How about the debate over reparations for Black Americans? Or better yet, how about the stereotyping of religious faiths? I really liked your statement, "Catholics are hypocritical". That's awesome! No qualification on that one-- of all 500 million or so Catholics in the world, every single one of them is hypocritical! Here are some more that you may not know-- I thought I would pass them along in case you hadn't yet formed an opinion of these groups and needed help doing so: Asians are smart. Blacks are criminals. Whites are racists. Women are weaker than men. People named Ted, a la Ted Bundy, are murderers. San Franciscans are homosexual. Professional athletes can't read. All homeless people are homeless because they're alcoholic drug abusers. Men with long hair are in bands or are gay (sometimes both). People who don't have religious faith are smarter and more tolerant than people who have accepted Jesus Christ. Now, this list was just off the top of my head, so I'm sorry it isn't longer. But feel free to use it. It will save you a LOT of time you would have had to spend thinking and exploring and actually considering whether or not the word "some" should be added to your vocabulary or not. As in, "some remarks made on this BBS are really not very well thought out". See how easily it can be used to modify sentences? Anyway, good luck on your paper. I hope your hypocritical Catholic teacher grades it fairly.
I agree with all of those except the one about people named Ted. Ted Kennedy never killed anyone. ------------------ The ox is slow but the Earth is patient.
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thank you brian for saying what i couldnt put to words.. all tacoma park legends are idiots.. ------------------ "no matter how good she looks someone... somewhere..is tired of her sh*t"
I did a long research paper last semester over genetic differences between men and women, and whether it might explain test results that show that men are better at working math problems while women were better at spatial and writing problems... It was interesting stuff, although I had a little difficulty finding any research that had been done in the last 5 years. I guess no one cares about this subject anymore. ------------------ Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Sign up for season 2 of the CC.net NBA Sim League! http://bbs.clutchcity.net/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000328.html
I've always wanted to write a paper on how teachers make too much money. Why don't you do the work tpl and let us know how it turns out. ------------------ women love me, fish fear me.
Sorry if I offended some people. I have no personal emotion attached to the topic if that's what you think, and I wasn't trying to make a generalization about Catholics, but rather the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. I have no personal disdain for Catholics. ------------------
By the way, I was going to base my paper on Christianity and Christianity alone, so don't think I was intentionally trying to single out Catholicism . The corruption of the Roman Catholic Church just would have been an integral part of my paper. ------------------
maybe if you rephrased that.. its kind of condemning and not everyones gonna say it that way. It would still be controversial and interesting if u phrased what u wanted to do in a less biased was and maybe the teacher would be less picky... keep in mind that religion is a very touchy/ important topic for a lot of people, ur entitled to ur opinion but u might want to watch how u express that opinion. ------------------ Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend... =o)
actually i think that would have been a really interesting paper. mebe u could write one just fer yerself. *shrug* DID she give reasons why u couldn't do that paper? good reasons?Course...people WOULD be sure to get offended...people always do... we're studying Elizabethan England and all that in History right now, we just finished talking about religion *sigh* the teacher just pulls random facts from his ass and half the students are like "no thats NOT what our religion does" but it IS extremely interesting... especially the conflicts between the protestants and the Catholics... tis interesting to see how people dealt with it. y'know the people used to spit, urinate, drink, talk, sleep, sew, play cards and fight in church when they were forced to go... I don't think there's anything wrong with basing a paper on the corruption of Roman Catholism, because there was undeniably some... course, I'd think differently if I was roman catholic, I guess! But I'm a Christian and I'd still find it interesting to write/ read something like that... religion has a lot to answer for... ------------------ Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend... =o)
The whole idea of using the word some instead of the word all shows a lack of conviction. TPL, never lose your convictions! Academic writers and others use the word to hide behind their statements because really one example is all that is needed to prove the validity of some whereas in an all statement everything must be correct. And in the academic world, the idea of a totally correct statement, especially a controversial one, seems (to them) oxymoronic from the truth. There are no ABSOLUTES! That being said, I would still advise you to hide behind statements unless you are willing to suffer the wrath of your teacher. She will cut through all statements with the swiftness of a ginsu knife. ------------------ I am an invisible man. [This message has been edited by kbm (edited May 05, 2001).]
No, it shows good judgment, because in this instance, the statement that "...Catholics are hypocritical" is not true. You can play dialectical games or juggle with semantics all you want. The truth of the matter is that qualifying statements that are not true of every member of a group is indicative of good judgment, good taste, and good writing. On top of which, I will point out that tacoma park already SAID he/she did NOT think that all Catholics were hypocritical. So he/she isn't convicted of that statement in the first place. Stop trying to hand him/her a football helmet to use during a basketball game.
Maybe TPL was referring to "Catholics" as an organization rather than a millions of individuals. If a person belongs to an organization that has been know to make some hypocritical statements or take hypocritical actions, does that make all of the followers hypocritical themselves? Maybe TPL could've used the word "some". But at least he didn't use the word "all". Seems to me he was just addresseing the whole and not the parts that make up the whole. Is there actually a religion that has not been hypocritical at one point or another? How similar is hypocracy to contradiction? Is hypacracy that act of saying one thing and doing another? Is contradiction saying one thing and then saying another? That's pretty close. Weird, because it's usually ok to say that the Bible is full of contradictions yet it is a no-no to say that the Bible is hypocritical. ------------------
This teacher's job is in jeapardy, she asks you write about a controversial topic, but it can't be too controversial? What's next? ------------------ ..as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. Current Rocket's Salary & Contract Info
Based on the Bible, don't ALL people sin? And therefore, since its an integral part of the religion not to sin, wouldn't every religous person be hypocritical? ------------------ Who's ya daddy?
I apologize for not being wiser in my word choice. I was looking at acts the Roman Catholic Church had done in the historical sense. By no means do the action's of a few historical Catholics represent the character and convictions of Catholics today. There are alot of question marks concerning the beginnings of Christianity, and I simply wanted to look into them. ------------------ [This message has been edited by tacoma park legend (edited May 07, 2001).]
