fandomhigh | World Religions, Wednesday, 2nd Period [10/25]

Jesse isn't there when the class arrives. On each desk are a Bible and a Koran. Written on the board is Sign in. Leave your tests on the clipboard.

A minute or two after class is supposed to start, Jesse strolls in with his coffee mug in hand.

Without preamble, he begins his lecture. "Okay, let's get this party started. Since I missed last week - long story, you don't wanna know - we're gonna talk about Judaism and Islam together today, and next week we'll roll in Christianity to look at the three religions most people think of when they think of People of the Book."

From there he continued with a discussion of the Pentateuch and its relation to the Torah, and the Qu'ran and Islam's original kinship to both Judaism and Christianity.

"Okay, so where people seem to fu- screw things up is lookin' at the things that make us different instead of the things we got in common. With what I've told you here today, you should be able to see that just because Jews and Muslims are havin' a high old time killin' each other in some parts of the world, don't mean they got nothing in common.

"Today I want you to take any of the religions we've covered so far, or hell, any religion you can find in that big old book over there, and come up with things they got in common. You wanna talk about how the tribes of Papua New Guinea and the Christians both have strong beliefs about witches, go to. You wanna talk about the history of religious war with both Hindus and Christians, it's all yours. Get together with a friend and have some fun with it. Everyone's got some nutty ideas about God. Might as well see where they intersect."

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Conner signed in and left his midterm on the clipboard. It was . . . not bad for someone who'd done it in the space of one frantic night, where "not bad" is in the "passing, but barely" vicinity.

Cally signed in and turned in her solid B material midterm.

Kaylee signed in, likely getting a B on her midterm as well.

Nadia signed in and dropped off her midterm, which was probably somewhere in the low A or high B vicinity.

Chad signed in, attaching his surprisingly polished and grunt-free low A material midterm.

Stark signed in. The midterm he left was probably B-range.

Billy signed in. His midterm I'd say, C+ to B.

Matilda Wormwood. I'd say as close to perfect as one can get. Might as well use it for the answer key.

Zero signed in and turned in a solid A midterm.

Janet Fraiser, turned in a cynical, if well-written midterm for an A
Was on vacation all week OOC...

Do his ego a favor and don't yawn too much. Take notes, pass notes, don't forge bank notes.

Chad ~~forged bank~~ took notes, his handwriting sprawling out over the page a lot more than usual. With a lot more idle sketches in the notes than usual, too. The most notable doodle was a van. It was running something over. What it was running over, however, was rather difficult to discern.

What similarities can you find? Shared stories of a great flood? Similar creation myths? Similar laws on how to deal with an unfaithful spouse? Get together with a partner and have at it.

Kaylee looked for someone to pair up with.

"Hey, wanna chat about religion?"

Chad was putting the finishing touches on his great piece of note-margin artwork when it came to pairing up. Just needed a few...more...squiggly lines here and he'll be ready to talk about religion. Or whatever.

Ahh, today, another in a line of John Wayne greats, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056217/).

Because office hours have been so incredibly well attended, he's decided to hold Wednesday's here.

"So I guess it's just as well that Fandom decided to turn me into a Lizard last week huh."

Zero wasn't there for office hours. She was just there for the movie.

If you show up for office hours, it will be SP as work precludes my playing during the day now.

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