First the story:
Well, another school-sponsored religion in a public school issue. This time they called it “Prayer at the Pole,” I believe. So, being the politically obsessed out-spoken atheist that I am, I got up in arms about it and I decided to protest.
It wasn’t my idea, though, as if that matters. A Buddhist friend suggested that we meditate to see if they would accept other faiths. So he, a Christian friend (I hate referring to people by their religions alone, but oh well) and I headed off to attempt to meditate.
We sat down cross-legged outside of the circle and closed our eyes. (I’d been interested in Buddhism for some time, still researching into it, and this somehow seemed like a good time to start actually thinking about it) Only one problem: the circle got bigger, and soon we were inside of it.
So when it’s over, we get up, leave, go along with our lives, etc, until throughout the rest of the day people yell at us.
None of us meant any disrespect at all, but we obviously came off that way, and me being the only “famous” atheist at our school really hampered our counter-arguments that it was “in the name of tolerance”, “you can pray all you want, we just don’t want it enforced by the school,” and so on. So basically everyone, friends and enemies alike, got mad at me and the people who joined me. I can elaborate more on why I did it and why it seemed good at the time, but right now I feel like hitting myself in the forehead with a sledgehammer.
I now realize it was a very stupid thing to do because no one sees our point of view, and plus it was just stupid in general.
Now I’d like to explain why this is in The Pit:
Because I’m a con-founded weasel turd who has no business even speaking because I can’t learn to think before I do. Stupid pleasant mother pheasant plucker!
Okay, I’ll crawl back into my hole now.