For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much going on right now and 2024 just beginning, let's try to put things in perspective, knowing that we can handle it all. There has never been a storm in world history that has lasted forever. This too shall pass.
Thank you for putting this into perspective. It reminds me of all the stories my great grandparents would tell us & the stories my mother raised me on to encourage us to take care of what we had, because we didn't know when another would come along (always referencing the WW1 & Great Depression times).
We certainly have our own challenges today, but they are a very different set of challenges & at leat my family isn't having those same physical battles & challenges of those times. Battling in the war for minds & souls is where I would rather be, though my mom just wants a TV with a knob she can more easily understand. I am so glad she & my father strongly encouraged me to learn teach as young as they did.
Maybe its just me, but I seriously wonder why this poster consistently refuses to give proper credit to original authors or sauce, and happily pretends that other's hard work is his own....
https://www.facebook.com/someamazingfacts/posts/perspective-is-an-amazing-thing-for-a-quick-moment-imagine-you-were-born-in-1900/1258926312931144/
https://www.instagram.com/historyphotographed/p/C1hnK-Zrj9n/?hl=en&img_index=1
u/Brent75 this is the reason why I keep reporting him. He almost never does it, and I've commented many times in his threads about it. Have y'all verified him? Many other posters have complained. If the guys actually old, I guess I get it, but it's getting tiring.
Perhaps they need the content so much that they just turn a blind eye to it?
I don't think the mods would do something like that. Mods have the say so here regardless and i wouldn't cast doubt on their judgement, though it doesn't account for the issue of sourcing which is highly important. Its no shame to Oldpatriot, i just want to make sure we have verifiable material, because many more eyes are on this board than we realize, and we have to be very careful.
There could be a reason we ignore reporting on OP: like long time contributor, follows the rules 99% of the time, is very consistent with content, and deeply knows his stuff about the GAW movement.
Maybe it’s time to worry about other things more pressing in life, than a simple Patriot contributor on a digital forum if it’s “tiring”. 😑
It does matter because it's a guideline here (unverified content). I made a post that got stickied here talking about posting the sauce. He was one of the posters I was referring to. "There could be a reason"? I'm not telling you to ban him or discipline him, but you seem to be skirting around the edges of what I'm trying to tell you; if he knows his stuff, help others by POSTING THE SAUCE instead of karma farming!
And I actually do have a LOT going on in my life, and it's a great struggle, but I appreciate the insult. "Sauce or it didn't happen" existed long before this board and is how we separated the shills, doomers, feds and other noise makers from content research.
When Old Patriot said, "I Know I Needed It!!!", I figured they likely found it somewhere else.
Also how many times have frogs gotten after each other for FB posts? That said, I haven't seen them post to links that could be making them a paytriot & according to a moderator (link below), they are following the rules 99% of the time & deeply knows their stuff about GAW.
With those 5 up votes, there seem to be at least 4 others who would appreciate some sort of link, I just don't happen to be one that worried on a post like this. I didn't feel a need to prod deeper. Though if I did, I would have asked them for the sauce & then thanked them when they provided it.
If Old Patriot truly is old & computer use is a secondary (recently acquired) skill set for them, then I can give it a pass. Having worked with thousands of elderly, teaching them how to use a plethora of programs on a variety of OSes, it can be difficult for them to remember everything unless a check list is written down (that is where I saw the most success) & a reminder of how to accomplish each of those steps is readily available.
I grew up using & loving tech (DOS & GBasic being my initial interaction platform). Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V, along with many other keyboard shortcuts are second nature to me, Though I was blessed with a PC in my home, while most kids my own age didn't have one until we were almost teenagers. I was suprised at how many didn't have access to a computer unless they were at school.
Ultimately there are other things that irk me more than this, but to each their own 😊
https://greatawakening.win/p/19Ae3rqmTW/x/c/4eRShaPom53
If he can copy text, he can copy an URL. He can post an url in the text. At a minimum, he could write: "I found this <on facebook>." Or anything.
Consistently and immaculately copy/pasting content while avoiding or ignoring the value and important of identifying sauce, or at a minimum, giving credit where it is due, is lame at best, dishonest at worst.
For a long time I accepted it and gave OP the benefit of the doubt. But then there were the recent posts where he did just what he did here: copy/pasted large article or text, and refused to give any credit, aside from sauce.
How do you think the patriot journalist who wrote the recent article about Elon feels about OP just copy pasting the content and ignoring all decent practice to identify that it was the authors (and thereby deliberately impart the impression that he is the author himself)?
What kind of board gives a free pass to assh*les who so willingly take credit for other people's efforts? Are we on Reddit? Or GAW?
Fair enough. I will need to dig into the account. Thank you for bringing that toy attention.
Its not a second pass if he is posting so frequently. This board is comp'd and has been since 2022.