Rowanroot's Journal (original) (raw)
Old Friends
Apr. 23rd, 2008 | 02:26 pm
location: dorm room
mood: 
lazy
music: Zeromancer
I called up an old friend today. We dated briefly in junior high and were friends until my sophomore year of high school. He with a group of my friends tried to form a Pagan Student Alliance at the high school my freshman/sophomore year. The whole ordeal went sour when a lot of internal struggle made people turn their backs on each other and fight. I wish things had gone differently.
Anyways my friend is doing well. He's finally out of the closet and happy as can be. He seemed very happy that I finally contacted him after three years on Facebook. We talked briefly and I expect another phonecall in an hour. It's good to talk to someone after so long. We each had so much to talk about and he was almost in shock that I had not decided to go into the theatre and would instead become a teacher.
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Insight
Apr. 23rd, 2008 | 02:02 pm
location: room
mood: 
energetic
music: Zeromancer
No matter how much I try to see things separately I am always connected different belief systems through their practices and views. In class we've read Dante's Inferno and I was encouraged to look at Purgatorio and Paradisio. When reading the chapter intros of Paradisio I was reminded not only of the spheres' connection to the levels in Qabbalah but also the Idea of becoming one with God connected to Aradian beliefs. We had a speaker in chapel (a mandatory service at the college I attend) who talked about God being in all things not just the creator and her explaination was so naturalistic and pagan in nature that i was moved to tears. It was strange for me to be so moved inside of a Christian instituted church. My class on Medieaval Chinese History is constantly making connections between Christianity, Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hindu, and the folk religions of China. My Professor, a self proclaimed christian encouraged his students to set up and ancestral altar to pray at.
I feel that every day my eyes are opened and I want to grab those aorund me with different beliefs and tell them we arent so different really. That we really do believe a lot of the same basic things and wish that they too would see this.
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Merry Meet
Mar. 26th, 2008 | 08:56 am
location: dorm room
mood: 
sick
music: Emelie Autumn
A Merry Hello to all who read my journal.
I want to encourage you to all go to my forum
http://www.nabble.com/Therapon-Thealogical-Community-f32318.html
And check out my group. If you live in the Eastern TN area perhaps you would like to meet up with my fiance and I for coffee to chit-chat.
I am an eclectic pagan and my fiance is as well, though he focuses more on sorcery. My main objective is, always, to learn and gain wisdom. I study Greco-Roman, Celtic, and Oriental paths, picking from each the things i feel make the most sense and ring true in my heart.
I am a college student with a history major with which i hope to teach one day in a high school just long enough to develop the funds to open my own inn/shop.
Feel free to message me to talk any time.
Blessed Be
Rowanroot