Unschoolers know everything[1]. Ha. Okay, well, we have that Drive for Knowledge, right, we all have a bunch of eclectic information stored in our busy little heads & on our bookshelves & palm pilots & know-it-all friends. And we all have those burning little questions we'd like answered, even though MyStery is one of the beauties of the universe...So put down a question, put down an answer...practical information, pure curiousity, advice, linguistics, whatever. By the way, if you're answering a really one-time question, delete the question and reply directly to the asker. Obviously, though, most stuff should stay here where everyone can be answered at once. {blue: oh yes, and put dates on things, so the can be cleaned off after a while, if it seems like the right thing to do. Paper making I want to learn to make paper from scratch, from raw wood or cotton bits to a sheet of paper to write on. Anyone know how to make paper from start? There is lots out there on recycling paper, but almost nothing on making it. -Dawn
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Ok, so! Here's a tough one. In "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide by Leonard Bernstein, why does the character of Cunegonde supposedly sing, "Here I am in Paris, France" in all versions except the newest Broadway revival, where she sings, "Here am I by sorry chance"? Does anyone know a really, really easy knitting pattern for a shawl?I want a really really really loose knit shawl with this yarn Becky sent me, but I can't find any patterns. Help? One really straight forward pattern for a basic triangular shawl is Cast on 3 stitches. Increase one stitch, Knit the rest of the stitches on the needle. And just do that every row, until it's as big as you want it, then cast off. I don't know how much yarn you have, or how thick it is... I'm guessing you don't have enough for a whole shawl, but you could use that and get some other yarn to augment it. The yarn store there should be fairly helpful, they seemed pretty friendly, so you could ask them for a shawl pattern, or help figuring out what other yarn would work well with what you've got.
-Does anyone know what Josh's e-mail adress is???- You know, the one that is Marina's friend and lives nearish(globally speaking) her.
Where do I find online college level correspondance courses for cheap? 3/8/02 I've searched around a bit, and it seems like they're all terribly expensive, like $50 0 or so for 3 credits. Eeeeek. I'm not concerned with getting the credit so much as I am with just taking the class online. Any tips?
Where can I find sea sponges?(you know, the kind that you can use for your ! )
They have a bunch of feminine products and I THINK that includes sponges. I use the washable menstral pads and I think those are hte shit man.
Washed up on the beach. Commercial ones are likely harvested 'fresh' (i.e., alive), which is nasty for fish and other living things. An important question: Why are panties plural and bras singular?
Etymology. Okay... so I just bought tickets on Hotwire.com, and we assumed that it would be okay to get them even though I'm under 18 and it says you can't buy them if you're under 18. I was wondering if anyone else has bought tickets through hotwire...? Otherwise, I'm just not going to freak out about it and trust that it'll work.
How do you tie a tie? i've searched evertwhere for this information, & cannot find it. help! I was just going to post the instructions here, but they got rather lengthy, so I gave them their own page. ~Chris B. -Does anyone have the email-version of the camp handbook?- if you do, i would greatly appreciate you forwarding it to me, seeing as either me or my mom lost my paper copy.
Why do knifes with peanut butter on them suddenly smell very strong when they are put in hot water?
From where do I know the phrase "Lascivious Turtle"? It's been driving me crazy because I know I've heard it somewhere Boy, that's a toughie. This is the only mention google.com knows about. Is there such a thing as an overripe avocaado?
Heh. Avocadoes are greasy and stuffed with calories. When they go bad, they go really bad. It's just hard to get nice ripe ones in most of the country. (The word "avocado" is from the Mayan word for "testicle", and sounds like the Spanish word for "lawyer".) I am curious to know if anyone around here is adopted, esp. if they've met their birthmom/parents/family. Email me please! (purple1192 at hotmail.com or nightingale at columbus.rr.com) -can someone send me Sarah Chipps' phone # at college? my e-mail is- rosemary at nbtsc.org gracias! yo I just put a long answer to the question about avoiding the draft. Since its quite a ways down the page i figured I'd post up here too so you know that its been answered by somone who knows quite a bit about it.
