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Reply to: #766896 by Wry Me
Apr 1, 2013 4:52am
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Hey, I'm left-handed, and I like to think I can write well!

The most frequent error I see is when people add an apostrophe to their last name or any noun, when referring to a plural. I think this is sometimes due to spell check, but still irks me.

I have also run into the constant run on sentences and lack of punctuation that make clues ridiculous.
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Reply to: #766933 by FloridaFour
Apr 1, 2013 5:05am
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The most frequent error I see is when people add an apostrophe to their last name

Haha! I did do that on accident, but I keep it now because I think it's funny. You can always pretend I'm just mysterious. Hosmer's...what? ;)
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Reply to: #766753 by FORAYCH
Apr 1, 2013 12:48pm
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What is it called when a person believes in a little bit of everything???

just a thought.....
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Reply to: #767034 by jad_juniper
Apr 1, 2013 2:03pm
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Creative
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Reply to: #766633 by Kirbert
Apr 1, 2013 2:33pm
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The situation is even worse with geocaching. Some people feel compelled to leave religious rubbish in geocaches as trade items, which I always trade for and then throw away.

I agree about giving searchers a heads-up on content of religious (or for that matter, political) themed boxes or caches. In the case of trade items left by previous finders, I'm wondering why you feel compelled to take and destroy items you don't want. Why not leave them like any trade items you consider worthless?
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Reply to: #767034 by jad_juniper
Apr 1, 2013 11:19pm
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Gullible.
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Reply to: #767049 by Summerfun
Apr 1, 2013 11:21pm
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In the case of trade items left by previous finders, I'm wondering why you feel compelled to take and destroy items you don't want. Why not leave them like any trade items you consider worthless?

Because I don't consider them worthless. I consider them harmful.
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Reply to: #767034 by jad_juniper
Apr 2, 2013 6:25am
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What is it called when a person believes in a little bit of everything???

This reminds me of my oldest son. He's 8. I'm not religious, though religion interests me. My husband, on the other hand, thinks religion does more harm than good. Because of something we're part of, the question of religion came up. Up to this point our 'religion' has been helping other people, trying to be good, and helping the earth. I thought it might be fun to start exploring more traditional religions with my son, so in order to see where we should start, I asked him some basic questions.

How did the earth get formed?
Rocks crashed together.

Are there any Gods, many Gods, or one God?
I think there are lots of Gods.

What happens to you when you die?
Your spirit goes into new baby.

Well, that was helpful. I'm thinking we'll start with Buddhism or just go to the UU church where you can be anything or nothing.
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Reply to: #767101 by Kirbert
Apr 2, 2013 7:52am
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Because I don't consider them worthless. I consider them harmful.

If you mean those Chick pamphlets, I am going to have to agree with you--those are really offensive, and I have found them in bizarre places (e.g. some people give them out to trick-or-treaters). I worry about very young kids receiving those, so if I found one in a cache, I would remove it, too.
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Reply to: #767113 by Hosmer's
Apr 2, 2013 11:11am
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How did the earth get formed?
Rocks crashed together.

Are there any Gods, many Gods, or one God?
I think there are lots of Gods.

What happens to you when you die?
Your spirit goes into new baby.

IMHO, you've got one intuitive and amazing kid there!
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Reply to: #767141 by DoubleSaj and Old Blue
Apr 2, 2013 12:10pm
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IMHO, you've got one intuitive and amazing kid there!

Thanks. :) I think he's pretty special too and I enjoyed his perspective.
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Reply to: #767125 by cyaneus
Apr 2, 2013 1:08pm
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I mean anything suggesting that children should learn to blindly accept the teachings of people in funny robes rather than learn to think critically.
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Reply to: #767113 by Hosmer's
Apr 2, 2013 1:11pm
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This reminds me of my oldest son. He's 8.

Out of all the responses I could imagine, I never saw this one coming. But it is, by far, the BEST!!
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Reply to: #767100 by Kirbert
Apr 2, 2013 1:13pm
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Gullible.

Well played......:)
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Reply to: #767173 by Kirbert
Apr 4, 2013 5:29am
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I know the following statement is bound to offend some, but it truly is something "out of the mouths of babes."

My 5-year old niece is very inquisitive. She first started asking about God when she was 3. She said, "God made the earth and the universe." "Who made God?" The response given to her, "It's a mystery; God just is," she said, "Well, how can that be?"

More recently she has been exposed to the Christian teachings about Easter and the Passion. She's not sure about *how* Jesus could rise from the dead, and it doesn't help that her older, 9yo brother says, "that's what *they* say."

So when she heard the stone was rolled away and only the burial cloths remained, she processed it as, "so ... Jesus was a zombie??"
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Reply to: #766746 by Kirbert
Apr 6, 2013 8:46am
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OK, let's take that thread one further: How many people avoid boxes when the clues contain too many spelling and/or grammatical errors?

I generally don't avoid any clues unless they indicate that there's danger involved (read: scaling rock walls, climbing over fences that were put up to keep people from climbing in a dangerous area, trespassing). However, when I do go after a clue with significant grammatical errors, I can't help but cringe every time I reference the clue.

They're are sum people out there that just will never learn grammar very good!
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Reply to: #767557 by speedsquare
Apr 6, 2013 9:23am
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One of my friend's kids used to pray to Santa and Jesus. :)

It amuses me that people try so hard to get kids to believe in certain childhood fables, even into the teen years. Then they wonder why later on, those same kids don't believe religious stories.
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Reply to: #767955 by FloridaFour
Apr 6, 2013 10:06am
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It amuses me that people try so hard to get kids to believe in certain childhood fables, even into the teen years. Then they wonder why later on, those same kids don't believe religious stories.

