how do i convince my husband

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Registered: 03-31-2004
how do i convince my husband
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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 4:09pm
how do i convince my husband to let me at least job-share so i can take care of our 3 month old dd? he grew up with his mom working & all his friend's moms working. we can afford it if we cut back on some things, but he doesn't want to cut back & just doesn't understand someone wanting to be a stay at home mom...it doesn't help mycause that the grandmothers will babysit. i'm so unhappy about having to go back to work...he wants me to work full time 1 more year & just doesn't get it! i feel like my heart is being ripped from my chest every time i hink about it.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:22am
Yes, but if God is nothing more than nature, nothing added to nature, just nature, then it is just....natural. Stuff. Go ahead and worship stuff if you want. There's some cool stuff out there. But I'm looking for something outside of the stuff.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:25am
I read them. And I have read much more of Einstein's religious thinking than this.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:41am

"I read them. And I have read much more of Einstein's religious thinking than this."

Could you provide us with some links to more of his work? Perhaps you have access to sources we lay people don't :)

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:45am
By "us" I take it you mean "you"?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:57am

I saw my children when they were awake during the night, before work, after work and before bedtime and weekends/holidays/vacations.


When I say "normal," I meant it hadn't been the norm for me personally in my own life up to that point.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:58am
Does your dd ever have a holiday from school and homeschooling?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 8:59am

"Going back to the old watch analogy, science can tell us, by looking at the watch, how a watch was made, what its component parts are, how those parts are assembled and in what likely order, where the parts might have originated from, etc. What it can't tell simply by looking at the watch, is anything much about the absent watchmaker. That would require information not available to the scientist. It would require questions that the scientist is not interested in asking and often not even interested in asking."

Ahh, the old "Intelligent Design/Teleological Argument" :)

Hmm, and the watch is a part of nature how...? How can you compare something that is mechanical to something that is biological? See the dilemna here?

Also, a watchmaker creates watches from pre-existing materials, whereas God is claimed to have created the universe from nothing. Again, see the dilemna here?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 9:00am

"Does your dd ever have a holiday from school and homeschooling?"

Yes, hence the word approximately.

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Registered: 08-12-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 9:08am
I consider "me time" to be time in which I am free to choose how to spend that time without obligation to family members or my employer.

 

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-16-2005 - 9:19am

"Yes, but if God is nothing more than nature, nothing added to nature, just nature, then it is just....natural. Stuff."

Nothing more than nature??? Nothing added to nature??? Just nature??? What exactly do you want here LOL? Why exactly do you want something "supernatural"?

Aren't you at all amazed by the fact that you could never even begin to count all the stars in the sky? By the incredible design of our bodies? By the marvelousness of the holding a newborn baby in your arms? By the metamorphic change that a caterpillar undergoes to become a butterfly? By the magnificence of the natural wonders of the world: The Grand Canyon, The Great Barrier Reef, Angel Falls (the tallest waterfall in the world), the Aurora Borealis (the northern lights), etc ???

"Stuff. Go ahead and worship stuff if you want."

Stuff??? How can you possibly compare nature to stuff???

"There's some cool stuff out there. But I'm looking for something outside of the stuff."

Indeed you are. BTW, what exactly *are* looking for here?

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