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Your child might lack social skills if you put them in a room and lock the door and never let them out. Most home schooled kids that I have dealt with get social skills other ways. There are many other ways that a child can get social skills other than at school. They can be involved with a youth group at church. They can play sports outside of school. My sister who home schooled three of her kids had them all on a swim team. Why is it that people feel the only place to get social skills is to send them to school? Do you want your child to believe what everybody believes? Is that why you send them to school? If you are home schooled by good parents who teach you strong values, you will have the tools to reject the corruption of the mass society, and I doubt you really want your child to believe what the mass society tells them to believe. When a parent decides to home school their child, that doesn't mean that their child will be sheltered from society. They just won't be subjected to the brainwashing perpetrated by our educational system. I have known many kids who went to public school who lacked serious social skills especially kids who are picked on or teased. A friend of mine said that kids need to learn to deal getting picked on to know how to handle it. I disagree with that statement. Most people who are picked on don't learn to deal with it in School. After High School, they probably won't be subjected to that kind of treatment anymore anyway. If many kids in public schools lack social skills, then why do you assume that you need to send you child to school to get social skills?
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Many people have a serious misconception concerning dating methods. When I took an Astronomy class in college the teacher, who has a PHD in Astronomy, asked a question on how old the students thought the age of the earth was. I already knew what she was going to say which was somewhere in the billions of years. I raised my hand and said that some scientist believe that the earth is young. She started asking me questions and one of the questions was, "What about carbon 14 dating?" That is along the lines of common misconceptions even among scientists.
1. The material to be dated must be organic
2. The organism to be tested must have gotten its C-14 from the atmosphere
3. The sample has remained chemically and physically a closed system since its emplacement.
4. That we know what the atmospheric concentration of C-14 was when the
organism lived.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Bible/Text/Bibaccuracy.html
At the above website, some Islamic group attempts to discredit the Bible's reliability. One of the big arguments for the Muslims is the unreliability of the Bible compared to the reliability of the Koran. That is pretty interesting concerning the evidence for the Bible compared to the Koran. I am not going to rehash the response since there is a good response located at this website:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/
I do want to point out some important information concerning the reliability of the scriptures however.
The fact that there are 24,000 partial and complete copies of the New Testament is extremely important. That enables Bible scholars to compare the manuscripts to make sure they have the most accurate translation. Scholars have concluded that there are only 150 variances between the manuscripts. However, the variances are minimal. We have to remember that they didn't have a copy machine in the first and second century when the Bible was written. People had to make copies by hand so to have 24,000 copies with only 150 small variances is very impressive. If you compare the number of manuscripts we have for the New Testament to other ancient manuscripts, they don't have even close to the number of manuscripts of the New Testament. Of course, critics don't question the accuracy of other ancient texts.
A big discovery was the dead sea scrolls. The dead sea scrolls were discovered at Qumran in 1947. They found a manuscript that became the oldest Old Testament manuscript which dated to around 150BC. The oldest manuscript before the dead sea scrolls dated around 980AD. When the compared the manuscripts there was only about 5 percent of variation between the manuscripts.
We know the New Testament is accurate because of the number of manuscripts that were able to be compared with each other.
We know the Old Testament is accurate because of the care that was taken on the Old Testament.
The Jewish Priest had to rewrite the manuscripts of the Old Testament, and they had to take extreme care by obeying strict rules.
You can see the rules in rewriting the Old Testament at this site:
http://biblicism.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-bibliography-of-the-old-testament/
So again, you have to be careful in listening to the critics. Everybody has there agenda. Every religion has critics that either tries to discredit it or prove it.
My agenda is simple. I am looking at truth. I look at scriptural truth, and non-scriptural truth.
This is what I know from facts so far (see my prior posts):
1) Intelligent Life doesn't come into existence by chance (nothing in this world can demonstrate intelligent life coming into this world by randomness)
I have been having a discussion with some friends about homeschooling. They believe that homeschooling isn't good for children. Most people have a serious misunderstanding of why people homeschool and the benefits of homeschooling.
Here are some of the arguments people will say against homeschooling and some comments my friends have said that I want to address:
(Some information is taken from naturalchild.org)
1) They will lack social skills. Children shouldn't be so sheltered. If you don't send your children to school, how are they going to fit into a mass society?
I had a short but sweet experience with Loral Langemeir that I thought I would share. I listened to her radio program one Saturday where she talked about calling her number to get her free book. It is funny how all of these radio show programs always say, "Just call and we will send you a free book", but never mention that they will pressure you into something else. The whole purpose of sending you a free book is not to help you, but to get you to sign up with their program where you have 30 days to cancel. I hate programs that give you 30 days to cancel because you always get the person asking you, “Why are you canceling?” The salesperson on the phone was pressuring me into signing up for the $60-70 per month program where you will get access to all these resources to make you rich. I didn't fall for that and kept telling the guy that I only wanted the free book. Finally, after all the pressure, the guy said he will send me the free book, but of course, it cost $10.00 for shipping and handling. I really wouldn't call a book free if it cost $10.00 for shipping and handling. So, I figured I got my free book and wouldn't hear from Loral Langemeir again. About a month and a half, I get another call from Loral Langemeir because I now qualified for a free strategy session. By the way, I never received the book. So this guy was asking me a lot of personal financial questions which I was hesitant to answer. First, I was at work and didn’t want to be talking about my financial situations with everyone listening. Secondly, I didn’t really trust this guy. There were a couple of things that gave me a red flag. I told him that I was renting, and he immediately said, “So you are losing money by renting?” In my opinion, that gave me the notion that this guy has no idea what he was talking about. He doesn’t know me well enough to know what my reasons are for renting. First off, there are many good reasons to rent. Isn’t paying thousands of dollars in interest to a bank renting? Who really owns your house, your Bank! In this economy it might be good to rent where houses really aren’t going up in value like they use to and where the housing market still might drop in value. Also, I like where I live. Another reason to rent is for short term. Purchasing a house and then selling a house is very costly. When you purchase the house, you have to pay closing cost, and selling a house you end up paying money to the real estate agent. Another reason why a person rents is because they aren’t responsible for their house. I had to get an air-conditioning unit replaced and guess who paid for it, my landlord. So it actually quite annoyed to me that this expert would jump to a conclusion that I am losing a lot of money from renting. Of course, there are many reasons to buy too. So, I told the guy I didn’t know much about Loral and wanted to read about her before I talked with him. He told me he will call me next week. One of his big selling points was that she was the expert for Doctor Phil. That really didn’t impress me. Isn’t Doctor Phil already rich? So, after researching about Loral with the word scam after her name, I read a lot of articles about issues people had with her program. Some people have invested thousands of dollars into her program with no success. So, I would warn anybody thinking about getting involved with her to be wary. Do your research before deciding to invest thousands of dollars to get rich. Like many people say, getting rich isn’t as easy as these people make it out to be. Investing in real estate has a steep learning curve, and it isn't as easy as some people make it out to be. Luckily, I have only invested ten dollars for a book I never received.
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