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Posted on 03/01/2007 7:00:19 AM PST by shortstop
BTTT
When I said "WE" I obviously meant society. We allowed schools to do this, did we not?
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My 12 year old son and I were talking on the way to taking him to school. He had to go to an awards ceremony for kids with good grades, and he had to miss PE. They are playing some game that I have never heard of (speed ball), and he said that while he and 2 other kids were at the awards ceremony the rest of his team just let the other team win.
My son said that there are only 3 kids on his team that actually work and then he realized they were also the kids with good grades.
My son is not athletic, but he does try. I asked him when he feels better when he loses and doesn't try or when he tries his best and still loses. He said he would rather try his best and lose because then there was nothing else he could do to win.
This year he is really realizing that hard work pays off. I hope he keeps this attitude.
Being proud of a job well done may be a sin, albeit more subtlely than coarse vanity, if one imagines one's work is not dependent on God.
The monk who sneered at the insults of others as the 'barking of dogs' was not envious of the 'dogs', but was most assuredly mired in the sin of self-esteem (or pride if you prefer the coarser taxonomy of sins).
Your humble (or not so humble) correspondent can assure you from experience that one can fall into pride and self-esteem without a trace of envy. Envy is the sin that shows up least often in my confessions, while pride, self-esteem, and the wrath that flows from them, turn up with dismaying frequency.
Reality will either bite these people and they will wake up, or it will destroy them. Often, it destroys them.
>Our enemies are licking their chops, just waiting for
Generation Emo to take over...<
You are so right about that, and, tragically, it's all going according to plan.
The generation of Britney Spears, Eminem, and Paris Hilton is "more narcissistic" than that of Barbara Streisand and Bill Clinton? What about the self-absorbed Baby Boomer professors engineered for instant gratification by Dr. Spock and now running this circus? Isn't this just a more severe form of the same social engineering process at work?
Guess is should be spelled 'imminentize." Helps the end of time come sooner.
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The study asserts that narcissists "are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors."
They found this only among the students???
Well said...
We have gates up in our house to keep my nine month old daughter out of danger. My two and half year old toddler, who is quite capable of climbing them, tried telling me he couldn't. It did not take him long to realize if he wanted over, he was needed to climb over. He did. Good boy.
Just a product of liberalism controlling education. What does anyone expect would be the outcome? Good does not have to be good, just so you think it is.
"Is that all there is to a fire?"
I take no responsibility for rap music! I was country when country wasn't cool.
"Not all narcissists act "French" and run for the hills. Hitler was a narcissist, and probably so was Sadam Hussein.
No matter what their temperment, narcissists are usually trouble."
I would add the Klintons to the list. Almost textbook.
But the real world is full of beer bongs and body shots! That's not particularly sobering.
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