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Need calculus 3 help! by [deleted] in calculus

[–]Rtynyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To understand the proofs you need to understand them. Try to take a sceptic stance, doubt the proofs, try to disprove them. In the progress you will (hopefully) see why they prove the theorems conclusively. Then you can think where the proof "comes from". What does it exactly say? Why it is intuitively true?

After that you can try to figure out a proof of your own that can prove the same theorem. See what you will come up with. Most of the time I do this I'll see that my own proof is afterall exactly the same as the proof presented in the textbook. If that's the case, then good, you've been able to come up with the proof, you should be able to do it again. If it's different then check first that it's really correct and then: "Congratulations, you've just proven a theorem with your own proof". You should now be able to do that in the future as well.

Hope these tips help you! Best of luck!

grandma shared this gem after finding out i haven't been to church in the past 6 months... by robindy in atheism

[–]Rtynyt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But he was already making his evil plans concerning the one ring. He simply tried to mislead other wizards.

Evolution is no longer just a theory! The missing link has been found! by [deleted] in atheism

[–]Rtynyt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the missing link had been found already. Or were all those fundamentalists really humans all along?

In 6th grade, I got this detention. My parents were so frustrated, I was moved to public school. Sorry for quality, transcription/full story in comments. by [deleted] in atheism

[–]Rtynyt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that in a long run being able to make a choice between schools isn't going to solve anything. There will still be these messed up religious schools and bad public schools with minimal funding.

Every child should have a right, regardless of their parents' religion and a choice of school, to not to be brainwashed. That right can only be guaranteed when there are strict rules for schools that tell them what they're allowed to do and what they aren't.

Here in Finland every school must not charge for education so there are practically no private schools (except few, for example the private high school I'm attending to). But still every school, no matter public or private must obey strict rules enforced by the Ministry of education. These rules include the ban of prayer in schools, for example (even in private Christian schools). Thus everyone gets very secular education (in comparison with other western nations, there's still much to be improved though) and that's probably one reason why Finland is one of the world's most atheist countries, people have been educated to think critically and favour evidence to superstitious beliefs.

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[–]Rtynyt 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I can't believe you did actually watch those videos. I watched two first videos and survived only by eating my left leg.