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I was wondering how long a screenname has to be idle on hatrack before it is deleted.
I am wondering this because I turned 19 today, and I am leaving for my mission in a few months, and I was wondering if my account would still exist when I return.
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I don't know that they're ever deleted, honestly. My original login was idle for...oh, probably two years before I tried signing on with it again, and it was ready and waiting for me.
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Mention of Indiana spurs a question. I work in a library here in Indiana and we usually have one or two pairs of missionaries here and they always have me wondering, why Indiana? So I guess that is my question, why Indiana? Why anywhere actually? I must say that I always enjoy seeing the missionaries, they are always very pleasent.
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Jim-Me, just to make sure it's still working properly you should log into it and post something in this thread.
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You'll see missionaries at the library because they can now E-mail their families on their free days.
As to why send out missionaries, it's to place a live person out in the those communities in the world with a message that some may be looking for.
Kinda like a lifeguard. Unless you need one and are looking for one, you really don't need them. But if the time comes you are in need, it's nice to have one accessible.
IMHO, They're there with a message to share if anyone wants to hear it.
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Well, I know one person who stopped posting when she hit 1000, but I'm not sure anybody chose 1337 as a good stopping point.
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Thanks for the point about email CStroman. It sounds like this is a change. Did is used to be a basic training thing where you have no outside, ie family, contact, for the duration or a set time? I believe I understand the general idea behind the missionary goal, but I was wondering how people are sent? Namely the process by which the decision is made to send missionaries to Indiana or France or where have you.
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First, you decided that you want to go on a mission. There is a lot of paperwork involved, including interviews with ecclesiastical leaders and physcals.
You send the papers to the church headquarters, and then they (usually) send you a letter telling you where and when you are called to serve, and when and where you should show up to start. You usually server in the same general area for 2 years (men) or 1.5 years (women).
You pretty much have no say in where you will serve. They ask what languages you know, and how interested you are in learning a new language, but they are famous for sending somebody fluent in Russian to Japan, or some such thing.
quote: Thanks for the point about email CStroman. It sounds like this is a change. Did is used to be a basic training thing where you have no outside, ie family, contact, for the duration or a set time? I believe I understand the general idea behind the missionary goal, but I was wondering how people are sent? Namely the process by which the decision is made to send missionaries to Indiana or France or where have you.
When I served my mission in Guatemala the only correspondence between yourself and your family was by Letter once a week and by two telephone calls a year (once on Mother's Day and once on Christmas). This is done to minimize the outside distractions to the work you are doing. If you spend all day worrying about things back home, you can't very well focus on what you should be doing where you are.
When you submit your paperwork requesting to be able to serve a mission, one of the leaders of the church sits at a computer and matches the names of the applicants with the areas of the world in need of missionaries. (they try to keep a rotation going of missionaries going home and those going out).
Once you get your call there is a date when you officially become a missionary be either flying to the country where you serve to a training facility there, or flying to an international training center in Utah. The training center is NOT a theological training center (you are to develop your faith before) but a center where you are introduced to the language or culture of your destination and also introduced to the rigors of missionary life. After a couple of weeks training you are sent out to your area where you serve. There you are assigned a companion, but they change every couple of months usually and you are assigned to an area, which also changes usually every couple of months.
On a practical level, missionaries are sent where they are needed (where there are vacancies). Many times they are sent to foreign countries if they have in their personal histories the ability to learn a foreign language.
On a spiritual level, missionaries are sent where God wants them and there is the belief that in the selection of where they serve is a bit of "inspiration".
But missionaries are human beings in their late teens if males and early twenties if female. Some serve well and do what they should and some don't as in all walks of life.
I hope that answers your questions of my opinions of it at least.
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Also, the screenname "MEC" always makes me chuckle, because in French slang, it translates roughly to "dude."
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To Lerris : A librarian ? You should fit well here ! Since I don't think I told you on another thread, welcome here !
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Lerris, where in Indiana, what library. I (and a ton of other hatrackers) are in Bloomington. We are having a campout here october 22nd to 24th.
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quote: Also, the screenname "MEC" always makes me chuckle, because in French slang, it translates roughly to "dude."
Really? My father told me it translated to guy, he learned french on his mission to france.
I choose MEC as my screenname because they are my initals, Marcus Edward Crowley. It also looks similar to mech, or machine.
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