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[aviolentrage]

Yeah...haven't updated for a couple days, so I guess I'll do so now.

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Part 1

[rallium]

As far as I know, my major is English. But my paperwork seems to state my major as being "communications." I'm not too sure, but I think there's a pretty big difference between the two. My mom once explained to me a type of student loan people can get which does not incur any interest while you're in school--unless you change your major. I know it's a loan I haven't signed up for (at least I think I haven't signed up for it,) but I would entertain the concept of weighing together "sticking with what's in the paperwork" to avoid financial issues that could take a while to sort out against "doing what I want," where I have the paperwork changed so that my major is what I wanted it to be and I incur interest rates from hell.

I've decided for myself that I would rather go for the latter. The debt won't be forever, but my career could very well be. And I'm telling you this because you sound like you're considering something less appealing than what you really want. Are you sure you wouldn't be so fortunate as to find a self-

Re: Part 1

[aviolentrage]

I want to do Japanese, hence the idea for it being a minor--maybe I could pick it up again at a later date, either at another university or if more is offered at Oakland. See, I want to talk to the international studies advisors about careers the available majors would open up; however, there is NOT a Japanese language major per se at my school, so I couldn't teach the Japanese language regardless.

Part 2

[rallium]

I don't know. Karma!

I have a site that explains a lot about Buddhism. Let me dig it up real quick. Ahh, here we are. I haven't finished reading it myself, yet. My personal concept of Karma works kind of like this: Being good to someone will increase the chances that that person will be good to another person (which starts an endless wave of chances of the person treated nicely treating the next person nicely.) There is a chance that the wave of 'good' you just initiated will circle around and catch you in the tide. I wouldn't say it's guaranteed, though. Because we are only in control of ourselves, not others. If someone treats another person horribly, that starts a similar wave which you may get caught up in even though you haven't done anything to deserve it. (Which really enables one to question why they should continue to be good.) So, I personally believe that acting good is more beneficial to the next person than it is to yourself (depending on how one looks at it--is one really acting good for benefits at all

Re: Part 2

[aviolentrage]

You took my question in a way that I very consciously tried to avoid, so allow me to clarify a bit. I'm not stating that we need karma in order to motivate ourselves to do good things: in fact, I explicitly stated that there's often intrinsic value in the act itself of doing a good deed. (I do think there's an unsubtle difference between consciously doing 'good deeds' as though they're an exception and living a virtuous life, but that's not the point.)

What I'm saying is that it seems religion and philosophies often introduce concepts of justice and morality because it's so hard for us to accept that benevolence in general could go unrewarded, whether in reference to ourselves, those we love, or just a character on a television show. We need the inner peace that comes with recognizing some kind of order to the universe.

[ebattousai]

I took a course (correction: started to take a course, then dropped it) on Buddhism, and found that the Buddha did not necessarily believe in reincarnation, though I don't know what impact that has on Buddhism and karma... anyways, what was my point?

Yes people need to live more righteous lives. Lest we blow up the outside world.

[ogiwij]

can we do it now?

Oh, and I found this.

[rallium]

While digging for that other link, I found this. http://www.whatisobjectivism.com/consequences/index.htm

Later, sir!

[spunkymonkey]

You know, when you think about it, even a lot of contemporary religions have been shifting away from "a moral life and great works," at least in my experience, and seem to say that your belief and acceptance and fidelity to the church/God are infinitely more important than what naughty sins you slip up and commit. In a way, I think I'd prefer it if they were less worried about who's given themselves to God and more concerned with living a more "righteous" life. Wouldn't everyone be happier that way? The world might clean itself up a bit if everyone was behaving himself, and I for one wouln't have to worry about being preached to. Then again, maybe it'd eliminate some of the humility that they may have. I haven't really encountered as much of that, however...

What am I talking about... it's just my little "what if" of the day.
Please enjoy yourself on the job, and good luck with college stuff. :)