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  1. packsaddle
    Actually, Fred, you're working against your own argument... I like all those. I'd add getting the newbies to find a shelf stretcher for the storage room. I especially like the singing part. Heck, I'd do that for no reason at all.
  2. packsaddle
    MY knees are in great shape. No problems. I wasn't a lineman and I've been lucky enough to avoid the kind of stress that would cause one or both of them to break. If I wrote some phrases in a book and a few thousand years from now a bunch of people were convinced they had deep meaning, would they really? Any more than they had when I wrote them in the first place? If historians studied that book and my phrases and decided they were just poorly-worded descriptions of some food from my childhood, do you think those scholars would shake the faith of the faithful? If I returned after, say, a couple of thousand years and tried to convince them it was merely a recipe passed down from grandma, would I be able to convince them? Given what I observe, I doubt it. Edit: TAHAWK, a Buddhist temple in Euclid vs Georgia? Really, you are making a comparison? I think the concern is paritally for boys who haven't yet joined and whose families will confront this for the first time...with plenty of alternatives available...who may decide on the basis of what might be a misunderstanding of ambiguous words, that this is a niche they don't fit and can't fit...and just move on. It is just so unnecessary.
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    When student athletes invite me to the 'faculty appreciation dinner' I also get to watch the football team practicing prior to the meal. It always impresses me, all those strong young athletes being coached in some part by former, older, athletes who are now hobbling around slowly, sometimes with some kind of knee brace or other fixture to overcome pain or disability. That 'knee thing' is the subject of one of the 'sermons' I give my young, 'invincible' students. I tell them to pay close attention to those debilitated coaches because that can very well be their fate as well....created in His (their coach's) image.
  4. packsaddle
    Homo erectus went extinct around 70,000 years ago. We have little-to-no knowledge of its genetics. If the point you are trying to make is that H. sapiens seems to have similar characteristics, needs, interests, and tendencies today as we did way back in written history, I agree. The other monkeys haven't changed much either...except there are fewer of them and a lot more of us.
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    I was totally impressed when, at a meeting of all the civilian lab personnel, the general ordered the colonel to drop and "give him 10" right in front of the entire auditorium...because the colonel didn't answer a question quickly enough. I can tell you that after watching that I memorized all those answers forthwith (but never was asked for them, sigh). I guess this IS one difference between scouting and the military. So...how about when I sing to everyone. Is that hazing?
  6. packsaddle
    About that title edit. I was mostly seeing if I could do it. I'll put it back if Mattman wants me to.
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    I flipped the classroom on singing. When someone did something, forgot something, etc.....I was the one who would force the entire unit (or dining hall) to listen to ME sing some silly song standing on a chair. The only thing most of them knew was that SOMEONE must have forgotten something...or something like that. The beauty of it was that usually there were enough of them who were guilty that as I sang, nearly all of them were a little nervous, lol. It kept them wondering...I liked that. "to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark, dock, in a pestilential prison with a life long lock, awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock, from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block."
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    You talk about this stuff with your wife? Egad! A wonder you had the offspring that you did. I had a relative who also knew ABSOLUTELY that the moon landing was faked AND he also knew ABSOLUTELY that championship wrestling is the real deal, no drama, no theatre, no fake holds or choreographed moves. But he was right about how much he loved his family and they loved him and he was right about how much my wife and I love each other so I give him a decent average after all is done. It's the very young of our species and the young of the other great apes that are most alike. We just drag the development out a whole lot longer. As far as being created in various images, all I can say is that if that is true, God must have very poorly designed knees as well as a few other little details that 'could' have been a lot more intelligently designed...but weren't...because of what selective pressures had to work with to start with and because, evidently, things are 'good enough' for this species of monkey to swarm over the entire planet in a geological blink of God's eye. I concur on that 'smart' comment: we ARE clever...but we seem to have mastered stupidity as well.
  9. packsaddle
    We mostly play the meanest tricks on ourselves. The rest of us are just collateral damage when grandma wears a thong to the beach.
  10. packsaddle
    Well partly. You are also the result of a momentary lapse in judgment by a man and a woman too, lol, same as the rest of us monkeys. But if what I wrote sounds preposterous to anyone reading this, try this one on: God made YOU in His image.
  11. packsaddle
    I would argue that no existing trait in an organism is there because it caused a selective disadvantage. It might have been retained in spite of having no current advantage or it might be something new that simply hasn't yet experienced selective pressure. But if it is disadvantageous, the selective process should eventually favor traits that impart greater fitness.
  12. packsaddle
    Actually I do put some of the responsibility onto the ASM. If someone doesn't know something, they can't honestly sign off for it. If these two boys have 'scammed' that ASM then this is an issue that the SM needs to address.
