It has been a long time since I've given the Monday Mission a whirl. Today's looked rather interesting, so here goes:

PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3.25

1.What is the difference between spirituality and religion?
This is an easy one. In my not-so-humble opinion, religion is an established organization, a box, if you will, that some people use to put their spirituality in. It is used to categorize, define, label and control individuals. I think of religion being akin to being a second grader on the playground. Kids make clubs, define really strange rules, and then dictate that if you want to be in the club, which of course you want to be, because inclusion is the name of the game for us humans, you will follow the arbitrary rules.

Spirituality is what people genuinely believe and how they go about expressing their beliefs.

2. What is the difference between someone listening to what you say and hearing what you say?

What? (heh, heh) Hearing is the active process of sitting there and gathering words from another person. It is what your ears do. I can hear someone say, "you will not be excused from this parking ticket", but unless I am listening, I will not grasp the idea that I owe the state of Illinois some money. Listening is paying attention and processing the information you hear.

3. What's the difference between a Father, and a Daddy?
A father is a sperm donor. A Daddy is someone who actively parents his child. A "daddy" is also a rap term for something-or-other, as in "I'm yo' daddy!"

4. What's the difference between being married and living together?
Getting married will net me a huge check from my grandmother, while living together will get me nothing but tzouris.

5. What's the difference between growing up and growing old?
Growing up implies a maturation process, learning, becoming wiser. Growing old is what I'm doing.

6. What's the difference between getting what you want and getting what you need?

Needs are generally wants and wants aren't always needs. Something that you need is something that is required for your continual survival. By this example, I need food, but want pizza. I would for sure survive if I could never eat another pizza, but I do have to eat something with nutritional value. A want is window-dressing. You don't need it, but it makes things more enjoyable.

7. What's the difference between punishment and discipline?

Discipline and punishment have a cause/effect relationship. Discipline is training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character Punishment is suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution b : a penalty inflicted on an offender through judicial procedure 3 : severe, rough, or disastrous treatment (thank you Mirriam-Webster online). So if you have discipline it ought to follow that you won't get punished.