08-09-2012, 12:32 AM
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CHILDREN & FUNERALS
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08-09-2012, 01:04 AM
(08-08-2012, 11:29 PM)Riotgear Wrote: I've seen children at funeral pyres along the Ganges. They didn't seem scarred for life. The contradiction. 
08-09-2012, 09:02 AM
My children are 10 and 14. When my grandfather died, there was no question they would attend the viewing and the service (there was no funeral). They were very close to him. It wasn't until the day of the viewing that I realized my 10 year old may not know that his great-grampa was going to be in the room in a casket and he'd be able to see him. I explained and he said he understood and everything went fine. If he'd been younger, or expressed a less mature attitude, I wouldn't have made him go. When my other grampa died, I was 8 and not allowed to attend anything. As an adult now, I'm glad my mother chose not to let me. Im not sure at 8 I would have understood and it probly would have been a disaster and scared me with all the adults crying and seeing him in a casket. My first funeral was my great grandmother when I was 15 and my grandma made
me go look at her in the casket. I remember not wanting to and I wasn't prepared for it. I had nightmares for weeks. Personally, I find viewings and funerals morbid. Standing around in a room with a dead person just doesn't seem ok to me. I understand the reason behind it, but I wont be having any of that. I'm being cremated right off the bat and I want my service to be a celebration of my life, of all the love I received and gave. I don't want people crying and morose.
Just shut up. Just shut the fuck up right now.
08-09-2012, 01:53 PM
I don't care what they do with my corpse when I'm dead. plant me, roast me, make soylent green outta me, use me to fertilize an apple tree so the whole world can fucking eat me. Don't care.
I told my family if they can't afford a funeral to sit me on a bus stop bench some place. Rest assured they won't leave me there for long. 
08-09-2012, 04:13 PM
[quote='Riotgear' pid='276312' dateline='1344482975']
I've seen children at funeral pyres along the Ganges. They didn't seem scarred for life. Call me crazy but maybe it's a good idea to abolish fear with familiarity. Fight superstition and ignorance with information or some such shit. Keep children rooted in their own humanity by allowing them to see and experience all of life. Including death. Keeping children from real things casts a murky shadow that encourages the growth fear. [/quotes That's how I've always tried to approach it
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08-09-2012, 04:19 PM
(08-09-2012, 04:13 PM)pspence Wrote: [quote='Riotgear' pid='276312' dateline='1344482975'] The alternative is the possibility that our kids someday determine we're full of shit. Then any opportunity to teach or guide somewhere down the road goes out the window. Anyone who's been on either side of that kind of situation knows it's something to be avoided.
08-09-2012, 05:26 PM
I always strive for honesty with my kids so when my daughter asked me point blank if Santa was real when she was in 3rd grade, I said no. They're still pissed at me for that and of course then they told half the 3rd grade class what I had told them.
Commando Cunt Queen
08-09-2012, 09:46 PM
What? I love mushrooms!
But yeah, do go get the whip. And some badass dominatrix boots while you're at it. 
08-09-2012, 10:06 PM
08-09-2012, 10:19 PM
08-09-2012, 11:00 PM
08-10-2012, 12:40 AM
Existentially speaking, what constitutes being "real?" One could say that the self dictates its own reality, but what is our proof that we, and by extension everyone else, exist? We know Descartes and his "I think, therefore I am". Therefore, shouldn't it also be that "I think, therefore others exist."?
Let's put it another way: we carry on full relationships with everyone on this board without having any more proof of their existence than words on a screen and purported photos. In some cases not even that. If I say the name "Cracker" everyone here conjures a mental image of what she looks like from their own heads, but none of those personal representations match any others of the posters here. Given that perception is proof of existence, does that mean that a different cracker exists for each of us, or that she doesn't exist at all? In the case of others like Gear, who has provided only one or two pictures, we may all create the same image of him in our heads but it is a warped and inaccurate one at best. So which is the real Gear? In the case of Santa, when his name is mentioned we immediately conjure an image universal to everyone. No question, if each of us was asked to describe Santa all of us would recognize him. So, by universal recognition, does Santa now exist? Chew on that with your mushrooms... |
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