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So What's the Difference Between Now and When I Grew Up?
vanity | Feb 15, 2018 | ML/NJ

Posted on 02/15/2018 5:18:41 PM PST by ml/nj

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To: thoughtomator
True, but I was just saying that there have been fatherless boys, raised by mothers, since time began.

OTOH...yes, I fully agree with you...re sperm donators.

101 posted on 02/15/2018 6:51:04 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

That spirit was already in the air but obama opened the door to a full fledged war against us and our country. This nation stands in the way of world dominion ... the hate for our President (who is shown to be the most conservative and the most Christian like man who has ever held the office) and they on the left are not happy.. neither is that spirit that is their master. Trump is in their way and the whole world is against him and what he is doing. Ya wonder how he stands in it and does not crumble or quit.... we, out here... we know and we love our President! I think God is pleased.


102 posted on 02/15/2018 6:51:05 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Damifino
" Imagine millions of adolescent boys spending hours living this fantasy..."

And our mothers told us if we kept doing that we would go blind.

103 posted on 02/15/2018 6:52:11 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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later


104 posted on 02/15/2018 7:03:52 PM PST by lysie
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To: ml/nj
So, what's different?

war on God and Christian worldview by libtards

105 posted on 02/15/2018 7:09:18 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: ml/nj

1. God out of schools/ government/ and society.

2. Men destroyed for being men in our schools and in society in general. The MSM depicts men as bumbling idiots. Comparing Father Knows Best to the Cosby show for example.

3. Ending the draft. Men serving in the military forced many of them to grow up and trained them valuable life skills, like how to work. So instead, men went on to higher education, which brainwashed them into the liberal mindset.

4. Common sense was common back in the 50s and 60. Kids today rarely have a lick of sense.


106 posted on 02/15/2018 7:20:42 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Will the last responsible person leaving California, please turn out the lights.)
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To: ml/nj
I think it started with the breakdown of the concept of honor. In the past, people would not want to ruin their good name and the name of their family. Honor was an important value. For that matter, an intact nuclear family was an important societal goal, but that's not the norm anymore.

About the same time honor died, discipline in schools and even among the adult population declined sharply. If it feels good, do it, became more the norm than self-discipline. All those "Victorian" social norms that people of our generation (I graduated in '64 too) threw out as old-fashioned were actually vital to societal well-being.

The gradual rise of ever more violent, trashy, vulgar entertainment hasn't helped.

Giving psychotropic drugs to young children, especially boys, has been a disaster, as has been the rise of destructive efforts to deny the differences between boys and girls. It used to be "boys will be boys," but now it's "boys can't be boys, but girls can."

Another cause is our complete failure to provide safe institutions for the genuine mentally ill among us, and provide reasonable, well regulated means to have someone committed against their will when truly necessary.

107 posted on 02/15/2018 7:33:07 PM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

1. God out of schools/ government/ and society.

2. Men destroyed for being men in our schools and in society in general. The MSM depicts men as bumbling idiots. Comparing Father Knows Best to the Cosby show for example.

3. Ending the draft. Men serving in the military forced many of them to grow up and trained them valuable life skills, like how to work. So instead, men went on to higher education, which brainwashed them into the liberal mindset.

4. Common sense was common back in the 50s and 60. Kids today rarely have a lick of sense.

When I went to high school in the mid 1950’s we were not allowed to be discourteous to our teachers or each other. We were assigned homework and totally expected to turn it in; we were allowed to take advance placement courses when it was clear we were ready regardless of our “year” in school. Those courses kept us “busy”. Our relationships with boys was “shy” mostly...until we got older. I loved it. The society within which I lived was not one of drinkers and philanderers but serious men and women who took their kids camping and square dancing.

I am so grateful for my schools and what my parents tried to do and what they were successfull doing.


108 posted on 02/15/2018 7:34:43 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: ml/nj

back then You prayed and read the bible in school everyday. that and schools actually taught kids real stuff. Now we need to just ban schools


109 posted on 02/15/2018 7:36:54 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: folkquest

Sending a child to a Public school is a form of Abuse.
So many Liberal teachers in my family, all sent their kids to Catholic Schools, as did I. We agree on Nothing... they have “seen” what I have not.
Umm .,yes, that is true, but none of us exposed our kids to Public Schools.
The Irony is Rich.


110 posted on 02/15/2018 7:38:33 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: ml/nj
In part you answered your own question...

Guns were MUCH MORE AVAILABLE then. Schools had rifle teams. I shot an untethered .22 at Coney Island. I shot guns at Boy Scout Camp. Anyone who thinks that more gun restrictions now would help is oblivious to this.

We were raised to respect firearms not fear them. They were ordinary tools not mythologized demonic instruments. The rest of the answer is we were more likely to be raised with respect for others in general.

111 posted on 02/15/2018 7:41:30 PM PST by TigersEye (Where is the Trump/Russia collusion memo? ... Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?)
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To: ml/nj

Vatican II


112 posted on 02/15/2018 7:42:27 PM PST by PeteyBoy (The wall. Build it and they won't come.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

Perhaps President Trump is this generation’s Elijah?


113 posted on 02/15/2018 7:42:55 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: ml/nj

When you grew up, guns were still legal. Schools had gun clubs. You could still hunt squirrels in the city of Chicago. Nearly all children lived with both parents. There were hardly any illegals. There were a lot of veterans of WW1, WW2 and Korea running around who’d kill you if you messed with their kids. When they got on juries they’d find eahother acted in self-defense.


114 posted on 02/15/2018 7:43:35 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ml/nj

The main difference is that God is no longer allowed in the schools.


115 posted on 02/15/2018 7:51:39 PM PST by native texan
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To: Bodega

Oh, the head of the school that my kids went to, was no one to mess with. It was me.


116 posted on 02/15/2018 8:08:14 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Will the last responsible person leaving California, please turn out the lights.)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

It can’t be lack of prayer in the schools. There was absolutely zero prayer in public schools when I was young and there were no school shooters.

By the way, the first school shooter I ever heard of (because I hadn’t heard of that guy shooting from the bell tower) was in the 1980s in a small town in Switzerland when I lived there. An older kid, high school age, went back to his elementary school and shot himself in the head in the night on the playground there in a dramatic suicide attempt, lived through it and shot himself again after, leaving his body to be found by people coming to school the next day. It just seemed like the most ghastly thing in the world at the time.


117 posted on 02/15/2018 8:14:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Damifino

My first two sons and all of their friends played / play those shooter games and NONE of them are violent young men now. Two are in the military, Air Force and they are all great kids.


118 posted on 02/15/2018 8:19:04 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: abb

The planned (and partly successful) attack on the two-parent nuclear family unit.


I do think that there is no such thing as “quality” time with kids. They need a home with a parent in it. Quantity time with a strong, secure, loving parent.


119 posted on 02/15/2018 8:20:47 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ml/nj

It’s changed tremendously since the 80’s and 90’s too.


120 posted on 02/15/2018 8:21:32 PM PST by EdnaMode
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