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11 minutes ago, FuzzyCatz said:
MN state fair is huge. Competes with Texas for size I think though it is 12 days. We love it, live in close range ( the fair grounds are in the city). and we usually go multiple times but not this year. Nervous it will end up being a huge super spreader event this year. It was canceled last year. I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s such a quirky slice of Americana. Excellent people watching. It starts next weekend.
People watching is great at the state fair! There is always a "People of the Fair" section in the paper. Definitely, competes with "People of Walmart for those 11 days 🙂
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1 hour ago, MercyA said:
Yuck. I would not want to have such a man as a pastor. I'm fine with pastors teaching on it with tact and with a view to their audience when it comes up in Scripture; otherwise, that kind of focus and obsession is tacky and misplaced. IMHO.
I wonder if they are trying to hard to swing the pendulum the other way with talking about sex. I feel the message is it is bad before marriage, so they have to make it sound super duper great after marriage.
I do agree that many churches are obsessed with talking about sex. One church we attended had so many sermons on homosexuality. I felt they had an unhealthy obsession with preaching against it when most of the congregation was committing a plethora of other sins.
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4 minutes ago, kristin0713 said:
I don’t think NJ has a state fair. The big thing around here is county 4H fairs and lots of counties have them.
eta - Usually they are a few days or something like Thursday-Saturday or Sunday. Lots of food trucks, carnival rides, animals, contests, live entertainment.We have county fairs leading up to the state fair. I think ours are Thursday-Saturday also. State Fair is 11 days.
Interesting, I wonder how many don't have state fairs? I imagine I could Google it.
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Does your state have a popular state fair? A couple of years ago I was talking to my cousin who lives by St. Louis. She was talking about going to the IL State Fair one year. She was shocked by all of the food on a stick, the farm animals, the number of people, and everything about the fair. It sounds very similar to the IA State Fair. We don't go every year, but it is fun when we do go.
What is your state fair like? I've heard that the TX State Fair is a month long?
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I was subjected to a conversation which included "to tea bag". It was so awkward. One of those conversations you want to be over but it just keeps going on.
ETA: Don't Google it! It means putting certain male genitalia on someone else for fun. Apparently, guys do it to each other for fun? As a prank, unless there is yet another sexual meaning for it also.
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6 minutes ago, gardenmom5 said:
Then there's this. . .. . and this is a multi-national business. .. .
eta: at least the six have been fired, and charges filed against them.
Crazy
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9 minutes ago, FuzzyCatz said:
I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't be cool with murdering someone over what is usually petty crime.
This kind of stuff is up in our neighborhood lately too. I am very neurotic creating the illusion that there is nothing of interest in my vehicle. I'm pretty sure someone purposefully shattered one of our windows when I was in a parking lot for a regional urban park a couple weeks ago. Annoying but it's covered at least. I can't imagine killing someone over it, yikes.
ONe thing that is up in our area earlier is stealing catalytic convertors. I think they finally broke up some rings, I haven't heard about that for a while now. That really stinks, it totaled our neighbor's car. 😞
Yes, catalytic converters were being stolen around here also.
And, this guy has his own business. He's been known to threaten people who give him bad reviews. Just the guy I want with a gun!
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14 minutes ago, Jenny in Florida said:
Well, I don't have the information I would need to track down your location, anyway. However, I do want to emphasize -- as a person who worked for my county library and continues to be a donor and booster -- that this action is absolutely antithetical to what libraries are supposed to be about. If the book was removed from a public institution on religious grounds, that is beyond distressing and should be addressed.
I get it, I really do. Trust me, I do. I feel like I am the voice of some reason and will step it up.
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12 minutes ago, Jenny in Florida said:
Honestly, I'm upset about this, too. And I kind of want to contact the library and/or the ALA myself.
Please don't, it is small town and I will be never get a job again. Even if I moved something like that would follow me.
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There have been a lot of car break-ins in my area lately. On FB, this morning someone posted a picture of his gun and said if they tried to break in to his car they'd be talking to Jesus.
My thought is that if you have something in your car that is so important you would shoot someone, you need to get it out of your car.
My dh thinks if the thieves saw our cars they would be leaving us stuff 😂
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2 hours ago, pinball said:
I’d get a friend to go in and ask for help in finding all the resources the library has about guardian angels, fiction and nonfiction, adult and juvenile.
As small as our library is, that might have legitimately been the only book on guardian angels.
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2 hours ago, Farrar said:
Literally illegal. Like, no American court would ever decide that was an acceptable reason. Also against the ALA's Library Bill of Rights.
