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janestarzUpdated the old entries I wrote at home when I was sick. They're down there somewhere... *points to bottom of page*
I had a lecture on Religion & Philosophy (the way they combine these two is remarkable, by the way), and I am beginning to be irked by the teacher even more than I was last year. He is stuck in his frame of mind, which happens to be his christian morale, and somehow can barely get outside of that. He told us about jewish, chinese and islamic philosophy and how they were intertwined with religion. On how the chinese philosophy had nothing to do with the 'hiernamaals'. He even dissed Buddha!
While I recognized some of the things he said from the Eastern frame of mind, which he summarized as "kosmological wholism", he made it clear he didn't agree with these views. I recognized the believes of people dear to me, people I respect, and he semi-trashed them. He figured these were inferior because he didn't believe in them.
He totally disrespected these believes.
The other thing that really irked me about him, was the way he talked about Haiku. Haiku is a very beautiful form of poetry and can touch a person deep within. I personally think it's an art. For his graduation, my brothers entire class received a personal Haiku written by one of the teachers, summarizing them as a person in only three lines with a fixed number of syllables per line. It was marvellous, and it touched me.
And my teacher said about Haiku that they were poems of three lines that didn't even make sense. He made one up: "It is raining outside / water falls down / and the cars will get wet out there". Which is total bullocks.
Disrespect. Because he doesn't understand this.
This man is supposed to teach me something about one of the more noble accomplishments of the human mind: philosophy. And he can't even make himself see the beauty of a poem.
*sigh*
Now I understand why I didn't pay much attention last year in the lectures.
And the grades are in for those tests I remade. I failed. Style isn't back yet, but the rest is, and I failed them both. I had expected to barely make it or barely not make it, lingering on the fine line between a five and a six, but I hadn't expected something in the regions of 3.4 and 3.6.
Still I wasn't the one with the lowest grades of the class.
Anyway, I'm off to lunch. And then: magazine! I got one. Now they gonna teach me how it's supposed to be made, I think.
I had a lecture on Religion & Philosophy (the way they combine these two is remarkable, by the way), and I am beginning to be irked by the teacher even more than I was last year. He is stuck in his frame of mind, which happens to be his christian morale, and somehow can barely get outside of that. He told us about jewish, chinese and islamic philosophy and how they were intertwined with religion. On how the chinese philosophy had nothing to do with the 'hiernamaals'. He even dissed Buddha!
While I recognized some of the things he said from the Eastern frame of mind, which he summarized as "kosmological wholism", he made it clear he didn't agree with these views. I recognized the believes of people dear to me, people I respect, and he semi-trashed them. He figured these were inferior because he didn't believe in them.
He totally disrespected these believes.
The other thing that really irked me about him, was the way he talked about Haiku. Haiku is a very beautiful form of poetry and can touch a person deep within. I personally think it's an art. For his graduation, my brothers entire class received a personal Haiku written by one of the teachers, summarizing them as a person in only three lines with a fixed number of syllables per line. It was marvellous, and it touched me.
And my teacher said about Haiku that they were poems of three lines that didn't even make sense. He made one up: "It is raining outside / water falls down / and the cars will get wet out there". Which is total bullocks.
Disrespect. Because he doesn't understand this.
This man is supposed to teach me something about one of the more noble accomplishments of the human mind: philosophy. And he can't even make himself see the beauty of a poem.
*sigh*
Now I understand why I didn't pay much attention last year in the lectures.
And the grades are in for those tests I remade. I failed. Style isn't back yet, but the rest is, and I failed them both. I had expected to barely make it or barely not make it, lingering on the fine line between a five and a six, but I hadn't expected something in the regions of 3.4 and 3.6.
Still I wasn't the one with the lowest grades of the class.
Anyway, I'm off to lunch. And then: magazine! I got one. Now they gonna teach me how it's supposed to be made, I think.
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huh?
Date: 2003-09-09 03:24 am (UTC)Re: huh?