Loud Happy Freak? You've got the Freak part right... :)
I personally learnt by teaching myself. It took me a while but eventually I picked it up by looking at what others had done and figuring it out. It's a VERY simple language. I don't know any good resources however.. anyone else know? -Zen Yep yep yep. Just get in the habit of hitting 'View Source' every time you see a cool page. Careful, though The Rough Guide to The Internet has a very good chapter that just covers the basics. Also these two websites have alot of good information and tutorials: http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/ and http://www.bignosebird.com/ -Evan
What's the poem/song that starts out talking about zebras, segues to suicide, and ends up using the phrases "beautiful sunsets" and "a lifetime of masturbation" as arguments against killing yourself? All I know is that it was on a Vancouver BC-area pop radio station in about 1998.
In my opinion, iambic pentameter happens to be a good, comfortable meter for English as well as Italian. Iambic tetrameter ("I tot I taw a puddy tat!") can work quite well too. In the end it's all just wanking, 'cause poetry is for people to do, not talk about.
hey someone PLEASE PLEASE answer this- I wanna know, too! I think first base is kissing, second base is light petting, (upper body) third base is heavy petting, (genital area) and home is slot-a tab-b sexual intercourse. I'm not positive though. This annoys me so much because EVERYONES? bases are diffrent. See, I thought that the bases were.. 1st, Kissing... 2nd, Hands (I.E. Petting, Mutual Masturbation and such)... 3rd, Oral... and 4th, Sexual Intercourse. Maybe we, as a group, should define a stanard set of bases so no one has to be as horribly confused as I am right now. -Zen I've usually heard it marina's way-lorin "Slot-a tab-b"?
that is a very good question... i'd like to know the answer to that one too... Desire wants to get. Love wants to give. -Evan
Less wise but more confusing:
And, um, I suggest aiming for B and ignoring A until you have a little C.
Rachel C's e-mail address is monster869 at juno.com ... and you can e-mail her to find out all that other stuff... 'cause I sure as hell don't know (sorry Rach) -JessicaSkater
http://www.napster.com/ ... but you'll have to get non-AOL connections working on your computer, same as IRC gnutella.com
I'd imagine so, but they might need some extra heat, and given extra heat, might need extra water. -What's Carsie's e-mail address? And if you don't know that, does anyone have the chords for "Both Hands"?? Carsie played it at the session 1 talent show, so I figure she has the chords....-
You can get the tabs for Both Hands at: http://www.tabcrawler.com/ftp/tabs.cgi?g. . .;d/difranco-ani/both_hands.crd -Evan okay, I am very curious about this one. Where does the "Nice shoes, wanna fuck?" line come from & who started it when?
yeah- i'd blame either Jake or Zach for introducing it to camp- I know I heard Zach using it in 98-lorin names of Books, with pretty pictures ok, this is what I need, and sence you all know everything, or so you keep telling me, I'm trying to get into doing more wood inlays (someday I will have photos, and maybe even get them on a web page...) and what I need is ideas of what to do inlays of, they have to be simple, and need to be able to be done as a sillowet, or something simaler to that, in other words, it can not have broken lines, so if you know of any books that I could get from the libery that have good clip art that fits what I am looking for, or one that has something like celtict knot designs, or SOMETHING? like that, please tell me.
what's Reanna's e-mail address?if someone doesn't sign their name on the wiki boards, is there any way to find out who they are? (besides from the obvious -asking)well, on RecentChanges, you see a string of numbers after the listings of a page that has been changed. And if you go to the page itself, on the bottom of the page you'll find a little bit of text that says, "this page was last edited on November 6, 2000 by user 69.42.23.144" or whatever. This is the signature number of a certain user. You can select the "show changes" option at the bottom, which will highlight the most recent change in red. If you watch long enough you figure out (sort of) who's who. (For example, my number is 24.1.92.20...) I like to scan down the numbers on RecentChanges and find pages that have been edited by people I know, but at the same time I also like to respect people's privacy who choose not to sign their names (especially on pages like FightingAHardBattle, AgainstMyWill, etc.) If there's any other way to trace people, I don't know it. ~Rosie
Does anybody know what /tonsils/ are for?
