Saturday, October 01, 2005

Jennifer Aniston...

I was searching around in the news and I found something a little interesting. I read that the "Friends" star, Jennifer Aniston, is turning to Buddhism to cope with her split from Brad Pitt. She is apparently using it's teaching of compassion and nonviolence to, I guess, soothe her anger? Maybe she is just looking for some kind of guidance, but here's one thing i don't understand: Why doesn't she use the Bible instead? Is there some sort of rule for famous people to use non-Christian religions in order to look "cool" in front of everyone? This news of Jennifer Aniston has obviously led me to believe even moreso.(Gwen Stefani-Hinduism, Madonna-Judaism) I'm not saying that Christianity is any better than other religions, but it just seems like the fact that they use the other religions as a publicity stunt. I say this because the fact that Jennifer is turning to Buddhism was publicized in the first place. Isn't everything that's sort of trivial to the public that an actor/actress gets into almost always(99.3%) trivial and unhelpful to the general public? Oh, Paris Hilton just got her dog neutered today! Oh, Colin Farrell just got his wisdom teeth out yesterday! I think these sort of things can be left out of the news and that movie stars need to use what's helpful to them in their lives and not bandwagon onto something that seems "different" or "cool".