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Scouts is supposed to be about teaching .......... to leadership, respect, responsibility and honesty.
originally posted by: 200Plus
I was perusing youtube out of boredom today (a perk of retirement) and came across a video on the Mormon church leaving the Boy Scouts.
The video was shoddy and computer voiced so I will not subject anyone to it. However, it led me to look a little further into the issue (which is what it was meant to do).
Last year the Mormon Church decided to remove their teen members in order to prepare them for mission work (or so they said). This removed 130,000 Scouts. Washington Post Article
Recently, the Boy Scouts decided for various reasons to change their name and to allow girls to join the organization. This week the Mormon Church has announced it will now split entirely from the Scouts at the end of 2019. This will remove 425,000 or almost 19% of the Scouts total enrollment. San Angelo Article
The trade off is an enrollment of 4000 girls and a hope of "many more" over the summer.
I can't help but think the Scouts have driven themselves off the cliff with this last embrace of the PC culture rather than standing up for the values of the organization (those on which it was founded).
A loss of 22% of their cadre is not a pebble that will start an avalanche, it is the side of a mountain giving way.
How many other organizations will do the same as the Mormons and simply create their own groups around the "old" core traditions of the Boy Scouts while the Scouts wither and die out?
Perhaps the Scouts will morph into something new entirely and I am way off?
originally posted by: one4all
originally posted by: 200Plus
I was perusing youtube out of boredom today (a perk of retirement) and came across a video on the Mormon church leaving the Boy Scouts.
The video was shoddy and computer voiced so I will not subject anyone to it. However, it led me to look a little further into the issue (which is what it was meant to do).
Last year the Mormon Church decided to remove their teen members in order to prepare them for mission work (or so they said). This removed 130,000 Scouts. Washington Post Article
Recently, the Boy Scouts decided for various reasons to change their name and to allow girls to join the organization. This week the Mormon Church has announced it will now split entirely from the Scouts at the end of 2019. This will remove 425,000 or almost 19% of the Scouts total enrollment. San Angelo Article
The trade off is an enrollment of 4000 girls and a hope of "many more" over the summer.
I can't help but think the Scouts have driven themselves off the cliff with this last embrace of the PC culture rather than standing up for the values of the organization (those on which it was founded).
A loss of 22% of their cadre is not a pebble that will start an avalanche, it is the side of a mountain giving way.
How many other organizations will do the same as the Mormons and simply create their own groups around the "old" core traditions of the Boy Scouts while the Scouts wither and die out?
Perhaps the Scouts will morph into something new entirely and I am way off?
Nibiru arrives in 2021 and the LDSers know this full well...and now IS the time to be preparing your last minute duties.
originally posted by: Whoisjohngalt
originally posted by: one4all
originally posted by: 200Plus
I was perusing youtube out of boredom today (a perk of retirement) and came across a video on the Mormon church leaving the Boy Scouts.
The video was shoddy and computer voiced so I will not subject anyone to it. However, it led me to look a little further into the issue (which is what it was meant to do).
Last year the Mormon Church decided to remove their teen members in order to prepare them for mission work (or so they said). This removed 130,000 Scouts. Washington Post Article
Recently, the Boy Scouts decided for various reasons to change their name and to allow girls to join the organization. This week the Mormon Church has announced it will now split entirely from the Scouts at the end of 2019. This will remove 425,000 or almost 19% of the Scouts total enrollment. San Angelo Article
The trade off is an enrollment of 4000 girls and a hope of "many more" over the summer.
I can't help but think the Scouts have driven themselves off the cliff with this last embrace of the PC culture rather than standing up for the values of the organization (those on which it was founded).
A loss of 22% of their cadre is not a pebble that will start an avalanche, it is the side of a mountain giving way.
How many other organizations will do the same as the Mormons and simply create their own groups around the "old" core traditions of the Boy Scouts while the Scouts wither and die out?
Perhaps the Scouts will morph into something new entirely and I am way off?
Nibiru arrives in 2021 and the LDSers know this full well...and now IS the time to be preparing your last minute duties.
Who or what is nibiru and what happens when is gets here?
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
yeah - cos we cannot go arround teaching young ladies that stuff - thats dangerous
originally posted by: Whoisjohngalt
a reply to: one4all
Doesnt venus cross between the earth and the sun... often. Dont get me wrong, i just got really into fishing and global flood seems like it has some really good potential. It just that for an object in space's gravity to affect the earth it either has to be really big or really close. And to continue affecting earth it would need to be in orbit around earth, or somehow orbiting the sun at the same distance as earth, on the same plane.
But hey, now the girls will be able to learn survival skills to cope with the apocalypse
originally posted by: Whoisjohngalt
a reply to: one4all
Doesnt venus cross between the earth and the sun... often. Dont get me wrong, i just got really into fishing and global flood seems like it has some really good potential. It just that for an object in space's gravity to affect the earth it either has to be really big or really close. And to continue affecting earth it would need to be in orbit around earth, or somehow orbiting the sun at the same distance as earth, on the same plane.
But hey, now the girls will be able to learn survival skills to cope with the apocalypse
originally posted by: redmage
a reply to: one4all
Trouble linking the vid? The link is a bit too long to just copy/paste it.
Here ya go.
one4all's videoThank you.This is another IMHO more informative video by Gill.www.youtube.com...edit on 1-6-2018 by one4all because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: mus8472
Boy Scouts is supposed to be about teaching boys to leadership, respect, responsibility and honesty. There are fundamental differences between boys and girls. I was in the boy scouts for almost ten years. After I got my eagle scout and turned 18 I became an assistant scout master until I went to college. There things you can do with a group of guys that you just can't do with girls around, and that's important. It gives boys a "safe space" to be boys without ridicule. I think this will change that. I have a daughter and I wouldn't want her in the Boy Scouts. I'll have to teach her myself.
originally posted by: redmage
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
yeah - cos we cannot go arround teaching young ladies that stuff - thats dangerous
What? I thought that's what the Girl Scouts was for.
Are they not teaching young ladies that stuff?!?!?
If the Girl Scouts are not teaching young ladies leadership, respect, responsibility and honesty, then perhaps the Boy Scouts were fine all along and it was the Girl Scouts who were in need of reform.
originally posted by: testingtesting
Can the Scouts survive this?
Or this?
Much better questions.