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Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast
Starting in November, Queen's University Belfast will offer a course that will use the psychology of the Star Wars Jedi Knights to teach students communication skills and personal development. The university's publicity material reads 'the course "Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way" teaches the "real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks"' and promises to explore 'wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.' The course is very affordable but the droid fees are outrageous.
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Start a happiness pandemic
That is just awful.
IOW. Learn how to be a con artist using this fictional philosophy as a framework.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Queen's University Belfast Community College
I was planning on writing a snarky comment that the students would be better served studying the religions and philosophies that George Lucas ripped off his pop-culture understanding from but the Idle interface has given me something new to bitch about. How long ago did this thing roll out of their collective asses and why does it still look this awful? They should just heel this turd down the shower drain and be done with it.
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Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
These aren't the skills you're looking for.
someone has bats in their Belfast
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Do you have to pass a Midi Chlorian test instead of SAT (or the equivalent)?
Nuclear engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
Perhaps this is at least stupid enough that it gets the attention of parliament etc to rethink the role of universaities.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I think they need to look at the han solo character first, if they're looking for psychology. The Jedi order sounded like a great idea, until we met the Jedi council...
Jedi training worked so well for Anakin Skywalker after all...
As a professional educator, I find this type of class simply shameful pandering. It's no wonder we Americans are some of the least educated people in the industrialized world, wasting our time trying to make learning fun and cool! *facepalm*
I put "Jedi Knight" as my religion on a census way back in 1998.
is yoda-speak english a pre-requisit for this course?
Is there a 'How to make a lightsabre' lab?
(and make sure to follow up 'Coping with Accidental Autoamputation 201')
I hear about a country were a vicepresident candidate want to teach that the world was created in 6 days and that there is no evolution.
Making comparations, this is a genius class.
Course material week 1: Lucasfilm business plan
1. Create 1 fantastic movie using lots of unknown talent very well suited to the role and breakthrough special effects.
2. Follow up with second epic film with weak ending
3. Complete the trilogy with not so brilliant film. Basic plot still brilliant, but add Ewok side plot for marketting
4. Build up marketting empire. Sell toys and licenses to computer games. Revel in the special effects success of the first 3 films. Spend spare cash on special effects empire and loan out for other films.
5. When marketting empire wanes, executive produce 3 crappy equally spaced prequels.
6. Produce bad cartoons when it turns out that your usual talent is less animated than the animations.
After each step above Profit!!!
Next week: Hookers and blow. How to maintain a family friendly facade.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Parliment is rushing back to London to vote on dropping their accreditation!
Brett
I sincerely want to sign in. This is a one day course and costs a little. I would call it a public lecture, if not the price.
As a fan of StarWars I would gladly pay my money for the opportunity to learn more of Jedi philosophy and how it can be applicable in our life.
I'd like to enrol in the Han Solo School Of Seduction.
(He's a master! He hits A2 soo fast).
I record my sleeptalking
So you put on a blacked out helmet and the prof shoots you with a taser which you try to block with a staff?
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"When the student is ready, the application form will appear"?
-FL
a straight A previous graduate of the class returns and slaughters everybody
when asked about the appropriateness of this event, the professor shrugs and mumbles something about trying to be more kid-friendly
and that maybe he should have had an outside advisor look over the syllabus first, rather than just furiously typing it out in one evening and posting it without any peer review
when asked for feedback at the end of class, most students evaluated the class thusly: "showed a lot of promise at first, but failed to capitalize on goodwill and got rather lukewarm and stultified at the end"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Why isn't there a corresponding course for aspiring Sith?
Hmmmm? They have something against the Dark side?
Bunch of damned racists.
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You know, unless they start them training out young the Jedi council won't approve them to be trained. Also Master Yoda won't approve if he senses much fear in students. If these requirements are not met, chances are they will turn to the dark side and use their hate and anger instead of logic and reason.
I also heard rumor that Harvard and Yale have started their Sith Lords training course for those who don't fit the Jedi criteria.
There is also a "Using the Force for Dummies" book that is being written so the drop outs of those courses can still use the force even if they fail college.
As for me, I am a space pirate ninja from 4096 AD, I already have psionics training that far exceeds what the force training can do.
