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  1. On ‎1‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 10:29 PM, SSF said:

    The Boy Scouts of America are becoming "family friendly" (a huge mistake) and the troop in question is being overrun by parents who don't value the patrol method.

    What is the solution?

    Well, in a solution, two or more things are dissolved into each other forming a homogeneous mixture. Once a solution is formed, the things cannot be easily separated again by settling or filtering. 

    In contrast, a suspension has two or more things that are mixed together, but do not dissolve or form a solution. The things remain separate things, but jumbled together. Things in a suspension can be easily separated out by settling or filtering.

    Hopefully, family scouting will be more of a suspension than a solution. So my answer to your question is that I hope there will be no solutions.

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  2. 4 hours ago, MikeS said:

    If it is done correctly, I don't see it as an issue. Many regalia pieces are based on historic pieces and are meticulously researched. Some are even more "authentic" and historically correct (in not only appearance but construction) than what many actual tribal members will wear to a typical Pow Wow. If done correctly and respectfully, complaints are pretty rare around my neck of the woods. That entails actually learning the culture and learning what is appropriate and what is not.  

    That said, you do see the "Chief Wannabe" types as well, which unfortunately give the Order a bad name.

     

    You seem to be focusing more on the authenticity of the regalia, while I am largely concerned with the fictional characters and stories and how close they come to lampooning Native American culture. I think an OA skit might be more of an "honor" if it portrayed real people and events in a respectful manner.

    Our historical society does an annual event which has actors portraying real people from our community telling their stories (from the grave). Some of these historical people have been Native American. The historical society has often been complimented on both its accuracy and the respect it shows to all the characters.

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  3. I thought he was joking, so I responded with a joke. I thought everyone would recognize it as a joke. My mistake. Since you have taken offense at my joke, I invite a moderator to delete the post.

    I found it hard to believe that anyone would seriously consider the OA stories and activities to be some sort of performance art that should be compared to classic works of literature.

  4. 59 minutes ago, Back Pack said:

    Remember what it was like to be a boy? 

    Sure do. Nude swimming at the Y. Shooting off firecrackers (legally) in the vacant lot. Riding in the back of pickup trucks. Burning piles of leaves in the fall. Good times.

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  5. On ‎12‎/‎31‎/‎2017 at 4:29 PM, LeCastor said:

      

    I think it comes down to a philosophy of how to live your life in such a way that you are leaving the Earth better than when you got here

     

    Yes, leave things better than they were when you got there. That's a good philosophy.

    The problem with the climate change hoaxers is that they don't want the climate to change, however slightly, even if that change is for the better. They claim that any change is bad. Some of them claim that any change will be catastrophic. 

    My college Ecology professor was absolutely certain that the world today would be a dystopic wind-swept wilderness, like the Mad Max movies.  His class was more Science Fiction than Science. He was entertaining, though, if you didn't take him seriously.

     

  6. 20 hours ago, Col. Flagg said:

    Yet you want them around your campfire? Driving your kids? Not me.

    I think that would depend on why they are ineligible. If it is because they don't believe in God, then yes, I would let them sit at my camp fire and drive my kids. I wouldn't let them be a scout leader, though.

    My concern with creating an expectation that all parents register as leaders is that it draws unnecessary and unwanted attention/speculation/gossip to the parents who are not eligible to be leaders. People will sometimes assume the worse. I don't want that.

     

  7. On ‎1‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 5:18 PM, Cambridgeskip said:

    Right, thought I'd get the perspective of you chaps across the Atlantic on this one....

    I don't know how many "special" children you have in scouting on your side of the pond. We have quite a few. Some of these kids are a handful for a trained adult, much less an untrained parent or a young scout.

     

  8. 1 hour ago, cocomax said:

    Yeah,  was a big Star Wars fan all my life, but I am just done with it, it is just not fun anymore.  The girls and feminists can have it.  

    There is no point complaining or getting upset about it, I am powerless to do anything about it.  The people in charge are not listening, they have their own agenda that I am not a part of.

    So it is best that I just walk away and find something that I can enjoy, that will be a better use of my time.

      

     

    Yes, we are powerless to do anything about it, both in Hollywood and in BSA.

    It does no good to complain, but we can go out to the polls and vote for the most conservative candidate on the ticket who promises to take away many other things that they care about. 

  9. 16 minutes ago, NJCubScouter said:

    I wonder who are "the Scouts" from whom the minister got his "instructions."  The council?  If that is the case, why would the council tell the CO that the pack disbanded and then issue a charter to a different CO for the same pack?

    Unit leaders cannot disband a unit. Only the CO can do that. Unit leaders can quit, but they can't disband the unit.

     

     

  10. 32 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said:

    The Pack trailer and equipment including Pinewood Derby track was taken by other Scouters?  Coincidentally,  trailer and equipment is in possession of another pack that Council was directing families to? Police seem confused about ownership. 

    The original Chartered Organization (a church) appears to have been the rightful owner of the trailer and equipment. All of the remaining funds, trailer, and equipment should have been returned to the original CO when it gave up its charter last spring.

    I think the council is largely responsible for this mess. It should have insisted on having any property issues settled with the old CO (the church) before it issued a charter to a new CO (the veterans group).

     

  11. 2 hours ago, NJCubScouter said:

    One thing I think they have done for the fans (in the last two films) is to go back to the “mystery” of The Force rather than the midichlorians, which I think is one of the worst ideas in the history of film-making.  

    True, but I thought the Jedi celibacy thing was even more ridiculous. They strongly inferred that the ability to become a Jedi is a characteristic passed from father to son, and then they made the Jedi celibate. I think Hollywood was just trying to take another cheap shot at the Catholic priesthood, no matter how incongruous it was to the original story line.

    I'm not a big fan of the Star Wars prequels and sequels.

  12. On ‎12‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 8:26 PM, CalicoPenn said:

    If I'm wrong about climate change, the actions I take won't do any harm.  If the deniers in the political majority are wrong, their refusal to take action will do harm.

    The collective actions of the climate change hoaxers do harm people. 

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