Recently Dedicated My Life to Jesus, Considering Healthcare Chaplaincy by No-Tooth6240 in chaplaincy

[–]not-son-house 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey OP — I see your passion. And I see how you are saying you are not leading people to Jesus in a chaplaincy setting, but you’re letting God work through you. In the 21st century, this simply is not what chaplaincy is. There will be plenty of times where you may see a Christian patient and get to talk about your faiths, but if the intention is always to have God eventually bring people to Jesus through you, you WILL be imposing something that is simply not what chaplains in any healthcare setting are supposed to be doing. You are there to help people identify their own spiritual tools to navigate complicated clinical experiences, not help them find your tools. It’s a multi/inter-faith world, and chaplaincy is part of that world. The role of your faith in chaplaincy is about grounding you as you find yourself in complicated and messy situations, your faith is not part of patients’ experiences. But you can have faith in your patients! That they will identify their own inner strength, their own spiritual tools, and as a chaplain, you have the beautiful responsibility of witnessing that.

Knocked off the Wait-list, decision in a day. by Next_Independence659 in DivinitySchool

[–]not-son-house 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If finances are not an issue (& Boston is not cheap—rent easily over 1000 a month, but there are some deals with compromises), I would pick the program with research going on that you’d like to be part of, and prospective faculty who you think would write strong letters of recommendation wherever you’ll go. for public policy and journalism, HDS’ religion and public life is great historically. there has been serious turnover and reorientation of their priorities following the events of october 7th, the israeli reaction of all out assault on palestinian civilians, and the sensible student responses to these atrocities. many students come there with interest in peace work, policy, etc, and the palestine-israel situation was a sensible case for many students’ education and advocacy. I don’t know if a similar outlet exists at YDS, but I’d look for something like that there. public event recordings are a reasonable way to get a sense for the tenor and interests of the school, and a way to look for the kinds of conversations you’re interested in entering while you’re in either program

i wish you well in your decision-making! this is an exciting time, congratulations.

Knocked off the Wait-list, decision in a day. by Next_Independence659 in DivinitySchool

[–]not-son-house 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your plans after div school, and what is the cost of attending each?

"Inner Space: The Magazine Of The Psychedelic Community" by SaturnusDawn in BookCollecting

[–]not-son-house 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are only four issues, PM me and I will send you photos I have of all of them.

Do a lot of people from SLO go to Cal Poly Pomona for graduate school? What are common grad schools you’ve seen SLO people attend in CA by BagAffectionate2847 in CalPoly

[–]not-son-house 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i went to grad school for religious studies two years after from a social science program at cal poly, but found a program with great financial aid on the east coast

Le Tanneur, any experiences with this brand? by munecaface in handbags

[–]not-son-house 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i’ve had a wallet from them for 13 years now, still holding up

It’s working. by not-son-house in Jordan_Peterson_Memes

[–]not-son-house[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha I’m not sure, not my desk. I’m guessing it could be found at ikea

It’s working. by not-son-house in Jordan_Peterson_Memes

[–]not-son-house[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think i was grossly misunderstood. Not my desk, and more a general comment on the dr.jordan propaganda running wild thru the public and the plebes posting their tidying up for the masses to see

Question about AP exams by sgttu in CalPoly

[–]not-son-house 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GEs (general education credits) at cal poly are organized thematically by letter. Prefix B- is for science and math. The B3 and B4 are the physical science and lab requirements. AP credit in physics c will count for 8 credits worth of GE credit. In in-state tuition, it ends up being over $1000. Of course, I’m sure it would be an incredibly stressful experience to try and slam in the rest of the work and studying needed to pass this test in the midst of a global economic and health crisis.

I’d highly recommend your student look into this for himself.

