satrunrose
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In NY and NJ the kids have to attend school for 180 days. That's the law. How the vacations are divided up in NJ is up to each school district. My kids get 1/2 day on Wednesday and are back to school on Monday.Yeah that's what it used to be here in California too. Then they dropped it to 175 at some point, maybe 5 years ago? I think some districts were even less, and some kept it at 180, but the ones around me are/were all 175. I'm not sure what it is anymore since my Mom retired from teaching.
Wow! Around here (not in the US) we have 195 days of school and they are threatening to make it 200 for teachers (without an increase in pay, of course).
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This is just one more post that underlines my complete confusion about "courting". These are arranged marriages. We know they're arranged, and yet all of the folks in them are somehow obligated to blog ad nauseum (emphasis on the nausea) about how 110%-over-the-moon-you-sinners-especially-teh-gays-could-never-possibly-understand in love they are. Is it the teenage mentality that the cult encourages? Over the top delight in finally being able to acknowledge sexual impulses? I'm lost here.
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I'd be willing to bet that a considerably higher percentage is quite aware of the "message" of Christianity but is simply not interested or unreceptive. Just as the average Christian is not going to be swayed by the mythology of another religion. And many atheists, in my experience, have an excellent grasp of the tenets of most major religions.
Oh, I agree 100% Jynnan Tonix, but as a working Jezebel without an umbrella of protection, I ran out of time before work. Certainly, given Western Christianity's historically, ahem, militant approach to evangelism, I would say there are very few people who don't have at least some idea of the gist of "The Good News'. Bottom line, either Derick's lying, or he's an idiot, or both.
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God did not call us to convert Catholics, but God has called us to follow His example. He has not called us to convert Buddhists, Muslims, Baptists, atheists, Mormons, Lutherans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Methodists, agnostics, or Hindus. God has called us to Central America to preach the good news of the kingdom of God.
The thing is Derick, a little less than 50% of the folks on that list already know the Good News. If you came up to a Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Mormon or Methodist and said "Did you know Jesus died to redeem you?" The answer would be "Yes". So what, revelation, exactly are you sharing? Is it the Good News of Bill Gothard? You too can feel like more of a man by completely dominating the women and children in your life?
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jeslynn_star_rock Jesus is the best thing ever I love Jesus so muchYou could put any noun at all in that sentence. Jesus, Justin Bieber, ice cream...
Fundy Mad Libs! I purpose to find a Godly adverb!
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ABSTRACT, ON 30 OCT 2015 - 01:28 AM, SAID:Infrequent poster here with a question. Are there any circumstances under which it would be appropriate for a teacher to single a student out for a prank? One in which the other students in the class are in on the joke? Let's say the students are ages 10-12.
I have a hard time with the one because it's definitely not something I would do in my own teaching (I work with kids who are just a teeny bit older than that) but, I don't like saying "absolutely never under any circumstances" without knowing something about the teacher, the school, the relationships, the specific prank etc. When it comes to the teacher-student "line", there are certainly some absolute no-nos, obviously (unless you're a Duggar, your school is of the dinning room table and it was over the clothes. ahem) and then there's a whole whack of grey. Personally, I er on the side of professional distance is a good thing, but I will admit, I have pulled the whole April Fools pop quiz joke on a few classes... (the one where the directions say to read to the end before starting and the last question makes it obvious it's not a real quiz).
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As Christians, adoption is a such a beautiful picture and reminder of God’s love for us in adopting us into His family. "
Ummm, it has been a while since I've been to my decidedly non-fundy Church, but isn't one of the few key tenants of Christianity that pretty much every(Christian)one agrees on is that God is our creator...which would make "Him" our father. As in Our Father who are in Heaven; Gracious Heavenly Father; Bless us, Heavenly Father...Where the heck does adoption come in?
PS. Not meaning to imply that adoptive fathers or parents aren't "real" parents - just wondering how you thump as many Bibles as they do and not get that rather significant point.
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cmr2014, I think you're spot on about Derrick and Jill being less than happy and what might be causing that. Unfortunately, given their belief system, I have a feeling marriage issues might make it more likely that they are rushing into a second pregnancy rather than throwing up the major red flags it would for the rest of us.
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So - do any of you have any thoughts to share about Zumba? I feel optimistic that it will get me moving. I hope I will literally merengue my ass off.
