Things we teach our kids and probably shouldn'tHello again. In case you didn't get enough last time, here is another post from 2001. What's the difference between a 2001 post and a 2007 post? A $25,000 HECS debt is what! This time I'm whinging about caring or trying or some bullshit.
This does not exist in the real world. It used to, but the West called it Communism and we all know what happened to that. Last reported sighting was decades ago, with "Caring" as it's only known accomplice. Kids know how stupid it is, adults know how stupid it is.
Often hidden within these tunes of mirth are sinister double meanings that would make Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band proud. Ring-a Ring-a Rosy is about the Black Death, Ei Ni Me Ni Mi Ni Mo is dripping with racial hatred, and that thing you do with your kids' toes and call them pigs is basically their first lesson in sibling rivalry through verse.
Young minds are very impressionable and they tend to believe whatever an adult tells them rather than think it through. Religion is really something that should be discovered by yourself, if at all, rather than being drilled into you as a kid. If a child is heavily religious then they're probably going to be that way all through their life, and "God Boy" just doesn't pull the chicks like it used to.
Who pays attention to this anyway? All the good shit that you love to eat you're supposed to have the least of, and the foods you're supposed to have the most of also happen to be the snack of choice in third world countries, and
those people don't look too healthy to me. Egyptians had pyramids and look at what happened to them.
I don't know any other languages, so neither should kids. Same goes for co-ordination and sensitivity.
Innocent, organised Saturday morning sports provide warm memories that last a lifetime. But like all things in life, all that goodness has to be balanced somewhere, and that somewhere is with the parents. Normally docile, cheerful parents hear the pitter patter of little feet running after a ball and become three-headed beasts spawned by Satan himself. They play their own organised sport of making the kid of the couple they hate cry, or if they turn pro then their attention turns to their own child. An hour of fun, marred by unwanted family members. Sounds like another fun Saturday morning activity.
Trying? Hahaha. Consistently trying? You're kidding, right? The human race owes its early survival to its knack for adaptation, our species can learn from just one example. Where would we be if our caveman ancestors kept touching the fire? If you fail to do something the first time, then there's probably a very good reason why that is so.
Ahhh, now we're beginning to see myself taking shape. Spite isn't something that is born out of single-minded revenge as TV would have us believe, it is as carefully cultivated an emotion as love or hope. I hadn't even heard of Richard Dawkins yet, and here I am spewing out something that I could pass off as my modern day work. Still, if I could go back all these years I'd probably punch myself in the head. Will I spare you more of my B-game next time? Stay tuned.
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I thought it was rather insightful. But i've never heard/read anything from Dawkins that is spiteful. He's a scientist. Spite's not really any kind of motivator if you have a bunch of facts at hand instead. If the facts or cogent arguments seem to say something spiteful, that's more likely your own projected emotion tied to the subject matter getting in the way of understanding whatever (ultimately neutral) point he is trying to make. I'd be more likely to use the words "Clarifying, Enlightening and Fascinating" to describe his output than spiteful. He might detest ignorance, especially the deliberate kind, and pile scorn on people who justify violent or fraudulent or even simply misleading activities based on incredibly flawed theories, but once again, that's not spite, which is petty and ill-considered and usually involves wanting to actively hurt or humiliate someone regardless of whether their arguments are sound or otherwise. I can't really see that in your post either. I think the word you may have been searching for there was "cynicism".
Sorry, I didn't mean for that to sound like Dawkins writes spiteful things, he clearly doesn't. I should have used separate paragraphs. I'll blame that on keeping with my crude 2001 syle.
Yeah, as your friendly local language teacher, I'm gonna call you bad names in several languages for effectively calling my career useless.
In fact, learning a second language has numerous benefits, not only cultural, linguistic, cognitive and career related ones, but it helps kids to improve their own native language.
What if I teach my kids the healthy eating pyramid IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE?
What would you think of that?
I'd approve of phrases that have double entendres in English. For example: aph should eat more sausage.
Note: I can not be held responsible for opinions that I may have held six years ago.
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