Lucky you. I can think of many reasons for that -such as the country you're at or the status of your uni-, but anyways, be glad ^^ many others are not as fortunate~

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

September 24 2012 14:11 GMT

#22

On September 24 2012 01:45 qtiehunter wrote:

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Lucky you. I can think of many reasons for that -such as the country you're at or the status of your uni-, but anyways, be glad ^^ many others are not as fortunate~

I wasn't always in this uni, so I don't know. Maybe you're right.

Shady Sands

United States4021 Posts

September 24 2012 18:12 GMT

#23

Wow. And people spend tens of thousands of dollars for this.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

September 24 2012 20:26 GMT

#24

On September 25 2012 03:12 Shady Sands wrote:
Wow. And people spend tens of thousands of dollars for this.

Luckily it's heavily, heavily subsidized here so it could be worse. Still a waste of over a thousand dollars unless I just accept that I bought the credits.

StateofReverie

United States633 Posts

September 24 2012 20:39 GMT

#25

This is her last year teaching. Maybe that's why she is doing such a weird job at teaching because she is going to become a therapist and won't be a teacher anymore. You can't really compare unless you know her teaching history the other years she was here

zalz

Netherlands3704 Posts

September 24 2012 21:19 GMT

#26

She's a nutjob?

Every Sunday, millions of people go and listen for the same amount of times to stories about people being born from virgins.

I'm not bashing religion, I'm really not, I just wonder why she is the craziest nutjob in the world for thinking planets affect our lives, whilst people who people can be raised from the dead are normal.

Why is this teacher, clearly misguided but probably not teaching any core classes, this bashed? Are her views really that crazy when you put them in their respective spectrum, the spectrum of religion?

Chaves

Brazil315 Posts

September 24 2012 21:26 GMT

#27

Well, this teacher have any history of drug abuse? cuz this sh1t looks like a LSD trip!!

meteorskunk

Canada546 Posts

September 24 2012 21:41 GMT

#28

She's pretty eloquent and extremely assertive and would cut me off in the middle of my sentences with no shame whatsoever. She's also extremely egotistical, not to mention she has a position of power over me being in the front of the class, with a fancy French accent.

*swoon* must..attend..mcgill.. I kid, but she sounds kind of dreamy. The part about her making good decisions and therefore having good luck is silliness even to me. Some things are always left to chance from what i observe.

OP, Just remember, science has bias too. and that interest in the occult =/= lack of critical thinking skills.

I'm going to talk about the Cartesian argument even though I know very little.

As you know Descartes' goal was to find one thing that he could know without doubt. He can doubt the existence of objects as he knows them because he understands them through their physical properties. THe properties change though, like a solid candle being turned to liquid wax. He knows hotness and coldness only as opposites.. He cannot see the true essence of anything. His doubt is so extreme that he grants something could deceive him into thinking that something as simple as 2+2 =4 is true when it is actually false. He knows for certain that he is thinking so he exists. So then, he uses this to try to prove that the body is separate from the mind.

The argument in my own paraphrase thingy is "because I can imagine my body one day going invisible and my mind perceiving this, my mind is separate from my body." The counter-argument I have heard is from the Yale Professor Shelly Kagan. His argument uses an analogous argument that he can for certain prove false and thereby proves that the imagination can imagine things that are not true. it goes "i can imagine the morning star without the evening star, but the morning star and the evening star in reality is just venus. Therefore it is not possible for them both to exist and therefore using the imagination as proof of a mind separate from the body is a refutable.

meteorskunk

Canada546 Posts

September 24 2012 21:46 GMT

#29

On September 25 2012 06:26 Chaves wrote:
Well, this teacher have any history of drug abuse? cuz this sh1t looks like a LSD trip!!

Tripping is not drug abuse. Those substances are simply too powerful to ever take shit from a mere human

Chill

Calgary25980 Posts

September 24 2012 21:51 GMT

#30

You're learning an important life skill. So many people in college need to get their point across and need to be right. You're learning that it doesn't really matter and keeping to yourself is a fine option.

CapnAmerica

United States508 Posts

September 24 2012 23:14 GMT

#31

On September 25 2012 06:51 Chill wrote:
You're learning an important life skill. So many people in college need to get their point across and need to be right. You're learning that it doesn't really matter and keeping to yourself is a fine option.

This, so many times, this. No matter the value of your words, the way that they are conveyed and how it reflects on your personality is huge. In person I try not to talk over others when I know a lot about a subject and they say something ignorant, but I also know people who just flat out don't stop. Learning WHEN to stop and when to avoid a subject altogether is really important for dealing with, well, other humans.

Not everyone is fantastic to deal with, though most can be. : )

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

September 25 2012 14:19 GMT

#32

On September 25 2012 06:19 zalz wrote:
She's a nutjob?

Every Sunday, millions of people go and listen for the same amount of times to stories about people being born from virgins.

I'm not bashing religion, I'm really not, I just wonder why she is the craziest nutjob in the world for thinking planets affect our lives, whilst people who people can be raised from the dead are normal.

Why is this teacher, clearly misguided but probably not teaching any core classes, this bashed? Are her views really that crazy when you put them in their respective spectrum, the spectrum of religion?

Well obviously she's more sane than a great many people. She did complete a PhD and I can tell that she's a really smart person in many, many ways. Overall I'd even go so far as to say that she's smarter than me, albeit rather gullible... She also obviously has more knowledge, of course, seeing how she's much older than me. But still, some of her stuff has no place in higher education.

On September 25 2012 06:26 Chaves wrote:
Well, this teacher have any history of drug abuse? cuz this sh1t looks like a LSD trip!!

She's hinted at drug use. She's kind of a hippie, as one might imagine, and she openly calls herself a Marxist. Says that she barely makes 5 figures as she only teaches one class, the very minimum to live in Montreal (and I wonder how that's even possible...). Also somehow she has an iPad even though she constantly rails on capitalism and materialism. I dunno. That said she's not high during class.

I did 2 years of my bachelor in an average university. One of the things that bothered me the most was when teachers tried to explain some concepts by using a real world situation as examples, and having heard about those things in the news or whatever, some smartasses would try to explain in depth what it was all about, getting way off topic. And back then, we had 150-200 students per classroom. No time for that shit.

I'll always remember when we wasted like an entire hour of class because the teacher was talking about the underlying causes of WW1 in one of my introduction classes during the first year of my BA. Some guy just wouldn't let go of the idea that it was due to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The teacher tried to explain that while it acted as some kind of "trigger", there were underlying tensions and the assassination of one guy doesn't lead to war by itself. And a bunch of other people kept chipping in with their stupid opinions while the teacher hopelessly tried to get back to teaching his class.

That shit died off, but I've always been a quiet guy. Just doing my thing.

Also you'll never see this but I love you Chill and we should reproduce. Cheers.