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Comments by samuel


1. Tolerating intolerance is still this country's besetting sin

Comment #20645 by samuel on February 5, 2007 at 11:17 am

oops, hit by accident. Anyway...

There should be some way of slowly introducing those socially cohesive elements into regular events without trying to indoctrinate children and adults into nonsense. I don't think the leaders (profiteers) of religion would go for it, but individuals should have good reason to forgo one for the other.

2. Tolerating intolerance is still this country's besetting sin

Comment #20643 by samuel on February 5, 2007 at 11:09 am

I agree with education and reducing the number of children attending regular "brain-washing" events, but there needs to be an alternative to it. I can vividly remember being punished for questioning all sorts of things I heard while going to church as a young kid, I resented having to put up with all that, but there were many aspects of it that made it something I actually would look forward to: meeting with my friends, trying to sneek out of church, hiding in the balconies, teasing with the girls. Fun stuff.

3. The Chronicles of Kearnya, or, Principles of Evolution Observed in the Field at Kearny High School

Comment #20641 by samuel on February 5, 2007 at 10:57 am

Complete nonsense, if anything classroom lectures should be recorded and the material made available. I would appreciate the ability to retrieve some of the wonderful lectures that were done by at least two of my HS teachers. And now they are dis-allowing the recordings? audio recordings? That may actually push the needle on the bs meter past %100. What would we do then? Ban doodling in the notebooks?