being white and learning nature, knots, bushcraft skills, basic medical skills, cooking, self respect, critical thinking and so much more, when I think of it the list is too long to write, The Cub/Weblo and Eagle scouts just changed me for the better. I can be self reliant.
For me it was the skill/teaching of always leaving an area in better condition than it was in when you found it. It really hits close to a core part of being White. Even the coffee counter is cleaner after I've made my coffee than before.
Yes
> Not dropping the soap around Scout Master David Levine.....
I was in a church group. Making fires, gutting squirrel
I'd have preferred your church group. Aside from cub/boy scouts, my 'youth ministry' church group was sitting in a circle playing guitar and singing praise songs and reading passages every week. We would also practice skits, short plays and situational scenarios to teach love, friendship and forgiveness. We would then go to other parishes and large 100k person super church gatherings to act them out on stage while the church raked in 10s to 100s of thousands from donations.
One thing I learned was that "organized religion" and faith are not at all related, and one is usually the antithesis of the other.
For me, it wasn't so much of a skill as just an important life-lesson; I lived in too small of a town for there to be a Boy Scout chapter anywhere near me, and the Girl Scouts wouldn't let me in because I was a boy. I was too young to understand any of the gender crap; I just wanted someplace to belong. I learned that, since I was male, I was on my own; only girls get to have social groups cater to include them.
I learned that anything will burn if your fire is hot enough.
I was in the Boys brigade. Same as scouts without the singing and drama and blanket. They taught me to drill before conscription, and some other things. "Steadfast and sure" was the motto.
Don't what what I "learned" per-say, but I was robbed of all my money on a scout retreat. Big deal as a kid without an allowance and I didn't get to even do the activity (spelunking/caving) because I didn't have money for the entrance fees/rentals (not sure what the money was for, but parents agreed to buy the uniform if I paid for anything I wanted to do) and none of the adults gave a fuck.... I think I was involved in that organization for less than 6 months.
I guess I learned that group events = a fucking miserable experience. I still won't willingly involve myself in anything that has more than 6~8 people involved. More than that and it's just a shit experience, every time.
I never made it past the cub scouts.
I was an Autistic retard with no friends when I was in the cub/boy scouts so I got nothing from it.
I was
but you still are, too
I thut we wuz frendz 'n sheeeit
I am tard
I was in the Cub Scouts for about a week, then got kicked out for stealing nails (to build a treehouse). I thought the whole thing was creepy and gay anyway.
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