{roughly, how much does it cost to fly from Hawaii to the East Coast?} -I saw an ad yesterday that purplexed me. It was targeted at bi and gay men who "used crystals". You're unschoolers, you know everything, and have no shame. What the hell does "use crystals" mean in the ad, and in such a way that they would need treatment?....dont be shy, i actually want to know...Dawn. the sexually niave Could be a reference to crystal methamphetamines, a stimulant drug. Truckers and yuppies, mostly. That or they could just mean new-age quartz crystals. Because there are twelve hundred and thirty eight wiki pages, it would be quite difficult to actually keep up with all of them in our busy home/unschooling lifestyles. So, my question is... what are some of the pages that you would suggest for me to look at? In other words, what are some of the/your favorites?
Ari's list-- if it's not a link from one of those, then it's not likely to be any good ;-) The List Of Marina
erm... yeah... poke around, you'll always find something. oh yeah, AllSoRad is, well, rad too. oh yes, i just found something cool! run your mouse around the border of the page and see what you find. -marina Whose idea was it to start the Wiki boards? *g* Okay, forst off, CaseyMax was looking around the web, and as susual, was not looking around the parts we all look around... like the Portland Pattern Repository, at http://www.c2.com/, and their Wiki, the original WikiWiki?, http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki'>http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki ... Anyway, A bit later, I found the PhpWiki software, written by SteveWainstead.. and I installed it... and I've re-written a lot of it, and helped Steve a bit with his version, too. Much fun. What does this mean: "Now you can ShowChanges since the last version"? Click it. All pages you click afterward will show the last thing added or changed in red. where can I get usefull information on train hoping? crew change guid (by paul) address for info is said to be: Iowa Blackie Gen, Delivery, Britt, Iowa, 50423 and I was told the cost is About $8 this was all gotten from a friend who stoped train hoping a few years ago, but he thought it should still work Can you really get high off of olives?
Who started the DontQuoteThat page?
Why do we yawn?
Why are yawns contagious?
Is it true that if you play Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon after the third Lion's roar in The Wizard of Oz the music will line up with what happens in the movie?
How come "Bugger" is a homophobic thing to say? bugger(n): Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) [syn: sodomite, sodomist, sod] v : practice anal sex upon [syn: sodomize] Princeton Dictionary I used this as my lone curseword for a while, but then everyone else started, and it stopped sounding quaintly British and started sounding offensive. Other than Witch Hazel, how do you go about making bee stings stop itching?? For bee stings- when you get one put vinegar on it. Bee stings are alkaline so puting acid on it helps. Or so I read. For Wasp bites- When you get bit put baking soda on it. Wasp bites are acidic and so putting somthing (ummmmmm whats the word?) Not acid on it helps. Again so I read. There is a posibillity i got that back wards but I THINK thats right. walnut powder or extract helps... anything astringent, really. Yarrow probably helps too. (on the sting, not taken internally, on both counts)
If your into/ willing to try homeopathy, and willing to spend a few buck, the homeopathic remedy Apis Mellifica has worked for me the few times I've had a sting that Baking soda didn't work on (I think you did get it backwards Ruth), and it also works for similar kinds of itching pain.- lorin Have your sidekick suck the venom out, of course! (No, don't, that doesn't work for any poison.) What are good places to get nice chopsticks? Not the kind they give away at takeout places...
How exactly does one make their own lps? can you even do that? how does an independent record company do it? or do they send them to some factory?! Not easily... there's factories that do it, though. Not sure where (argh) Is Majoring in Theater and Minoring in Music a completely insane thing to do?
