if jesus had a gun

Make up your own answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nFTaR9YsU"]Homer Simpson - If Jesus had a gun - YouTube

 

He'd throw it down. :love:

 

Kill buddah on the road with it?

 

The whole money changers scene might have gone down very differently.

 

But then again how would they change their mind if they got blown away.

 

Based upon human nature, it is probable they did not change.

 

Human nature is adaptable. An individual humans behavior is transient. Based on current exchange rates the tables are still turning.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFpM2OEWPs"]Get three coffins ready - YouTube

 

They are still turning but at a rate no different than in the temple. We are in a place not much different than then. I do agree that individual behaviour is more variable than group.

 

I don't know if we are to speed up time or bring it to an end by getting on the stick.
We grow at different rates due to nutritious things or their lack of. There will always be adults but more importantly, children.

 

Our greatest hope is children. That they will see pasts our own lack of growth and surpass us. I have hope that it will be.

 

If Jesus showed up now he'd be in jail by next week.

 

May I say as a measure of compassion toward ourselves, it is not necessary to be greater than the father, it is enough to be like him.

 

I do not think that they are necessarily different in that we generally strive to give youth an understanding based upon our growth. To have them exceed from where we are is a testament to our growth as well. Full circle perhaps.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbp6W4N1N9s"]Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All [Lyrics] - YouTube

 

Only teach them the good things you know, not what you dream should be.

 

Yes! You know what.. that is a brilliant :sunny: point.
Don't want kids to grow up very disappointed later on in life when they realize life isn't always the rosy, sunny picture that mommy and daddy taught you it would be. Better would be to yes... teach them the good things but also teach them how to handle reality and make the best of situations and things that aren't as you'd like.

 

I have mused that the discontent of the youthful spirit is not the youthful spirits native environ but more symptomatic of a diet of sour grapes.

 

Meaning.... parents (and possibly others-peers, teachers, friend's parents, etc.) who are negative? (Being that children can read an adults mood very well, even when that mood is trying to be hidden...)

Or... do you mean, disappointment when they realize life is not all peachy keen as overly optimistic sounding (to their kids) parents tell them it will be?

 

The parents overt optimism is betrayed by their quiet desperation. These things our parents have taught us but there is another teacher in the world and that what is not a-parent.

Anxiety about the world is caused by the misapprehension of it.

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Our native curiosity is usurped by traditions search for compliance, a double blind.

Our misery is mental, our pain is physical. Don't be concerned about the state of the world at large, we by and large have not seen it. Rather try and get the sleepy grit out of your eye before you take on the world.