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My Mom just told me that it's better to remember the day that one died instead of celebrating the day of their birth (kinda why we don't celebrate birthdays), because when you're born, you have no record(s) yet.
No good or bad deed that you have done to make the world a slightly worse or better place. It's not yet known if a newborn will be good or bad in the future after all..
But when you die, that's when things are aired out, where it's revealed by the people around you if you have been a good or bad person throughout your life. Where your identity as a person gets remembered and appreciated by people you know and/or are close to.
And I guess it kinda makes sense.. If a great, hated, or even just a normal person passes away, the day of their deaths will be the day that most people will either remember them with owe and respect, a sense of loss and sadness or disdain and twisted glee that that person is no longer walking amongst us. (y'know.. If someone is really hated)
I'm not against celebrating birthdays at all, y'all do you, but I just thought of this in a moment of sleep deprievation and wanted to share.
Homeschooling
For those who think home schooled kids are indoctrinated just replace that last now biased word with the concept of a worldview and you will realize that all children are "indoctrinated" whether passively or impassively. A schooled child who is bullied, ignored at home, and left to fend for themselves, is also being indoctrinated. They are taught that they are worthless and that the world doesn't care. A schooled child who is taught whatever is on the local school board's agenda whether that agrees or disagrees with their parents' beliefs is also being indoctrinated. Childhood is formation time, and all children are being formed. doctrine /dŏk′trĭn/
noun
A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.
A rule or principle of law, especially when established by precedent.
A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy.
Exactly. I literally cannot see anything any other way. And strangely it wasn't really even the way I was raised. My parents were "social Christians" at best. But when we did go to church occasionally, something totally and completely harmonically resonated with me, and I have been chasing after it ever since. I can't help it. It is who I am.
The core of most religious misunderstandings I've witnessed with irreligious people is that they fundamentally misunderstand what religion is to religious people. It's not simply a matter of choosing what worldview most appeals to you or matches your own opinions. This is how you fundamentally believe the world already works, and living accordingly. It's not selecting from an array of possibilities with varying appeal, but aligning yourself with truth. You may not always like that truth, but that doesn't mean you get to throw it out or pick something else - you do the changing to match religious reality, not the other way around. I'm coming at this from a Christian experience, obviously, but this is true of any religion that claims objective, exclusive truth. "Why would you choose to follow a God who—" Because I didn't choose this God; this God, the only true one who exists, chose me; and I best get my priorities and values in order with his, because this world is here by his creative whim. He alone defines truth; he is truth.