This thread has killed the onion for me. Used to be I could every now & then take a look at it and get a laugh, but it's so fucking overposted here that now it just annoys me.
My high school was run by the order of St. Francis Xavier. We were never taught to be superior to people, but they did go out of their way to teach seniors about leadership qualities and how to get people to work together and accomplish goals.
We even had a massive, day-long exercise on a retreat where we were taught that some groups have the "deck started against them" by dividing up into countries where rich, powerful nations got tons of students and resources while smaller ones got less and still had to compete. A country could request aid from the U.N. but if fewer than 2 students occupied their area then another country could take them over.
I think Haiti and a few others were solid fucked because they only had 2 citizens so nobody could leave to request food. They didn't even give us breakfast that morning so shit got crazy.
Basically it was a lesson about privilege but we weren't told what was going on until after the end. It ended with several countries starting a riot and protesting the U.N.
The teachers had played us like puppets. It was a great lesson!
hey i also went to a xaverian brothers high school (st. johns shrewsbury)!
EDIT: Actually, the article says they were "lead away by county and campus police officers", so maybe arrested?
“If you have done the work to get on the ballot, if you are on the ballot and could actually win the electoral college by being on the ballot in enough states, then you deserve to be in the election and you deserve to be heard,” Stein told the police and crowd that gathered to watch her demonstration. “The American people deserve to hear choices which are not bought and paid for by multinational corporations and Wall Street. This is why we are not hearing the critical issues in this debate.”
Bob Commike, member of Socialist Alternative, shared this sentiment.
I want a pope hat that's actually a crocodile head. That'd be great
I really dislike Catholic ceremonies (I've been to a wedding and a couple of catholic funerals) and it's just all about God and how we're terrible people. I went to an Anglican school and Anglican ceremonies I've to have talked about God and all that stuff, but Catholic ceremonies are like, 'this person died. Hopefully they made peace with God or they might go to hell. The rest of you are probably going to hell though.'
yeah this is what weirded me out about the catholic funeral i went to
funerals, to my secular sin-filled mind, should be about remembering the person who died and their achievements. the whole thing was just this disturbing diatribe about satisfying God, about how he is with God now, about how God helped him do the things he did, etc etc and it felt like it could've been cookie-cuttered onto literally anyone
i understand it's a comfort to the bereaved if they're religious people but it struck me as giving outrageously short shrift to the deceased so they could bullshit for an hour
The last funeral I went to had a message that was straight-up evangelical.
"Hey, any of you who aren't saved should totally fix that. That way you can go to heaven like this woman."
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I want a pope hat that's actually a crocodile head. That'd be great
I really dislike Catholic ceremonies (I've been to a wedding and a couple of catholic funerals) and it's just all about God and how we're terrible people. I went to an Anglican school and Anglican ceremonies I've to have talked about God and all that stuff, but Catholic ceremonies are like, 'this person died. Hopefully they made peace with God or they might go to hell. The rest of you are probably going to hell though.'
yeah this is what weirded me out about the catholic funeral i went to
funerals, to my secular sin-filled mind, should be about remembering the person who died and their achievements. the whole thing was just this disturbing diatribe about satisfying God, about how he is with God now, about how God helped him do the things he did, etc etc and it felt like it could've been cookie-cuttered onto literally anyone
i understand it's a comfort to the bereaved if they're religious people but it struck me as giving outrageously short shrift to the deceased so they could bullshit for an hour
The last funeral I went to had a message that was straight-up evangelical.
"Hey, any of you who aren't saved should totally fix that. That way you can go to heaven like this woman."
blech
how do people not get how bad that looks to people outside the framework of religion
My high school was run by the order of St. Francis Xavier. We were never taught to be superior to people, but they did go out of their way to teach seniors about leadership qualities and how to get people to work together and accomplish goals.
We even had a massive, day-long exercise on a retreat where we were taught that some groups have the "deck started against them" by dividing up into countries where rich, powerful nations got tons of students and resources while smaller ones got less and still had to compete. A country could request aid from the U.N. but if fewer than 2 students occupied their area then another country could take them over.
I think Haiti and a few others were solid fucked because they only had 2 citizens so nobody could leave to request food. They didn't even give us breakfast that morning so shit got crazy.
Basically it was a lesson about privilege but we weren't told what was going on until after the end. It ended with several countries starting a riot and protesting the U.N.
The teachers had played us like puppets. It was a great lesson!
hey i also went to a xaverian brothers high school (st. johns shrewsbury)!
always trying to teach us lessons
That sounds fucking awesome! I would have loved a lesson like that about world politics and privilege.
