If you want to be respected as an adult.... (Warning: Rant enclosed)

[chocolate m'scovy]

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Ok! Thanks for clarifying.

As for intelligence, I certainly wouldn't accuse someone of lacking it simply because they believed something that was wrong. "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." So someone could lack true wisdom, but still be EXTREMELY brilliant. Take Stephen Hawking, for example. I'm sure some on the other side would call us Christians "ridiculous and uneducated" too, so hurling names doesn't do much for proving a point.

What science curriculum are you using? We used Bob Jones and Apologia. You know, you could always write a letter of complaint to your textbooks' publishers and inform them of how their material could be improved.

 

[eenie114]

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I'm so glad I'm not in your area. I'm so glad I'm not in your area. I'm so glad I'm not in your area. I'm so glad I'm not in your area. I'm so glad I'm not in your area.

I'm sure you really deserved your Golden Soapbox.

As far as it being something you're working on, I have actually noticed you're getting better at controlling yourself.

I told you about the Golden Soapbox?

I don't remember telling you that.

I went ballistic on the OWS thread this morning...

Still working on it. And that was after triple-censoring it.

Yes, you did.

You seemed very proud of yourself.

Hey, you still bothered to censor it, which is more than what you did a year ago.

Chocolatem'scovy: We use the Apologia "Discovering Creation with ______" books. When you get into the highschool ones the bad logic starts showing up.

 

[Q9]

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I told you about the Golden Soapbox?

I don't remember telling you that.

I went ballistic on the OWS thread this morning...

Still working on it. And that was after triple-censoring it.

Yes, you did.

You seemed very proud of yourself.

Hey, you still bothered to censor it, which is more than what you did a year ago.

Chocolatem'scovy: We use the Apologia "Discovering Creation with ______" books. When you get into the highschool ones the bad logic starts showing up.

Apologia's series? OH GOSH, get it away from me!!!

Those books irritate me to no end. Biology was pretty good, though there were quite a few over-simplified parts regarding design vs chance. Physical Science was OK, and the experiments were fun, but really, if they're going to argue against atheism, it'd be nice if they'd devote more than a paragraph at a time. Chemistry is just awful.

 

[eenie114]

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Yes, you did.

You seemed very proud of yourself.

Hey, you still bothered to censor it, which is more than what you did a year ago.

Chocolatem'scovy: We use the Apologia "Discovering Creation with ______" books. When you get into the highschool ones the bad logic starts showing up.

Apologia's series? OH GOSH, get it away from me!!!

Those books irritate me to no end. Biology was pretty good, though there were quite a few over-simplified parts regarding design vs chance. Physical Science was OK, and the experiments were fun, but really, if they're going to argue against atheism, it'd be nice if they'd devote more than a paragraph at a time. Chemistry is just awful.

Aren't they terrible?! Mom says that she wants me to use them all through highschool, too.

But you know what helps? I like to take a pencil and lightly circle the awful logic, and then write snarky and sarcastic responses about the intelligence of the estimable Dr. Wile in the margin.

My sister is using the botany book right now and she says that it must only be the highschool ones that are awful, because she likes hers.

 

[PaulaSB12]

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I had one teacher who read the entire Ancient Mariner poem. The whole class was comatose by the time he finished. Mind you we had a history teacher with a false eye and if you didn't behave he would put his eye on your table and say I've got my eye on you.

 

[kareninthesun]

Nothing wrong with monotony. It is often the inner flashlight we use to discover where we've misplaced passion. Think of a calendar...pondering over one month at a time, one page at a time, depending on the mood, the eye drifts towards holidays. Birthdays. Vacations. Paydays. Weekends. All the good penciled in. Little squares of opportunities where I have better control. Then why is my mood challenged on all the neatly lined days of Mondays? Or when life intervenes with commitments relating to the other exacutable stuff which takes place? Humans are the only living creatures whom can take that monotany of spirit and use it as a catalyst to propell it into a passion.

 

[SillyChicken]

School can be monotonous, work can be monotonous.... sometimes life in general can be monotonous!

On the bright side, you will be done with school before you know it and can start choosing things less monotonous to you!

 

[loanwizard]

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I am going to guess that you are about 16 or 17. At that age we know everything, and the adults are just overgrown kids who don't really know more than you.....

In actuality, I am with you. School is monotonous. Back in the day, someone decided that repetition, or rote, is the best way for the majority to learn. Without outside stimulation it can get mighty boring mighty quickly.

That said, adulthood, you are right. Many adults cover up their adolescent feelings with years of experience, but still have the emotions of an 8th grader. It is what causes most of the drama you see on Springer, Judge Judy, et al.

The internet- How I wish the internet was around when I was your age. The powers that be need to learn to integrate the antiquated learning system we have with the internet.

That boring physics class? How does that equate with designing a skateboard park? Google it. Whatever interests you, google it as you learn your days lesson. That should lessen the monotony.

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

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Ehhh I wouldn't do that. I think one of the characteristics of the Apologia curriculum is an easy-to-read style. So just because something is presented in an oversimplified fashion doesn't mean the author is intellectually lacking.

I think that Mr. Wile assumes that most people using his work are already Creationists, and therefore, he assumes that you already believe what he's saying. So he just puts in a note here or there to point you to the Creator.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I had one teacher who read the entire Ancient Mariner poem. The whole class was comatose by the time he finished. Mind you we had a history teacher with a false eye and if you didn't behave he would put his eye on your table and say I've got my eye on you.

Must not have been a good reader, then. That poem BEGS to be read aloud by someone like Patrick Stewart or James Earl Jones.