Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Good grief! Naivety reigns supreme!
Oh well, at least this will reinforce that old "bare foot and pregnant" stereotype. I must admit they do offer up a fine batch of material for the future comedians of america. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Oh, come on. This is just like drugs. As long as we make marijuana and cocaine and other drugs illegal, and crack down on their supply sometimes, no one will be harmed by them! Right?
Just as if we tell our kids to not have sex at all, they won't! Those 16-year-old high schoolers will certainly take their teachers on their word that sex is evil because it involves your naughty places. What's next, are we going to start teaching that masturbation is wrong too? I for one think that sex needs to be discussed a lot more openly at a semi-early age. I liken it to the drinking age - if you teach kids about it in a controlled environment when they're younger and not completely independent, then it isn't such a huge deal once they're on their own. Getting totally piss drunk is a lot more likely to happen if you've been deprived of alcohol your whole life. Then again, if you're like me (or anyone else who was raised in a family that allowed light social drinking early on), then you know that alcohol really isn't that big a deal. It's just something fun to do once in a while. Teaching abstinence only will make kids want to experiment more with sex. And once they go independent, they'll be a lot more ignorant to how things work than someone who was raised with the knowledge of what sex is, the risks involved, and how to be safe. I might even go so far as to actually encourage the teaching of techniques that these hormone-filled adolescents can use to enjoy themselves without the risks associated with sexual intercourse. Of course that'll never happen except maybe in some super-liberal school district in California or Oregon or something, but I can dream can't I? As ast3r3x said, it's not like not mentioning sex is going to prevent anything from happening. This is just some religious fundamentalist viewpoint being promoted as a viable method of teaching. Total BS. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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This is what happens when you let your Christian minister do your thinking for you. What a bunch of crap....
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feeling my oats
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ha, texas just wants a lot more baby texans running about...
and that is exactly what they will get...oh well, i like kids so no biggie for me...though more texan kids equals more texan adults 20 years from now... and that is a scary thought g crazy is not a rare human condition everything is food if you chew hard enough |
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Screw texas, they can adopt the saying "Texas...Just As Good As West Virginia" for all I care. I know the chances are slim to none, but it better not spread to any other state.
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Cynical Old Bastard
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You've gotta love the (ir)religious right and their braindead followers.
Their "stick our heads in the sand" mentality is just so maddening. Well, at least I don't live there. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
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And the Lord said unto the ministers, "you will hide the contraceptives and vote for the Pro Life [oh the irony!] candidate"... and thus the contraceptives were hidden, the votes were cast and it was good.
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All of which reminds me of this excellent tidbit.
Mind you, I'm not entirely sure why it's necessary to have a text-book for sex ed anyway — you'd think that most adult teachers would be able to write a reasonable curriculum on the subject by themselves, surely? If only I could erase the memory of that Kiwi sex-ed video from my mind ("hey, you're not the one who's pussing yughut!"). *Shudder* |
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reminds me of something i heard on NPR. basically text books suck now, because they're all made by four (maybe three now) companies. those companies have to be able to sell their books in both Texas and California. so anything that's objetionable to either state gets pulled. problem is, that's just about everything.
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Rest In Peace
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Re: This being effective like the war on drugs, the problem is that if these people feel they "saved" even one or two kids, they're happy. It's really kind of like spam... all it takes is about 1% of people to respond.
It is with great regret that we say our farewells to Jack, who passed away on May 28th, 2005. Jack, you will be missed by all Superior thinking has always overwhelmed superior force. - Marine Corps Officers "You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership." - General Eisenhower |
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Hates the Infotainment
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That's friggin twisted. I am so tired of political and religious correctness ruling over common sense and intelligence. No wonder half the schools in America give Johnny an A on his math test for incorrectly surmising that 7+17 must be 27... cuz gosh, he sure tried hard and won't it make him feel better about himself if he gets an A? Screw Texas and California. If they don't like common sense, rigorous textbooks, make them write their own while the remaining 40 states or so (I'm sure a few bible belt states and maybe Oregon would use the Texas and California editions) use the good stuff. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Student extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
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Barto PS That article claims that Lutherans left Germany because of religious persecution - this appears everywhere in the written history of the Barossa. I actually did some research after I left, turns out religious persecution was not a very significant reason for emigration. The sky was deep black; Jesus still loved me. I started down the alley, wailing in a ragged bass. Last edited by Barto : 2004-08-06 at 22:18. Reason: Changed "not a significant" to "not a very significant" |
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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And people wonder why some Texans are stereotypically portrayed as redneck religious fools.
Next they'll be adding stickers into science books disclaiming evolution... oh wait... maybe that's one of those other States of denial... AL, KY... sadly, the list grows. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2004-08-06 at 21:52. Reason: Correct State abbreviations |
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Seems like they need to teach geography too... |
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Antimatter Man
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I'm pretty good with country domain codes... States postal shorthand, not so much. I do know all the Canadian provincial codes. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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The schools could just hire that Letourneau chick, now that she's out of the joint. She'd probably teach the hell out of it.
I recall an old SNL Weekend Update segment with Norm McDonald talking about - I THINK - this particular case. He read the story in mock seriousness, leading up to the punchline of "...or as her students refer to her, 'the best teacher ever'". |
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Cynical Old Bastard
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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"KY: It's the postal code for our state, and it doesn't stand for anything else, damn it!"
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
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I simply had to buy a tshirt while at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky last summer.
It's bright orange, has a big oval in the middle that looks like one of those country-code stickers on European cars that's been co-opted as tourist crap in the States. Big, white lettering of 'KY', then in little teeny letters below it 'mammoth cave national park'. I get the *BEST* double takes... especially on the West Coast, farther away from the state. |
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Then again, German society, especially then, is far from monocultural, and you can imagine areas in which the Lutherans might have faced persecution. |
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The above statement is the kind of thing which makes me embarrassed to be an atheist. |
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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Genesis, historically accurate?
(I'd figure an Athiest might at least mention Creation myths, uh... diverge from fact.) Last edited by curiousuburb : 2004-08-06 at 23:40. |
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Student extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canberra, Australia
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I think you are missing the point, curiousuburb. staph is pointing out that a "great deal" of the bible is historically accurate (although not absolutely)... if you ignore the various miracles and revisionism of parts the catholic church decided they didn't like.
The sky was deep black; Jesus still loved me. I started down the alley, wailing in a ragged bass. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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What does the bible say about sex?
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Keep thine pecker in thy pants, lest ye be smited with multitudes of rugrats and disease most foul.
I think I read that in there somewhere. Can't remember the chapter or verse... |
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