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What company do you use?
All my dogs have been microchipped and I haven't paid anything except an initial registration fee (and maybe a small fee when I changed addresses--I can't remember for sure). Definitely no yearly fee, though.
We use a program called Home Again. At first it was only $9 per year back in 2007/08. Now, it's up to $20 annually. Still, that is not that much for 365 days of coverage. But I wondered if it's redundant.
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We had only 84% here in my part of MN. We debated on driving somewhere for totality, but four kids, including the baby...sigh. Gone are our days of couple adventures!
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Our dog is microchipped. Every year we spend a fee to have her chip enrolled in a finding program. This year it's up to $20. Not a huge deal.
My question is, for a chip to work and match a lost dog with its owner, does the chip have to be enrolled in a for-cost program?? Or can a shelter or vet just scan and get a match?
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Samsonite 360' spinner. (The wheels spin in all directions). I've found TravelPro to be heavy compared with Samsonite. I travel a lot. And we're stand-by so I use my roller bag as my main bag for everything.
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What does it mean? Everytime I look online, I can never find the acronymn for some reason. Thanks!
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Our two older kids graduated from a 5 point harness style at the age of 3.5/4 or so, into a high back booster that uses the standard car's seatbelt - so across the lap and chest. Our 5.5 year old has been in that style for 1.5 years now. We use the Graco with side impact protection. They have channels that the car's seatbelts pass through so the belt stays put at the shoulder. I think it runs between $60-100.
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Actually, retaining 'active status' (A1, A2, and A3) is ordering every three months. But to still be a consultant it's every 6 months. I order twice per year. That's all. Been a consultant since 2005.Face wash
acne cream
moisturizer
make up
Entire family
How much would you say you spend?
I have to spend $75 ($150 retail) every 3 months to keep up with the Mary Kay membership. Long story short, 3 of us went in together 3 years ago on a membership (1 person is the member officially, but I agreed).
So, roughly $25/mo. But the truth is, it is now stockpiling and I am not using all of it. I am thinking of ending the commitment, although I may stick it out until I move in June, which would be a good stopping point anyway.
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My 12 gauge and shells. And everything else everyone mentioned already.
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North Shore of MN (along Lake Superior). The Lake is fantastically clear. There are agates to hunt for on the rocky beaches. I love the hiking, waterfalls, and creeks/rivers.
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See here for what I mean when I say "dog-whistle." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
In other, more direct words... the term "War of Northern Aggression" is primarily used by people who are white supremacist and/or sympathizers of white supremacists as code to other white supremacists that they, too, are sympatico.
I've never heard of this before. Dog whistle in politics or that white supremacists utilize this term in that way. Thanks for sharing.
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No, of course not. In the end I have to conclude that your OP was disingenuous.
Here's a good example of that:
To which I respectfully responded:
You then twisted the concept of "free will" into "free agency" because you are unable to acknowledge that the above is entirely consistent view of God's character which shows that "omnipotent" and "benevolent" are NOT mutually exclusive. I guess you feel that twisting others' words is the appropriate way to carry on such a discussion.
It seems you really should include "JAWM" in the title of this thread. As such, it is really just another thinly-veiled attack on Christianity and another attempt to establish "science" as the ultimate source of truth. Yet you beg off when that idea does not hold up under scrutiny.
I have respected your points on all this. But I have not concluded the OP's post was disingenuous. Several people, I believe, pointed to some real information as well as correctly established terms, definitions, and arguments' positions. Some of these things went unaddressed in the course of the discussion - a whole host of mine did. I too had a brief focus on the fact that "omnipotence" and "benevolence" are not mutually exclusive.
I have to step back and ask myself if that is "bugging off" or just not willing to go there online with strangers. I think it is the latter.
OP doesn't have to "go there" either. The initial question was on prayer and the conversation took several twists and turns none of which she was under obligation to entertain, but she did. I think considering her stance on the matter, she took a risk asking all of us for input. I am not offended in the least if she did not want to "go there."
