politicized religion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/jesus-the-homeless-sculpture-rejected-catholic-churches_n_3085584.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-homeless-finds-home-article-1.1321038



whilst reading the article it talked about how the sculpture could not find a home and was rejected by some churches as being controversial or to vague

well last time we checked there was no official picture of jesus only artistic impressions and artistic twists

but what also came to mind is that people were not used to this kind of portrayal
and this seems to have motivated some churches against the sculpture

mark 2 v 17
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor--sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."

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matthew 19 v 24

Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy

matthew 6 v 19

which was confirmed when i told them jesus was for the poor 

he ate and conversed with sinners 

the people at the bottom of social ladders and castes

and was against materialism

and even pointed out that it will make it harder for you to get to heaven

yet there are some churches whose sermons revolve around the monetary issue

and the divisions in christianity have lead some to have skipped out on their history and how political and powerful it was 

and it was for the opposite of who you picture as faces of it now

with phrases as the meek shall inherit the earth 

got me thinking how many meek people do i find 

mattthew 18 v 21 to 22

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

²² Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

with that much forgiving how could anyone wage war in the name of christianity

which brought me to the fact most people do not read 

i will leave you with this 

some may say blasphemy 

http://goodmenproject.com/in-good-faith/six-things-that-arent-literally-in-the-bible/

Schooling is not education part 1

education

for most people
school and education
is synonymous

but for others is not so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI

for following the logic all people who go to school are educated
and if school is compulsory so most people go to school in west
then following those lines of logic everybody in the west is educated

but the next thing interjected would be to a degree
just as it is synonymous for people that those who have a degree are intelligent

for where does that leave in the general consensus those who do not go to school or have no degrees

for in one of my previous posts i talked about autodidacts
people who taught themselves

but aside from that making school redundant

what is this prevailing canopy which suggest that schooling is education

i remarked before that education comes from the greek meaning to draw out or bring forth

but as in the  video^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y

and this video^^^

the symptoms created by the over arching theme of school is education

and that an exam will decide their fate
when it is you who does so

and how individualism is not incorporated
in schools
but individualism is the basis of education

and for the fact with school you are praised for following and being obedient
and shunned for the opposites

and that you are never reared to be your own teacher


for most students it is a day of rejoicing once they hear these scenarios

school is closed
teacher is sick
or reading week


i even heard a man who can twice over be my dad
yes very weird
make a joke about going back to school and how he feels like a kid

where schooling and education is synonymous
and that education is bound to school

and the foolish notion of their is a time for education
and more noticeably it is for the young

but he is not alone in this thinking
for many people
they can not wait to leave school and work
and even celebrate never touching a textbook again

many people put this down to school just making people cram
and their education is revolved around exams rather than learning

to be fair their is always one teacher who breaks the mold and students look forward to their classes

The knowledge or the uni fallacy

that is the purpose of youth for some 

but it is definately the purpose of uni

right

the old

but is everything exchanged knowledge

ponder that one

but carrying on knowledge

this intangible thing

where is it housed

and how can an intangible thing be housed

ponder that

oh the intangible has ties with the tangible

so if the tangible is horded you horde knowledge

well that is the theory

well 

henrich heine saw the attempt 

but as ray bradbury put it you do not have the burn books you have to get people to stop reading them 

and then all you have to do is propose when 

people should read them to have a monopoly 

on knowledge

alah university

some say plato created the first western university 

yes western

some say 

 this is the worlds oldest university

but rather than sweat the details of the worlds oldest we get to the concept uni as it is generally abbreviated

the place of knowledge

even if some of the people who work inside 

have never been or are even able to entertain stimulating conversation

ah university

where automatic intelligence is placed upon a person even if their 

extra curricular activities are anti intellectual

this list starts of with a course that you can study david beckham

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/10-weird-and-wonderful-university-courses-2074911.html?action=gallery&ino=7

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/15-bizarre-college-courses/lady-gaga-and-the-sociology-of-fame

here is another list though the joy of garbage is a very intriguing one

http://listphobia.com/2012/04/25/10-weird-university-courses/

this one had one about being a jedi 

and then you have 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2013/feb/12/dont-scare-students-off-philosophy

published this year about students being scared off of philosophy

so back to the main point about knowledge

what knowledge are people attaining from university at all

since you do all your own work

but concentrating on the fact that if you go to university

a place of learning 

should you not come back changed

so if you go to uni and come back the same person 

what did you learn 

what did you add to yourself

and it comes down to priorities

some people who have never been to uni and do not read yet want to call them selves elders

questioned me when i first started

why philosophy what job can you do with that

and naively then i was defending it

which was validating your views

the point of learning is not for monetary gain it is the betterment of yourself 

you can choose it for gain but that is what it should be 

for you see some people are physically talented but not mentally acute

for yes it is fictional 

this person went to uni did information technology

yet had no books in his house

for for some people as soon as uni is done it is like no more learning yep my learning phase is over

when in truth we never stop learning 

one of my philosophy class mates used to say the greeks would say i am the perfect man

because he works on his body as well as his mind

and that unification is missing 

especially with the mentality of just getting a job

a lot of people put people up as he is a genius 

or she is a genius

question is what is stopping you

for example instead of doing business management 

you did a degree in science or one of the social sciences

for what use is lopsided growth 

men who spend eons in a gym yet cannot string contingent sentences together 

or knowledgeable yet incredibly unhealthy

it comes down to perceptions again you choose

but you have to open your scope

university is not the be all and end all

nor is the lack of money

since knowledge is free

it is people who charge

there are free ebooks and there are libraries

and you can always be an autodidact 

and this ties in with the previous post of elders and this post of where does your course run

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Greek proverb