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Irish_Dem

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19. Interestingly, I had the same experience taking a sociology class, the study of religions.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 05:07 AM
Sep 2025

Yes the religions are not separate, they are all the same.

One illuminating day, the professor was recounting a story about Buddha.

The story is that one day Buddha was sitting under a tree meditating,
he cut off his hair and threw it up in the hair. The hair did not fall to earth,
but floated in front of him.

The class all laughed at the absurdity, but the professor then asked how is this any different
from the story that Christ walked on water. We don't laugh at that story.

A class of mostly 18 year olds were stopped in their tracks and silent.
Their life long religious dogma challenged and put in proper perspective.

The professor was an interesting man. He had red hair and pale skin, to me he looked Irish.
But he was a (devout) Jew of Eastern Europe descent. He was also deaf and had learned to read lips
and speak. He had a quiet, humble, sweet demeanor, but like your professor moved us all
forward into thinking adults.

The reading list in the other class was standard as I recall.
Plato's work about the nature of reality and humanity.
And then the more modern dystopian classic novels.
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. ..

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Whiplash government Deuxcents Sep 2025 #1
Yes we re-enact ten time periods in one day. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #3
...AND Mein Kampf. lastlib Sep 2025 #12
Now that sounds interesting. ananda Sep 2025 #13
Interestingly, I had the same experience taking a sociology class, the study of religions. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #19
How wonderful. Great titles by the way. ananda Sep 2025 #22
Interesting. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #25
Also the same good qualities. ananda Sep 2025 #31
Yes people have a strong need for spirituality. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #32
It really is weird to live in such an upsidedown reality. ananda Sep 2025 #35
There you have it. Exactly where we are today. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #37
I sometimes think Shakespeare was a real subversive. ananda Sep 2025 #38
If there is a heaven one of my first acts will be to get all human mysteries solved. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #39
I suspect St Peter will want to know too. ananda Sep 2025 #40
I assume they know it all on the other side? Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #41
I have never seen anything like this in America in my adult life surfered Sep 2025 #2
We thought the Viet Nam era was tumultuous. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #5
The mindset of those legacies has never left this country. ananda Sep 2025 #4
America's dark underbelly was always there just waiting to make a comeback. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #6
I've had direct experience with this shit all my life... ananda Sep 2025 #7
Midwest farmland is similar. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #8
Well, at least my Irish ancestors were A-OK! ananda Sep 2025 #9
Good for them! You should be so proud. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #10
You got that right! ananda Sep 2025 #11
I live in a damn suburb I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2025 #15
I was just in the US róisín_dubh Sep 2025 #14
Exactly. This is part of the surreal nature of things. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #18
I'm thinking we're in an intermediate loop of someone preserving a timeline where s/he obtains a time machine 0rganism Sep 2025 #16
Perhaps it is not pilot error, but deliberate on the part of the Time Machine owners. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #17
We're experiencing the most corrupt government in our nations history. Emile Sep 2025 #20
Yes, the greatest moral collapse in US history. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #21
I will be the same, so pbmus Sep 2025 #29
None of us who are intelligent and moral beings will be the same again. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #30
That is a fatalistic view based on , pbmus Sep 2025 #33
I admire your ability to remain untouched and unfeeling about the tragedy unfolding in front of us. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #34
The USA has experienced many pbmus Sep 2025 #36
That's been the GOP's "flood-the-zone" plan all along. They had eight years to allegorical oracle Sep 2025 #23
Yes the damage is incalculable. And take time to repair. Some damage is permanent. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #24
Approaching terminal velocity of a falling nation... MiHale Sep 2025 #26
Yes exactly, the velocity is terminal. :( Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #28
Yep. I've never seen Trump let anyone steal the limelight like he has with Kirk underpants Sep 2025 #27
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