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For Those in Hum-130 this spring...

JayDub
edited July 2009 in General
... So being the keener that I am, and the fact that I live on campus, I picked up my DE material for the class.

Looks pretty easy, answer a couple questions online, once a week. We also have to do an interview with a religious leader and a research paper on whatever we want (I am assuming related to religion).

So just curious if either of you have any idea what subject you will do the paper on and whom you are going to interview.

I was thinking of trying to contact the church of Scientology and seeing if they would sit down with me. I don't know if they will, and if they do, I should show up with a Guy Fawkes mask. I bet that would end the interview pretty fast.

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  • Agentbob
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;42928 said:

    I was thinking of trying to contact the church of Scientology and seeing if they would sit down with me. I don't know if they will, and if they do, I should show up with a Guy Fawkes mask. I bet that would end the interview pretty fast.
    Scientology is not a religion regardless of what anyone says. Tell them to bring the e-meter.
  • Guest1
    edited December 2008
    I heard you can get addicted to the e-meter or something =T Freeeaaaakkky...

    Some of my friends were walking by the Scientology place downtown and they got DRAGGED in by some of those guys! They were trying to 'convert' them and trying to get them to touch the e-meter... my friends pretened to not speak English but that didn't help much. It was pretty hard for them to escape!
  • JayDub
    edited December 2008
    Agentbob;42940 said:
    Scientology is not a religion regardless of what anyone says. Tell them to bring the e-meter.
    While you say that and while I may not agree with Scientology, I would still consider it to be an organized religion. There is even a few sections on it in the textbook for the class.
  • Myname
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;42928 said:
    ... So being the keener that I am, and the fact that I live on campus, I picked up my DE material for the class.

    Looks pretty easy, answer a couple questions online, once a week. We also have to do an interview with a religious leader and a research paper on whatever we want (I am assuming related to religion).

    So just curious if either of you have any idea what subject you will do the paper on and whom you are going to interview.

    I was thinking of trying to contact the church of Scientology and seeing if they would sit down with me. I don't know if they will, and if they do, I should show up with a Guy Fawkes mask. I bet that would end the interview pretty fast.
    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

    Indeed.
  • Student0667
    edited December 2008
    I will most likely concentrate heavily on Eastern Religion for HUM-130. For the interview, I will probably interview my Buddhist godfather because I have always been interested in Buddhism. As for paper, I will probably work on Confucianism or Daoism.
    JayDub;42928 said:
    I was thinking of trying to contact the church of Scientology and seeing if they would sit down with me. I don't know if they will, and if they do, I should show up with a Guy Fawkes mask. I bet that would end the interview pretty fast.
    Speaking of Co$, I know a guy call John who actually interviewed them for HUM-130. According John, the Co$ is actually quite nice to him, but the church forced him to watch a long infomercial on Scientology before the interview.
    summerheaven;42943 said:
    I heard you can get addicted to the e-meter or something =T Freeeaaaakkky...
    I doubt it. It is just a metal tube hooked to a machine. However, I have to admit that using it is quite lulz worthy sometimes.

    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRH5A07dgs&feature=related
  • JayDub
    edited December 2008
    Your grandfather is a religious leader?

    For the paper I was thinking about writing about The Evils of Scientology (using /b/ as my source). That or comparing The Matrix to The Bible.
  • Student0667
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;43021 said:
    Your grandfather is a religious leader?
    We have to interview a religious leader!?
    JayDub;43021 said:
    For the paper I was thinking about writing about The Evils of Scientology (using /b/ as my source). That or comparing The Matrix to The Bible.
    Wait a minute, HUM-130 is a first year course. Are you sure we get to pick our own topic? We normally don't that sort of freedom in a first year course.
  • JayDub
    edited December 2008
    Yes, we have to pick a religious leader in the community.

    And yes, it says verbitum, "Pick a topic to do a 6 to 8 page, double spaced research paper on it. You may want to ask your Tutor Marker first."
  • Student0667
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;43025 said:
    Yes, we have to pick a religious leader in the community.
    Oh scrap...
    And yes, it says verbitum, "Pick a topic to do a 6 to 8 page, double spaced research paper on it. You may want to ask your Tutor Marker first."
    A 6 to 8 page paper on anything religious, this should be straight forward.
  • Agentbob
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;42947 said:
    While you say that and while I may not agree with Scientology, I would still consider it to be an organized religion. There is even a few sections on it in the textbook for the class.
    Will Jones accept this? Or are you going to create some arguments? It'll make a really interesting paper, that's for sure. With the whole Matrix thing and all.
  • JayDub
    edited December 2008
    The interview is just to learn about their religion.
  • Student0667
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;43072 said:
    The interview is just to learn about their religion.
    Great, now I will have to ask my Godfather if I can schedule a meeting with his spiritual advisor. I sure hope he is still not using the one from Thailand...
  • JayDub
    edited December 2008
    It says in our study guide, "If you disagree with what the interviewee is saying, do not disagree, get them to continue to talk about it some more."
  • Student0667
    edited December 2008
    JayDub;43123 said:
    It says in our study guide, "If you disagree with what the interviewee is saying, do not disagree, get them to continue to talk about it some more."
    Don't worry, I am not going to fuc* up a 30% give away assignment just to show some balls.

    As for paper, I am thinking about writing "Confucianism in Contemporary China".
  • bleed.the.mannequin
    edited July 2009
    hey how did u do in this course? was it hard?
  • Ihateschool
    edited July 2009
    bleed.the.mannequin;57894 said:
    hey how did u do in this course? was it hard?
    I'm guessing you're in HUM130 DE this semester

    I'm thinking about it too...
  • bleed.the.mannequin
    edited July 2009
    its friggin full grrr
  • Student0667
    edited July 2009
    bleed.the.mannequin;57894 said:
    hey how did u do in this course? was it hard?
    Meh, the course was rather easy. Afterall, it is an Intro to Religious Studies...
    I am pretty you know what you need to do for that class, so I will move onto why the class is so easy.

    The one thing that make the class so easy is because of CHOICE. You get choices for the religion you want to interview, you get choices for the paper topic, and even the exam got a lot of choices (not multiple choice though :().

    You don't even need to read that Skinny Leg book and I actually went on a full on rant on how bad the book is and how they should adopt a different text for studying the reality of religion.

    In the end, I got an -A. JayDub probably beat me.
  • Ihateschool
    edited July 2009
    Student0667;58147 said:
    Meh, the course was rather easy. Afterall, it is an Intro to Religious Studies...
    I am pretty you know what you need to do for that class, so I will move onto why the class is so easy.

    The one thing that make the class so easy is because of CHOICE. You get choices for the religion you want to interview, you get choices for the paper topic, and even the exam got a lot of choices (not multiple choice though :().

    You don't even need to read that Skinny Leg book and I actually went on a full on rant on how bad the book is and how they should adopt a different text for studying the reality of religion.

    In the end, I got an -A. JayDub probably beat me.

    Was the difficult to find religious leaders?

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