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Monday, 4 April 05 :: on the pope and.

maybe i'm just too mainstream. maybe i spend too much time watching tv. maybe my ideals have gone to far, maybe i just need to stop and start to question everything.

*sigh*

i just don't think it is my place, nor the place of my fellow non-catholic-radical-liberals to question a dead man (the pope).

*sigh*

the social ideals that he carried with him as he went through the world are ones that i could not stand behind. no, they are not. he was from a different time and, socially, he never seemed to move past it.

*sigh*

but i really strongly believe that right now is not the time to be attacking the pope.

*sigh*

i think its protection. i wonder what those on the other side will say when the dalai lama dies. i wonder what they will say about him, what he stood for, what he believed, the people who looked to him for spiritual guidance? i wonder if george (bush) will be on tv, dressed in black, moments after he dies.. or, will he speak later, after the time to act as a comforting leader (not that he ever really could) has passed?

*sigh*

i have ideals. i have ideals that force me, in every possible situation, to look at the other side. i have to wonder how they are reacting, i have to wonder what is in their hearts, i have to wonder how i would feel if i were in their shoes. i have to wonder how i would want them to treat me.

now, i know that most people on the other side won't do what i do. i know that most of them won't wonder how i am feeling. but i have high ideals. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. i don't care how christian that is, i simply do not care what others might think of me for ~~living~~ trying to live by that creed.

*sigh*

hopefully by trying to see all sides, hopefully by trying to have feelings of comfort for people that in day to day circumstances i would simply look at and hold great distain for, maybe i can achieve something inner for world peace.

we will never have peace until we truly respect everyone, even our enemies. as a peacemaker i must do what i can to live that.

oh goddess no, i'm not a saint, oh goddess no, i can't pull it off most of the time. oh goddess, its hard. but i try.

posted by brooke at April 4, 2005 08:47 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.