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anglagard
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Message 23 of 62 (414464)
08-04-2007 10:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dragoness
08-03-2007 3:08 PM


My Opinion
While the desktop and the connection work, which is getting more iffy with time.
We just answered all questions as factually as we could as my daughter asked.
My daughter saw the movie Heavy Metal at 3 so she had some idea that males and females do something called sex. Around kindergarten, I sat down with her with a copy of Campbell's Biology and told her the whole deal. As it turned out she found the text so fascinating, we went through the entire book from the chemistry of DNA to ecosystems.
As for religion, my wife is a severely lapsed Catholic and I am a Spinoza Pantheist so no church. When her friend got my daughter to attend a nearby Baptist church, she did so with my blessing. After three years she stopped, largely due to being turned off by the fire and brimstone psychological manipulation and anti-science crap that even as a prepubescent, my daughter could easily see through. Although this church drove her away from a belief in God, I still remind her that the self-righteously misguided are not a decent example of what is best in religion.
I want my daughter to gain enough knowledge so that she has the chance to achieve wisdom. For me that means no holding back on any answers, along with the qualifiers necessary for critical thinking, ever.
Edited by anglagard, : clarity

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza

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