The closest I got was in my (secular) High School, where we got divided up into groups of five, and we all had to choose a Western European country, like the UK or Germany or France ect. Then using overheads we were informed that aliens had landed, and we had to deal with this.
The next day another species of aliens landed, and were much more aggressive. Most of us preferred the first aliens.
Then the next day the aliens went to war, and we had to pick sides. Most of us picked the first aliens.
The next day the first aliens got their shit stomped, and we had to sign away huge concessions to the second aliens.
At the end of the lesson the teacher was like "yeah the first aliens were French, the second aliens were British, and you were all various NE Indian Tribes. And now you're starting to understand how much this sucked for them."
First time I went to a Catholic funeral was for my grandfather. I'm sitting at the wake next to my mother and we are half way through whatever the priest is doing. I turn to her and ask if he was in a cult. The priest would talk, then the people would talk, then the priest would talk again, the the people. It was really friggin creepy.
Its an interactive thing, they do it the same at every mass everywhere.
I guess it can seem creepy, but I preferred to think of it as comforting. Like, you could go to a mass anywhere in the world and hear the cues and know which part of the mass was occurring, even if you couldn't understand a single word they were saying.
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My high school was run by the order of St. Francis Xavier. We were never taught to be superior to people, but they did go out of their way to teach seniors about leadership qualities and how to get people to work together and accomplish goals.
We even had a massive, day-long exercise on a retreat where we were taught that some groups have the "deck started against them" by dividing up into countries where rich, powerful nations got tons of students and resources while smaller ones got less and still had to compete. A country could request aid from the U.N. but if fewer than 2 students occupied their area then another country could take them over.
I think Haiti and a few others were solid fucked because they only had 2 citizens so nobody could leave to request food. They didn't even give us breakfast that morning so shit got crazy.
Basically it was a lesson about privilege but we weren't told what was going on until after the end. It ended with several countries starting a riot and protesting the U.N.
The teachers had played us like puppets. It was a great lesson!
hey i also went to a xaverian brothers high school (st. johns shrewsbury)!
always trying to teach us lessons
That sounds fucking awesome! I would have loved a lesson like that about world politics and privilege.
The closest I got was in my (secular) High School, where we got divided up into groups of five, and we all had to choose a Western European country, like the UK or Germany or France ect. Then using overheads we were informed that aliens had landed, and we had to deal with this.
The next day another species of aliens landed, and were much more aggressive. Most of us preferred the first aliens.
Then the next day the aliens went to war, and we had to pick sides. Most of us picked the first aliens.
The next day the first aliens got their shit stomped, and we had to sign away huge concessions to the second aliens.
At the end of the lesson the teacher was like "yeah the first aliens were French, the second aliens were British, and you were all various NE Indian Tribes. And now you're starting to understand how much this sucked for them."
that is
a really, really good lesson
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Joe Biden
I was really hoping Jill Stein would show up in disguise and present a question.
Something like: "Why, in a democracy do I have to do this to get involved in these debates?"
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hey i also went to a xaverian brothers high school (st. johns shrewsbury)!
always trying to teach us lessons
The last funeral I went to had a message that was straight-up evangelical.
"Hey, any of you who aren't saved should totally fix that. That way you can go to heaven like this woman."
blech
how do people not get how bad that looks to people outside the framework of religion
That sounds fucking awesome! I would have loved a lesson like that about world politics and privilege.
The closest I got was in my (secular) High School, where we got divided up into groups of five, and we all had to choose a Western European country, like the UK or Germany or France ect. Then using overheads we were informed that aliens had landed, and we had to deal with this.
The next day another species of aliens landed, and were much more aggressive. Most of us preferred the first aliens.
Then the next day the aliens went to war, and we had to pick sides. Most of us picked the first aliens.
The next day the first aliens got their shit stomped, and we had to sign away huge concessions to the second aliens.
At the end of the lesson the teacher was like "yeah the first aliens were French, the second aliens were British, and you were all various NE Indian Tribes. And now you're starting to understand how much this sucked for them."
I guess it can seem creepy, but I preferred to think of it as comforting. Like, you could go to a mass anywhere in the world and hear the cues and know which part of the mass was occurring, even if you couldn't understand a single word they were saying.
that is
a really, really good lesson
Something like: "Why, in a democracy do I have to do this to get involved in these debates?"
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Ohio.
Swing state.
kindly burn everything