Do you love Jesus?
So I jsut got assaulted (unwittingly) by a Christian convert group looking to convert other people. God was it tiresome.
They rope you in with this cute little "survey" where they have these pictures and boxes with different big issues on them, and you mark with chalk which ones you think are important. And then they're like "so how do you feel about these issues?" And it seems so nice and chatty. And then they say "So how do you feel about Jesus?" And then it's too late. You've been chatting with them for like, five-ten minutes, and you feel like you should be polite to them. I should have just gotten really angry and stormed off. Haha, that would've been amusing.
But I stayed and talked to the little convert (no seriously, this guy was tiny) about how Jesus is going to change the world for a good, like, half hour. And now I just need to vent about things.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
And then he closed it off with "So do you think you'll accept Jesus into your life?" and I didn't want to be rude, so I basically said "We'll see..." Ugh.
So then I open up my reading for my Morality and Cognition class, and it's all about reason vs. animalistic stuff, and it mentioned our "passionate bodies", and it made me think of the christian survey thing. I should have had major alarm bells go off when I saw that the personal problems section was basically just the seven deadly sins. LUST, PRIDE, ENVY. I went with selfishness, but still, lust really only turns up as a problem in religious philosophy. I mean, who taking a survey about cancer and oppression would then ask if your most hated thing about human-kind was lust? Like, that's at the bottom of the fucking list, after hygiene and the cost of candy bars as far as I'm concerned.
But it got me thinking about lust, and why people are so bothered by it, and I think the main reason is jealousy. And I kind of extrapolated that to love and jealousy, and then I realized that love has nothing to do with jealousy. No, what jealousy has to do with is POSSESSION. And love and possession are not--correction, SHOULD not--be linked. I mean, if I love someone, am I really going to claim them as my possession? First of all, that's creepy and degrading, and second of all, if you really love them, you'll let them do what makes them happiest. If I truly love someone, and I can't make them happy, I want them to be with someone who CAN make them happy. I don't want to covet them for myself and be miserable.
Of course lust doesn't really have anything to do with promoting the other person's well being. Maybe lust is linked to possession, and therefore jealousy, and that's a bad thing. I dunno.
They rope you in with this cute little "survey" where they have these pictures and boxes with different big issues on them, and you mark with chalk which ones you think are important. And then they're like "so how do you feel about these issues?" And it seems so nice and chatty. And then they say "So how do you feel about Jesus?" And then it's too late. You've been chatting with them for like, five-ten minutes, and you feel like you should be polite to them. I should have just gotten really angry and stormed off. Haha, that would've been amusing.
But I stayed and talked to the little convert (no seriously, this guy was tiny) about how Jesus is going to change the world for a good, like, half hour. And now I just need to vent about things.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
And then he closed it off with "So do you think you'll accept Jesus into your life?" and I didn't want to be rude, so I basically said "We'll see..." Ugh.
So then I open up my reading for my Morality and Cognition class, and it's all about reason vs. animalistic stuff, and it mentioned our "passionate bodies", and it made me think of the christian survey thing. I should have had major alarm bells go off when I saw that the personal problems section was basically just the seven deadly sins. LUST, PRIDE, ENVY. I went with selfishness, but still, lust really only turns up as a problem in religious philosophy. I mean, who taking a survey about cancer and oppression would then ask if your most hated thing about human-kind was lust? Like, that's at the bottom of the fucking list, after hygiene and the cost of candy bars as far as I'm concerned.
But it got me thinking about lust, and why people are so bothered by it, and I think the main reason is jealousy. And I kind of extrapolated that to love and jealousy, and then I realized that love has nothing to do with jealousy. No, what jealousy has to do with is POSSESSION. And love and possession are not--correction, SHOULD not--be linked. I mean, if I love someone, am I really going to claim them as my possession? First of all, that's creepy and degrading, and second of all, if you really love them, you'll let them do what makes them happiest. If I truly love someone, and I can't make them happy, I want them to be with someone who CAN make them happy. I don't want to covet them for myself and be miserable.
Of course lust doesn't really have anything to do with promoting the other person's well being. Maybe lust is linked to possession, and therefore jealousy, and that's a bad thing. I dunno.