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Were these prescribed by a GP or a psychiatrist?
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By "failed members" I was referring to anyone within any religious group who have not renounced that religion but who are not able to or willing to adhere to the "rules" of the particular system.
Sorry, it took me so long to get around to clicking REPLY that the thread moved on without me. Your definition of "failed" seems to assume an all-or-nothing approach to any given faith. That is far from reality.
I wouldn't call the Christmas-and-Easter crowd failed, and I wouldn't assume there is only one way to be, say, Catholic, or Muslim or Jewish. If that were the case, there would be zero separation between Orthodox and Reformed, between Presbyterian and Lutheran, and there wouldn't be the vast spectrum of members within any of those "official" designations.
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I think one of the big things is to tell him that with any given religion, there will be a certain segment of believers who are very doubtful and waver back and forth with their beliefs. There will be "failed" members of any particular belief group who could not or chose not to accept those beliefs any more. The majority are usually the middle of the road people, most of whom make a reasonable effort to follow the tenants of their faith but who have occasional lapses.
I agree with your idea of a continuum, from extreme zealot all the way to questioning, casual observer. Like anything else, I suspect it's a bit of a bell curve. What I'm less sure about is the term "failed." By putting it in quotes, are you using is as it may be interpreted by the very religious who see anyone outside their particular faith as less perfect, or even doomed? Or, is "failed" in the more general sense of someone seeking, yet not quite finding fit/answers/comfort/acceptance in a particular faith and sort of checking that off and continuing to search in another direction (or not)?
In the latter instance, it's not the best choice of words, but I get it. In the former, it smacks of the exclusionary, the otherness that has kept religions warring since....well, since forever. Like "fallen," "failed" is a loaded term, and that barrel tends to be pointed exclusively at those who don't agree with us.
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Yeah, but if you read and drive a car, you'd swerve into the curb. The street cleaner guy is already driving into the curb, as he is wont to do in his daily rounds, thus he is actually order reverse in things doing.
He's obviously a Jedi.
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I don't know how I forgot Candy Corn as one of the worst. Who thought that was a good idea?
Yeah, but it's only once a year that you get to test whether the three different color sections taste different. Anyone who hasn't nibbled off just the top and bottom to check is not being truthful. The results not changing year to year is no reason to discontinue the experiment.
Personally I think tampering concerns are way, way overblown.
I think it's called "innumeracy" -- overhype about statistics. There was a book by the same title.
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I was an English major with a concentration in Technical Writing -- it was a fairly new program at the time (83-87). I actually did do technical writing for a while -- writing software manuals for banking programs -- not fun. :banghead: I went to high school with the science writer Carl Zimmer, and he took an interesting route before achieving NPR fame - I think he started as a lowly copy-editor at Discover magazine. Now he teaches at Yale. Not a bad career arc.
The most important thing, in hindsight, is to not think of this, or perhaps any liberal arts degree, as only job training. It isn't. I've used my degree in one way or another in every job I've had, and it's not a coincidence that English is a popular BA to springboard into law school or some other grad pursuits. It's a very good base for a plethora (ka-ching...50 cent word) of careers, some of which haven't been invented yet -- I'm still amazed that people make money blogging.
There are a LOT more resources out there now, such as jobs for English majors, and some interesting Amazon titles. You might also like Gatekeepers, which is a little dated, but looks at admissions at Wesleyan, which has a hot writing program.
Your DD should go for it if it's her passion. I have too many students who pick a major just because they, or the parents, are thinking only about income potential. That sounds like a short ride to burn-out.
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When I was growing up, my dad had this enormous theater-/carnival-style popcorn machine that he would roll out onto the front porch, kept it running all night and handed out bags of popcorn. Do people even do that kind of thing anymore?
Homemade has gone by the wayside, I think, mostly due to fears of tampering.
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I refuse to see how Necco Wafers even count as candy. Chalky disks of slightly flavored stuff does not a candy make. And where do these things come from? I haven't seen them in stores in years yet on Halloween, someone always gets one pack!
Nibble around the edges just right and they'll fit a coin slot in the arcade. Everything has a purpose.
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Not a book, but a food. Cherries. They have the highest concetration of anthocyanins, anti-inflamatory compunds. A 2012 study showed drinking cherry juice reduced inflamation - can't remember where I saw it.
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Mary Janes?? :confused1: Mary Janes are shoes.
You didn't grow up with chocolate shoes? Old Bavarian thing, I think. Kinda chewy, and ya gotta watch your teeth on the buckle, but otherwise...
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They have those in Germany. I think of Smarties as these:
Yes. Those Smarties are the super-power-energy pills of my youth. I could fly for one month a year.
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Yeah, people think I'm nuts when I say I like Smarties... but that's NOT what I mean.
Wait...there's another kind of Smarties? :huh:
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Laura, I don't think it is different except that US schools have never been nationalized. Even within states, the districts are usually under local control. This means thousands of districts are all setting curriculum, testing, teacher qualifications, etc. So this leads to a lot of conversations that go like:
"That district is terrible. But mine is doing a good job."
