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. But what concerns me is why retail cashiers can't make change, and why we have to recruit from developing countries for intellectual jobs when American graduates are unemployed.
My first job was at TJ Maxx, where the cash register made the change and I had no idea about "making change." My second job, that I started right after high school graduation, was at a take out window for a small restaurant. They had just a drawer and nothing else. My first day there, I was lost. I went home that evening and my mom sat down with me and taught me how to make change.
That was a a long time ago and I've not forgotten that unused skill. lol I've worked at a lot of retail type jobs between then and now and none of them required manually counting out change, though I often did it that way.
Still, that is just not something that is taught in school. I graduated in 1989. I don't know where my mom learned it from. Maybe working in her dad's store?
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Lionsbridge requires 40 hours a month. I have been slacking and am working hard to make sure I get all of mine this month! Working from home, for me, equals easily distracted by other fun stuff on the computer, my son, my dogs, and just about anything else around. :lol: I've been doing some transcription too, plus going to school full time. It has not been easy for me to set up and stick to some sort of schedule.
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I just started working for them a few weeks ago.
The work is basically rating web pages based on how useful it is based on the query and the quality of the web page (not query based). They have a large amount of guidelines and I did a decent amount of studying when I was testing.
It's hard to explain, but if you apply and get invited to test, they are very thorough with the training and studying materials.
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I'm waiting to read it (fourth in line through ILL) but I'm more than a little concerned about RP's association with Gary North. :/ Abandoning public schools? Yeah, I'm for that if possible. Getting into bed with half-crazed dominionists? Not so much.
Yeah, the Gary North thing is definitely not appealing, to put it mildly. Every time I see that curriculum mentioned on a homeschool FB page, I cringe. The RP name really draws people towards it, but I wonder how much he is really involved.
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I also wanted to add what really drew me into the ICC. I was 19, had just finished up a year of very hard partying, didn't have very many friends, very unsure of myself and lacked confidence. When my friend invited me to the service, it was vastly different than the Catholic services I grew up with. It was fun! I had instant friends and dating as well! My friend was at college at the time and I think they really preyed, perhaps unintentionally, on those coming into college who lack confidence and don't have any friends. It really was a fun group of people and there were lots of fun activities, like sand volleyball. It was an instant social life.
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It's so odd with the emphasis on homebirth and grinding your wheat and all of that. There's such an overlap between what I've always considered a "crunchy" lifestyle and this ultra-strict religious group. It makes me wonder if some of the very strident sites I see about these commonalities are coming from an ATI background or if they've been unknowingly influenced by it. I mean, until I read all of this, if I was speaking with someone who shared that they are homeopaths, make everything from scratch, homebirth, etc., I would just assume they were into organic living. I'm not even sure what I'm trying to say, but it just strikes me as odd.
On a side note, if everything is supposed to be natural, how are the Duggars getting away with tater-tot casserole? :D
I think I understand what you're saying. I always found it funny when I was frequenting a cloth diaper forum, how much overlap there is between liberal, crunchy hippies and strict, fundamental Christians. Both groups shared a lot of the same beliefs (for lack of a better word) such as homebirth, cloth diapers, breast feeding, cooking from scratch, etc etc, but for different reasons and often having completely different set of spiritual beliefs.
I've never heard of Gothard until this board. But when I was in my late teens (19ish) I did get pulled into the International Church of Christ.
I feel they are very cult like to a certain degree. They believe they are the only ones who have and know the truth, they push recruiting heavily, everyone has a "disciple" that they report to, dating is only with other church members with approval and no physical nothing ... If there were rules beyond that for married couples, I don't know because I wasn't in that group. I left when they told me I needed to lose weight (15 lbs!),cut my hair, and dress nicer to attract more people to the church. After I left I received phone calls asking why I didn't love God anymore and how could I leave God, etc, etc. Belonging to this group really skewed my views and feelings on faith. I have tried multiple times to have some sort of faith, but I just can't get over the hump that this church left. I was atheist for many years, came back a few times to Christianity, and have been agnostic now for a while.
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I've just started reading is. As in, still in the Introduction chapter. :) I was just curious if anyone else was reading it too.
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Anyone else reading this?
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Here is my clown doll. :)
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I have to say it, but evolution is also just a theory. It is not fact based.
Holy h*ll.
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
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If her parents had bothered to teach her from a young age that those things were shameful, and were involved in her life, and made sure she did not put herself in such dangerous situations, perhaps she would still be alive. If her parents had taught her she was worth more than that, that she didn't need to do those shameful things to get approval from other people, perhaps she wouldn't even have been in that situation.
If people would bother to parent their children, teach them morals and values and how to treat one another, perhaps all this evil wouldn't happen in the first place.
The fact that she killed herself does not *change* the fact that her participation in the event was shameful. It just doesn't.
Wow, just wow.
Perhaps (hey, I said perhaps), parents who teach their kids all these awesome things (like you) still have kids that go out and do stupid stuff.
Good lord.
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Pennywise
Thank you! I was not recalling him name and didn't hit up Google either. :)
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Insane Clown Posse? That cute clown in Poltergeist? Marcel Marceau?
"It" the clown from the book "It."
Scary in the book, not so scary in the movie even though I love Tim Curry.
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Some people apparently do. ;)
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Now I have that song in my head too.
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If I ever see a demon (doubtful), I would certainly not consider it a gift.
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The incest and the orgy.
I don't remember any incest or orgy in Brave New World. It's been a little bit since I've read it last though.
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I started the The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and might have finished it if it weren't for Anne Rice's annoying writing.
I've read the first two, I don't have the third. If I ever come across it at a thrift store (my favorite place to go book shopping), I will pick it up.
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See, I've never read Twilight. I am not a fan of vampire stuff. But I mostly keep my uninformed opinions about it to myself.
I broke down and read it after listening to so many people rave about it. I will admit that while reading it, I was very much into it. Afterwards, I decided I would never read it again and wondered why I ever read it in the first place. I did find her take on vampires interesting and often defended her decision to portray them in that way. After all, vampires are fictional characters. So, yeah, I didn't get any intellectual boost from that, but I do understand all the comments and memes and what not. :) I never saw the movies either.
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You clearly don't know what graphic detail is then. I have never read a book that had as much as this one does.
It appears you like to go through this thread accusing people of things. Not having ever perused a library or bookstore, not knowing what graphic detail is.... I'm pretty sure the previous poster knows what graphic detail is. You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I have not read this book. As far as I can tell from your posts, you have not either. Therefore, neither you, nor I, have a leg to stand on regarding discussing or dissing this book. Not in any intellectual way, anyways. Please correct me if I'm wrong and you have read this book, as you alluded to in the post I'm quoting.
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Bolded, I definitely agree. I did that once, going off of another "conservative" family's suggestion. Ugh. Yes, good conversation, but my son wishes he hadn't read the book and asked if there was a way to bleach his brain (A Brave New World...a classic in some circles, I know).
I am curious (seriously) what your son found brain bleach worthy in A Brave New World?
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Awed to be in the presence of someone such as yourself. How does one make an educated guess after reading a few posts someone puts on a forum? Oh, I guess its probably the many, many years you have lived.
And I totally thought once you hit the 400th book, you were in fact a literary genius.
I've read many posts by the person I was responding to, that is how it is an educated guess.
Nope, I'm not a literary genius despite the amount of books I have read.
BTW, you are not in my presence.
To not derail the Texas textbook thread
in The Chat Board
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I honestly can't remember if I was or wasn't. I remember taking earth science, biology, marine biology, and one semester of chemistry. If evolution was in there, I don't remember it. But I do remember that there was no creation theory either. :)