I visited the Colorado School of Mines yesterday. The school and their programs are impressive. On the wall in a darkened hall of their library, I found vintage photographs of men's sports teams from the 1910's and 20's. The shelves throughout the place are lined with any and all books on engineering. Everything from heat transfer in pumps to treatment polymers can be found. A single isle of books among the sea of science will provide you with a fleeting glimpse of the humanities. Lord Byron slept in dust near the bottom shelf, under the blinking and dying fluorescents.
The school provides its students with a humanities package in order to fulfill the engineering accreditation requirements. As a student, you will be rushed and herded through this little packaged program in order to keep you on track and fulfill your scientific destiny. This reminded me of my own humanities education. It seems like yesterday, I was being tested on my recall of works by Monet vs Manet. Why did their names have to be so similar? I just wanted to be done with this online class.
I look back at my religious experience the same way I look at my humanities education. The evil dragon, LDS Correlation packages our religious education in hopes to protect us. All the while, and unbeknownst to us, they actually destroy and canker. Their packaged programs stifle us and control. Exploration is not only discouraged, the very channels to do so are blocked from view.
Long live Mormonism! Fast death to Smaug, the Correlation.
Have a fabulous day!
Zee.
Correlation rant
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_zeezrom
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Correlation rant
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_Bob Loblaw
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Yep, it's ironic that the church's educational materials are designed to restrict knowledge, not expand it.
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_Blixa
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I'm happy I got a taste of pre-correlation Mormon culture. Relief Society bazaars remain a very happy childhood memory...
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_Fence Sitter
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Blixa wrote:I'm happy I got a taste of pre-correlation Mormon culture. Relief Society bazaars remain a very happy childhood memory...
That and 'Road Shows", Church wide sports tournaments, Dance Festivals, Gold and Green Balls, M.I.A . . .
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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_Blixa
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Fence Sitter wrote:Blixa wrote:I'm happy I got a taste of pre-correlation Mormon culture. Relief Society bazaars remain a very happy childhood memory...
That and 'Road Shows", Church wide sports tournaments, Dance Festivals, Gold and Green Balls, M.I.A . . .
yep. And no white shirt quad carrying B.S. Halloween parties with costumes and masks (no trunk and treat silliness), neighborhood 24th of July parades, and if there were junk crafts like the plastic grapes they were balanced with actual quilting...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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_Morley
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Re: Correlation rant
Fence Sitter wrote:Blixa wrote:I'm happy I got a taste of pre-correlation Mormon culture. Relief Society bazaars remain a very happy childhood memory...
That and 'Road Shows", Church wide sports tournaments, Dance Festivals, Gold and Green Balls, M.I.A . . .
Hmm. I didn't know these were all 'a thing of the past.' I guess this shows how long I've been gone.
I did so love church ball. We were good enough to have played (what was then called) 'all church.'
And I remember when my best friend and I both dressed in drag for a roadshow that we wrote, directed, sang and acted in. I guess there are many reasons it would never be allowed these days.
Their great loss.
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In our area, Dance Festivals, Roadshows, Gold and Green Balls (which sounds like a medical problem), Stake sports day, Stake swimming gala's...etc
All still happen.
All still happen.
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Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
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Drifting wrote:In our area, Dance Festivals, Roadshows, Gold and Green Balls (which sounds like a medical problem), Stake sports day, Stake swimming gala's...etc
All still happen.
Outside the U.S.?
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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_moksha
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Drifting wrote:In our area, Dance Festivals, Roadshows, Gold and Green Balls (which sounds like a medical problem), Stake sports day, Stake swimming gala's...etc
All still happen.
Do you have anything similar to the past nude swimming at the Deseret Gym?
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