<p>Yes, NeedAdvice, she should be happy, and right now, you're reinforcing what's increasingly evident as a stubborn desire to be unhappy with her roommate situation. From what I gather, both you and StanfurdRejector have committed within yourselves the determination to demonize these two unwitting Christian roommates who have done nothing wrong except to keep a vague MySpace profile and suggest they would like to meet Jesus as a historical figure, and you do so perhaps only to legitimize your self-indulgent notion that you are being somehow slighted in some meaningful way by these people who you live with.</p>
<p>I'm a conservative-leaning Christian, and I was dormed smack dab in LGBT country, and I had a gay roommate. Would it be okay for me to be afraid that my roomate would give me gay? Would it be morally acceptable to post on CC.com that I feel that my gay roommate will be a crimp on my religious beliefs? Because, after all, this is a huge campus. I should be happy...right?</p>
<p>The answer to these rhetorical questions is a resounding "no" (except for the very last one, of course), because if I had done so, I would not have given my roommate a fair chance, and I would never have figured out that he is a kind, well-meaning guy who wants to live with his beliefs accepted and not ridiculed. Frankly (and, I might add, with a slight touch of irony), I think these Christian roommates in question now are in a similar situation. So I say again: cool your guns, because while many Christians can be bigoted, so can many non-Christians. You're toeing the line.</p>
<p>I'm sure someone has suggested this already, but what about good old fashioned joking?</p>
<p>Myspace, facebook, these things can't be taken too seriously. I know half the ***** I put on my facebook are jokes, you can't judge a person by something on a profile. In fact you cannot believe facebook/myspace because they are loaded with contradictions. I mean there can only be ONE greatest pimp in America, so of the 10,000 teenage boys that put that claim 9,999 of them are incorrect</p>
<p>My body's ready and my heart's on fire. Im gonna push it over the wire. Perfect timing, tight as a drum, final battle's already won. I'm taking hold of every moment. Given strength by the breath of life. Im gonna stake my claim--I fight to survive. Kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite. I worked hard every night and day so I can plan to make my way. Mind and body are the perfect team. Nows my chance to live my dream. Im taking hold of every moment. Given strength by the breath of life. I'm gonna stake my claim--I fight to survive!!!!!!!!!!!! Kumite, kumite, kumite...</p>
<p>I need to start the Jean Claude Van Damme fan club on facebook.</p>
<p>Has anyone been irritated having a roommate with a different sleep schedule than yours? How does it feel to wake up to your roommate's blaring alarm clock every morning at 6am? What about their snoring? Bad hygiene perhaps? And how frequent is sex in the dorms? I've heard it's quite frequent, although I couldn't imagine anyone doin the nasty with a roommate directly across the room.</p>
<p>To the op I would say you certainly cannot prejudge a person's personality based on her religious beliefs. I was in a triple freshmen year and one turned out to be a partier and the other prayed 5 times daily. Don't be afraid of people who are different from yourself. You might find that you have much in common with them. And don't start college intent on disliking your roommates. It will make you unhappy and the experience will be unpleasant for all the roommates involved. Make the effort to get to know them and they will loosen up. Everyone's nervous coming in! Good luck :D</p>
<p>Employer: If you could meet anybody in the entire history of the human race, who would it be?
NeedAdvice + Matt30: We'll go with Bill Clinton.
Employer: Why is that?
NeedAdvice + Matt30: Because he's alive.
Employer: I guess that's one way to look at it.
NeedAdvice + Matt30: Why, who would you meet?
Employer: You know, that's an interesting thing, because the life of Confucious has always intrigued me...
