leia131 | Entries tagged with christian ethics

September 6th, 2004: God I was embarrassing when I was younger. I don't even remember where the limericks were posted, or what they said... Though I'm pretty sure the 'werewolf from Nantucket' crack was my idea of a very funny joke.

September 6th, 2007: Oh, Seshomaru. I still love him, and he grows to murder fewer people as the series goes on. He's just the fluffiest killer ever. As for the second part of that post, I really did not like that class. Father Mac was supposed to be the best priest/teacher ever, but he just annoyed the CRAP out of me. So I was pretty much making my own fun every time I had that class.

Answer to last Friday's song: Real World, by Matchbox 20. No one guessed this. Also, looking at that post, I noticed that I didn't give the answer last Friday to the song the week before that... So, the answer to the song on August 23rd was Hey Jealousy, by the Gin Blossoms. No one guessed this one either.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Friends

If you are a teacher, and you want me to write a paper, and you expect my paper to be free of spelling and grammar errors, know that I expect the same from you.

This sentence "Papers, not more than 3 typed pages, will be do at the last class meeting," makes me want to hurt you. If it was the first example of your horrid grammar on handouts, then I would let it go. But there's something like this on every single handout, and on all your in-class slides. It makes it very difficult for me to take you seriously.

And it's not even a typo. It's... Well, it's a mistake a 60 year old man should not be making.

P.S. It's Bill Weasley's Birthday today. Yay!

Current Mood: irritated

I don't know if any of you have seen Dead Man Walking, but I had to watch it for Christian Ethics.

Now disregarding how I feel about rape, murder, poor people, nuns, the death penalty, allowing the victims' families to watch, the appeals system, state appointed lawyers, Catholocisim, and Jack Black in a non-comedic movie, I was struck by the sheer absurdity of the nurse swabbing Sean Penn's arm before inserting the needle that carried the drug that killed him. I mean, why bother? Is it so that in the unlikely event that the condemned survives the injection, they don't want him to die of an infection? WTF?

Just thought I'd share.

From Botany:

Professor Lubkowitz on Teaching Kindergarteners: I asked "How many eyes do spiders have?" and this kid goes "Spiders have- My fish has two eyes!" Then he talked about his fish for five minutes. And I was like 'I understand you.' (Cause Lubkowitz's mind is chaotic like that. He interrupts himself all the time.)

From Christian Ethics:

The class: *is proposing ways we can be graded on our last unit*
Kevin and Jeff: *propose different ways*
Father Mac: Ok, let's vote. Who wants to go the Kevin way?
Three People: *raise their hands*
Father Mac: And who wants to go the Jeff way?
The Rest of the Class, Including Kevin: *raise their hands*

Current Mood: calm

I should be studying and/or reading right now, but I'm not.

Point the first: We're reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in Christian Ethics, and it's really irritating. He makes some points that I really want to agree with, and then he says such retarded things next to them that i just can't. He holds, for example, that if you act like you love someone, and sacrifice and be loving, the feeling of love will come. Which is basically saying you can make yourself love someone. Which is basically bullshit.

Also, dear Mr. Covey, if you're going to talk about human responses being conditioned, don't talk about Pavlov. Pavlov's experiments involved involuntary reactions to stimuli. Things like increased heart rate, blinking, salivating... things you can't control. Say it with me now: INVOLUNTARY. If you want to talk about people being able to choose not to react the predicted way to a stimulus, you need to talk about operant conditioning, which deals with voluntary reactions. The man you're looking for is B.F. Skinner. He invented the Skinner Box, he worked with rats, and he deserves some credit. Besides, operant conditioning is "when I do this, this happens" and/or "when they do this, they want me to do this" which is what you're talking about anyway. Give the man his props, bitch.

And lastly, a meme.

( Skanked from siriusly_sex )

Current Music: Finale - Into the Woods

She ends up with two Stars of David. With mayo. - Abby, describing her friend Al's way of eating sandwiches.

Professor Lubkowitz: *spills his water on the keyboard of the classroom computer* Do you think that's bad?
Class: YES!
Professor Lubkowitz: *holding keyboard upside down, letting water run out* I'm having water issues. My well ran dry last night. I had to shower at work.

Father Mac: Do you know Zach Pratt? *points at Zach Pratt*
Girl: I do now.
Father Mac: That's too bad.

The set up: Then the boys in Christian Ethics today had to justify lying in a crisis. They did this by describing a situation involving Randy holding Tom's wife hostage until Tom wired him $1,000,000, at which point Randy pistol whipped Tom and his wife, leaving them unconscious but alive. The class's objective was to show how lying was not justified in that situation.
Someone: What if he doesn't love his wife?
Jeff Mack: *muttering* You can take her and the million dollars...

None of these really convey the hilarity of their situations, but they're the best I can do.

Current Music: Abby

It must be exhausting being Sesshomaru. The number of people/demons he's had to kill simply because they wouldn't get out of his way is enormous. You'd think they'd learn. And that's not even accounting for all the people/demons he kills for other reasons. Oh, how I love him. (Yes, I do know how that makes me sound. Don't care.)

On a completely different note entirely, we were talking about lies in Christian Ethics today, and Father Mac was telling us about organizations that require their members to lie and hide their membership. It was at that point that I started laughing uncontrollably, because all I could think was "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club."

I bet people in that class wonder about my sanity.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Inuyasha

A note to Sissela Bok: Just because your parents are famous Nobel prize winning authors, does not make you a good writer. Also, the ability to marry a Harvard president does not make you intelligent.

So please stop writing books. Because they suck.

Oh, and one of my professors said the other day "Ah. So we have a dilemma. What's a dilemma?" And I really REALLY wanted to say "It's when you have two lemmas," but I figured since he didn't have Mr. Wilson for a pre-calc teacher, he wouldn't get the joke.

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: God Help the Outcasts

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Lies and falsehoods, Padfoot!

I am attempting to find meaning over here. You are cramping my groove.

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