AtM: "acceptable behavior" is different for different people. For me, it's waiting until I'm married. For other people, it's up to them to decide, because it's their body.

ReNo: okay, you guys are reading it kinda wrong. A kid walking across the street is a PERFECT metaphor.

A child is playing near a bend in the road and could just as easily stay on his side, but he decides that it's an acceptable risk to cross and have more fun or look cool on the other side. If he runs across without looking, and he gets hit, yeah, he deserved to get hit because he recklessly ran across. This is like bangin' some random hooker or girl from your college that you dont know.

If he looks both ways and then crosses, he shouldn't think he is completly safe because a car can come around that bend at any time. This is like "safe sex" and with people you know.

If he get's hit EITHER time, he deserved it because he took a stupid risk when staying on his side was a perfectly plausible option and he never would have HAD the risk if it were not for his simple desire to have fun and look cool.

Do you think people who smoke deserve to get cancer when they do? not everyone who smokes DESERVES to get cancer indefinitely, they just deserve it when they get it.

makin' any sense here?

...if you survive the first encounter, value well being, and are able to learn.....wanna bet yer life on it?

Doc

I wonder. My brother is reaching mid-life methinks because he is discovering God when he never did before. He has had a few near mishaps with his truck and his motorcycle and thinks "God is watching over him because he is still alive"

I told him quite honestly that if he would desist doing stupid things while driving, he would prolly have fewer, if any mishaps. Besides, if God were indeed watching over him, he'd not have any at all.

Sadly, I didn't convince him of anything except, I needed prayed for.

Wow, you guys who don't beleive in god just have everything so figured out! We're all a bunch of old-fashioned doofs i guess!

Now, my experience with religion is basically restricted to the more barbaric forms like Baptist, Catholicism and Methodists but I have seen a few religious types that discourage punishment in any form. The Amish, and Mormons both discourage if I recall my legends about them.

As for knowing for certain, NO I have no real clue.

Two of my 3 brothers have f'd up thier lives because they decided to be "consenting adults" instead of waiting until they were married.

I would have HAD another brother who is now dead because of irresponsible "consenting adults" so yes I have a problem with it.

and YES, people bother me with thier STD problems more than you would think: I work at a school full of delinquent children and I have a lot of man-whore friends who are always having run-ins with nasty chicks.

Not only all that, but it's WRONG. It's against God's plan for our lives.

So if by "enjoy your risk-free life" you mean, "be safe, happy, and don't affect others adversely because you can muster up enough willpower to keep your pecker where it belongs." Then, thank you, I will.

i cant believe i missed this one ....

ya know what nickel, i am not trying to start s**t here, but it seems to me that if you were as God fearing as you claim to be, you sure as hell wouldnt be putting up a picture of hitler, and then justifying it....

i DO believe in god sir, sure as s**t SOMETHING did all there is....i just have changed my view of him/it through the years....i have a problem with people who use it as a means....and i think its safe to say, none of us think you folks are "dufus's" (sp) but, dont claim to have all the answers sir.....no one does, i dont give a flying s**t who he says hes seen "Him" in a vision.....

morality is a state of mind sir.....concience driven, and intellectually imposed, and i sure as hell dont want to derail this into a religious debate....

i too have f**ked up family members, and i too have some steadfast rules about sex and life etc.....some taught from my parents, some learned because i HAVE a conciense, and some are simple outright speculation....but im judicious, i am fair, and i dont impose my ideals on people...they are mine...if you ascribe to the same ones, then good for you.....if not, its your bed, lie in it....doesnt mean they are better than the rest, just mine...

Doc B...