Message for week three September 17 2024

This is week three of the fall trimester and if you are doing it just make sure you have some sort of schedule mapped out. There are many examples in our own course catalogue which is rather sprawling and heterodox, but the key to the whole thing is we are building this thing on the foundations of eucharistic phenomenology to reestablish the quest for the kingdom of Paradise. you need a 16 week format, you need 400 credits all told to get a degree but you include ALL credits including the 40 you get from primary school, why not? If the course content is "college level" (regardless of who you are and how many classes worth of stuff you have studied) each class is worth 4 credits so if you do two trimesters with 4 you get 32 credits. and work experience sometimes counts as credit if you can explain how it does. and remember its still in the planning stages . you can find open textbooks in various places and you just supplement that with materials that people contribute. More later.

This is an example of how a crowd sourced course collaboration works in real life. The astronomer is telling everybody about the moon when the astrophysicist says, that reminds me of this new galactic discovery by Nasa of this galaxy that looks like (whatever). Then the graphic design person says, let's download a photo for the astronomy page in the Varsity Guide, to which the law student says, what about the copy right and IP and all that, and the code person says, while you google that on some free law website I'll just put it in the draft I got from code pen or github or whatever to which the IP student says, is that still fair use (you get the picture, no pun intended.)

This reading shows how crowdsourcing can go a bit awry. THis is not to say we all have to be Christian, rather take this document as a sociological one in this case about group pyschology or what have you.

Reading 1 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33 Brothers and sisters: In giving this instruction, I do not praise the fact that your meetings are doing more harm than good. First of all, I hear that when you meet as a Church there are divisions among you, and to a degree I believe it; there have to be factions among you in order that also those who are approved among you may become known. When you meet in one place, then, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk. Do you not have houses in which you can eat and drink? Or do you show contempt for the Church of God and make those who have nothing feel ashamed? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I do not praise you.