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I am going to my Eagle Scout board of review tonight

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Originally posted by: BradT
I am now officially an eagle scout. I did not have to lie or fabricate anything. I told them how I was not strongly tied to my church, and I explained my views on it and agnosticism. After discussing it, they understood how I views, and lived reverently. I have a great deal of respect for them.
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Congratulations, Eagle Scout. Well done.
 
Originally posted by: Jawo
Congratulations and good luck! I got mine in July of 2000.
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I am impressed with the number of Eagle scouts here (no i am not one.).


its not easy to do. I was in scouts only a few years. i soppose if we didnt move every few years i could have done it.

bu ti am very impressed with you all.
 
Congrats.

As an Eagle I have been asked to sit on boards. We had to turn one boy down once. It was so painfully obvious his father did his Eagle project. The poor kid could not answer questions about how he showed leadership, but only on what his father did. We told him that had he done the project, regardless of outcome and shown leadership he would have become an Eagle that night.

I don't know if he ever redid the project, but it is a shame that sometimes parents interfere in the purpose of the path to Eagle.

I have heard of boards that made boys tie knots and do all kinds of weird things. I am glad I didn't have to go through one of those! 😀
 
Congrats Brad, I'm glad you didn't have to lie - I wish there were a few others I know that could have come out like you did, but I know a few gays and atheists who did not make it through Scouts ... they regret not lying, that's really the only reason why I pushed it if you had to.
 
Originally posted by: dirtboy

I have heard of boards that made boys tie knots and do all kinds of weird things. I am glad I didn't have to go through one of those! 😀
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I know a few guys that had to do that for their Eagle BoR. I actually got asked by someone on my BoR to tie a few knots and demonstrate orienteering (he actually got out a map & compass). Another person on the BoR laughed and said it wasn't necessary because by that point I'd taught orienteering, wilderness survival, and pioneering for 3 years at summer camp. 😀
 
Eagle at 17 ('68) before the rules were relaxed.

Biggest problem that I can remember was political.

A person on the review board had a son that was rejected a couple of months earlier and became very hostile in some questioning.
 
Congrats. 🙂

I didn't have any problem with the reverent part when I explained that I lived by following the major parts (ie: don't steal, don't kill, be a good neighbor, etc...) , even though I don't go to church. I never had to demonstrate anything, but just basically go through a job interview.
 
Originally posted by: BradT
I am now officially an eagle scout. I did not have to lie or fabricate anything. I told them how I was not strongly tied to my church, and I explained my views on it and agnosticism. After discussing it, they understood how I views, and lived reverently. I have a great deal of respect for them.
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Congratulations Eagle Scout! 🙂

I can't thank you enough for being honest and open about your views and opinions...Had i seen this post yesterday i would've chimed in on the side of honesty...breaking one part of the scout law to fulfil another doesn't make sense 🙂

I'd ask that perhaps not now -- but at some point in your life you return to scouting. I'm 23, got my eagle at 17, and now that i'm done with college, and working full time I am an assistant scoutmaster at my old troop. I'll tell you what - its awesome! It's easy accessibility to go camping for one thing, but on top of that, it's really great to give back to something that I really treasure in my life.

I know that you probably feel great about getting your eagle award now -- mostly the relief that its over and you have it and are done, but in the next few years, probably not til you start a full time job, you'll really come to appreciate your accomplishment.

For me it hit about 4 months ago when I started working with a co-worker here, who does a lot of what I want to do, but also is good friends with my boss. We are both eagle scouts, and once we found that out there was an instant bond and trust between us. It's opened up so many doors for me in this company, that I feel may not have been opened had I not earned my eagle award 🙂

This post was a hell of a lot longer than I intended...but scouts is something that I really enjoyed as a kid -- and still get to enjoy now!

Congrats again, make your eagle ceremony unique -- don't use the 100 scouts, or the "I am the eagle" stuff 😛
 
Originally posted by: BradT
The only thing that I am worried about for tonight is if they will ask a question relating to reverence, one of the points of the scout law. I am agnostic. My mom is Roman Catholic, and my dad is Protestant. I view myself as being reverent by always keeping an open mind and attending both of my parents' services on occasion. I am absolutely not shutting out any gods, nor am I fully accepting one now. I just simply cannot say that I believe in a god. In my opinion, it would be irreverent to pretend to follow something that my heart isn't in.
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Eh dont worry bout it. Im agnostic and i passed my review easily.
 
I went all the way through being a second year Weblo (The only Weblo in my pack!) and at that time my parents were trying to sell their house and move from the outskirts of cincy in towards the city, so I didn't join a troop and was going to when we moved. Moving fell through and I never joined a troop until around 8th or 9th grade. I made it all the way up to Star Scout as a junior in HS, 1 req. merit badge and a review away from Life Scout and I got too busy applying to colleges, working to pay for my car and sorta fell away from going to meetings and stuff. By the time I found myself having enough time to make it to meetings again I knew I would have no chance of finishing earning my Eagle, so I just moved on.

It's one of my biggest regrets... not starting in earlier and actually finishing up. There were a lot of things that were actually quite fun and it's a shame that scouting has such a reputation of being dorky nowadays.


OP: Congrats. Especially for staying true to your beliefs. No award is worth abandoning those.
 
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