I also do not see this as an attack on Christianity. Objections, or the absence of responses when presented with a solid argument, are mainly unanswered questions or even the uncomfortable possibility that one may be incorrect and something needs reevaluation. It is not our job or duty to rub anyone's nose in that. I too have had people on here do that to me in other threads, and it is very disheartening and hurtful. We aren't here to put people under our Internet thumbs.
I would also wonder what you aimed to get out of this conversation here. A change of mind or heart by the OP? That is likely not going to happen over the Interweb. Hopefully with the book recs and the nice posts here, the OP can make some informed reading and study choices.
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The bolded doesn't make sense to me. "Global History?" "Regents Diploma?"
In a very large number of US schools, controversial subjects DO require a permission slip. Regardless of what happens in the public school curriculum where YOU are...there absolutely are a very large number of schools that require a permission slip just to read Harry Potter books. There ARE a very large number of schools that require a parent permission slip to have their middle school students attend even one single 1hr sex ed class.
It's absolutely true that museums, interpretive centers, etc, can make history "come alive."
Being the in a place is nearly always a whole other experience than learning about it in a museum. Just like dissections are a whole other experience than looking at diagrams in a book. Or Monday is going to be a WHOLE other experience than reading about a solar eclipse in a book.
I agree and disagree. Museums can do a very good job of passing along the message. There is a an amazing Holocaust Museum in downtown Richmond, VA of all places. Before we were married, DH and I went there.
The route the museum took was to have you in your home, trying to escape the Nazis. You crawled into your basement storage room, in dim light. Shouts are heard outside the home. You slip behind a hidden door and the lights flicker, thunderous footsteps are heard above, dust falls, and more shouting. Then there is rapid gun fire.
I kid you not. I almost peed my pants. I was absolutely scared $hitle$$. Nearly in tears and trembling - it was SO real. You climb out in a crawling position to the sound of shots and machine gun fire. Bright lights and sirens. That cannot be recreated in real life.
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The "Don't Tread on Me" flags are also being used by these groups. We have had impromptu parades of pickup trucks flying huge confederate, US, don't tread on me and those black/blue striped 'support the police/anti-BLM' flags. In super-liberal MA! Thank heavens I never saw a Nazi flag mixed in, but after last week I'm kind of just figuring they have those back at home. :glare:
Ugh. I had no idea they were using the "Don't Tread on Me" flag too. I actually like that one. Now it's tainted by hatred.
In our public elementary school growing up in the 1990s, in northeastern Ohio, we had a variety of U.S. historical flags on display in our cafeteria. I remember as a kid not understanding the "Don't Tread on Me" one, but I was always curious about it and liked it then.
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Maybe some sort of hair smoother product would help.
All the homes here in our part of MN have them. The hard minerals are too much for the homes' pipes, I suppose. It took getting used to for me too.
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I wish I could recall more. I think a lot of what I do recall is just because I see photos.
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My dear friend's boyfriend ruptured his Achilles tendon yesterday playing tennis. His insurance wants to wait 16 days before surgery. He's in a boot now.
Is waiting that long normal? Something about swelling going down.
I'm not sure if she needs to push him (he's kinda blasé even on important matters) to push the doctor/insurance.
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I see a fundamental difference between the two.
As a scientist, the one thing I have to postulate is that humans have, in principle, the ability to know the natural world. Without this basic premise, science could not operate. We have to assume things are knowable and have rational explanations.
But God declares himself as principally unknowable, beyond human reasoning. That makes it like a race with an ever moving goal post and the certainty that you will never arrive.
I agree 100% with your assessment about science and rational explanations.
I would define terms or clarify them for the remainder of your post.
Scripture does not define God as "unknowable." On the contrary, Scripture says things like, "They do not know Me." Or, "I do not know them," with God being the "Me" and "I." Or, there are phrases like, "Come to know the Lord." All the uses should have us conclude that He is knowable otherwise none of it makes sense grammatically or for faith.
Someone can still be knowable and be mysterious, quiet, seemingly distant, or even beyond human reasoning. Yes. It is true, some aspects of God are too big for the human mind to "get" some of which we discussed already like "free will" versus "predestination."
God does not and has not declared Himself as "unknowable." He is bigger than us in every way - more perfect, more loving, more creative. All of our good qualities (made in His image) are exponential in Him. But this vastness is not the same as not being known.
