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While he hated the circumstances, Jonas had been more then eager to take on Daniel's classes at the school, as he did have experience following up on Dr. Jackson's work after all. But as he had been composing his lesson plans, he realized there was a flaw in this plan. He'd tried to work through it in the first few weeks of the school semester but he had decided that the time had finally come to ask for help. Thankfully, he wasn't a typical Kelownan (or Langaran for that matter) whose pride wouldn't allow such a thing.
The problem class was Comparative Religions. Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology could all be taught from a purely academic stand point, though Jonas' had done enough studying of the history of Earth to be able to provide examples. Even his experiences on SG-1 would be able to help to illustrate certain points as well. But religion was a personal topic, one that directly involved experience as well as theory and history. And quite frankly, Jonas didn't have much experience with religion period. He could compare and contrast different ones to his heart's content but only from what he'd read. Kelowna, and the other nations of Langara, were more scientifically minded and religion had mostly died out soon after the goa'uld who had settled their planet had abandoned it. And on Earth, Jonas had been mostly confined to the SGC base so his experiences were limited to what little religion made it onto the base. If he was going to do this class justice, he needed people who had real experience with religion.
Alexis had actually given him the idea before the school semester started and he had in fact been toying with it despite trying to work around it first. And now it was time to implement it. The notice was short and sweet, asking for volunteers who would feel comfortable coming to talk to a small class about their religion and their experiences in practicing it. While he'd listed a few Earth religions that he would like to cover ideally, including numerous different secs of Christianity, he also added that any religion, whether from Earth or not, were welcome. The class was Comparative Religions after all and an alien religion would provide a good exercise for his students to discus it's influences, how it compared to other religions they had studied and how and where it could have evolved on Earth.
Once he had it pinned up, Jonas stood back and studied it with a happy smile. He really hoped he got a good response because he was just as curious to hear what his volunteers had to say as he was for them to speak to his students.
[Use this as simply a bulletin board post with your pup volunteering to come speak to Jonas' religion class or feel free to assume Jonas was loitering if you would like to thread with him. If you would like to actually play out your pup talking to his class of two students (and anyone who wants to come listen) let me know! Also, Trip's debut is still very open to new tags, I just meant to get this up earlier in the school semester and couldn't.]
The problem class was Comparative Religions. Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology could all be taught from a purely academic stand point, though Jonas' had done enough studying of the history of Earth to be able to provide examples. Even his experiences on SG-1 would be able to help to illustrate certain points as well. But religion was a personal topic, one that directly involved experience as well as theory and history. And quite frankly, Jonas didn't have much experience with religion period. He could compare and contrast different ones to his heart's content but only from what he'd read. Kelowna, and the other nations of Langara, were more scientifically minded and religion had mostly died out soon after the goa'uld who had settled their planet had abandoned it. And on Earth, Jonas had been mostly confined to the SGC base so his experiences were limited to what little religion made it onto the base. If he was going to do this class justice, he needed people who had real experience with religion.
Alexis had actually given him the idea before the school semester started and he had in fact been toying with it despite trying to work around it first. And now it was time to implement it. The notice was short and sweet, asking for volunteers who would feel comfortable coming to talk to a small class about their religion and their experiences in practicing it. While he'd listed a few Earth religions that he would like to cover ideally, including numerous different secs of Christianity, he also added that any religion, whether from Earth or not, were welcome. The class was Comparative Religions after all and an alien religion would provide a good exercise for his students to discus it's influences, how it compared to other religions they had studied and how and where it could have evolved on Earth.
Once he had it pinned up, Jonas stood back and studied it with a happy smile. He really hoped he got a good response because he was just as curious to hear what his volunteers had to say as he was for them to speak to his students.
[Use this as simply a bulletin board post with your pup volunteering to come speak to Jonas' religion class or feel free to assume Jonas was loitering if you would like to thread with him. If you would like to actually play out your pup talking to his class of two students (and anyone who wants to come listen) let me know! Also, Trip's debut is still very open to new tags, I just meant to get this up earlier in the school semester and couldn't.]