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  Numeracy

  by jws in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently saw on a website where a guy i know posted a link to a video by graham hancock.

  now this guy is a nutjob kind of like the ancient alien guys.

  this pyramid has been a fascination of crackpots for years.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Waton, numeracy is being "literate" with numbers.

  Numerology is some nonsense where numbers have some kind of mystical significance.
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  Numeracy

  by jws in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently saw on a website where a guy i know posted a link to a video by graham hancock.

  now this guy is a nutjob kind of like the ancient alien guys.

  this pyramid has been a fascination of crackpots for years.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Lee, good point. I think that a lot of people weren't aware that the original "witness" was the great pyramid.

  Jws, I used to think that "144,000" was such a random, mystical number as a child.

  Then, I learned my multiplication tables, found out that 144 is the square of 12, and was seriously deflated. In fact, that number is so common that it has its own name: a "gross."

  I also agree that numeracy is important! Just as important as literacy!
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  Come on England...!!!!

  by ScottyRex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  fantastic match...edge of seat stuff.

  will be glued to 7pm match to see who we play next...russia or croatia..... enjoy wherever you are 😁😁😁.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Wait...why are the using their feet?

  I thought this was football!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: shame and domination

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i want to suggest something that i've been ruminating on for a while now.

  that involves the possibility that when jehovah's witnesses look for "sheep-like ones" what they're actually looking for is this: those who will allow themselves to be dominated (get rid of things that god "hates," accept the movement's beliefs without protest, not check into the movement's history) and those who are willing to be shamed (letting jehovah's witnesses into their homes when doing so is looked down upon in secular society, talking with them on the street when everyone else avoids them).. i say this because from what i observed at the kingdom halls i attended in the course of gathering data for my research i saw:.

  -frequent shaming: jehovah's witnesses must do more to be acceptable to god, they are "good for nothing slaves," they are spared through armageddon by jehovah's "undeserved kindness," etc.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Ah, I think I get it.

  So, therefore there could be no grass roots calls for change?

  In other words, this ensures that any change must come from the top?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: shame and domination

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i want to suggest something that i've been ruminating on for a while now.

  that involves the possibility that when jehovah's witnesses look for "sheep-like ones" what they're actually looking for is this: those who will allow themselves to be dominated (get rid of things that god "hates," accept the movement's beliefs without protest, not check into the movement's history) and those who are willing to be shamed (letting jehovah's witnesses into their homes when doing so is looked down upon in secular society, talking with them on the street when everyone else avoids them).. i say this because from what i observed at the kingdom halls i attended in the course of gathering data for my research i saw:.

  -frequent shaming: jehovah's witnesses must do more to be acceptable to god, they are "good for nothing slaves," they are spared through armageddon by jehovah's "undeserved kindness," etc.

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  GrreatTeacher

  What do you mean by "legitimacy," if you don't mind my asking?
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  The elephant on the street

  by Normalfulla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a contractor i travel around for my job, i was stopped this morning to buy some milk at a store in a small village i guess and as i turned a corner i saw 2 elders i know personally manning a cart in the cold outside the store with not a soul in sight and an unlikely place for much traffic even though it was outside a country store.

  1 elder is my brother in laws father and the other was in my old cong when i left, i said hello, talked about the weather and general chit chat and was my usual self, they were pleasant also but nothing was mentioned to me about anything spiritual etc.

  i know they will be aware of some of my reasons for leaving (the few that i talked about initially before shutting my trap) but they were unwilling to engage in saving my life with their work!

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  GrreatTeacher

  Dang it, let me finish enjoying my Sunday first!

  Yes, shunning doesn't look good in public, so they don't do it.

  Which means they know it's wrong!
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  How the Watchtower and Big Tobacco conspired to propaganda techniques to survive the exposure of their dangers

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the tobacco industry held in thrall millions of addicted smokers for decades with an almost endless litany of false claims reinforced by propaganda and bad science.it is informative and eye-opening to examine this brilliant but insidious strategy.1.

  exploiting controversy the tobacco team focused on "conflicts of interest" to create a distraction and exploit mistrust so nicotine addicts own confirmation bias would work in their favor.

  this strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public health efforts and regulatory interventions designed to reduce the harms of smoking.the watchtower easily did the same thing by exploiting the confusing doctrine of the trinity and pointing to the corrupt history of the catholic church.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Terry, I love the way your mind works.

