Just What We Need...

[subdued_passion]

latent masochism.

Yes a nation of masochists... No wonder everyone expects Indians to be submissive too.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

As a child I could never understand the Ahimsa movement. I couldn't understand why people chose to just stand in front of their oppressors and take the blows. Why didn't they fight back?
It seemed so stupid to me back then.

Now, now I am amazed. I wonder what kind of fire burned within those men and women that gave them the strength to stand up every time they were struck down and never strike back.

That's not strength, its psychosis. I descend from many of the great princes who destroyed their opponents. I endorse the practice.

 

[subdued_passion]

That's not strength, its psychosis. I descend from many of the great princes who destroyed their opponents. I endorse the practice.

It's very easy to be dismissive of them JBJ, very difficult to be them. They achieved something and they paid the price with their own blood and didn't dirty their hands in the process of doing so.

RESPECT.

 

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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It's very easy to be dismissive of them JBJ, very difficult to be them. They achieved something and they paid the price with their own blood and didn't dirty their hands in the process of doing so.

RESPECT.

I cant disagree more.

One of my ancestors, John Murphy, Private, Company E, 15th Alabama Infantry helped Joshua Chamberlain earn his Congressional Medal of Honor. John and his comrades pushed Chamberlain to real glory. That's more noble than doing nothing and giving up.

My old man was a Pacific combat veteran and 15 years old when World War 2 ended.

 

[neci]

But that's because we fear the political fall-out for doing the right thing.

I usta argue that allowing a kid to be violent and destructive is not kindness or love or tolerance. Its failure to protect, in the best sense of the word. That is, I usta place kids in seclusion before they erupted. I saw it coming and acted to protect them from themselves. Time out isn't a dungeon and chains.

i believe teaching is about helping a child to identify those feelings that can lead to violence and destruction and helping them learn a new way to walk through it themselves. by placing a child in isolation, before the eruption, you only teach the child that isolation is the way to deal with feelings. sending a child to run or talk or write when dealing with emotions teaches them a constructive way out of the dark. they no longer have to rely upon you to put them in time out. you will be gone tomorrow. they will always be there.

you may have already addressed this, but once i saw the post, i quoted and responded.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

i believe teaching is about helping a child to identify those feelings that can lead to violence and destruction and helping them learn a new way to walk through it themselves. by placing a child in isolation, before the eruption, you only teach the child that isolation is the way to deal with feelings. sending a child to run or talk or write when dealing with emotions teaches them a constructive way out of the dark. they no longer have to rely upon you to put them in time out. you will be gone tomorrow. they will always be there.

you may have already addressed this, but once i saw the post, i quoted and responded.

Plenty of people think as you do.

I recall an 8 year old court ordered to our facility. At night he destroyed the wall paper and floor tiles in his room. And a woman like you protested when I put him in seclusion at night.

So she petitioned the court for custody of the boy, and got it. Luv would fix him.

She took him home and brought him back a week later. He had destroyed her home and got her evicted, plus no one would watch him and he was suspended from school. When she brought him back she referred to him as THE LITTLE SON OF A BITCH.