"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:44:43 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:47:16 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:22:32 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:44:54 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


And your son was in his late 20's?

If he was an adolescent, and he wasn't interested in the
boobs,
then
he was either too embarrassed to let you know, or he's just
not
very
interested in females (IMHO).

He wasn't raised by a television like so many other kids.

AH! Now you know the point of this whole issue.

He prefers reality.

And that's good for you as a parent, and him as a person who will
likely become a responsible adult. Some people mature early on,
and
can handle the reality of the adult world, and make decisions
based
on
the big picture. Many other kids, though, are empty of guiding
principles, and will lock on to whatever is handy, and too often
that
is the TV. You say that the chaperoning the TV is the parent's
job.
But the parents are often not responsible themselves, or cannot
be
there at every point, or when they are at their friend's homes.

Isn't this interesting? I have a kid with "guiding principles", and
it
somehow happened without religion. Remarkable.


Could it be that your son received his "guiding principles" from
parents who had received "guiding principles" from their parents?

Or has your entire life been devoid of anything religious?

Pretty much. My parents waited till I was 7 or 8 to start attending
synagogue. You can't wait that long to start brainwashing kids. You
have
to
start when they're small so they have no choice. Otherwise, they have
to
find it themselves later in life if they choose to do so. So, by the
time
they got me there, I was skilled at shutting it off. They gave up by
the
time I was 12.


So your parents passed on pretty much nothing in the way of "guiding
principles" to you? I said nothing about 'brainwashing' in the
synagogue.

I'll answer that with a question: Is religion the only way to learn how
to
live a good life?


No. But it is structured in such a way as to provide strong and
convincing incentives to do so.

Dave


That's only necessary for people who are unable to provide those things
without help. Obviously, I have been able to do that, and my son's excellent
qualities are proof of that fact.