How many of you creationists...

[arunma]

that's ok, get your verification anywhere you can.
neither job interviewers nor grad school acceptance officers will stroke your ego. unless of course you ARE the next great thing.

Well that's just it. I've been writing my grad school essays. At least thinking that one is the greatest thing in the world will cause one to write an outstanding essay!

Ideally, I'll get into grad school, and quickly realize that everyone is smarter than me.

 

[rmwilliamsll]

Ideally, I'll get into grad school, and quickly realize that everyone is smarter than me.

save yourself some time and heartache.
everywhere you go there will be those that are smarter, often very much smart and those that are not. in fact, beat the 1st year rush and realize that before you go, and you will be ahead of many.

i've know only a handful of really really smart people in my life. with a sole exception they were humble and quiet people*, realizing that they were not really as smart as they aspired to be.

notes:
*
my graduate advisor had a idiedic memory, he read close to 6 books per day, 6 days per week for 50+ years when i met him. He did his PhD work in Holland and printed in German, even though he was from the US. He told a story about meeting his graduate advisor in the early 1950's. He got off the boat and the older man asked him in Hebrew how was his Greek? and then in German how was his Latin? Decades later Dr.Braum asked him what would have happened if we hadn't answered rightly. The now retired theologian patted his coat pocket (Dr.Braum reministed that it might have been the same oversized coat then as well) and told him that he honestly didn't expect an American to have the language skills to do the work and had his return steamship ticket in his pocket for him.
no there will always be much much smarter people then any of us.....

 

[AV1611VET]

...have ever read a science textbook? I'm curious.

I have --- 16.

 

[arunma]

Well that's just it. I've been writing my grad school essays. At least thinking that one is the greatest thing in the world will cause one to write an outstanding essay!

Ideally, I'll get into grad school, and quickly realize that everyone is smarter than me.

Wow, what an old thread. Anyway, it's funny running into this old post of mine. I've just finished my second year of grad school...three more to go. And what have I learned? My fellow American students are actually just as stupid as me, and the foreign students are smarter than all of us!

 

[AV1611VET]

Wow, what an old thread. Anyway, it's funny running into this old post of mine. I've just finished my second year of grad school...three more to go. And what have I learned? My fellow American students are actually just as stupid as me, and the foreign students are smarter than all of us!

Don't you think there's too much emphasis on learning, Arunma?

I know that sounds like a strange question, but for Heaven's sake, people make it sound like, if you relax for even one semester, you're going to get left behind in the dust.

If I read my Bible correctly, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of knowledge, and God can take the most backward country and change it into a technological superpower --- can He not?

 

[ragarth]

Don't you think there's too much emphasis on learning, Arunma?

I know that sounds like a strange question, but for Heaven's sake, people make it sound like, if you relax for even one semester, you're going to get left behind in the dust.

If I read my Bible correctly, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of knowledge, and God can take the most backward country and change it into a technological superpower --- can He not?

Knowledge is like jello, there's always room for more.

 

[AV1611VET]

Knowledge is like jello, there's always room for more.

Ya, but I get a little tired of the competition.

My country is more advanced than your country --- or my country put a man on the moon first --- or my country this and my country that.

Big deal.

 

[The Lady Kate]

Ya, but I get a little tired of the competition.

My country is more advanced than your country --- or my country put a man on the moon first --- or my country this and my country that.

Big deal.

And yet far too many people do the same with their religions/Gods even my own... I get tired of that, personally.

 

[ragarth]

Ya, but I get a little tired of the competition.

My country is more advanced than your country --- or my country put a man on the moon first --- or my country this and my country that.

Big deal.

Healthy competition drives progress. Rankings of school systems worldwide usually pushes nations to improve their educational systems. Our space program progress has developed at a fraction of the speed since the space race ended. I really wish it had continued to it's original boast of putting a man on mars.

 

[LightSeaker]

If I read my Bible correctly, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of knowledge, and God can take the most backward country and change it into a technological superpower --- can He not?

It's not going to happen unless the people become educated.


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[The Lady Kate]

It's not going to happen unless the people become educated.


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Too true... I've always seen the Holy Spirit as working with you and through you... not doing the work for you.

 

[loveiseverywhere]

Ya --- they change with the weather --- that's why they make good bargain books at Waldenbooks.

By the time you're done reading it, its either been modified or disproven.

Why do you think Scientific American and Popular Science can come out every month with something?


If you're going to learn Quantum Physics, you need two things:

• $175.00 textbook to learn in the classroom.
• Subscription to Catchup Monthly to stay informed.

I see where you're coming from but there is a mountain of science that has not and will not be debunked or changed. The Law of Gravity for example. The periodical elements are another. There's hard science and then there's theoretical science.

 

[arunma]

Don't you think there's too much emphasis on learning, Arunma?

I know that sounds like a strange question, but for Heaven's sake, people make it sound like, if you relax for even one semester, you're going to get left behind in the dust.

I doubt the average American has to worry about putting too much emphasis on knowledge.

I all seriousness though, this culture doesn't value knowledge enough, and most people are satisfied to remain ignorant. This is not virtuous. As for the issue of the hard work required in academia, your description characterizes it fairly well. Again I would argue that being left behind, academically speaking, is also not virtuous. Doing well in academics is hard work, plain and simple. That's true of scientific academia, and it's also true in theological studies. The average PhD student in a seminary can find it just as easy to "get left behind in the dust" by slacking off, and is subject to the same publish or perish model as we are in the sciences.

If I read my Bible correctly, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of knowledge, and God can take the most backward country and change it into a technological superpower --- can He not?

I don't think the knowledge referred to in 1 Corinthians 12:8 is the same type of knowledge we're talking about here. Wouldn't you agree?

 

[Split Rock]

I have --- 16.

How come when I saw this thread was over two years old that I knew you were the one who necroed it?

 

[AV1611VET]

How come when I saw this thread was over two years old that I knew you were the one who necroed it?

Would you be whining if someone asked for an extra-Biblical reference to Jesus Christ, and someone posted something from Josephus' blog that was written about A.D. 80?

Or would you whine if someone posted something Max Planck wrote in 1940?

 

[Split Rock]

Would you be whining if someone asked for an extra-Biblical reference to Jesus Christ, and someone posted something from Josephus' blog that was written about A.D. 80?

Or would you whine if someone posted something Max Planck wrote in 1940?

Here is the key, AVET.... Not If There Was Some Good Reason To Do So!

 

[The Lady Kate]

Would you be whining if someone asked for an extra-Biblical reference to Jesus Christ, and someone posted something from Josephus' blog that was written about A.D. 80?

Or would you whine if someone posted something Max Planck wrote in 1940?

Since you've done none of these things... I'm also curious why this thread was brought back.

 

[AV1611VET]

Since you've done none of these things... I'm also curious why this thread was brought back.

So MrGoodBytes can take a look at some of the books I've read --- as he asked.

You guys feel free to document your perused material as well.

 

[Pete Harcoff]

So MrGoodBytes can take a look at some of the books I've read --- as he asked.

I'm sure he's spent the last 2 years in breathless anticipation...

 

[AV1611VET]

I'm sure he's spent the last 2 years in breathless anticipation...

Dunno --- don't really care.

He can thank me later.

I'm still waiting for a reply (instead of noise) to my Apple Challenge I submitted years ago.