Learning alot in the college here. Teaching style, while not radically different (since our local edu system is somewhat based on the western academic system, though more british based) seems a lot more interesting, if not effective, to me. Lecturers have a lot more autonomy in how they run their classes, and accordingly, it's quirkier and more fun to be in, although i guess there's more room for subjectivity and bias, whiccch just means interpersonal skills are more important in ingratiating oneself, yet another important life skill.


Here, i finally learnt stuff like how kurt cobain wasn't mumbling nonsense in teen spirit about mulattos, and a young marlon brando had a really whiny voice, and cold saps everything, and the difference between an A grade, and a C grade is proper citations, and the best weapon to rob people with is a double barrelled sawn off shotgun, just for the street cred, yo.

the atlanta rock radio station has a funny dial-in segment. It's called the local F U line. you get callers going:
"Hi, i'd like to say a big *toot* to my boss, for having a brilliant idea to have a company party, and then makes me do all the work, and leaves early!"
"Hi, i'd like to say a big *toot* to my uncle frank, who got me a really ugly present, thanks for wasting my time opening it."
"Hi, i'd like to say a big *toot* to XYZ Auto motors, i just got a car from them, with leather seats and all, and it sucks."

the joys of a non-repressed life. freud would be moved.

anyway, i don't get how a country so steeped in religion its citizens are moving towards declaring it a christian nation can be so heretical about religion in the first place. it's like for every puritan, there's a equally radical athiest. but marx was right when he said religion was the opiate of the masses, because most of the time, it's the poor, the downtrodden and the uneducated that espouses religious faith, and the smart, wealthy folks that can afford disbelief.

sort of like Eden and the tree of knowledge, i guess. so the moral of the story is, stay stupid and happy, or smart and miserable. There really is a lot going against the theory of divinity, but hey, the faith clause trumps all.

For example:
A: i don't believe in god.
B: one day, you will be touched by his message and find him in your life. (oh i'm sorry, that should be Him, with a capital H)
A: if god exists, why is there so much suffering in the world, like *insert random genocide/war/disaster*
B: we cannot hope to fathom His will, but He has a purpose for us all.
A: if we can't hope to understand, how can christians evangelize religious dogma, isn't that subject to the same misintepretation and unfathomable nature of god?
B: you just need to have faith.
A: you mean the same faith that is adhered to by the majority unthinkingly, like gullible sheep following each other blindly? is that why people are likened to sheep all the time in the big book?
B: maaaa!* (exactly!*)
A: in that case, i have the same faith in the flying spaghetti monster and russell's teapot.
B: 1.5 billion people can't be wrong!
A: actually, they frequently are. it's a fallacy of democracy for the masses to not doubt it's fundamental beliefs, and to go along with the popular vote. it's how little eichmanns and mobs happen.
B: what about all the proof? the shroud of Turin, veil of veronica, tomb of lazarus. and other relics?
A: i thought all you needed was faith?
B: ... you're going to hell.

no i don't just make shit up. it's as valid a theological argument as any.