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If I were posting on here, I would have made a few more vitriolic statements about my vile disgust for spanking. But I wasn't. I think I did a fairly decent job of gilding my disdain.

Sharon Steele As it seems that this discussion is coming to a close, I will thank you all for a thoughtful discourse. For us, parenthood has been a constant evaluation and reevaluation of what is working and what is broken. This article reinforced my firm resolve that corporal punishment is an outdated form of discipline. Would we spank an Altzheimer's patient for wandering? Never. Why? Because our elderly have an intrinsic right to feel safe. Our children are entitled to the same respect. It seems to me that in an effort to go back to a simpler time (larger families, backyard gardens, bike riding, drinking from the hose, etc. ) we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. We know so much more about the psyche and the dignity of the human person now. Is the objective in parenting solely "obedience?" If so, spank on. I am quite sure that spanking will produce obedient children. If the objective is a deference out of respect and love? There are other ways to achieve that end.

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Puh...Leeease!

Oh ye silly football fans.....

Why did you think that the half-time show at the Superbowl would resemble anything tasteful, classy or artistic? That is not rhetoric, friends. Ask yourself, why did you expect Beyonce perform in a way that was anything other than overtly sexual?

But she was scantily clad! Her performance was obviously sexually charged and TEMPTED men into feelings of LUST and IMPURITY!

To those who offer these weak attempts at vilifying only Beyonce and her performance I offer you this....

 Let me break it down for you, fellas:
Football consists of a rich benefactor who decides to purchase a group of physically dominant men to participate in a violent, warlike game. Paying spectators are served beer and are entertained by sexually charged performances by impossibly beautiful women.

and yet we somehow expected the Halftime Show at the Superbowl to be some bastian of morality?

Give me a stinking break.

Paragraph Assignment

The handsome and talented Ben from Ben's Mag was charged with the task of writing a paragraph about the dividing of the Loaves and Fishes. The following is sheer brilliance.

     The day Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes was an extraordinary day.  The crowd was starving and looking around for any signs of food.  They had been wandering around listening to this man who called himself God. Among all of the people, a boy came and offered five loaves and two fishes.  Raising his eyes to heaven, he blessed the food and was able to feed thousands. This miracle showed the power of God and prayer.

BOOOOM!! 

And check out Ben's Mag. He is really something else, this kid.

Walden 2.0

Kill Me - Why don't you?

We went to the woods because we wish to live deliberately. We wish to front only the essential facts of life: Our Lord, our family, our beloved friends, God's miraculous creation and all of it's splendor. We wish to impart it's lessons onto our children and make sure they know what nature has to teach. But, when we got to the woods, all we found were boardwalks and overlooks and rule signs and thousands and thousands of people. And as long as I live, I swear on my honor, that I will never go to Great Falls on the Maryland side again. So that when we die, we will know without doubt, that we have experienced real life and authentic nature and we will not discover that we have indeed not lived.
                                                      ~Sharon Kieffer Steele, 2012