We all know that one of the primary tenets of scientific method is replication of results. I’m soliciting your assistance in performing a little experiment this weekend.
Part One – Explication/Demonstration of Experiment:
Part Two – Execution of Experiment:
Have A Happy Thanskgiving!
Have A Happy Thanskgiving!
Have A Happy Thanskgiving!
Part Three – Analysis & Conclusion:
Inform your colleagues of the results of this experiment in the comments section.
Thanks for your participation!
– the chaplain
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PhillyChief
November 25, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Well I’ve tried repeating the same thing more than three times in class and it’s still not remembered by some students.
Lorena
November 25, 2009 at 11:48 pm
I wonder if that theory works on atheists. Christians have told me hundreds of times that Jesus loves me, and I still can’t believe that a dead person who never did meet me can possibly love, or that I need the said love, for that matter.
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Burned 2 fingertips frying schnitzel for supper. Typing this comment took forever.
the chaplain
November 26, 2009 at 12:21 am
Philly:
With undergrads, it’s often the case that, even after one has said something three times, written it on the board three times, and stated it in the syllabus three times, at semester’s end, a substantial number of students will say, “But, you never told me this was important!”
Lorena:
Since you celebrated Thanksgiving several weeks ago and probably won’t be doing so again this weekend (especially with burnt fingers), maybe you can ponder this while I feast with my family: do Christians repeat their mantras so often because we need to hear them, or because they need to hear them?
PhillyChief
November 26, 2009 at 10:55 am
I’d actually settle with that over “I never heard that before.”
Frank DN
November 26, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Repetition is a major part of learning lines for a play. I just finished performing in The Mousetrap a couple of weeks ago, it was the twelfth show I’ve been in. Learning all the lines in the entire show is usually necessary and is usually mainly achieved by repetition. You go over and over and over the same things so many times that they become second nature. That way, when you’re performing, you don’t even think about what you’re saying or what you’re going to say next, you just say it.
It seems to me most religion is the same way, just keep going over the same things over and over until they’re second nature. Then whenever needed, they just come flowing out without even thinking about them.
The thing is, after the show ends, and the constant repetition stops, you gradually start losing that ability to just say it anymore, you have to actually think to remember a line.
I think that’s what happens in religion as well, thus the constant reminders.
Lorena
November 26, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I think that’s what happens in religion as well, thus the constant reminders.
In which case, the believers in affirmations for helping you, say, lose weight are right. If you keep telling yourself, “I love eating vegetables and fruits,” it will become second nature and you will actually lose weight by eating healthy food, will you?
cl
November 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Enjoy the day Chappy, and it looks like I owe you a beer – if you remember what that’s about. Hush, hush though… she doesn’t want to know until delivery day… Enjoy the day Chappy, and it looks like I owe you a beer – if you remember what that’s about. Hush, hush though… she doesn’t want to know until delivery day… Enjoy the day Chappy, and it looks like I owe you a beer – if you remember what that’s about. Hush, hush though… she doesn’t want to know until delivery day.
Convinced?
cl
November 26, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Actually Chappy, you owe us diapers! I forgot what you’d bet!
(((Billy)))
November 26, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Happy National Turkey Genocide Day to all.
Happy National Turkey Genocide Day to all.
Happy National Turkey Genocide Day to all.
Frank DN
November 26, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I’m pretty sure that isn’t what I said or meant.
the chaplain
November 26, 2009 at 9:18 pm
cl:
Congratulations, daddy-o! It looks like we both won the bet!
Ordinary Girl
November 30, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Amazingly it worked!
Or maybe it was just coincidence.