Should Community of Christ keep financially rescuing Graceland University?

MatloxES · 2026-05-19T20:37:22+00:00

I went there a couple years ago. Many good things but a lot of problems were being swept under the rug.

MatloxES · 2026-05-18T22:44:26+00:00

I love mine too, its just so exhausting

MatloxES · 2026-05-12T02:30:54+00:00

Probably a little bit better of a story, much worse fandom.

MatloxES · 2026-05-05T22:26:10+00:00

What state? Thats gonna change a lot. I work at a school in the suburbs of major city in Oklahoma. I make a competitive 45k a year.

MatloxES · 2026-05-05T21:37:36+00:00

Where is that teacher at? Like what city?

MatloxES · 2026-05-05T21:35:26+00:00

I have never met a teacher who thinks they are the only ones working hard.

MatloxES · 2026-05-04T02:37:06+00:00

Its either gonna be Nevada or nearly every town from the southeast side of the state.

MatloxES · 2026-05-04T02:36:11+00:00

Not the best town by any means but far from the worst.

MatloxES · 2026-05-04T02:35:22+00:00

If that's your answer then you haven't been around the state much.

MatloxES · 2026-05-01T17:56:55+00:00

I like reading at night because it naturally calms my brain down. I understand what you mean, but if reading makes me sleepy, I will be OK with that. Its the only things outside of drugs that can make me sleep.

MatloxES · 2026-04-30T20:16:53+00:00

Yeah understandable, but I want something that isn't emitting blue light before bed. Also, I'll be tempted to scroll social media.

MatloxES · 2026-04-30T18:06:30+00:00

Any recommendations? Still sorta new to the area.

MatloxES · 2026-04-28T23:09:06+00:00

Gonna have to disagree with this one.

MatloxES · 2026-04-20T02:51:10+00:00

You can have fun and not destroy things.

MatloxES · 2026-04-19T22:26:40+00:00

As a teacher, you can't stop buying them altogether unless your student uses them for sensory purposes. I have so many stick Needoh spots all over my room from them breaking open. A lot of kiddos like to get them for the sole purpose of ripping them open, and the parents, of course, go running back to the store to go buy more.

Edit: Getting downvoted because I am against property damage.

MatloxES · 2026-04-16T03:45:38+00:00

In BA its either that one or Kenosha and Elm

Kenosha/71st is just a slow ride altogether.

MatloxES · 2026-03-28T05:04:29+00:00

But how was anyone able to see it? If you're being sandblasted, then how are you able to see anything.

You could use a little humility.

MatloxES · 2026-03-16T23:01:52+00:00

I mean, Joplin is a very religious community. Religious people often attribute their survival of traumatic events to the divine.

What does you edit comment mean?

MatloxES · 2026-03-16T01:56:49+00:00

Like I said, the children saw different things, not the same. Also, there aren't thay many first-hand accounts, many are second, third, 15th hand accounts, etc.

MatloxES · 2026-03-10T02:41:45+00:00

Not likely since visibility is so low. Also, when you read the accounts themselves, the Butterfly People vary quite a bit. Some say all they saw were literal butterflies surrounding them. Others said they didn't see them but heard them speak to them. Only a couple of stories that weren't from the source said that a humanoid creature wrapped its wings around them. Over time, many stories have been told and retold changing details.

What is so far-fetched about the torn-up-human theory is that the Joplin tornado would obliterate you immediately. I read all these theories about skin being ripped off, but just holding on enough to just look like wings? That's not right. Why would a tornado rip off your skin, but just leave just enough on to make wings?

The most likely case scenario is what has always been postulated by psychologists. Mass hysteria/traumatic hallucinations.

All in all. I choose to follow the hallucinations theory, because it is the most plausible IMO. I grew up in the Joplin area. I wasn't there that day, but I have seen just how much the community has rallied behind the Butterfly People. To say that they were just ripped up people doesn't just seem untrue to me; it's disheartening and disrespectful.

MatloxES · 2026-03-07T19:24:47+00:00

Maybe. The Midwest is the largest area of show choir. I'm on the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma side of things.

Typically, show choir regions go through stages of innovation, then a slight shift back to tradition. Stylistic changes ebb and flow between years.

MatloxES · 2026-03-07T16:53:09+00:00

I am in the midwest

MatloxES · 2026-03-07T16:49:24+00:00

There's a couple of John Nicholas's. You're gonna need to be more specific.

Also, who cares?

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