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| dmlxoxo (profile) wrote, on 11-10-2004 at 10:22pm | |
| Current mood: contemplative Music: here is gone Subject: one of my hippie rants, but i need to get this off my chest |
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| ”see, when you and i hear about some misery out there, it might make us feel bad for a while, but it doesnt wreck our whole world. its like we have a built in protection around our hearts that keeps the pain from overwhelming us. but may, she doesnt have that. everything just comes into her- all the suffering out there-and she feels as if its happening to her. she cant tell the difference." -The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd today i was sitting in euro and we were learning about the enlightenment and all of the people who wrote significant documents of the time and stuff, and we came across this one called "common sense" by baron d'holbach. common sense: it seems so- easy. you would expect to read it and see that it was about a concept that would be easy to grasp...but as we read on, it was about something i have such strong feelings for, yet i am constantly challenged about. "to annihilate religious prejudices it would be sufficient to show that what is inconceivable to man cannot be of any use to him. does it need, then, anything but simple common sense to percieve that a being most clearly irreconcilable with the notions of mankind, that a cause continually opposed to the effects attributed to him...." after reading this today in euro, it reminded me of exactly why i feel this way, and it saddened me at the same time because all of the reasons that i felt this way resurfaced. tolerance. its funny how 9 little letters can form something so powerful- it seems so, simple, yet the world has yet to achieve it. religion, race, color. whatever the difference may be- thats exactly what it is. its a difference. and while we should all look past these differences, the harder some people try, it seems that the distinctions become bolder and clearer. this concept makes me feel depressed, and the quote that i opened with is how i feel right now. i feel like i could cry for the world. i feel like the burdens and problems of the world and the worlds people have been shot into my heart, and the intolerance and the hatred has just been killing me. i know that so many people disagree with this, but i think that organized religion is stupid and hurtful. every religion thinks theyre superior to all of the rest of the religions, and once you have superiority issues (in anything, not only religion), you have fighting, and violence, and bloodshed. look at everything going on in the world now. the jews and the palestinians, iraq and the united states, as well as wars in the past, the holocaust, september 11th: it all comes down to one question why can't we all just get along? every second that i sit here and think about how our country is attempting to police the world right now, the one word that i think of is "superiority" and how bush has instilled that idea in the heads of many american people during his last term. we are not superior. there is no such thing as superior, and the fact that the united states has such a jaded mentality makes me almost ashamed to be an american- because to the rest of the world, we're all like that, and i wish i could show everyone that thinks we're wrong that not all of us are ignorant powerhungry non-compassionate people. we're all equal. its part of what we're supposed to stand for, and im finding that right now, we dont. i hate living in a world where its constant competition, and not to sound beauty pagent cliche, but i wish there was world peace. and knowing that that is something that we can strive for for the rest of eternity, and never achieve is very- disappointing to me. "we shall always see evil, imperfections, and follies resulting from a cause claimed to be full of goodness, perfections, and of wisdom"-d'holbach |
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goobs827 | 11-10-04 11:44pm I always enjoy your entries..they are so well written and impress me a lot...I love how you have your very thought-out views, although I don't agree with them all, and I love how unselfish you are and how much you actually think about non- superficial things in a world where all we seem to think is important is our own lives and all we seem to care about is ourselves (which isn't necessarily terrible since we're all guilty of it and since it's normal..)but I love when people, especially kids, think outside the box
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dmlxoxo | Re:, 11-11-04 1:39am that just made me smile the biggest smile :), and although u might not agree, i appreciate the fact that u read it anyway and take into account that we all have different views. i love u gabs <3 |