Some more to think about …
1. Teach respect through actions, respect them and they’ll respect you. There’s nothing better for raising a child right than teaching him how to respect others.
2. Depends on the person and the situation. There are times when both are possible.
3. It’s most likely about the same, both recuperate when you’re resting.
4. Absolutely not. People need to put their true selves out on the table, male or female.
5. Depends if you’re talking physically or emotionally. Physically speaking they take place in different parts of the brain, emotionally speaking one is a thought without emotion and one is emotion without thought. A healthy person will generally use both when making decisions, sometimes using one over the other but never neglecting one entirely.
1. If it is a male chilld, teach him to be a man, if it is a female child, let Mom teach her to be a woman. Above, all, however, BE THERE FOR HIS KIDS. Absentee fathers and divorces have really screwed up children in this country and others.
2. Yes. I think they usually know. It’s a pretty powerful emotion. I speak from experience.
3. The person who does mental labor recuperates first, usually. Unless they’re either really physically weak or stupid, then it’s the other way around.
4. A woman should never hide her intelligence unless she’s trying to trick someone. If by “intelligence” you mean uppitiness aka feminism, then yes she should hide that.
5. Thinking is reasoning, like problem solving. Feeling is either sexual foreplay or it is the experiencing of emotions, depends on which meaning you mean.
1- The best thing a father can do for his children is .. be there.
2- Jealousy, like all other personal faults, is always hidden from the person who is afflicted by it.
3- It depends on what they are recovering from.
4- Women should always be nekkid, in all things. False advertising is a plague.
5- Thinking is feeling things with the mind. Feeling is sifting those thoughts through the emotions.
1. Raise them.
2. People know when they are jealous. They may be in denial, but it HURTS, and they cannot ignore it.
3. I remember reading about this many years ago. Some experimenters did a sample. Their findings were that in nearly all cases sampled, it took someone twice as long to recover from an hour of brainwork than an hour of physical labor. It was over 30 years ago when I saw this. Sorry I can’t cite the source.
4. Hell no, she shouldn’t hide her intelligence. Look at how much fun Phoenix is!
5. Emotions are sort of a quick-response database built up in your subconscious. They are meant to give you a quick “first reference” when you are confronted with a given situation. They are reflexive and automatic. You don’t have to work at them. You do have to work at thinking, volitional consciousness being what it is. Thus most of us choose to rely on our emotions, the quick and easy way out.
Good job, Steel.
1. The best thing a father can do is to love their mother. Yay! for you guys!! The daughter learns what to expect from a man and what not to accept. The son learns how to treat a woman with love and respect. Bravo!
2. We know jealousy. It is such a powerful emotion that it takes over all others when we experience it. We just don’t like to admit it, either to anyone else, much less, to ourselves.
3. The person who performs physical labor recuperates first because our bodies are far more forgiving than our minds. Our muscles have long forgotten the marathon we ran last year, but our minds will always remember the feeling of finishing last. Or first.
4. A woman, like a man, should only hide her intelligence around her enemies.
5. Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
Posted by Phoenix
04/28/2005 at 10:47 AM
Frank,
Your answer to #2 yesterday made me bust out laughing.
“Which do you consider more important - language or mathematics?”
Frank: “Language so you can ask someone to do your math for you.”
hahaha… Touche!
Posted by Phoenix
04/28/2005 at 10:57 AM
Good post Steel.
Aside from being loving, the father should teach respect for himself and the mother. He should not be a pushover. Nor should he undermine the mother when she tried to discipline the children.
In terms of knowing when you are jealous. It depends on the person, and how introspective they are. There are some that refuse to acknowledge such things, always blaming others instead. But as an introspective type myself, I certainly know when I have jealous feelings.
Regarding mental and physical labor, it depends on what the labor is, and what kind of people you are comparing.
Women should never hide their intelligence. Then again, showing one’s intelligence is totally different from being a castrating bitch. That’s a terrible thing to be.
Thinking is a more logical process. Feeling is more instinctual.
Teach them to be independent.
I know it when I am jealous.
It depends.
Nope.
One gomes from the gut the other from the brain.
Stan, Yep. Teaching them independence is crucial. What, your kids still calling home for money?? Once mine started viewing me as a bank, I quit cooking. One or the other, but not both. NO way.
Posted by Phoenix
04/28/2005 at 12:27 PM
#1. Fathers should be the husband of the mother. No, sperm-donors don’t count. Nor do child support checks. Set the example. Real men marry the mother. Just my elaboration on Frank’s Love their mother .
Yes, kinda one of my hot buttons. My dad decamped when I was four. But then, only four months between my parents’ wedding and my birth.
#4. Don’t hide it. ‘Specially after the vows. She impressed me with her intelligence while dating. Seriously.
(I know, her body impressed me too, but looks fade...)
Now, seems the only conversation I get out of her is gossip from the beauty salon she works at. Tired of hearing how ‘Mike’ still thinks I’m a ‘hunk’.
(Cleaning my .38 just in case ‘Mike’ decides to hit it...)
