Vikar’s Rant

While the fishing stuff was a good idea, my wife, the animal rights activist, did not feel comfortable contributing money to a manufacturer of fish death. My immediate, and to some extent correct, reaction was, “Fine, put it down and let’s get out of here.” No, no, that would have been waaaay too easy. She wanted me to pay for it. There’s one thing about going along with nonsense, it’s another thing having to finance it. [...]

A child will perform an action if it brings good or positive stimulus. Pain or negative stimuli are usually avoided. In essence, they develop a human operating system based upon what their environment dictates. In the early years of childhood development, parents provide the environment and program the child with a system of beliefs and societal norms – like not letting the child pick his or her nose in public or running around stores naked. These beliefs form a rudimentary system of right and wrong and a percentage of that translates out to a specific religion or [...]