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do they make all students take it up the ass to prove how much a bunch of fags they are? this is soooo fucking homosexual that it screams 'pound me in the ass in the public restroom'.
btw: why is this section the worst looking and worst functioning part of slashfag? fucking bullshit. should be removed. cmdrdildo is a bitch.
Hey, least now it could be legitimate to tell a girl that you are studying to become a Jedi.
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Bah!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Call it a Buddhist seminary.
Put identity in the browser.
When its time to receive the grade for the course, you will see an A, but every employer you send the grades to, won't.
Or is that redundant?
another religion being taught in schools...
-- Sex is the antonym of pringles. Once you pop it's time to stop.
well, not really if that helps americans TO SEE that Darth vader is your father..
and that you should take the red pill. oh wait, that's another movie
there are soo many great onliner responses to this story I cant even begin to come up with something witty. I do have to admit...I got a bad feeling about this....do you think the professors will have sudden feeling of thousands of voices crying out in pain then suddenly silenced all at once on exam days???
Joe Investor
yes ok, I know we are the empire (US) ?
but what are you? a rebel from some JavatheHut's conclave resistance from the middle east?
we will get fully control over there. there are some interesting resources for our machinery.
In other news, George Lucas was overheard mumbling "fucking geeks."
my favorite quote is from an interview with bill moyers, when campbell calls vader a bureaucrat:
CAMPBELL: Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He's a robot. He's a bureaucrat, living not in terms of himself but in terms of an imposed system. This is the threat to our lives that we all face today. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? How do you relate to the system so that you are not compulsively serving it? It doesn't help to try to change it to accord with your system of thought. The momentum of history behind it is too great for anything really significant to evolve from that kind of action. The thing to do is learn to live in your period of history as a human being. That's something else, and it can be done. MOYERS: By doing what? CAMPBELL: By holding to your own ideals for yourself and, like Luke Skywalker, rejecting the system's impersonal claims upon you. ...When Ben Kenobi says, "May the Force be with you," he's speaking of the power and energy of life, not of programmed political intentions."
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Like there's a difference.
Paddies are all as dumb as rocks anyway.
P.S. Fuck the pope!
...the poor and the elderly in the UK are going to be dying of hypothermia this Winter due to the lack of any government subsidies towards increased fuel bills for heating their homes!
But yes, we can afford to use taxes to finance the education system into delivering this shit.
I'm British and a Star Wars fan - and there used to be a time when I was quite proud of being both...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Jar Jar Binks practice dummy.
Hey so: 1) All of the "there is no try, only do" b.s. in Star Wars is stolen from EST, which allegedly destroyed Doug Englebart's company back in the day. 2) George Lucas is allegedly a facist, and Star Wars kind of sucks. It was awesome when we were 3-10 years old. Real science fiction is in books.
No pussy for YOU!
Beware of the dork side. Once you step down the dork path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will!
You will live in your mother's basement. You will never kiss a girl. The only girls you will ever see will be pr0n on the internet. You will have no outlet but playing with your own light saber.
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If this is a joke, it went right over my head. If it's true, I can see some value in it. I was reading a lot about Daoism when the most recent series of movies came out. A lot of what Yoda had to say was in line with a lot of Daoist and Buddhist philosophy.
But did anyone else have a giant ad for the "Scientology Video Channel" directly underneath the story? Complete with the tagline of "Get the Facts?" Methinks maybe the /. editors may also have fallen to the Dark Side.
Droids?! We don't allow their kind in here!
They're just trying to churn out a bunch of presidential alumni actually.
No big deal. At my university (University of California, Santa Cruz) we had a class called "Queer and Transgendered Issues in the Star Trek Universe."
Makes you wonder why Kirk and Spock were always so chummy...
But instead I'm going in to Toschi station to pick up some power converters.
Now all they need to do's hurry the fuck up and invent lightsabers and they can charge what they like!
Star Wars isn't the only Hollywood movie to spawn a new religious movement. The movie The Big Lebowski inspired a religion called Dudeism and their is a Toy Story religion called Universal Protectionism. One can learn about Dudeism at http://www.dudeism.com and the Toy Story religion at http://www.geocities.com/universalprotectionism. I get a hoot out of both of them.