One of my favorites is the scene between Sidney Poitier's character -- Dr. Prentice -- and his character's father in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". The scene depicts the father berating his son. The short of it, Dr. Prentice tell his father that he owes him nothing. That from the day he was born, his father owed him -- no matter how hard he had to work or sacrifice, his father did what he was SUPPOSED TO DO, but that he did not own his son because of that. In that moment I had an epiphany, for my father callously held me to that same debt -- that because he worked, because he was my father and because he raised me, that I had no say. Now I understand that one should respect their parents (if they deserve it -- believe me, my father did NOT), but parents do not own their children because of the work they put into them and should not hold the child accountable for their own sacrifices. The child never chose to be here -- the parents decided to birth and raise him/her. From then on, the child is their responsibility, not property. It's a great scene, in a great movie -- you all should see it

I say people need to be trained from the get-go. People need licenses to get dogs or drive cars, but not to raise a human being (who will be training that dog or driving that car). A part of that test is responsibility. Maybe a routine check-up should come with it, following up after the test and license. I mean, people get busted up over abortions, but no-one says "boo" if the kid isn't being treated right from conception to college. If we really cared about humans as we say we do, we'd show it. The fact is: people don't care. For the most part, people couldn't care less what happens to others. ...Sorry, I'm expanding beyond your question. Yes, as part of a parental responsibility program, if the parents have a history of substance abuse, then why not?

my pocket knife. A Swiss, almost exactly like Macgyver's except mine is blue in color. I have needed it many times -- it's an indispensable tool. I even take care of it, oiling and cleaning it to keep it in good condition.

Wow...just...wow...Something's gotta be wrong with us as a species if we need energy THIS bad...

Parents: hands-down, unequivocally and allow me to explain why.

School is there only, and only, for academics. Unless there's a college out there that teaches how to be great in bed, I don't see any reason why my children would need to be taught by a bitter and underpaid teacher about the best and most responsible way to "get some".

Now I am not saying that ALL teachers are cold, box-ticking production managers -- just as all priests aren't depraved child-grabbers, however, for the most part, teachers don't truly understand what they are teaching themselves, and usually go by the book. And if they don't meet their quota, they get hammered. So I get it, not many people are good in such an environment and not many are happy-go-lucky and are living their life-long dream by catering to a bunch of ankle-biters. I get it, but they are the last people I want teaching my kid what's healthy in sex. You see how they handle math -- most of the glass ends up either being paranoid test-takers who won't remember a lick of math or will tremble if they so much as see a minus sign.

On another matter: who is to say what's healthy? Who are a bunch of distant and faceless "authorities" to say that my kid is "abnormal" if he feels a certain way? They got it so right with how ground turkey is better than ground beef (if any of you have been following the news, you'll catch my sarcasm). The children themselves are confused by their own feelings. That's what parents are for: to lend life experience where it's needed; tools for the child to come to a revelation of their own, and to feel safe in their own skin. Mommy and Daddy know, mommy and daddy still love me and don't think I'm a freak -- I can trust them; I'm not a freak! But I don't need a bunch of strangers telling my kids what THEY think is normal, based on their own experiences. Sad to say, we are still a fledgling race who have only just tapped into sexual psychology (Sigmund Freud broke the uncomfortable silence on such deep and private parts of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. One generation of experimentation and observation does not a science make). Who is the authority? Normal humans who have been reproducing without intellectual insight for thousands of years, based purely on experience; or the last 80 years of scientists still feeling around in the dark of the unconscious mind?

We own our children. If they didn't need us, there wouldn't be a need for parents. Parents need to step up. No amount of outside consult, law or pressure is going to ingrain proper and healthy emotions in a child's brain or replace the overall role and influence of a parent. I'm sorry world, time for a reality check.

It's a cultural thing. Pigs are very intelligent. Tell that to this bacon-shoveling nation and they'd have to somehow live with that or forever be locked in cognitive dissonance. Everything falls under hypocrisy, it's just as simple as sticking with the hypocrisy that you're most comfortable with.

(Not to mention turtles and turtle soup. Bye-bye Flecks!)

I don't know too much about brainwashing, but I don't doubt things either. I don't know enough to presume to say that something is impossible. KFC can't call their meat "Chicken" because they've genetically altered the birds enough so that they aren't lawfully chickens anymore! Nothing's truly impossible anymore.

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So people can't abort a kid or be upset if they naturally turn out gay, but they want to be able to dictate the kid's sex? Oh, happy dagger!

Knowledge is nothing more than the accumulation of information. A computer has knowledge, but computers are not considered human, are they? (The opinions of Tumblr people aside.) Wisdom is a higher process of intelligence. Wisdom is knowing what to do with knowledge, or that you truly have no knowledge of something at all. The analogy in your photo is perfect, btw X3

Well to get technical, it goes against the whole "presumption of innocence". The police aren't there to persecute preemptively. They are they to stop the breaking of laws...as they are happening. No matter what someone looks like, what someone is carrying or how they are walking, the police should have no right to pull anyone aside based on pure opinion alone. I say "should" because it seems we've become contented in the new way that police have overstepped their bounds. So no, I do not believe police should have the power to dictate who is guilty or not beyond actually catching someone in the act or after the fact. It's sad, but true, you can't predict who will commit a crime. To try takes away valuable and necessary freedoms.


“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” -- Benjamin Franklin.

Why not? I don't see a problem with it. Kinda takes the awkwardness out of the more intimate levels of the relationship-- for the patient anyhow. It's well-known territory for the Doc.

1 Keep thy filthy mittens to thyself.

2. Clean thine putrid aroma from thine person.

3. Keep thy religion to thyself.

4. Remember to worship thy woman; aka the person who makes thine dreams come true or thine greatest nightmares thine worst reality.

I never considered wanting to the Master of the Universe as "impossible"

Your quality of thought is only as good as the quality of your language. Just as blind people born into their condition cannot hope to dream in images, a child only exposed to poor grammar cannot hope to understand higher thinking. You are what you experience. Bad grammar, in my opinion, severely limits the mind's horizons. It's cute how big businesses butcher the english language to get stuck in people's heads, but really-- when did we become such a consumerist culture?

I'm gunna get emo for a sec: LIFE!! Okey, that's out of my system

Rehab

Why not? ^^ just followed you!