Soul is the operative word. I asked my son why what Bruce Jenner had done was wrong. He correctly said, "He was looking for happiness in his body, instead of in his soul".
I said, "Correct, son!"
We're not religious at all, by the way,. He's never read the Bible. But we've read Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," Plato's "Republic," "Considerations on Representative Government" by John Stuart Mill, Darwin's "Origin of Species," "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, etc.
My son understands, after reading philosophy, that any belief-system that tries to trick you into materialistically thinking that your body will bring happiness is a con. It's why marketing boob jobs to women is a scam, or telling transsexuals that they can buy their identity from a cosmetic surgeon is cruel. Once these people wake up to this hokum, it;s too late and they seek the cold comfort of suicide. Although to be fair, their abolition of their initial gender was ALREADY a step toward suicide: the erasure of their identity.
People need to be taught to seek peace in their soul, not at the end of the surgeon's blade. There are no over-the-counter identities.
We had to pull him out because he was non-verbal till he was 5, and he was supposed to have autism. As a result, he was warehoused and not taught anything. Just glue macaroni on a sheet of construction paper. We had to teach him how to read, tell time, do math, etc. His teachers were worthless. When he passed academically and they wanted to hold him back a grade (because they didn't have helpers to mainstream him), we didn't want him to lose a year. So we did homeschooling.
To overcome his initial speech delay, I started taking walks with him and reading to him to build up his vocabulary. We started with Plato, Aristotle and Cicero. We would discuss Heraclitus, Parmenides and Thales.
I didn't do this to try and make him a philosopher, but just to enlarge his vocabulary and increase his conceptual palette. That's why we read the oratory of Quintilian and Aristotle's "Logic, Poetics and Rhetoric".
Since homeschooling, I've given him a more or less classical education.
Soul is the operative word. I asked my son why what Bruce Jenner had done was wrong. He correctly said, "He was looking for happiness in his body, instead of in his soul".
I said, "Correct, son!"
We're not religious at all, by the way,. He's never read the Bible. But we've read Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," Plato's "Republic," "Considerations on Representative Government" by John Stuart Mill, Darwin's "Origin of Species," "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, etc.
My son understands, after reading philosophy, that any belief-system that tries to trick you into materialistically thinking that your body will bring happiness is a con. It's why marketing boob jobs to women is a scam, or telling transsexuals that they can buy their identity from a cosmetic surgeon is cruel. Once these people wake up to this hokum, it;s too late and they seek the cold comfort of suicide. Although to be fair, their abolition of their initial gender was ALREADY a step toward suicide: the erasure of their identity.
People need to be taught to seek peace in their soul, not at the end of the surgeon's blade. There are no over-the-counter identities.
Hope you don't send him to "school". How old is he?
My son just turned 16. He's homeschooled.
We had to pull him out because he was non-verbal till he was 5, and he was supposed to have autism. As a result, he was warehoused and not taught anything. Just glue macaroni on a sheet of construction paper. We had to teach him how to read, tell time, do math, etc. His teachers were worthless. When he passed academically and they wanted to hold him back a grade (because they didn't have helpers to mainstream him), we didn't want him to lose a year. So we did homeschooling.
To overcome his initial speech delay, I started taking walks with him and reading to him to build up his vocabulary. We started with Plato, Aristotle and Cicero. We would discuss Heraclitus, Parmenides and Thales.
I didn't do this to try and make him a philosopher, but just to enlarge his vocabulary and increase his conceptual palette. That's why we read the oratory of Quintilian and Aristotle's "Logic, Poetics and Rhetoric".
Since homeschooling, I've given him a more or less classical education.
Excellent comment above btw. You are an outstanding parent!