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by Cousin It
Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:56 am
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: Technological Renaissance
Replies: 12
Views: 16336

Re: Technological Renaissance

Rather than a 'team of philosophers' they might have been better off engaging a single painter ;) Yes, of course. I painted a similar size room in my house all by myself in a single weekend with not a drop of paint on the floor or windows. That's the amazing thing. Philosophy makes you a slow, stup...
by Cousin It
Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:31 am
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: Technological Renaissance
Replies: 12
Views: 16336

Re: Technological Renaissance

Thanks Tootsie. One of my funniest stories is about painting that was done on a front room at Erasmus during a residential. It was done by teams of philosophers over the period of about a week. At the end the work was an absolute dog's breakfast -- paint spattered everywhere (floor, windows), uneven...
by Cousin It
Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:27 am
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: The Melbourne School
Replies: 208
Views: 362546

Re: The Melbourne School

Sorry. Ignore my question above. It is already answered.
by Cousin It
Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:57 am
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: The Melbourne School
Replies: 208
Views: 362546

Re:

The meddling by your tutor in your personal life is quite overt- you must tell them everything and consult them before making any decisions- the amount of timnes I got into trouble and given punishments for not doing this or not doing what they wanted me to!!In Melbourne this sort of pressure seems...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:48 pm
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Re: Coming to terms with stupidity

Ahamty2 wrote:Jepsen certainly did not have a halo then.

In what way? I'm very interested!
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:11 pm
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: Technological Renaissance
Replies: 12
Views: 16336

Re: Technological Renaissance

Probably the sad thing is most of the people that did all the hard work and made the financial contributions in the 1970's are gone. That's the way with the School. They take ("sucker") you in use you up then discard you like a cigarette butt. I worked on the Board of Erasmus School in Me...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:02 pm
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Re: Coming to terms with stupidity

And why did he need to slay someone with a look? You were adults, that is not how the normal adult world needs to behave. If someone has a question or a challenge or even a nasty cough, or whatever in a meeting outside of SES they would not expect anyone to be eyeballing them to silence them. They ...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:07 pm
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: Technological Renaissance
Replies: 12
Views: 16336

Re: Technological Renaissance

You just have to look at some of the property school owns to see that it is a nice little money spinner. I'm very ardently anti-School but even so I don't feel that the courses represent bad value for money. The Part 1 course just about breaks even on what it costs to run (at least in Melbourne). I...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:54 am
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Re: Coming to terms with stupidity

The bending to authority -- MacLaren, Lambie, "His Holiness" (what an absurd title) really grates and is something which in retrospect is so RETARDED. Yet, unfortunately, at the time it seemed to make sense. Hence the title I put on this blog referring to my own stupidity. A charismatic le...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:47 am
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Re: Coming to terms with stupidity

For my last couple of years in the School I was constantly asking questions in group: "Why?", "Who says?" "How do you know that?" etc. If you keep asking questions like that the bottom line is always some reference to authority: "Because the shankaracharya says so....
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:02 am
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: Clara Salaman / Live in the present
Replies: 33
Views: 60755

Re: Exit Counseling

I can really relate to the points below, especially 1., 2., and 4. Fortunately my 4 children have rejected the SoP utterly. They seem to be atheists so no lasting harm has been done to them by the SoP experience. In an effort to cleanse myself I have now turned to atheism and skepticism. But I feel ...
by Cousin It
Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:04 am
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Re: Coming to terms with stupidity

Thanks Free and Ahamty2. This is exactly the sort of discussion I am looking for. I left at the end of term 3 in 2006. At that stage I was 48 years old and a 15+ year veteran. I was tutoring philosophy and economics and had taken a couple of groups through meditation. I was also on the board of the ...
by Cousin It
Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:48 pm
Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
Replies: 110
Views: 197294

Coming to terms with stupidity

I'm a former long-term member of the School in Melbourne, Australia. There are very, very few things in my life I regret utterly but membership of the School is one of them. When I look back I can't believe how naively stupid I was and how much time I wasted. All the endless hours cleaning already c...

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