I had my high school graduation - wow.
It really didn't hit me until I went over to the school to turn in my community service hours in exchange for my diploma. I peaked into a classroom of my amazing english teacher from Sophomore year. She recently started a new chapter in her life called motherhood so her classroom was all cleaned out and I literally started tearing up. It was just so strange - it was as if i was searching for the familiar posters and decorations but couldn't find anything that made me think this is my school. Instead it was all blank - and I did not like that at all. Just goes to show that you always want what you cant have :p
About a month ago I watched a documentary called "The God Who Wasn't There". Basically, it was this boy that was raised in a Catholic school and now is bitter and made a documentary to take out revenge of something he doesn't feel for anymore. Although his bias was EXTREMELY obvious I learned new things from History and Mythology scholars regarding similar stories to that of Jesus Christ and the Heroic Stories (something I remembered learning in English my Sophomore year, ha ha, thanks Mrs Da Costa). I'll come back and write more about it's claims - things such as, Paul didn't regard Jesus as actually existing but rather a mythological creation of heroic qualities and other ridiculous things like that. I wrote down some scriptures that rebuked these claims. I need to find that paper I wrote those things down on, so thats the REAL reason I couldn't tell you right now haha.
I was talking to Allison as we were leaving a restaurant we went to for lunch. We were talking about religious type things (my fav.) and I said how I've been investigating the Quaker religion and completely agree with a lot of their doctrine. But there was one part of their religion that i really find myself getting stuck on, that is their claim that mankind is born good and then sins because of the world and our environment. Opposed to the doctrine I was raised in that claims that man is sinful by nature. Therefore, sinning because we are human not sinning because of the world's influence. Obviously it is a combination of both - but is it? Quakers claim that man is inherently good and that explains why we feel some sort of guilt when we do something wrong - being against our nature. Its an interesting thought - something I'm still looking into.
this is short but - g2g
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