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Originally posted by eroswebmaster@Aug 20 2004, 02:34 PM
PornDoggy if you think there isn't less respect or honor going on today...LOL what was it said earlier about arguing evolution with a creationist.
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Go to agree with PD onthis one.
It always seems like there is less honor and respect, but imho, it is the generational filters that cause a lot of that.
When you are in your teens, you argue and reject everything your parents and them before you found to be true. You fully believe that your generation alone has discovered the secret solutions to every problem imaginable and view the generations before you as stupid for not being able to see them. This has been true since the beginning of time and will always be true.
Later, as you become more real world educated (if you become more real world educated) you start removing the rose color from the glasses a bit and find yourself agreeing with some of what those before you found to be true but sill feeling that they were stupider than you because they didn't take the action that was so plainly in front of them and would have solved all of their problems.
Introduce having kids of your own. The whole fucking thing changes. All of a sudden you realize what your parents went through. All of a sudden, there is a new appreciation for the things that you so solidly rejected in your teens and twenties.
40 hits. You are now a conservative republican, no matter what you were the rest of your life. You no longer understand "the kids today". Their music ("noise") hurts the ears and it can't be music anyway because you can't understand a fucking thing they are saying. And those clothes, what, you have to do all your shopping at the salvation army ??? And no daughter of min is going out dressed like that, you get upstairs and change right now little Missy becomes a regular part of your vocabulary.
I don't know what comes after that because that is the generational filter I'm living with right now..lol...
If it continues as it has, with each mornings waking I will have new respect for those that came before me, at the tenacity that they displayed to solve problems and at their willingness to overcome adversity in order to take care of their family, friends and world.
And hopefully, when I am gone from this world, those that come after me will remember me the same.