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ilikebeeef

ilikebeeef

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    Probably further study, I guess. I'm majoring in Italian so I'd like to go maybe to Italy to study philosophy or history or something, do a masters and such. Would be an adventure, at any rate. :p
    S
    Ah, it's a very nice looking place, it's more convenient to travel to from the suburbs and it's a great uni, facilities are nice. :)

    And wow, lots of maths and science. Jolly good. :p I suppose it's all more useful than artsy stuff. :p
    S
    Fair enough. USyd is a very nice place but I say that because I go there. :p

    What HSC subjects are you doing?
    S
    Um, I did 4 Unit English, Ancient History, History Extension, Maths and Legal Studies. :)

    And yes I think it was my parents. I was essentially a social experiment, of sorts. :p

    What are you looking at doing at uni?
    S
    I got 89.10 as a UAI. I was 14 when I did it though. I was accelerated through primary school, so I started high school when I was 7 I think. It was hard at times and awesome at others, but socially it can really mess you up.

    Uni is great, though. It's not as hard when you get there, because I found the age gap wasn't as huge and people don't so much care. :p

    Are you doing the HSC this year?
    x jiim
    eh, aren't all religious ed teachers biased? we had scripture in yr7-8, but the entire school has to go to some service once a term- there's protestant, catholic, hindu, buddhist and muslim, plus non-scripture for 7-10s with notes and comparative for seniors, which is what I went to =\

    are you religious yourself?
    S
    Yeah, exactly. They are hugely blurred, to be honest. I don't believe in a higher being because there is no rational or scientific evidence that there is one, but that is not to say that there isn't one, it just means that the ones that currently are worshipped are not supported by a shred of evidence. :p

    And yeah, I was accelerated. :p I'm doing a good ol' BArts at the moment. xD
    S
    Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens really are great thinkers on the subject to look at. :)

    Um, in terms of agnosticism and atheism, I really think of atheism as a lack of belief due to a lack of evidence. That is, I am an atheist and not an agnostic because I believe that there is [a] no evidence whatsoever for any of the concepts of God that I have encountered and a wealth of evidence to suggest that the religious account (man in his own image, no evolution, etc) is wrong and that a natural birth of the universe is more likely.

    So really, I don't know. I think it's really a hair-splitting thing, in regards to labeling yourself. "I'm agnostic about God in the same way I'm agnostic about fairies", as Dawkins says. :p I don't know that fairies don't exist but there's no good reason to do so. In that sense, atheism and agnosticism overlap hugely.

    It's really muddy. xD


    And yeah I'm 16; 17 soonish. Why do you ask? :p
    x jiim
    Oh gosh, I completely forgot about those other topics. Shows how much I've been paying attention in class ==

    Hmm, maybe if you're inconspicuous enough to not be noticed. But I got stuck being preached to by some Christian who told us that if we didn't believe in God we were purposeless and like rocks, so =\ Do you have church service stuff at your school?
    GUSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    hahaha i just read ur "discussion" with schoey93 in the "debate about aerath's moderating etc etc" thread
    i wanted to rep you, and you thoroughly deserved it, but sadly i cudnt =[[

    so instead, here's a congratulatory visitor message ^_^
    x jiim
    Hmm, have you just done complex numbers and conics then?
    Haha, it's possible. Maybe not the hsc itself, but I swear they make our topic tests super-hard so we freak out and study more == Plus, it was after church service which turned our brains to slush D:
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