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Spanking and Proverbs

UPDATE: I thought this article offered an interesting perspective:

I learned to fear my parents – especially my father, to lie whenever possible to spare myself the possibility of being hurt/spanked again, to not trust my parents, and to hide my innermost thoughts, feelings, and struggles from my parents because I feared and did not trust them. I did not seek out their wisdom and teachings at the times I needed it the most because I did not trust them to understand and not hurt me. I have friends who sought out their parents’ guidance about nearly everything in their lives during their teen and young adult years. Those were my friends who were not spanked regularly or at all as children.

UPDATE: I got a text from my sister thinking this was a post written by me. It’s not.

The above paragraph is a quote from an article about spanking and different translations of “the rod” in Proverbs 13:24 and elsewhere. I offered the quote without any commentary because I’m still chewing on some of these ideas.

When you see a black bar with a chain link above a post on my site – it’s a link back to another article I’m sharing. You can click the title and it will take you to the linked post. Also, a green bar on the left (now with an orange box behind it) with an indention means the text next to the green bar is a quote. Also, a blue box with a quotation mark on the left signifies a quote.

Apparently the usability is not as usable as I thought. One of the first rules in usability is if you have to explain how to use it – it’s not user friendly. So maybe I’ll need to go back to the drawing board.

In 1961, the US almost detonated two nuclear bombs over North Carolina by accident

And then there’s this…

On January 23rd, 1961, the United States almost nuked itself by accident. On that day, according to a recently unclassified document obtained by The Guardian, the US Air Force mistakenly dropped a pair of hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, North Carolina…

If the bombs had gone off, the carnage would have reached into Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York city. “Yeah, it would have been bad news — in spades,” Parker F. Jones, then supervisor of nuclear weapons safety at the Sandia National Laboratories, writes in the formerly-secret document. “One simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!”

Gun ownership and firearm deaths go together

A new study that was published online in the American Journal of Medicine reports that gun ownership is a bigger factor than mental illness when it comes to firearms deaths. But the data suggest that both play roles.

NPR writes:

In the study, doctors in New York looked at data on gun ownership, crime rate, firearms-related deaths and depression from 27 developed countries, including the United States, Japan, Great Britain and South Africa.

The United States had the highest rate of civilian gun ownership, at almost 90 guns per 100 people. The next two countries on the list were Switzerland and Finland, with about 45 guns per 100 people. Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom had the lowest gun numbers, ranging from less than 1 gun per 100 in Japan to 6 in the U.K.

The countries with more civilian guns also had the highest rates of firearms deaths, with the United States leading the list at 10 deaths per 100,000, based on an international mortality database.