Incident: Just viewed a TV commercial for a local real estate company ( have seen it several times and with each one found myself chuckling) promoting the fact that a lot can be done using the computer to browse views of different homes for sale on the Internet. All in the comfort of your own home. So simple in fact, a child is seen asking mother something like "Mother (as if children use the term these days….)how much is the home were looking for?" or the equilvalent. The Sunday School child in all the innocence of a heavenly Saint, is at the computer as though she were watching kittens being born. Wide eyed with amazement in anticipation of pressing the button and she’d be immediately living there.

Thoughts: Indeed, the computers, Internet, and on-line transactions are allowing the home user to command their lives from the Lazy-boy recliner in their homes. I could just picture this innocent little Saint going a littler farther than "Mother" would have expected….. as soon as the child knew or paid attention to the response she’d be off Cyber-searching a new place to live out her fantasies. I picture St. Child as finding a cute little ole castle in the price range of 1.0 to 2.0 million and immediately falling in love with it. Looking over to "Mother" in the other room and asking "Mother, could we live in a castle?" and "Mother" not wanting to crush her little Saints heart, says "..of course dear, whatever your lit’le heart desires" Where upon the St. Child powers up the major offensive…. First, contact the real estate agent by e-mail and find out what she needs. Deposit, down payment and application for a loan? No problem. Just a simple click of the Investment programs, financial spread sheets, banking & asset accounting, along with the direct transactions with the credit cards and limits applicable. This innocent St. Child has just made the initial security deposit with the credit cards, transferred the down payment from the liquidation of the various investment brokerage accounts, wiped out the IRAs, savings & checking, sent financial statements (before liquidation) to the on-line lenders and had the whole deal wrapped up within 20 minutes flat. As she daintily jumps down from the chair she exclaims to her favorite doll the "… You’re really going to be happy in our new home, It’s just what you wanted."

Conclusion: With today’s computerization and the projection of the future, it might be a more drastic change of lifestyle than expected. Things can happen so fast that unless we’ve given the considerable thought, that was allowed by pre-computer processing, we might end up in a real mess and try to undo what was done on the spur of the moment. This could risk the old fashion "Solemn Word", "Honor", and "Self Respect" that accompanied previous transactions of life.