"Curtis, you have such an impoverished imagination. I don't mean your ability to fantasize stuff that isn't real, I mean your ability to entertain alternate possibilities."
OK help me out. Under what conditions is it OK for parents to let their 9 year old wander off alone? --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > :If you read the easily available story on His early life, you will > see > > that his parents were quite dismayed when he left home and had the > > police out looking for him. So it was not at all a case of neglect. > It > > sounds to me after reading all you have said about Him, that you are > > trying to rehabilitate your previously thoughtlessly devotional > > feelings towards Guru Dev, to make sense of Him in terms of your > life > > now." > > > > As a teacher my devotion to Guru Dev was carefully cultivated when I > > was in the movement. It was far from thoughtless. It requires no > > rehabilitation. My perspective has changed. > > > > I know the story. Quite dismayed and calling the cops at first does > > not excuse the moment they let him go on his own. You are a > parent. > > The child does not know better than the parent concerning his own > > welfare. Are you saying the kid was too powerful for the parents to > > control? I'd like to hear that excuse in a social service's child > > welfare hearing. > > Curtis, you have such an impoverished imagination. > > I don't mean your ability to fantasize stuff that > isn't real, I mean your ability to entertain > alternate possibilities. >
