re: #36 wrenchwench

I had a teacher in high school who would advance the possibility that there was no God in one class that he taught. Until one year, a senior girl committed suicide, and the rumor was she had lost her faith after taking that class. I took the class after that, and I think he had changed the way he taught it. (Hard to say, since I only heard about earlier versions.)

Anyway, I would no more take away someone’s faith than take away someone’s serotonin reuptake inhibitors, but wouldn’t it be nice if nobody needed serotonin reuptake inhibitors?

I caused a middle-aged student to break down in class when I mentioned that The Road Not Taken is not a redemptive poem about the puritanical work ethic and the value of the straight and narrow, but is a nihilistic poem by a manic-depressive who thinks it doesn’t matter what choices we make because all paths lay equally before us, and the traveling wears them all about the same.