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Be sure to park near a road side latrine. The unavoidable swarm of flies will give it a nice touch of authenticity.

This, in itself, is problematic. Why were they using a ministry owned vehicle and hunting equipment that almost certainly was paid for using abundant sharing funds (ABS.)?

It wasn't even ministry business. They were on an annual hunting trip to Pennsylvania. (It was for pheasant or quail, if I remember correctly, and the ailment was encephalitis.)

Fair enough. It never hurts to give it the old college try, though.

You won't see me argue with that.

And this is why it's necessary to look at multiple sources and exercise the critical thinking skills we've been discussing.

It's just one article and doesn't represent the entirety of the situation. I posted this particular one because it was readily accessible. There are a lot of other sources that look at the issue from different angles and address other aspects. Maybe what needs to be scrutinized and revised is the actual oversight process itself at a systemic level.

I don't see that so much as an opposite as I do of that being a variation of what can happen without proper oversight. Think of the human body. As cells become damaged or aged, a biological mechanism initiates new growth. That's the healing process and it's much needed. There are triggers that tell the body when to start and when to stop the process. If the signal to stop the process is somehow missed, growth will continue. In a very simplistic way, this describes cancer. It happens thousands of times a day to even the healthiest of people. Fortunately, though, the body also has an oversight mechanism for detecting when this happens and is able to respond in a manner that halts this process. If this oversight mechanism is not functioning properly, the situation can take a turn for the worst. Homeschooling can be a wonderful experience for students and parents alike as long as there is an oversight mechanism to insure the process doesn't go unchecked.

Point well taken. My key take-away here is that they were able to establish a network, so it went beyond the scope of an individual homeschooler and into the realm of organized indoctrination.

I don't doubt that for a minute. But, there needs to be some sort of safety net to catch the outliers.

Churches should be taxed, just like any other profit driven business. When snake oil ceases to be a profitable commodity, the number of people selling it will "miraculously" shrink.

"...currently under Ohio law, the state does not require parents to submit their home-schooling curriculum for review." In other words, homeschooling can also be used to AVOID teaching critical thinking skills, as evidenced by a recently uncovered network of homeschoolers that promoted a Neo Nazi curriculum. LINK

Note to self: Must master materials. I think I can I think I can I KNOW I CAN! (I'm a real boy!)

I think if I accidentally poisoned myself and the Poison Control center told me to induce vomiting I might seek out a copy of PFAL.

So, you're saying only you were aware that people die? When and where did you first become aware of this?

Yeah, that totally explains the Boy vs Buick story.

You know what killed that little boy? Budget cuts.

Well...Some of us are.

Marble cake? More like a bowl of familia.

I assure you, it wasn't "all working well" in the 70s. I was there. Remember?

I'll be anxiously waiting.

Dude, you're the guy who's been crying for years about how it's all in the collaterals. Now you're saying that argument needs to be augmented? Sorry, can't have your cake and jar of pickles too. Is it all in the collaterals or isn't it? "Well, ya see it's complicated......"

Nonsense. Emotions play no part in defining what have been revealed to be blatant errors.

Start a thread, then. VPW made it abundantly clear in session one he was alluding to physical abundance. Maybe you just weren't paying attention. It's OK. It happens.

Now there's a "training period". Did those unbelievers, who were living a more abundant life than the believers, that VPW talked about in session 1 of PFAL have to complete a training period?... No? That's sounds a bit unfair, in my opinion. Why, if I was a bettin' man....