Kiki's Hurricane Hurrah & Fire Function

[featherhead007]

Nothing to apologize for. No one is offended

I'm offended (now what was the issue?)

 

[featherhead007]

A) a set of wedding & engagement bands with neat art work.
B) either a tiny tooth or toenail

Or Maybe a hummingbird turd?

 

[MROO]

There was a lot of that at the time I was teaching my kids. I tried to believe it, too. It would have been better if I had not. The whole creationism thing goes back to the Calvinists and the split of Protestants from Roman Catholic. (I guess I'm neither, nor Arminian either, really.) About that time the Bible was translated into modern languages. A lot of people who didn't understand literature started interpreting it for themselves.

Many of the Protestant clergy understood the Creation story as it was (I believe) intended; as heaven-inspired sacred mythic literature expounding on the human condition. These clerics and theologians had no problem with evolution when it came to the fore.

There later rose to prominence certain less-classically educated leaders, who insisted on the literal interpretation of pretty much everything. The Bible could be understood by anyone, they taught, because it meant precisely, literally what it said. This movement became exceedingly popular and remains so to this day but, as CS Lewis said, "The Bible is a book that was written for grown-ups." Things are neither as simple nor as complicated as many have been led to believe, imo.

That's why you saw those charts. I am more Christian now than I was then or, for that matter, more than I was yesterday. But no, you don't offend me.

Since you posted publicly I wanted to answer publicly, but if you (or anyone else) want to continue the conversation we should probably do it privately.

Here's an interesting illustration to throw out there ... My father was raised a devout catholic, but was a die-hard evolutionist, to the point where it caused problems with his family. Dad poo-pooed all organized religion ... until he met Reverend Norquist, who postulated that religion and science are not mutually exclusive. Our reverend almost got excommunicated because he noted, publicly, that Heaven's time is vastly different from ours. seconds to eons and such. Who was to say that evolution wasn't "Someone" tweaking an experiment (Life on Earth) to make it better. We do it with our birds all the time, and we aren't really scientists, just people with a vision and the time to develop it. He went on to venture that the dinosaurs could well have been a project headed completely in the wrong direction ... and got scrapped so the project could proceed in a more effective manner.
No matter what the concrete belief under it, that simple thought was enough to bring my Dad "back" and taught me that looking past the dogma to question the bigger - in nearly anything - can yield surprisingly enlightening results.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Then there's the fact that learning a second language has both brain and social benefits. And believe it or not, MUSIC is a second language ... a MATH based language. If your older elementary , middle or even HS student is struggling with the concept of fractions (even converting them to decimals) break out a piece of simple sheet music. Notes are fractions - and if you think of a whole note as 100% of a measure, the conversions make sense.

I had a Junior High (I know, it dates me, we didn't call it Middle School!) hand out one of those busy work papers they call "Fun Sheets," that had everyone groaning. It had us solving a puzzle by converting between music, numbers and the alphabet. After much groaning, someone noticed that "quarter" notes and "1/4" notes shared the same letter value. Suddenly, we Band Geeks were the heroes of the day ... and it was cool!

Wait, Middle School and Junior High are the same things? Huh.

 

[MROO]

I'll be making banana bread today! Yay!
Pictures later.
I might make some toffee, too....
Is anyone else making anything today?

Do "reservations" count?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Here's an interesting illustration to throw out there ... My father was raised a devout catholic, but was a die-hard evolutionist, to the point where it caused problems with his family. Dad poo-pooed all organized religion ... until he met Reverend Norquist, who postulated that religion and science are not mutually exclusive. Our reverend almost got excommunicated because he noted, publicly, that Heaven's time is vastly different from ours. seconds to eons and such. Who was to say that evolution wasn't "Someone" tweaking an experiment (Life on Earth) to make it better. We do it with our birds all the time, and we aren't really scientists, just people with a vision and the time to develop it. He went on to venture that the dinosaurs could well have been a project headed completely in the wrong direction ... and got scrapped so the project could proceed in a more effective manner.
No matter what the concrete belief under it, that simple thought was enough to bring my Dad "back" and taught me that looking past the dogma to question the bigger - in nearly anything - can yield surprisingly enlightening results.

I like that

 

[MROO]

You will be sorry.
Just kidding.
It's gonna be hard telling the difference between Ducking, The Duckling, and Little Duck.

If anyone gets overly confused ... they'll just have to duck out of the conversation ...

 

[MROO]

Anyone wanna guess what this is?
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A broken puppy tooth?

 

[casportpony]

I had a Junior High (I know, it dates me, we didn't call it Middle School!)

MIne was Junior High too.

 

[R2elk]

MIne was Junior High too.

What does that make mine?