It took me over a month before I realized that Mythology was a pile of shit. I dropped it today. Fifty percent of my prof's lectures are about eros and agape, and "love is the meaning of life". The guy is female-like in every way, a true credit to the system. Honestly, this was one of his threats, "I notice you haven't been attending much of my classes, luckily we postponed the midterm, so if you don't show up again, I may have to ask you to produce a doctor's note". :bugeye: I like learning new things, but that course was just ridiculously pointless. I'm sticking with courses that actually apply to reality and not some verbose dialogued interpretation between two dead guys. Anyway, I was wondering who else has found out that most Philosophy type courses are crap. Maybe its not crap, but the way they teach it. And the things we have to read. Things that you can get free on the net or library for 1 dollar in late charges.
Nichoals1m7: Mythology classes are certainly not philosophy focused. They are religious-type majors focus. Those people are intolerable. They get into a wammy-pammy, new agey love fest all the time.
Properly taught, mythology is fascinating, thought-provoking, and teaches you a hell of a lot about human beings and their cultures. And in a good mythology class taught by a good professor, the "great" religions are just some other interesting mythologies that have a tremendous amount in common with the more "primitive" ones. There are a lot of bad university courses out there. Well duh. What do expect from a "higher education" system that accepts such a huge percentage of high school graduates? They teach remedial English to freshmen, for the goddess's sake! How can people who read that poorly have learned anything at all in high school? How can people who write that poorly have passed any high school classes except football? The average American university graduate reads at what was once called the sixth-grade level. That person could not possibly understand a good mythology class taught by a good professor. It's not possible to discuss in such elementary language. When you dumb-down mythology like that, you turn it into religion. This is why so many dumb people get so much dumb crap out of the bible and the koran. These are people who don't understand the concept of a "metaphor." Real mythology students read it like literature.
I just took the mythology class at the high school level and in some cases it was fascinating but again, not really ro my surprise, the lackluster teacher started imposing his own views on the curriculum, doing all he could to try and prove atheism true.