The ALA has a lot of resources for understanding the legalities around this. Freedom Forum has this summary of the case law around this:
https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/topics/freedom-of-speech-2/libraries-first-amendment-overview/banned-books/You could absolutely be a whistleblower about this. You can even be anonymous about it if you want. If you live somewhere with actual journalists, I would contact a local paper. If you don't, you can still put it anonymously on local groups. This is pretty messed up. If you want to try and appeal to your superiors, you can point out that they're opening the library up to a serious lawsuit. Put the fear of the ACLU's deep pockets in them.
Yeah, not going to do this. I never asked if there was another reason it was being taken out. The note was not in good taste but it might have been withdrawn for other reasons. We are withdrawing all sorts of books right now due to low check out numbers. And, no I couldn't be anonymous because only 3 of us saw that note.
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3 hours ago, J-rap said:
Wow, that is really something... Does that mean they don't include books about Halloween, friendly witches, ghosts, elves, and a thousand other things?
Like I said, we have books on so many subjects which is why I was so surprised that it happened
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3 hours ago, pinball said:
Whose theology? LOL
There certainly are theologies that teach that God created angels and that angels watch over humans.
Are any books that don’t meet the librarian’s world view subject to being removed?
What a dangerous precedent.
No, we have books on many subjects that they wouldn't consider "Theologically Sound", this is the first I've seen this happen.
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1 hour ago, MercyA said:
@SquirrellyMama, do you happen to remember the title? (Just curiosity from someone who is interested in Christian children's books and in angels!)
I don't remember unfortunately. The poem went something like, "Angels are with me throughout the day, when I sleep and when I play..." It had pictures of little cherubs following this kid around. Helping him out.
Kelly
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17 hours ago, TechWife said:
Is it possible someone returned it to the library with that note attached?
I’m pretty conservative and that is not a book I would have chosen for our family, and it would bother me to know a public library was removing it from circulation for that reason - it’s inappropriat
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21 hours ago, Elfknitter.# said:
Sounds like they need a basic class on collection maintenance and weeding. I'm going to assume there is not a collection development policy at this library?
Info from ALA: https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit/weeding
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22 hours ago, mathnerd said:
If the library is funded by taxpayer money and not church money, then they should change their POV
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22 hours ago, KSera said:
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2 hours ago, hippymamato3 said:
Wow. That's awful. Any "sins" are between an individual and God. This seems crazy to me.
In many churches, sin issues are seen as more than just between an individual and God. I get that, but there are other ways to accomplish this. We were in a small group apart from the larger church. These groups were made up of between 6 and 12 people. We did have one of the guys in our group admit to a porn addiction. That was to 7 other people. It didn't get broadcast to the entire church. He was able to get some help with accountability from 7 other people or fewer.
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5 minutes ago, hippymamato3 said:
What on Earth is that?
Re: Church discipline
I have only seen this once in a church that we attended. I was horrified by it.
A couple came up to the front of the church on a Sunday during the service. They admitted to having sex, how sorry they were, and how they intended to get married. And then the congregation clapped.
There was no reason to have that during the service. I cannot imagine what visitors that day thought.
I was horrified for them. If they wanted to get married, great. If not, they should NOT have been pressured into it. I honestly don't know if they ever got married or not.
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Just now, J-rap said:
I get what you're saying, but this makes me think that we assume people shouldn't have to learn self-control, or that it's somehow bad or unhealthy to try and control natural urges. Controlling instinctive desires isn't necessarily a bad thing to learn. I don't mean this as an argument for or against pre-marital sex, just thinking of natural urges in general and how we are to think of them. I think it's an interesting discussion.
There are so many ways to learn and practice self control. Some might pick abstinence as a way to strengthen self control. Others might pick loving others more than one's self, or some might pick not overeating. And, some of us just never learn it 😁
I have cautioned my kids to not get intimately involved quickly. I'm not just talking about sex, I tell them to hold off on kissing for at least a month (possibly longer) because once physical contact has started, it is almost impossible to put on the brakes.
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At one point in time I would have said it was very important. I have told all of my children to not have sex in high school because a pregnancy at that point in time is not worth the sexual enjoyment.
After they graduate I would prefer they wait a while or get really really reliable birth control.
I don't want my kids getting married before they have at least a 4 year degree so I can see not waiting to have sex.
Part of me wanting them to wait is the fact that I 100% do NOT want grandchildren right now. I have no desire to babysit them, interact with them, or buy things for them. Hopefully, that will change someday. If not, I am going to be the worst grandma ever.
So, kind of important but not so much once they graduate high school. They just need to be really careful because I refuse to raise a grandchild they are not ready for.
Kelly
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State Fairs
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There is definitely a huge agricultural component. There is also so much more. Several concerts every night, I know Blake Shelton was on of them. A huge carnival, displays and projects on every subject.
It is fun, but so crowded and hot that we don't go every year.