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  1. Goodness, if only there had been some advance notice of this deadline...
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  2. Barry, Gender dysphoriais an emotional and psychological condition experienced when a person's gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. It is a recognized condition. So to not support a youth with gender dysphoria will harm that youth. There have been some people who believe that some youth are being diagnosed as gender dysphoria who might not actually have the condition. One must be an expert to determine what is the appropriate diagnosis - something that adult volunteers are not able to do unless they are a child psychiatrist or psychologist. So to best support
    3 points
  3. Thank the complaining parents for volunteering to run the Pinewood Derby and tell them you'll forward their names to the Pack Committee for further consideration.
    2 points
  4. It depends. For Computers / Digital Technology, a Scout could earn both, but only if the Scout began actual and purposeful effort on the Computers merit badge prior to December 31, 2014. source: Bryan on Scouting: Time running out to earn Computers merit badge Not sure about Atomic Energy / Nuclear Science, but Atomic Energy was discontinued in 2005. The general rule is that a Scout must begin working on a merit badge before the date that it is discontinued. A Scout today would not be able to start working on it and earn it. For Cinematography / Moviemaking, Scouts would
    2 points
  5. In 10-15 years the scouts won’t necessarily remember what place they took but they will remember the memories of working on the PWD car with their parent(s). If some dad takes that away from their son it is a loss for them. I remember working with my father on my PWD over 30 years ago and am building memories with my son these last few years. I feel bad for the adults (and youth) where the parent takes over 100%.... I’m not jealous of them at all.
    1 point
  6. Really? It's that hard to believe? Let me think of some possible point-by-points that may not make your parents happy, but should help you set a desirable tone. Dads build the cars, it's not fair. Correction: some dads build the cars. I hear from strangers on the internet that some moms do too. Well, is it fair that Johnny loses a finger because his hand-eye is not quite there yet? Thank God they do! Otherwise some of these boys would win too easily. Mr. Smith clearly built his son's winning car, you should not allow that. Facts not in evidence. Ta
    1 point
  7. Have you tried holding a separate race for parents? That takes a lot of the "dad won't even let me touch the car" pressure off.
    1 point
  8. Barry isn't defending slavery, he's asking a question, namely, how do we know something is bad.
    1 point
  9. You really need to volunteer at the district level to understand what seems so simple. It's a life changing experience. Districts are manned by volunteers of all ages, experiences, and skills. Or lack there of. If anything, Council needs to give more direction to the district training program. But even then, the council training committee is led by volunteers. And, while Council has the professionals to encourage quality of the process, Council level quality is subjective to Council Leadership philosophy. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just pointing out the challenge of the task.
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  10. Back to the topic of Lawnmower Parents, my new favorite commercial from Aldi.
    1 point
  11. Two grandsons new in a cub pack. There are (horrors!) girls. No one seems to notice. They do stuff together. It's almost as if it's not unnatural.
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  12. Barry; I appreciate your calm response with what seems to me to be the simple truth. As our society and perspectives within it change, established groups may need to adjust or evolve. But the key is the latter, rather than to be pushed and shoved by political entities or selfish and obdurate egos or power mongers. JMHO of course.
    1 point
  13. Congratulations! And It's about time! We deal with it constantly in this postmodern culture. And, we follow the G2A, although that even falls short for youth who are more or less emancipated. Sometimes, even the SM will write the reference. In the ancient world, we would not be interested in your "religious leader" so much as your confessor. And, such a reference would be quite brief. Something like: "The scout in question doth confess to me." And, it would be on the virtues of the confessor, not the scout, that the reference would be judged.
    1 point
  14. fwiw, just got the new boys life. It appears to be back to the normal articles.
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  15. That is a good description, based on what I've read on the BSA Polaris Method website and the content of the videos. The fundamental weakness is "the expectation that those employees and volunteers are then empowered to go solve those problems." It isn't an absence of individual employee and volunteer empowerment that is preventing problems from being solved. It is that, with minor, strictly local exceptions, the problems that Scouters and units face on a daily basis arise from societal issues, demographics, program design, program policies, institutional inertia, and council budgets -- con
    1 point
  16. Very similar to a death 10 years ago... https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700260449/Wellington-boy-killed-in-sand-tunnel-collapse.html
    0 points
  17. Update 10/1/18 One scout has died. https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-charged-dui-plowing-group-boy-scouts-critically/story?id=58197864 https://abc7ny.com/1-dead-man-charged-with-dwi-after-car-plows-into-boy-scouts/4377783/
    0 points
  18. I'm not saying only Christianity is worthless in deciding morals, ALL religions are like that. They are based on assertions that try to be unquestionable. And oh dear, "hate speech", when I'm replying to assertions that atheists can only be moral due to religion.
    0 points
  19. Even granting that, it still makes religions useless for deciding moral questions. Christianity literally had centuries to call slavery immoral, yet failed to do so. Aquinas was OK with slavery and plenty of popes endorsed it and some owned slaves themselves. All of them? There are over 30 examples. Whataboutism doesn't wave away how worthless religion is for determining morality, it only shows that you're trying to deflect the issue.
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  20. A group of atheists that cooperate would outlast your imaginary brute-force society. There are human fossils that predate the oldest religions on earth that show they were either handicapped or elderly, and lived long past where they would otherwise die without help from other humans. Religions are terrible at morals; the Southern Bapist Convention was founded in 1845 expressly to defend slavery, and they finally officially apologised for it -- in 1995. If a sect as large as the SBC in a religion as large and old as Christianity can't even get a basic moral question like slavery right,
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  21. Except the BSA doesn't follow them with regard to atheists, nor (judging by past comments) does Eagledad.
    -1 points
  22. Go right ahead and argue that it's good. This is just silly. Morals are opinions. Gods have nothing to do with it. That's why religions keep changing what is moral or immoral. Christianity said slavery was fine for centuries. How did the SBC change then? They didn't claim their god showed up and corrected them. And your assertion is no different than saying "elves" give people their morality. It's just baseless assertions.
    -1 points
  23. Go ahead and argue that it's good. So slavery is moral? You can buy slaves from other countries and leave them as property to your children? But you're getting that from religion. Humans wrote the bible. I see you didn't understand my comment. There ARE unicorns in the bible, and false animal husbandry.
    -1 points
  24. What, like your nonsense replies? I give back what replies deserve. PS: what you have are humans claiming their god wrote the ten commandments. It's still humans all the way up.
    -1 points
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