LateAntique

I'll be in Boston, not at HDS . Good luck!

Indeed. See you this fall!

Don't think anyone else applied, but finally got denied from UMinnesota Religions in Antiquity MA.

Whelp. I guess I'll be creating a new account. Someone has made it their purpose to (each day) give me negative points. There was once a time when I was positive. Not anymore. I'm not really sure why this person hates me so much, considering one can only give so many negative points each day. Oh well.

I hope everyone is well .

I've been attending University of Central Florida for a few semesters now. Working two jobs full time in order to pay for school and boarding is taking away from my actual learning. I'm doing badly because I have to spend almost all effort on paying for school.

Anyways, so I was thinking of just dropping out of UCF and trying to find something a lot cheaper, where I can survive with just one of my jobs while I take classes. Online or wherever I need to go, what would be the cheapest way to get a PhD in Religious Studies?

I'm not looking into being a Pastor or focusing on Christian teachings, I'd like to learn a lot about all religions and not just the main 3 Monotheistic ones. I'd hope to one day teach a religious history or religious theory class where I expose everyone to a wider range of religions. I've always found it important for people to find the religion that was meant for them.

Anyways, thankyou! I'm trying to figure this all out quickly before this semester ends and they end up kicking me out of the school

Negative feedback for posting a result???

Okay, so I Googled, Binged, Yahooed, and all that... and found absolutely NOTHING. I know it exists because now I know of a bunch of professors that used to be presidents of the society... but there's no website! Maybe it's a secret society that you can only find information about once you're eligible to be inducted? Haha.

Pfft. Let's just start our OWN!

Congrats, JDM!!! So happy for you!

Without adhering to any specific Religious system, i am saying this as something that seems compatible with many Religions, because it is such a simple idea, like the 'golden rule' (Confucianism and Christianity) that it is like the things many Religions say, so that it could help anyone without placing a specific conversion on someone (that is for them to decide, or the Deitie(s)). I used my Reason to understand this because i think Religion and Common Sense can and should work side by side. This info i was told by nothing and no one, i figured it out.

INTRO: Somehow, many of the things you see in life, your circumstances, your location, the people you run into even, are under some form of control so that events SEEM predestined. could be predestination, total or partial (allowing some measure of free will for us) or pantheism in real time, God(s) like a person and us like organs or cells, therefore we have free will, or creatures one dimension above us that can alter things in a powerful way like the book Flatland, seeming like predestination. Whatever is out there, cares about morals and ethics. I know this because i have seen coincidences in events in life that are too great to be coincidence, and too precise to be left by any process, but only by something intelligent.

INFORMATION TO SHARE:
*the imagery you encounter in life is important. If you do wrong to someone, someone that looks similar will do that to you. but they will not look so similar, and it will not happen so soon, that you would start to notice this, i think what i am saying you aren't supposed to figure out. A Deity might also wish to make a negative or positive comment about you, this is done behind your back where you do not understand immediately, using imagery. Say it wished to call you a racist, it might show you a tall person of a different race with another distinguishing characteristic like an accent. Then later when you are distracted a tall person of your skin color with a similar accent will argue with you and you get mad, he is the earlier person using some imagery to say this, you have been labeled racist because you are angry at him. For the blind, undoubtedly, speech is used the same as sight for those that can see, as imagery. so, something 'karmic' is happening, and my information that i have, it always uses imagery - you don't just get what you give but you can see it coming if you look closely the right way. Getting involved in looking at imagery is dangerous, though, it can lead to madness. Be scientific if you listen to what i am saying, and don't assume that everything you see is some imagery directed at you, but only if there are ten pieces of evidence.

and don't get anxious. you generally only get what you give so if you are not bad you have no reason to be afraid. You will die a natural death because of the human body you are in, that's it's law. If you are killed in an accident there might (?) be a payment for you for the missing years of life. If you cause someone to bleed, you can be made to bleed. think about the implications of this. It means that people's normal excuses do not work with a Deity. bleed = bleed, pain = pain and human customs from some specific time and place do not excuse you, and your slightest act that is 1% immoral will be thrown back at you, 99% moral and 1% immoral, relentlessly. Even the small things you do you don't notice are returned to you.

There are tests, and traps to make you look bad. Religions say this.