Date: 2003-09-09 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 03:58 am (UTC)I think you should speak up in class when he says things like that. Or write a letter to the school.
Or do both.
Afraid to do that? Think you'll get into trouble? That might happen, but it doesn't have to. Most teachers can respect a student who has the gutz to dissagree in a polite way. They may not like it at first, but they will respect it.
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Date: 2003-09-09 05:58 am (UTC)I am too loudmouthed and too much discontent to be able to do that.
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:03 am (UTC)I think that as a journalist you ought to be questioning things, and not talk after the mouth of the authorities. Authorities can be right of course, and journalists can be wrong, but still, I think that a good journalist will never take it for granted that authorities are right.
But then, I am not one of your teachers, so my opinion does not count in this.
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:09 am (UTC)Maybe I should skip the cynical tone in my voice or word the sentences a bit differently so they wouldn't take offense, but these just make it all a bit more fun for me.
I guess I do have a problem with authority. *smirk*
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 06:12 am (UTC);-)
Unless you have a Dominate level 10 hidden somewhere?
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:15 am (UTC)I even feel a bit uncomfortable when my son obeys me. Fortunately, he doesn't do it all the time.
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:13 am (UTC)They bite one another.
I can imagine some fervent Christians complaining that he spent too much time drooling about "unimportant" philosophies.
They should chuck him out and get two teachers, religion and philosophy. Then you'll probably learn much more about philosophy.
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Date: 2003-09-09 04:42 pm (UTC)In this case, the correct spelling would be 'beliefs'. In English, when there is an 'f' at the end of the word, there are two separate schemes for plural. Sometimes you drop the 'f' and add 'ves' (think Tolkien's and most people's spelling of 'dwarves' and 'elves', although in the original editions the editors changed it, counter to Tolkien's wishes, to 'dwarfs' and 'elfs'). Sometimes you just throw an 's' on the end. This is one of the latter cases, as the now is 'belief'. I think this is probably just so as to prevent confusion with the verb 'to believe', but I could be wrong.
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Date: 2003-09-10 12:15 pm (UTC)Thanks for the corrections.
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Date: 2003-09-12 02:36 pm (UTC)Beautifull.
I was surprised, gladdened and made thoughtful by it. Thank you.
After reading it I went to email you and found you had an LJ site so decided to say hello.
Hello :o)
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Date: 2003-09-13 04:58 am (UTC)I am quite surprised that you were looking for Dummnoni and then found my livejournal - though I can understand the way you must have found me...I played Lady Branwen at a Dutch Dummnoni evening.
You must have spent a considerable time at my website though, to have read some poems...
I can also recommend "Battlefield"; just in case you haven't already read that.
Do you mind if I added you to my friends list?
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Date: 2003-09-13 06:30 am (UTC)'Battlefield' is very poignant but it was 'The Fruits of War' that made me happy that there are people in the world who can still see the truth.
I believe there is a strong connection between the Dutch and Devon groups - there were a number of Dutch players at the big May event! Kicking monster butt, mine to be precise because I was crewing for the first time! Great fun.
Feel free to add me to your 'friends' list, I shall add you to mine also. I am something of a newbie to these LJ's and am unaware of the accepted 'etiquette' on these things so I just blunder along merrily.
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Date: 2003-09-15 05:04 am (UTC)As you may soon enough read, my life is pretty turbulent. There was a Dummnoni weekend last weekend but I had to skip it (sadly so) because of money issues.
It's good to add another larper to the friends list. *smile*
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Date: 2003-09-15 05:14 am (UTC)Other people's lives normally seem so much easier than our own, I look forward to finding out more about your narrow minded tutors ;o) and what you are up to.
I am off for a fitting to buy myself 2 point leather (with studs!!) soon, a friend of mine who is an upholsterer is branching out into armour and scabbards. I think he may be interested in your patterns for himself and his wife - may I direct him to your site?
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Date: 2003-09-15 05:21 am (UTC)The direct link is http://www26.brinkster.com/janestar/Design/Whole.htm
I think.