here is sth for a good laugh. from facebook link:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=7002945940&topic=4048
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Kavi Raj Woocheet wrote
on Jan 20, 2008 at 5:05 AM.
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so "profound" that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn't ceased...
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote Proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let us look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze."
This student received the only A.
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very reminscent of the recent theological discussion on sheol....
yes, i think we now know how to get an A from the reb! do you think we should share this 'secret' with the 'new' or young n innocent TEE students???
no i think we should let them find out for themselves!!!
it all depends on whether i give such type of questions for the TEE assignments.
if it was a psalm assignment, maybe something like these:
question 1: Should we pray the psalms or play the psalms?
question 2: Does the worshipping community shape the psalms or the psalms shape the community?
question 3: Do we study the psalm or the psalm study us?
that is the kind of studnets lecturers hope for - not that they take your classes because it is easy to score or that the load is easy or that the assignments are sup-sup-suei but that they hunger for more. 'blessed are the hungry for they shall be fed'.