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10135053

Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:56:44 2017 No.10135053 [Reply] [Original]

How come I didn't read pic related in primary school?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:57:40 2017 No.10135057 >>10135053 You went to public school

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:58:44 2017 No.10135059 your parents didn't love you

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:01:10 2017 No.10135067 >>10135053 You're an Amerilard

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:04:16 2017 No.10135077 >>10135067 >primary school >American You shouldn't be here?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:06:21 2017 No.10135082 You are blind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:27:41 2017 No.10135142 >>10135053 You read Bulfinch instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:38:40 2017 No.10135161 >>10135053 It was written by a woman

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:40:13 2017 No.10135167 >>10135053 I read the Percy Jackson series instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 16:06:53 2017 No.10135436 Burger here, I did read it in a history course in high school. Not sure what OP did wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 16:34:16 2017 No.10135551 >>10135436 I too am a Burger and read it in High School.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 16:39:21 2017 No.10135568 Compulsory schooling and universal literacy memes Tbh >>10135067 >implying our schools are any better

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 16:53:04 2017 No.10135610 >>10135053 Because once you learn the Greek gods were made up and why they were made up, you start wondering if your god was made up. At least that's what happened to me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 17:31:21 2017 No.10135744 >>10135610 oh yeah that's the reason, they're trying hard to fight atheism, you're the underdong that's it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 17:33:33 2017 No.10135753 It's trash. t. PhD in Classics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 17:36:11 2017 No.10135761 File: 4 KB, 211x239, 1506900689525.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10135610 >the Greek gods were made up

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:04:03 2017 No.10135838 >>10135761 >the Greek gods were made up But they kinda exist in a Jungian sense - many people see the riddle in the beginning of the Theogony as a hint in this direction. >We spek tru 'n' fals yz, we ar ze muses

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:20:12 2017 No.10135892 >>10135053 Is it better than any other book on the topic?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:22:47 2017 No.10135901 >>10135053 My 2nd grade teacher actually did read it to us during the greek part of the curriculum

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:28:37 2017 No.10135921 >>10135838 No no no, they were very, very real.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:28:55 2017 No.10135923 >>10135838 >stories are real because they illustrate behavior patterns You are an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:33:23 2017 No.10135939 >>10135923 >stories are real because they illustrate behavior patterns I'm not saying real in a material sense or that there is an Olympus somewhere where this happened - if you think i said that then you are building a good ol' strawman.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:48:31 2017 No.10136010 >>10135053 Because there isn't a standardized test about mythology. That's all that matters is that kids can pass standardized tests so that the west still seems competitive with Asia after all. Learning isn't important.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:50:29 2017 No.10136017 >>10135838 No they actually exist in a real sense you fucking pseud

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:50:38 2017 No.10136018 >>10135744 >implying that middle America isn't run by Evangelical Christians who run school based on their pick-and-choose style beliefs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:53:18 2017 No.10136035 >>10136017 I don't believe they exist, but I believe they existed.