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mnottertail -> RE: Fundamentalist Flashbacks (8/3/2006 6:04:39 PM)
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Agreed, Rich..............
But a stopped watch is also exactly right twice a day. Some of these portents and signs of the times are being passed off with jelly nailed to the tree.
If you buy certain assumptions, you buy the deal.
I used to tell my daughter that if she got ran over by a car from running out in the street without looking and died that I would scrape her of the street and kill her after I spanked her ass (something I never did, spankings should be fun) ......
That fear kept her in line until about 9 or 10 years old at which time she pointed out to me with a great deal of logical thought how that could not only be considered perfidious, but illogical and therefore null and void.
Things we are grounded with in our youth are hard to rationalize even 50 or more years later in our lives, like my mother looking at me in disgust when I was eating sunny side up eggs without pepper on them and inquiring "How can you sit there and eat those without pepper on them?".......guess what? I am revolted and will not eat eggs without pepper on them till this day (I don't eat much visible pepper). Or my little brother being told, don't stick those beans in your nose........(you should have seen the gaping maw on that guy as the realization of something that would never have come to light without that imprint) or the hospital bill that ensued. Or again for me, don't stick your tongue on that pump..as I walked out the door on a sharp february day in Grygla, Minnesota at my grandmother's house......the abject pain and consequence of trivial words.........................
Ron
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