  "Get 'em addicted young." Works for both scenarios, too.
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  Do you think that race is a factor in education in the U.S.

  by recovering in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was wondering if racial bias is a factor in u.s. education?.

  would you be concerned if it was?

  why would you be concerned?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  The not getting paid/getting paid for the summer is a red herring.

  Teacher salaries are all based on 10 months. Whether they get paid only over those ten months or have a little of each paycheck witheld for summer pay matters not an iota.

  Some teachers get to pick which arrangement they prefer, some districts make that choice for you. I know of several local districts that mandate salary distribution in exactly opposite ways.

  Never assume that teachers get paid over the summer. That may or may not be true.

  More importantly, never assume that teachers get paid FOR the summer because that is patently untrue.

  Unless you teach summer school, in which case you are paid in accordance with your salary scale.
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  Do you think that race is a factor in education in the U.S.

  by recovering in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was wondering if racial bias is a factor in u.s. education?.

  would you be concerned if it was?

  why would you be concerned?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  My teacher's union is for teachers only. I will gladly pay my dues for every paycheck for the collective bargaining over salary alone. For some reason people think teachers are grossly overpaid. We have Bachelor's degrees and Master's degrees. We have student loans for those degrees!

  We only get paid for 7.5 hours a day, yet routinely work much more. Our hourly rate sounds okay, but we don't work only those few hours, and late days are routine so our actual hourly rate is much lower! Our district and the public definitely get their money out of us!

  Administrators have their own union. Food service workers have their own union, so I can't speak to those.

  I don't necessarily agree that my district is top heavy. In fact, they've laid off a lot of people, especially curriculum writers, at the same time that they've decided to drop commercial programs/ textbooks in favor of writing their own curriculum!

  That crap flows directly downhill! They've created these guidelines for their new, inhouse curriculum, yet taken away textbooks/ commercial programs and then laid off curriculum writers! Guess who now gets to do the actual hard work of creating this inhouse curriculum? The teachers!

  I often have 4 novels that I read on weekends and have to create lessons for. Two years ago, there were small group reading books with resources galore for teachers. Nope, all gone! Now we have students reading novels and we have to create the lessons (which must follow strict, micromanaged guidelines) ourselves.

  Guess what I'm doing this summer? Reading novels and creating lessons for next school year because I physically and mentally can't handle another school year where I'm working hours after school and on weekends.
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  Do you think that race is a factor in education in the U.S.

  by recovering in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was wondering if racial bias is a factor in u.s. education?.

  would you be concerned if it was?

  why would you be concerned?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Simon, it's worse than communities that don't support education; it's communities that think they support education because they've registered their kid and they get there most of the time. But, they have no idea what supportive parenting is. They think it's okay to put sugar water in bottles, they don't realize that young kids need 10 hours of sleep, they think it's okay to scream at and slap small babies for crying, they see no need for regular bed times, no need for regular baths, no need for a clean unhoarded home so their child doesn't go to school reeking of cat urine, see no need to take a young girl to the doctor who is having yeast infection symptoms, no need to make sure of clean, nonbinding pants, no need to warn their daughter about menstruation before it starts, leaving the shocked girl, teacher, nurse and guidance counselor to deal with her education about that, no need to buy sanitary products because the school will, so their child has to ask to go to the nurse multiple times a day. They see no need to hold good grades up ad an expectation, therefore no need to follow them, no need to teach children to be tidy, hang up coats, put clean clothes in dressers, and organize important papers where they can be eadily reached. They don't know that aftet their child was found bullying another child over social media, that they should take that phone away as consequence. They don't realize that they should keep their kid from running around the neighborhood while gangs were present. And they certainly don't know that after being threatened with violence, the wrong thing to do is to get up in somebody's face and hit them. They don't even know that they should take time to communicate with their children and build a relationship, read to them at bedtime, have their children read to them, help them work on remembering multiplication facts, help them work on school projects.

  Some of them don't even find it important enough to wake up and get their kid to school. Yeah, what do you do about that one? The ten year old then steps up to get hetself and her younger sistet to school while Mommy snoozes on.

  Good lord it's amazing what they don't know. And terrifying.