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when clueless textbooks attack
Mar. 27th, 2006 08:23 pmThe theoretical text for my anthropology class is irritating me already. I'm only on page eight.
( What the fuck is this guy on? )
( What the fuck is this guy on? )
Well, isn't this a pretty little brain-washing facility we seem to have found?
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shoeless_girl linked to this entry: http://www.livejournal.com/users/littlepassion/17248.html. It includes a link to the original entry, and the rules/codes of conduct for a purported camp that seems to be intended to rewire gay kids. I'm still trying to look everything up to see if it's legit - the website someone claimed to've found for the organization doesn't seem to exist. It's also possible, judging from some of the comments on the entry linked above, that someone/s took it into their heart to crash their server. I can't decide whether or not to be happy about that, if that's the case. Hassle for the organization, but also a hindrance to fact-checking.
Here's a link to a summary of the group, though - http://www.mikeditto.com/archives/kudos_to_queer_action_coalition
And a link to the pertinent entry in the blog of a kid supposedly being sent there.
( Samples of the more ludicrous rules: )
I'll just step back for a minute to say that I'm not saying "supposedly" and "purportedly" for any reason other than that I'm leery of things like this turning out to be hoaxes - I don't want to be passing along false information and holding it up as the absolute truth. This is just what I've found. The rules to this place are beyond belief, so I'm a bit skeptical about the whole thing. I'm going to keep digging for a bit, but I thought everyone should know.
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shoeless_girl linked to this entry: http://www.livejournal.com/users/littlepassion/17248.html. It includes a link to the original entry, and the rules/codes of conduct for a purported camp that seems to be intended to rewire gay kids. I'm still trying to look everything up to see if it's legit - the website someone claimed to've found for the organization doesn't seem to exist. It's also possible, judging from some of the comments on the entry linked above, that someone/s took it into their heart to crash their server. I can't decide whether or not to be happy about that, if that's the case. Hassle for the organization, but also a hindrance to fact-checking. Here's a link to a summary of the group, though - http://www.mikeditto.com/archives/kudos_to_queer_action_coalition
And a link to the pertinent entry in the blog of a kid supposedly being sent there.
( Samples of the more ludicrous rules: )
I'll just step back for a minute to say that I'm not saying "supposedly" and "purportedly" for any reason other than that I'm leery of things like this turning out to be hoaxes - I don't want to be passing along false information and holding it up as the absolute truth. This is just what I've found. The rules to this place are beyond belief, so I'm a bit skeptical about the whole thing. I'm going to keep digging for a bit, but I thought everyone should know.
excuse me while I'm bitter....
May. 2nd, 2005 12:31 amThe following is a quote from "American Scientist" online:
Just what do we mean by myth, anyway? Popular usage equates the term with falsehood—common misconceptions are labeled "myths" ("It's a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place"), and ancient myths such as the story of the Egyptian god Osiris are recognized not to be literally true. But myths that are stories may be intended to impart a message. The biblical story of Job, for example, is a moral homily on persevering in the face of tragedies and travails. In such a case, it could be argued that the story is simply a vehicle of delivery whose truth or falsity is not at issue.
The full article (a review on a book purporting to find the 'truth' behind myths) is available here, but that's not really what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is the inherent value judgment in the examples the author uses right there in the introduction to his review.
( In which Jen proves she's spent entirely too much time doing literary analysis. )
So, just to recap, we look for literal truth behind ancient myths (and, one presumes, discard them if they don't have any), and moral truth behind Christian myth. Just, you know, in case you were getting confused or something.
Just what do we mean by myth, anyway? Popular usage equates the term with falsehood—common misconceptions are labeled "myths" ("It's a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place"), and ancient myths such as the story of the Egyptian god Osiris are recognized not to be literally true. But myths that are stories may be intended to impart a message. The biblical story of Job, for example, is a moral homily on persevering in the face of tragedies and travails. In such a case, it could be argued that the story is simply a vehicle of delivery whose truth or falsity is not at issue.
The full article (a review on a book purporting to find the 'truth' behind myths) is available here, but that's not really what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is the inherent value judgment in the examples the author uses right there in the introduction to his review.
( In which Jen proves she's spent entirely too much time doing literary analysis. )
So, just to recap, we look for literal truth behind ancient myths (and, one presumes, discard them if they don't have any), and moral truth behind Christian myth. Just, you know, in case you were getting confused or something.
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Apr. 20th, 2005 01:30 pmWant proof that large populations of the southern states are still as crazy and white supremacist as they were in the fifties?
Here you go. That link was posted to an anthropology community I'm on, by a graduate of the university in whose campus newspaper the offending "advertisement" was published. Some of the comments at the bottom are particularly illuminating.
