Posts by William Baker9

rustyfalcon4 said:What kind of ratio are we talking about here??? Is it just random or is there some kind of "tutorial" out there???

Just eyeballing it.😉

Just squeeze some fresh lemon juice into your vodka... seriously, it's killer for shots—people call it "lemon drop vodka" or whatever. Highly recommend it😉.

Lawrence Wilson35 said:I never claimed that one person is inherently superior or inferior to an animal.
My respect extends equally to both humans and animals alike.

But what can we actually change?
Each of us has the power to reject the narrative that society forces down our throats.
And no, I’m not suggesting we go out and dismantle capitalism tomorrow.
I am talking strictly about the issue of human dignity.
The reality is that modern society constantly serves up ways to strip people of their dignity.
Within our own families, however, we don't have to follow that trend.

Good luck trying to protect a kid from losing their dignity—it happens all the time. You shape them until they hit school age, then it's out of your hands once you deal with all those teachers and peer pressure... and once they start working some raw jobs? It could be anything from dead-end labor to prostitution, for crying out loud. But hey... I guess "times were tougher back then." So they say.🙂

Lawrence Wilson35 said:I don't believe a child should ever be forced to conform.
In fact, I’d go further: I view "conformity" as nothing less than a violation of human integrity.
Why don't we try to "conform" you instead?😁
A child who is taught self-respect—which can only happen when their integrity remains intact—will naturally respect others, simply because their closest people haven't stripped them of their sense of self.

Those children who are subjected to "adjustment"—taught to sacrifice even their own essence for the sake of someone else—are essentially becoming externally controlled personalities. There is no genuine respect for others there. Children treated this way learn to respect power, rather than people.
And what is the result?
We are just running in circles.
We claim we are "adapting" them to a broken society—a fact we clearly acknowledge by attempting to mold them in the first place.
Consequently, we predictably create more of the same: a collection of externally controlled individuals living by rules dictated by force. We produce people who fail to realize they have inherent value just by existing, people who prioritize societal interests over individual needs. How can a society claim to be functional if its individual members are fundamentally broken?

Children possess the same level of dignity as adults. They may lack our experience, but they certainly don't lack our dignity.
Yet, we constantly trample over that dignity under the hollow excuse that they are "just" children.🙄
People will find justifications for any absurdity. It stems from the fact that many were raised without any sense of personal responsibility, being instead hyper-focused on social compliance—the kind of compliance that suggests it's perfectly fine to strike someone, provided you're the stronger one.

I find it fascinating how people love to criticize—complaining about how terrible society has become—while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing to change it. In fact, they are actively building that very same society.

If you're one of those people who actually thinks humans are somehow better than just another animal—then yeah, I totally see where your head's at with this post.
Human nature gets bullied from birth by a million useless little bullshit hurdles—honestly. So, it feels like that whole "puberty" phase is really just the final middle finger to everything they try to feed us before we finally just cave and assimilate into society.
And as for society—I don't even know what you think we can actually change... like, what's the plan? Tear down capitalism? Scrap this entire broken school system we're stuck with? Basically start from scratch with some new order that actually feels human—something more like hunting mammoths or just picking berries in the woods...
What I’m actually getting at here—we’ve built this whole societal machine that everyone’s forced to conform to, right? It’s totally unnatural, even if we trick ourselves into thinking it’s normal... and honestly, expecting a kid to grow up in this mess without a single trauma or setback? That’s just insane.
Look, just look at how many moms leave their kids sobbing every single morning when they head off to work... what do people think? That kid is crying just to be difficult? No—they’re crying because it’s fundamentally unnatural for a mother to leave a little one behind. They need her—her scent, her presence, just being *there*. This isn't some minor thing you can just brush off; it's a massive trauma. And honestly, you could list a million other situations just like this one.
Total waste of time... honestly.

Drew Morgan said:Honestly, the whole idea of destroying a toy seems straight-up sociopathic to me. Every child is different. What happens when you have a kid who's hurting animals? Do you call a therapist? For some people, moderate corporal punishment might be an acceptable disciplinary tool. For others, it isn't. It's all about the situation.

Wow, look at this... honestly, every single boy that crossed my path when I was growing up messed with animals—including my own brother... y'know, since I grew up hanging out with guys, I noticed it. Sadism, pyromania, blah blah blah... all that psychologist stuff is total BS. In my opinion, it’s just nature, and making a huge scene about it might actually make things worse. It comes, it goes... girls don't like it... whatever.
Also, just saying, for those of you advocating for doing nothing—I don't know how many of you even have kids to actually speak from experience on this topic..
Long story short.... you get a kid, a little creature that's totally unadapted, beautiful and magical... they have zero clue what's happening around them, while there's this whole circus going on that they need to adapt to—a circus created by people. It would be best if, instead of constantly violating that little being and bombarding them with stupid norms and rules, we just let them grow and live by instinct... then you'd end up with a kid without all those "popular" traumas.
But that's not how it works, and they need training, yeah, yeah... exactly... pure training until the kid is about 4 years old. That training includes occasional spankings because there's no other way to explain danger to a kid who hasn't fully developed verbal skills yet. After that age, I wouldn't consider spanking necessary anymore. And let's define spanking... it's just... you know... on the butt, basically... nobody's talking about beatings... let's not get carried away.
And it's easy to talk trash about how other people parent. You can't truly know how you'll react in certain situations once you become a parent. You can try to guess based on how your own parents acted, but in practice, it's TheJob—there's no manual for it.
So... yeah... like it says in my signature.....🙂