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Does anybody know what "when everything is equal" means?

Of course, homeostasis is the fundamental principal to all living things, however, it is seldom acheived, even within organisms themselves.

Saying "when everything is equal" is more than a bit ideologically blinded.

Um... wouldn't homeostasis equal death for a living organism?

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Canuck E Stan, August took my comment completely out of contextual value, and now you are using it to trash talk me.

blueblood and I, were discussing what he meant by children being raised proprerly, as he inferred they were not being raised properly if they went to a day care.

Catchme, I'm sorry that I chose your post to make my point. I know that you meant to say that children raised in day care could also succeed in life.

I too was raised in day care since my mother worked, submitting higher T4s than my father some years. If I have deep-rooted psychological problems or repressed memories, day care isn't the cause. So Catchme, that's not the issue.

But you mentioned twice in your post that your daughter had a half million dollar "home". That's what attracted my attention. Is the value of one's house a measure of one's success in life? And why mention this twice? And why, as some have mentioned, use the word "home" rather than "house"?

My argument was a little broader than your pride in the (financial) success of your daughter - something that any good parent should be proud of, IMHO.

My argument concerned success compared to others. Reading posts to this forum, I am struck by how posters are quick to consider how any thread or post affects them personally. They are particularly concerned by whether the thread or post "validates" their choices or opinion.

In short, people choose in life and they like to know that they have chosen the right side. People don't like being told that they made the wrong decision. (You prefer to tell us that you have been a good mother since you have a good daughter.)

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Catchme, I enjoy reading your posts here. I'm sorry if I chose your post to make my point. I could have just as easily chosen one of my posts since I'm probably just as guilty.

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How important is one's absolute position in life compared to one's relative position?
Absolute position seems to be entirely irrelevant.

Almost every study upon the topic suggests that humans are overwhelming affected by relative positions.

My great-grandfather died at 43 of pneumonia, because penicillin had not been invented.

I feel safe in saying that at the time, he didn't give a good-goddamn about his relative position in existence.

Mad_Michael, if you travel to Asia or Africa, you will quickly understand that some people care far more about their absolute position than their relative position. In short, your response is simplistic.

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Mad_Michael, if you travel to Asia or Africa, you will quickly understand that some people care far more about their absolute position than their relative position. In short, your response is simplistic.

I can show you places in the richest city in Canada where people care more about their absolute existence than their relative position.

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august, I use the word home for a reason, as opposed to using house, and I used it twice to denote it was a HOME, not a house.

IMV, homes are created and are a personal embodiment of those it shelters. As in they bought a "house", and made it into their "home", in several different ways. That their hard work and lovingly done renovations and redecoration made it worth more, was a plus but not the goal.

Houses, on the other hand, can be seen to status objects only, and are something that people exist in, as opposed to living, laughing, crying and loving in.

Houses have living rooms and dining rooms, that are never used, furniture that is never sat in or used. They exist to try and denote status, or pure equity investments.

It appears, it is not understood, by some, the difference in meaning between the 2.

I used a personal example regarding day care, and will most often always do so in any other topic as well, as I do not feel it is my right to expropriate others lives, words and actions, to try and make another point or topic. All I know of others, in particular here, is surface, so any example I would use, would be based solely upon my judgement or assumptions, that may or may not be correct or accurate.

For example I could've used an example against mothers staying at home by using the story of a friend, who spent 24hrs a day 7 days a week at home with her children. She so handicapped her first born, by over attention, that he failed Grade 1, 3 times, because he simply could not understand and exist within group dynamics. Nor could he understand that everything was not about him all the time, and that other children had rights too. He was smart enough, he was just not socially skilled enough to progress. Her second son only failed Grade 1 twice, a good thing or he would've passed his older brother. By the time 3, 4 and 5 came along, she understood what she had done to her first 2 and enrolled the other in pre-school to off set her over-parenting.

But I didn't, I wanted to give an example that supported day care and contradicted the erroneous notion some hold, as opposed to knocking down those stay at home mothers who may not be doing such a good job as what they thought.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

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It appears, it is not understood, by some, the difference in meaning between the 2.
I agree. Then again, not everybody is so fortunate as to own a house.

We do not have time for a meeting of the flat earth society.

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