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You fit in with:
Humanism

Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world a better place for themselves and future generations.

0% scientific.
60% reason-oriented.

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I can live with that, I guess.

Any other news? Да, my Russian class has reached a new level of pointlessness.
We are reading dialogues.
Which is good.
In Russian.
Which is good.
After hearing the tape version, read by natives.
Which is good.
After having a read through the new vocabulary, which is always rather a lot and would impede direct acquisition, I'd say. Not sure if Stephen Krashen would share my opinion.
Which is also good.
In chorus.
Which is ridiculous.

And those dialogues are a wee bit artifical. They tend to go like: "Your passport, please." "My passport... Oh, no, where is my passport...? Ah. Here is my passport. There you go." - "Thank you. Are you Ivan Koslov?" - (No. It just says so in my passport.) "Yes, I am Ivan Koslov." - "Here is your passport." - "Thank you. I'd better put my passport back into my bag."

Ok. We got it, alright? Паспорт (which, in Latin script, would read: "pasport"). We are not entirely stupid.

We have also had a brief overview over the wonderful world of the cases.
Now, that was something of a confidence bost. Most of my fellow students were blanching at the idea of cases, as they had done the week before when we talked about the parts of speech. I thought I knew everything about cases. Hey, I am a German who has done a Latin course, right? No problem for me, case expert that I am.
Full of newfound confidence, I started discussing cases with my neighbour, and how scary the instrumental case looked. I did feel a wee bit intimidated when Kristi, who is from Finnland, told me that they have 14 cases in Finnish.

Right. Kristi = case expert.