Absolutely no offense taken......I believe but just not the way I was raised. I have faith in what I believe. It may be right, it may NOT be right.

In this post, I was really looking for WHAT influences have been most important in someone's life. Parents, Teachers, God, Faith??........what.

I think in my particular case it was a combination of my Mom's Mormon values, and my dad's 30 years as a military man. Right from WRONG was instilled at an early age. Christian/Mormon values were instilled at a very early age. RESPECT..again early age....Hard work and the value of a dollar.........early age.

So, by the time I was ready to have a family and pass on my values, I had a pretty dang good system to pass on.

Now I will be the first to admit that I don't believe either of my brothers or my sister have passed on what I would consider good values, and certainly not what they were raised with. I wonder why. What conditions or situations lead to this....economics, bad times, poor decisions.......loss of a loved one......What?? Maybe I am smarter or work harder at it....Maybe I see my daughters as a direct reflection on me.....I don't know.

And I'm throwing this out there....and I don't really believe this is a contributing factor......BUT I'm the only conservative thinking member of the bunch. Everyone else is left to extremely left leaning.....and I don't understand that either, because we were certainly raised with a value system that is polar opposite of that chain of thought.

Later,

Geo