and that's my shpiel on the subject. :) marina
Carrie, who heads off decisions by consistently doing both. Are there any household products that are good for bleaching hair??} Okay, I saw this question asked on the list. And, altho' I'm sure there ARE good household products for bleaching hair, that work rather effectivly, I'm also pretty damn sure there aren't any that're really very safe. So I would recommend just going out and grabbing some hair bleach. Almost any drug store has it.. There's also peroxide. which i've heard actually does work. sure, it won't bleach your hair blonde if it's naturally black, but it will lighten it. I hear sticking your head in the microwave does it, and it causes less long-term[99] brain damage too![88]
Don't fool with chemistry that involves your body unless you're really sure. What's the difference between flirting and just being friendly? It's all context and culture, baybee... How do you make covers for books? Especially cloth covers. Go to library... look for book with nice cover... rip off.. take home and glue to your book - Jason YOu don't want to make the actual book, just the cover? In that case, veddy seeemple. Put book on cloth. draw around it. flip the book over, keeping the edge of the spine in place, and rolling it over so that your outline of the otherside will leave allowance for the width of the spine (confusing explanation, but you probably know what I mean.) cut the cloth out about half an inch bigger than where your lines are. glue on to the outside of the book. Cut little slits in the excess cloth on either side of the spine and tuck this little toung into the spine with a little glue under it. Cut the corners off your cloth peice and glue the edges down to the inside edges of the book. To really tidy things up, you can glue the first page down over your cloth edges. Does that answer your question?
then what you do, is you get a piece of thin wood, (I meen thin, very very thin, like wook panleing that is on your walls?) or anything else that is kind of stiff, and thin, and strong, and glue your cloth to that, useing contact cement, or rubber cement, or any other really strong glue that is flexable. and one thing that I did to finsiht he cover was to rub cryans in to it, and iron it, so they all melt together-Ryland Talk to me Does twit actually mean "pregnant goldfish" or is Ben full of it?
How does one get rid of really really bad sunburn short of scrubbing with steel wool? Owch! I think the only healthy way is to wait for it to all peel off and stuff. Buy a bottle of aloe vera gel it makes sunburns feel SO much better. Be sure to buy a gel with a high aloe content, if possible, and not one that's just 5 or 10 percent or so. - Emma
Aloea vera is good for most all burns, if you put it on right away it dose the most good, Calendula gel is good too (you can get it at most helth food stores) Calendula might even be better for releaveing the pain, then aloe vera, and to help keep your skin from pealing as much, use Vitamin E cream, or oil... and I have never tryed it, but I am told that if it is really bad, you can use vinager, and it will take the pain away for a day or so, but it will only work once per burn, and you have to use it Right away, and I guess it works best of you don't get water or anything on the burn first. I've done vinigar once or twice it stings when you first put it on , but seems to work (as I recall- it's been about 10 years since I did it)- lorin
What are the historical origins of such childrens rhymes like London Bridges etc?
Ring around the rosie signs of a rash that would appear sig Ring around the rosie signs of a rash that would appear signalling the infection with the plague specifically, a heavy red welt over various glands (under the arms and on the sides of the throat I think, not completeley positive on that one) with a white band (that would turn yellow and pussy later) and then a flat red ring around that. -Miranda pocket full of posies refers to herbs people carried with them supposedly to ward off the plague there was a vague understanding that the plague was carried by the air, so freshening the scent of air with flowers and herbs seemed essential. -Miranda ashes, ashes someone speculated to me that this referred to mass cremation, but as I think they only did mass graves at the time I don't think that is true zen is right, the anglophone A-tishoo is the final sneezing, but ashes is just as old and genuine. ashes refers specifically to the ash cross (shit, I can't remember what ashes it was, something holy burned) drawn on the face of a corpse in place of burrial. one third of europe died, there wasn't anything like enough space to burry them even if there were people to do the burrying, so the church sanctioned a substitute that would still get your soul to heaven. -Miranda we all fall down everyone dies from the plague. woodcuts often also show this as falling on knees in prayer. people were desperate, God almighty was raining death on them, they must've down something really wrong. -Miranda Note From Zen: The reason you can't pinpoint the meaning of the lyrics 'Ashes, Ashes' is because those aren't the correct lyrics to the song. Those're the Americanized lyrics, the