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It was showing me as being logged in the few times I tried. I also received a message telling me that I didn't have access or some such.
 
jaderook01 said:
It was showing me as being logged in the few times I tried. I also received a message telling me that I didn't have access or some such.
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I get such a message too when I click the link, in this thread here, to the now deleted (or removed form public view?) thread. Apart from that I don't see many (In fact none) buttons that you might have accidently clicked but haven't access to ("Edit" instead of "Quote").

At least, you still got your account. :)
 
True. I've never been kicked off a forum before and I didn't want to start a trend. The thought alone is almost enough to send me back to my lurking ways. I'm too sensitive, I suppose. Plus, I truly make a terrible Apologist. Then, the few times I do post I make a literal fool of myself. Oh, the agony and drama that defines my life! At least I never have any dull moments. ;)


Edited to add: This still bothers me though, b/c I did have my computer savvy dh check for me as well. We may both be crazy, but it was what it was. At least we'll grow mad together.
 
jaderook01 said:
True. I've never been kicked off a forum before and I didn't want to start a trend. The thought alone is almost enough to send me back to my lurking ways. I'm too sensitive, I suppose. Plus, I truly make a terrible Apologist. Then, the few times I do post I make a literal fool of myself. Oh, the agony and drama that defines my life! At least I never have any dull moments. ;)
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Don't feel bad, I'm the same way sometimes. I'm not a debater, I'm a thinker - that's why I love this forum. So many people have interesting perspectives. A lot of times I just read the posts and then I think about them, but am too afraid to respond. I agonize over some of the heavier posts and have to log out to catch my breath. I guess I'm almost as timid as a whippet! :p
 
MLynn said:

Don't feel bad, I'm the same way sometimes. I'm not a debater, I'm a thinker - that's why I love this forum. So many people have interesting perspectives. A lot of times I just read the posts and then I think about them, but am too afraid to respond. I agonize over some of the heavier posts and have to log out to catch my breath. I guess I'm almost as timid as a whippet! :p
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Hey, we're two peas in a pod, it would seem. I'm definitely not good in debates. I'm way on the right-brained side of the spectrum. My dh is way on the left. Perhaps if we ever have children they will turn out well-balanced?
 
jaderook01 said:
MLynn,

What exactly is a whippet? Do I want to know?:p
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A whippet is an English sighthound (meaning they see their prey before they smell it), and is about 1/2 the size of a greyhound. My avatar is a whippet. I actually have 2 of the medium-sized dears myself.
 
hey Michelle,
I think it's very inspiring that you have responded to the discussion about me on RR in my favour.
Please don't get yourself banned on my account though.

You alone have showed me that not all members of RR have such one-sided views.

And BTW I certainly didnt tell anyone who you were or that you had dared to register here at JREF.

Take care

Pete
 
SkepticPete said:
hey Michelle,
I think it's very inspiring that you have responded to the discussion about me on RR in my favour.
Please don't get yourself banned on my account though.

You alone have showed me that not all members of RR have such one-sided views.

And BTW I certainly didnt tell anyone who you were or that you had dared to register here at JREF.

Take care

Pete
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Aw, shucks, Pete! I'm blushing here. :D
Seriously, I figured you didn't tell anyone and the other person didn't strike me as the sort who would do that sort of thing either. Not that I have anything to hide mind you...
 
Well, not being Canadian, the whole thing is a bit confusing to me. However, they do have a point about homeschooling the way they see fit. The government should have clarified things before, instead of after the fact. It seems like many Canadian parents regardless of religion weren't too happy with this. Plus, how exactly is the Canadian government planning to regulate this?

Okay, I'm missing something here. Enlighten me, pretty please?
 
I'm pretty sure the great-white-north fundies are miffed about the same thing as the US fundies: standardized testing.

It doesn't really matter how you school your kids, as long as they (at least) meet the standardized testing guidelines that the public schools do.

