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elsphit
http://naoko-sushi-roma.blogspot.com/

You didn’t want to cause a disturbance. Yes. I understand.

Shaman,

Too bad you’re done. So I’ll have to content myself in infering that since it seems to be a lack of manners; then it would be proper for the professor to point out such behavior and try to correct it. OK.

And I actually understand the need for tolerance. I remember that I wrote here about the saga of Dwayne Simonton. I believe his ordeal was a terrible story of discrimination and lack of tolerance of his officemates.

Vic, I’m happy for you that you experienced tolerance and enjoyed it. I tell you, if people could be more tolerant of each other, there would be greater peace and happiness in this world.

Justice League, of course, those who felt offended thought they had valid reasons. But as Fr. Cuyos has said, there was never an intention to offend. If only those who were offended could be more tolerant, they would have been spared a lot of ill-feelings. Ask Vic about the virtues of tolerance. He has experienced it and enjoyed it.

Also, remaining seated while others stand and pray only shows one’s lack of good manners. Talking in the face of a request for silence bespeaks one’s lack of good breeding.

Thank you, Bencard. As you have rightly said, political correctness, if taken to extreme, would only mean paralysis. Or else, people could never be their authentic selves anymore in public. Magkakaplastikan na for fear of “offending” somebody, even if one never had the intention to offend. Human beings would be reduced to walking mannequins. Life would become just one big Theatre of the Absurd.

No, the world is too beautiful to be reduced to absurdity.

As promised, I’m done.

Are you in effect stating that you would feel that you would be disrespecting your classsmates and/or your catholic school if you did not stand up along with your classmates while they prayed?

(I’m not trying to push you to a corner but I’m trying to find out why Dra. Termulo felt the way she did.)

Sometimes, I’d lead the prayer in Latin, just to freak them out. The Prayer of St. Benedict rocks, especially when you look at the prof and shout “Vade Retro Satana!”

“I say, you can only demand political correctness if you have political clout, as when politicians pander to you for political favors that they think you can give. This is not saying, though, that one does not have a “choice” to feel offended. But if he does make that choice, that’s his personal problem and no one else’s”

Interesting stand. Would you agree, then, that Christians in Malaysia should simply put up with the many restrictions on their spiritual practice? After all, like you said, they have no political favors to give to the majority Muslim population! Using your logic, their position in society is their personal problem and no one else’s! Right?