i'm a long time lurker, first time writer on this site.
years and years ago, i was on another ex-jw message board though i'm not sure if it's still around or not.
i really enjoy reading all of your stories.
Welcome, Gabcol. You might be our first Australiamerican on the board.
I wonder what part of America you were from. I didn't know some congregations actually telling people they couldn't date. That's pretty severe.
Glad you've found a place that feels like home to you. And, welcome to the board.
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.
Waton, numeracy is being "literate" with numbers.
Numerology is some nonsense where numbers have some kind of mystical significance.
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.
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!
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 😁😁😁.
Wait...why are the using their feet?
I thought this was football!
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.
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?
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.
What do you mean by "legitimacy," if you don't mind my asking?
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!
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!
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.
Terry, I love the way your mind works.
"Get 'em addicted young." Works for both scenarios, too.
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?.
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.
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?.
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.