ACTUAL?? English lyrics from the original version are "Ahtishoo, Ahtishoo", which is sneezing which represents everyone getting ill (Followed by the line 'We all fall down': everyone dies afterwards). Alright, that was cheerful! I heard something about the London Bridge rhyme referring to the bodies of children who would be sacrificed and buried in the foundations, or somethin weird like that, but, um...I don't know that I beleive that. ;) sometimes children, but not especially children. it certainly is true that in most really old european bridges there is a sealed comparment in the foundations with the bones of a person and often clear scrabble marks where the were picking at the mortar, or traces of excrement that could only have "happened" after it was closed. on really expensive/important bridges there is sometimes a compartment in each of the big pillars (usually three or four). whether or not the song refers to this may be debatable (I don't think so, but hey) but the sacrifices are concretely real. -Miranda Some guy named Penati did at least one or two books discussing the origins of various items, stories, and myths, and I think he talked about nursery rhymes as well. More than you ever need to know, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Rosie Wow, we're really educated. What's the most efficacious means of acquiring a British accent?} /assuming that living in England for an extended period of time is not an immediate possibility... Move to England for a short period of time. Seriously. It's splufty. ~Charlie And those accents are so damn adictive, it doesn't take very long. ~Mr.z~ Watch MasterPiece?? Theater on PBS every Sunday. Read PG Wodehouse novels aloud. Find some random English person and follow them everywhere. -Gennie use the Accent tapes at the library (most public libraries have them, if not try any local university with a decent theatre program) they'll probably have a whole array of different UK/Celtic accents. I don't know about where you are, but in Vancovuer you can only use them At the library in the listening lab place, so count on setting aside a day or afternoon at a time. -JoyfulGoddess listen to Monty Python. chill with someone for extended periods who already has a british accent. (zen?!) listen to the Hitchhickers Guide audio tapes, that's how I got my retched attempt at an accent. Is Bram Ok? ARRRRGG??! I wish I knew!!-Nick eh. debatable. they think he will be okay, but he's currently going through chemo which is really hard. i think the hardest thing for him has been losing friends and getting made fun of. we should all be lettin' him know we love him, eh? oh, and he got his eyebrow pierced! (~summer) Is a skateboad a real Vehicle, or just a toy? it's a vehicle requiring a high level of skill for functionality. It's a peice of urban sports equipment. It's a Real HPV! [3] Depends on use. It's capable of being any and all of those things, including, yes, a vehicle. Defining it as either one or the other is silly. Yeah. It's both. Should I go to Australia for 4 months, or a year? ...and what should I definitly make sure to do while I'm there (besides sampling bush grubs and beers of course)? Go for a year. I will be going probably around 2002.... perhaps for a year, maybe i will stay... what to do? dive the great barrier reef, ride kangaroos, wrestle crocs and get a really cool accent. Go for a year, and assimilate with the Aborgines, go to Hanging Rock, but be careful, you might disappear. Go to Alice Springs, see the immense cattle stations, work on a sheep ranch, learn the didjeridoo, photograph the desert of the northern territory, Go on a walkabout! -Gennie (who wants to go to Australia more then anything) go for a year! ...or just get a flexable flight home... I'm formiliar with trips getting old before their done... mine for example got totally rotten in the middle of africa, with two months to go... but Australia rocks, I've yet to be there, but it's on my top five list I'd say. ~Mr.z~ Why is the sky blue? it has something to do with the light getting refracted by the ozone layer.-Spiff I have heard it has something to do with water particles. -Erin let's see... well, there are red thingys and blue thingies in the sky, and one of them is short and one of them is long, and the light reflects off the blue ones. yes, that really is the answer, i just can't remember all of it. marina Because the atmosphere tends to scatter blue light rays (which are higher-energy (if you're thinking about particles) or shorter (ditto waves)) more than other colors. If you look at the haze between you and something really far away, you'll see it's bluish what is the argument against shots & immunizations? answers: I actully just went to a class about this stuff *GRIN*. Almost ALL vaccines used today are killed virus' which means you CANNOT?? get the virus fron the vaccine. The only ones you can get the virus from are the modifide live ones and those have been 'changed' so they aren't quit the same virus so it's a pretty slim chance. Yes you should have your children vaccinated because just look at the things that happen when people don't vaccinate. Nasty epidemics can pop up. And young children need multiple vaccines for the same thing because