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A comment on Conversation: if a child fails in school who is to blame? the parent, student or teacher?
A reply on Conversation: Do you think that God created the Universe? If that was the case, how was that supposed to happen?
Also of course its "perhaps wrong", after all I am human ;)
I also never said anything about marriage, I was speaking of adulthood, I did not say that being able to rise a child properly should be a necessary condition to get married, although I do suggest it should be a desired condition to actually having a child.
We clearly have different definitions of what adulthood means, to me adulthood is a combination of intellectual, emotional and moral maturity that grants the person complete independence (whether he exercises it or not).
And yes, once again this is my opinion and its based on my own meditation on the subject.
I think we have gone horribly of topic BTW :P
A reply on Conversation: Do you think that God created the Universe? If that was the case, how was that supposed to happen?
I have to disagree here, and I think this goes or should go beyond any religious belief, adulthood is not the same as sexual development, the capacity to breed children is not equal to the fitness to rise them, which I would consider to be the real sign of maturity, when the proper uprising of a child's body, mind and if you will soul is within the capacity of the potential parent.
I've seen people surprisingly mature at 15 years of age and I've seen 30 or 40 year old men and women that I would still not qualify as adults nor trust in them the rising of a child. And that is without taking into account any mental handicap or decease.
While its true that shielding our kids from any responsibility until 18 or 21 as most occidental cultures do delays their maturity, I don't think even the most mature kid can be considered an adult at 10 years of age or less, even when humans life expectancy was at a history lowest, adulthood was considered to arrive at about 14 years of age.
A reply on Conversation: How young is too young for social networking?
That is probably still true in small communities, in cities however its a lot harder, when I was in primary school my best friend lived one hour away by bus, I couldn't exactly just show up at his door.
I totally agree with jason on this one, the kids Marija mentions were taking semi nude pictures of themselves and publishing them openly, I think its a much greater issue the fact that they are doing that than the possibility of a creep downloading them.
Why? because the first gives place to the second for starters.
If the kids are well taught they would be able to enjoy FB and similar mediums without feeding the creeps. A healthy father-child mother-child relationship is more often than not the best defense against inappropriate content and untrustworthy strangers.
I often hear the argument "with todays media its almost impossible to properly educate our children!"
This often leaves me the taste of "with todays media its almost impossible to keep our children in a bubble!" which is not the same as educating.
The day I have a child the first thing I'll teach him is to think for himself, then come consult me, and then do some more thinking.
A reply on Conversation: Do you think that God created the Universe? If that was the case, how was that supposed to happen?
No, whether or not humans are aware of the existence of something, it still exists, that is kind of like the tree in the forest metaphor, its meant o make you think about perception and blah blah blah, but strictly and literally speaking yes, it does produce sound.
Also most smart religious people would answer to "I don't believe in god" with "his existence does not require your belief of it" and I think we all remember "e pur si muove".
But that as not my point, my point is that even if the total sum of every particle's mass in the world summed to zero (by which I mean there is nothing with mass to be found), mass still exists, I say the same thing about time, even when there is not a single particle to be affected by time in all of existence, that does not render time itself inexistent.
A reply on Conversation: How does change happen?
And which environment and conditions would those be?
A comment on Conversation: Shouldn't schools do everything possible to create Results Only Learning Environments?
Uhm... have these types of system been successfully and formally applied anywhere? if not this statement is rather theoretical I think.
If they have, and these are really their results, well its just a matter of proving it, divulging it and adopting it I think.