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Originally posted by Wisen Heimer
I think it would be great if an entire generation decided to do nothing and to not participate in anything. I dont really care either way though.
Im thinking about just posting up in the middle of town with a few people and just standing there. Maybe set up some chares and sit. Doing absolutely nothing. Maybe bring some instruments and play some music. Every saturday. Maybe some more people will join us and maybe we can sustain doing nothing for an extended period of time. In the middle of town. Spending no money, making no money. Just having a sit. I will call it, "Living inside western society, outside of western society." Pretty much like being homeless except with a bunch of other people. That may be paradise if you think about it. And of course we will be blitzed.
And you ask, have we failed our children?
No, humanity failed itself a long time ago.
I dont think anyone cares anymore. What are we trying to do here anyway? Feed the beast? Rape the planet? Make more laws? Fight more fights? Whats the point? I dont see it.
There are days that I feel like that too. There are days when I wake up and all I want to do is to just go back to bed and pray for a Rip Van Winkle event but I am always gifted with a reason to get up. Of course it helps that my critters are not going to let me sleep pass a certain hour so I have to get up out of self-defense. Yet as much as I would like to remain asleep or to bury my head in the sand I am plagued with a sense of duty and responsibility to the children that are going to have to deal with the world that we leave them. I grew up in a generation that was tired of war and tired of controls so we threw them all away; so we thought. It is more than ironic that we have created a world that is full of more controls, restrictions and wars then we had before. What happened to our commitment to love and the elimination of wars?
[edit on 23-1-2009 by Wisen Heimer]
signature Never underestimate the warmth of a cold nose.
Originally posted by NightSkyeB4Dawn
reply to post by NightSkyeB4Dawn
signature Never underestimate the warmth of a cold nose.
I think that we can learn a lot from our four legged cold nosed companions. I am grounded everyday by the unconditional love, the level of forgiveness and my role of responsibility in their care. Every child deserves unconditional love and that love comes with a role of responsibility of care and well being for the child as well as discipline and guidance. I have friends that think all they have to do is put down a bowl of water and a bowl of food and they have fulfilled their responsibility to their animals. Worse I have friends that think that as long as they provide a roof, three daily meals and clothing that they have done their duty as a parent. Our children have been left to the care of electronic sitters, daycares and schools were the bottom line is not their well being but how much cash they can bring in to their coffers. So many parents replaced parenting with dollars and material goods thinking that they can buy happiness for their children. The results have proved them wrong.
Originally posted by Nemo001
We lost control of our children when someone came up with the big idea of taking the laws away from the parents and giving them to the kids. We couldn't correct them without threats of being put in jail. This bred a whole generation of selfishness. Young parents these days are still focused on just themselves and the kids suffer by being brought up as baggage in Mommy and Daddy's life.
Originally posted by speed_demon
The problem with youth today is the fact that they know they can get away with just about anything without worry of consequences. You cant spank you kids anymore or you run the risk of jail. Plain and simple all these human rights activists have done is set up our young generation for failure through the fact that they have taken away the parents right to discipline at all
The problem with youth today is the fact that they know they can get away with just about anything without worry of consequences.