No, not even that. My comment was in response to one about how parents often illogically fear certain people are out to harm their children, while being oblivious to ones that have a much more sinister history of actually doing so.
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Itâs not quality time with the kids if youâre stuck in traffic on the Katy Freeway.
I know. But I thought it was funny anyway. Throwing Baylor into itâŚ
Youâre not stuck in traffic 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It just feels like it.
The church has admitted that it happened, but thatâs as far as it has gone voluntarily. While the church is less of a dick when new victims come forward, it is not opening its files to find victims proactively and offer them compensation in whatever form is needed (e.g. counseling).
Also, waiting for victims to come forward isnât going to help those who have died or committed suicide.
This is the best you can get on short notice.
Arthur Duncan (1925â2023), tap dancer on âThe Betty White Showâ
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Some quick questions:
Who determines if they are contrite enough? or sincere?
Who gives the forgiveness?
What should the consequences be? monetary? jail? every priest?
Unless you are getting answers from those abused I doubt youâll get any satisfactory answers.
Also, please hold every one to those standards as they are great.
Havenât found anything yet.
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Obviously not. But if you leave for work at 6am and donât get home from work until 7pm, while your kids go to bed at 9pm, youâre missing their childhood.
Iâm not criticizing the people who do this, by choice or otherwise, Iâm just trying to highlight how the reality is far different to the idyllic family life that is the zombie fantasy of suburban living.
When I enter the rusty gates of hell?
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And you canât have a BBQ around the pool on Saturday afternoon from the 27th floor fire escape.
But you are criticizing them. And youâre insisting that they conform to your vision of what a âcityâ should look like. I get that they are doing the same, and Iâm not arguing one over the other, only pointing out that itâs the way it is because people want it that way, not because they havenât been shown the light yet. There are people out there who prefer suburbia, and itâs not just a few of them.
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Rainy days and Mondays got you down?
All of the above.
And, yes, this is a high standard, and there will be other people and organizations who fail to live up to it. But if youâre putting out a fire you go for the big flames first and pick off the embers later. Without actual consequences to the individuals who participated in the cover up, there is no true reckoning.
Itâs like when Wells Fargo defrauded is customers for billions of dollars, but was allowed to strike a deal where it gets fined a few hundred million dollars while accepting no wrong doing and so no individual responsible goes to jail. Where is the disincentive not to do it again when it was wildly profitable and consequence free?
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No, but you can have one in the communal spaces of your condo or a city park. Of course, that means possibly interacting with other peopleâŚ
Nope. I am saying that your generation that suburban living is what people want is not reality. You canât laud the popularity of the choice people make when for the most part they have only one choice.
Every so often itâs instructive to have the curtain pulled back on the unfettered, indelible neckery to be found around here.
Also, itâs amusing that for once Iâm playing no role at all in irritating the pious.
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Again, Iâm not lauding their choice. Iâm saying it hasnât been thrust upon them against their will.
Excellent.
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What kills me is people that say âoh the suburbs are all cookie cutter housesâ and the like. Iâm sorry, have you (the hypothetical you, not you HH) been to the east coast with all the row houses? Or Europe? Where we lived in the UK and Ireland the houses in estates (subdivisions) were far more similar to each other than you might find in my suburban neighborhood. And if you walked into our suburban abode youâd find a quite stylish and individual decor.
Thatâs not right at all and shame on you for that generalization. We didnât move to the suburbs because of a zombie fantasy, we wanted an affordable house with a bit of a backyard without buying somebody elseâs problem, i.e. moving into a 50 or 100 year old house youâre gonna spend a fortune fixing/updating and is insanely expensive. Iâm all for people keeping the olde neighbourhoods well looked after and kept but Iâm just not interested in doing any of that, and on edit, I refuse to be shamed into it.
Iâll add the caveat that I work from home full time now after commuting for years and years in various cities and coutnries and I highly recommend it. Echoing Limeyâs point, Iâm way more productive and have a much happier life.
I just logged on and saw 97 posts on this thread.
Freaked me out - I thought several people died.
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Food poisoning at the Golden Globes.
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To address this pointâŚworking from home is not for me. Not that Iâm more or less productive at home vs in the office, but I just couldnât stand it. I dislike commuting as much as the next fellow, but itâs worth the commute to be around other people. But Iâm a social butterfly, so to speak.
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