout catholics that I know. Just because somebody receive a little disc shaped papery wafer of bread each week that SYMBOLIZES christ's body doesn't mean that they are validated in judging other people's religions or lifestyles.
Didn't Jesus HIMSELF say That the first sinless person is allowed to cast the first stone?
Hmmm... I'm not aware that there are any people who are 100% pure of heart living on the planet.
Ughh... there are so many pointless, antiquated traditions that the Church is just so damn hesitant to give up, too. Why are priests prohibited from having wives and families? Why are women still restricted from holding higher positions? Can someone PLEASE tell me the significance of the incense that is sporatically used? I'm really beginning to believe that it's the priest's attempt to get the congregation stoned so the Gospel's "message" can sink in more easily and without resistance.
Most other religions seem to be adapting to our ever-changing society. But not catholicism. Our religious officials are clinging to moral standards that may have been appropriate 2000 years ago, but honestly, are we seriously expected to live up to them?
And the first person that calls me immoral or too lazy to follow the catholic church's law of ethics is going to get a swift kick in the teeth because if we were still practicing everything located in the Bible, women's menstrual cycles would be considered sinful, and we'd still be making holocausts.
Then I adore how we're told books like "Revelation" are just metaphors for the persecution catholics were enduring at the time they were written, yet we're still told that homosexuals are sinners because it said so in Pentateuch.
hmmm... this may be a stupid question, but how the hell are we supposed to make the distinction between what's a "metaphor" and what's really meant to be heeded? Or are we just being bullshitted because some of the areas of the Bible are just too far fetched to be remotely plausible so we're force fed lies about their "dual meanings" because there's no logical explanation? I think that a half-assed excuse is just made up for every single detail of that notoriously ambiguous book's that doesn't directly coincide with catholic teaching. And every sentence in the Bible that does agree with the teaching is immediately impressed on the billion worldwide catholics, no matter how ancient it may be.
Yes, I'm aware that sounds a bit sensationalist, but don't many catholics' accusations of moral deviance against basically every orientation other than their own come across that way also? As far as I'm aware, whenever one points the finger, there are usually three pointing right back at them. (try it and look at your hand, it's true!!!)
I'm just getting a sense that the Church is becoming increasingly intolerant in times where it should be more lenient. Especially with Pope Prejudice XVI in the Vatican regurgitating book after book concerning the majority of the world population's imminent condemnation to hell.
But not us Catholics. We're holy and devout.
So I guess this makes me not a Catholic? Oh well, that's no loss. I'm sure you can recruit more followers, especially with all those attractive alleged molestations on your hands.
And yet the Church accuses homosexuals of creating negative stereotypes against themselves ie: promiscuity, pedopihlia...
The Catholic Church prohibits sexual activity before marriage. Yet unions between members of the same sex are frowned on by the church. Hmmm... couldn't that pesky promiscuity be solved rather easily? Oh wait- catholic social teaching gets in the way. DAMN.
Paradoxical, ain't it? And a bit ironic.
Just remember that 3 to 1 finger ratio.
I've said my piece. Take it or leave it.