Violence is not a means to educate...

The main street is busy and famous... It is close to my home...                    I took the wine bottles to the main street (8 min walk) today and placed them beside the garbage bin... I have noticed that some homeless collect them and take them to the recycling station for refund...

I walked by the bin in the afternoon again... the bottles were gone... I was happier... but depressed too... Why people will be in a situation that they will collect the recyclable bottles for few cents...? After all the prosperity of North America, why people are in need...? 

Most of the homeless are veterans... and I feel very bad and sad for that... they went to war for whatever reason... they had adventure and they might even had "fun"... But now they have post traumatic syndrome and they are drifting... and after the rhetoric of the Big Brothers is settled...it turns out that they do not care... The veterans, as well as people, are just pawns for their electoral ambitions...

Wars are initiated by Big Brother Greed and I hate wars...

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With the morning coffee I browsed the news... More depressing... and here is a sample for the day... from few leading news outlets...

1. Police: Gunman who shot three people at Pittsburgh-area mall arrested

2. No signs of paparazzi chase in crash involving Bruce Jenner, official says

3. 5 dead, including gunman, at Atlanta-area home

4. Bobbi Kristina Brown has injuries that need explanation, source says

5. Did cops cover up brutal beating?

6.University of Virginia rape case: What we do and don't know

 

7. Former pop star Gary Glitter convicted of child sex abuse...                              British former pop star Gary Glitter has been found guilty of child sex abuse for crimes he committed more than three decades ago.

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Reading the headlines made me realize that society is at war... and casualties are mounting... 

Why Big Brothers initiate foreign wars when the domestic situation is messy and the 1% is at war with the rest of the society... 

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...And the not so-private things...

The Pope messes with Educating children... and hitting...

"I once heard at a wedding a father say, 'I sometimes have to hit my children a little but never in the face, so as to not demean them.' How nice, I thought, he has a sense of dignity," the Pope said.

"When he punishes, he does it right and moves on."

"A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental," he said.

“This father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint”

Slapping and hitting children have never been part of education... and the Pope is confused... 

• Jesus never slapped anyone... 
• Jesus preached peace and told us to turn the other check...
• Jesus said; let the children come to me... because they have not sinned...

We should accommodate the excitement of children... and put things in perspective...

In my younger years I listened to pop music on the radio... My mother after a while complained... "What kind of a head you have...?", she told me...

...and now I tell the same to my daughters...

At times students were excited and they acted up... When I yelled at them... they got a kick out of it and got more exited... when I listened to them and discussed the exciting issues with them, then eventually they calmed down...

Spanking never helps... slapping is counterproductive... 

Actually spanking and slapping are the initial steps of violence and wars... 

After all...it is just a matter of degree...

Check the following... It is a new miniseries on TV... 

The adult friend of the parents is annoyed and irritated by the kids acting up... and starts with verbal abuse... Scolding...

The kid is acting up... the young man yells and scolds...

The kid does not listen...

and...

...then the slap...

The parents are annoyed... and the social debate begins over and over again...

I think the Pope and other Big brothers should be humble and not mess with everything...

I think parents, who are more experienced than the Pope in raising kids, should be listened too...

The Pope's advice is not necessary...

Maybe there are issues that should be delegated to the experts... in this case the parents...

When it comes to schooling... maybe parents should yield the final say to the teachers... 

The teachers should not be squeezed between parents and Big Brothers - admin and politicians...

Check the farcical situation below... 

The family of a six-year-old US boy staged his mock kidnapping because they thought he was too nice to strangers, Missouri police say.

The boy's aunt, Denise Kroutil, allegedly asked a colleague, Nathan Firoved, to help "scare" her nephew.

The boy was lured into a car, taken to a basement and told he could be sold into "sex slavery", police said.

Ms Kroutil, Mr Firoved and the boy's mother and grandmother, who allegedly also took part, were arrested.

"Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," a statement from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.

These parents are misguided too...
Why can't we discuss and reason and educate... why resort to spanking and slapping and kidnapping... to "educate"...?

Kids do understand... and kids do learn...  Violent norms of our society should not pass from Pope to priest to parent and from Big Brothers to parents and to kids...

Maybe we should devote time and discuss and reason and educate...
Violence is not a means for education... Violence implies subjugation and subjugation implies revolt... that's the turmoil in the Middle East... that's the sad situation in Ukraine...