Salvation
Well some things change on campus, and some things unfortunately do not.
Today, at the cross walk of Laurier Ave, on a busy and (I dare say) tense first day of class, these clowns decided it would be a good idea to scream.
These people stood on the corner and with a sign, while one of them started screaming 'offers' of salvation to those poor souls unlucky enough to be stuck standing at the curb, waiting for the cross-walk light to change.
First of all, to be opinionated and basically tell people on a city street that they are wrong about their spiritual beliefs, but to stand there screaming? AND...on top of that, use a couple of Muslim girls standing there, minding their own business as an example of oppressive religions is rediculous.
Secondly, I wouldn't even be listening to a prof if they were screaming at me, so what makes you think I'll stop what I'm doing, and stand there to watch you scream your nonsense. Really. Some people just lack professionalism. Because that's what it comes down to.
To be taken seriously, either on the street or in a classroom, or anywhere else for that matter, you must show a degree of professionalism. Just last year, during one week of considerable significance to the Muslim religion (I honestly can't remember which..) Muslim students from the Student Federation set up information booths and tables with impressive displays and pamphlets upon books, upon more pamphlets with information about their religion. They didn't stand there screaming, but they stood there, welcoming and spoke to you like you were a human being and not some unworthy heathen who's going to have a shitty afterlife anyways. They listened to your questions, and answered them as best as they could but in no way did they claim to be 100% about everything. Why can't people just be like that? That would be something I'd gravitate to. Someone who doesn't scream at me to make a point, because then I for one would start tuning them out.
That's another thing.. It is another logical assumption to think that the woman on the corner screamed because she felt she had to grab people's attention, but I think she was forgetting where exactly she was. She was on Laurier, across the street from a major construction site with loud machinery, down the street from the busiest fire station in Ottawa who's drivers enjoy using the air horn a little too much (:P) and trying to get a word in while students rushed past them in consistently congested groups on the first day of class. We're already tuning out the downtown racket and chaos, so what makes you think we'd hear you anyways?
Morons.
Find a table, make a poster and stop being so god damn obnoxious...
I think that's it for now. Tra-la
Today, at the cross walk of Laurier Ave, on a busy and (I dare say) tense first day of class, these clowns decided it would be a good idea to scream.
These people stood on the corner and with a sign, while one of them started screaming 'offers' of salvation to those poor souls unlucky enough to be stuck standing at the curb, waiting for the cross-walk light to change.
First of all, to be opinionated and basically tell people on a city street that they are wrong about their spiritual beliefs, but to stand there screaming? AND...on top of that, use a couple of Muslim girls standing there, minding their own business as an example of oppressive religions is rediculous.
Secondly, I wouldn't even be listening to a prof if they were screaming at me, so what makes you think I'll stop what I'm doing, and stand there to watch you scream your nonsense. Really. Some people just lack professionalism. Because that's what it comes down to.
To be taken seriously, either on the street or in a classroom, or anywhere else for that matter, you must show a degree of professionalism. Just last year, during one week of considerable significance to the Muslim religion (I honestly can't remember which..) Muslim students from the Student Federation set up information booths and tables with impressive displays and pamphlets upon books, upon more pamphlets with information about their religion. They didn't stand there screaming, but they stood there, welcoming and spoke to you like you were a human being and not some unworthy heathen who's going to have a shitty afterlife anyways. They listened to your questions, and answered them as best as they could but in no way did they claim to be 100% about everything. Why can't people just be like that? That would be something I'd gravitate to. Someone who doesn't scream at me to make a point, because then I for one would start tuning them out.
That's another thing.. It is another logical assumption to think that the woman on the corner screamed because she felt she had to grab people's attention, but I think she was forgetting where exactly she was. She was on Laurier, across the street from a major construction site with loud machinery, down the street from the busiest fire station in Ottawa who's drivers enjoy using the air horn a little too much (:P) and trying to get a word in while students rushed past them in consistently congested groups on the first day of class. We're already tuning out the downtown racket and chaos, so what makes you think we'd hear you anyways?
Morons.
Find a table, make a poster and stop being so god damn obnoxious...
I think that's it for now. Tra-la