NeedAdvice + Matt30: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Dude, he's dead. Dude, you're retarded."</p>
<p>HAHAHA. Oh man, that was funny.</p>
<p>I'd probably only say that if my employer claimed to have a personal realtionship with confucious and/or there are things confucious knows that are incomprehesnible to man.</p>
<p>You guys, you failed to read the post where she said her ROOMMATE ASKED HER IF SHE WAS CHRISTIAN OR NOT!</p>
<p>Give me a break, people. I mean, anyone with a brain larger than the size of a peanut can comprehend what this insinuates. It's like asking, for example, as pookdogg wants to use the homosexual example: ARE YOU HOMOSEXUAL OR NOT?</p>
<p>Your right I did miss that post. Honestly I wouldn't want to live with someone who was pushy relegious. Mostly because I am a fan of peace and I wouldn't want to spend the whole time arguing so I guess I can understand where the OP is coming from. I wouldn't rule them out just for being relegious in general though.</p>
<p>Explain to me how the roommate's question of whether she's Christian or not (or whether I'm gay or not, for that matter) is something you can reasonably state as grounds for offense. Even with the unnecessary CAPSLOCK that you used in your post when rephrasing the question (which, by the way, unfairly casts an attitude of "you have to answer the right way or else I'll hate you" to the question itself, something that in all probability is not true) doesn't succeed in making this roommate out to be anything other than someone curious about who she's living with next year.</p>
<p>Once again, you've taken something quite innocuous (and something that wouldn't garner any attention whatsoever if it was from a non-Christian) and turned it into an overzealous attack from those horrible, horrible Christian extremists who are out to get you while you sleep. This is not what Berkeley is about, and for you to profess as such to incoming freshmen is not only a possible threat to their outlook on how they engage people in college and post-college life, but is also an embarassment to the Berkeley campus.</p>
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<p>What kind of question is it? When you first meet someone you may want to hang out with, do you ask "what is your religion and/or sexual orientation?" Hell no. What kind of social skills are that? It basically suggests that this chick is hardcore Christian and first and foremost desires in people she associates with a Christian faith, because not even an averagely devout Christian would ask a question like that. Is it seriously rational for someone to ask a question like that first time? I mean honestly, think about it. </p>
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This is not what Berkeley is about, and for you to profess as such to incoming freshmen is not only a possible threat to their outlook on how they engage people in college and post-college life, but is also an embarassment to the Berkeley campus.
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<p>At this rate, I doubt the OP would even be good friends with her roommate. They might be able to live together, but I doubt they'd be the bestest of buds. The OP will find many, many friends from class, parties, clubs, etc. so it's all good.</p>
<p>I'd also like to add how overdramatized it all is: Oh God, one Berkeley student is saying this..she's embarrassing all of Berkeley. I might as well vote for Bush...</p>
<p>This isn't someone you may want to hang out with, it's someone you're going to live with in a cubicle for the better part of a year. Under no circumstances does it suggest that this "chick" is hardcore Christian, and who are you to generalize what an even averagely devout Christian would or would not do in the first place? Once again, you're placing attributes to the Christian religion that are not true, asserting them as fact, and portraying the non-Christian population as victims. So tell me who's bigoted, NeedAdvice. You're exactly the kind of person that freshmen need to stay away from when they get to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I went to a Catholic school for many, many years. I attended a Protestant preschool and kindergarten. I've taken tons of religion courses. I have taken Religious Studies at Berkeley. I studied ancient history and Christianity...c'mon. I'm an agnostic after all that...because there are reasons hehe. I mean it's not like I was raised to be agnostic...give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit-kat bar.</p>
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<p>All the more reason the OP should worry about compatibility.</p>
<p>I couldn't care less about your background. You could be the Pope's granddaughter but it doesn't make you any less bigoted about Christianity. And no, I'm not going to give you a break, because I honestly do believe that if you were spouting off about more PC liberal attributes of future roommates, a whole bunch of posters would be just as offended as I. And there's a double standard there that I don't feel like giving a break to right now.</p>
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<p>You're insisting that the OP make herself unilaterally incompatible by being predisposed against her roommates' religious preferences without even having talked to the girl on the phone for a second.</p>
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<p>Didn't we go over this already? They spoke through emails...and the first question the girl asked was "Are you a Christian?" I mean, way to socialize. Work those social skills.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't care, I think the OP has a right to be happy and not critiqued or converted when she's sleeping...peace out.</p>
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<p>So do I. Maybe the OP should just ask her roommates to respect that. You're assuming a lot from one remark--namely that her roommates would continue to attempt to convert her despite her explicit request that they not do that. If they were that dogmatic, then she'd have a right to say they suck as roommates.</p>
<p>And you never answered my question: how does asking the Christian question indicate untowardly zealotry of any kind? Not all introductory e-mails have to be social. She wants to know more about her roommate, something she is fully entitled to ask about in pre-meeting e-mails. Has it occurred to you that this roommate can conduct a simple information-gathering e-mail without being held to completely arbitrary and fluctuating social standards?</p>
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Alright, class, who can tell me the fallacy behind this statement and prior statements made criticizing said roommate? That's right, there's no evidence to suggest that said roommate will critique or try to convert OP while asleep, and to inply that said roommate will attempt to do so in the future because of her religion/MySpace profile/introductory e-mail is idiotic at best.</p>