2001-11-11 5:17 p.m.
Harry Potter vs. Christianity
I started reading the Harry Potter books this week. I always thought they were stupid before, but once I started the first one, I couldn't put it down! I finished the second book this morning! :) It's kinda funny though, because back at home and in that community there, Harry Potter is considered evil. It supposedly makes the occult seem fun and inviting and will encourage children to witchcraft. If I lived at home I wouldn't be allowed to read it. Well, I would be allowed to, but I would be told I couldn't bring it into the house or let my sisters read it or anything, because they supposedly aren't old enough to not be influenced by it yet.
You know, back when I was in that consertative Christian community, I honestly couldn't understand why the media would make Christians out to be fanatics and why they always chose to portray Christians as crazy consertatives. But, it's funny, because now I see why. It's because Christains are. Harry Potter is a fun, make-believe world. Yes, it is about wizards and witches, but so many other fairy tales are too. Almost every fairy tale has some sort of enchament, spell or witch involved with it. Come on, why dosen't the Christain world ban the story of Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, or even Beauty and the Beast, then? They all have spells, enchantments, or witches. Children watch these and know they are make believe.
I just think Christians are funny sometimes. I never understood it before, but they really are. They can easily be narrow-minded and ultra-consertative and they will never, no matter how much it's pointed out to them, admit this. They will always wonder why people believe such sterotypes of them, never allowing themsevles to see that that's how they really are.
Another thing that's funny is when Christians email me and tell me something about God, or try to explain why they believe certain things, like why they're against Harry Potter. I know why they believe it. I've heard their defenses before. Heck, I've even argued the Christain side many times. I WAS that good Chriatian girl, the girl who knew the answers about God, the girl who only wanted to grow closer to God. I go to a Christain university, I went to a Christian middle and high school, I live in a Chriatian home and grew up in a Christian community. I would like to hear a argument for God that I havent heard before. That would be cool.
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Chapters of My Life
Motherhood
Sept. 2011 - now Being a mother.
Isolation&Infertility (&pregnancy)
Aug. 2009 - Sept. 2011 Working from home in a job that I love...that comes with a loneliness I hate. A husband who works too much, and continued failure to start a family. Slowly spiraling, forgotten, into social invisibility. Accepting and experiencing the potential of pregnancy.
First-Year Teacher
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009. pretty much the hardest job I hope I ever have. and all the while trying not to admit my secret turmoil over longings for/attempts at/failure to produce what's supposedly supposed to come after love and then marriage...
Optimism
Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008. finally accepting that becoming a normal grown up is not just inevitable, but preferable. better job situations for both of us. working freelance as a studio teacher, and becoming an egg donor.
Fading Dreams...
Dec. 2006 - July 2007. student teaching, being poor, consistent job rejections, trying to save face while feeling hopeless.
To Live a Life Worth Death...
July 2006 - Nov. 2006. thinking about death a lot, accepting life and my eventual end. career and passions - beginning the path of contribution to what I will leave behind...
Identity Crisis/Marriage
Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006. new job. new career. new last name. new husband. new life. who was I and what was I becoming?
The Official End to Childhood? II
June 2005 - Sept. 2005. preparing for a life that still felt like pretend. was I really a 'grown-up' already? weird.
The Official End to Childhood? I
Feb. 2005 - June 2005. losing my virginity, getting engaged, changing my career, selling our childhood home...slowly losing everything that held me as a child... (Meet Mr. Mom 4/05 - 5/05. working/travelling on production of my 4th & LAST reality show ever.)
Quarter-Life Crisis/Unemployment
Sept. 2004 - Feb 2005. no steady job for 5 months - definitely not a good place to be. oh, and I fell in love - which is a good place to be, but it kind of only adds to the confusion.
Postlude to the Prelude
Apr. 2004 - May 2004. I had no clue what things were being set in motion...but everything has changed from there.
The Simple Life 2
Mar. 2004-Apr. 2004. not the deepest thinking period of my life, but I learned a heck of a lot about production of a reality tv show.
L.A. #2 - The Real World
Aug. 2003-Feb. 2004.the big move. transplanting my life. ironically not only working in the "real world", but also AT the company that makes The Real World.
That Weird, Here Nor There, Summer
May 2003-Aug. 2003. a college graduate, but not yet in the grown-up world. just existing. and waiting. and thinking.
Goodbye College
Jan. 2003-May 2003. it's a weird thing, the last semester of college. lots of thinking about what lies beyond.
The Semester From Hell
Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. it was kind of like I tried to cram 4 yrs. of growing-up experiences into one semester.
I've Changed?
Apr. 2002-Aug. 2002. after L.A. and stuck right in-between the two most intense "finding-myself" semesters of my life!
L.A. #1 - Interning/Discovering
Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002. I finally stepped WAY outside my comfort zone and went where I had no freakin idea what I was doing. Living outside your bubble for awhile really makes you see differently.
Beginnings/Depression
Aug. 2001-Jan. 2002. who I was, and sometimes who I still am. how it started and how it was before.