I'm proud of my heritage. Other people are allowed to be, too, no matter what that heritage is. When you start talking about a genetic war being waged on the European ethnicity... that's when you've completely crossed the line.
I'm not even touching the one who commented, in response to the editorial on the advertisement, "And you call the Klan bigotted."
Look forward to more of this sort of thing, now that we've got Pope Conservative the XXVI in office.
Here you go. That link was posted to an anthropology community I'm on, by a graduate of the university in whose campus newspaper the offending "advertisement" was published. Some of the comments at the bottom are particularly illuminating.
I'm proud of my heritage. Other people are allowed to be, too, no matter what that heritage is. When you start talking about a genetic war being waged on the European ethnicity... that's when you've completely crossed the line.
I'm not even touching the one who commented, in response to the editorial on the advertisement, "And you call the Klan bigotted."
Look forward to more of this sort of thing, now that we've got Pope Conservative the XXVI in office.
yet another political bitching
Mar. 23rd, 2005 08:41 pmSnagged from ellid:
'This is a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in... It forces Christians back into the church. That's what's going on in America. The world is too bad and I'm going to get inside this building and I'm not going to play in the world. That's not what Christ asked us to do.'
No, you asshole, it's a 'huge nationwide concerted effort' on the behalf of everyone who isn't a psycho fundamentalist to get you lot to stop talking for us and telling us that your religion is the only way to go, and that everyone must be bound by your religious laws. Fuck you.
I didn't feel knowledgeable enough on the Terri Schiavo case and all the ins and outs to say or do anything, before. After reading that article, I may not know where I stand on the whole case, but I definitely know who I stand against.
People can have whatever religious and moral beliefs they want, but our constitution was written to ensure that they can't enforce those beliefs on those who don't agree. You bet I want the church out of politics - I've seen what happens to intellectual freedom, women's rights, and the rights of anyone not of the dominant religion when they're allowed in.
...It strikes me that I should reaffirm - I have nothing against Christians. It's the asshole politicians who claim to speak for all of you who piss me off.
Oh, and this, too, from the academics_anon community: Because it'd be great if universities had to crack down on 'leftist' professors and shut them up to prevent lawsuits. Say goodbye to the freedom of college educations, everyone. As if public highschools weren't bad enough, now they're trying to keep college profs from having freedom to speak their minds, too.
It is not a good night for politics. I'm going back to reading my book.
ellid:'This is a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in... It forces Christians back into the church. That's what's going on in America. The world is too bad and I'm going to get inside this building and I'm not going to play in the world. That's not what Christ asked us to do.'
No, you asshole, it's a 'huge nationwide concerted effort' on the behalf of everyone who isn't a psycho fundamentalist to get you lot to stop talking for us and telling us that your religion is the only way to go, and that everyone must be bound by your religious laws. Fuck you.
I didn't feel knowledgeable enough on the Terri Schiavo case and all the ins and outs to say or do anything, before. After reading that article, I may not know where I stand on the whole case, but I definitely know who I stand against.
People can have whatever religious and moral beliefs they want, but our constitution was written to ensure that they can't enforce those beliefs on those who don't agree. You bet I want the church out of politics - I've seen what happens to intellectual freedom, women's rights, and the rights of anyone not of the dominant religion when they're allowed in.
...It strikes me that I should reaffirm - I have nothing against Christians. It's the asshole politicians who claim to speak for all of you who piss me off.
Oh, and this, too, from the academics_anon community: Because it'd be great if universities had to crack down on 'leftist' professors and shut them up to prevent lawsuits. Say goodbye to the freedom of college educations, everyone. As if public highschools weren't bad enough, now they're trying to keep college profs from having freedom to speak their minds, too.
It is not a good night for politics. I'm going back to reading my book.
That stupid sinus/ear thing that's been bothering me for the last few weeks has gotten a bit worse - the plugged up left ear is refusing to un-plug, this morning. Consequently, my hearing has been about halved. Damn.
The worst part of this is thinking "if I'd known it wasn't going to go away in five minutes like it usually does, I could have just stayed home from my first class today...."
The worst part of this is thinking "if I'd known it wasn't going to go away in five minutes like it usually does, I could have just stayed home from my first class today...."
one of those days
Jan. 8th, 2005 03:49 pm( Because really, no one needs to know how horribly petty and trivial I can be sometimes. )
I'm going to go read poetry now - gods know I don't dare read Jane Austen in this kind of mood. All that talk of girls who've 'lost their bloom' and can't find a husband will be bound to make matters a hell of a lot worse.
I'm going to go read poetry now - gods know I don't dare read Jane Austen in this kind of mood. All that talk of girls who've 'lost their bloom' and can't find a husband will be bound to make matters a hell of a lot worse.
