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Yes, it's housing through the school. I don't think anyone would put up with campus people raiding your off campus house
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People who go to that crazy ass school probably would
 
Originally posted by: shud
Originally posted by: BroeBo
Originally posted by: shud
Originally posted by: BroeBo

It will be funny when the kid comes out of that school (most likely their parents sent them there) and they encounter what I like to call "the real world". BJU sounds like an extended boarding school. I also read somewhere that they do surprise checks of your rooms to make sure they don't have anything against school policy. Talk about some boring college years. G movies in college?!! pffft!
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Exactly my point on page 2.

Also, my school does psuedo-surprise checks from time to time. They stopped into our house a few times over the summer and dropped $75 citations on us because 2 of my room mates live like cavemen. The third time, they found 3 kegs in the basement from a party that happened while I was away. OOPS! $200/keg for the Captain Cavemen.
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This is college housing I hope! I used to live in a few dorms and I knew people that never once cleaned their room. Total fvcking nastiness but the college didn't care as long as they paid and were not breaking any fire codes. They can be fined for not cleaning at the end of the year though.
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Yes, it's housing through the school. I don't think anyone would put up with campus people raiding your off campus house. 🙂
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You can't live in an off campus house
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
I'm a conservative Christian and I think Bob Jones is way overboard, but I also don't see threads making fun of the conservative dress and traditions of American Muslims or Hindus or other religions. Why is this one allowed and those are not? It's a cultural thing in both cases. Yeah, they may be in the US, but they abide by an entirely different set of cultural rules. There's nothing inherently wrong in that. Wrong things can and often do come from it, but there's nothing inherently wrong in a different value structure from another "culture".
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If somebody posted a similar link for a Muslim or Hindu college I'd chuckle just as much at it. There may not be anything wrong with it, but there's not anything wrong with me finding it amusing either 😛
 
can somebody pleeease explain the trigger lock thing to me??? No dvd players...no movies...you can't touch liquor, you have to have a PrayerCommander or whatever, you have to wear 3 layers of clothes at all times...but if you want to bring your Glock..it's legit, as long as you have a trigger lock??

I'm not making fun of their values, if you want to go to that college, then you accept their rules, and regulations...but that might be the only college I've heard of where you can bring a firearm...
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
I'm a conservative Christian and I think Bob Jones is way overboard, but I also don't see threads making fun of the conservative dress and traditions of American Muslims or Hindus or other religions. Why is this one allowed and those are not? It's a cultural thing in both cases. Yeah, they may be in the US, but they abide by an entirely different set of cultural rules. There's nothing inherently wrong in that. Wrong things can and often do come from it, but there's nothing inherently wrong in a different value structure from another "culture".
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Also, they are completely forthright about what they are up to. Nobody shows up a Bob Jones U on the first day with a shotgun, a stack of porn DVDs and a bong and is surprised to get in trouble about. Now if they were advertising themselves as a "normal" college, that would be quite different.

Someone asked who goes there. People who agree with their puritanical beliefs. Everyone likes to associate with likeminded folk - Christian fundamentalists are no exception. I've known a few people who went there.

Actually, one guy is openly gay now.
 
Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/rhall.html

# Posters of movie and music stars and fashion models are not permitted. The subjects of personal photos should exhibit the modesty and appropriate physical contact we expect from our students.
# Music must be compatible with the University's music standards:

* New Age, jazz, rock, and country music is not permitted.
* Contemporary Christian music is not permitted (e.g., Michael W. Smith, Stephen Curtis Chapman, WOW Worship, and so forth).

# Televisions and DVD/videocassette players are not permitted in the residence halls; computer DVD players may not be used to view movies

Residence hall students may not watch videos above a G rating when visiting homes in town and may not attend movie theaters
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I would get kicked out the first five minutes I was there.
 
I went to a school that had just lifted its ban on dancing a year before I started. You were not allowed to smoke/drink on or off campus (even if you were 21+).

You had to attend chapel 2x a week too.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: HotChic
I'm a conservative Christian and I think Bob Jones is way overboard, but I also don't see threads making fun of the conservative dress and traditions of American Muslims or Hindus or other religions. Why is this one allowed and those are not? It's a cultural thing in both cases. Yeah, they may be in the US, but they abide by an entirely different set of cultural rules. There's nothing inherently wrong in that. Wrong things can and often do come from it, but there's nothing inherently wrong in a different value structure from another "culture".
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Also, they are completely forthright about what they are up to. Nobody shows up a Bob Jones U on the first day with a shotgun, a stack of porn DVDs and a bong and is surprised to get in trouble about. Now if they were advertising themselves as a "normal" college, that would be quite different.

Someone asked who goes there. People who agree with their puritanical beliefs. Everyone likes to associate with likeminded folk - Christian fundamentalists are no exception. I've known a few people who went there.

Actually, one guy is openly gay now.
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Two excellent replies. I hope people realize that BJU represents a very small minority of Christians.

Pensacola Christian College's rules are also good for a laugh. There's a website that lists all of the good ones, but I have no idea what the URL was.

Al Franken had a funny chapter about BJU in his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
I don't really grok all the people making fun of them.

if their choices don't infringe on your life, who cares what they do?
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People make fun of them because it's funny. Obviously...
 
Originally posted by: dmw16
How could anyone stand it? I wonder if the chicks there are closet freaky 😉
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Probably, there is no way these rules are actually followed. Even the biggest christian cult follower couldn't keep to all of these rules.
 
I live in Greenville, SC the same city that BJU is in, and its a JOKE everywhere around town. Its actually funny, if you drive around that side of town, you can pick out the BJU girls because they wear these long jean skirts that go down to their ankles... and they usually walk around in packs.

I know several girls who have gone there, and most of them were a lot more freaky than normal... The guys were about 50/50 being crazy/being stereotypically "BJ" as its known around here...
 
I'm not judging the school and the people who go there - whatever. But why ban Jazz? Not the Blues...just Jazz? Makes no sense to me; can anyone enlighten me?
 
Originally posted by: Ketteringo
Poor brain washed kids 🙁

I'd go insane if I had to spend a day there!
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i went to a christian school that was almost that bad, an experience i do not wish upon my children.
 
Originally posted by: ToastedMilk
I'm not judging the school and the people who go there - whatever. But why ban Jazz? Not the Blues...just Jazz? Makes no sense to me; can anyone enlighten me?
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Even fundies know better than to try to ban the blues south of the Mason-Dixon line.
 
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