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As I mentioned earlier I worked at over a half dozen different YMCA camps. I also worked at one commercial camp.
Counselors or leaders were those who had direct contact with the campers. Sometimes that terminology applied to those in charge of an area like horseback riding, go karts or rifle range. Sometimes it was only used to refer to those directly overseeing the campers and almost by definition sleeping in the same cabin.
Those who would be monitoring phones i the manner you mention would be on the directing staff. Though in a situation where there has been any initial report that would indicate that close monitoring was called for I would hope they would be actually monitoring the super local conditions. Local is where one first knows water has overflowed or is about to overflow the banks.
I know that the better directors I worked with would have been closely following reports.
Not me. I had a reputation. I would have ended up checking and rechecking escape routes.
My bet is that some reporter heard a councilor complaining about the no phones policy and never even thought to ask if anyone had a phone. 90% chance doing so mainly because it meant they could not chat with their boy/girlfriend. And now it keeps getting hammered on. Though if the director was one of the poorer ones I worked with I can see the complaint being made for all the right reasons.
The difference is my opinion is based on my own studies on the languages and what is involved in language studies, while yours is apparently based on nothing more than agreement with an extreme minority of scholars. You admit you don't have the background to make an evaluation of the scholastic arguments, so your opinion is simply an uneducated one and you have no basis for it. So spare the martyr talk until you have something worthwhile to base your opinion on.You have your opinion and I have mine. I would say the same thing to you, are those you listen to being true to what God intended or are they just upholding the tradition they ascribe to? I am glad that the disciples did not go by that logic, because the Pharisees has all kinds of reasons for Jesus not being the Messiah, and they were doing the same thing that is being done today, they are the authority and they have many more numbers than those who believed that Jesus was the Messiah. Fortunately the disciples did not give in, they knew the truth.
Hey member this:Look, another nail!
Trump admin live updates: Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Russia
Trump ... threatened to impose "very severe tariffs" on Russia if there was no peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days.
How do you manage when people close to you ask about your beliefs? Don't they find it strange?
For me if I see someone posting an error I just post the evidence that corrects the error.I don't know the best place for it. I almost posted this as a reply to a thread outside the Christians only section, then figured it would do no good at all.
The issue is the flash flooding on the Guadeloupe River in Texas that has claimed an number of lives. Supposedly the AP claims that amount of rain wasn't in the forecast, but there's a clue in a rise of 28 feet (8.5 meters) in an hour. You only get something like that from rainfall if there is a flash flood. Flash flooding depends on terrain and condition of the soil. We have occasional flash flooding here, but it's after the ground is saturated and it's due to isolated heavy rainfall. In hilly terrain, the shape of the ground "funnels" rain to lower areas, and you have inches of rain become feet of flash floods.
Maybe because I'm not out West, but I don't think I've ever seen a forecast calling for flash floods. I don't think I've even see a flash flood watch. I've seen flood watches and forecasts warning of a potential of flooding, and I've seen flash flood warnings. The latter is when there's a flash flood right at that instance and get to higher ground immediately.
A check quickly came up with the National Weather Service issuing an "emergency" flash flood warning for the Guadeloupe (I thought all flash flood warnings were emergencies) in the early morning hours of July 4. That was from The Weather Channel and some sources local to the event. That fits with what I've seen ever since we heard of flash flood warnings on radio and TV. Here the warnings just pop up as they happen. Some aren't issues. The rainfall in half an hour that exceeded our range gauge capacity? No flash flood warning. When a creek overflowed a culvert and went over a road? No flash flood warning. But there was in the area of the Guadeloupe. The cite from the AP was that there was no forecast of the amount of rain. Yet there were flash flood warnings.
The claim in the post in the other part of CF is that this is all due to cuts in the NWS. But the tragedy that happened on the Guadeloupe fits what I've seen years ago. That creek that went over the road due to heavy rain? That was back in 2008 or 2009 or 2010. Add to it that the warning came in the early morning hours, and you have people not being aware of it. If you have a weather radio, it has to be set to the right station and it has to pick up the signal to get warnings. Cell phone alerts depend on the tower. Just because you get a warning doesn't mean that it will be picked up. Because there's a warning doesn't mean it will get heard.
A check, though does show that there was a flood watch issued the day before, and later extended to 1 PM Friday, July 4. Here's one link: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/weather/article/weather-san-antonio-flood-watch-20420566.php
Here's a link to the extension:
https://x.com/NWSSanAntonio/status/1941038559386820616
This doesn't match what is posted in the non-Christians only section and gets to the topic of false witness. If the AP article is correctly cited, then there is no mention of the forecasts cited above. If the issue are budget cuts, then what of the instances I've related where there were no warnings at all? And if these things are known, why not report them?
