okay i am definitely subbing my father he is an eagle scout and part of order of the arrow and some other stuff I am 13 and he wants me to join boy scouts and if i get eagle scout he will give me $2000 but boy scouts seems like it would be very enjoyable just not sure if i could make it to eagle scout and advice?
Your coment says 2 months old, did you decide? The minimum requirements are 21 badges (14 of them are mandatory for eagle, the other 7 can be any other badge) and a service project. You are 13 and you have until you turn 18 to work on it. That's 5 years, a few months less depending on when you turned 13; 5 badges × 4 years is 20 and let's say the last year you do the last badge and your service project. There are people who have earned every badge, so 21 is much less intense. I think you could get to Eagle, but that's entirely up to you. It does mean you would have less time to pursue other extracurriculars. Consider how many activities you want to do after meeting school responsibilities, how much time is left after those, are you ok with missing out on those activities sometimes and knowing that sometimes you'll want to hang out with friends instead of attending a scout meeting?
The Citizenship in the World badge sounds iffy. I wonder whether you learned that America is a democracy or a constitutionally limited federal republic. If they taught y'all America is democracy, then that's wrong. The Constitution doesn't mention democracy once. It does, however, say republic. For me, neither school nor any of the Ivy League colleges I attended taught me the difference between a republic and a democracy. I had to play catch up as an adult by reading the Constitution, digging up Supreme Court opinions from over a hundred years ago, and analyzing our Founding Fathers' letters. Took me several years to connect the dots and to summarize it like this: It's only in a constitutionally limited federal republic that individual rights, freedoms, and civil liberties are protected against the tyranny of big government, and against the tyranny of democracy wherein the majority ignorantly facilitate big government through mob rule and popular opinion to further erode individual rights, freedoms, and civil liberties. Slavery is one example. Direct federal income taxes are another (16th Amendment). When the government or the media propagandize that free speech is democracy, it's only to nefariously sway the capricious whims of the majority to forfeit their constitutionally protected rights in exchange for the illusion of safety and security, like the TSA, the Patriot Act, or to die in undeclared wars thousands of miles away such as Iraq, Ukraine, and so on. Simply put, freedom and individuality can thrive only in a decentralized system of myriad checks and balances that limits the size, scope, and power of state and federal governments. Edit: Just got to the point in the video where you talk about the Citizenship in the Nation badge, and you said democracy. 😓
great video!
okay i am definitely subbing my father he is an eagle scout and part of order of the arrow and some other stuff I am 13 and he wants me to join boy scouts and if i get eagle scout he will give me $2000 but boy scouts seems like it would be very enjoyable just not sure if i could make it to eagle scout and advice?
Your coment says 2 months old, did you decide?
The minimum requirements are 21 badges (14 of them are mandatory for eagle, the other 7 can be any other badge) and a service project. You are 13 and you have until you turn 18 to work on it. That's 5 years, a few months less depending on when you turned 13; 5 badges × 4 years is 20 and let's say the last year you do the last badge and your service project. There are people who have earned every badge, so 21 is much less intense.
I think you could get to Eagle, but that's entirely up to you. It does mean you would have less time to pursue other extracurriculars. Consider how many activities you want to do after meeting school responsibilities, how much time is left after those, are you ok with missing out on those activities sometimes and knowing that sometimes you'll want to hang out with friends instead of attending a scout meeting?
@@jewelweed6880 yeah i’m already a tenderfoot now and working on personal management as well as communications
I swear your so underrated
Please make more videos! Sometimes it is difficult to hear you.
I will! :)
The Citizenship in the World badge sounds iffy. I wonder whether you learned that America is a democracy or a constitutionally limited federal republic. If they taught y'all America is democracy, then that's wrong. The Constitution doesn't mention democracy once. It does, however, say republic. For me, neither school nor any of the Ivy League colleges I attended taught me the difference between a republic and a democracy. I had to play catch up as an adult by reading the Constitution, digging up Supreme Court opinions from over a hundred years ago, and analyzing our Founding Fathers' letters. Took me several years to connect the dots and to summarize it like this: It's only in a constitutionally limited federal republic that individual rights, freedoms, and civil liberties are protected against the tyranny of big government, and against the tyranny of democracy wherein the majority ignorantly facilitate big government through mob rule and popular opinion to further erode individual rights, freedoms, and civil liberties. Slavery is one example. Direct federal income taxes are another (16th Amendment). When the government or the media propagandize that free speech is democracy, it's only to nefariously sway the capricious whims of the majority to forfeit their constitutionally protected rights in exchange for the illusion of safety and security, like the TSA, the Patriot Act, or to die in undeclared wars thousands of miles away such as Iraq, Ukraine, and so on. Simply put, freedom and individuality can thrive only in a decentralized system of myriad checks and balances that limits the size, scope, and power of state and federal governments. Edit: Just got to the point in the video where you talk about the Citizenship in the Nation badge, and you said democracy. 😓