There always be different levels of everything. Whether it be love, care, spirituality, wealth, knowledge or anything else. You seem to fail to understand that. All walk different paths and all are different in temperament and personality. Yes I can make this massive assumption because we are all different individuals.
I still stand amazed that you can still paint the many with the same broad stroke and lump them together. Where do you draw the line at most? Is it at 60%? 70%? 95%? 99%?
We are all children of someone and some of us have been a parenting figure to someone. The amount of love, caring and adoration for children comes from what we were taught from our own parents.
Those who can break the cycle of neglect, of merely throwing children in front of a tv or a game or anything else is no replacement for a parent or their love. I applaud these types of parents.
Why? It is simple really. They have likely realized that they do not want to inflict the trauma their own parents may have inflicted upon them.
As for enlightenment... A person becomes a little bit more enlightened every time they learn something new. True enlightenment is being able to absorb everything. Take everything in. Digest it and reflect upon it. It is the ability to learn and utilize that which is harmonious with oneself and letting go the rest. I do not mean to just toss away out of hand but to leave it.
As for responsibility, some are more responsible than others. Others have not made that leap yet.
The holier than thou attitudes some seem to have. Where does that come from? Gandhi would probably be ashamed and embarrassed by it. Then again he would likely say, "That hubris is not my own. It is that persons and perhaps one day it will change."
My two cents. *shrugs*
Winter Wolf
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Originally Posted by Moxie
I offered my observation of parents, generally speaking and my vocabulary did not contain viscious words as the preceding one that was, by design, inflicted, and, even by now, has not been amended (did you know you could do that?)
In light of the thread title, Children are the Targets, we are all someone's child and we have all been targeted via the media & institutions by design, and yes, SammyTray, a very effective design.
That, together w/whatever family upbringing we had are causal of ignorance, apathy & repeating behavior patterns, including diet, the willingness to accept vaccinations, and being mean spirited.
The word I chose, Ignorance, is not a euphamism for stupid. Yes, I do believe that there are levels of care and love. It begins by accepting responsibility for what you know and using what you know in the Now and future w/your children, yourself & others.
That's what you do differently once you've learned a higher level of knowledge.
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