its reflection time -

i read everyones blogs this weekend and i have realized that people have touched on thier failures to remember to blog - which is understandable because of the millions of websites we must keep track of. i although have blogged basically every week i have lacked on the most important thing meat. no, i am not talking about the delicious turkey i indulged in this weekend but the substance to my blogs. this class is nothing like i expected it to be - its three different worlds held together by 30 students and we make it go round. there are countless sites we have to keep track of, interesting things to read and people to listen to; all of which change our beliefs a little bit. this is what i find most incredible - that our beliefs are changed easily as well as the way we see, hold and voice them.
most importantly to this was the play doubt. i think it was in laurens cook blog where she says something about looking at the play for all three angles - journalistic, english and religiously. that was entireley the best part of this play. i walked out of the playhouse not knowing exactly what to think at all. my mind was boggled and i didnt know what to think; when i knew what to think and thought i was standing stall people just slightly pushed me so i wasn't steady anymore. after reading the play i thought sister aloysuis was very cold but i really wanted to believe that she was a good person - deep down somewhere. i believed that father flynn wasn't capable of doing such a horrible thing in my heart...but my mind knew elsewise. sister james and me were the same person. now, i think - after listening to michael higgins and him giving us so much insight we didn't have - that she was right in her doings. she was in a position of power and yes, she didnt need to be so cold, but she didnt have time to stop and find truth - jsut act. i think father flynn did it. just that simple.
something i thought was completley thoguht provoking was what justin said, about doubts - he said that in his life people have made him doubt his own actions and made him question something he thought he knew. was this happening to father flynn - was sister aloysuis making him think... did i do something wrong? when he actually hadn't.
basically my mind has been pulled a bunch of different ways in this class... and i absolutely love it. :)