nitpick: Although Belushi’s “Bluto” was the icon of that film, IIRC, these lines were spoken by Tom Hulce’s character. Well, actually his “good” and “bad” conscience figures.
Ah, lovely Lynchburg. As Faith Prince, who hails from Lynchburg, once said. “Lynchburg. Where no one ever leaves. When I was a kid, we moved nine times. In the SAME ZIP CODE.”
One of my college roommates thought about going to Liberty. It would have been right up her alley. And I’m not saying that in a mean way - she liked religious rules and settings, and she would have been in a good place.
In the meantime, never fail, when we pass Liberty on the way to my cousin’s in Western Virginia, my dad typically suggests it as a grad school for me. He thinks he’s funny.
Ava
Didn’t you forget one?
Independent Thought will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the faculty administration.
Please do tell. Curious minds want to know what your mom’s friend did to get expelled.
Does anyone else find it odd that a place that calls itself Liberty imposes so many ridiculous restrictions on its students?
Sorry, but I have to say it - if you don’t like it, leave. No one is chaining your friend to the wall. She made the choice to go to this school - I am sure she had the opportunity to read materials provided by the school before she went - it’s her own fault for not educating herself.
Some people might not mind living by these rules - and it is their own free choice. I have my own life rules/guidelines that other people may not agree with - but I would hope that you would not get angry when I make the choice to live by these rules, just as I don’t get offended when you make choices that I might not agree with.
Susan
Am I reading this right? Does this mean that if I went to this school, I couldn’t associate with my own grandmother? Or the other 76% of the population that use alcohol? Wow. Just… wow.
These rules are so ridiculous that I can’t help but laugh.
“What’s that? A copy of Saving Private Ryan?! Get out of our school and don’t even think of coming back!”
Suck her tits! Squeeze her buns! You know she wants it!
neutron: IIRC, places that have rules against “associating with those drinking alcohol” define the term to mean "sitting there with them while they’re drinking, or going to parties where alcohol is served.
You think that’s bad, when I was a freshman, some of our professors wouldn’t let us smoke in class.
(PoorYorick, University of Oklahoma, Class of '79).
Ah, I see. Well, does that include eating dinner with Grandma while she’s drinking a glass of wine?
IMHO, it is this sort of thing, (in addition of course to the "shoving it down others’ throats), that puts atheists in such a snit.
A person can believe in God, and be a christian, which used to mean, (before some of these ridiculous fundies took it for their own), believing in John 3:16, without being resorting to the silliness as written above.
As someone else said, too many deacons, and other religious leaders take it upon themselves to “interpret” what they believe the rules are.
Um, unless you’re joking, you do realize that at most schools nowadays, you can only smoke out doors, right?
(I’m sure I’m being whooshed).
Yep, I was talking about BoJo. They’re pretty out there.
BTW, the guys who run Landover Baptist were expelled from Liberty. That’s where Landover got its start, I believe.
What if you go to a communion service and they have bread and… wine?
I had a teacher in High School, and in Bible Class, he had a very involved way of explaining how when Jesus turned water into wine, it wasn’t -really- wine, it was grape juice. I’ve always thought that the excess consumption was the problem, not the sitting next to someone who is having a cold frosty beer in moderation.
Well, it is a private university.
Your friend is not being forced to go there. If she doesn’t like it, she is free to transfer.
I don’t see the big deal here.
I think some of the rules are too strict as well, but guess what?
Nobody is forced to go there. And students who do choose to go there are told up front what is expected of them, just like every other religious school with rules.
They are a private school, they can do what they want.
What the HELL?!?!
I am a big soundtrack fan. I have been since I was 14. And I don’t mean those “compilations” soundtracks with the collection of pop songs from the movie, I mean soundtrack soundtrack. Orchestral scores composed by John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, and so forth.
It’s just damned orchestral music! The kind that they play on the Classical music radio stations! (Pretty much the only stations I’ll hear it played.) It’s like Classical music! Sometimes you can’t tell the damned difference between film music and Classical if someone didn’t tell you!
What is their damned problem?
Once again, no student should go to that school (it was Bob Jones in the no soundtrack case) if they can’t abide by the rules, and I sure as hell wouldn’t go there (even if the other rules weren’t full of shit as well), because I’m not giving up my Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams scores. And hell! I haven’t seen all the damned movies that these soundtracks are for (I buy them for the composer, not the movie) and I don’t even know what the movies are about!
What the hell. What a bunch of freaky rules. (And yes, once again, I marvel how they find students to put up with it.)
Put me in with the “if you don’t like it leave it” crowd . I knew a couple kids in High School who had pretty much those values. And they probably ended up at a school with a simial code(for some odd reason I never kept in touch with them :)) There is a market for places that strict cause some students want it, and they should exist for those people who feel most comfortable in that type of environment. It ain’t my cup of Long Island Tea but, if you want to try to be holy and pure around other holy and pure people, good for you that there are some.
Yeah, it was a semi-whoosh. I just thought the contrast between my undergrad years when some professors did let you smoke in class as compared to the OP was pretty funny.
Maybe not:)
Gotta finish what’s been started
Up front they were told about curfews, no leaving campus without school AND parent permissions, dress code (business attire throughout the day), and the like.
I do
It’s very stupid to me that this place can fine “immorality” even when there is no physical damage is done to anyone or any property. I can understand a cop giving a fine for speeding or something, but i can’t fathom being fined $150 for [ul]
[li]Immorality[/li][li]Failure of three (3) Christian/Community Services without reconciliation[/li][li]Non-participation[/li][/ul]