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2015-05-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students

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Posted by Fred 2015-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 In my version of the Gilgamesh epic it said he sat with the corpse until the "worms had fastened upon the flesh".

It was the fastening that always had me worried. I mean, just how fast are these worms?

Posted by Anginegum Slolurt5448 2015-05-14 01:33|| 2015-05-14 01:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, they've their own mythology. The Goddess etc...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-14 02:13|| 2015-05-14 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.

Current victimization narratives cannot be overshadowed by events of the distant past. No discourse, no distractions, no exceptions. 'Keep your eye on the prize.'

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-14 03:31|| 2015-05-14 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Cue Quasimodo in the tower, yelling "The bells, the bells".

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-14 07:35|| 2015-05-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 You know some years ago I came across G&S's opera "Pribcess Ida" and it was said to be "dated". Turns out these folk have been around a long time.
For Example, "Florian. And there are no males whatever in those walls?
Gama.
None, gentlemen, excepting letter mails –
And they are driven (as males often are
In other large communities) by women.
Why, bless my heart, she’s so particular
She’ll hardly suffer Dr. Watts’s hymns –
And all the animals she owns are “hers”!
The ladies rise at cockcrow every morn –

Cyril. Ah, then they have male poultry?
Gama. Not at all,
(confidentially) The crowing’s done by an accomplished hen!"
And Also this,

Posted by Chuckles Shatle5927 2015-05-14 07:55|| 2015-05-14 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 These delicate flowers probably can't even handle "Love Story".

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-05-14 08:18|| 2015-05-14 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 These delicate flowers are going to die in droves if society collapses... and most likely will with these idiots helping run it.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-14 08:27|| 2015-05-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Hungry Ghost Festival

Posted by 3dc 2015-05-14 09:28|| 2015-05-14 09:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Poor babies will probably faint if someone tells them No.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-14 09:38|| 2015-05-14 09:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Things might have been worse. The professor might have required everyone to get nekkid as a final exam requirement as did one California professor. If you didn't get nekkid, you failed the class. Final exam requirement. A great many universities have crazy things going on in the classroom and the administration often goes along with it. In this case, it is a tyranny in the classroom. A heck of a lot of these classes and instructors have little redeeming value and nothing to do furthering education. At least in this instance at Columbia, students learn about the classics.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-14 09:56|| 2015-05-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 This temple here is surrounded by two lines of ghost eaters. Each ghost eater eats a particular kind of ghost.
I would link to some photos but they are linked to my name so...

Posted by 3dc 2015-05-14 10:10|| 2015-05-14 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 The other side of the bad penny of Westboro.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-14 10:43|| 2015-05-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 These delicate flowers probably can't even handle "Love Story"

Remember what happened in Cambodia when delicate flowers---just like these, took over?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-14 10:45|| 2015-05-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Rather highlights the connection between modern liberalism and mental illness.

Posted by Woodrow McGurque7179 2015-05-14 10:50|| 2015-05-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Remember what happened in Cambodia when delicate flowers---just like these, took over?

And all the other delicate flowers outside Cambodia studiously ignored it?

Posted by Pappy 2015-05-14 11:23|| 2015-05-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#16 It sounds like the professor should do them a favor and call for them to be committed. Obviously they are unable to function normally in society so they would probably do better in a facility where they can receive the medication, electroshock therapy and lobotomies they so desperately require.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-05-14 12:14|| 2015-05-14 12:14|| Front Page Top

#17 I pray to be the last living reader of nabakovs Ada. It triggered things, wasn't my fault tho, technically not allowed in that section of the library at the time

Posted by Shipman 2015-05-14 15:25|| 2015-05-14 15:25|| Front Page Top

#18 If we as a society cave in to all student demands and teach students only what they want to learn or are sensitive enough to "handle," we are going to end up with a lot of ignorant and self-absorbed people when they become grown-ups (if they ever do).

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-14 19:24|| 2015-05-14 19:24|| Front Page Top

#19 I think the problem is that most classical mythology is a story of good vs. evil and right vs. wrong.

After 20 some odd years of being taught moral equivalency and situational ethics, college kids don't know how to process black from white.

Also an explanation for all of those agnostic types...they don't want to hear about an absolute moral code for the universe.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-05-14 20:16|| 2015-05-14 20:16|| Front Page Top

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