Scout Family Campout Day 1
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Staff
Here's a picture of our entire school staff -- teachers, custodians, counselors, paraprofessionals, administrators, and cafeteria workers.
And here are all the people who were working here when I first started teaching at the school:
I am, in short, the seventh-longest serving teacher at the school at this point.
Books
This is my new reading/focus corner. All those books? Mostly provided by the generosity of the state's education department. But the state has also said all books I have students read have to be vetted. By three teachers. So I don't know if it applies to these books or not. If so, I'll hang a sign on the bookshelf:
Books for Decoration Only Due to State Documentation Requirements
Meet the Teacher
No Rest in Hell
I recently dipped into a social media feed titled "HELL IS REAL" to see what kind of discussion goes on there. Not much discussion -- mainly just a bunch of disturbing memes.
Meme 1: No Rest in Hell
The question that comes immediately to mind: why would an all-loving and omniscient god create a bunch of creatures he knew would end up in eternal torment that he himself created? It just makes no sense.
Meme 2: Hell is not a joke
Two things struck me about this: first, the imagery is so disturbing. Second, "affirm yes"? Did the creator of this meme think that at some point we would be standing in front of God, and he'd patiently point out that we didn't affirm "Yes" (redundant much?) in our social media feed so it's off to eternal torment for us...
Meme 3: Hear Hell
This one is so oddly specific. If we could hear the people screaming in hell, we might not fornicate. We might lie; we might do drugs; we might murder (see meme below), but we sure as hell wouldn't fornicate.
Meme 4: Choices
Why is the devil eating this guy? And do hoodies lead you to hell?
Meme 5: Roads
If only this god who so wants to spend eternity with us had done a better job getting us to that point...
It's disturbing that in 2023 people still have such simplistic, brutal, and illogical views. They pass this poison on to children and scar them for life. I just can't understand how they can posit a) a loving god and b) an eternity of torment. It just makes no sense to me.
Trombone Shorty
Two Walks
Birthday Dinner
Reworking a Favorite
A favorite of mine, taken just weeks after K and I got married. Edited for the third time...
Crusades
The meme -- I couldn't pass it up. The Crusades -- not something one would joke about. So I said so.
In the end, the original poster devolved to this:
I'm not sure what he was referring to when he complained I deleted a comment: I didn't knowingly delete any comment. Still, the rest of the comment left me wondering how someone like that can function in society. If you're an adult willing to call someone stupid, who is willing to behave in such a juvenile manner, how can you hold a job? If it takes so relatively little to get you to behave like a pouting child, how can you keep your mouth shut when it really matters?
In the end, I left the conversation with the following final words: "Thanks for the wonderful Christian example. I'll leave you to have the last word. Make it a good one!"