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Post by
chaosultimamage
Ugh, I saw that. All of the clean vocals are 100% autotuned and the screams are probably produced as !@#$ too. Victory Records has gone to $%^&, not that it was too great to begin with, but I don't understand how a band full of auto-tuned scene kids playing 3 chords can get signed to a major label.
Yeah, it's pretty terrible. The only good band in their line-up is Blackguard and I have no clue what they're doing at Victory...
Post by
Skreeran
My parents are doing school with my siblings.
Which means reading the Bible.
That's literally all they do.
I asked if she teaches them math or English or anything else while I'm at school. Apparently reading and discussing the Bible counts as Sociology, Reading, English, and History. Singing one song ("The Lord bless you and keep you...") counts as Music. Learning the Hebrew alphabet counts as Foreign Language.
Post by
Patty
My parents are doing school with my siblings.
Which means reading the Bible.
That's literally all they do.
I asked if she teaches them math or English or anything else while I'm at school. Apparently reading and discussing the Bible counts as Sociology, Reading, English, and History. Singing one song ("The Lord bless you and keep you...") counts as Music. Learning the Hebrew alphabet counts as Foreign Language.
Doesn't home schooling have standards in America? :S Surely, that can't count for anything other than religious studies.
Post by
Skreeran
Not in Texas. Texas is so protective of a parent's right to homeschool their children that you don't even have to pass a standardized test every year like we did back in Washington. They're going to go up through 12th grade reading the Bible every day, and then they do horribly on the SAT and only be able to go to one of the Christian universities in the area to and continue to be Young Earth Creationists like their parents.
Post by
Patty
Not in Texas. Texas is so protective of a parent's right to homeschool their children that you don't even have to pass a standardized test every year like we did back in Washington. They're going to go up through 12th grade reading the Bible every day, and then they do horribly on the SAT and only be able to go to one of the Christian universities in the area to and continue to be Young Earth Creationists like their parents.
That sounds prosperous.
How the #$%^ will your siblings get employment? Surely this'll have an impact on their literacy, numeracy et cetera.
Post by
Azazel
Wow. Your siblings are so f*cked to be honest.
Texas seems more and more retarded the more I hear about it. I mean really? How will they learn math at the age of say, 18? Ridicoulus.
Post by
Lombax
Wow. Your siblings are so f*cked to be honest.
Texas seems more and more retarded the more I hear about it. I mean really? How will they learn math at the age of say, 18? Ridicoulus.
Ridicoulus indeed.
Post by
Azazel
It just hit me that this could be one of the reasons as to why texans are always portrayed as mildly stupid.
Post by
107106
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Post by
Lombax
The more I hear about your family Skreeran, the more I'm starting to think they are idiots.
Post by
Azazel
The more I hear about your family Skreeran, the more I'm starting to think they are
idiots
bat*!@# insane.
Post by
Skreeran
The more I hear about your family Skreeran, the more I'm starting to think they are idiots.The problem isn't that they're idiots.
They (some of them, at least), are genuinely smart people.
The problem is not that they're dumb. The problem is that my parents genuinely believe this book--the most important book every written, they believe--is
literally
true in its every word, and that the task they were put on Earth to do is to teach this book and its truth to their children. To them, the literal truth of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus is the most important thing they can teach, and so Science, Math, History, and everything have to be integrated with the Bible.
My mom has said that her greatest regret is putting me in public school. I think it's the thing I'm most glad for.
Post by
Patty
The problem is not that they're dumb. The problem is that my parents genuinely believe this book--the most important book every written, they believe--is
literally
true in its every word, and that the task they were put on Earth to do is to teach this book and its truth to their children. To them, the literal truth of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus is the most important thing they can teach, and so Science, Math, History, and everything have to be integrated with the Bible.
My mom has said that her greatest regret is putting me in public school. I think it's the thing I'm most glad for.
This makes me so mad. D: All it does is carry the extremist christian view to the next generations. So glad I live in western Europe right now. :P
Post by
Lombax
The more I hear about your family Skreeran, the more I'm starting to think they are idiots.The problem isn't that they're idiots.
They (some of them, at least), are genuinely smart people.
The problem is not that they're dumb. The problem is that my parents genuinely believe this book--the most important book every written, they believe--is
literally
true in its every word, and that the task they were put on Earth to do is to teach this book and its truth to their children. To them, the literal truth of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus is the most important thing they can teach, and so Science, Math, History, and everything have to be integrated with the Bible.
My mom has said that her greatest regret is putting me in public school. I think it's the thing I'm most glad for.
Bad way of putting word there, this is more what I wanted to say:
The more I hear about your family Skreeran, the more I'm starting to think they are
idiots
bat*!@# insane.
And you should be happy about being put in a public school, else you would probably be another HsR .
Post by
124027
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Post by
Lombax
Yey Hogwarts!
Post by
Skreeran
Seriously, they're damning their kids to repeat a cycle of ignorance (and I'm talking about education wise, not religion wise.)That's not what they think.
Related:
I'm listening in on what they're saying, and my Mom was talking about how much they admired Ariel Sharon and she mentioned Benjamin Netanyahu, and one of them said "Is he like Benjamin Franklin?" and she said "No, Benjamin Franklin was not a godly man."
My word.
Post by
chaosultimamage
Seriously, they're damning their kids to repeat a cycle of ignorance (and I'm talking about education wise, not religion wise.)That's not what they think.
Related:
I'm listening in on what they're saying, and my Mom was talking about how much they admired Ariel Sharon and she mentioned Benjamin Netanyahu, and one of them said "Is he like Benjamin Franklin?" and she said "No, Benjamin Franklin was not a godly man."
My word.
Wow...
If I may, how old are they? I'm sure you've mentioned it before, but if they're any older than 10 years old, that seems like a really bad question and certainly enhances the idea that that sort of education is bad for them.
Also, lol @ Benjamin Franklin not being a godly man. He was one of the founding fathers who stated "under God" and he fought (not physically, but with words) for the freedoms that we all enjoy today. I'd figure Westboro Baptist Church would be the only ones to slight him.
Post by
Patty
Wow...
If I may, how old are they? I'm sure you've mentioned it before, but if they're any older than 10 years old, that seems like a really bad question and certainly enhances the idea that that sort of education is bad for them.
Also, lol @ Benjamin Franklin not being a godly man. He was one of the founding fathers who stated "under God" and he fought (not physically, but with words) for the freedoms that we all enjoy today. I'd figure Westboro Baptist Church would be the only ones to slight him.
On the other hand, from what I've read the founders of America were more under the Enlightenment movement, and I think said something about maintaining the separation of church and state. I'm not well versed on American history, but I've always believed that to be true. If it is, then that may explain why some view them as 'ungodly'; they disagreed with the religious indoctrination of political, social and cultural views from a young age.
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