I figured I might as well tie it into blogging, which makes it easier, I guess.
Anyway... lectures were pretty boring, haha.
They were just introductory and kinda hard not to fall asleep.
I should bring something quiet and reasonably undistracting to do. Maybe fixing up my timetable or something.
Looking in my diary for notes about today.
Found some music while I type this up. Not particularly distracting.
I didn't bring my program guide cause I thought it was unnecessary, haha.
Concept mapping tutorial was pretty bland. I got to meet people in my scenario group, which was pretty fun.
I learned that gym membership is free for the first month, but then it's like..$600+ for a year. Which comes to about $2 a day, and thus, per fortnight is $24. Which is kinda horrid.
I guess I'll tell my father about it - he told me that it would be cheap, lol.
He's an alumni.
Anyway, the concept mapping... I think what I would do next time is try to talk more with my group. I think I'm pretty shy - I have to try to make conversation with new people and it's a little uncomfortable. I suppose after 6 years I'll be a Legendary Conversationalist.
Oh, and the lectures told me that I'd be a specialist in 2031. Like, finishing. Soo... another lifetime (literally) for me.
Aha.
Apparently the perks later will be worth it, but the thing that concerns me the most is how financially nonindependent I'll be in these few years.
I found someone with a better rate than me for tutoring. He's doing tutoring for years 7 to 10, and it's taking about $10 more per one on one session, and says that if it's a class of 4 or so, he gets $110. Which is pretty good. I have a feeling that I'll have to hold classes, but right now I don't have a good set besides their house and libraries venue, and different people have different needs.
By the way, libraries close really early on weekends. It sucks.
Scenario groups.
I was a little late cause of lunch with Dandelion (forever now known as Dande cause I think it's cool) and Icy Foliage but I just said I got lost. Which I did, a little.
I think it was more to get to know the group more than anything. Something that came into my head was that I shouldn't try to answer every question asked. Lol. Maybe I talk too much when I'm comfortable and not enough when I'm not.
Oh well, 6 years, Legendary Conversationalist.
Computer lab on data retrieval and information gathering.
Somewhat dreary. But I did talk a bit with Fiona Li and Jeffery Liu are in my group. For people who aren't in the know, Fiona left in year 10 for Ruse and miraculously, somehow still knows who I am. I..have no idea how. I didn't realise I made any sort of impression on her.
As for Jeffery, he graduated in 2011, and did optom in UNSW for a year before 'restarting' as he calls it and is now in a bonded place for UNSW med. Which is pretty cool. He got an offer for UWS and UNewcastle too, but who wants to go there? They were both bonded, I believe.
I think everyone looks intimidating and unapproachable to me if they're in a position of equal standing. If I'm in a a Privileged Position, then I'm a lot more comfortable. I think it's just my conceited nature. It's a little... unnerving. I think I think that I'm superior to a lot of people in some way or another, until I talk to them and vice versa. Then that delusion melts away, thankfully.
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...lost my train of thought.
Oh yes, I'm talking to Icy about it - religion and basically how religion fits into politics.
My answer? It doesn't.
I overheard two guys talking about 'spreading the word' of the Bible and such. A really snide thought crossed my mind:
"What if they're a gay couple?"
But then I remembered that not all Christians are against that kinda thing.
But what really made me think (unfortunately this is not related very much to medicine until I get into Sexual Health Medicine) is that they are trying so hard to come up with ways to preach their religion...without it seeming like preaching. Which was kinda ironic, and made me feel superior again (I'm such a bad person).
I was just about to turn around and talk to them about it when I decided that I shouldn't cause that would be rude.
Anyway, the main thought was "Why does religion need to be spread by its followers?"
I was discussing a similar topic with my role model and practically life mentor, who I call Tuna, or Uncle Tuna and it was basically about Michel Foucault and after reading Tuna's paper on Foucault, I told him that what Foucault was on about is that knowledge must be self-propagating. The current generation must teach the following generation in order for knowledge to grow and sustain itself.
And that is very much true of science. Science stops if it there is no-one to teach it.
[By the way, a bit of background on my dear mentor, he's gay (ie; homosexual, but he's also pretty happy about it too) and pretty damn left-wing. He dislikes the entity of science for a few reasons, most notably of its underlying aims to first and foremost spread itself and maintain its presence. Also that science can't prove anything, and yet there is an entire society of misconception or at least corruption of the word "proof", in the context of everyday usage of the phrase "scientific proof". In the context of science and research it's ok, because it's assumed that "proof" is something that can be counterpointed later in the future with different evidence/research that's peer reviewed. The public seem to think that it's a football game and that science is lying to people. So... in essence it's a gripe with how language is used, but language is pretty important.
