What did I want?
I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The games' afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is."
-- Glory Road, Robert Heinlein
Let men be men and allow them to teach their sons; any boy who wants to listen and learn how to be a man let him go and find a teacher who can teach and show him the path to truly being masculine.
Let boys makes mistakes and show them how to take responsibility for it.
Let men make decisions and when they are Wong don't tear them down for having a flaw or being human.
We are all imperfect and we must accept that.
The truth is in the actions of good men and women not in the words.
Those who teach and violate the sacred bond between teacher and student let them be flogged publicly so that they may endure the shame of their transgression.
Find the balance between being the leader and dictator.
Seek the role "Head of the house" and rather then spineless husband or tyrannical abuser.
Accept your limitations or overcome them but don't lament them and ask for alms.
Understand that the majority rules not the minority that cries the loudest.
I don't know why I wrote that but I guess that men today kind of make me sick and women annoy me much more then they amuse me. I wish I was a perfect as I want everyone to strive to be so that I could say "look at me I am the model please follow my example" but I'm not. That is kind of me looking to be a messiah figure and I am not it. Then I look at the true example and I can see why he said that it was lucky for those who did see him cause it going to be much harder on those who did not. How many millennia have we had to take the truth and follow it and yet we seem destined to fail. I love my wife she is the saint that keeps me striving to be a better person.
I cant seem to come up with a good description so I wont have one.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
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