Phrases from the distant past

@SeekingConnection I've seen a mother smack her child on the backside out in the street. It looked to me that the child had no idea why. She would just be crying and screaming.

@WonderGirl Spanking can be very scary and when they actually happen, as is clear from SW posters, they create crystal clear lifelong memories. I hope that you didn't worry about it too much!

@SW-User It sent shivers down one's spine, didn't it? And made other parts tense!

@SuziSatan02 very clever use of the word 'do' in such instances Suzi. Are you familiar with such a phrase as it never happened to me in conjunction with strict CP ?

@Dez580 sometimes my mum told us she just needed to nip next door, later we heard from our friends from next door they were all spanked and our mum and other neighbours just happened to be there when they were bending over or standing afterwards facing a wall

@Dez580 Free entertainment indeed- or studying new techniques.

@Dez580 Yes and there was not much chatting !

@johnstretton2 That was the usual procedure.

@MandyMitchell And I imagine that, despite what the experts now tell us, it was an effective way of deterring future misbehaviour.

@johnstretton2 Pupils who had been whacked seldom caused trouble for a while. The first whacking warmed, but the thought of subsequent treatment on the same place was quite a deterrent. A second whacking would have been harder and sorer.

@barney1 My father was usually away, so I never heard that one.

@MandyMitchell sadly for me mine wasn't!!

@MandyMitchell Same here

@Strictdad1965 Yes but I'm sure you behaved as well and politely as you could, in order to avoid repetition of the procedure.

@helenS Thank you, Helen of S. You are my favorite SW philosopher.

@Alfred22 Thank you – I still prefer Hegel over Richard Rorty and Donald Davidson though!

@helenS Greetings Helen of S.

Hegel aimed to account for all of world history. The two Americans had more modest goals.

I preferred Kim's thinner account of so-called "mental" events and mental causation but Davidson is right about two events being identical only if they have the same causes AND the same effects. Rorty was on the wrong side of whether Philosophy should try to "get it right" or be an accurate representation of nature. Clearly it should.

Hegel thought that history was fulfilled with the unification of some form of the German state. He may not have included all, of or possibly any, of S. So, watch out for Hegel's World Spirit lest it leave you and all you love behind.