tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post112447303827918076..comments2024-03-28T06:52:24.129-07:00Comments on Kung Fu Monkey: Home-SchoolingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551450586119958881noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1161118931871809962006-10-17T14:02:00.000-07:002006-10-17T14:02:00.000-07:00Interesting topic of conversation. However, I don...Interesting topic of conversation. However, I don't get what you are advocating or what points you are trying to make. Is homeschooling dangerous? The gentleman who wrote the original article (before it was all f...ed up) expressed his views about how life should be and certainly has the right to express his Faith and raise his family accordingly. I think I took more offense at what you had to say. As a parent, I have the right to raise my children in a way that I value, as opposed to sending them off to an government funded institution to be trained to be a good little worker bee. Being homeschooled gives my children the opportunity to learn to be wives if they should choose that path. It is an acceptable and respectable career choice in the and it should not be given such a low status. I am a wife and mother. I have 17+ years of formal education. I've been trained to work for other Institutions outside of my home, but I choose this. It is not a degrading position. I believe more mothers should stay home with their kids, but society puts pressure on us at a very young age to find employment and make money. The choice is virtually taken from us by people who don't understand how I could possibly choose my family over a career. The man's wife had some say in family decisions. She chose to marry him. She chose to follow his lead and she chose not to leave him. The only thing that makes it wrong is that you can't imagine anyone being satisfied in such a position as "wife" and "mother" and servant to God. Just my 2 cents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124737137310200362005-08-22T11:58:00.000-07:002005-08-22T11:58:00.000-07:00I gave you precisely one line in Catwoman.But is w...I gave you precisely one line in <I>Catwoman.</I><BR/><BR/>But is was a line of IMMENSE POWER!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551450586119958881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124716134735855692005-08-22T06:08:00.000-07:002005-08-22T06:08:00.000-07:00That man made me very angry. I'd like his home ad...That man made me very angry. I'd like his home address and a Daisy Cutter please. Stat.Amandaramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14537987722184978282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124712482414716592005-08-22T05:08:00.000-07:002005-08-22T05:08:00.000-07:00Rogers, you have no one to blame but yourself and ...Rogers, you have no one to blame but yourself and your ilk. I speak of us -- the accursed WRITER!<BR/><BR/>Where did this man get his silly ideas from? A writer!<BR/><BR/>Who put all those words together to make that Bible? Writers!<BR/><BR/>Such power we wield...<BR/><BR/>... and yet you gave us... Catwoman?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124538517970879722005-08-20T04:48:00.000-07:002005-08-20T04:48:00.000-07:00Why do I have the sinking feeling that this man is...Why do I have the sinking feeling that this man is going to condition his children so that they'll attempt a coup within four generations?Justin Cognitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620988778536025195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124487963790354852005-08-19T14:46:00.000-07:002005-08-19T14:46:00.000-07:00The Amish year-off thing isn't universal. The upst...The Amish year-off thing isn't universal. The upstate-NY families my parents know don't hold with that kind of thing. OTOH, they tend to have big families because some of their kids chuck it all and leave.<BR/><BR/>OTOOH, nolo is right in that the Amish are into Acceptance. They may not like the fact that some of their kids head for the big city, but they are not psychopathic control freaks.<BR/><BR/>StefanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124487503845446602005-08-19T14:38:00.000-07:002005-08-19T14:38:00.000-07:00Going to the dark side for a moment: everything th...Going to the dark side for a moment: everything that guy said had the stink of incest on it. He's not speaking as an adult. He's speaking as somone who doesn't want to give up his playthings.<BR/><BR/>When I went off to the USAF back in 1986, right before I was getting on the bus my Dad pulled me aside, hugged me and said something I'll never forget:<BR/><BR/>"Remember what we taught you."<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that this guy's kids, if they do leave, won't be able to forget. (And yes, that scares me a bit too)Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137025404327426886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124485603051525352005-08-19T14:06:00.000-07:002005-08-19T14:06:00.000-07:00That Lancaster fella is providing not only a train...That Lancaster fella is providing not only a training center but also a recipe for serial killers. Or, at the very least, Lizzie Borden...writergurlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04280715417926374080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124484538975772032005-08-19T13:48:00.000-07:002005-08-19T13:48:00.000-07:00yeah -- that documentary about rumspringa, the Dev...yeah -- that documentary about <I>rumspringa</I>, the Devil's Playground, was really fantastic. I had no idea about the Amish teen "years off", nor did I know until then ... Amish are <I>hot.</I>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551450586119958881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124484252715733752005-08-19T13:44:00.000-07:002005-08-19T13:44:00.000-07:00Even the Amish give their kids an opportunity to d...Even the Amish give their kids an opportunity to decide for <I>themselves</I> if they want to live the life.nolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254422842868378340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124481448275615632005-08-19T12:57:00.000-07:002005-08-19T12:57:00.000-07:00My parents know folks who live like this guy wants...My parents know folks who live like this guy wants his followers to live.<BR/><BR/>They're called "The Amish."<BR/><BR/>We mostly think of Amish as low-tech folks, but really they are big-family narrow-horizon rural patriarchies.<BR/><BR/>* * * <BR/><BR/><BR/>Um, really, I could think of no finer justice than for one of this guys great-grand-kids to go on a spontaneous trip to the Big City and come back with a glowing cybernetic eye, a built-in Wi-Fi connection to the global Noosphere, and a girlfriend who is a genetically engineered uplifted cougar-woman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1124480631132055582005-08-19T12:43:00.000-07:002005-08-19T12:43:00.000-07:00The american Taliban strikes again!The american Taliban strikes again!Mikhail Caponehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17769131157321733965noreply@blogger.com