their bodys are growing so fast that they don't keep a good imunity untill thay are a bit older. However i think that NOT vaccinateing for the not so dangerous virus' is also a good idea because your body will have a better immune responce if it comes in contact with the live real virus. Things like polio have been almost complely wiped uot because of vaccinateing. In the last few years the only cases of polio have been due to the modifide live vaccine so they are now using a killed vaccine. Tetnus, polio, and any other deadly or seriously debilitaeing diseases should definately be vaccinated for. okay. *naomi gets up on her soap-box*. women are always taking their young children (infants, often) to the doctor and injecting all these immunizations into them. what they don't realise is that the human immune system is not fully developed until around the age of 5. and so putting these dead cells in your babie's body can be potentially dangerous, almost always results in a small case of whatever sickness (depending on the immunization), and in the end has little affect. another immunization is sometimes required later on in life (with some people), when the child has a mature immune system. so my advice would be to just push off immunizations until you the mother or father by instinct think that it is absolutely necessary. My mom took my sister and I for shots every year up until I was seven years old, and then she suddenly stopped. Later she explained that she didn't believe in vaccinations anymore, because she believed they did more harm than good. I don't think she trusts doctors in general. I don't really have an opinion on this myself yet, though... -wanderlust the urban pixie Some are potentially harmful: Ones with a live (or live and mutated) virus have to potential to infect you. Dead-virus ones don't, but that doesn't work with all diseases. Now, some things are worth vaccinating against: Polio is probably the best example. The vaccine uses a dead virus, and the disease is crippling (I know from secondhand experience; My great aunt is confined to a wheelchair, has been for sixty or so years because of Polio...) So, my opinion: Skip the dangerous ones for non-dangerous diseases, get the big ones (Tetanus if neccesary, and Polio... there's a couple others, but I can't remember which (Ari) Also, i'm reading this book about how the monkey tissue culture used to grow the oral polio vaccine fed to people in the Congo area in Africa might have been the origin of AIDS...scary eh? Jenny It's importaint for woman who may get pregnant to be immunated against german measles if they didn't have them when they were a kid. Measles in general is one of those diseases that is worse the later you get it, and german measles early in a pregnancy can cause blindness for the baby. ~tessa argument against? if you get a freaky ass disease where you go into spasms and all your fingers fall off and your eyes ooze blood you don't have to waste good money on some overpriced halloween costume - Jason Well, basically, for most diseases that have been nearly wiped out, the only new infections come from immunizations. I had a worse reaction to the whooping cough vaccine than I would have had to the cough. Charlie He're one angle which we tend to ignore in our rather self-centered society: The idea of immunizations is to wipe out diseases, if a few selfish people deside it's a risk for them pesonally, and refuse the immunizations, that fucks with the ability to wipe out the disease, and if you don't wipe out a disease completely, however little there is left of it has the potential to mutate and make a comeback, like TB. When I was a baby, I got a shot...and ooh it was hell. I reacted horribly. So my mum didn't let me get any more shots. But I think I'm fine with them now...but I don't want 'em. ~Erin what is the Hebrew word for "mother"? Im, or Ima for "mommy" Jenny yup, and the word for father is Abba! (pronounced exactly that way) -Jessica pronounced "Ee-ma?", then? Yup, and Abba (just so you don't get it confused with the band Abba) is ah-bah Noam what are some ways to avoid the draft? How can you become an official conscientious objector? Break your leg. Ahha- somthing I know quite a bit about. First if you havn't registered yet, don't. Yes thats breaking the law, but so many people just ignore it, that theres like a one in a thousand chance that they will pick you to prosecute. Thats what I have done so far- I got a nice series of thretaning letters ending with one saying they were submiting my name to the justice department, who already have so many other things to do that prosecuting some draft dodger is not really gonna happen. Maybe if we were to get into a war or somthing, but... Of course if you want government grants or jobs, most of them check to see if you've registered- however my plot is that since at the moment I don't want any of those things, and they will still accept my registration till I'm 26, I'll just wait a few years to register. Second if you havn't registered yet, again, use the paper version and write "I am a conciencious objector to war in all forms"(Or whichever forms of war you are opposed to) on it, and photo copy it and mail the copy to your self, and dont