Random Thoughts Thread

[BoringSupreez]

Okay, I don't want to start any religious conversation I'm just posting a question that strangely I don't think I've ever been given an answer to. This pertains to Catholic beliefs, as I know how other religions view Jesus' ascension. I know after the third day of his crucifixion, he rose from the dead and met with Mary and a few chosen disciples, then ascended to heaven. How'd he do it? Put his fist in the air and take off like Superman? Did he leave his physical body behind? Why am I just now asking this question?

His physical body ascended into heaven, so Superman would be the best comparison.

[Luke]

His physical body ascended into heaven, so Superman would be the best comparison.

I hope he did it Powdered Toast Man style.

You know, if I had the specific date and used that as a reference to where the Earth's orbit was, plus using the calculations of how long it took and the speed of light...I could tell you where Heaven is.

I'm not being sarcastic, quite the opposite. These aren't difficult calculations, it's the source material that concerns me. Was the ascension at Golgatha?

Even if you ballpark a "heaven" target, it would be pretty sweet to say you launched a rocket "towards heaven". I'm going to use this as a hobby. Plus "Local Weird-o Launches Rocket to Tell Grandfather 'Your breath was better after you died'" sounds pretty sweet.

[BoringSupreez]

I'm having the same problem I've had every year of high school so far. The first semester, I buckle down and blast through my work, accepting the fact that most of my day will be wasted doing stuff I hate. Around the time the second semester begins, I lose my steam. I procrastinate, do my work slowly, daydream, play with my cat, etc., because I'm just so tired of the whole thing.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I'm having the same problem I've had every year of high school so far. The first semester, I buckle down and blast through my work, accepting the fact that most of my day will be wasted doing stuff I hate. Around the time the second semester begins, I lose my steam. I procrastinate, do my work slowly, daydream, play with my cat, etc., because I'm just so tired of the whole thing.

Do you do online school? I do. However my system is the opposite.

I laze around through the semesters then I rush for the last week or two trying to get everything done and barely pass.

So far this semester is going quite a bit better, partially because they've changed it to a block schedule where I have half the classes, but have to get a semsters worth of work done in 9 weeks instead of 18. I haven't lazed around much because something is always due. Where as before you'd maybe have one or two things due in a class a week, which made it easy to forget about it and let it pile up.

[BoringSupreez]

I'm having the same problem I've had every year of high school so far. The first semester, I buckle down and blast through my work, accepting the fact that most of my day will be wasted doing stuff I hate. Around the time the second semester begins, I lose my steam. I procrastinate, do my work slowly, daydream, play with my cat, etc., because I'm just so tired of the whole thing.

Do you do online school? I do. However my system is the opposite.

I laze around through the semesters then I rush for the last week or two trying to get everything done and barely pass.

So far this semester is going quite a bit better, partially because they've changed it to a block schedule where I have half the classes, but have to get a semsters worth of work done in 9 weeks instead of 18. I haven't lazed around much because something is always due. Where as before you'd maybe have one or two things due in a class a week, which made it easy to forget about it and let it pile up.

I'm homeschooled, by my parents. Makes it easier to delay stuff than in a traditional school setting. When I went to Catholic school in kindergarten, and when I took a dual-credit course at a college last semester, I was much more on-schedule.

[DinnerX]

I'm homeschooled, by my parents.

Hey, I was homeschooled! I really enjoyed it for the most part.

[BoringSupreez]

I'm homeschooled, by my parents.

Hey, I was homeschooled! I really enjoyed it for the most part.

It's good in some ways (flexible schedule, no bullies), but I don't like the fact that I hardly meet anyone. Which is why I'm rather looking forward to college.

[dsheinem]

I'm homeschooled, by my parents.

Hey, I was homeschooled! I really enjoyed it for the most part.

It's good in some ways (flexible schedule, no bullies), but I don't like the fact that I hardly meet anyone. Which is why I'm rather looking forward to college.

I don't get homeschooling after elementary school. Do your parents have degrees in all the subjects they need to teach?

[BoringSupreez]

Hey, I was homeschooled! I really enjoyed it for the most part.

It's good in some ways (flexible schedule, no bullies), but I don't like the fact that I hardly meet anyone. Which is why I'm rather looking forward to college.

I don't get homeschooling after elementary school. Do your parents have degrees in all the subjects they need to teach?

No, I'm mostly self-taught these days. Literature is the only subject I can depend on getting help with. Makes trigonometry and art rather difficult, since I have to help myself if I encounter problems. I'm thinking I should have gone to public school this year, but it's the second semester of my senior year, so it's kinda too late to switch.

[DinnerX]

I don't get homeschooling after elementary school. Do your parents have degrees in all the subjects they need to teach?

No, they did not. You don't need a degree in a subject to teach it though.

Homeschooling was a huge help for me since I'm dyslexic. The flexibility of homeschooling meant I could learn subjects as I became able. For example, I understood math concepts well, but I struggled with memorizing basic math facts. So my mother let me move on to "harder" math even though I couldn't do the "easier" math well. It took me a while to do, since I wasn't using a calculator, but I could do the "harder" math and enjoyed it more too. Gradually from all the repetition I remembered more and more math facts. That wouldn't happen in the school system.

On the other hand, there were subjects I simply was going to have a hard time with. So we worked on them until I could get it right. I was still doing spelling lists my freshman year in high school.

I got to take some classes simply because I was interested in the subject. I took some programming in Jr. High and multiple electricity and physics courses in high school.

One on one help from someone you know and you know cares about you makes a world of difference too. The lack of social pressure is a huge plus as well. It's not like I lived under rock though. I saw other kids at church, 4-H meetings, homeschooler gatherings etc.

Well, that's probably more info than you bargained for.