Who here was a Boy Scout?

1. 2018-04-12 at 4:11 AM UTC

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   Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
   So many good memories. Fighting older boys with sticks, getting hit with sticks, sharpening our walking sticks so we could jab people with them... It was a great time.
   
   What about you. What was your experience?
2. 2018-04-24 at 5:15 PM UTC

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   Cooking with Zyklon B Yung Blood
   I'm so glad my pops pushed me to earn my Eagle.
   
   I loved all the outdoors experiences the scouts afforded me, but I by no means was a fan of the paperwork side of things (merit badges).
   
   I was one of those who ended up completing his Eagle Project shortly before his 18th birthday.
   
   Through scouts I've canoed Bowron Lakes up in Canada, backpacked twice down in Philmont, NM. The second trip I smuggled a quarter of Hawaiian Skunk for the trip. Got high on Pikes Peak. :)
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3. 2018-04-24 at 5:45 PM UTC

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   Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
   I was also pushed to make Eagle by my father. I finished the project and met with the Board of Review just days before my 18th, not unlike yourself. I personally didn't mind working on merit badges but I didn't get many more than I needed, and certainly not enough to earn Palms.
   
   I was elected leader of my patrol around the time several of my peers quit, so I was left to represent myself as an independently functioning unit within the troop, which was rather awkward. Philmont was a turning point in my life. I went at 16 and it couldn't have been at a more important time. When I came home, I was a different person: leaner, stronger, and determined to further my scouting career.
   
   I narrowly lost my run for Senior Patrol Leader to the golden child of a Nazi scout leader who groomed his son for success from the cradle. He led admirably, and then he went on to West Point. He'll probably be a member of Congress or something. I was never cut out to lead the troop, not with a guy like him around.
   
   I regret not going on more high adventure trips, did you do any of that aside from Philmont? What trail number did you take there? I think we were around 30, which was very tough.
4. 2018-04-24 at 5:46 PM UTC

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   Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
   Whoops, double posted.
5. 2018-04-24 at 5:48 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I only did Girl Scouts for 3 years. But I was the top cookie seller all 3 years and with my points I was able to go to camp for free every summer. And every year I got myself a stuffed animal. They had a different animal every year. And I’d get my mom the matching pewter figurine as a thank you because she helped with a lot of my sales. She had a lot of friends and colleuges.
6. 2018-04-24 at 5:51 PM UTC

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   Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]

   Originally posted by -mal- I only did Girl Scouts for 3 years. But I was the top cookie seller all 3 years and with my points I was able to go to camp for free every summer. And every year I got myself a stuffed animal. They had a different animal every year. And I’d get my mom the matching pewter figurine as a thank you because she helped with a lot of my sales. She had a lot of friends and colleuges.

   
   Even with your mother's help, you must have been some entrepreneur. I had top sales for Christmas wreaths for two years in a row, but the bar was set pretty low in my troop to begin with and I really didn't deserve a prize. What other fundraising do you remember helping with?
7. 2018-04-24 at 5:56 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Always thought the “Boy Scouts” was just another method the man uses to indoctrinate our youth to grow up to be agreeable little cogs in the corporate machine :)
8. 2018-04-24 at 5:59 PM UTC

   #8
   RestStop Space Nigga
   I.Was.Touched.
9. 2018-04-24 at 6:01 PM UTC

   #9
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Zanick Even with your mother's help, you must have been some entrepreneur. I had top sales for Christmas wreaths for two years in a row, but the bar was set pretty low in my troop to begin with and I really didn't deserve a prize. What other fundraising do you remember helping with?

   
   That’s all I remember. I only did it like 3rd 4th and 5th grade. I mainly remember earning badges at the troop leaders house. I always wished I had the best instead of the sash. Lol
10. 2018-04-24 at 6:04 PM UTC

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    Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]

    Originally posted by Fox Paws Always thought the “Boy Scouts” was just another method the man uses to indoctrinate our youth to grow up to be agreeable little cogs in the corporate machine :)

    
    Not really, it's become something of a social club where kids learn teamwork and leadership. My experience was that everyone thought the structure around our activities was total bullshit, but our dads bribed us into community service with exciting camping trips and let us pick the food, so we went along with the rest. That's how it went, for a few years, but around 16 I gained some perspective on a more demanding hike and the whole thing was character building.
    
    I can't say for sure whether my fellow scouts became cogs, with the exception of one who killed himself, but I took LSD for the first time the same week I became an Eagle Scout.
11. 2018-04-24 at 8:10 PM UTC

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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST

    Originally posted by Fox Paws Always thought the “Boy Scouts” was just another method the man uses to indoctrinate our youth to grow up to be agreeable little cogs in the corporate machine :)

    
    and selling cookies is their way of indoctrinating little girls into lifelong prostitutionary.