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Christianity: Is it the "Red Pen"?

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it seems there is a wave of support for replacing the teachers red corrective pen with a purple one.

are christians the red pen?
are atheists the purple pen?

here is one article.

it seems that the red corrective pen has brought about feelings ranging from emotional damage to outright rage.

here's an interesting read: "yeah, right, purple will soothe little johnny."

it seems the atheist feels the same way about their world view as youngsters feel about their purple corrective marks. its more soothing, comforting. there's a certain camaraderie in being part of the purple corrective mark organization.

what happens when purple "dries up" so to speak? will there be a frantic rush to office depot for a...RED PEN?!
 
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it seems the atheist feels the same way about their world view as youngsters feel about their purple corrective marks. its more soothing, comforting. there's a certain camaraderie in being part of the purple corrective mark organization.
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is precisely how many atheists perceive the religious.

Let's see, camaraderie....yep. Atheists build large gathering places all over the country and meet there weekly to reaffirm their atheism.
 
TragicMonkey said:
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is precisely how many atheists perceive the religious.
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well, im' not really "religious." is this where i post "we perceived it first in atheists!" and declare supremacy?

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Let's see, camaraderie....yep. Atheists build large gathering places all over the country and meet there weekly to reaffirm their atheism.
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compare and contrast to the daily gathering of the predominately atheist global community at jref.

::taps purple pen::
 
Riddick said:

what happens when purple "dries up" so to speak? will there be a frantic rush to office depot for a...RED PEN?!
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Red pens dry up too, ya know.

Wait! Is this an analogy? Are you saying...

GOD works at Office Depot?!?!?!
 
Riddick said:
well, im' not really "religious." is this where i post "we perceived it first in atheists!" and declare supremacy?


compare and contrast to the daily gathering of the predominately atheist global community at jref.

::taps purple pen::
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I'm not sure we're predominately atheist. Sounds like a poll question!

I think it might be natural for people to find comfort in the company of other people that think like them; I certainly don't see the need to condemn one group for it and not the others.
 
Oh, and when I read the whole "red pen, purple pen" thing....wow! People are getting stupider by the minute! There are so many things wrong with that, I don't know where to start.

Lesse, maybe it's a bad idea to teach children that how they feel is more important than getting the right answer? That the form and not the content is what's important?

Who the heck lets color influence their feelings??

I'll prove the psychologists wrong by gracefully accepting, and enjoying, their funding money in a check written in red ink.
 
The internet is the only place where you can meet thousands of millions of people, and still be considered "antisocial".
 
DarkMagician said:
The internet is the only place where you can meet thousands of millions of people, and still be considered "antisocial".
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Ain't that the gal-durned truth!!!

Anyway, back on subject - I'm the 'Lime-Sherbert' pen.

Here's what I say on the whole issue - SCREW the kid's feelings. Did he do the work correctly or not?? If not (and assuming no particular learning disability or failure of the teacher), then it's his own damned fault. He SHOULD feel bloody rotten about getting a wrong answer. QUIT CODDLING THE LAZY AND WILLFULLY STUPID - AND QUIT PUNISHING THE INTELLIGENT AND INDUSTRIOUS.

But pen color? Please. My teachers marked corrections in whatever colored pens they had - red, green, blue, black - and those grades and marks felt the same, regardless of color. The worst grade I ever received, in fact (short of a couple of 0s for incomplete assignments) was written in black - and I still, to this day, feel the pangs of guilt and failure for that 65%!!! It was, after all, my own fault.

Now, as to the relationships between faiths/faithlessness and pen color - I think the analogy fails on far too many levels to be of any use. ANY pen may write; there is no correct pen. Is the message and language of greater importance than the pen that produces it? Can a writ of execution be signed in blue as well as red, can a pardon be scribed in gold as well as black?

MEANINGLESS analogy. Please insert fifty-cents and try again.
 
EdipisReks said:
the internet is the only place where i can solicit sex with an octopus and not be arrested.
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Yeah, but that so-called 'octopus' is really a middle-aged, balding walrus... :D
 
You all should become Unitarians - we use pencil; easier to correct when we realize we've made a mistake.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
You all should become Unitarians - we use pencil; easier to correct when we realize we've made a mistake.
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Isn't Crayola now making a set of erasable crayons or markers or something like that.
 
what happens when purple "dries up" so to speak? will there be a frantic rush to office depot for a...RED PEN?!
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We just start marking which topics the religious zealots get right. Takes a lot less ink that way. :p
 
Red pen, Purple pen. Just further evidence that our society is going to crap. We are raising our children to be lazy and dependent. Our primary education system is a joke! And there are so many groups to blame. primarily lawyers! especially where you have one isolated case which causes politicians to jump in and make sweeping laws which do more damage than good.
School lunches were bad enough, but now children are being put on starvation diets because schools don't want to be sued for having fat kids. Most of the time school lunch is the only meal these kids have because thier parents are irresponsible or working double shifts to pay the bills.
And parents!. In denial that thier little Johnny has a learning disability or that they use school as day care.
Special interest group loonies with an axe to grind or a thesis paper to publish whining that you can't allow a child's feelings to get hurt or challenge thier self esteem. How does that prepare the child for life when the real world could care less about your "feelings"? How about helping then to deal with reality rather than shielding them from it?
Religious pressure groups, trying to force thier belief system on a group of varied religious beliefs. Religeon should stay at home.

Oh the list goes on, lazy and burnt out teachers, school board administrators tunnel visioned on the bottom line, forcing teachers to teach to a test for federal funding. Reactionary government officials passing sweeping laws based on individual and isolated situations so they can make thier constituants believe they actualy doing something.

Whew! I got that out of my system.
 
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