True enough; my seeming natural affinity for reading & English styuff in school goes back to my mom teaching me young & instilling a love of reading
I read adult scifi
Heinlein- then reread as ab adult to discover another world in his writings)
Sure, it was lurid, but it put it all in a perspective
schools don't teach "history" they force the memorisation of names(people & places) & numbers, usually out of contect of the nmotivations involved.
Nobody's learning from history, because nobody's teaching it any more, to kids, anyway.
Sort of like people believed X because society thought Y.
Yup, & this is readily accessible now by digesting popular TV, movies, & books.
& other kneejerk isms, like "war solves nothing." (hmm? Slavery, Nazism?)
I'd love to terach,
I struggled with math all through high school and college
Works for me. :)
When I was growing up there were always books in the house, then I found the school library, then the public library. Books can open up a whole new world to people.
Unfortunately many parents just plop their young ones in front of the one-eyed babysitter and never instill a love of reading into the kids, probably because the parent was never taught that.
I read adult scifi
I am a non-fiction reader, mostly history, science, biographies, etc.
Heinlein- then reread as ab adult to discover another world in his writings)
I am like that with news.
I read/listen to both sides and make my own decisions. Of course I agree more with the writer who shares my opinion on things. :)
Sure, it was lurid, but it put it all in a perspective
Perception is very important on any subject.
schools don't teach "history" they force the memorisation of names(people & places) & numbers, usually out of contect of the nmotivations involved.
It is very important to not only know dates of events (your example of
The Great War, Arch Duke Ferdinand, etc). But it is also very important to know the background of why it happened.
Sure he was shot in 1914, Germany, England, France, Russia went to war but what were some of the underlying reasons aren't taught or skimmed over.
The British Empire is seldom mentioned seeing Germany as a competitor in colonies (mostly in Africa), Germany building a navy to compete with England, the Austro-Hungarian Empire about to collapse from inside making room for
Germany, which had only been a
Then add in the reason for colonies and empires, which was mostly based
on trade, not just conquering some country because they were weaker, etc.
To often there is little context taught.
History doesn't happen in a vacuum.
Nobody's learning from history, because nobody's teaching it any more, to kids, anyway.
Yep. --sigh--
Sort of like people believed X because society thought Y.
Yup, & this is readily accessible now by digesting popular TV, movies, & books.
Too often movies and tv don't give a subject a lot fact and often is one sided.
If one wants to present some one-sided argument about something, fine, just be honest about not try and pretend its the only side.
& other kneejerk isms, like "war solves nothing." (hmm? Slavery, Nazism?)
And notice how suddenly that side wants to change the subject?
Or the "Yeah, but" argument.
I'd love to terach,
I do a lot of training for new parking enforcement officers but I
quickly get bored repeating the same thing often either "by the book" or out in the field.
I could never be a teacher repeating the same thing several times a day in a class.
Once every couple of months is about my limit. :)
Because I was, thank God, raised properly, I did know right from wrong.
First saw & rode a city bus at age 19. Naturally, I sat in the first seats I found empty, so I could see where I was going & not walk any
more than required. When older folk, especially witgh canes, entewred
the bus, I was up like a shot &6 moving back, as I could see into the future alternative history & feel my dad beside me, as I kept sitting,
& felt a cuff upside the head & a very stern, no-nonsense, "You do NOT take a seat from a senior."
Personally I think this goes with the loss of religion being a part of modern society/culture.
I loved writing for years, but some of life got in there & broke my momentum, but I hope/want to get back into it, but more non-fiction
now, I'm thinking. . .
Like the Little Johnny wartime tale with the moral: "The moral of the story is you don't {mess} with my grandpa when he's been drinking."
I spent a bit of time as an athiest, hostile to all religion, then went through a fundamentalism phase; now I'm more what your founding fathers would call a Deist. (The universe was created, but I couldn't explain
Who or how very accurately, I'm sure)
To stay within the boundaries here, & I'll just say that I believe exclusionary approaches to be inherently flawed. Example: "God must
love insects: He made so many of them."
