<p>Bear legs? LOL. Right now <em>I</em> have bear legs and wouldn’t think of baring them!!</p>
<p>“okay, I understand yanni” (being forbidden)</p>
<p>CGM, that made my day!!! :)</p>
<p>You mean the real world is NOT “frought with danger”?</p>
<p>don’t make fun of my spelling, its early</p>
<p>okay, they can listen to one radio station, watch one news program</p>
<p>The creepiest part is the students spying on each other a reporting infractions, the more you report, the higher up the rung you go</p>
<p>Why not add this school to your list of “must see”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.soka.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://www.soka.edu</a></p>
<p>From wikipedia: </p>
<p>SUA has been beset by some controversy since its founding. The university’s curriculum is officially nonsectarian, but it was founded by Soka Gakkai International, which provided $25 million to purchase the 103-acre site in Aliso Viejo and $225 million to build the first 18 buildings on that campus. SUA also has a $300 million dollar operating endowment and raised $100 million for a scholarship endowment in its first four years - most of the money coming from Soka Gakkai member contributions. Some students and teachers have charged that the university is not independent from the Soka Gakkai religious sect.</p>
<p>let me read about it</p>
<p>Interesting. SGI paid out the nose to build a school that would be independent of their teachings…</p>
<p>THe weibsite looks very sweet, but when you dig a bit deeper…</p>
<p>Yikes. I’m not sure I’d send my worst enemy to a place like that. It sounds more like hell on earth instead of a school. Having attended a private christian school (middle/high school) that was run by Independent Baptists, I can tell you that I would never subject my child to that. As a matter of fact, because of all the religion that was shoved down my throat as a youngster, my DH, DD and myself do not do the church thing. I’ve had more than enough to last a life time!</p>
<p>I am a conservative Christian and I consider that school to be a cult. Schools like PCC make me angry, and they do not represent the views of mainstream evangelical Christianity. They perpetuate the myth that Christians are a bunch of crazy, sexist, and intolerant people. It is a shame that the “Christians” at places like that give us all a bad name. Sorry to rant, but I am sick of places like PCC distorting the message of my Faith.</p>
<p>D just got mail from SOKA yesterday. It is in the basket with all the other unopened college mail.</p>
<p>Splashmom–sounds hellish to me too. Also very scary. Total mind control.</p>
<p>What is “scary” is that this school is graduating people from a school with no accredidiation- most other colleges don’t accept the courses for transfer</p>
<p>From what I saw looking at the forums and stuff last night (daylight savings time messes up my clock), many graduates go off to work in the “church world”</p>
<p>There is actually a site that is for people who formally went to PCC and found it “odd” to say the least, a kind of debriefinf place for those who went through the school got expelled for having messy rooms, who couldn’t take it</p>
<p>its a pretty fair site, just basically says this is how it is, using PCC own words</p>
<p>Again, how can a school be “Christian” with not one word anywhere with regards to helping others, the very essence of Jesus’ teaching, that is what amazes me</p>
<p>I’ve been laughing at PCC for many years, but on the serious side, let’s look at this from the side of the kids. These are teens who probably have a serious commitment to their religious beliefs and want to remain that way. And they probably have parents who would want to extend their control over them even though they are off to college. And these parents want them “protected from” the secular (evil) world.</p>
<p>But at what price? Educationally, it’s more like the fundamentalist Muslim concept of a school, and the lack of an accredited education will deprive these kids of many options in the future. I wonder if the odds of a student here coming to eventually regret their educational choice would be higher than at “normal” schools.</p>
<p>High odds…read some of the forums for PCC students…they are SHOCKED whneh they find their classes are useless at other colleges</p>
<p>The school has three sports, the boys and girls cannot swim together, no dancing, or drinking</p>
<p>was there dancing and drinking in the bible…guess not</p>
<p>There is clearly no bad occasion to ridicule religiously inclined students on cc few opportunities are missed. </p>
<p>Personally, I would never attend a school even vaguely resembling this fundamentalist college. For me, it offers nothing that would advance my lifes goals or hopes and it is even antithetical to my idea of the good-life; still, there are those who sincerely choose it because it does. </p>
<p>However, it would never occur to me to dig it up on the net, link and publicly ridicule it and its students on this forum. I would be content to pass by the school unless someone who was sincerely interested in it asked my opinion; but then, I am may not be as cynical or judgmental as the fundamentalist-secular crowd that tingles at the thought of ridiculing those they believe they are righteously superior to. </p>
<p>Though I can see no good in it:
.enjoy and have fun.</p>
<p>
There was a lot of fornicating in the bible…</p>
<p>Citygirlsmom–I guess you are being tongue in cheek with the “no drinking” in the Bible bit?</p>
<p>Fountainsiren–This is not about religion in my view. It is about extremism, intolerance and complete mind control. Yeah, gotta admit I’m judgmental when it comes to those things. </p>
<p>Run as far away as you can from these sorts of places, that’s my opinion.</p>
<p>calmom–LOL. In fact we were discussing that at the last Bible study I went to, a couple of weeks ago. One woman was asking what we thought of a Bible story that was in the 5th grade Sunday School curriculum at our Church–something about a woman sleeping with a guy and then driving a stake through his head! :eek:</p>
<p>mstee,</p>
<p>Ill give you extremism–it is that maybe even mind control–whatever that means but in the context of this thread intolerance is a bit rich.
agreed! if, of course, that is <em>your</em> opinion, as it is mine though perhaps there is a diversity of opinion on these things, and diversity is a good thingno?</p>
<p>Ive never quite understood those who believe diversity to mean ‘different in our righteous sameness.’ To me, <em>diversity</em> enjoys real difference in our differences, even the ones we find distasteful.</p>
<p>de gustibus non est disputandum</p>
<p>FWIW, there was most definitely dancing in the bible–for those who demand a literal interpretation of sacred scripture that’s gotta be important;) (wouldnt that make one a fundamentalist?)</p>
<p>Actually, students from Bob Jones, etc. have a direct line right into the White House. They get more jobs and internships as pages, etc. than kids from other universities, even top notch schools in DC ike Georgetown.</p>
<p>I read a whole article on this once, so don’t go feeling sorry for the PCC kids being at an unaccredited university. They will probably be very successful as long as America continues to move towards theocracy.</p>