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--- Quote from: Metope on 22 May 2011, 13:31 ---Why is my school so lazy? This was my last week of this academic year, I don't start again until late September. That's 4 months of no school! 1/3 of the entire year! No wonder a BA takes 4 years here, my last one was 3 years and even then I felt like I had a lot of spare time.
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Man what. I am glad for a long break. I can work and save money and also it keeps me from wanting to kill myself because I'm so stressed out. The only reason I completed my bachelors in 4 years is because I took a few classes ever summer, but there's no way in hell I'm taking classes this summer. I need a break before my head explodes. And next year will actually be worse than this year.
Method of Madness:
My semester ended a couple weeks ago, which is good, because I can sub every day until the end of the public school year (which is the end of June). After that, I'll have two months free (hopefully working part time if I can find something) until student teaching in the fall.
LTK:
Huh. I think my uni's Professional Ethics course is having exactly the opposite effect that was intended. Here I am studying up on the self-worth of humans, animals, and yes, even plants, and it's just getting me existentialistic. All I can think of is that every living thing on the planet is nothing but the result of a series of coincidences that happened to self-perpetrate, and the only reason that we know this and yet not all kill ourselves is because of the evolutionary discouragement of which we're all slaves.
So we are meant to care for humans because humans have feelings and desires like ours, and we are meant to care for animals because they are able to experience pain and pleasure like we do, and we are meant to care for plants because they are living things like we are. But the only thing that drives this caring for others is the feeling of empathy, and this feeling happened to be beneficial to our species by, again, pure coincidence. In fact, you owe nothing to no one, not to other living things, not to other humans, and no, not even to yourself. There, isn't that comforting?
They ought to put a warning label on this coursebook. 'Caution: May cause existential crises.'
Jimmy the Squid:
I don't know about comforting but it's certainly cool as hell.
And who cares if this kind of thing is the result of evolution? Doesn't make the feelings and experiences any less real to the people feeling and experiencing them? Also again, cool as hell.
Method of Madness:
Well put, Mr. the Squid.
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