Ultimately, and I know many do not share my perspective, God is a person. I approach Him like I do another person and spend time getting to know Him. On the matters over time, with which I have wrestled (and there have been some), I found that humans only can be so helpful in answering questions.
People often ask of another person, "What is s/he like?" I can do my flailing best to answer that question, but what a person is essentially asking is this, "What is it they are all about? What's their essence?" Well, the best answer would actually be for me to direct that person asking the question to meet the person for oneself with all one's preconceived notions striped away in order to give a fair assessment.
Some doubt always has a place in faith. Faith is not the absence of doubt, it is belief in spite of it. Doubt is not a reason to fear one can not know God either. He welcomed Thomas (whom we call Doubting Thomas) to reach out and touch His hands and His side. We are all welcome to do so too.
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It was framed at the time as the war of northern aggression.
Aggression against a way of life and a social structure that was working out just fine, thankyouverymuch.
When cultures are collapsing, as antebellum south was, they get a little touch and liable to take offense. That's just the way it goes.
So of course it was framed as the war of northern aggression. And then, as others have pointed out, the Yankees came marching down and it was hell on Earth for a while. So of course the idea that it was a war of northern aggression just kept carrying on.
It doesn't make it right, but it's understandable sociologically.
I think the bolded is highly important. If we can "see HOW someone could think something," we are far more likely to understand and then we can work toward reconcile and compromise.
I think of the times DH and I argue..."Well, DH, I can see how you would think that based on 1. 2. and 3." If he knows I understand his thinking, even if I do not agree, we are more likely to reach a positive outcome.
Maybe we can all seek to understand each other sociologically these days....
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I should have included the words "to me", as in the phrase to which I was responding. If God can do whatever he likes to me, then no, I do not have free will.
A kidnapping victim to whom her captor can do whatever he likes does not have free will. Or if we want to split hairs she can have "will", but has no agency - her theoretical free will does not do her any good.
A kidnapper/victim scenario makes sense in a human-to-human context. One person's free will usurps someone else's. We see this as parents too as we relate to our children - they too have free will, but it is often usurped by our own. Often the kidnapper or parent's will is due to their own human selfishness - the kidnapper's for money/ransom and/or for some heinous act. The parent's need for control, or maybe not wanting to go or do what the child wants. Kidnappers always use their free will for evil. Parents mostly use their free will for good. And some parents, also use their free will for evil (if they are cruddy, horrid parents).
I trust that God always uses His free will for good, though we may never see the outcome. We often try and take a human lens and set of understandings and apply them to a bigger being. I am saying we should try to understand this being, but human attempts are often too feeble and limited by space and time. We may try all or lives to come to understand Him more, and still we may come up knowing very little. Is this cause to give up, though? Even the Apostles lamented how little they understood at the ends of their lives and these were men who walked beside Jesus.
There are a lot of mysteries in the physical world we have yet to unravel. Personally, DS4 had that seizure at the end of July. DH and I are astounded by how little is actually known about the human brain and its complexities. We are much further than we were decades ago, but there is much progress to be made. Imagine if doctors and researchers just gave up. The presence of mystery and the hidden should not be a deterrent to sticking on and learning more.
The more confusing God is, the better, IMHO. He leaves us in search and there is always hope that we would meet Him in new ways we never expected. I like that there is someone bigger than all that I see and hear.
Anyway, I appreciate your questions and thoughts. I am not sure if I am helping though.
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You should know that the term "War of Northern Aggression" is dog-whistle for white supremacists.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "dog-whistle" in this context. Do you mean that the phrase "War of Northern Aggression" is cause for white supremacy to get upset? I'm just not following you can you give some more explanation.
And to clarify, I don't use the phrase "War of Northern Aggression." I call it the Civil War. But, I have heard the term "War of Northern Aggression" used. I used to live in Richmond, VA for 6 years.
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I've only seen them in reenactment circles, which is pretty uncommon here.
