Last Blog :)

As the title says, this will be my last blog. I'll still be on Facebook, but think that's a better idea so I can somewhat control who web-stalks me! I don't think there are any privacy settings on this, and if there are I can't find them. Soooo.....we'll talk on facebook. :)

Beautiful Day!

After a day or so of negative thoughts causing me aggravation, it's time to realize that I can't let a few bad apples spoil the bunch. I think I've already thrown out all of the bad apples anyway, so why continue to let them affect me?

I have an AMAZING life! I turn 26 this week...WOW!

No, Bless YOU.

Let me first start off by saying that I respect all religious beliefs, and I think that people are wholly entitled to their beliefs, and have a right to practice them as they see appropriate. It's a free country. (Wait...it is a free country right??) But here is what I don't respect...I don't respect people who feign piety and use religion as a platform to push their own agenda on anyone and everyone who will listen. I cannot understand, and probably never will how a person can claim to "live by the bible", and in the same breath condemn others, use guilt and scare tactics, and (as was my most recent experience, and the reason for this rant) use Bible quotations as a thinly veiled attack on my character. Please...excuse me for saying so, but I think I'm an ok person.
There are about 25 majorly recognized organized religions on this planet, with 33% being Christian. Now they can't ALL be right, correct? So, if we applied some common sense (a practice clearly not recognized by the majority of people in my life who call themselves Christians), wouldn't we come to the conclusion that there MAY just be more than ONE way of seeing things?
Now I'm not by ANY means trying to defame Christianity. I'm just sick of mean and ignorant people posing as Christians to give them a voice on a subject they squawk about all over town, but do not practice at ALL behind closed doors. I mean, when did loving God become a reason for a "them against us" attitude? Shouldn't we all be united in love, and not divided by it? Love God, but please do not tell me how to do the same or when to do it or if I'm not doing it right or enough. I love people, I try to be kind, I wouldn't hurt a fly and I'd go out of my way to help someone.......when did that become not good enough? And who made you the authority? Shouldn't we let each make his own choice in peace, and leave the judgement for God? Or should we make people miserable for their personal choices, and all scream our beliefs at once....so that not only have we hurt others, but no one can be heard. I just don't understand how faith and love can equate judgement and condemnation.

I could go on all day, but I have bongos to play and camping to do and a tree to hug...because apparently I'm just a crazy liberal hippie granola child.
Peace.


"Basically, universal responsibility is the feeling for other people´s suffering just as we feel our own. It is the realization that even our own enemy is motivated by the quest for happiness. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration." - His Holiness the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet