grand_moogi

I have this theory. It is kind of whacky but I want to set it out now. Maybe one day in the far future it will prove correct despite its wackiness.
It concerns our ability as humans to learn about intelligent beings on other planets in other solar systems.
The thing is, according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, matter cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Stars and therefore planets in other solar systems are so far away that humans cannot live long enough to travel to them, even if we built a space ship that could travel that far.
Meanwhile, due to our advances in medical science we are hearing from more and more people who have died and been revived, and who report having met with God/Jesus. The Catholic Church has investigated the matter and believes that many of these are genuine and we can learn from them. There have also been some scientific investigations carried out which have reached the conclusion that there is indeed some form of consciousness that is able to exist outside the body. I have read many of these accounts. Some seem to be just fabricated and appear totally fanciful while others do seem to talk about genuine encounters with God/Jesus.
Some Near Death Experiences have suggested that we sometimes inhabit bodies on planets other than earth. I think this is how we will learn about life on other planets. Weird Huh?
The weird part is how these two scientific advancements seem to be progressing in parallel.

The former USSR was like a family. It consisted of the parents, Russia, and several children, separate nation states, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine and the others. In the 1990s, the various children states came of age and declared their independence.
This happens in all families. The children grow and set out on independent lives.
Often the children choose very different paths from those that the parents would wish for them.
The wise parent accepts this and retains close friendships with their children. They understand that there is no point trying to argue and force the child to take a different path. That attitude only serves to alienate the child further.
We all worry about our children. Why do they seem to be throwing off everything that as a family, we held dear?
But be patient. By showing your children that we love them regardless of the path they choose in life, we leave the door open and maybe one day in the future they will see the wisdom of what they have been taught and forge a new beginning hand in hand with their parents and the family way. We too as parents, will undergo change. We cannot stay still. We cannot go back to the past. No matter how much we wish we had all our children as babies again, it cannot be.
Putin needs to understand that a democracy can change the character of a country. It can just as easily choose western ways as choose Communist ways. The change can be done without bloodshed and with the will of the people. All he needs to do, is to make sure that Russia is an excellent country that takes care of its people, and that their way of life is far superior than the western way of life. Once he does that, the people will vote to adopt Communist ways. No bloodshed, no loss of life, no misery.
But the whole world is seeing that the friendly way would be too hard. Russian Communism is obviously a flop. Otherwise he would not need to use force.
The parents who do not understand the way of grown children, are themselves, too immature and frankly stupid to know that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

For a while now I have been thinking that we really went wrong in the 1970s when we started pushing the Women's Liberation ideals.
The story that was being told at the time was this:
Women are too clever to be kept at home all day doing housework and minding children. They should be able to have careers which will bring them fulfillment."
Some women at the time said "But I find it very fulfilling to be at home keeping house and looking after my family" They were howled down. They were told that housework is boring. In fact there was an advertisement that actually said "No-one likes housework. We just have to do it, so the husbands should help. It is not fair that the wives should do it all. The wives should be able to go out and have careers and the housework and child minding should be split equally." Who can forget the "Johnnie wants a doll" advertisements?
The whole "Housework is boring" theme implied that anyone who thought they enjoyed being a housewife was obviously a very boring person indeed.

The message was wrong. I have to admit that I actually saw it then. I mentioned it to a few friends but it didn't get much traction. So I shut up as did other women who saw it. We were all howled down.

There was a big elephant in the room and they were ignoring it.

The Elephant was the all important role of Homemaker that was totally ignored.

Housework is not merely a set of horrid jobs that must be endured. It is a role that nurtures everyone of us. We all need someone to fulfill that role for us or to assist us in fulfilling it. Now we can see the bad effects of ignoring it. The elephant has trampled on our families and caused havoc to almost every person in society because we ignored it.

Everyone needs a homemaker. It is the one thing that can relieve the stress in our lives: and young people with families today seem to live such stressful lives that I find myself wondering how on earth they do it. I became a chartered accountant and my husband was a school teacher who later became a school principal. Whenever he was at home during school holidays, I felt noticeably less stressed. There was someone at home to peg out the clothes and get them in if it rained. He was able to get dinner on, call a plumber, do some shopping. The list goes on. He was able to fulfill that very important role of homemaker. While he was at school during term time, there was no-one in that role and the stress levels experienced by every member of our family were so much higher.

Look at us now. Child minding is not something that can be done by unpaid women at home. We once saw it as requiring no intellectual ability whatsoever. In fact that was one of the basic tenets of the Women's Liberation Movement. Now we want our child minders to have a university degree and society is paying megabucks to provide those services. Meanwhile the poor families are living lives with stress levels through the roof. Society is now geared so that a family needs two incomes at least in order to survive. They have to get children ready for child care every day, pick them up after work and then they are expected to get dinner on, supervise homework and get all the other tasks done so they can repeat it all next day.
It is absolutely ridiculous and it is high time someone called it out.

If our society were to pay the same amounts directly to families to allow one of the partners to stay home and be a homemaker until children were at least 14, then we might have a less stressed society with less children roaming streets and getting into strife. Children would feel more nurtured.

The correct message that the Women's Liberation Movement should have promoted is "Women who successfully keep house and mind children have already demonstrated that they are very intelligent and capable management material. Their tasks are varied and complex. They have managed different levels of client expectations and they have shown that they are capable of keeping to a timetable despite unforeseen interruptions."
By acknowledging the complexities of managing a household, they would have found it much easier to get men to take part, if a woman did still want to have another career.
To put it bluntly, They should have shown respect for women and the role that they played. This respect would engender a willingness by husbands to assist if necessary and would also help mothers to have more respect in the eyes of teenagers. Just to help them through those hard years.
But it is too late now - or is it?