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BahgDaddy

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Mudman2001 said:
*walk in, stretches, and find a nice spot to lay down in*
Hey everyone. Long combat session today and I was the only one with fire arrows :(

*finds soap box and lazily puts front paws on it while laying down*

My 2 cents now that I can lounge around and type. My troop was middle of the road, though when I did Star and Life I was grilled hard about scouting, my skills, and my ability to teach the younger scouts. My Eagle Board was almost 4 hours and I can still name all of the adult leaders that came from other troops to over see it. My district was small but had several highly active troops in it.
I’m didn’t mind everything that we did, but remember when the changes happened. Skitts we use to do we’re no longer allowed and had to be reviewed before we did them. I have no problem with gays being allowed in, I even signed a couple of petitions for it. Then everyone started yelling about girls being allowed in, and I’m over here “but they already are”. We had three Venture Teams in our district and that part of Scouts was always co-ed.
But I know my old scouting community is going strong. I follow several old friends who went back as adult leaders or are still active when I was in.

*bats soapbox away, crosses his from arms and rest his head on them*
I’m done now
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So what do you actually disagree with?
 
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-..Legacy..-

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Tsume Runea said:
My backstory is short and quite easy, one day a young future hero crossed my path... The end
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There's a thread around here about fursona backstory, I put a highly condensed version of maybe 1/3 of it in there.
 
Mudman2001

Mudman2001

Wolf of Many Talents
BahgDaddy said:
So what do you actually disagree with?
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Allowing girls into Boy Scouts, Venture Crews could do everything that regular Scouting did except earn the same ranks. Minor gripe for me.

What I've always had problems with was unless your district and council is well run, once the required training is done for adult leaders there isn't much oversight for adults. There are problems that not every troop is well run or safely, ok what passed as safely, run. Don't want to clog up the board first hand accounts, but when troops are run as dictatorship's and actions of leaders are more than questionable (not talking about the major national news stuff) just for starts.
 
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BahgDaddy

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Mudman2001 said:
Allowing girls into Boy Scouts, Venture Crews could do everything that regular Scouting did except earn the same ranks. Minor gripe for me.

What I've always had problems with was unless your district and council is well run, once the required training is done for adult leaders there isn't much oversight for adults. There are problems that not every troop is well run or safely, ok what passed as safely, run. Don't want to clog up the board first hand accounts, but when troops are run as dictatorship's and actions of leaders are more than questionable (not talking about the major national news stuff) just for starts.
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Yeah, I agree with that. I think the BSA caved to a bunch of whiny parents who believe in some warped version of radical equality... that can never exist in this imperfect world. And it can be argued it shouldn't exist.
 
Simo

Simo

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Huh, when I saw that the boy scouts were letting girls in, I had one thought: they have had dramatically declining numbers, for years.

This way, they will reproduce, and make more : P
 
Casey Fluffbat

Casey Fluffbat

E. Fuscus from the discount section
Simo said:
Huh, when I saw that the boy scouts were letting girls in, I had one thought: they have had dramatically declining numbers, for years.

This way, they will reproduce, and make more : P
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There's something very uncomfortable about this idea.
 
Simo

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
MadKiyo said:
There's something very uncomfortable about this idea.
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A bit, yes! I don't advocate teen pregnancy, but I'm not going to pretend teens don't have sex...I mean, I lost my virginity to a rather aggressive girl at 13, that I dated for 3 years, and we were very careful and very close friends...and looking back, I don't feel at all bad about it; it seemed a positive expression of the self. (Except that it was really her brother I had the crush on, but was too scared to admit this, even to myself)

But there's not much use fighting biological facts; I've always been of the mind to educate about being responsible, vs. this 'abstinence only' stuff,which has not really worked.
 
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Mudman2001

Mudman2001

Wolf of Many Talents
Simo said:
Huh, when I saw that the boy scouts were letting girls in, I had one thought: they have had dramatically declining numbers, for years.

This way, they will reproduce, and make more : P
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Lol. Ventures always did and if they were over 16 could work at the different Summer Camps. We had one young lady that was a camp councler for Archery that all of had a crush on.

My sadist day when I was in scouts was when the Girl Scouts moved one of there camps. For the longest time it shared a boarder with one of the Boy Scout camps my troop went to lol
 
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