oh..just random thoughts
So I spent the weekend at the temple. Almost literally. Went once on Friday, Saturday, twice on Sunday, and once on Monday. In some ways, that temple inspires me. It makes me think about religion and other stuff...when I'm not feeling too bored saying the same prayer for two hours (which is what they were doing all weekend).
So you know what I think? I think I need one of those small digital voice recorders to carry in my purse because my brain has been on overdrive this weekend for some reason, just thinking and now, I forgot half the stuff I had come up with. It sucks but I do remember that they were somewhat deep. :)
Anyway, I have come to dislike organized religion. That is my conclusion for 2006. Organized religion is horrible. Why must I follow someone else's rules? Why must I subject myself to someone's interpretation of such religion? The book I'm reading right now, Evolution and Creationism, mentions this quote:
"[Frederick] Nietzche claimed that the strong person can create his own value system and that only the weak, who have a "slave" mentality, need to believe in the ready-made values of religion."
Now, I don't agree with the second claim of that sentence--people who follow a specific religion aren't necessarily weak--but I do like the first claim.
What's weird that is I thought of that first claim before I read that part of the book.
Anyway, I also hate that religion discards atheists and agnostics and all those who don't believe in that religion to Hell automatically. Basically, this implies that no matter how good a person is, no matter how kind or philanthropic and pure-hearted, if he or she is not a Christian/Jew/Muslim/whatever is condemned to Hell.
That isn't fair. That means that only a fraction of the world's population is going to be "saved".
And I hate the way people keep saying we need to be "saved" anyway, as if we're all lying, conniving, drunken sinners. Are we? No! We may lie sometimes but come on, who has lead a completely pure life anyway? There is no such thing. We're people. We make mistakes. That is the way we learn.
Okay. Moving on.
Restraining order court hearings today weren't bad. The judge was pretty good. It was just the damn people. Many didn't even show up! So I only saw three cases or so. Two were civil harassment cases. One was a case involving a 16 year old girl and 17 year old boy. They have a baby together and apparently, the boy abused her. It was sad but it did get resolved. That's pretty much it.
When I came home, I cooked noodles for myself and watched "Nostradamus: 500 Years Later". Pretty interesting, I must say. But I am also a skeptic of anyone who claims to be a prophet.
(That isn't technically true in this case. Nostradamus didn't claim it himself. Other people did it for him many years after he died but you get the idea.)
And now, I go off to shower, clean my room again and do some homework.
Farewell.