Case in point -- New Jersey has 603 school districts. 603. Check out a map to see exactly how big this state is. See that big long state just to our west? Starts with a P? They only have about 200 more than we do.
This is not the way to run a railroad.
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Best: Any jumbo-sized candy bar. There's always that one big old house with a tray-full.
Worst: Yes Necco wafers are demon spawn, but I remember popcorn balls and homemade oddities in little wax bags that were never a fav either. Later, parents started x-raying kids' haul and that all died out.
I forgot Smarties -- they were always the super-energy-pills that I tried in vain to ration out over time, since I only got them at Halloween. Of course, the flip side to rationing is to chew a whole package, only to realize it's not that far off from dentist office toothpaste.
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Last year was a literal washout in NJ. There were impassable sidewalks and wire down a month after Sandy, and we're an hour inland. Our town cancelled, so we had to go into the larger adjoining downtown for a merchant's trick or treat. Considering the bulk of DD's costume that year, it was a PIA going in and our of stores with the crowds.
Rain would be just fine, thank you.
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I had to read that title twice while thinking "I'm pretty sure my grandmother is the only one I know who still wears a girdle, but you know...HSers....whatever."
I'll go quietly.
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Here the police station takes them.
Same here, but it's only certain times of the year. Worth a call.
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Well, there's "leave home" to go to college at 17, and then there's "leave home" after college at 21. I left for good the September after I graduated to move in with my girlfriend-now-wife. That went over swimmingly with the MIL.
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His issue is a tumor in the retina - not something an optometrist can treat. My dd's retinal tumor was first seen by an optometrist but she immediately got us into an opthamologist - and not just any opthamologist but a retinal specialist because you need a medical doctor who is highly specialized in the field for that.
Yup. I have an ophthalmologist for the front of my eye, and a retina surgeon for the back. Two different specialties.
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I took the test again in '08, just for street cred in my business, and, to see what happened, I did indeed make up the essay on the fly. It's hard to do. The added mental stress of trying to keep a story line straight is not something I'd wish on the average Junior. Yes, the essay is ridiculous, and it will probably change or go away, but there are sensible ways to prep for it.
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Time will vary from patient to patient, and depends on a lot of things. I have liver mets, so it's not just that one particular organ is involved, but by how much, and how fast the tumor(s) grow, and how fast toxicity builds up in the body, and, and, etc. Ask hospice, and frankly, a veteran hospice nurse might be able to give you a better time frame than a hospice doc. That was certainly true with my families two hospice experiences. If you can talk to a nurse who has had regular contact with your FIL, then he/she will have the best assessment.
As for NY Metro lodging -- that depends. I always think things seem closer IRL than they do on a map, so it's worth looking a little farther afield. Are we talking in NYC?
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I had a Junior SAT kid who said she read The Odyssey in class. "Awesome," I said. "Yeah, we spent about a week on it."
*****RECORD SCRATCH*****
A week.
To read and digest and analyze The Odyssey.
The one by Homer?
We are so doomed.
There is a bumper sticker out there, maybe on Cafe Press, that says "Someday, maybe my homeschooler will hire your honor student" I'm tempted...I really am.
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Well, I shared in the Happy Thread that my son's choir did their fall showcase last weekend, which featured my kid singing a solo in "With Cat Like Tread" and also debuting the choreography he did for the boychoir.
Today, they kicked off their first fund-raiser for their trip this summer. They are going to NYC to participate in the inaugural event for a new invitational choir festival, which will have them singing at Carnegie Hall. Based on how well the number my son worked on went last weekend, the choir director has told him to start thinking about choreography for Carnegie. And that is making him extremely happy.
They've also been told that the choir directors will be giving the solos that were sung by the adult choristers during the showcase performance to the older kids for concerts they have coming up in the next couple of months. My son is jonesing for one of the solos from "One More Day" (Les Miserables). So, we're crossing our fingers for him.
OK, "Cat Like Treads" from Pirates has special significance for us. DD was maybe 2ish and I put that on (cassette) in our old Subaru. DD would slap both knees on cue -- With cat like treads (smack) upon the way we steal (smack) -- through the whole song. That's kinda when we suspected DW having conducted her winter concert at 8mos might have had an effect!
Congrats on the Carnegie gig, which will be awesome. DD sang there last year and it's truly an epic venue. Be sure to bring $$ for the gift shop!
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As I am sure your know Laura, in the USA, we lag far behind other first world countries (heck, and most other countries period) on actual pro-family, pro-child policies like maternity/paternity leave.
As a matter of fact, there is a series of graphs on HuffPo that just appeared today detailing the same thing -- it's only us, Lesotho, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea that don't have mandated parental leave. Now, I don't want to get all political, but c'mon. :banghead:
Homeschoolers who choose not to do co-op or many extras
in General Education Discussion Board
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1. The nearest co-op is conservative Christian. We are not.
2. The co-ops a bit farther away don't seem to be working with the level of academic rigor that we do.
3. There was a really odd pecking order at the large co-op we visited. I'm not much into drama and cliques.
4. DD already sings with a professional choir and has 2 evenings of dance, with independent GS work peppered here and there*. That's enough.
*BTW - Happy 101 Julliette Gordon Low!