Every once in a while-and it seems to be increasing as I get older-I take a deep breath and think "Am I going crazy?" I have SO MANY insane beliefs! I don't believe in contraception! I ironically DO believe we can "pray the gay away"! I am one of a small remnant of Catholics who don't believe Benedict XVI is a valid pope! Is society crazy, or just me? I firmly believe I've made to my conclusions through logic and critical thinking. Yet, so do 99% of the worlds population. So statistically, who's right? Why should the 99% be wrong about which religion they follow, and I'm right?
I try my hardest to base all my conclusions off fact and logic, but doesn't any body else? My beliefs simply make perfect sense to me and I really don't or can't see how others don't see the same thing. It's like a puzzle. All the pieces connect with what I believe. Why don't they connect for others?
I go to school at CSU Chico and any night of the week you'll see a girl in shorts so short you can see her butt. I'm thinking, "What's going on here??? Doesn't she know that she shouldn't do it?" It makes perfect sense to me that people should not dress that way. Even if they aren't Christian, they should put on more clothes. But everybody else at college tells me to get over it or not be so negative. Hence me needing to sit down every so often and ask myself if I'm truly going nuts. I don't think so. Is the world going nuts? Looks like it.
In my Diversity class I'm in, we're watching Pleasantville. Some of the wilder and "open minded" scenes are when Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) looses her ignorant yet happy-go lucky boyfriend's virginity to her, and later on talks to her equally ignorant mother about masturbation. Later on same mother throws off her husband's oppressive yolk that has kept her doing the feminine things she has really never wanted to do. The scenes seem enlightening, as if the people have come from ignorance to knowledge, and finally are free! I simply saw the self centered Jennifer putting herself and the other two into mortal sin... Is this why I'm Mr. Negativity?
I often feel that I live in Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". Listen closely to the lyrics.
I try my hardest to base all my conclusions off fact and logic, but doesn't any body else? My beliefs simply make perfect sense to me and I really don't or can't see how others don't see the same thing. It's like a puzzle. All the pieces connect with what I believe. Why don't they connect for others?
I go to school at CSU Chico and any night of the week you'll see a girl in shorts so short you can see her butt. I'm thinking, "What's going on here??? Doesn't she know that she shouldn't do it?" It makes perfect sense to me that people should not dress that way. Even if they aren't Christian, they should put on more clothes. But everybody else at college tells me to get over it or not be so negative. Hence me needing to sit down every so often and ask myself if I'm truly going nuts. I don't think so. Is the world going nuts? Looks like it.
In my Diversity class I'm in, we're watching Pleasantville. Some of the wilder and "open minded" scenes are when Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) looses her ignorant yet happy-go lucky boyfriend's virginity to her, and later on talks to her equally ignorant mother about masturbation. Later on same mother throws off her husband's oppressive yolk that has kept her doing the feminine things she has really never wanted to do. The scenes seem enlightening, as if the people have come from ignorance to knowledge, and finally are free! I simply saw the self centered Jennifer putting herself and the other two into mortal sin... Is this why I'm Mr. Negativity?
I often feel that I live in Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". Listen closely to the lyrics.
But in reality nobody really cares about following what's right. I walk alone because of God's grace, not my own doing.
"It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth which they have seen as to fly to its embrace."
- St. Robert Bellarmine
- St. Robert Bellarmine
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True Alex, so true...
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