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So I'm going to focus on this:
See most of the time on the internet, folks when listening to people argue would need some sort of burden of proof of their claims. In this case, I believe within reasonable doubt, that everything you claim is true here. Your storied life. Your adventures. Your past, present, and what you believe now. Its all true... and that is your failing here.
It is what makes you ignorant.
You rattle off your life's work as if it is some sort of resume, look at what I have done. You are literally trying to showing your superiority to me, and to just about anybody who is here reading your story. What a grand life it has been honestly! My life has not been as exciting, but then again, based on what you said here you are literally twice my senior. I still have a lot of living left to do.
See here is the thing: there has never been one post, not one in my history, where the term "I have a real life" has been used as anything other than a pedestal of superiority. You wear your accomplishments like sheath of medals. Because of your storied life, you sit on your high chair and look down at media and the goings on like some curmudgeon, like there is nothing to be gained from studying, watching, and following it.
I looked at what you said in your post about, and what I saw is no growth at all. You essentially doubled down on what you were saying without really even examining what suggesting. What did you say?
Here is the thing though, there is a world you refuse to explore. The internet. Media. Books. There is value to this, and you are actively choosing to dismiss, assuming that what you have seen and done is all you need, and there is no value to any of those things. If there is failing to be had about age an experience, is that with too much of it you assume too much and refuse to embrace what is new and different.
Honestly I choose to see most people here as authentic. Certainly you are. We are all frens here. To be perfectly honest, I like you. You didn't shit on me too much. You'd certainly be somebody to kick a few back with and listen to wisdom you most definitely have to provide. However you missed what I really wanted from you: don't be closed minded. Maybe I was hyperbolic, and certainly an asshole. Could be my youth and certainly it was part was the fact I don't like folks that look down on anything. You, in your age, have decided the world I have explored in my life provides no value to you despite the fact it most certainly does. Staying in that bubble is a bad thing.
I hope when I am your age, I continue to try to embrace and experience many new things. You should too. TDW and TGA are an infinitely small window of what life is.
They are.
Of course, if you live to 79 and have accomplished a lot of significant things then you would also be proud of them fren. People are often uncomfortable with others who have pride in their lives, who have lots of adventures and success, and their own insecurities make the lash out like you are doing.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. "Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)
Your continued ragging on me is getting tiring. You are offering nothing of substance but judgement. No questions, just accusations. Get it?
You are now just talking out your butt. I have read hundreds of books as well as writing four as I said. I can tear down my macs to their frames and rebuild them and hack my OS. You are fantasizing some bumbling old guy here and you are way off target young dude. I ride a motorcycle, lift weights, make love with my 38 yo honey, and more. You are out of your league ragging on me.
That is honest and I would offer that it might be something for you to examine, why you would assume that someone is “looking down on anything” because it has the indication of a wound of some sort. Yeah, I was a psychiatric social work specialist so I am coming from that discipline.
I hope you show the restraint that I have shown with your constant attack and assumptions on me.
When you say "I have a real life", I know everything I need to know about you. Its the biggest tell on the net. Maybe go look up hedging in chat. You've been around the net so long, you should get the concept, right?
Stay frosty out there.
I'm not trying to reduce ANY risk fren. I have taken them all my life and have the scars that remind me.
The difficulty of comment box philosophy is it limits the communication process. I write something, hours later I get a reply, hours later you get mine, etc. :-/
From my perspective in actual life experience there is a significant difference in generations. I often sought out older, wiser men and women to harvest their ideas and insights. Not that I would embrace them all but they would be tools for future experience.
The people under maybe 50 or so that I encounter have a lot of difficulty in accepting someone else may know more then them. Elders are no longer respected for their gifts. It is a youth oriented society. From my counselling days I would say it is a narcisstic condtion. Unable to empathize, appologize, must always be right, etc.
Having studied with Native American and other tribal elders I 'get' what it is about. With a high IQ and high level of curiosity I have filled my life with a quest for knowlege and truths.
When I encounter on line some young guy who has a minimal amount of life experiece and consciousness exploration it is very frustrating. I get the similar responce as the guy above. Insecurity leads to striking out. Sort of like "Piggy" in the book Lord of the Flies.
Best for us all now...