The Jewish professor

By: Qwaider

On:Friday, April 17, 2009 8:20:13 PM
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Just about every term, I come across someone who flunked a very easy subject, with the very same excuse..

"The Jewish professor". It became sort of a given that Jewish professors are going to make you fail the class. Not the fact that he doesn't even know how you look like because you hardly show up.

And not the fact that these students hardly studied or know anything about the very simple subject!

"The dog ate my homework" sounds like a good excuse now, doesn't it?

People appear to always look for someone (or something) else to blame their failures on. We go on in this life thinking, that is not my fault.

Truth is, and this is a very brutal truth, it's ALWAYS your fault.

I know this is a very depressing truth, but bear with me and I'll explain why.

Our life is the sum of all the decisions we took. Sometimes certain decisions, and their consequences aren't readily clear to you, but with time you start to realize how things turned out due to those -seemingly harmless- decisions.

So what if you decided "hang out" with your buddies instead of attending that one lecture that the professors explains something better than any book and saves everyone 10 days worth of research to understand? Well, people who were paying attention ended up understanding -something- better than you. And knowledge, is always power.

So back to the "it's always your fault" philosophy, which isn't very popular because people like to ease things on themselves to allow them to go on, by blaming the circumstances, fate, nature, god, anyone but themselves.

Even Jesus Christ protested "Why have you forsaken me?". As if what he was suffering wasn't the sum of everything he has done throughout his life. But here we are, 2000 years later, still talking about that amazing story. Had it not been for his sacrifice and suffering, who knows how history would have been written.

The sooner people realize that it's always their fault, the better. Not only that, but an even harder idea to comprehend is how certain things are your own fault, but how you shouldn't be taking the blame for them. Balancing that fine line is very hard, if not impossible.

So in the meantime, until our collective human consciousness reaches that level, we can keep blaming everything on the Jewish professor. Who apparently had something against a lost, Arab punk who didn't deserve to pass, but should have, if it wasn't for the professor!

Memories....

#1
kinzi
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On: 4/17/2009 10:08:45 PM
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"Even Jesus Christ protested "Why have you forsaken me?". As if what he was suffering wasn't the sum of everything he has done throughout his life"

I'm not getting what you mean. He was paying the price for his own faults? I thought that both faiths taught he was sinless.I'm not offended, just asking :)

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Ahmad Hamdan
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On: 4/17/2009 11:36:30 PM
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"The jewish proffesor" or " The proffesor who is stupid" are the favourite excuses when it comes why did i fail my course in our dear Arab world. He don't have the courage to blame himself for being lazy and ignorant, he has to blame it on someone else

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Qwaider
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On: 4/18/2009 12:36:47 AM
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Kinzi, he might not have committed any sin, however, his actions were the reason for his suffering. He could have just walked away and, say, travel elsewhere.

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Mab3oos
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On: 4/18/2009 1:37:24 AM
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I ran across a couple of Arabs that sang the "Jewish Professor" song. But, from my own experience, I really have nothing to complain about.

I believe that what goes on in your home reflects on what goes on in the class room. If your household decries everything Jewish, you might blame the Jewish professor for your misery before even attending the first class session.

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Eman
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On: 4/18/2009 4:57:20 AM
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It's funny you mentioned this. Just the other day, a friend of mine blamed the fact that she committed plagiarism in her english class on "the Jewish professor". I flat out told her it was her fault, but she insisted that she did not do anything wrong. She said that all she did wrong was copy a couple of sentences from a website for her research paper without documenting her sources.
After hearing that, I was sure she was clueless of the definition of plagiarism.

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Hareega
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On: 4/19/2009 12:27:33 AM
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There are dozens of Jewish doctors in our hospital, I worked with most of them and always got excellent feedback from them, same applies to plenty of other Arab doctors in work.

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za3tar
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On: 4/19/2009 9:16:51 AM
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I've encountered many students as well who blamed their failure on the professor's religion or ethnicity while in fact it was totally their fault. So i totally agree with you on that.

However, like Kinzi, i am still lost at what you meant with the Jesus example.

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Yameen
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On: 5/1/2009 11:49:27 AM
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sho 5as il mawdoo3 bi jesus?!! he could have just walked away?!! walked away from wat?? did u really write this?!! I thought you knew better than to say bullshit just for the sake of saying something.

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Qwaider
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On: 5/1/2009 7:27:07 PM
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Jesus had a choice. And at times, even he failed to see how the results of his actions over the course of his life, eventually lead him to the cross

Either Way, it's my interpretation to his position when he questioned god and asked why he has forsaken him. You can disagree or "not understand" all you like. It's completely up to you. But I would be less rude if I were you

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Yameen
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On: 5/1/2009 7:35:47 PM
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qwaider wain exactly i'm being rude? you can't say he failed to see the results! he knew all along! you apparenlty have no idea why jesus died on the cross, and no idea what our religion is about in the first place, if you think i'm being rude then i apologize, if it was some stupid teenager saying that i would have said that he didn't know better, but i thought you did.

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Qwaider
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On: 5/1/2009 7:52:19 PM
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I said:
"Even Jesus Christ protested "Why have you forsaken me?". As if what he was suffering wasn't the sum of everything he has done throughout his life. But here we are, 2000 years later, still talking about that amazing story. Had it not been for his sacrifice and suffering, who knows how history would have been written"

That's enough to show my respect, not just to Jesus, but also to his legacy that we're still enjoying today. I think you misunderstood my thoughts on this matter as being disrespectful, and that's my fault. I apologize for any of that.
However, Jesus did eventually pretest his agony. He looked toward the Lord blaming him for forsaken him. When a neutral observer of his time would have pointed out that he is there due to the actions he has taken in his life. A direct consequence for tipping the balance of that society at that time. He did that, thank god, and therefore he suffered. His suffering wasn't in vein. But at that point, he protested it

Now even though I'm talking about poor students. Perhaps this example wasn't the best choice since Jesus was no poor student. But it's the questioning the "master plan" part that got me to say that.