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  1. Safety training: tourniquets and trees

    I once sat in on a safety training at a Municipality.

    The trainer was a city employee and a VietNam veteran. He started the training by impressing upon the entire group two things, paraphrased below.

    1) "The City wants me to train you on how to apply tourniquets. I refuse to do that because you are all too likely to screw it up, and unnecessarily cost someone an arm or a leg."

    2) "Traffic or trees. In an emergency, if possible always ...

    Updated Today at 10:23 AM by Ellsworth (No warm up, 5 edits)

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  2. Jubilee Year 2025

    2025 is a Catholic Jubilee year.
    As a non-religious person, who attended a Jesuit University, I learned the basics about the theory.

    Quote Originally Posted by Summary
    In the original Jewish tradition, every one hundredth year was a Jubilee year.
    Debts within society were forgiven, much like how Christian Doctrine forgives sin (except the debts were forgiven less frequently).*
    It wasn't until the year 2024 that I put that narrow educational content into it's broadest historic context using ...

    Updated 01-02-2025 at 03:21 PM by Ellsworth (No warm up, 14 edits)

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