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WCDT strips 4356-4360 (21st to 25th September 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 25 Sep 2020, 12:03 ---Thankfully, aside from the mandatory religion classes, actual instruction was focused in facts. The one I went to was also big in to community work, and surprisingly, there was a rainbow flag up in one Spanish teacher's classroom. It still sucked, though. Teens are monsters.
As far as single-sex schools go, I have seen some studies that show them as being beneficial for girls.
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I spent my freshman year of college at SNU. Chapel was not only mandatory, but if you missed more than 3, you actually got put on academic probation. Did I mention being 10+ minutes late w/o a note from a faculty member counted as being absent?
Needless to say I found a nice ju-co closer to home for sophmore year to knock out my gen-eds.
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 25 Sep 2020, 21:08 ---
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 25 Sep 2020, 20:18 ---
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 25 Sep 2020, 12:57 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 25 Sep 2020, 12:03 ---Teens are monsters.
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:-(
Is there an implied "most?"
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Some are merely impulsive, hormonal idiots.
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Definitely. I would agree that most teens are horrible. But it's an unfair generalization to say we all are. I do my best not to be like that, and I have plenty of kind friends who aren't like that.
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Just remember; "Broad strokes hurt folks."
It's something I've been trying to keep in mind more the past few years.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 25 Sep 2020, 21:08 ---Definitely. I would agree that most teens are horrible. But it's an unfair generalization to say we all are. I do my best not to be like that, and I have plenty of kind friends who aren't like that.
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Between years spent working in the service industry, and even longer following politics, it's safe to say that by now I'm a misanthrope with a very low view of humanity in general.
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 26 Sep 2020, 04:08 ---
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 25 Sep 2020, 21:08 ---Definitely. I would agree that most teens are horrible. But it's an unfair generalization to say we all are. I do my best not to be like that, and I have plenty of kind friends who aren't like that.
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Between years spent working in the service industry, and even longer following politics, it's safe to say that by now I'm a misanthrope with a very low view of humanity in general.
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It's a general rule of mine that, because most persons are terrible, I should seek out only the ones that aren't (or are the least) terrible. I've met only one person of the thousands I've ever met that maybe isn't terrible.
Is it cold in here?:
There is a risk of self-fulfilling prophecy there, though we're completely on the same page about being careful who we associate with.
N.N. Marf:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Sep 2020, 11:21 ---There is a risk of self-fulfilling prophecy there, though we're completely on the same page about being careful who we associate with.
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I mean, I have principles about what I consider a terrible person, and there's a scale of how terrible. It's not simply to reject a terrible person, but about being always on the lookout for less-terrible persons, and about guiding terrible persons towards being less terrible. It is, of course, important to stick to convincing (using reason, letting them come to their conclusions), not persuading (e.g. emotional manipulation), so that if I'm wrong about something, I won't be trying to `infect' someone with my own terribleness.
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