We have an old railroad museum park that is usually very expensive where someone got a special homeschooling deal on entry tickets the same (long) weekend as a Civil War reenactment. I think the expansive rolling hilly terrain with some trees is good for those demos. For the homeschooling day there was a big set of encampments there, and demo battles, and instructions in things like how hoop skirts were supported and such. Each of the reenactors was supposed to take on the character of a specific type of person--a specific role but not a specific character.
We went around and asked various soldiers how they ended up in the military and why they were fighting. The guys with Union uniforms on said they were drafted and couldn't get out of it. The ones in Conf. uniforms said that they were fighting for their homes. No one mentioned slavery. I kind of pressed the point, and finally one of the Union guys said, 'Look, hardly anyone in the south actually owned slaves, and if I had my choice I would be wearing the other uniform because it is noble to fight for your home and family.' So that was interesting--the Union guy wasn't actually a Union guy--which I think was fairly pervasive in that grouping.
This is true. To own slaves, which were property (ugh), one had to be wealthy and have a plantation (large farm) to grow crops. Most people in the south did not own slaves as they had no need to - their plots of land were not large enough to need forced labor. And, they did not have household servants/slaves either because they did not have the money to buy slaves.
When the southerners joined up, they were fighting against a mass of drafted soldiers who were marching on their homes. I have heard the Civil War referred to as the War of Northern Aggression. I have also seen Confederate flags in many states, including Colorado.
I don't know why people fly them with the American flag...
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The only policies we carry are riders on our personal policies.
I do know families who have purchased insurance on their children with known medical issues to guarantee some level of coverage. Generally what you would do is buy a policy for $X, with the option to add a multiple of the initial coverage at a later time with no health exam. Going only off of memory from when I was licensed to sell life insurance (which I never did but was part of a licensing requirement for a job), the multiples were usually from 2x-5x of the original policy.
The problem I saw was that most of the policies I saw were for around $10,000, were somewhat expensive for that level of coverage, and even at the 5x multiple (which also has an additional premium) the coverage isn't enough for most families. At the same time, something can be better than nothing in dire situations.
I definitely wouldn't recommend doing this for all children in the family.
Yes, I am interested in the "guarantee of some level of coverage," aspect of LI for a child and not in the $10k to pay for a funeral, which we could do on our own.
This is in case DS4 couldn't get his own coverage in the future (LI is harder to get as one ages, especially with pre-existing conditions).
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The Confederate Flag currently has two main meanings, IMHO.
1. Rebelliousness.
2. Hatred.
I am fine with the former if it is a symbol that means struggling against someone or something. I would put it in the same category as the "Don't Tread on Me" flag flown in the Revolutionary War (the one with the snake). But it is now tainted by the latter second point - it is too pervasively a symbol of hatred and now is in the likes of the Nazi flag, which always means oppression and hatred.
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And what about horrible things happening that are not caused by humans?
My cousin died a slow, torturous, horrible death from ALS. The disease robbed her of her ability to execute her free will, and she watched herself lose all her faculties while retaining a clear mind. I can hardly imagine anything worse.
An entity that inflicts such a curse on a human cannot be well meaning and all powerful at the same time.
I would kindly point out that without the Resurrection of Jesus and the after life, in your world view, you may render the whole dilemma of omnipotent and at the same time, benevolent, moot anyways.
The Resurrection and the afterlife with Jesus in Heaven are the primary good demonstrations of God's GOOD character, good nature, and righteousness as the perfect father and judge. By cutting out the Resurrection and eternal life in Heaven with Him, you systematically dismantle God's primary goal for us humans, which is to be WITH us (He loves His creation) forever.
​Therefore all that remains is a confusion with a seemingly unanswerable question.
Add back the possibility of Jesus' Resurrection and the afterlife and a lot more makes sense about the nature and character of God. Without these two important points, the entire Bible falls apart as really, it is the story of God's redemption of the world, in the face of an evil foe, through a Chosen People.
(Update) News: USS John S McCain collision: Remains of all 10 missing sailors recovered
in The Chat Board
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I wonder if this has to do with security or needing to be stealthy (somewhat). But it seems like even with the Navy ships being "hidden" the Navy ships should have enough tech on board to NOT run into the side of someone else who is commercial.