Most referring to the “world in chaos” segment. I find it odd that recent spiritual trends seem to label childhood as some unspoiled version of the world before we “messed them up”. I don’t know where they are getting half the stuff since as a kid I crushed bugs before I read more about them, I was also afraid of many things that aren’t so bad, and I remember kids being cruel to those different from them. I don’t know where they’re getting this from but kids aren’t some pure example to be, they aren’t fully developed after all.
I can’t remember if it was George Carlin or Doug stanhope who said ‘if you think kids are pure hearted, leave a 3 year old alone with a kitten for an hour and see what happens’
Do you crush bugs now? Kids are in a state where they don’t realize what is good or bad in many things. So it is a state of innocents. Even God knows this and has one of his main men Isaiah talk about this: “16 For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land… (whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.)” Is 7:16
Children don’t know moral systems as extensive as we do as adults. They don’t know the harm the can cause to others and are thus unrestricted in what they say and do. There are many such themes of the things kids.
Absolutely not. If anything, children are a more overt representation of how humanity is born bad. It’s when people hit an older state of maturity that they learn to ***hide ***their bad instincts. Children display badness *more *overtly, not less.
I believe most sociopaths understand what society considers right and wrong they just reject it.
Young children especially the first couple of years really are like wild little animals, they have to be socialized and taught but they see and react to their environment and pick up on a lot of things on their own.
Most children cry in empathy when first read Three Litttle Kittens, but some do not. I’ve seen no study, but I suspect that fundamental response carries through to adults who can;t help sniffling. Sociopaths are the outliers.
I’m old enough to remember playing baseball without adult supervision, absent any umpires appointed by Parks and Rec. Kids, by nature, play fair, and even give the benefit of the doubt to the littler kids.
Humans evolved as social animals. Intuitively, they thrive on reciprocal care. Outliers may or may not flourish, depending on the willingness of local society to tolerate them.
Kids might respond with empathy to a sad story, but in many other ways they impress me as extremely selfish and lacking empathy.
I wonder what age child cries when read a sad story. Because an infant impresses me as clearly having little concern for anyone other than its own needs/wants. As they grow, they are taught how to share, how not to hurt others, how to be patient. I’m not sure to what extent they would learn such social skills if not encouraged to do so.
Most children can be greatly influenced by the example set by those closest to them. But they also come pre-packaged with their own personalities. Ask any parent of more than one child, who tried to raise the kids quite similarly, but they ended up quite differently.
I think the article was mainly suggesting that chaos and destruction can actually be beneficial in that you would restart yourself after a disaster. Your soul template would reset to a child’s level, and you’d be more open to taking a different path, similar to children learning new things as they mature. New Age woo is usually all about spiritual rebirth.
Absolutely not. Children aren’t born bad, they’re born naive. I’ve seen lovely acts of kindness from young children, and an infant is just born with survival instincts, which includes empathy. No moral judgement on a newborn infant…
This is exactly what I was thinking, particularly given some experiences I’ve had with my own kids. It’s not that they’re bad or good - they just do what feels good or what is most likely to keep them out of trouble and avoid what feels bad. Then all of a sudden, they’re more capable of predicting the consequences of their actions. Hopefully that, combined with empathy, makes them good people. It doesn’t always and they screw up plenty, but they’re not born bad - just oblivious and self-centered.
Children are neither “pure and unsullied” nor wicked sinful creatures that haven’t as of yet had the Fear of God drummed into them to give them a conscience. They’re people. They have a mixture of selfishness and compassionate characteristics, kind of like us.
Oh wait, they are us. (I have never understood why so many adults seem to have forgotten their own earlier selves and have no recollection of what it was like).
I think they’re just underdeveloped. I don’t think they’re anymore “good” or “bad” than adults. It’s just mostly that they don’t know how to regulate their emotions or impulses. I have to question if anyone who thinks kids are “purer” versions of adults has ever been in the same room as a kid.
Honestly, I suspect the only reason parents don’t get stabbed or shot when we don’t give them their favorite food or whatever is that we don’t give them knives and guns to play with. I also think that the antisocial and violent behavior seen in some adults is quite the opposite of the “purity” theory: these folks basically remained underdeveloped and are more childlike than more civilized adults.
Except from my experience their idea of how children are is nothing like reality. Children are very cruel to those who are different than them (me being a case in point, I got picked on a lot). There’s no soul template or whatever nonsense they’re saying and their view is a privileged one because they live in the comfort of modernity.
Resetting to a child would be being afraid because you don’t know better or understand or doing something harmful because you don’t grasp consequences well.
