How do you extirpate the things that are bad for you.

[arthra]

That was SO interesting for me to read. Of course, you've been here o RF for years, and I've always known you were a Baha'i, but had someone else (someone whose religion I didn't know) had posted that thread (without the specific mention of the Baha'i Faith), I would have SWORN it was written by a Mormon. It appears we have similar values and similar ways of raising our children.

Katzpur,

Thanks so much for your sincere post... I admire the good qualities I've seen in my Mormon friends as well and incorporated one of the practices of your Faith in my own family some years ago: The Family Home Evening as I termed it above: "....one evening a week where we had a family consultation... "

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

If I understand you correctly, you've been vaping for six years: that's replacing one dangerous habit with another, slightly less dangerous. You're still inhaling carcinogens, just lower doses and different ones.

There's no evidence that vaping causes cancer. Nicotine is not a carcinogen. The problem is the combustion process in smoking. That doesn't take place with vaping. It's just water vapor.

 

[Forever_Catholic]

If I understand you correctly, you've been vaping for six years: that's replacing one dangerous habit with another, slightly less dangerous. You're still inhaling carcinogens, just lower doses and different ones.

That's a very common misperception, but as Saint Frankenstein noted above, It's essentially water vapor, nicotine at whatever desired level, and flavoring. Actually, it's water in vegetable glycerin and/or food grade propylene glycol, which produce the vapor. There is no tobacco in it and no combustion of anything. Vaping is not appreciated by governments, which have lost enormous tax revenues that former smokers are no longer paying, and this is the only reason the FDA wants to put restrictions on it, Test after test has failed to identify a health risk associated with responsible vaping.

 

[Muffled]

Are smoking and drinking deemed to be sinful!! Why?
I thought sin was things like murder, theft, masturbation, homosexuality, etc.
No problem calling on Jesus if he helps you; the Flying Spaghetti Monster helped me get off pizza and onto pasta.

I believe that is blasphemy. Pizza rules!

I believe smoking and drinking to excess are sinful for a born again Christian and just harmful for everyone else. For a Baptist drinking itself is sinful.

 

[Muffled]

If I named a bunch of people who had truly impressive amounts of willpower, there would be a frightening correlation between large amounts of willpower and insanity.

I believe my observance of schizaphrenics is that they have a decided lack of willpower. It is usually called Paranoid Schizaphrenia because fear rules their lives. Perhaps one would have a case with megalomaniacs and narcissists.

 

[Muffled]

Thanks for sharing "Muffled"... My family is Baha'i and we generally focus on positive values and virtues.

I would suggest there are a couple of ways you might consider extirpating the things that are bad for you...and your children and of course each situation for each person could vary.

First focus on the good qualities that your children have.. If they enjoy reading or exploring things encourage them..take them to museums..expose them to high culture.

I have one son that became an artist.. I encouraged him by drawing things with him and going to Art classes with him. Today he's a graphic Artist.

Another way is to see that your children are with other children who are generally well behaved and having good qualities..We had a Baha'i youth organization that the children were involved in Youth for One World and all of them were in Scouting.

Of course be yourself a good model for your children. ... My wife and I don't drink alcohol or smoke tobacco in our home.. We don't allow it. We also didn't allow knives or even toy guns as toys... I also saw that we avoided childrens' clothing with ads for beer.

I also encouraged them to watch television shows or movies that had good values..

Being a Baha'i we had one evening a week where we had a family consultation.. and each child was encouraged to share positive things they were doing or they could ask questions.

All my children turned out fairly well.. My daughter is a librarian at the local University. I have one son that's a Paramedic and as I mentioned above one is a Paramedic.

I played with toy soldiers and capguns when I was a kid but as an adult I don't like guns. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fireman but when I grew up I had no such desire. When I was a kid I didn't like singing hymns ; as an adult I love singing hymns.

 

[arthra]

I played with toy soldiers and capguns when I was a kid but as an adult I don't like guns. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fireman but when I grew up I had no such desire. When I was a kid I didn't like singing hymns ; as an adult I love singing hymns.

My son used to like watching the TV series "Emergency" and became a Paramedic! My daughter loved reading books and became a Librarian at the University... Another son enjoyed drawing pictures with me and became a Graphic Artist....

 

[pandagurl71]

Personally I have found that I can not change any bad habit without first experiencing Desire. After I feel desire, I then begin to act upon that and then I begin to implement my spirituality (the tools.) I use self hypnosis, my forms of prayer and meditation, also journaling; ritual as well.

 

[ronandcarol]

How do you extirpate the things that are bad for you.
I don't have anything earth-shattering, all I could suggest is to turn it over to God. If a person is truly trying and sincere in their prayer time, God is the best cure/medicine for anything that you might want to quit. Although it also says that His power is made perfect in our weakness.

ronandcarol