cicerone imposter wrote:timber, Your childhood crime reminded me when our younger son got caught stealing candy at a grocery store in Naperville when he was about six years old. The manager had our son and another boy kept in his office while he called us to tell us about the crime, but he was a wise man that wanted to scare the bejeesus out of them by saying he was going to call the police if they were ever caught again. The manager said it was good they got caught when young, because they will learn the lesson not to steal again. To make a long story short, since our son is now 39 years old, he has been honest about not taking money even when its laying around the house. I've been thankful to that manager ever since.
CI
I can't believe you sometimes...
You condone a store manager scaring the "bejeesus" (as you put it) out of a sibling but then you seem to have strong reservations when the Bible appears to use God to scare the "bejeesus" out of you...
I find this quite contradictory.
Do you really think that people can be motivated by fear?
If you attribute fear reinforcement to your son's honesty then I will have to totally rethink my whole philosophy on life...
(a side note)
I remember in college when I took jazz dance we had several teachers to choose from. Each teacher had a different discipline.
Usually the Russian (communist) teachers were very strict so if you fell off the balancing beam you paid dearly in criticism.
Where the western teachers were more positively encouraging.
It was a communist idea, that greatness could only be achieved through suffering and trembling FEAR...
I am of the school that confidence motivation is MUCH greater in the positive then fear can ever be in the negative...
I guess this is maybe why I see a different "God" in the Bible than you do CI...
