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Worse Time to Have a Son

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Re: Worse Time to Have a Son

Unread postby Doly » Mon 03 Jul 2006, 06:28:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'O')ne thing I do know, 2006 is not a good time to have a spiteful teenaged son and hoping he will "turn around" at some point in the future.


Is there any good time to have a problem teenager?
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Re: Worse Time to Have a Son

Unread postby TheTurtle » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 11:55:36

I split the discussion of Chrisitanity off into the Hall of Flames in a thread entitled "Heineken, clueless, et al. discuss Christianity's Take on PO".

Please continue that topic there if you wish.

Thanks. :)
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Re: Worse Time to Have a Son

Unread postby Matrim » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 19:57:39

I think we need to stop telling our kids that PO is a "catastrophe" or "disaster", it's just something thats coming, end of story. If you tell your kids about how the coming PO disaster is goint to destroy the world, they're likely to look around and say "Fuck It". If you explain what is happening and why, while explaining to them that it may be our only opportunity to enact positive change to a world that drastically needs it, we'll likely have a lot more kids who actually look forward to having the chance to make the world a better place, instead of just being overwhelmed by the impossibility of it all.

And yes I do have kids, no I haven't yet educated them as far as PO is concerned but I figure Potty-training should come first :razz:
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Re: Worse Time to Have a Son

Unread postby rwwff » Tue 04 Jul 2006, 20:10:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'I') think it's---understandably---very difficult for people with children to look honestly at the future. This phenomenon may also explain why we're not taking the bad-tasting medicine needed to minimize the coming disaster. Real solutions to a problem require unbiased acknowledgment of it.


There are no real solutions because we can not truly know the future. Try not to place limiters on what the future may hold, but rather choose to measure risks and possibilities and put in place hedges against the risks, and be ready to agilely move to take advantage of the available possibilities.
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