lolno I'm fine with numbing my emotions altogether. They impair judgement. [quote]The other thing we do is we make everything that's uncertain certain. Religion has gone from a belief in faith and mystery to certainty. I'm right, you're wrong. Shut up. [/quote]This is obviously a problem that has arisen in modern times only and everything was much better in the good old days. /ignore Spanish Inquisition /ignore Crusades [quote]And when you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, our job is not to say, "Look at her, she's perfect. My job is just to keep her perfect. Our job is to look and say, "You know what? You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging." That's our job. Show me a generation of kids raised like that, and we'll end the problems I think that we see today.[/quote]"Today." Pretty sure it was worse longer ago when a child was expected to carry his entire family financially past a certain age and was raised so.