4th June 2003, 5:10 PM
Okay, so... ***angry rant mode activated***
You actually expect me to believe that an 18 year old is a child? Hell, anything past 13 is no longer a child and should comprehend responsibility and have a good grasp of humility.
And no i'm not talking about Arse or you or anyone here in particular. But when you take the oath to be a parent you dont hold their hand and give them meaningless unimportant tasks as a child (such as public schooling, sports and other damaging content), while holding on to their blindfolded so-called "innosense" and then expect them to magically live and function in the real world as adults. We create non-partisan members of society, people who dont exist except on paper. They live, play, breath and drown in self-pity, misunderstandings, self-gratification, confusion and ultimately suffering. Now this has proven to generate genius in some people through art or hobby and maybe even find a place in society with those skills, but they CANT function like they should be able to. They wonder why relationships dont work or why they feel alone, how no one understands them except themselves and that's if they're having a good day.
Evolution works on an hourly basis, just like a tree gains thorns and poison to protect itself from being eaten a person creates walls and barriers that are impossible for them to cross simply because they're afraid of what's on the other side. And that all comes down to people not growing up when they should and realizing that they have every right to be as much a leader as they are a follower. Dont tell me we need to hold on to our children when the children want nothing more than to get as far away from their parents as possible so they can find their place in the flock and accept their inability to reach any moderate goals unless they're scared in to doing it.
There's no golden mean in the forming of a human being, it just happens. And unless that child is given the proper tools it will grow in to being a magnificent coward; All because mother's and father's dont want to push too hard. Yunno what happens when they DO push too hard? We get succesful people in high places who drink on the weekends and see their family once a year. They're the men who built houses out of trees and mud to protect their family's on the open plain and put every effort in their soul to give that family everything they need. And you can bet that the son of the family was out their working when they're ten years old hoping to God that someday he will live up to his father.
Just look around, all I see is children. I see children doing everything they can to get what they want which is nothing but empty confidence and power inside their fortresses of self-gratification, greed and the inability to fanthom responsibility unless it gets them something.
The only thing kids need during those extremely important years of growing in to a functioning adult is understanding, education and discipline on the parents part. And get rid of the fucking boob tube and 1000+ students in a public school and you'll have yourself a fine start to creating some decent human beings.
They may be boring adults with no extraordinary gifts but they'll be happy adults with good lives. Leave the Socrate's and Einstein's to the occasional fluke offering, they're too easy to make, we're running low on people who simply know how to live happy prosperous lives without fucking it up for the rest of us. [/end hypocritical rant]
Having said that, Special Effects class today was awesome and I learned how to make fake skin from kitchen products. :D
You actually expect me to believe that an 18 year old is a child? Hell, anything past 13 is no longer a child and should comprehend responsibility and have a good grasp of humility.
And no i'm not talking about Arse or you or anyone here in particular. But when you take the oath to be a parent you dont hold their hand and give them meaningless unimportant tasks as a child (such as public schooling, sports and other damaging content), while holding on to their blindfolded so-called "innosense" and then expect them to magically live and function in the real world as adults. We create non-partisan members of society, people who dont exist except on paper. They live, play, breath and drown in self-pity, misunderstandings, self-gratification, confusion and ultimately suffering. Now this has proven to generate genius in some people through art or hobby and maybe even find a place in society with those skills, but they CANT function like they should be able to. They wonder why relationships dont work or why they feel alone, how no one understands them except themselves and that's if they're having a good day.
Evolution works on an hourly basis, just like a tree gains thorns and poison to protect itself from being eaten a person creates walls and barriers that are impossible for them to cross simply because they're afraid of what's on the other side. And that all comes down to people not growing up when they should and realizing that they have every right to be as much a leader as they are a follower. Dont tell me we need to hold on to our children when the children want nothing more than to get as far away from their parents as possible so they can find their place in the flock and accept their inability to reach any moderate goals unless they're scared in to doing it.
There's no golden mean in the forming of a human being, it just happens. And unless that child is given the proper tools it will grow in to being a magnificent coward; All because mother's and father's dont want to push too hard. Yunno what happens when they DO push too hard? We get succesful people in high places who drink on the weekends and see their family once a year. They're the men who built houses out of trees and mud to protect their family's on the open plain and put every effort in their soul to give that family everything they need. And you can bet that the son of the family was out their working when they're ten years old hoping to God that someday he will live up to his father.
Just look around, all I see is children. I see children doing everything they can to get what they want which is nothing but empty confidence and power inside their fortresses of self-gratification, greed and the inability to fanthom responsibility unless it gets them something.
The only thing kids need during those extremely important years of growing in to a functioning adult is understanding, education and discipline on the parents part. And get rid of the fucking boob tube and 1000+ students in a public school and you'll have yourself a fine start to creating some decent human beings.
They may be boring adults with no extraordinary gifts but they'll be happy adults with good lives. Leave the Socrate's and Einstein's to the occasional fluke offering, they're too easy to make, we're running low on people who simply know how to live happy prosperous lives without fucking it up for the rest of us. [/end hypocritical rant]
Having said that, Special Effects class today was awesome and I learned how to make fake skin from kitchen products. :D