Comment Re:Archivists==Pirates? (Score 1) 119
Reminds me of the scene from "Meaning of Life"...
They fear nudity.
Uh-oh. I'm an evangelical Christian, and I never knew that I was afraid of being naked. I've been brainwashed, and I never even knew it! Oh, no! "They" got me! Now I'm one of "THEM"!
If there's one thing I've learned since being born again, it's that you can go to 20 different churches and get 20 different views on the same book. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I'm going to guess your experience had a lot more to do with "religion" than with anything actually in the Bible.
A translation in keeping with the original language and the nuances of meanings of words actually says exactly that. Something more like "On the first epoch."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is just flat-out wrong. The original Hebrew speaks of a one-day period for each Creation day, and then clarifies by saying "it was an evening and a morning", just to be sure we understood that He was talking about ONE real, actual day. Example: Genesis 1:5 "And the evening and the morning were the first day". The Hebrew word for "evening" is "`ereb", which means "evening" or "the period of a day between sunset and sunrise". The Hebrew word for "morning" is "Boqer", which means "beginning of the day" or "the period of a day between sunrise and sunset". The last word, "day", is the Hebrew word "Yowm", meaning "a 24-hour period comprised of one evening and one morning".
Now then, you are free to believe or dismiss the Bible as you see fit, and that is every man's choice. However, the meaning for those that DO believe is made very clear: when God speaks of one day, He meant ONE DAY, as perceived by Man, and consisting of one evening and one morning.
Hitting them only teaches them to hit. Don't hit your kid.
Wrong. Punching your child when he hits someone would be abuse, and is excessive force. However, giving your kid a smack on the bottom while telling them "NO" firmly teaches them that "I hit someone = I get punished". It is a perfectly acceptable deterrent to bad behaviour, at least when they're young. Spanking a child does no harm whatsoever, whereas NOT spanking a child may harm them a great deal in the long run, when they grow up without limitations and unable to understand simple behaviour/consequence actions.
That being said, it also depends on the situation and the child. I have spanked my two-year-old before, and then immediately hold him while he cries, and explain that I love him very much but that hitting is NOT tolerated. Once he calms down, I ask him "Why did you get spanked?" His response: "I hit Mom." "That's right, buddy; what happens if you hit Mommy?" "Daddy spank." "Right."
However, most of the time he simply gets a time-out in his room, in a big stuffed chair he has. He's two, so he gets two minutes. I set a clock, and he can hear when it beeps; he know that he can't play or look at his books in time out, and he HATES it. He is a very people-oriented child, and the time by himself is normally much worse than a smack on the hand would be. Again, when the time out is done, I go pick him up, hug him, and ask him what he did. He can almost always tell me, and he rarely needs reprimanded for the same thing more than once or twice.
Kids are brighter than you think, and much more resilient; try and make the punishment fit the crime, but don't be afraid to spank a kid if they need it. It's one of MANY tools at a parent's disposal to raise their child correctly.
I don't think you have children. In fact, I think you are probably 16, 17 or so?
This is only funny because your nickname is "passthecrackpipe"!
Teach your kids birth control and responsibility but also realize that when they mature sexually they are sexual creatures just like everyone else. Let them grow up for chrissake.
What kind of psychopath are you? You're not talking about little Johnny being 18 and having a girlfriend who is 17. The girls are 14 years old. I don't know ANY thinking adult that would consider 14 as "sexually mature". Wait...you don't like in Kentucky, perchance, do you?
...because I monitor what they are doing daily as well as other parents and kids.
Why are you monitoring what other parents and kids are doing daily, pervert?!
Of course, I've neatly sidestepped all of these by deciding that I'm not going to have children for reasons that have nothing to do with the above dilemmas.
That reason being it required a second, willing party, perhaps?
You know, you're not going to get very far around here with woman analogies. You're going to end up having to make analogies to explain your analogies.
Sup, dawg! We heard you like analogies, so we put an analogy in your analogy so you can analogize while you analogize!
Eddies in the space time continuum.
So THAT'S where Eddie went! Hey, Eddie, your mom was looking for you earlier!
I want my LDS to be busy.
What do your Mormons have to do with the Lasers? And aren't they a generally productive folk on their own?
Sorry for the rant, it's been a long 23 years.
How about you try moving to a backwater village in North Korea for the next 23 years? Then you can come back and let us all know how that whole "entitlement" thing works when you have real consequences for your actions.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
