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[ScubaCutie]

I have an IQ of 48 which makes me legally retarded in most states. I read it as a joke. I would say we need to relax a little but maybe Christmas or the equivallent was to stressful on everyone.

It was funny. I know there was no political/religious agenda in ScubaCutie writing it. I wouldn't punch the prof but would do my best to get him fired.

SD

Thanks SuperDave. Knowing you are in the military makes me feel better as I did not want to offend anyone. This is as you guessed a joke. I hope everyone takes it as such. Thank you.

[Walter]

It was obviously a joke, but perhaps one in bad taste.

[SuperDave]

Some may think so but I don't. I have seen things on this board which irk me more than this ever will. Here's an idea, if someone doesn't like something let a mod know. Mod pulls the post if it is against the rules which are posted.
Been seeing to much bad blood on all web boards I subscribe to, must be the time of year.

[AliKat]

I'm with Dave. There have been a lot of other things on this board that have bothered me much more than this. I find a lot of things funny that involve things I would never do.

[Basslet]

I have an IQ of 48 which makes me legally retarded in most states. I read it as a joke. I would say we need to relax a little but maybe Christmas or the equivallent was to stressful on everyone.

Yes, Chrismas must have been very stressful for that SEAL.

I wouldn't punch the prof but would do my best to get him fired.

SD

And upon what would you base your claim that he should be fired? That he was trying to get his students to think? To perhaps teach them something before some self-righteous neanderthal sucker punched him? Your attitude is one of the reasons teachers and professors have tenure. So that the "cause de jour" does not overcome common sense.

If something on any board bothers me, I will state my views plainly and not go crying to the mods. Unless it was an obvious infraction of TOS, (name calling, profanity, etc). We are all grownups here, aren't we? We do live in a country where free speech is a protected right, don't we?

Edited by Fairybasslet, 27 December 2005 - 02:00 PM.

[ScubaHawk]

Some may think so but I don't. I have seen things on this board which irk me more than this ever will. Here's an idea, if someone doesn't like something let a mod know. Mod pulls the post if it is against the rules which are posted.
Been seeing to much bad blood on all web boards I subscribe to, must be the time of year.

I am against calling for censor. But if I were to post a story where someone is beaten because they express a belief in Christianity or God, I'll bet it's yanked quick. I've TAed classes in religion where people have become very irate because their belief system was called into question by comparing it to others. Having been attacked physically and verbally for my beliefs - I felt (and still feel) I had to respond.
I am all for the rights of people to post items that may be irksome to me, but I reserve the right to respond to the post. I don't see any "bad blood" here, unless I am offending people by defending my beliefs. I, for one, hold no hostility, animosity or "bad blood" to anyone involved in this thread.

[finley]

He didn't get beat up for what he said. He got what he asked for. It was just delivered indirectly from God.

No, it was delivered by a human who thinks he's acting in behalf of God. Kind of like how the suicide bombers feel.

Jesus also said he was acting on God's behalf....the bible tells us not only to follow his word but to keep it Holy

[SuperDave]

I doubt this ever happened.
Her joke doesn't make me want to punch someone.
I pay hard earned money to learn, the last thing I want is some self righteous clown spouting his non
relevant opinion.

[ScubaHawk]

I doubt this ever happened.
Her joke doesn't make me want to punch someone.
I pay hard earned money to learn, the last thing I want is some self righteous clown spouting his non
relevant opinion.

Non relevant or non reverent?

[Walter]

Unless it was a class about religion, it wasn't relevent.

[Basslet]

Jesus also said he was acting on God's behalf....the bible tells us not only to follow his word but to keep it Holy

Not being a Christian (or particularly religious anyway) I don't take anything that was supposedly said by any historic figure who claims divine intervention very seriously. Besides, if some dude were walking around today saying that God is talking to him, he would either be locked up in some insane asylum somewhere or be shouting from some soapbox on the corner of 8th and 42nd St. I've seen plenty of people there claiming that God is speaking to them.

[SuperDave]

Non relevant or non reverent?

I see your stir stick is is as big as mine.

[Basslet]

Unless it was a class about religion, it wasn't relevent.

When I was in college, professors pontificated about many subjects that were not "relevant" to the particular class. Those were some of the best classes because it gave me the chance to debate women's rights with a known chauvenist. And, I dare say, that is what college should still be about. A place to demonstrate your intellectual mettle and not regurgitate answers so you'll pass the exam and have a good GPA.

Edited by Fairybasslet, 27 December 2005 - 02:11 PM.

[AliKat]

And upon what would you base your claim that he should be fired? That he was trying to get his students to think? To perhaps teach them something before some self-righteous neanderthal sucker punched him? Your attitude is one of the reasons teachers and professors have tenure. So that the "cause de jour" does not overcome common sense.

Seperation of Church and state. I don't see where this was a religion class, and, the prof being a self proclaimed athiest, he was using his position to push his views. And, after all, the whole seperation of Church and state thing was actually to protect the Church from the state, not the other way around.

[Basslet]

And upon what would you base your claim that he should be fired? That he was trying to get his students to think? To perhaps teach them something before some self-righteous neanderthal sucker punched him? Your attitude is one of the reasons teachers and professors have tenure. So that the "cause de jour" does not overcome common sense.

Seperation of Church and state. I don't see where this was a religion class, and, the prof being a self proclaimed athiest, he was using his position to push his views. And, after all, the whole seperation of Church and state thing was actually to protect the Church from the state, not the other way around.

OK, now you have to get into whether or not the professor was teaching at a private institution, such as Yale, in which case your argument of separation of church and state doesn't hold water, or a state funded university, in which case, you might have a case, but I sincerely doubt it.