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[JAD]

they teach religion???? compulsory or elective?
i think i would prefer public schools.

 

[Martouf]

cumpolsary, 4 lessons/lines/classes or whateva you wanna call is per week!

 

[jsc]

My neice, Jasmine, goes to a private evangelical school and talks back to the religious instructors. But they understand as she has two grandparents who are in the ministry...Her Grandpa Willie is actually a Bishop! So they tend to help her when she soapboxes (same religion by the by) so different from the Catholic school she first attended...the nun's wanted her gone or tried to convert her! My son hears the word Religion and runs in the opposite direction... doesn't even believe in the effacacy of prayer.... so like my father! Gosh, I don't know, I have been to public schools so I avoided the topic of religion except in the meeting house (church). I don't know if I could sit still if some one gave me mandatory religion classes.... unless it was on their teachings and beliefs and we could study them and push envelopes et cetera. Guess that iswhy my bro calls Hans Kung the best Lutheran around!

 

[JAD]

do you like the religion classes, im not knockin them, i respect peoples beleifs (and my familys as well) but i get bored out of my brain.

 

[jsc]

Not as an intended victim of religion but in classes where historical, cultural, and psychological analysis is offered. Yes, I respect others beliefs, as long as they don't push them off on to me! Trained as a culture and personality person with heavy emphasis on primatology... cause primatology was just starting at UCSD when I went there and C & P ruled.

 

[JAD]

??
i got lost again

 

[jsc]

Only where I don't have to practice the beliefs just analyize them. I was trained as a primatologist but my background includes 'culture and personality' a form of cultural anthropology which goes in for analysis on cultural and personal level. Does that clarify!

 

[JAD]

was that a delibret attempt to confuse me more?

 

[Cat]

poor jad



he he

 

[JAD]

hehe

 

[Martouf]

RE classes are pretty boring and EVERYONE hates them..... i find them boring (espceially when you have an enthuastic teaher) but they are a bit of a bludge..... and if we didn't have RE we would have maths, or something like it.....

 

[JAD]

i suppose if you look at it from that opint of view

 

[Martouf]

wow, how'd ya do that one?

 

[JAD]

http://smilecwm.tripod.com/

they have heaps of them. il like crack_whore_monkey's collection

then you copy the link into your post box. havn't you seen the posts by Asmiley and figured out how she dows them?

 

[Martouf]

damn it these are weird

 

[JAD]

but they are sweet