Liberal tells his 8-year old daughter that she's racist
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I've Loved this from the moment I stumbled upon it in my youth many moons ago.
Excerpt from,
"The Prophet"
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Kahlil Gibran
This one sounds nice but starts like a globalist dream.... 'Your children are not your own, they belong to society kind of thing'.
Far from a new world order, unfortunately in a time when children were bought and sold as merchandise in open air markets.
Not all parents are good parents.
Children as property is a sticky subject and has been for millennia, poor babies, everybody claims ownership and they just wanta be free.
The terrible twos, the first act of rebellion is absolutely beautiful.
The most destructive in my mind is the states claim on the child under the doctrine of parens patriae, basically, the children belong to the trust of state and parents enjoy them as long as they do what state wants.
I think every writer wants to tweek others work, I've certainly had that desire myself, best we can do is understand time and culture, struggle and scope to begin to understand the mind of the artist. :-)
'parens patriae'
Is this what our government uses to steal kids or did you mean ancient governments?
I'm beginning to worry about you, have you slipped, tripped, stumbled and fallen, breaking all your fingers, leaving you voiceless in this digital world?
hope all is well :-)
This is a doctrine of old english law that has been hijacked by our government to steal our children.
Original it was a "insurance plan" promises from the crown, for those who died in battle to know that the crown would care for the surviving family members / children. As such the legal obligation to care for, came with a pseudo title of ownership / responsibility of.
But our government morphed it into something much more sinister. Claiming the state has primary ownership of the child and parents claim is subordinate to that of the state, and this claim originates at birth of child, not death of parent.
In the interest of public good.
It is the legal frame work that gives them the "right" to remove your child without convicting you of any crime. Abuse and neglect use to be the threshold, to be proven in a court of criminal law under criminal standards, no longer, your right of parenthood can be striped by arbitrary infractions as declared by a court no longer bound by the constitution, by what is considered an administrative ruling not a adjudication.
By passing the "due process clause" of the constitution. Since your children should be your most valued possessions, the standards of removal should be higher not less than just "the benefit of the state" in some civil court of chattel or whatever the state disagrees with. :-)
How many little ones do you care for?
Tell me some funny stories of the terrible twos.
The spirit of freedom starts early as the child claims right of self, in a all out rebellion, not yet limited by social restraint of civil pretentions.
No one can own the spirit of a child, is what I think Gibran was writing about.