Posted on 04/12/2018 7:08:23 PM PDT by conservativesister
Talking with hubby tonight and he said "boy,people are really stupid" Where have we heard this recently? My take is:
1. People have gotten too far away from the farm to know where food comes from and other common sense values.
2. People have gotten too far away from church to know the difference from right & wrong. Not a gray area here.
3. Lawmakers have gotten too far away from the 10 Commandments to know the law.
Thanks! I feel better now.
Congrats for creating what is probably the most wide-open and potentially interesting thread that I’ve seen pop up here :-)
Too far into the cell phone to learn how to talk and interact with other people. Or too far from the real world around them.
Probably the only way any sort of sustained civil unrest happens now would be to make peoples smart phones stop working. We are the most passively entertained people ever. What happens if it stops?
The poorest are now the most likely to be obese, while everyone else is generally heavier, with the most well-off generally being the most fit. Something that has never happened before. It’s hard for me to imagine any sustained civil unrest occurring while this is the case.
Freegards
In spite of its terse beginnings I actually have high hopes for this thread.
Yes, it is rather succinct, isn’t it.
With Brawndo, it’s got electrolytes. It’s what plants crave.
Me too. We’ve gotten too far away from “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” The children are now considered the most important member in a family. Not so. The most important people in a family are the father and mother. There is no respect taught.
I will study on that tonight and try to get it together tomorrow or Sat. Thank you for the idea.
A few years back some great commercials came out on the distance between city people and the producers.
I went 23 years without a cell phone and didnt have a personal computer during college (or internet or even email). Life was juuust fine. Mostly better.
And dont be fooled: People were just as gullible and stupid then as they are now. (There was just less recreational drug use.)
(More technology = less freedom)
Good job!
In all fairness, many years ago, perhaps in the 1920s, a Chicago politician with state office ambitions, actually left the city to see the rest of the state. Among other things, he saw a mature cornfield and asked what that was. When told it was corn, he replied, “You mean that stuff that comes in cans?”
When the World War I draft began, there was much confusion in the more rural parts around the Mason-Dixon line, because of the assumption on both sides that the Civil War was starting up again.
As far as corrupted religious faith went, the 20th Century was riddled with religious frauds and scoundrels, such as Father Divine, who eventually promoted himself as God; James F. Jones, “Prophet Jones”, who claimed, and his followers ascribed to him, divine powers from God as a special premillennial “incarnation of the spirit of Jesus Christ”.
There were many such people in “the good old days”.
The Justice Department has gotten too far away from the Constitution...
It could be one of those ‘Thousand Post’-ers :-)
Locals to me believe electricity is magical, that you just plug in cords and voila, it’s there.
So they lobbied to shutdown Indian Point, then someone pointed out that the reactor supplied most of the electricity to Westchester county.
So then these same idiots are lobbying against a compressed natural gas plant in Orange County NY.
They insist that there will be heavy metal contamination from there exhaust....
...from natural gas.
Someone please point out the issue with this, I feel soiled just mentioning that idiocy.
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise
People who get their news from SNL and late night comedians definitely are!
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