Posted on 01/15/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Born in ’61 I guess I’m a “Tweener” then.
I sort of remember the Ed Sullivan Show but don’t know who Sky King was, don’t remember the Mickey Mouse club. Captain Kangaroo – yes!
As a toddler I was sitting on my father’s lap when Oswald was shot on live TV but don’t remember a thing about it.
But even so I still kick a@@ at Trivial Pursuit.
I'm a boomer, and at 43 I'm not planning to die anytime soon. Sorry, you're stuck with us a little longer.
And walking 6 miles to school each way, both of them uphill...
What do you consider the best of the Sixties?
The way of life and as a kid growing up in Southern California it was AWESOME!
People were nicer and friendly. People did for one another
Sunday was family day. Your neighborhood was sace you had get togethers, it was s time for PEOPLE to be with each other.
Now a days people socialize on computers,.
Neighborhoods are behind gates managed by HOA, people do not know each other, adults are afraid to talk or approach little kids out of fear being labeled a pedophile or pervert.
The way of every day life is what I feel many Baby Boomers miss and what the rest of the generations after that have no clue about.
I don't think anyone would dispute the suggestion that the Boomers are the "navel gazing" generation. Self-help books, therapy, psychoanalysis, Oprah Winfrey, the explosion of methods to look inward has only increased only time.
Regards, Ivan
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The Fabianski twins......and that's all I have to say about that.
I have a problem with a notion the Boomers put forward - that if we're not happy all the time, something is wrong. Happiness should be secondary to honour and to one's duty. Happiness is not everything.
Regards, Ivan
Nope, we're all going to live to a very ripe old age just to spite you. We're healthier and more physically fit than The Greatest Generation --we work out to tick you off!
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Amen from the (birth)class of '51.
Happiness is not everything.
YES IT IS..
No happiness NO Peace...
Unhappy people will fail in every respect..People that serve with Honour and patriotism do it with HAPPINESS not unhappiness.
Everyone deserves to be HAPPY it was GOD's intention as our spirit should worship GOD with happiness and Joy..
Sorry my friend you are wrong on this one...
The generation responsible for killing over 100 million babies, that's how they will be remembered.
and AMEN and AMEN to both of you're posts!
And the next generation can claim killing and dis-respecting thier families, co-workers, school mates.
Kids killing Kids as well as abortion on demand.
Um no. It's God's intention that we do what is right. That's fundamentally incompatible with indulging every instinct that we think will make us happy.
Regards, Ivan
Well, I was "appalled" but "not surprised" at that statement, LOL!
Wrong again...
GOD commands us to do things that brings happiness not unhappiness, what you said makes no sense.
GOD did not create us to be unhappy....
working out will just make you die sooner, mark my words, no boby builder or olympic athelete that I know of made it to 100.
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