open the envelope- just file it so you have an unopened envelope with a postmark on it with a record of that in it should the draft be enstated. Third, write a statement of what your belifes regarding war are, and get as much evidence to back that up as possible- letters from friends, random strangers youve talked to about those belifes, etc..include any activitys such as protests and rallys against war that you may have participated in.If you are part of some group, particularly a religious one that could in some way or annother write a statement backing you up, and put coppys of both on file in their records, then shold the draft be enstated you have more evidence to back up your case. The further back in your life you can document your belifes, the more likely you are to be given CO status. As somone said below, you can only appluy for CO status after the draft is enstated, so for now just collect all the resources you can to back up your case, and keep your fingers crossed hoping you wont need them. Oh and whoever said that below about peace churches being automatically exempt is wrong- the Amish/Menonites maybe, but I know quakers arn't, though having been a quaker for a while will probobly get you co status fairly quickly. (However if you go join a quaker meeting when the draft is enstated, without ever having been before, they'll probobly look at it like your trying to pull somthing over on em) You still hav to go through all the same paperwork and go before the draft board... I think thats a pretty good over view. If you have any more questions put em up and I'll try to answer. Lorin P.S. A useful organization, which has good guides to writing a statement, and I belives will even keep your statement on file for you in case you ever need it, is the National Interreligious Service Board for Conciencious Objectors (NISBCO??) www.nisbco.org close the door. Easy answer: Join a peace church, the Bretheren, Amish, Mennonite and Quaker churches are automatically exempt. Unitarians aren't automatically exempt, but there's a way... Amish are Mennonites. When a draft is started, register your objection then, as that's the "correct" time for that. Bastards.[2] [7] Good luck. This is sort of a last resort, but if one must really avoid the draft, and you need to leave the country quickly. I might suggest going to New Zealand. The U.S. has not extradition treaties with that country. It used to be Canada, but things have changed quite a bit. Also there is France, and a few other countries. Many people charged with crimes move there or the south Pacific. -Gennie, (who would be set if she ever became a master criminal) How does one get bloodstains out of fabric? Use Hydrogine Peroxide. It get the stain out REALLY well.Ruth
Rinse it in cold water as soon as possible. Saliva also has enzymes that break blood down (or something) slightly. How do you know when you're right? I'm ALWAYS?? right.Ruth When you have a blinding epiphany, how do you know it's the truth? When you have two opposite blinding epiphanies right next to eachother, how do you know which is right? Perhaps if the epiphanies are blinding, that's the problem. Maybe aim for explosive moments of clarity next time? Hmm, I donno, maybe if you told me the specifics, I could just tell you which one was right. Reanna (That is so the coolest bit I've ever seen of Reanna's writing. if you ever aren't sure, just ask me. I'll tell you.. - Jason Interesting the way our own lives can be confusing and ambiguous, but when it comes to other people, we (well, some of us) figure we know all the answers, and it's quite black and white... -what companies make all cotton, non-bleached tampons?- http://www.critpath.org/~tracy/spot.html http://www.pacificcoast.net/~manymoons/index.html http://www.lunapads.com/IE4/ {why is it that NBTSC people are so much more wonderful than the people i meet in everyday life?} as i see it, two possible answers: NBTSCers are simply easier to get to know, everyone's like that... or wonderful amazing people are attracted to NBTSC. I'm tending more towards the second these days i think. I think being homeschooled helps people become wonderful, I think radical honesty helps people become wonderful, I think it would be hard not to be wonderful in an atmosphere like NBTSC. -marina My two explanations, which work hand in hand 1. NBTSC and being around eachother, plus being un/home schooled in the first place, is bound to bring out people's best traits in a lot of cases. and 2. everyone is really cool, on some level, once you get to know them. NBTSC fosters getting to know people on that level. (~summer) [1] I do know eveything! Muah ha ha ha ha!!!! well.... except the answers to the first three questions posted here..... [2] I also need suggestions for a word that is as easly said as "bastard" that's more universally accepted as a "bad thing"... I'd use "Bugger" but that's quite offensive... (Ari) [4] [3] Human Powered Vehicle [69] PHP is actually quite easy. You should try it. All the cool people are doin' it. You'd do it if you loved me. NBTSWikiWiki | Recent Changes Edited 62 times, last edited on April 6, 2002 by thelhf@nbtsc.org. © 2000 NBTSC Webmasters |
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