The test is done, summer clinical is almost over, so I have a bit more time. At least for a few weeks anyway.

Well, I was out and about today, and passed by this church. I've seen it before, but today I took a picture.



So, we are supposed to submit, and this is supposed to bring one happiness. I have a problem with the submission thing though. This is only my opinion, but the concept of submitting to a deity is based on a human desire to control others. Religious submission is the best tool one has to accomplish this, because there is no way to prove yet that people don't truly have visions. So, control freaks take the role of the conduit, then demand what they say comes from their deity, and nobody can question it because although it cannot be proven, but cannot be disproved either.

We all have a basic contempt for control of any kind outside self control, and bristle at any attack on our autonomy. It is a basic aversion we hold to control of any kind, and the fact that it takes violence or the threat of violence to maintain control of another proves this. I find it impossible to believe a human being would be 'created' in such a manner, then be subjected to the ultimate form of slavery. Outside control goes against our nature, and to counter this religions have their whips and chains, only their threat of violence is the eternal damnation one faces due to disbelief.

I will be thinking about this extensively this year, one of the instructors is a control freak, and she conjures praise for jesus all the time to bolster her authority for personal policies that have no legitimate basis. For instance, we are required to attend two labs for this instruction, and there are four scheduled so that only half the class is present during the practical instruction, which makes sense. The first lab is scheduled before classes, the other lab after classes, and we have classroom instruction only two days a week, the other days being mandatory clinical time. This woman is stipulating that students must attend the different labs on opposing days, because it is supposedly too much for a student to handle a lab both before and after the classroom instruction on the same day.

I brought this up to the other instructor, and he of course said this is true, there is no legitimate basis for her requirement. But he also said she is very vindictive, and didn't articulate compliance, but insinuated it might be the safest route for a student.