It's a heartfelt and earnest 'in the interest of the children' sort of thing. OK, and a bit of callous government money planning.

You don't want a whole generation of home-schooled kids to appear on the job market knowing how to quote the bible chapter and verse from memory, and having no other marketable skills whatsoever. I don't, and the government doesn't, either. Unless you want a new class of poverty to strain the social programs.

So basically, if you're going to keep your children 'truant' from school indefinately, then the government wants to at least make sure they are getting a somewhat equivalent level of education.

Yeah, sure, teach them all about how the world was built in seven days, and how 'god makes it so' and so on and so forth. Just make sure they can do basic math, write, and have reading comprehension skills and CAN make heads or tales of a book other than the bible, in case they ever have to deal with something like direct reality. I hope they do come out of it with social skills that don't cause them to be unemployable as well. Someone who can't help screaming "Jesus will punish you!" will not hold down a good job outside a church.

Otherwise, I'm sure the fast food restaraunts that George W. Bush wants to reclassify as 'Factory Production' jobs, with the pictures on the cash register buttons might hire them. If they can make change.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main601336.shtml
http://www.internetweekly.org/cartoons_2004/cartoon_bush_mcjobs.html
 
Okay, now I see. Preaching to the choir on this one. I'm a public school teacher. ;) Thereare way too many fundamentalist Christians who home-school and wind up giving their children an inferior education.
 
jaderook01 said:
Okay, now I see. Preaching to the choir on this one. I'm a public school teacher. ;) Thereare way too many fundamentalist Christians who home-school and wind up giving their children an inferior education.
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I dated one of these homeschooled fundamental christians and can attest to this fact myself. Now he and his family are paying, he will probably be in community college for 3-4 years before he can go to a university because his math skills are so piss-poor. His spelling skills are some of the most atrocious I've ever seen.
 
Wow! It doestn't take much to p**s them off!

Yep! Back to the homeschooling thread . Someone named "ania" posted against them, and geez, do they ever lay into her(?)

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?p=1687049#post1687049

Beg to differ Ania:

Creationism is at the core and foundation of a Biblical World View and is not optional. As to the accuracy of Creationism, the Bible is accuracte 100% of the time where it touches science. Evolutionary theory (theory does not equal fact) and is full of supposition and hypotheses that are not supportable by direct observation which is a requisite of the scientific method. Many of the early scientist in western civilization were Christians who did hold to a a Biblical world view and developed their observations and discoveries from within that framework (e.g. Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Keppler, Robert Boyle, Antony van Leeuwenhoek Carolus Linnaeus,William Herschel, John Herschel, Georges Cuvier, Samuel F. B. Morse, Charles Babbage, James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, etc. etc). You see, it would be difficult to recount the development of western science without, at least a tacit ackowledgement of its underlying philosophical origins.

What this debate stems from is the rights and prerogatives of conflicting world views that have become politicized by the dominant Humanistic establishment. Humanism, by the way, is a religion and its tenets (evolution, relativism, nihilism, atheism) all stem from a repudiation of God and the deification of man.

I do have to acknowledge one truth is your argument: If you are dealing with a government with pernicious and nefarious goals, you cannot accept money or resources from them as that will offer them the licence they seek to interject into your affairs and contravene parental rights. Better to rely on one's own resources.

The Bible says: The Fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
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And that's a nicer reply!

Here's a not so nice reply!

I ought to register, just so I can say to that "lady": "Bring it, ***!"
 
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the_ignored said:
Yep! Back to the homeschooling thread . Someone named "ania" posted against them, and geez, do they ever lay into her(?)

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?p=1687049#post1687049



And that's a nicer reply!

Here's a not so nice reply!

I ought to register, just so I can say to that "lady": "Bring it, ***!"
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Wow, what great Christians these catty women be - holy cr*P! Hellfire & brimstone "smilies?" I hope they don't live near me. I'd register if I didn't get kicked out right away - I'd preach 'em a sermon for sure!
 
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