By The Way, This Suit, It Isn't Cheap... You Would Know, You Bought It...

For once my blog will have a point to it. Today I had someone ask me if I was in seminary for the last time. I will probably make a few enemies because of this blog, (as I have some not-so-nice things to say) but We're just going to hope for the best.

I understand why people ask me if I'm in seminary, but at the same time I do not. I know that they're wondering if you have a similar class to them (considering that the majority of Utah students have seminary) but it's almost like they're asking if you're equal enough to them for them to even make a point in talking to you. Countless times I have had someone ask me that dreadful question, and after I answer, incorrectly obviously, they simply end the conversation.

I've been reading The Chosen for this class, and Reuven is a jewish boy living in a completely jewish community. I understand that also. I know that people feel most comfortable in a place where they are among the majority (so why my parents live here I'll never understand). The difference between Reuven's situation and any given student in a seminary class, is that he goes to an ALL Jewish school. He lives in an ALL Jewish community. It seems to me that my peers don't understand that they are not living in a place like that. They are going to a public school, with other students, who may or may not be in the same belief as them.

I think the point I'm trying to make with this blog is that young people need to understand that not everyone is exactly like them. Now, almost certainly all of the students I'm currently going to school with I will never see again. I am definitely moving out of this state, or at least going to college somewhere else. Most of the people I know will probably spend the rest of their lives in Utah (except the two they spend elsewhere of course).

The thing that really annoys me however, is the way that people I know (I'm not saying all, just mostly all) are really close minded about other aspects of life. This might sound harsh, but they need to realize that not everyone is LDS, nor should they be. One day Susie is going to be off in New York and offend a prospective boss, or even someone who could have one day been her husband.

Seminary contributes greatly to this problem. It is really ridiculous that we have a seminary building twenty feet from the school, a church a block to the North, and another Church a block to the East. The rest of us don't need to see and hear about everything constantly being done in seminary.

I was really annoyed with this for a long time, until I realized: I'm going to have all of my credits way before any of them. I'm not taking seminary, I take at least two or three classes during the summers, and I'll be able to take all kinds of fun AP and CE classes during my senior year, and then I'll be graduated from college and making more money than the vast majority of these students I went to school with.

It still makes me sad, however, that all of those wonderful people that I know will always be fixed in that mindset. In a way, religion poisons everything.


(I'm not dissing religion or LDS or anything, I'm just rather annoyed at what has become a normal thing in our schools. If the LDS people wanted to be in a place where they could study the Book Of Mormon constantly, and be surrounded by people of the same religion, I suggest building a private school.)




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