Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Japanese and its relation to God

While walking through the Zoshigaya cemetery, it occurred to me that my problem with learning the Japanese language is directly related to my problem with religion. In my experience with religion, difficult questions are usually answered by saying, "That's just the way it is." That answer was never sufficient for me and therefore I'm not a religious person. If something has obvious questions that cannot be answered, it just isn't worth my time and frustration.

That being said, the most common response that my Japanese teacher gives when I ask, in my opinion, obvious questions is, "That's just the way it is." Considering my former job, I can understand answering questions that way when speaking about grammar. When I was an English teacher, I often answered questions like that, but that was because I didn't know the answer, not because there wasn't an answer.

So does this mean that my Japanese teacher is just bad at her job, or that she's right, that that's just the way it is and there really aren't any good answers?

So this is why I can't believe in God, and why I will most likely never be able to learn Japanese. "That's just the way it is," is just not an acceptable answer for me. Of course, in regards to grammar, this makes me a hypocrite, but I can live with that.

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