What's Happening Here?!

I totally aggree with you mystic!  


My teen daughter has "bitch alerts" here and there (and this is quite often)!  She talks back to us its not even funny! 

I keep telling her that I wouldn't have any teeth left if I had talked like that to MY parents in those days!  (I really did lose a tooth once that way)"IMPORTANT NOTICE: NEVER EVER call your mom a fat cow!  It WILL hurt you more that it hurt her!" 

Needless to say that this was the first and last time I attempted THAT stunt!  I do that today to my kid and I would likely lose custody of my children in a heartbeat... 

I have received MANY spankings and just that once, a slap in the face and you know what, looking back at this now, I deserved each one of those!  (plus the ones I got away with ) 

Each one of us that got spankings as a child learned valuable lessons from it!  and no one can say otherwise! 

Please note that I really mean a spanking, like a few slaps (2-5 depending on severity of bad action)on the butt...with or without pants on...Not hitting on a child for the fun of it and 20-30 times,....THAT is abusive IMO!!!

example: I was playing with matches under my dads bed and accidently set it on fire!  "Important notice:  Daddy was sleeping in it! "  Now THAT was a 5 slap...  and well deserved too! And yes I reallt did that!

Now today!  We cant even discipline our kids at all!!  If you raise your voice in public, then people look at you like you beheaded a kitten!

Then people say kids these days are out of control! 

OF COURSE THEY ARE!!!  PARENTS CANT CONTROL THEM ANYMORE!!!

Okay thats enough venting for today!  Pfew!

Teye

Mystic Wanderer, Teye22,

At the risk of sounding routinne and obvious, we created this world. At the very least we allowed it to happen because we were persuaded that it was the right thing to do when we should have known better.

"Say, Mr. and Mrs. America, you know all of the things that you've done for generations resulting in the strongest and freest country on earth? Well, you've been wrong all this time. You have to change your whole approach because: we, the academics, say it's better for childhood development; and we, the advertisers and salesmen, tell you that you can have things now, without waiting, just agree to go into debt; and we, the politicians, tell you that the government can give you things for free, even though there is nothing free anywhere else in the Universe."

So, Mr. and Mrs. A. look to the schools to make their children thoughtful and informed. Are you laughing yet? And they turn to the churches to teach morality while they laugh at morality themselves and mock religions. No surprises anywhere.

Where to go from here? If you can find a good institution of any kind, support it. But for most, the place to start is with yourself and a good friend who shares your concern. Strengthen and support each other in what has become a hostile society. Then look for a third to add to your group. Form small like-minded communities. For example, the underground church in China, or the Christians in North Korea or some Muslim countries whose members face death for the possesion of a forbidden book.

In the US, you won't be executed by the State, but you could lose your job or receive death threats. Certainly the possibility of being sued hangs over any American who is looking to return to the real world we left somehow.

I was hoping that Hernando's could be that kind of small, supportive community. Few people I know belive that things will get much better in the next five years, and will probably get worse.

So in answer to the original question, there is no road map to "The other world," we have destroyed that one. All we can do now is build another.