Another thing I've noticed is that families with siblings identify as a bloc - they're a family.
*nods* This has been my experience with siblings (both me with mine and my mother with hers). I mean, we do our separate things and we have separate relationships with each other--which is occasionally awkward--but I've usually thought of us as a unit, especially when we were all younger and just The Kids. I'm not sure I'd know what to do with myself if it were just me and my parents!
Philosophy of religion is a bit of a bugbear for me, because I really wish philosophy wasn't subordinated to religious studies in the National Curriculum
Ahhh. That is DEEPLY irritating. We didn't do philosophy as a part of religion; we did philosophy and religion as complementary--or really, if anything, with religion subordinated to philosophy, as a subfield. So that was why I liked it, because for me that seems like the natural order. Philosophy is about conceptualizing the world, and religion is just one method.
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on 2008-03-19 05:23 am (UTC)*nods* This has been my experience with siblings (both me with mine and my mother with hers). I mean, we do our separate things and we have separate relationships with each other--which is occasionally awkward--but I've usually thought of us as a unit, especially when we were all younger and just The Kids. I'm not sure I'd know what to do with myself if it were just me and my parents!
Philosophy of religion is a bit of a bugbear for me, because I really wish philosophy wasn't subordinated to religious studies in the National Curriculum
Ahhh. That is DEEPLY irritating. We didn't do philosophy as a part of religion; we did philosophy and religion as complementary--or really, if anything, with religion subordinated to philosophy, as a subfield. So that was why I liked it, because for me that seems like the natural order. Philosophy is about conceptualizing the world, and religion is just one method.