JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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likeitis
You are asking for less information. I prefer more, even if unrelated. Another reason, I disagree.
Also, wasting 20 minutes of class time is one thing, but sending me a mail I can simply disregard is quite another. If somebody saw that and thought they had to read it to make the grade, then I am afraid they are fools not even a more rigid professor is going to help.
I would only object if my inbox were getting full of such mails and I did not like them. At that point, I would suggest the prof make two lists of names and remove me from the non-essential one.
I appreciate your list of points though. It is hard to judge, but I am going with "unrelated", and all students should have either known or asked.
But yes, (d) is still quite the problem. I have seen lots of professors torn up for just speaking by the very tactic of hiding what he or she really said, or ignoring it.
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likeitis
Teleprompter, it has ceased to be surprising the way you pile assumption on top of assumption on top of assumption. Just like those in the video who see a black man and assume he is for affirmative action, or poor. Just like people who see a Jew and assume he supports Israel. Or the way people assume that those who criticize Israel are anti-Jewish.
Actually, I did. Now, I did not say that we did not have dogmatic opinion forcing leftist teachers. We did. I think it is obvious, to everyone but you, that my meaning was that it is wrong to be so, not that we did not have them.
Despite having them, I have grown up to be a free thinker toward the middle of the political spectrum. But, as bad as some of those miguided liberals were, I shudder to think what it would have been like being taught by mostly conservatives. Fighting wars with the standard conservative type on your side is welcome. Having them as teachers us is not.
I would much rather weed out the bad-for-thought liberals from a group of liberal professors, than try to weed out the bad-for-thought conservatives from a group of conservative professors. Call me lazy, but I like to do as little weeding as possible.
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likeitis
This a reason why liberals have traditionally dominated academics. So many conservatives just don't get it, and I am sure that many would agree with your statements.
If the educated among us do not share their opinions with us, then we are doomed to constantly re-invent the wheel for every subject that comes up. It is also an educator's duty to provide direction, not just be a neutral debate mediator from start to finish.
What an educator does not do is FORCE his opinions on others by such tactics as: giving you a lesser grade for having a different opinion, or making you the constant whipping boy of his lectures. Hiding their opinion at all times would be extremely backward.
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likeitis
Swine flu? Somebody did not get the memo. Its H1N1 now. LOL
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likeitis
What is your point? Yes, someone might be stupid in the Egyption government. Or, as WilliB says, it might have been used as an excuse to trouble Coptic Christian pig farmers.
Either way, it is believed the virus came from pigs. Changing the name won't change that belief, and this could still happen.
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likeitis
SuperLib, I asked you first. Come on, you got all of history to play with, not just America's post 9-11 torturing.
Stop copping out. This is your baby. Prove it works. Give us 3 real world examples of torture saving lives.
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likeitis
Concentration camps were part and parcel of the Holocaust. Palistinians now live in mass concentration camps.
It was an e-mail.
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likeitis
Yet ANOTHER Jew criticizing Israel.
The Holocaust comparison is valid. I have made it myself.
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likeitis
1) it was an e-mail. Students could take it or leave it. It would seem no one's time was wasted. 2) I would not want professors to get pigeon-holed so much, or any teacher for that matter. Going off topic about matters they are passionate about is perfectly ok with me so long as the teaching of the course matter is adequate. Keeping teachers too focused on the subject matter is a threat to a well rounded education. Life is not a textbook, and you cannot learn about it with your nose buried in one all the time.
Yes, and that applies to both point one and point two. As far as one, they should check to see if its going to be on the test. As far as two, if they are not being taught enough of the subject matter, they have to claim so.
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likeitis
Some people just cannot keep their mouths shut or mind their own business.
Sex is no danger to the Queen, so get back to work. Besides, what if it were set up as a distraction? Ooops.
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likeitis
No, skip, that would be you. Your post of 8:44 was absolute crap. Like this:
Me: And it does not seem to be common anywhere." You: Did you bother to do a statistical search? Almost all of them allow for it.
Allowing it for it and it being common are two TOTALLY different things Skip. Your post is literally littered with such bewildering nonsensical crap. I do not even feel like picking it apart.
Its a good tactice for winning an argument, in the eyes of simple people. But you will never get a handle of the truth of things this way.
Moderator: Readers, enough of this nonsense. Please cut out the petty sniping and focus your comments on the story, not at each other.
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likeitis
In Iraq what you see are large wedding parties where consenting adults get married, and then half the party gets blown to bits by a suicide bomber. Here, an 8 year old who never even met her husband successfully got a divorce.
There is this thing called priorities. And you, not having any, are about the last person that should be talking about nation building and "evil" practices. You do not even seem to possess 20/20 hindsight.
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likeitis
Cop out. It is your point to either back up or admit you were wrong about. I am taking your post as a very childish way of admitting you were wrong, because I have researched this.
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likeitis
Of which I am not very interested. All I am interested in is this claim:
Prove it.
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likeitis
DXXJP: Thanks for doing that digging that everyone, myself included, should have done sooner. You have your head on straightest of all.
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likeitis
And so did Christian countries in the past, and Hindus of the present, while some Muslim countries do not allow it. Yet if it were truly a Muslim thing, all or nearly all Muslims would do it. And while Islam does have an influence, it is STILL a question of the laws and norms of each individual country. And it does not seem to be common anywhere.
Its up to you. I have already presented my concerns.
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likeitis
Yes. Over one thousand years ago when EVERYBODY else did too.
No, he didn't. It was a one off deal. He said he did it because he saw it in a vision/dream. He did it exactly once and recommended it to no one.
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likeitis
It might have something to do with the fact that no child molestation was mentioned? But it is nice that you share with us your ideas of what marriage means and can only mean. Thanks.
This is less an Islam thing and more a Saudi Arabian thing.
I am not exactly a leftist. But the A number one problem I have here is that she got no say in the marriage. You might not want to accept it, but with a father who will sell you for 13 grand, getting married might not be such a bad option, that is, if she can choose.
My number two problem is that they let her get forced to marry, but would not take her petition for divorce saying she was not old enough. Double standards.
Saying anything else outside of that is hearsay and imagination. But despite that, a poster sharing with us their imaginations of child sex coming in 3,2,1....
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likeitis
Then don't. Humanity has quite a long history, and torture has always been a part of it. So...
What is with all these gosh darned hypothetical scenarios??? If you cannot produce at least three real world examples in history where torture saved lives, then what makes you think you have any basis for supporting it? We would all love to see those examples. Really looking forward to it.
You have been laying some real whopper accusations at people lately. You really should lay off calling people liars and supporters of terrorism.
Now how about that historical evidence to replace these Jack Bauer scenarios?
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likeitis
That too. I never ruled that out. But even religious zealots CHOOSE their targets. Putting us in their sights is much like saying "bring it on!", and no, I do not want my country to be a morally dubious one just to spite zealots.
There are many reasons they are angry. Torture is a facet.
You're just grasping at straws in hopes that you'll find any reason to justify terrorism as as a way to think you can just turn it off by changing your own actions.
One would think you would better be able to identify a man grasping at straws Super, because he would be like a brother. I am not, by the way.
And why would I justify terrorism on the one hand and seek a way to turn it off on the other??? You contradicted yourself nicely there.
In fact, I do not think there is an easy answer to stopping terrorism. So people who drag their feet on the little steps necessary to do that REALLY GET UNDER MY SKIN. And there are a lot of little steps and big ones too. This would be a big step, but its our very image we are talking about.
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