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07-16-2008, 04:11 AM | #42 |
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I bet me meant 30 minutes total for the day. Arch covers 15 miles in 30 minutes.
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You haven't seen either my bike, or me. I bought my bike for $25 at a garage sale about 5 years ago, and it was pretty beat up then. I like riding, but rarely have done it for exercise. I mostly jog for exercise, but over the past five years, I've not done well on my exercise program. |
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07-16-2008, 02:40 PM | #44 |
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8mph in the flats. Finally, someone I am faster than!
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He works really long hours because he's high up on the heirarchy at an important gov agency, and when you match that with a workaholic personality. . . I'm not at his home with a time clock. I am friends with this family and they have explained his hours to me that way. I also think they are fine with the situation because the mom is super controlling of the kids and their upbringing, and I think she'd rather do it her own way (wait for it, Mike--she homeschools them). AGAIN, I am not judigng this family--that's not my point. My point is I don't think it's helpful to the larger society to stroke the backs of absentee fathers who are gone because they work all the time. It all grows out of that concept that mothers should be with the kids, and dad's provide for the family. It's not my ideal. |
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I like your articulation of the ideal, but I don't know that we're anywhere near it--and certainly not within the LDS culture. |
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No, it's OK. I think that it is already understood that you and I are far too busy with our roles as sex symbols to bother too much with parenting.
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I was referring to the soul in the larger sense, like when Einstein talked about God. I'm sure others here recognized that. Child rearing is indubitably an endeaveor where souls are at stake. How could anyone doubt that?
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07-16-2008, 05:46 PM | #49 |
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It is too bad I am getting it all wrong. Maybe I need to start neglecting my family more.
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