tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180866727593640279.post1527144671550297270..comments2023-09-27T07:54:06.772-07:00Comments on PJD Sharing: Did I Screw Up with a Friend from Colorado?Peter J. Dawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01623418068324896072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180866727593640279.post-13625073260185153412010-09-20T15:29:30.892-07:002010-09-20T15:29:30.892-07:00Thank you for your comments, Tom. I was ...Thank you for your comments, Tom. I was shook up by Mr. Colorado's criticism.<br /><br />We raised our boys, beginning as early as possible, with a good, thorough knowledge of the foulness of the world. There are no problems as a result, and they are all good soldiers.<br /><br />Because they have good, thick skin, once they were able to help me with one of the difficult neighbors. On the night the Vietnamese man held the wife down by the hair and screamed at her an order to smile for 4 to 6 hours, reducing her to assuming a fetal position on the floor, we took the wife and child into our home that night, for about a week.<br /><br />Because these people were Vietnamese, I treated their social morality as "special," and so I and the boys slept on the first floor, while Rise` and the wife and the daughter slept on the second floor.<br /><br />I also warned the boys that the husband would try to break in and drag the wife out.<br /><br />He did, at 3:00 a.m. Me and the 3 boys were up immediately, and confronted the husband at the door.<br /><br />When he saw what he was up against, turned around and tried to kill himself, unsuccessfully, of course.<br /><br />Interestingly, Christ in Matthew's gospel advises us to be BOTH as shrewd as serprents while we are as personally innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16. I read that as meaning that we should be knowledgeable about evil, without engaging in it.<br /><br />If that girl was "knocked off her feet" by news that I would be falsely accused of "trying to get into someone's pants," in my opinion she is most certainly not as "shrewd as a serpent."Peter J. Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623418068324896072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180866727593640279.post-44022802996861624912010-09-19T20:55:40.173-07:002010-09-19T20:55:40.173-07:00And, so I am not just avoiding controversy, I'...And, so I am not just avoiding controversy, I'll cast my vote that you did NOT screw up. 17 is quite old enough. 17 year old miss colorodo and elder brother might be a tad bit sheltered. <br /><br />As for growing vegetables, an option to get an early start is to start the plants indoors before the weather is favorable. Then the warning comes, don't just see the warm weather arive and plop your potted veggies in the ground, or they will die. Rather, expose them slowly to the harshness of what it will experience. start with hour of direct sunlight, then two then three, short time in the breeze then more, occassional drying of the soil, then more . . .<br /><br />The Colorodo's may live the ideal, but, to maintain, stay in the pot, from beginning to end. No venturing out into the big ugly world.<br /><br />Though I admire that they're living the 'clean' life, you've got to toughen up a bit. May not want to be a part of it, but learn to experience/be exposed to it, without becoming a part of it . . . Otherwise, sudden exposure may produce wilting.<br /><br />I often have my kids on the train, walk downtown . . Not TOO often, but every once in a while, there'll be a foul mouth talking on the cell phone, or a group of 3 older teens describing their goals or conquests in no uncertain terms. <br />As a learning experience, I let my gang hear it and tell them afterwards to not be like that, isn't that ugly . . . do you think God wants to invite you into heaven behaving like that, talking like that . . . I don't go talk to the group and ask them to stop (seen that before, it had escalated to the requesting party ending up joining in the profanities. But nor do I move, unless things are so intense it borders corruption of the morals of a minorTomDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849663301098055471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180866727593640279.post-15418638640723815752010-09-18T13:45:17.942-07:002010-09-18T13:45:17.942-07:00We talked about this, Tom. Rise's opin...We talked about this, Tom. Rise's opinion is that all families have these things.Peter J. Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623418068324896072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180866727593640279.post-86587469794185913972010-09-18T12:24:56.252-07:002010-09-18T12:24:56.252-07:00I won't answer the 'did I screw up' qu...I won't answer the 'did I screw up' question. It sounds more like you are rhetorically asking in public, perhaps with a twinge of guilt, or perhaps seeking affirmation that you're in the clear. <br /><br />But, frankly, MOVE. You seem to have ended up in a degenerate cluster. Sure that stuff goes one in this world, but, the degenerate per household factor seems to be a bit skewed towards the high side, in your vicinity.TomDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849663301098055471noreply@blogger.com