As I said, I almost posted this in the non-Christian sections and figured it would do absolutely no good at all. All it would do would bring accusations of being a Trump apologist or some sort, even with the cites above. But if we have reason to think information is reported in error, do we have a responsibility to point that out? Or is is such a lost cause that we should say nothing at all.
Yeah that’s not true at all because you know that you and I have completely opposite interpretations of many passages like 2 Timothy 2:12 and John 6:37-40 for example. Were both reading the same text yet were coming up with completely opposite interpretations.-If The Bible formed everyone's theology then all would have the same beliefs.
I am not sure why you are saying nonsense. There are both in the USA and in the EU. Find the US one, if you wish, I will provide you with the EU's:While nominally there are protective laws for cattle, pigs and sheep, there are none, this is correct, none, for other animals such as birds, which are not mammals.
No, thanks. I do not know why vegans think this is some kind of "gotcha!" argument. Nobody wants to watch death. Neither people nor wild animals die nicely. Farmed animals' death is at least regulated. People commonly die a worse death. And wild game in nature dies violently torn apart or even eaten alive. I guess you saw some wild nature documentary.I challenge you to look at documentaries for what happens at places for slaughter. The animals are all slaughtered when young relative to the length of life they could have if free from that, some are really intelligent, pigs are yet more intelligent than dogs. All are companionable and would be playful as any pet. Speciesism divides them from that. I can't link to anything about the abuse, like Dominion, my post gets deleted if I do.
Except for few animals having for example poisonous skin like some frogs, almost every animal people can commonly find in nature is edible. Funny enough for your argument, almost no wild plants are edible. If you went to nature and ate random plants, you would die. Even herbivores in nature are specialized to eat specific plants only, evolutionary.There are those who say God meant there to be animals for being food for us. They show a lack of capacity to see the inherent contradiction to logic in that. There are millions of species. How many species are they eating from? So, automatically they don't mean all animals, many animals can't be their food. Millions of the species can't be,
May the Lord have mercy on you and restore you to full health and strength. Amen,Shalom
Praise the Lord because he is good!
I have been suffering from extreme back pain for a week and ask for your prayers in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you very much, and God bless you and your family in Jesus' name, Amen.
Wait, didn't Bondi tell us...Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., advocated for the Trump administration to release the full, unredacted records related to sexual predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein as Attorney General Pam Bondi now says the Department of Justice could release the records Thursday.
Ok, but not to everyone who holds the doctrine. Often it's said to merely mean forensically declared to be righteous, by the vicarious appropriation of Christ's righteousness that covers our unrighteousness.That's what imputed righteousness means.
Asteroids still contain the decay products of short lived radiative isotopes.Then there's pure gold which is only produced from the death of a star.
Sorry if I contributed to that. It is rather unfortunate no living soul can relate to the very depth of the struggle. Thank God for those of you who have been spared. You know the war waged of flesh and Spirit. What you may not always know is the level of depletion which may or may not signal final loss of at best, departed friend-s (1Thessalonians 4:13).It got me rather perplexed.
I agree with what you said " Maybe simple stories will do for the tiniest children." When our children are young, teach the best aspects for a sense of the American constitution as an ideal sought for America.American patriotism is complicated, and I think we do well to acknowledge that complexity as we teach our children.
During my teenage years, the US celebrated its bicentennial. It was a great and glorious party, flags and fireworks and red-white-and-blue everywhere. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Also during my teenage years, I realized that drafting young men and compelling them to go kill Vietnamese people was a morally questionable thing to do, and if "patriotism" meant killing strangers, then I'd best not label myself patriotic.
Both things were true of me, then and now. This country is an amazing political experiment, based not on shared ethnicity but on a shared idea of a democratic system of government that (mostly) protects our individual rights and freedoms, and carefully balances our selfish impulses so that most of the time we get really good stuff done. AND: This country has done some bad things along the way, partly because it's so very hard to keep all those selfish impulses in check all the time, and partly because we just aren't infinitely wise.
As we teach our children, I think we need to tell them the complicated truth. Maybe simple stories will do for the tiniest children. But as they mature into their tweens and teens and adulthood, talk about how people are complicated and nations are complicated. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was a wise and insightful statesman, and he was a slaveowner, and he was an excellent writer, and he constructed the somewhat dubious Jefferson Bible, and he founded a major university, all of that. Similarly with our other founders and heroes, and similarly with our country.
The best sense of patriotism is to step up and take responsibility for making this country the best that we can make it.
I can be patriotic knowing what our founding fathers looked to for an ideal as a country.When we mess up, we acknowledge it and try to fix it. And when we do good things -- as we often do -- we cheer and sing our songs and wave our flags. That's the sense in which I can be patriotic, and the sense in which I can encourage my children to be patriotic.