raggies random remarks ....

[Monocrom]

omg i just ran over a girafe in central park

I'm sure you had the right of way.

 

[raggie33]

lol

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

omg i just ran over a girafe in central park

Sounds like it was the giraffe's fault. It should have seen you coming a mile away. This was a hit and didn't run.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Sounds like it was the giraffe's fault. It should have seen you coming a mile away. This was a hit and didn't run.

Yeah clearly the giraffe was sticking it's neck out.

 

[raggie33]

this is why i dont talk to humans offline ok a thing about me is every person i see who may need help i ask its how i am i care about others today i ask when i saw a women haveing trouble pushing her lawn mower for real took her like3 minutes to go a foot so i ask if i can help and she got mad lol. but latter i was told she a bit odd but lol my luck with humans suck

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

You'd be surprised by how many people have lost their ability to communicate with others the way we used to. This current generation has been raised with a screen as an intermediary between person to person. It gives them a way to instantly avoid dangerous situations by not talking directly, but it has also made people more like loaners who never develop the skills to read people, trust, and learn much compassion.

After 9/11, the "Me Too" movement, the Black Lives Matter riots, the defund the police movement, the Covid lockdowns, the open border fiasco with near 20 million illegals recently in the country (many murderers, rapists, thieves, fentanyl drug dealers, and terrorists), actor Alec Baldwin killing someone with a gun, the attacks on Israel culminating with riots on college campuses, the stock market crashing, and us heading into World War III, I wouldn't be surprised if most people didn't have PTSD. If they watch liberal news media, they're probably afraid 1 out of every two people in the U.S. wants to jump out of the bushes and attack them for their political views.

 

[bluflaam777]

Serious communication relies on things other than just words. Context. Gestures. Inflections. Nuances of the moment. Even odors and other senses can change or at least influence the meaning of 'words'. Add in personal experiences and cultural social norms and you can get into a war... or a marriage. LOL

 

[Monocrom]

this is why i dont talk to humans offline ok a thing about me is every person i see who may need help i ask its how i am i care about others today i ask when i saw a women haveing trouble pushing her lawn mower for real took her like3 minutes to go a foot so i ask if i can help and she got mad lol. but latter i was told she a bit odd but lol my luck with humans suck

Mine too! Offer to help, they think you're either trying to rob them or you'll end up charging them afterwards.

 

[raggie33]

omg i forgot how great the movie angus is maybe its just becuase i was a bullied genxer

 

[iacchus]

Maybe I'm the minority, but I'm quite fond of the current crop of kids. For all their lulz and mischief, their rivers run surprisingly deep. I find them to be far more empathic than their older counterparts and deeply concerned about human kindness and care. They tend to strike a certain position to get a rise out of "the olds", but kids are and always will be, kids.

I realize that most don't share my view, but it is informed by direct experience of a bunch of boisterous and enjoyable young teens that I am often surrounded by. Such is the life of an involved parent, I guess.

In other words, the kids are all right.

 

[Monocrom]

....In other words, the kids are all right.

Have to very respectfully disagree with you regarding that last part.

 

[raggie33]

even as a kid i didnt hang out with kids i always hung out with folks older then me. but i have no patince

 

[raggie33]

i recall kids my age wanting to egg someones house i told them thats just stupid and to me it was . i saw no pint i rather ask to mow there yard or do other yard work fix therre stuff etc etc.

 

[Monocrom]

Kids can be viciously cruel and rather mean-spirited.

 

[raggie33]

we wasnt just poor we was the poorest family in there projects lol. so most days was about survival not play. but a course we had fun times to but i sure dont wanna relive it lol

 

[xxo]

we wasnt just poor we was the poorest family in there projects lol. so most days was about survival not play. but a course we had fun times to but i sure dont wanna relive it lol

wasn't there a tv show about that?

 

[raggie33]

wasn't there a tv show about that?

lol we kind of thought they was richer

 

[Monocrom]

Eventually everyone on "Good Times" made it out of The Projects....
Well, except the dad.

 

[iacchus]

Eventually everyone on "Good Times" made it out of The Projects....
Well, except the dad.

...Damn, .. Damn, .. Damn!

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Maybe I'm the minority, but I'm quite fond of the current crop of kids. For all their lulz and mischief, their rivers run surprisingly deep. I find them to be far more empathic than their older counterparts and deeply concerned about human kindness and care. They tend to strike a certain position to get a rise out of "the olds", but kids are and always will be, kids.

I realize that most don't share my view, but it is informed by direct experience of a bunch of boisterous and enjoyable young teens that I am often surrounded by. Such is the life of an involved parent, I guess.

In other words, the kids are all right.

I'd say you're definitely in the minority. I'll admit that the current generation of kids has a lot of passion toward causes, but do not mistake that for empathy. These are the people who chain and glue themselves to freeways to protest climate change. They have no empathy for the people trying to get to work or ambulances trying to get patients to hospitals quickly. They throw paint at priceless works of art and deface Stonehenge. They have no respect for history, private property, or the immense work it took someone to make what they try to destroy in an instant. This generation of kids also was responsible for preventing Jewish students from going to class and threatening them. They held up signs saying "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free". This called for the genocide of the nation of Israel. They held up signs saying "Gays for Palestine". Palestinians kill gays. That's as stupid as holding up a sign during the Holocaust saying, "Jews for Hitler". Yes, those students are that stupid and I would invite anyone to purchase them a one way ticket to Gaza to wake them up.

This generation is self centered, getting offended if you don't use their correct pronouns. They convince themselves that they are good people by all the causes they are included in, but all those causes are about blaming others for the world's problems and disrupting the lives of ordinary people. They do not know the meaning of work and what it takes to actually get something built or accomplished. They focus their efforts on destroying what others have accomplished and blame the rich for not paying their "fair share" when those people earned what they made and should be proud of it, not scorned for refusing to give it to those that didn't do jack . They are focused on trying to make others do something to change the world and they need to be focused on what they can do personally, and it doesn't involve spending tens of thousands of dollars for a gender studies major to come out afterward not being able to define what a woman is.

This generation has a lot of passion. They are trying to be good by doing bad. Reminds me of Paul being zealous persecuting Christians before his conversion. He thought he was doing everything possible to be a good person, but in the end all his efforts amounted to in God's eyes.

Philippians 3:4-8: "though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh; I have more: circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them , that I may gain Christ"

Let's just say this current generation is like a bunch of Pauls before he met Jesus. They have a lot of potential for destruction with their zeal, but with a change of heart they could change the world for the better. By the way, if you're wondering about that last sentence of the Bible verses I put as thinking the Bible doesn't say that, it says rubbish, look it up in the Greek, the word is skybala.