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All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

nephihaha wrote: post #128
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #51

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Runrig's song "Fichead Bliadhna", too, but that's more kind of a protest song: Ruith sa mhonadh, ruith nam beann ’S mar sin dhan sgoil aig deireadh samhraidh Nar clann aig còig bliadhna dh’aois ’S gun facal Beurla nar ceann translated: Freedom of the moor, freedom of the hills (Ruith is literally "running" though) And off to school at summer's end As children of five years old And not a word of English in our heads P…

Run of the moors, run of the hills And like that to school at summer's end Us being children of five years of age Without a word of English in our heads That's my literal translation anyway. I was talking to an American yesterday who couldn't understand the concept of the Highlands yesterday. His whole idea was of a place presented magically but with little more than funny accents in it. I tried to get over to him al…

I mean make him read Hallaig by Somhairle MacGill-eain.

And, ideally, go and visit a cleared township.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nc8uhBogrBCjgjYs9

I used to walk out there most weekends when I was at school. Until about 175 years ago, those were homes. Families lived there.

The white dots you see are sheep, which is of course why families don't live there now.

Good Gaelic, incidentally, where did you speak it?

Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by WalterBright »

mlsu wrote: post #97
WalterBright wrote: post #62

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> the point of life is to explore and have fun and have human to human experiences Not really. The point of life is successful reproduction. Because without it, we cease to exist. It wasn't that long ago when humans spent their entire lives struggling to live and protect their children.

In my experience, reproduction and child rearing is fun, and it also is a human to human experience.

Having children does make people happy.

Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by WalterBright »

close04 wrote: post #117
WalterBright wrote: post #53

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> Children have no concept of violence or empathy or right or wrong This is not correct. I remember having a sense of shame when I was 4 when I tried to hurt another kid. Kids will also hide the things they do wrong, because they know it is wrong.

> because they know it is wrong Or they know they'll be told it was wrong. Children start knowing nothing then they slowly absorb what they're told again and again, and what they see around them until they feel it. They go from knowing nothing, to knowing what the adults told them, to internalizing that and feeling it rather than just knowing it (maybe these 2 concepts fully overlap in other people's minds). But unti…

That simply was not true for me.

Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by WalterBright »

lynx97 wrote: post #102
WalterBright wrote: post #53

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> Children have no concept of violence or empathy or right or wrong This is not correct. I remember having a sense of shame when I was 4 when I tried to hurt another kid. Kids will also hide the things they do wrong, because they know it is wrong.

> ... because they know it is wrong No. They hide the things they do wrong because they learnt there are consequences and they dont want to get caught.

Not my experience.

I accidentally killed a baby bird when I was little. It still hurts when I think about it.

Some kids are indeed savages. But not all of us.

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Post by throw0101a »

triceratops wrote: post #205
throw0101a wrote: post #145

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> It's €20 for 2 kids to have 2 minutes of fun […] They play with it for a day […] Seems to me it's €20 for a day (8h? 16h?) of fun. That's not bad value: how much does a movie ticket cost for 2-3 hours?

You missed the part where they could just buy the toy for €2. Heck they could run their own carnie games at home with Temu toys. Invite the kid's friends and it would be just as fun.

> You missed the part where they could just buy the toy for €2.

The fact that the item was won as a prize imparts on it an (psychological) 'aura' that simply buying it does not. Related:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

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Post by throw0101a »

steveBK123 wrote: post #150
throw0101a wrote: post #144

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> And every miss heightens the excitement for the eventual lolly scramble. People under-appreciate (or have forgotten) that a lot of happiness is is related to anticipating as opposed to getting . I think if more people focused on the journey or the process (or the (present) moment), versus the goal, there'd be more joy/happiness around.

> People under-appreciate (or have forgotten) that a lot of happiness is is related to anticipating as opposed to getting Shoppers & hobbyists who spend too much time browsing gear are well aware of this though generally don't like to admit it to themselves... There was (I believe) a Korean app for people to fake shop so they get all the dopamine of the hunt without the cost of actually buying anything.

> There was (I believe) a Korean app for people to fake shop so they get all the dopamine of the hunt without the cost of actually buying anything.

* E.g., https://foodnevercomes.com

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/fake-shopping-website-ap...

Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by triceratops »

throw0101a wrote: post #215
triceratops wrote: post #205

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You missed the part where they could just buy the toy for €2. Heck they could run their own carnie games at home with Temu toys. Invite the kid's friends and it would be just as fun.

> You missed the part where they could just buy the toy for €2. The fact that the item was won as a prize imparts on it an (psychological) 'aura' that simply buying it does not. Related: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

Addressed by the second part of my comment.

Re: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

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Post by fhdkweig »

mmoll wrote: post #125
Markoff wrote: post #95

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I read it this year to kids and the book says basically - no biggie, there is no death, you commit suicide to move to another level to be with your brother, you can't lose him, you have infinite lives in this videogame called Life. And what if I F up the next level? no biggie, you just commit suicide again to be with him, there is no such thing as death, after each death you just move to another level. So there is no…

”…the book says basically - no biggie, there is no death“ So does the Bible.

But Christians make a special exception for suicide. You can be forgiven if you kill anyone but yourself.
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