Another SMU student responds: there's a lot to like about SMU
girls are friendlier, more attractive and in greater quantity

curriculum suits one such as myself to a T because fact of the matter is, SMU or not, most singaporeans cannot present anything to save their lives

do i think it's a great university? no. that's why it's 50-50 i'll be transferring to *** next fall.

but i no longer assess SMU according to its academic merits, or against the likes of NUS or NTU
because the way i see it, a local education will doom you to mid-management mediocrity, no matter where you read

what i do know, though, is that i'm having the time of my life in SMU
grades, girls, popularity, authority- i couldn't ask for more from college life

and that's why i'm defensive of my school.

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Church stops believing in the Bible

"The Catholic Church in Scotland has published a new guide to the Bible which explains that some passages are not literally true...

In fact the bishops go as far as to say that there are "significant dangers" involved in taking a fundamentalist approach to the Bible. "Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others."

... Other examples of passages which are not to be taken literally are the apocalyptic prophecies of Revelation, the final book in the Bible, which details the end of the world. In the US many fundamentalist Christians believe in the literal truth of Revelation and sales of the Left Behind series of novels, which detail the final battle between good and evil, have sold millions of copies.

However, the bishops said: "Such symbolic language must be respected for what it is, and is not to be interpreted literally. We should not expect to discover in this book details about the end of the world, about how many will be saved and about when the end will come."

Father Michael McMahon, a lecturer in scripture and a priest of the Paisley Diocese, who co-wrote the report, said: "In order to believe that every passage of the Bible is the literal truth, you have to suspend your critical faculties. You have to suspend the God-given ability to reason.""


Of course, every good fundie knows that Catholics are going to burn in hell for eternity anyway, so who cares even if they refuse to believe that 1 + 1 = 3?