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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 11, 2009 21:27:23 GMT -5
Now that it's the 4th marking period, I'm finally taking this class I was so excited about.
It's only a 1 semester thing, but honestly, that shouldn't be a problem. I learned plenty last semester, in Death & Dying. And no, I did not fail the class for surviving it.
Anyway, so far I'm not too impressed with it. We spent like a week doing vocab, most of which I thought were just plain wrong.
For example, "sacred" was said to be something of importance, while "holy" was religious importance. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that using "sacred" in a secular context is just a colliquialism.
Well, just thought I'd see if this would spark any sort of conversation, since it appears that I'm gonna be back for at least a little while.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Apr 12, 2009 2:32:23 GMT -5
I took a world religion class a long time ago, it was fun.
I also took it in a time and place where (and when) religious fundementalism wasn't widespread. I definitely wasn't as rabidly anti-religious as I am now, but it definitely helped chip a bit of my beliefs off at the time.
Great class. No one caused havoc, so it was all cool.
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Post by Vypernight on Apr 12, 2009 7:14:00 GMT -5
I never took an actual class, but in my Psych of Diversity class, we did study some different religions. Thankfully, it wasn't about memorizing a bunch of terms. People just got up and spoke about their religions. I remember thinking highly of both Wicca and the Native American tradition (I can't remember what my classmate called it), while I couldn't stop laughing at the Mormon's beliefs. I'm sorry, but hearing, "When you die, if you follow the doctrine and you are male, you will become god of your own planet. If you're a woman, you'll become his wife."
I remember blurting out, "A religion with a power trip, cool," to which the class broke out laughing.
At the time I was a Catholic so I felt I had nothing to contribute, other than that I thought highly of pretty much most of the other beliefs, and I asked them a bunch of questions because I thought they were pretty cool.
Psych of Diversity was one of my favorite classes, and I learned more in those discussions and paper-writing, than in any other term-memorizing, test-taking Psychology class that I took.
BTW, Lithp, do you know what religion your instructor is? I'm just curious because it could make a huge difference in how other religions are presented.
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Post by Jodie on Apr 12, 2009 14:31:34 GMT -5
I had a World Religions class in high school but I thought it kind of sucked. Most of the classed were a biased presentation of other religions from the white, Christian, North American perspective from our white, Christian, American-born teacher (who also taught the computer science class for some reason).
I'm sure I would have enjoyed the class more if the teacher wasn't a religious dickhead, and I still wonder how or why he worked in a public high school when he was so outwardly Christian.
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Apr 12, 2009 18:25:10 GMT -5
My teacher for that class was great. He was a Christian, but never insulted the other religions, or taught about Christianity any differently than the taught the others.
But one day, we had a sub, and she was awful. She said Judaism and Islam were "dead" religions, meaning you lost if you followed them. But Christianity was a "live" religion, meaning you continued life if you followed it. Somehow, we got into homosexuality, and she went on about how dangerous it was, and how glad she was that our teacher got help. Turns out, he was an "ex-gay". It was a little surprising, because none of us knew. When he came back the next day, he refused to talk about it.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 12, 2009 21:55:39 GMT -5
Haven't asked him. Maybe I will. Might ask Mr. Sharp (biology teacher) if he's a Creationist, because a friend of mine seems to think so, & that would seriously surprise me (as he's quite competent at the subject).
I found something interesting, though. 4 people think that "atheist" is the most interesting religion. Well...one of them said "Big Bang," but that was the closest I could think that they were referring to.
Apparently, it is "debatable" whether or not atheism is a religion. I didn't want to bother arguing.