Tl;dr, I have an awesome role model, and science is hard to explain to laypeople.]
And yes, I did talk about him when UNSW asked me about my role models.
Back to the beaten track... my main point was how come if religion - and again, I'm talking specifically about Christianity/Catholicism - proclaims to have a singular Truth (with a capital T) then why does it require its followers to 'educate' other people about it.?
I'm probably striking a logical fallacy somewhere in that, or someone is going to tell me that I'm twisting words, but unless someone does, I'll stand by my ideas.
And as an aside, if you look at the John Howard government, one particular gripe is that they banned the teaching of Postmodernism in schools. At least, formally teaching it. Almost all contemporary literature has postmodern elements and someone who does not have any education about education and particularly about education of literature (see entry for John Howard) would not be able to pick it up.
(Apart from being a bad person, I'm probably hot blooded. Which...may explain why I like cold environments? :] )
And postmodernism goes against Christian teachings, which are pretty ingrained in politics at the current moment, and probably will be as long as Western society remains exactly that. Western.
Which is to say that they Church and Pope have way too much power. And way too much of a Privileged Position.
Again, being ignorant, I make little effort to distinguish the Vatican from everything else, from Christians, from Catholics. They're all in the gray limbo I call "religion" along with other gods, pantheons and everything else.
Shinto and such that I respect a slight bit more go into "supernatural beliefs that are also amusing and have beautiful lore".
That includes horoscopes and astrology, if you're wondering.
Back to the very first thesis - I don't believe that religion should need to be 'spread' by mere mortals if it is the Truth. I mean... if you believe in a singular Truth, then that Truth will eventually be uncovered, no matter what angle you're looking at.
The fact that we have no agreed as a race on a singular Truth means it's either elusive or doesn't exist. I like to think it doesn't exist and that we all hold truths about the world and each other, and that each truth is as "true" and "real" as the next.
Getting more juice.
[Btw, there's a Secular Society on UNSW that I'm not willing to join because I don't have the time and it seems kinda unappealing to me who doesn't have the time for hardcore culturo-political philosophy. Heh. SecSoc.]
Anyway guys, I've got more sugar. Are you proud?
[And Dande, if your brain's dying, just give it a rest and comment later :P]
I believe that's it.
Dare you to click on it :)
If anyone's wondering.... here's what it's based on, and that you'll recognise.
Hoping you guys are having lots of fun in uni and are less busy that me :(
4 comments:
you seriously need to read up on religions, their purposes in the context of human civilisation and just the details.
also, we should meet up sometime. although most of my classes are on lower campus.
All my stuff is in Upper Campus (Refer to picture related to Privilege and so on... :P)
Religions have a fundamental purpose, a base understanding, a bland existence if you look at it through those eyes.
It's almost banal.
As silly as it is, I do prefer to think of it as a work of fiction and one that captures the imaginations of millions.
I just protest when people believe all that about how it's the Truth and so on.
Maybe I have a conflict in opinion or a hypocrisy or an oxymoron/paradox. I doubt it. I admire - I just admire from a distance and wish that it had that same distance to all the important sectors of society. That it were just a sector, and not some underlying foundation that is unshakable.
didnt click on either of them, mad?
the square root of -1 is i, but people don't know that unless you educate them
You're shy?
Well, I guess I wouldn't know. Actually, I guess you're like me in front of new people.
Hahaha, 2031! That is just, wow.
Haha, icedtrees got shortened to "Icy".
You didn't know the rest of the grade who were there even by year 10? You seem surprised Fiona recognised you.
To me, everyone seems a lot less intimidating and more approachable if they're in a position of equal standing, lol.
I know practically nothing about politics... so I don't have much to say in relation to that.
Hm... Yeah, perhaps you should research into Christianity and Catholicism. Also, your logic made no sense, how does them having a singular truth relate to 'educating' other people about it?
Oh, okay, you go on to explain later. I already feel like going "Oh, you're talking about these kind of things, I don't want to talk about it."
Okay. So, in Christianity, we believe that God gave us free will, so if you aren't willing to listen, then the Truth will not be revealed to you. Or perhaps the Truth has been revealed to you many times, but you don't realise it since you're not willing to listen.
I'm assuming you know that Christians believe that if you don't believe, then you'll go to hell. And they don't want anyone to go to hell. So then they 'educate' others about it. How else would people hear about Christianity if no one tells them?
And lol, humans agreeing on anything as a race? Not going to happen.
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