(March 29, 2013 at 4:09 pm)whateverist Wrote: Good luck with that. My stepson pursues alternative realities, mystic reunion and all that rot in spite of his mother and I having none of it. His father is an eternal spiritual searcher type but I'm not sure contamination has to come in that way. The culture can be the source of the infection and perhaps there is something about our psyche which leaves us all vulnerable? It calls many to the rocks like the sirens of old.
Indeed. "Hope" is the key word there I think - I know I won't be able to control what they do beyond childhood and since the rest of my family is pretty religious there will always be church weddings, christenings, funerals, etc. Religion plays on the age-old fears about death and the meaning of life. All we can try to do is raise kids with decent self-esteem and a good enough education that they never feel the need to rely on these hideous systems to fill gaps in their lives.
