SOR lessons

You know what is surprising? The last few SOR lessons that Ive had have actually been quite enjoyable, and, even more surprising, I hav actually found myself looking forward to SOR. Maybe partly because my three most favourite people in the world are in my class, but also for another reason.

See, this term we are studying Hinduism.
*all who attend MtA groan because we studied it last year*

But this year we are looking at it in a slightly different way.
(actually I don’t know about any other class but I do know that Miss Bello’s class didn’t actually learn anything about Hinduism, seeing as we not once did any work! Haha it was great, eyy Garnet? :P)

We’re studying the sacred texts of Hinduism this term and trying to understand why Hindus live the way they do, where their beliefs came from, basically the history and the origins of Hinduism.

Now I know that may sound boring, but personally I find it quite interesting.
I suppose it is in part because I have never really been exposed to another religion other that Christianity before, at least not properly, with the opportunity to completely understand it.

And I must say that I do completely understand it, and I would even go so far as to say that I understand it way more that Christianity.

See, the one thing I really dislike about Christianity is it is so unbelievably contradictory and hypocritical that it basically just goes around in circles, and when one actually studies the intricate, seemingly ordered workings of it properly, they may find that it is in fact just one big, messed up sham.

e.g.one one of the seven commandments is that “Thou shalt not worship any other god other than God Himself.” (or something to the same effect anyway). Hmmm, sound fishy? Of course! That rule isn’t for the wellbeing of a follower of the church, it is for the wellbeing of the church itself! It certainly doesn’t want too loose its followers to a different religion, so why not make up a rule saying that this is a sin?!

However, while saying this, I must also admit that I believe in God. Its just the bible that I don’t believe in. I am sceptical on whether those stories actually happened because really, they are just a tad far fetched. Ok, I’ll admit, the general teachings of the bible; to be good and kind and don’t kill and so on, they are fantastic for humanity, because we are incredably stupid and really need rules like that to keep us all in order [unfortunately]. But I just don’t like the way that the church and other rather prominent believers seem to go around talking like those stories actually happend, when we all know that the likelihood is that they didn’t really.

Ok I’m getting slightly off-topic with this post at the moment but I cant help it because I'm reading The DaVinci Code at the moment and I need to have another rave about it!

Something that I have never really thought about before, until I had read The DaVinci Code was how sex is considered unclean and a work of the devil. For God’s sake (quite literally!) can’t a person have a bit of fun in their life?! It seems that God doesn’t like his little humans to enjoy something, so he decided to make it a horrible thing to do and make it almost forbidden. However, it isn’t actually God who made it unholy to have sex, it was actually stupid damn HUMANS who did, because their minds are fucked up and they like to create ant mounds out of mole hills. Who’s fucking idea was it to make sex such a “bad” thing to to?! Sex is not bad, nor should it be considered bad! It should not be considered unholy, dirty, devil’s work, impure, or anything else, because it isn’t! Sex is a wonderful thing, the union of two people’s bodies (and if you want, their souls as well) and I think that if two people want to do that then it is their own choice to. They should not be condemned by the church as sinful just because they may have had it out of wedlock. Who fucking cares if they had it out of wedlock?! Just because your married, does that mean your not even allowed to talk to another person, other than your partner?!

And another thing.
Why should nuns and priests take a vow to never have sex, and then be excommunicated if they do? Thats just ridiculous! Surely God isn’t so mean that he would deny his people pleasures like that? I mean, fair enough, they may want to only live simply or live in poverty, or give up all their possessions. Giving up material pleasures is reasonable because we don’t need them anyway. But if nuns need to give up sex, then shouldn’t they give up laughing? Thats a pleasure too isn’t it? Or what about having friends or talking to other people? They’re pleasures too, aren’t they? If you give up one you should give up all, in my opinion. Why should you deny yourself emotional pleasures? I believe that God wants his people to be happy, and if that means having sex, then so be it. Sex shouldn’t be considered bad. Special? Yes, sex is special, but in the same way that a friend or pet is special. You don’t deny yourself seeing your friend because she’s special do you? So you shouldn’t deny yourself having sex, just because it special either.

Stupid western society has put an importance on sex that I think it shouldn’t have. If you have had sex (well as a teenager anyway), well you’ll get some snobby looks, you’re obviously not very sensible, your careless, you probably will regret it in the future anyway. And it should be something that you don’t regret, you need to make your decision to have sex very carefully, loosing your virginity is a BIG thing, it should be with the right person, not just because. Who the hell made all this crap up? Its totally ridiculous and there is no real reason for it all anyway! And if you think about it, it was all western society that made us think like this; the human race has been indoctrinated to think that sex is bad but it isn’t.

If sex, or anything for that matter, wasnt made out to seem as big as what it is made out to seem, then one wouldnt "regret" it as much, or find it such a hard decision to make. It would just be considered another thing that one has done, not a huge milestone, but an important one none-the-less, like a birthday.

I suppose that the reason that sex was once considered bad is because if you had it too young and accidentally created a baby then you were being irresponsible because you were too young to take proper care for that baby. But in this day and age, where there are so many options like protection or abortion, there is no reason that sex should be considered bad. Basically, oh world of modern technology, you need modern values, not old-fashioned ones because they are irrelevant now.

In saying this, I dont mean that I want to go out and have sex right now. I'm just saying that if I did want to go out and have sex right now then I shouldn’t be frowned upon by all of society for doing so.

I suppose what I'm trying to do, in a rather roundabout way, is to point out humans' flaws and ridiculous beliefs that, as much as we may say were made up by some god, who may or may not exist, they were actually made up by mankind and therefore, we are just liars. And I dont like liars.

Now I'm not sure if I have completely contradicted myself here, just as I accused the church of doing, and I am far from finished in the rant against the church. However I think that I shall save it until I have finished reading The DaVinci Code for the second time.

Oh, I just realised that I never ended up saying what I actually wanted to say at the start about Hinduism. Oh well, maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. I shall save it for another day! :)