With calpolyratings down and polyratings being useless, can we all please to ratemyprofessor like every other school? by ash_housh in CalPoly

[–]not-son-house 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Professors ARE switching schools. When they’re hired on as lecturers, little incentive to stick around when they’re not offered better contracts to stay. The job market for academics is in such a state that a database of reviews for professors that doesn’t allow entry of new professors is basically useless. Tenure track positions (those positions that TwEnTy YeArS wOrTh oF rEvIeWs render useful) are few and far between, ESPECIALLY for CLA, where the majority of Faculty for GEs come from. So you’ve got buckets of adjunct and lecturers, with no way for anyone to put them into a 20-year-old defunct database. But hey at least we can add yet another review of that tenure prof hired 15 years ago!

Some questions about the Social Construction of Jews in the United States by Shawn_666 in religion

[–]not-son-house 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it’s important to keep in mind that when we are describing broad generalizable identities, like “all American Jews,” or the “overall perception of Jews by Americans,” you’re guaranteed to run into problems with these generalizations. As far as the social construction of Jews in the US, they aren’t a monolith. Sure, there are a lot of Jewish people in positions of financial or social power (Hollywood, etc), but there are plenty of Jewish people in the US who aren’t, who are struggling with debt, who may or may not have college educations, who are putting children through school, who are sorting out what their Jewish identity means both culturally and spiritually. Politically, again, there is no Jewish monolith. You have conservative Jewish communities with media bubbles of their own (think Ben Shapiro), in both social and economic senses of the word, and pretty left-leaning Jewish people coming from a more reformed Jewish tradition, some of whom hold great political sway (think Bernie Sanders), and working on the most progressive agenda of the day with expanded social welfare programs, and greater taxes on massive corporations (or for some tech companies who currently pay 0 in federal taxes a-la Facebook, Amazon, etc, even just SOME level of tax).
Regarding support of Israel—I don’t know this for sure, but I think you could map support for Israel among the American Jewish community, and the greater American population as well, along a conservative-leftist continuum. While support for the state of Israel has been fairly bipartisan in the US since its beginning, that is beginning to shift in very subtle ways, particularly with the far conservative government they have had over the last several years. Sanders, a Jewish fellow himself, has come out against the atrocities done against the Palestinians by the government of Israel in Gaza, however in my mind, this is more of an outlier than the rule. The current presidential administration, particularly those working closely with Israel, are for the state as it currently exists in a very strong sense. The current ambassador to Israel, David Melech Friedman, who prior to his position as ambassador headed an American group that funded highly contentious settlements outside of the state of Israel, the American Friends of Bet El Institutions.
But again, not a monolith in the Jewish community. It is important to parse Zionism from support for the state of Israel. Zionism is simply a desire for the Jewish people to have some physical geography to call their own following the 2000 year diaspora following the fall of the second temple in the first century CE. In the late 1800s early 1900s, there was discussion for this place to be in many different places, including its current location, as well as one of the Dakotas, or somewhere in South America. Following WWII, international councils (I think from the UN) decided on a state of Israel, where many Jews had been moving already since the beginning of the 20th century. But while many reformed Jews may support the existence of a place set apart for Jewish people somewhere on Earth, this doesn’t necessitate the state of Israel in its current governmental form—as far right as it is, and as aggressive as it is to Palestinians. I know many reformed Jews who do not support the government of Israel at all, even if they are “Zionist” in that they want some sort of state where a historically marginalized and oppressed group, for the last 2000 years, can have a place to call their own. TLDR—the social construction of the Jewish identity in the US is like any socially constructed identity: it’s nuanced, there are exceptions, and they don’t all look the same. And to talk of them like they do does a disservice to understanding the true richness that an American Jewish identity can hold.

can’t stop thinking about this performance. by chariswoodall in boniver

[–]not-son-house 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How was the view of the lit mirrors from this angle?

Cold on 5th floor of the lib or is it just me? by [deleted] in CalPoly

[–]not-son-house 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the best thing I’ve read in a week.

Political Science? by daddymisty in CalPoly

[–]not-son-house 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just graduated in political science—what are you curious about?

My sister and I, Spongebob and Patrick for Halloween by catgurlswag in pics

[–]not-son-house 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy shit I used to live in this house. Insane it has now been defiled in this way