Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

How is it that little kids everywhere know the same implicit rules? For example:

You may sneak out of bed and hang out at the top of the stairs (or at the end of the bedroom hallway in a ranch house) to listen to your parents talk.

You may not actually make yourself known by stepping into the same room where your parents are.

You must run, pittery pattery, whispery giggly pell mell, back to bed when your parents approach the hall or the top of the stairs.

Who tells little kids this stuff? I don’t know, but it seems to happen everywhere.

My favorite Republican Senator, Ken Blackwell, has hit the nail on the head again:

I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed. I think it’s a transgression against God’s law, God’s will. The reality is again … that we make choices all the time. And, I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist, or may make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that can be changed? Yes.

Well, he hit one nail, that’s for sure. You can choose to not be gay. I know because it is just common sense. Not even regular common sense. God’s common sense! And you can choose not to be an arsonist. And you can choose not to be a kleptomaniac. It is true because it is in the Bible! God said it, in Revelations I think, and that settles it!

But here’s the question. Can you choose not to be a gay, kleptomaniac arsonist? I ask because I wonder if that much effort is possible. If it takes X amount of effort to choose not to be gay, does it take 3X effort to choose not to be a gay, kleptomaniac arsonist? Or is it not a linear thing, X+X+X? Is it more like it would take X*X*X effort to choose not to be gay? Or is it not even an exponential thing? Could it be a logarithmic transformation of effort required? Wow, that would be a lot! They say with God all things are possible, but even this faithful Fran turns into a doubting Dorothy when thinking about a logarithmic transformation of effort!

Can someone with a divinity degree help me out with this theological conundrum? I’m asking because I have this friend who needs that kind of help and I want to let this friend of mine know about it. Thank you!

If anyone has had the opportunity of reading the incredible book POWER VS. FORCE by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.[Hay House, Inc.], could you help me by turning to pages 68 and 69 [Map of Consciousness] and indicate to me where you think Rovian/Bushian consciousness is on that chart? Just indicate a level and maybe a reason or two, but please hold down the bi-polar political stuff.