Re: Friday Five August 10
I have often said for years that teaching and parenting are skills way too vital to be left to random development. Parenting, especially, should be part of the public educational system. Parenting is
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Darrell King
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#2724
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Humans are genetically configured to be social. Pack instinct--the species uses groups to survive. Children learn from the role modeling of elders. Elders learned from their parents. The average human
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Marvin, What evidence can you cite for indoctrination occurring in US schools? Aloha, Celeste Marvin wrote:
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a1thighmaster
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Absolutely not - in fact I'm not sure I can name a nation where it doesn't happen.? Maybe Swtizerland? Marvin ? I am not sure this is a problem confined to any single nation, though...
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Friday Five August 10
it is a remnant of their past history when they were pastoralists who predated on settled agriculturalists.? I'm reading a book now where exactly that was posed as the biggest problem the Huns faced
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Friday Five August 10
This one seems tied to a particular odd-man-out culture. The Chinese seem to have decided that this generation of them are hopeless and so are simply quarantining them. The human brain must be formed
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
This is not survival but suicide. Something seems seriously warped in their collective belief system. It's as though they live to hate outsiders and to inoculate their many children with a compulsion
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
What is, is. It's all a mystery to me.
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
I am not sure this is a problem confined to any single nation, though... [email protected]> wrote:
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five August 10
I think more like indoctrination - similiar to what happens in US schools on a regular basis. Marvin ? Lack of courage leading to social risk avoidance?
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Lack of courage leading to social risk avoidance? [email protected]> wrote:
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five August 10
*David asked*: Why should a large group of people with a large amount of land continue over generations to live in active hatred of a tiny group of people with a tiny plot of land? How soon is soon?
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five August 10
*Mu* is a koan used in the Rinzai Zen tradition. A student asked Joshu, ¡°Does the dog have Buddha-nature or not?¡± Joshu answered: ¡°Mu.¡±
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Darrell King
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Re: Friday Five August 10
That is he question of the millenium - since that is how long it has been going on. Marvin ? ? ? Generation after generation after generation? ?Each child that's born is a tabula rasa. ?Children
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mrvnchpmn
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#2711
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Generation after generation after generation? Each child that's born is a tabula rasa. Children must be taught to become haters. Why would generation after generation after generation condemn their
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Because they resent their history. Marvin ? ? Why should a large group of people with a large amount of land continue over generations to live in active hatred of a tiny group of people with a tiny
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mrvnchpmn
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#2709
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Why should a large group of people with a large amount of land continue over generations to live in active hatred of a tiny group of people with a tiny plot of land? How soon is soon?
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Who would do the scut work? Moo?
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
Much more likely we'll all have been chemically, psychologically, mechanically, and electronically conditioned to be well behaved automatons. What is the ultimate good for managers of billions of
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five August 10
To answer that one would need to know what the context is. Who has determined whether someone is a bad individual? Probably not, but it isn't going to go away any time soon. Exactly which current
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a1thighmaster
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