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Post by Tiger on Apr 12, 2009 23:03:54 GMT -5
Apparently, it is "debatable" whether or not atheism is a religion. I didn't want to bother arguing. It's really just an irrelevant semantics issue. |
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Post by skyfire on Apr 13, 2009 8:26:41 GMT -5
I never took an actual class, but in my Psych of Diversity class, we did study some different religions. Thankfully, it wasn't about memorizing a bunch of terms. People just got up and spoke about their religions. I remember thinking highly of both Wicca and the Native American tradition (I can't remember what my classmate called it), while I couldn't stop laughing at the Mormon's beliefs. I'm sorry, but hearing, "When you die, if you follow the doctrine and you are male, you will become god of your own planet. If you're a woman, you'll become his wife." Thank you for confirming my assessment that non-Mormon text authors don't always do their research. The bit mentioned in your book is actually a fringe element of the theology, one which gets little play owing to the fact that little has been established about what happens after death. |
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Post by Bluefinger on Apr 13, 2009 8:33:59 GMT -5
I never took an actual class, but in my Psych of Diversity class, we did study some different religions. Thankfully, it wasn't about memorizing a bunch of terms. People just got up and spoke about their religions. I remember thinking highly of both Wicca and the Native American tradition (I can't remember what my classmate called it), while I couldn't stop laughing at the Mormon's beliefs. I'm sorry, but hearing, "When you die, if you follow the doctrine and you are male, you will become god of your own planet. If you're a woman, you'll become his wife." Thank you for confirming my assessment that non-Mormon text authors don't always do their research. The bit mentioned in your book is actually a fringe element of the theology, one which gets little play owing to the fact that little has been established about what happens after death. And thank you for just showing us how you only read what you want to see. "People just got up and talked about their religions" Their religion was the topic, as in, each individual who got up talked about what he/she believed in. Also, if that is only a fringe element of your doctrine, why make mention of the same element here: If you have a theology that holds humans who make it will have their own chunk of rock, then that might just allow them to be better at governing whatever they get. Fucking curious that in one moment, you passively insinuate one belief, and then when the ridicule comes along in some other area, you go so far as to deny it as being a "fringe element". The person was talking about his set of beliefs, not a 'non-Mormon'. Seriously, comprehension skills. |
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Post by skyfire on Apr 13, 2009 8:39:49 GMT -5
Seriously, comprehension skills. "If" is the operative word there. I was pointing out hypotheticals. |
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Post by Bluefinger on Apr 13, 2009 8:45:08 GMT -5
"If" is the operative word there. I was pointing out hypotheticals. Way to avoid the rest of my post. The hypothetical you provided had to be based on something you knew, in order for you to provide the hypothetical in the first place as an answer to my questions in that thread. Hence, my wording of "passively insinuate". Besides, the person who talked was a person talking about his set of beliefs. How did you come to the conclusion of it being a "Non-Mormon" when vypernight clearly wrote that his experience involved people talking about their religions? |
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Post by Vene on Apr 13, 2009 11:18:05 GMT -5
Haven't asked him. Maybe I will. Might ask Mr. Sharp (biology teacher) if he's a Creationist, because a friend of mine seems to think so, & that would seriously surprise me (as he's quite competent at the subject). It can happen. It just requires a lot of cognitive dissonance for anybody with an education in biology to deny evolution. There's a girl in my program who is a creationist, despite being intelligent. Hell, she's better at math than I am. |
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Post by A. Sapien on Apr 13, 2009 12:30:55 GMT -5
Thank you for confirming my assessment that non-Mormon text authors don't always do their research. The bit mentioned in your book is actually a fringe element of the theology, one which gets little play owing to the fact that little has been established about what happens after death. ... What book? |
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Post by Jebediah on Apr 13, 2009 13:22:34 GMT -5
I took a World Religions course a few semesters ago. The professor was extremely neutral when teaching. She never once said anything bad towards a religion.
I've also taken a history of Judaism class, and am currently taking a class on the history of the Christian scriptures.
All of the professors have refused to tell us their religion, and from the way they teach, it's impossible to tell.
Next semester I'm taking a class on archeology in the Bible. I'm kind of excited for that one.
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Post by Jebediah on Apr 13, 2009 13:24:13 GMT -5
Thank you for confirming my assessment that non-Mormon text authors don't always do their research. The bit mentioned in your book is actually a fringe element of the theology, one which gets little play owing to the fact that little has been established about what happens after death. He never mentioned a book, Sky. He said people would speak about their religions. |
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