creationism

[azurelunatic]

My view of the human condition is not of the baby as tabula rasa but repository of seeds. There are seeds of good, and of evil; of generosity, of kindness, of selfishness, of selflessness, of every possible human trait. It's the responsibility of the raiser, and later, the person grown, to tend the garden, to cherish the plants and make sure it doesn't get grown over with love-lies-itching, or even blackberries; either would be a flaw, one more immediately apparent than the other, but both as deadly.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that anyone who thought babies were born innocent never raised children. They are THE most selfish, self-centered, mean and demanding creatures to ever exist. They have to be taught how to care about other people's feelings. They have to be taught that other people's feelings *exist*.

That doesn't stop me from loving little kids. Even nasty kids make me angry at their parents, not the kids, because it's not *difficult* to teach them to be nice. But I do know how to look at it objectively, and I do know that it *is* something that has to be taught. It don't come naturally. Kids left on their own turn into nasty creatures, for the most part. Some of them are bright enough to learn how to be nice on their own...but that doesn't mean they start that way.

[azurelunatic]

Even living with a kid who's not mine has taught me a lot. Yesterday I was told that I was good with kids. I suspect that's because I have clear memories of being most of those ages. I have the least patience with kids that I can't remember being.

[godai.livejournal.com]

Slight different view.

All the words ever written exist on a blank tablet. The pen only brings some to the surface.

The pen brings thoose that we can read and the ones that exist between the lines.

The rest are still there just deeper and harder to see. :)

[azurelunatic]

That's a nice way of thinking of it.

[godai.livejournal.com]

And its a connection between yourr view and tabula rasa. heh

[azurelunatic]

So you're saying that in the nothingness, everything is contained? Hm. Sure you're not a mystic?

[godai.livejournal.com]

Don't know.

I hear about it. I know about it.

I understand things.
I see that others believe in it just as much as anything.

but i've yet to have any inspire belief in myself.

So its sort of like Bastion in neverending story.


He's reads the books understanding the story as it progresses whatching everything happen.

The magic and the wonder but the belief of the wonder and magic isn't there.

Until the end of course. But i've yet to have any books talk in that matter to myself or anything similar.

not sure how much sense this made but *shrug*

[azurelunatic]

Makes enough sense.