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Hello everyone!!! I really shouldn't be updating right now. I'm in McMasters right now. I have about a million prints that need to be done by tomorrow morning, but I'm updating because I'm awesome. Some guy just gave me a very friendly hello and then when I looked up from this computer and smiled at him because I knew I didn't know him. He went "OH! I thought you were Tori" hahaha he seemed really embarrassed. poor thing!
I have a lot on my mind. Mainly religious which is strange to write down in a livejournal but what the hey here it goes. I saw a friend of mine from high school last night. I hadn't seen him since last semester. We were both Super Catholics (there is a league of us) in high school. We fasted to promote AIDS awareness in Africa, went to Catholic youth conferences and camps, and so on. He always seemed so intimidating to me as a Catholic, because I felt that a lot of things I did he wouldn't approve of and that is faith was so much stronger than mine. It turns out I was way wrong and he struggles as much as me sometimes. Now, this isn't what bothers me. It actually totally humaized him for me which made me really happy. What sticks in my mind is he leaned into me and said that I was one of his favorite people. I said to stop with his false flattery and then he insisted saying that I didn't judge him no matter what he was or who he was. That I held judgement unlike many of our friends from high school. It bothers me a lot that he feels like he can't be himself around people who supposedly love him not only by themselves but with God in mind. They do the same to Danny and I'm sure they don't approve of my lifestyle either. The youth director for the state is sorto f the leaer for these neo Conservative sentiments. argh I'm so angry I can't stand it. I always felt like being Catholic in the South gave us an edge on knowing what it's like to be judged for one's lifestyle and for much of my childhood I felt I had sufficient evidence. I think people in general just feel like when they are right they are right. I'm not sure how much longer I will practice Catholicism. I'm not picking up a new faith. I think organized religion is just gettinng absurd these days in general. I still hold to a universal idea that love and understanding is the most important not who is right and who is wrong.
It's been confirmed, Rebecca Shafer will be joining a convent in August. I feel so weird about this development.
I'd also like to mention that I've rediscovered the wonders of Missy Elliot and that is amazing.
I have a lot on my mind. Mainly religious which is strange to write down in a livejournal but what the hey here it goes. I saw a friend of mine from high school last night. I hadn't seen him since last semester. We were both Super Catholics (there is a league of us) in high school. We fasted to promote AIDS awareness in Africa, went to Catholic youth conferences and camps, and so on. He always seemed so intimidating to me as a Catholic, because I felt that a lot of things I did he wouldn't approve of and that is faith was so much stronger than mine. It turns out I was way wrong and he struggles as much as me sometimes. Now, this isn't what bothers me. It actually totally humaized him for me which made me really happy. What sticks in my mind is he leaned into me and said that I was one of his favorite people. I said to stop with his false flattery and then he insisted saying that I didn't judge him no matter what he was or who he was. That I held judgement unlike many of our friends from high school. It bothers me a lot that he feels like he can't be himself around people who supposedly love him not only by themselves but with God in mind. They do the same to Danny and I'm sure they don't approve of my lifestyle either. The youth director for the state is sorto f the leaer for these neo Conservative sentiments. argh I'm so angry I can't stand it. I always felt like being Catholic in the South gave us an edge on knowing what it's like to be judged for one's lifestyle and for much of my childhood I felt I had sufficient evidence. I think people in general just feel like when they are right they are right. I'm not sure how much longer I will practice Catholicism. I'm not picking up a new faith. I think organized religion is just gettinng absurd these days in general. I still hold to a universal idea that love and understanding is the most important not who is right and who is wrong.
It's been confirmed, Rebecca Shafer will be joining a convent in August. I feel so weird about this development.
I'd also like to mention that I've rediscovered the wonders of Missy Elliot and that is amazing.