With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
May 04, 2006 - 12:56 a.m.
No fair. I'm feeling so much better than yesterday but now it is too late for me to write much. Why is it too late? Because I was busy today doing the things I couldn't do yesterday, well at least my schoolwork.
It is always frustrating grading test corrections because so many students can't follow directions and so many don't have a clue how to do problems even given that it is open book and there is no time pressure.
One student did the test totally out of order. He did question 1 parts a-d in the beginning then picked up on e-f in the middle of the test and didn't even bother writing "question 1." He just wrote down the letters. Can a person like that hold down a job?
So many of them can't do the basic things to make things look better. Others can't give answers in the form I want. I told them constantly to leave answers in terms of roots. Three students on one question approximated by decimals then left the answer as a fraction, something like 12.11/75. If they are going to use the calculator can't they at least then compute the answer? They show no common sense.
Tomorrow is the last day I'm teaching new material and I have to race through both classes. I am skipping so much in the calculus 1 class. I hate doing that even though I know that the chairman of the department left so much out last semester.
My mother is going to the doctor tomorrow and I can't go with her. Tonight I had to write a letter to the doctor explaining what is wrong and then arrange for a car service to take my mother and Penny. I have a break between classes during the appointment so I'll talk to the doctor on the phone.
I was pleasantly surprised that Zacarias Moussaoui did not get the death penalty. Now he'll just go to jail instead of being a martyr. The New York Times correctly pointed out that he was able to be tried in a civilian court without dire consequences, a right denied the hundreds of prisoners in Gitmo. Many of htem are being held despite no wrong doing on their part. It is a total violation of the their rights and the spirit of our constitution. President Bush may not hate our freedoms but he has no love of them.
Hey I'm feeling good today yet most of what I wrote about is complaining? I don't have an explanation for that. Part of my feeling good is simply my feeling better physically. My stomach is hurting less and the swelling in my leg seems to be subsiding.
Oh yes one more thing. When this journal had its 5th anniversary I toyed with the idea of listing the best days of those times. It was too much work reading all the entries so I never did it. Today when looking at sitemeter someone's entry page was one of those best days. Whenever that happens I'll link to that entry.
Memories of a Not so Free Festival
The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy - October 07, 2008
On the Road to Westchester County - October 06, 2008
Inside the Madison Square Studio - October 05, 2008
I'm a Bosniac and I'm debating like I've never debated before - October 03, 2008
Islands in the Stream of Consciousness - October 02, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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