"Your faith was strong, but you needed proof..."

"... you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight ..."


I play that song occasionally at my gigs.

That's one of my favorites. The mention of the white flag of surrender put me in mind of it. "I've seen your flag on the marble arch..."

My response to school was singular: only performed tests, screw the rest unless I feel it's worth it. It was only worth it in Russian, under a teacher that never assigned homework anyway. Got top marks both times I was in his class (high school, and then college).

Homework is bullshit. Mandatory schooling is bullshit. Hell, what they teach in that schooling is bullshit, regardless of its being mandatory or not.

Learned more from this bloody forum than I did from the start of highschool till I was done with taking bullshit classes in college. Still am learning. Only I'm not learning nonsense I'll never use: I'm learning the things that interest me

And that's how schooling should be done to begin with -_-

You need to wear a t-shirt with this printed.

Quote:The God excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument; it came from God.

- George Carlin

And is this a private school? So you realize you have the option of not going to a Christian school right? If they put you through crap and it's optional to be there, why waste a seat when they obviously don't appreciate your views and you theirs?

(August 24, 2011 at 3:21 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Well see the thing is that its an APOLOGETICS course. So the whole class is spent learning about all the arguments for God. And usually im asked how would you respond to this??? And no matter what i say we get back to "faith." I doubt if it will be that bad next time. We're learning about why God is holy and justified in sending people to hell. This should go alot worse. (=

Apologetics. That's going to be tough, hopefully the teacher won't continue to pick on you because you have a different view. That kind of teaching is...terrible.

(August 25, 2011 at 10:50 am)salty Wrote:

(August 24, 2011 at 3:21 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Well see the thing is that its an APOLOGETICS course. So the whole class is spent learning about all the arguments for God. And usually im asked how would you respond to this??? And no matter what i say we get back to "faith." I doubt if it will be that bad next time. We're learning about why God is holy and justified in sending people to hell. This should go alot worse. (=

Apologetics. That's going to be tough, hopefully the teacher won't continue to pick on you because you have a different view. That kind of teaching is...terrible.

Unavoidable in some cases - a few teachers picked on me in public school because I was one of three Jews in the entire school most times. Not because I expressed different view points, but because I committed the sin of having holidays fall on "non American" days. (As in, if I'm American, I would stop celebrating Chanuka or Rosh Hashanah, because being out of school for any holiday that didn't correspond to their schedule just made extra stress for them.)

They don't like people who buck trends - that goes for non-religious things too.Try telling your history teacher that she's wrong one day.

I had a few fantastic teachers who LOVED discussion and different view points. I also had some spectacularly bad teachers who wanted you to conform not because discipline was necessary to learn the topic, but because they didn't want to do any extra work. They will pick and niggle and make life exhausting for you in those classes.

I agree with Tack - you should try to go to a public school or something instead. Cheaper, and honestly you might just get a better education since you won't be wasting your brain space with things that absolutely don't interest you.

Dropping in to lay down my vote for public school. (not that a minor child can influence these decisions without the risk of severely tanking themselves in the long run)

(August 25, 2011 at 11:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: Dropping in to lay down my vote for public school. (not that a minor child can influence these decisions without the risk of severely tanking themselves in the long run)

Screw the long run success at doing what others want one to do... if you have talent, brains, or good looks: make something of it. If you can tie your shoelaces: you're way ahead of most people... the last thing one should do is follow behind the person trudging along the interstate at 30, life is in the pass lane: seize it