i’m not sure that applies. everyone pretty much knows doctors and lawyers need to be smart. but what about teachers? if you make the standards too high (in NYC you must have a graduate degree to teach public school) how are you going to graduate enough teachers.
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Beer?
Ah, you can blame me some. We’re actually having a conversation, here!
I’m a geneticist/ biochemist, btw.
Would you happen to be referencing this thread? 
holy shit!!!
thats like wicked hard stuff man. do you teach, do research, both? employed in the private sector, what do you do?
Don’t mind if I do.
Now getting wayyyy off topic: law school’s not too easy. Bar exams are too easy. Two days of testing, and you don’t have time to find out if we can actually research an issue and turn out useful work product? :dubious: (This does not apply to Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Columbia, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oregon, Palau, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.)
The bar exam in California is three days and has two “performance tests” of three hours each of practical lawyer skills. Or they did 25 years ago. There are many very smart lawyers in California. And there are a lot of idiots too! Derp! Derp! Derp!
Guys… the OP is a troll. DNFTT.
Well…
Yeah, I agree. But I’m holding out hope that he doesn’t realize he’s a troll.
That would be even worse.
It means people in Utah are fat-asses.
Yup. But possibly–just possibly–curable.
You just assume anyone studying the bible is “child like” [sic].
Would you pull that with someone studying Shakespeare? Or the Iliad and the Oddysey? (“Oh Emm Gee, I just figured out that the Cyclops is totally like a fable for weak-brained idiots, so I dropped out of that PhD program!”)
Why do you have such a hard-on for the Bible? Are you unable to read it objectively for the beauty of the language, the rich sociology and diverse personalities in it? And for all the questions that are raised when you dig deeper and question your own assumptions and upbringing in a Western society – golly, if only there was some way to research, maybe even study all of that…
Full disclosure: I spent a whole summer just studying the 5-page book of Habakkuk (a minor, nay, jailbait prophet). We printed it out big on sheets of paper and used color-coded markers to connect concepts and linguistic constructs. Led by a Biblical Scholar who was also an architect, hence the very visual approach. Fun (and home-brewed beer) was had by all.
(a fun sommmme people may never know…)
Not really. Aspects of Hindu culture, thought and worship are studied in lots of doctoral programs, most of them with titles like “South Asian Studies”, “Indological Studies”, “Religious Studies”, “History”, “Philosophy”, etc.
This is partly because Hinduism, unlike other high-demographic-profile religions such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, isn’t really a belief system so much as a belief system embedded in a particular social/ethnic/cultural complex. If you’re talking about Hinduism, you’re basically talking about South/Southeast Asia, or at least about South/Southeast Asian people. (Whereas, if you’re talking about, e.g., Christianity, you could be talking about African-American Methodists or Dutch Swedenborgians or Chinese Catholics or whathaveyou.)
So the academic study of Hinduism has naturally grown either out of the study of South/Southeast Asia in general, or else out of comparative approaches to more abstract disciplines such as “religion” or “philosophy” in general. I’m sure that will change with the growing impact of the Indian diaspora, though, and “Hindu studies programs” will emerge at universities.
Let’s face it folks - what **Robert163 ** doesn’t understand or know about theological studies could fill a PHD program -
I’m assuming I can get that degree online. It’s easier than engineering, right?
if they thought zeus was real, then yes
apart from paul and david and a little bit of john i’d say by and large the language is very, plebeian and boring. so that is like 97% boring and 3%“literature”.
as far as sociology and relative merit to western values… seriously, so what? its not like the bible is Kant or Hegel, it’s really not all that hard to “figure out”. anybody raised in america that went to church like 10 times can pretty much explain the bible to you.
you’ve yet to convince me that it is a rigorous or valuable body of writing. a good attempt though. i can give you that.
what can i say? that took more effort than most people who make religious studies, most lay people, so i think you probably did good there. i’m glad you had fun as well.
interesting. how do they keep such a wide ranging set of beliefs codified and sanctioned then?
I think that would be an example of what you’d find in the curriculum if you were pursuing a Ph.D in Theology (Hindu). What do you think? 