Raising a heathen child.
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:40 pm
We were listening to Bert E at Sunstone last night on the literary origins of heaven and hell.
9yo: He's not supposed to say h.e....
Me: he means the place, he's not telling anyone to go there.
9yo: (listens to part of Adam and eve story): I dont get it.
Me: so he's explaining what people used to think was how people were made.
9: no I get THAT, but I don't get it.
Me: like you know people used to think the world was flat and made stories to explain.
9: no I get THAT, but I don't get it.
Me: its like philosophy....its a way of thinking there's not one right answer to how people used to think.
9: OH I dont care about that. But...like...you know they used to have these birds, that were....kinda like a chicken but not a chicken. And they eventually laid an egg, that eventually was a chicken.
Me: Yeah but they didn't know that then.
9: oh I get that. But what I dont get, is that someone, somewhere had to be the parents of the first people and if they weren't people they were different than people a little until they had people!
Me: yeah.
9: so who was it?
Me: remember Lucy at the Smithsonian.
9: yeah! So whats this all about then? (Waves her hand at sunstone).
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19 yo showing me a dopey viral video about a Noah's Ark based video game review...basically stupid college humor.
9: I dont get it.
Me: what?
9: why is Noah bringing a pig if pigs were unclean? That makes no sense.
Me: Huh. I was just wondering why the pig has a top hat.
9yo: He's not supposed to say h.e....
Me: he means the place, he's not telling anyone to go there.
9yo: (listens to part of Adam and eve story): I dont get it.
Me: so he's explaining what people used to think was how people were made.
9: no I get THAT, but I don't get it.
Me: like you know people used to think the world was flat and made stories to explain.
9: no I get THAT, but I don't get it.
Me: its like philosophy....its a way of thinking there's not one right answer to how people used to think.
9: OH I dont care about that. But...like...you know they used to have these birds, that were....kinda like a chicken but not a chicken. And they eventually laid an egg, that eventually was a chicken.
Me: Yeah but they didn't know that then.
9: oh I get that. But what I dont get, is that someone, somewhere had to be the parents of the first people and if they weren't people they were different than people a little until they had people!
Me: yeah.
9: so who was it?
Me: remember Lucy at the Smithsonian.
9: yeah! So whats this all about then? (Waves her hand at sunstone).
‐‐--------later‐-------------
19 yo showing me a dopey viral video about a Noah's Ark based video game review...basically stupid college humor.
9: I dont get it.
Me: what?
9: why is Noah bringing a pig if pigs were unclean? That makes no sense.
Me: Huh. I was just wondering why the pig has a top hat.