Termyn8or
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Well thanks all.
The one who deems me to have a problem with reality is absolutely right. I don't have a problem grasping it or seeing it, it's that I don't like it.
Who did they blame before the media if the kids turned out bad ? Hanging out with those damn Gable boys across the crick. I know people with kids both good and bad. The Parents of the bad ones will not hear this from me, but it is their fault. The media IS indeed a terrible influence but the home environment must be a stronger influence, and in today's day and age it must be said : a positive influence.
People's attitudes show up everywhere, racing you on the highway, cutting in front in line at the store etc., are commonplace behaviour now from supposed adults, behaviour that I would not even tolerate in a child in any type of care or custody of mine. Come on, they'll risk thousands in damages and possible inury to themselves and others to save fivew seconds of their precious time.
As much as I am a Constitutionalist and knoiw the gov has no business making most of the crap they call laws, I might be disposewd to agree with one; no talking on the cellphone while driving. Not because of the safety issue. If someone can drive, I mean pays attention to their driving sure they can talk on the phone, they can even have a few beers within reason and drive and be fine. The cellphone ban would however get them to SHUT UP ! WTF can you find to talk about so much ?
I mean it, I saw a billboard that advertised "the teen plan" for cellphones. It's 43,000 minutes per month. There are only 43,200 minutes in a month so I assume they need some time to charge the battery.
Peer pressure is to blame I guess. After all when they can't read or speak properly or figure out mathematics the self esteem enbued upon them by the "school" is false, therefore they are engaged in a popularity contest. OK, many years ago I was at a party and they were passing around the crank. When it came to me I said, well, maybe I'll snort some to check it out. The response was no, that is a waste you gotta run it. Well I don't stick needles in my arms so I was the straight one. More for them.
I think the difference is that some of us were raised by ADULTS.
OK I do have a problem with reality, but I am alright. Reality isn't right. The big problem is that there must be a solution to this, preferably one that doesn't involve killing off 80% of the people. Only a republican would think like that. Actually not a republican, a neo-conservative, and these people make Stalin, Gengis Kahn etc look like librarians and they have an arsenal of technology that is awesome. What's more if we find a solution and start helping the sheeple and lemmings in society to understand what's going on the neo-cons are not likely to cast favor on it.
And to the respondant who pointed out that the school system throws their own failure in our face and gets rewarded for it, I cannot agree more. This farce has been going on long enough.
OK, fancy this; We set up neighborhood schools. One guy down the block knows just about everything about history, I know science and mathemetics. Then across the street is a pretty accomplished musician, although has not gotten his claim to fame as of yet. There is a carpenter, a machinist and the old guy who lived through the depression by raising rabbis for food. (I actually saw him as he was throwing out the rabbit cages this year, talk about a pacrat, but what's wrong with that ?).
The whole neighborhood takes their kids out of public school and we begin. The kids do great on the proficiency test just as home schooled kids do. But this is not home school, this is a school and according to them must meet all kinds of stupid requirements. Gender specific lavatories and locker rooms, yes, forgot to mention the gymnasium. Are they kidding ? Look out my window, if you see kids outside they are moving constantly, they have stand alone basketball hoops in the street ! Right in the street.
If we as a group decided to home school each child would have to be at home. This means each presentation or whatever has to be given over and over, going through the neighborhood. If any kid leaves the house to go to "school" this place must be devoid of any religious content, even though it is another's home.
I am not here to be a gloomy Gus, but when one starts going through the promulations of possible solutions, one finds that the government has erected so many obstacles to any viable solutions that it becomes near impossible. Remember I said NEAR impossible. Problem is, that it is imperative. If we don't solve these problems it will be a very shitty world for all of today's children, even those who deserve a better life. Even those who try and succeed will be bogged down supporting the 12 year olds on Jerry Springer who want to have a baby.
Welfare is actually a moot point. Welfare doesn't really affect the economy directly, it is only a few scant percent of the budget. The problem is that it perpetuates a lifestyle spanning generations. When this happens it will inevitably become a significant DIRECT problem for the budgewt, as less people pay and more people take. The big problem is corporate welfare, where billions are awarded in no-bid contracts, and to the point of education, when they give a golden parachute to a school administrator they fired. That million dollars (for example) could pay 100 people $1,000 per month for ten months. Instead some nincompoop or nasty bastard can pick up another ivory back scratcher and a Mercedes for his mistress. Maybe even go to Vegas. Need not worry about losing all his money, he is "connected", it is who he knows not what he knows so he will get another job.
He will likely get another job that screams for competence, something important, yet his competence is totally irrelevant ! You can bet most or all of the good things done by whatever organization he runs will be done by the people under him, making somewhere between 1/10th and 1/20th of what he makes.
This is our world, a world where success is not only not rewarded, but is sometimes punished. Read about Randy Weaver and Ernst Zundel. Get past the smokescreen of the Waco incident and see, to do what needs to be done means to be a seperatist. Not a racist, not a bigot, not a religious fanatic, but if you try it you will be called all of these things, villified in the media as the tanks crush your home.
Let me put it this way, the Branch Davidians were religious fanatics. I would not want them raising my kids by any means. All of the end of the world crap is just that, crap. You cannot prepare for the end of the world, nor even your own corporeal life, so forget it ! We are here to live, and I, for one, am tired of existing. Well, they weren't and they didn't hurt anybody.
Unfortunately one can only exist in a world where they are surrounded by idiots, thieves and all kinds of (_|_)holes. Forums such as this are a breath of fresh air to a suffocating mind. People seem to have brains, and valid opinions here.
So the question still remains, what do we do ? A good start is to realize all this when around kids of the appropriate age(s). Tell them the truth, tell them truths that encourage them to value the truth. Just by talking, unless they're dense we can instill a sense of cause and effect in their mind, and this breaks no laws of Man, whether written or not.
For now this is probably the only forward progress we can make, but it is very important forward progress, and indeed where it will all start. Think of a child upon who you had some influence becoming President and recinding loads of Executive Orders, bringing our troops home and refusing to sign unconstitutional bills. Bringing the budget into check doing what he is supposed to do ! This is a very lofty goal, but something like this is achieved piece by piece, or peace by peace.
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