God Damned Fundies!

|From: Cindy Haglund
|To:   Joe Lafoon
|Sub:  Re: Another           1/2
|Date: 23 Jul 01  21:01:17
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JL>While CINDY HAGLUND gunned down JOE LAFOON, Joe charged his Tau Cannon...

JL> JL>That is not the right approach, IMO. You start small, and build on
it.
JL> JL>You don't start with the Bible, you start with something MUCH less
JL> JL>difficult, and build up.

JL> CH> Like what Joe? Teletubbies 

JL>I started on children's books. I didn't use the television to learn to
JL>read...or are there Teletubby books, too?

(Wince) yes there are. I was looking for a birthday present for one of
my toddler nephews. A fun 'learn to read' type book by Lobel. Yet
those mindless braindead insults to the young eager to learn human mind
are indeed in book form. So isn't Barney. One can learn to read
anything Joe. For some people content means nothing. They figure on the
kid won't understand anything anyways, ignoring the fact that human
beings STORE information and such is tapped into as we DO learn to
understand things.

This reminds me of how it is we learn to talk. My grandmother chatised
me for talking to my 3 mo. old brother. He was WATCHING my lips move
btw and LISTENING to my voice. I told her HOW DO YOU THINK WE LEARN HOW
TO TALK! Sheeze. And while context may not mean anything to the child
at the time they are hearing it, it may- later on as they develope.

JL> JL> CH>  Why do kids want to be dumb? Why is it "COOL" to be dumb? Why
do
JL>smar
JL> JL> CH>  kids dumb themselves down to fit in? :( Something needs fixing
her
JL> JL> CH>  And it's not going to happen by sliding back in the opposite
JL>directio
JL> JL> CH>  of Fundementalism.

JL> JL>Kids do not want to be dumb. Education has nothing to do with your
JL> JL>boogey-man, either. Kids may find it easier to APPEAR dumb, to get
along

You have a point there hon. They don't WANT to be dumb, they want
to be cool which for some means playing dumb. Which IS dumb and in long
term effect reality, not cool at all. ((Fonz saying,  "heyyyyy"....))

JL> CH>  I don't know about that Joe. Seems here in America it's generally
JL> CH>  accepted as COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL to be 'dumb'! Why do you think

JL>Perhaps in YOUR part of America. Not here.

You got a teenager Joe? ehehehehe.. Sigh. I agree with you happily that
not ALL teenagers expend smarts to play cool. But many do. :(

JL> CH>  brilliant gifted children have it so rough? The don't fit in with
the
JL> CH>  coooooooooooooool dumbness. One must be dumb afterall to support
the
JL> CH>  Neilson (ratings! I have never seen this "cool dumbness." The idea itself is revolting.

It is revolting! Tragic even. Fortunately (so the "experts" say) it's
often just a "phase" all kids go through and USUALLY grow out of.
Methinks some kids never grow out of it though, clear on into
adulthood. :( (((Trolling comes to mind))).

JL> JL>with others. Given the choice, I don't think they would pick dumb.

JL> CH> Thing is honey I don't think they realize what Dumb is. They think
it's
JL> CH> COOOL to be dumb so obviously they don't consid