For future reference...

[logansrogue]

Okay. I saw something today that reminded me of something I'd noticed this past few weeks and I had the urge to post this so that people knew this when talking to me.

Now, keep in mind, I don't care what you do or say in your own journal. I figure people are free to express themselves in there and I'll just have to shut up and put up. But when speaking to me personally, or in a comment thread, or in email or chat or whatever, this post is just something I want people to keep in mind.

I'm not religious in a mainstream, church-going, bible-thumping, highly-moral sort of way. In a lot of things I'm pretty laid back. But I am very, *very* spiritual. Deeply so. I have my reasons for being so and I'm not going to bring them up here cause it'll take too long and all that sort of thing.

I didn't realise how spiritual I was until I heard my sister Helen watching videos from the Youtube Blasphemy Challenge. I defend people's right to say whatever they said in those videos. Go for it - it's a free media. I couldn't say that I enjoyed hearing it, though (And I didn't choose to listen to those videos - Helen was watching them in the same room as me). In fact it hurt me to hear people say those things and I don't really know why. People saying they hated God - that was the worst. That they were looking to the heavens and saying "You don't exist" - it bothered me. And that surprised me because I don't really consider myself all that attached to any sort of belief system.

Perhaps it's my Catholic upbringing, I don't know. Maybe it's the fact that I see God differently from other people. I don't see a white bearded man on a throne and I don't see a wrathful entity that wants it His way or the highway, and that's what most people seem to be angry at. I know it might not make sense to some of you, that I believe in a higher power, that I believe in the spirit not only inside of us, but around us. I have a lot of logically minded friends, a lot of atheists and agnostics and you name it. I respect their decision not to believe in anything.

I'd hope that everyone else would do me the same courtesy and respect my beliefs. I remember talking to a couple of people about Swancon, and they were incredulous that I would miss it on Friday and Sunday. It was Easter Weekend. If someone says, "I can't make it on this day and that day because it's Easter", you can assume, safely, that they have certain beliefs. You don't widen your eyes and ask, repeatedly, "Why? Why miss it?" "It's Easter." "So?"

So? So that's the end of the story. It's very uncomfortable for me to explain what I get up to that weekend. No, I don't go to church. I usually spend the time watching Jesus movies, during which I contemplate the story I'm watching. It's a six hour miniseries so that's a lot of contemplation. People generally look at me weird when I say that's what I do, but it's what I do. And I spend time with my family as well.

I'm going off course here, I really wanted to keep this short and succinct. The message I'm trying to get across is the following:

Yes, I am spiritual. Please, don't use me as your great example to the world of how irreligious you are and be rude to me about what I happen to believe. I don't care. You're just being an ass.

Comments

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

Also I think animals (or at least cats) have a fifth sense when it comes to our emotions. When my father died in 2003 I was so depressed and I remember, Betty, one of my mother in law cats (a siamese) jumped to my lap and touched my face with her paw without the claws out, as if she was trying to confort me.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I think you mean sixth sense. They already have five senses lol. (Sight, sound, taste, smell and touch).

But yes, cats are very sensitive to our emotions. They know how to read our body language very well and are tuned in to people they know. Sometimes, though, they're just downright spooky.

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

Yes, sixth sense. Cats are very especial creatures.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

They are, very communicative and clever. My little Rogie doesn't realise she's not human, I think. She has her place in the house where she has her food and poops, and her favourite spots to sit in and her daily routine. I have to brush her teeth and trim her nails and take so much care of her, like a baby. LOL!