Interesting things I'm noticing....
Ok, I've discovered facebook thanks to a co-worker who is still into the whole of college life. Now I MUST stress that as a non-participating watcher of either SURVIVOR or American Idol, I did NOT sign up for facebook to make a whole lot of friends but as research for advertising and marketing. I found myself this morning looking through the "groups" of tamu facebook. Now I realize I'm in the south again, and I know this is a GOD fearing town which isn't too bad as you would hope people would actually listen to morals and values and adopt them into their lives, but for criminy's sake, does EVERY group have to be for Christ? many groups are quite tame and it gets even more interesting when more than one group decides their group is just about Christ...(uh, why not just join the first group?" What got me though was the "insert real intent for group"----for christ" like "dog walkers for christ" or worse..."aggie dog walkers for christ" we know where we are....try something else here people. you aren't an official dog walker group for a&m. there is no olympic category for picking up dog poop.
Now I guess I'm a bit bitter....not against religion itself but to me this is sort of a discriminatory thing in that it blatantly tells people of faiths that they can't be an aggie dogwalker. they have to go out and start their own dog walker group for whatever deity they choose. So way to open up those arms of acceptance people. you're main interest is dog walking....don't make people feel they have to be a chrisitan to do it. and hey you may learn something about other people rather than just inviting clones of yourself to a group. now it's become this screwed up fascination of mine, thanks to really icky events in my life that dealt with religion, to somewhat find the hypocracy in people when they're overly zealous about their religion. actually people who are overly zealous about anything to the point of perkiness makes me want to slap them as it's just demented. seriously, i get very argumentative. and it's not that i'm against religion either. it's that i'm against ANYONE trying to convince me that they're better than me because their religious. (religious meaning they attend church maybe once a week and they have a sticker on their car (in this case... aggie "insert religion" for christ) not they actually y'know PRACTICE what they're taught in church in their own lives. because as I see it your religion is a spiritual guidance of how you live your life. not how many times you walk a dog for christ. This does NOT excuse you from sleeping with your friend's ex-boyfriend whom you KNEW your friend was still in love with. (for example ;) and does that even entitle you to the label of friend?) Nor does it give you license to be a jerk (neglect, ignore, snub) to people you decide are not religious enough for you....I think of that movie "Saved" it was so perfect...in that the outcasts were the only ones being real humans and the perky over religious skanks who were perceived as good were really the bad people. I think that movie was protested by those same people. which i think is funny. I do know good people who are religious and they give me hope for church and someday I may actually go. I may have to skip my aggie underwater basket weavers for christ meeting though...;)
Now I guess I'm a bit bitter....not against religion itself but to me this is sort of a discriminatory thing in that it blatantly tells people of faiths that they can't be an aggie dogwalker. they have to go out and start their own dog walker group for whatever deity they choose. So way to open up those arms of acceptance people. you're main interest is dog walking....don't make people feel they have to be a chrisitan to do it. and hey you may learn something about other people rather than just inviting clones of yourself to a group. now it's become this screwed up fascination of mine, thanks to really icky events in my life that dealt with religion, to somewhat find the hypocracy in people when they're overly zealous about their religion. actually people who are overly zealous about anything to the point of perkiness makes me want to slap them as it's just demented. seriously, i get very argumentative. and it's not that i'm against religion either. it's that i'm against ANYONE trying to convince me that they're better than me because their religious. (religious meaning they attend church maybe once a week and they have a sticker on their car (in this case... aggie "insert religion" for christ) not they actually y'know PRACTICE what they're taught in church in their own lives. because as I see it your religion is a spiritual guidance of how you live your life. not how many times you walk a dog for christ. This does NOT excuse you from sleeping with your friend's ex-boyfriend whom you KNEW your friend was still in love with. (for example ;) and does that even entitle you to the label of friend?) Nor does it give you license to be a jerk (neglect, ignore, snub) to people you decide are not religious enough for you....I think of that movie "Saved" it was so perfect...in that the outcasts were the only ones being real humans and the perky over religious skanks who were perceived as good were really the bad people. I think that movie was protested by those same people. which i think is funny. I do know good people who are religious and they give me hope for church and someday I may actually go. I may have to skip my aggie underwater basket weavers for christ meeting though...;)