today i got enlightened about the religious attitudes about several people in my class. it's amazing, how people can be so irrational about things. i don't know if it's bigoted in itself to despise such narrow-minded religiousness, but i can't understand it at all. the utter lack of intellectual questioning. but it'd make purvis very happy, that his lit lesson sparked off such debate.

i don't wish to convert anyone, because i don't see what i'd actually convert them to. i am a hindu, but i lean rather towards free-thinking, which i suppose is hindu in it's own way. and whether hindu or free-thinking, conversion doesn't exactly happen. i just want to open up people's minds. it's their sactimonious pity that agonises me. that they would consider us poor ignorant pagans. dear god.

i'm really loving that lit lessons are bringing up several issues that i myself feel so strongly about and have thought so much about and discussed so much. love and religion. what fascinating topics. especially the justification and the limits of both.

now i can spend the night discussing the meaning of life and i needn't sacrifice my grades for it. yay!