I absolutely love Zumba. I've been taking classes at my local rec centres for about three years now and have seen good results and had fun. Some of my teachers have been very into disco-style songs and moves, others more modern. My current teacher loves twerking and squats, which I would never do outside of class but are a surprisingly good work-out. It also encouraged me to finally pursue my interest in all things dance and try some actual dance classes, which I'm loving.
PS. In all the classes I've done, I'm one of the younger folks (and I'm not that young) and about middle of the pack in terms of fitness (I'm not super fit), so it really is for all levels and that takes the pressure off for me.
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Despite the heavy dose of MacGuffin, I'm happy anytime Josh Dallas has stuff to do. Add in the heartbreaking Hook and Dark Emma scene and I'm a happy viewer. Speaking of, I don't blame Hook for the "I loved you" comment. I like that they aren't having him get sucked into the black hole of Belle's enabling or turn dark to be with Emma. Plus, from a story perspective, even though Emma hasn't done anything particularly bad... she has, apparently, embraced being the DO and Hook knows first hand that means no parent, citizen or saviour of the year awards are coming her way any time soon. As he said, the Dark One curse changed Rumple from a good, if cowardly, man to a guy who would murder his ex for fun. Also, the last thing Hook remembers, Emma was fighting the darkness for all she was worth, now she has clearly embraced it. It makes sense that he is trying to defeat the darkness rather than doing the "The Emma I love is still in there" angst route.
Also, I know I was supposed to have an "Oh Noes" reaction to Arthur's Dastardly Plot to make a new Camelot in Storybrooke, but given the cool architecture, pretty clothes and repeated opportunities for musical and Monty Python references, was I the only one thinking that was an Evil Plot I could get behind?
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I don't know what's dumber about Huckabee's statement, the percentage bit or the "turned out pretty well". I know a lot of small one or two child families where all of the kids ended up educated, stable and financially independent, so are they beating the Duggars or do percentages not count when you don't have more than a dozen kids. As for the turned out pretty well part... yeah...no.... at the most optimistic we can say that we don't know yet about 13-15 of the kids (and frankly, given the weird "no social media pre-engagement' rule, I feel like we only "know" anything about Jessa, Jill and Joshly (and most of it's annoying, judgemental and sketchy).
I guess what really bugs me about comments like this (for families I know in real life too) is that when Christian, heterosexual, married, white, middle-ish class families decide to have so many children that they need donations and "help" to feed and clothe their umpteen blessings they are Godly People. If anyone outside of that group choses to do the same thing they are... um...not. I have a former close friend who I call my own private Duggar, although she is über Catholic not ATI, who has spent the past two Christmases on Facebook thanking the good samaritans in their lives for making sure their 5 kids had something under the tree and bragging about how they are like the ... um... some order of monk... who would wander the roads relying on the charity of others (I almost pointed out that said monks didn't have five children, but figured it wouldn't end well). I few months ago I ran into her... guess who has blessing number 6 well underway (at that point her husband had been unemployed for several months). Sigh.
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Holy Moly! I cannot believe this. I don't usually contribute a lot to the Small Talk forum, but I do enjoy reading it and think of those of you that are having a rough go, so this is really shocking. I've had a few small alarm bells (mostly when she (?) kept insisting that she had neither family nor close friends for support) but for the most part I assumed, given the length of time she has been posting, that she (again ?) was being truthful. I really feel bad for all of you kind people who tried to open your hearts to someone we thought was in need. Thank you also to the mods and tipsters for catching on. You rock!
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Thanks Mom and Dad for being better parents than Michelle and JB.
Someone call Hallmark. I think we've got a winner!
In other news, I agree that the show (or maybe the media more broadly) holds a lot of the blame for the lack of rebel kids. It could be because the money took away the motivation to strike out on their own, but I would't even begin to put it past JB and M to suggest to their kids... a lot.... that if anyone leaves the show would end and the family would starve in some epic Dickensian tragedy. Ie. It's not just the private plane they'd lose they'd cost the whole family their means of support. They're so hyper-fixated on the number and not on the people, and I think it would be pretty easy to use that to manipulate any potential rebels.
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What I don't understand is why this is the hush, hush, fake going away party, shut down social media blackout event. I mean, Jill's sister is having a baby within the next few weeks and Jill is...technically... able to deliver Baby Brimstone (personally, after the Izzy fiasco the only thing I would trust Jill to deliver is coffee from the starbucks run), so it makes some sense for the Dullards to stick around. Frankly, I don't feel like the Duggar girls are as close as a lot of siblings I know, but since they weren't really allowed to have friends, Jill's all Jessa's got. Why no one is telling them to make a statement that Jill is staying to help her sister and the three of them will be returning to South America on Nov the whatever for 6 months is a huge mystery to me.