  13. packsaddle
    LOL, or as I have often proclaimed, basically we are just a bunch of monkeys. I offer my old cub scout dens as evidence, lol. Edit for Stosh: Nope, never met her but I'm sure she's worthy of sainthood...do I need to explain, LOL?
  14. packsaddle
    Not on Earth Day itself but on the weekend.
  15. packsaddle
    Do you think there has been an increase or decrease in bureaucracy as a result of all this? Who processes these records? Who is in charge?
  16. packsaddle
    All are Gymnosperms as I'm sure you are aware. Even pine trees have a season in which there are more needles shed than at other times. But they just have new ones out already thus preserving some 'green'. The above species merely lose everything on a seasonal basis. The term 'evergreen' is somewhat subjective.
  17. packsaddle
    Nice to see YOU back as well. Yes, it is a LOT friendlier than before. Night and day different. You'll start to notice that there are many features available to you as you explore here and there...I really like this.
  18. packsaddle
    Judging from what I'm reading and the content of those photos, Mozartbrau has the evaluation about right...unless someone can convince me that STEM is best communicated (I hesitate to use the term 'taught') using a computer lab. Fancy hardware is no substitute for- and not really needed to hone- THINKING skills. I could be wrong about this program and how effective it's going to be but for now I'm skeptical (sorry, Skeptic). Note to the website: It's 'adaptation' not 'adaption'. 3-D modeling, fingerprint analysis, for example, are applications not experiments. I wonder what the hypotheses are for all the experiments. It's the hypotheses that are most important. Make each of those topics a 'hot' button and put more detail underneath so people like me can become more convinced. "5 and 10 and 30-minute modules"? ..."from animation to web graphics"? I'm searching for the science in all this. Edit: One more thing: has anyone noticed that the description of Program 2 is identical for elementary, middle school, and high school?
  19. packsaddle
    Blue spruce, red cedar, and white cedar ARE all Gymnosperms. I'm not sure what you mean by "the EverGREEN classification". But they are ALL Gymnosperms...assuming you're talking about Picea, Juniperus, and Thuja - there are several different genera and species called 'red' or 'white' cedar. Most are Gymnosperms though. Edit: I'm not sure what you meant by that anyway. Wanna explain?
  20. packsaddle
    Great to hear from you again, Eamonn. In response to: "I can't wait to be a Grand Dad and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I have a Grandson, so we can play this wonderful game of Scouting. My great hope is that I don't ever become one of the old geezers who stand around complaining that things are not what they used to be." I can only tell you from experience with grandsons (now 3 of them), they are more fun than you can even imagine. I think about them all the time. The oldest is just beginning to learn t-ball and not quite old enough for cubs....but he's grasped checkers firmly and can play a passable game of chess (but he really hates to lose, lol). The other two boys range from talking to infant. This summer will include canoeing and fishing and swimming. But I warn you now...they are EXHAUSTING! There's no way you or I can keep up with their pace. It's time to begin reliance on the craftiness that we develop with age, lol. As for being a geezer...heck we ARE geezers. Might as well enjoy it.
  21. packsaddle
    Oh boy! I think that is the first double post for the new forums. Nice to see there's still a little fallability in the software, lol. As for my old church, if black people had observed what I observed back then, the split might have happened a lot sooner...for different reasons of course. I'm willing to accept the possibility that there was church-to-church variation and mine might have been more than a standard deviation away from the mean...if you know what I mean.
  22. packsaddle
    LOL. I'm hoping that date was supposed to be 2014, otherwise it might better be called 'Heinlein's' Razor.
  23. packsaddle
    We ran into the 'troop only' thing as well. I can't understand why this situation is allowed to exist. Why bother to list MBCs to whom no one outside of specific troops have access? It makes no sense.
  24. packsaddle
    AZMike, that was interesting. Thanks. I guess I am part of the approximately 60% who weren't retained by the Presbyterians, lol. Do you think the majority of leaders who ask boys about their faith, even in the manner suggested in the guide, will have that level of understanding, or if they do, be able to apply it?
  25. packsaddle
    Moosetracker, you state your fear that the adult leader will not do this correctly but you don't start with a presumption that it will be done wrong. Why not? It is being done wrong right now even before the new requirement is in place...maybe by only a few scouters but it is being done nevertheless. Of COURSE you have to presume it will be done wrong in the future if it is being done wrong now. Do you really think that this new requirement is going to PREVENT it from being done wrong? Really? YOU are the one who brought up the subject of 'retest'. I merely accepted your comment and responded to it. I do NOT see the whole point as being a 'test' to eliminate atheists. What I do think is that if the only intent is to make the boy 'reflect' on his spirituality, or something like that, then specifying it in the requirements is a pretty strong way to get boys to do something that is pretty thin in content..since they cannot possibly fail...short of professing atheism.
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