My parents were atheists, so I was raised without the religious stories. I was also raised without Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. So far, so consistant. But then, for some reason, my parents insisted on the existance of the tooth fairy. I could never figure that one out.
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Reply to: #767955 by FloridaFour
Apr 6, 2013 11:02am
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It amuses me that people try so hard to get kids to believe in certain childhood fables, even into the teen years. Then they wonder why later on, those same kids don't believe religious stories.

It doesn't amuse me when parents deliberately lie to their children. And then they wonder later on why their kids didn't listen when they told them that drugs are bad for them.
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Reply to: #767959 by 55 Steps
Apr 6, 2013 11:31am
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Yeah, pretty much none of it makes any sense.

I'm all for fairy tales.... told as fairy tales. I don't even mind the holiday fairy tales for little kids. But when 12 year olds who are already in puberty are being told such stuff, I get irritated. Way to lie to your kids.

My son is 10, he and I have to have the birds and the bees and the fairy tale talk this summer. :) We've already had some discussion, but this is going to be interesting. I can tell he already doesn't believe things, but I have a 7 year old who does, so waiting until after the school year ends.
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Reply to: #766896 by Wry Me
Apr 6, 2013 12:32pm
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I'm definately one of those bad spellers out there. Sorry, I try, but some days it been long day boxing, and I want to right the clues while still fresh in my mind. Not to mention I spent a large portion of my school days in a Special Ed class, when finally they found out I had a nerviuos System condition not related to a learning disablility. Untill, Recently my work had noticed I had Dyselxia qualites. I am Right handed, and very logical. Yet I have a very artisitic side to me go figure.
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Reply to: #767972 by FloridaFour
Apr 6, 2013 2:32pm
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I'm all for fairy tales.... told as fairy tales. I don't even mind the holiday fairy tales for little kids. But when 12 year olds who are already in puberty are being told such stuff, I get irritated. Way to lie to your kids.

When my son asked me outright one year, I could tell he already doubted the story and had the mental capacity to work it out for himself, and I told him the truth. (Actually, I never told him Santa was real in the first place.) I just couldn't make him distrust his own judgment like that. I would always tell him the truth when he asked questions, and this didn't seem different to me. Santa was just a fun pretend game, I told him. As he got older, I'd ask, "So, are we doing Santa this year?" He always understood not to spoil it for others, but it's a little sickening when a child says s/he no longer believes and the adults are outside in the snow at midnight, faking reindeer tracks and writing letters from Santa to convince them otherwise. At that point, it's not really about the kids anymore, and it just becomes a sad little farce. How can that not erode a child's trust in his/her ability to trust adults, when they're willing to go so far to perpetuate a lie? Even odder is the child who is forced to pretend in order to avoid disappointing the parents. How twisted is that?
grammar - was Awkward question
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Reply to: #767979 by StasiaBoo
Apr 6, 2013 2:44pm
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I am Right handed, and very logical. Yet I have a very artisitic side to me go figure.

If I remember, that whole right-brain dominant/left-brain dominant has pretty much been debunked by further research, despite my comments (and it never had anything to do with handedness, actually, but more mapping where in the brain certain activities originated -- shapes, colors, emotions, music, "art" on the right, writing and categorizing, delineation on the left.) I just find "right-brained" to be a useful metaphor is all. Regardless of how fabulously insightful and intuitive a person's right brain may be, you still need strong communication between the two, as it's the left brain that has to execute your inspirations. Fascinating stuff, all the new brain research.
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Reply to: #767993 by Wry Me
Apr 6, 2013 7:28pm
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When my son asked me outright one year, I could tell he already doubted the story and had the mental capacity to work it out for himself, and I told him the truth.

That's waaaaay better than continuing to lie. But why lie in the first place? What kind of world would we live in if the two people you could trust have never lied to you, ever, were your own parents?
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Reply to: #768061 by Kirbert
Apr 6, 2013 7:36pm
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But why lie in the first place?

Because it's not a lie. It's a game, a fantasy. Preschoolers live in that world, and it's fun to be a part of it. We're not trying to undermine their trust in us, and if the reveal is handled lovingly and thoughtfully, it's not damaging. It really isn't.

When my middle daughter asked if Santa was real, I asked her what she thought, and confirmed her suspicions. I expected some disappointment, but instead she lit up and said, "You mean you gave me an extra present each year? Oh, thank you!"

Result of believing in Santa for a few years? One very undamaged child.

Context is everything.
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Reply to: #768061 by Kirbert
Apr 6, 2013 7:41pm
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But why lie in the first place? What kind of world would we live in if the two people you could trust have never lied to you, ever, were your own parents?

Exactly. That's why I didn't ever tell him Santa was real, or put presents under the tree "from
Santa," or facilitate the charade at all, except at his initiation. What he got, he got from the world around him, and it's ok to pretend when you're very little. I allowed that. Mostly, I let his own beliefs and imagination guide me. That is affirming to them. I didn't lecture him about the fact that he wasn't Batman, either, or that he couldn't marry me. :) But when he asked, he got the truth, and that affirmed him also. He was 4 1/2 or 5.
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Reply to: #768066 by Fiddleheads
Apr 6, 2013 7:43pm
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Yes, I agree with that. That's what I did, too, trying to determine if he wanted to believe or have his suspicions confirmed. It's one thing to participate willingly in their fantasy world, quite another to lie when they ask a real question.
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Reply to: #766447 by AlishaMisha
Apr 7, 2013 10:44am
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For instance, if someone gets the heebeejeebees from rats and find a rat stamp for instance

uhhhhhhhh, I find this offensive . . . .

:-P

Dezert Ratty
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Reply to: #766765 by System
Jan 22, 2014 1:32pm
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Why do you hate the label "Atheist?" I am proud of my atheism and happy to see other atheist letterboxers out there.