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I'm trying to imaging fundie-friendly Zumba and I just...can't....
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The Duggars may not dance but they don't avoid music. The kids play instruments and sing.
There seems to be some access to music, but we've only ever seen them perform a handful of pieces - which mystifies me because even if you take out all secular songs and anything post rock and roll (I remember them saying something somewhere about objecting to Christian Rock), you still have about 1940 years of beautiful religious music. I've been in secular choirs my whole life and at least a third our repertoire is religious because the music is so amazing.
The other weird thing, is that despite the fact that all of the kids have taken music lessons of some sort for years, none of them seem to be very good at it. Shouldn't there be enough skill by this point to form a trio or quartet and tackle some Bach? (very religious, big family, they'd love him) Of course, I wonder why they're not better at a lot of things, especially those high demand skills for ...ugh...helpmeets.
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Man,I was just bursting into an enthusiastic rendition of excerpts from Camelot when that last scene happened. I don't like that they went the time jump/amnesia route again but I like how JMo is doing her own evil thing and not just being a rehash of Rumple or Regina. As always, I love the CS moments.
Ps. Actress who plays Merida, can you do a passable American accent and would you be interested in sending an audition to the Outlander folks? She could be amazing on that show, and we know she'll only be around for a half season tops on Once.
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Murder in the First -- the first season was great, I thought. By focusing on one case for the entirety of the season, they could explore the intricacies of a trial, not just a couple of witnesses and forensic evidence. It was compelling. (Of course, Tom Felton gets at least partial credit for that.)
I was in grade 7 when Murder in the First came out and my friends and I were obsessed with it (and Sailor Moon, we were eclectic in our geekyness). We would dissect every episode meticulously on our way to school every week. Second season, we watched an episode or two and then never spoke of it again.
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So little David's siblings "doted on him" then told him, at three, he was a terrible sinner and doomed to burn forever? My, what a fun family.
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This one'll be about pirates.
Perhaps this belongs in the goofy thread, but the vision of Pirate Derrick stealing souls/booty/doughnuts only to be stopped by Jesus in one of those ginormous 18th century galleons gives me a wicked case of the giggles.
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Although I still find it the most depressing story about religious extremist marriage that I've read since "A Thousand Splendid Suns", it does leave me rethinking my impression of Gothardite marriage. I made the assumption that, although these are pretty clearly arranged marriages, no one actually tells the brides that. Instead they force feed them a steady diet of "Before you meet prince charming" so the poor, naive waifs actually believe that they are in love. Looking at Priscilla, who I think would be very likely to buy into the princess version, maybe the girls are going into this knowing the score...which oddly seems less troubling than the alternative.
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That may be one of the saddest things I have read in a long time. What ever part of speech love constitutes, how can you walk into a life-long relationship feeling like Christ at the crucifixion? Shouldn't it feel like Easter morning where Christians believe Jesus rose, death is defeated and every wonderful dream is possible? What kind of sicko parents marry one daughter off to an admitted child molester and lead another to believe that marriage is martyrdom and that's the only way to make God happy?
I hate to give the Duggar "parents" (and boy do I use that term lightly) credit for anything, but at least Jessa and Jill seemed happy with the spouses Daddy picked.
Talk about the sins of the father...
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I wonder if Jessa will be invited back to Southern Women given the fact that the Duggars are not as famous (except for Joshie and the stripper) and that there were protests over her last engagement. I don't think those kind of shows are really looking for controversy.
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Hmmm...
F Bin. It's the least disgusting (sort of) and I can use the evidence to torpedo his televangelist career. Plus, I'm guessing once Jessa found out she'll take care of the K part for me.
K Josh 'cause one of my life goals is to avoid having four kids while being chained to a cheating douchenozzle.
M Jim Boob (ew!ew!ew!) because as long as I wear my mullet and gaze adoringly at the King of the Idiots while he's in the room, I can take over the homefool (Jessa being locked away for killing Bin and all), and teach evolution and The Handmaid's Tale.
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The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah
in Counting On
I wonder if this is also another SODRT fail. Do they have the math skills to work out how many pies they need if each pie gives 6-8 slices and they need to feed 17? Do they even realize this is a math-y moment? Or was it just a "we need a bunch of pies. 10 does't sound like enough. 20s too many. Let's go with 15." I think I know where I'd bet...