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We're a married with two daughters. Athough we are both ordained ministers with the ULC, we do not consider ourselves religious. Hubby is 32 and a published writer (specializing in sonnets) and a former industrial welder. He became disabled last year after his rhuematoid arthritis began to impose itself upon him relentlessly. Now he drives a small personal scooter--one step down from a wheelchair. I am an aspiring writer and a stay-at-home parent. I'm currently interested in amateur radio, quilting, metaphysical topics, and crafting.
The kids are in 5th and 1st grade. We homeschooled them for a while. The goal was to allow the kids to use their own interests to explore and educate them. Kids who have that kind of experiential education thrive and learn to learn, rather than regurgitate material that is presented to them. The whole homeschooling experience was interesting and fun but we recently sent the kids to school. We found that many of the homeschoolers we met were kept at home to shelter them from educational topics which their parents found objectional--mostly science and literature. For this very large segment of the homeschooling population, it all seemed to be about limiting their kids' exposure to things which their parents were afraid would contradict their religious beliefs. Our educational interests, on the other hand, were entirely secular so it was difficult to relate to many homeschooling families. The final deciding factor was their father's health, which took a bad turn in the middle of their last homeschooling year. It became difficult to concentrate on the kids' education. That was a tough year and we began to feel quite isolated. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The children are each convinced that the other is from some other planet. "You're from Mars!" "You're from some place so far away they haven't even discovered it yet!" The kids girls each insist that their sister's "real" parents dropped them off on Earth to be raised by human parents. Though it is debated extensively, we are unable to deny these alleged alien stork visits with details that meet our daughters' satisfaction. So we have decided to participate in the search for alien life.
It seems quite likely that there is life somewhere out there. As humans we may be speciescentric but, to the reasonable mind, the idea that there may be life out there developed at or beyond our level of technological sophistication is not far-fetched. |
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