Imagery can be used with the tests, and it is even possible to foil a trap that you might deserve, if you understand what is happening well enough. Foiling something this large is probably bad.

Your mind is being read as we speak and your thoughts are used to judge you. A Christian once said this (St. Paul). It or they reading it has an intimate understanding of human psychology.

It is possible that minds are not read perfectly, and that stereotyping and pidgeon-holing is used to judge people quicker. this is not fair. tough luck, you pidgeon hole people daily and act on it, even unconsciously. You get exactly what you get. totally.

*Your arm could be moved in a way that would involve you not remembering that you did it. This would not be too hard all you need to do is manipulate some brain circuitry a little bit, decrease or increase the activation levels of a few neurons. This means that your body, face, gestures, can be temporarily hijacked and used to test someone over how they would react to their friend saying 'x', without them or you knowing this. This is not different from something that could be labeled 'predestination' or 'pantheism', it is an old Religious idea, something new to tell you, this happens all the time, not a day goes by that you do not see this happening and not understand what you are seeing. It is constantly happening near you. Telling you this is giving some of the technical details of how vaguer ideas like 'predestination' and 'testing' work. and it is not telling you too much either. I don't know very much, just a little. A war could be started this way. If military people have never killed (it is best for 'Them' not to kill a person if they never killed) and are facing each other with weapons drawn one arm can be hijacked and a bullet sent wide, the humans react by killing each other, no excuses matter, each person who kills can be killed. this probably happens.

It is likely that there is some kind of afterlife considering the effort that is being poured into this. I do not assume that it will be eternal like many Religions say, i have no evidence that this might be the case today as i write this.

I used looking at my life and my memories to understand this. I used to be a 'philosophical atheist', and there is no way i would be saying Religion is true if i did not have Sensory Evidence using Empiricism, and enough to stun me into accepting Religion as true. I am not insane either and i think the lucidity of this post will be evidence of this, i've cited Religious materials to show that those ideas are similar, i've thought about and tested every idea i have mentioned.


p.s. i hardly believe all religions are the same they are each very different. there are many people who say they all say the same thing but if you read them you see each one is very different from every other one, 'if it were true'. You actually have to read some of each Religion and decide by thinking which is true. That is what i am doing right now. It is also very clear that science is Truth, about a trillion years will pass on this planet with no apocalypse, which many Religions do predict.

I'll claim it - got a phone call yesterday morning!

Received a phone call yesterday that I'm in at Notre Dame for History of Christianity.

Received a phone call yesterday that I'm in at Notre Dame for History of Christianity.

Received a phone call yesterday that I'm in at Notre Dame for History of Christianity.

Received a phone call yesterday that I'm in at Notre Dame for History of Christianity.

Received a phone call yesterday that I'm in at Notre Dame for History of Christianity.

And we're absolutely sure that Yale won't admit you unless they interview you, right? NOOOOOOO! Oh well

I had a Skype interview with Yale today. I'm not sure how it went; it was pretty short, and I think I displayed neither brilliance nor stupidity. The final decision is supposed be made in late February.

This year all departments at Yale are being required by the graduate school to interview students before offering them admission.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jan/11/grad-school-divided-over-interviews/

Some subfields of the program were already doing this. Although I don't know, I think these will almost certainly be telephone interviews in most cases.

I also just got an invitation to Baylor's GPR Preview Weekend. Does anyone know when other schools usually do their interview weekend? I know not every school does one, but I thought someone might know some pertinent information.

Just got an invitation to interview weekend at Baylor, Feb 10-12. Am quite excited, and wonder why all the schools can't be this prompt!

Just got the last application submitted. There is now absolutely nothing I can do over the next two months to increase my chances of getting in...quite a relief, actually!

I mentioned all (3) schools to which I'm applying on my application. I don't think it hurts you. I think it's just about collecting data for the graduate school. I sincerely doubt any admissions committee has said, "He/she applied elsewhere? Well no thanks!"

i don't know about the analytical writing section, but I think your quantitative score is what you have to worry about.....

I usually feel ok about my chances until I think nationally. Most of the programs I'm applying to will accept one person in my subfield; do I really think I'm the single most promising NT student IN THE NATION?! I often don't feel like the most promising NT student in any given Taco Bell. Yet, ignoring the presumption, I push on.