Like has been said: "I love everybody, & you're next!" (spiritually, people, settle down!)
Exactly; i'm able to uynderstand modern society's shallowness by digestiung their more pouplar inputs. (ezxcept I tend to not give much weight to rap, nor Jerry Springer-esque personalities/shows--I know
they exist, & I get some of why they're popular, &. . . I'm done.)
Amen! I had a slew of books suited to my changing reading level/age, but also a huge shelf of more adulty books
Yup. My tv, until I was 12, was limited to watching with my parents whatever they were watching,
Because I was, thank God, raised properly, I did know right from wrong.
First saw & rode a city bus at age 19.
Naturally, I sat in the first seats I found empty
When older folk, especially witgh canes, entewred the bus, I was up like a shot &6 moving back
Personally I think this goes with the loss of religion being a part of modern society/culture.
Without going too deep into creation, the point is "you can't get something from nothing"...you have to have a Creator.
Or you go to the hockey games to watch the fights. <G>
Even though I'm disabled, I will yield the VAN handicapped parking spaces to those who need such. There are many people in far worse shape than I am.
We also threw out any sense of morality and conduct. Now, it's like "anything goes".
I liked the late Archie Campbell's "Bedtime Stories For Adults". Those included the Spoonerisms of Rindercella and The Pee Thrittle Igs. <G> You can search for that on YouTube.
Without going too deep into creation, the point is "you can't get something from nothing"...you have to have a Creator.
joke where
this athiest tells God that "he has found a way to create things"...and says "First, you take some dirt...", and God interjects "Hold on!! Get our own dirt". <G>
The stinging ones and the rodents I have to wonder why they bother us.
Or like the tagline "Don't you wish Noah had swatted those 2 mosquitoes??".
Along that line, I did Bill Cosby's "Noah And The Ark" for my final exam
in 10th grade drama class in high school...I got a perfect score. :)
I think of the one where this guy told this girl in the relationship,
he'd work to get rid of cancer in life. When told "that's commendable",
he said "I'll go after the Capricorns next". <G>
Or you go to the hockey games to watch the fights. <G>
My father brought a Encyclopedia Britannia which I loved reading.
I would just grab a volume at random, to start, and read from cover to cover. Later I would read it starting with Volume One.
That disappeared in a move when I was around 13/14.
Yup. My tv, until I was 12, was limited to watching with my parents whatever they were watching,
Same here.
Until I was 18, and on my own, there was only one tv in the house. And before cable was thought of and only three or four channels.
Now I don't even have a tv. Got rid of it years ago. And I don't miss it.
Because I was, thank God, raised properly, I did know right from wrong.
Same here.
First saw & rode a city bus at age 19.
I guess I was around 10 at the time. Had a ride to school then get home on my own.
Today a 10 year-old riding a bus alone would cause a lot of people to go into a swoon.
Naturally, I sat in the first seats I found empty
I like to ride in back. That way I can keep an eye on what's going on around me.
When older folk, especially witgh canes, entewred the bus, I was up like a shot &6 moving back
At my age that is getting more and more rare. :)
Personally I think this goes with the loss of religion being a part of modern society/culture.
Agreed.
I like the reply Billy Graham gave an interviewer if he believed in creation or the big bang theory. He replied "I believe God created everything, with a big bang". :)
I guess you heard about the big street fight where a hockey game
broke out.
One of my fave Cosby bits, but all are tainted now, sadly, by what he became.
I think of the one where this guy told this girl in the relationship,
he'd work to get rid of cancer in life. When told "that's commendable",
he said "I'll go after the Capricorns next". <G>
Red flag for psychopath warning!
I went to a boxing match & a hockey game broke out! It was almost a
shock!
I don't watch nor play sports. Ok, sports involving barely dressed shapely fenmales I might watch for artistic appreciation, of course.
(like figure skating -- gymnastics, too, until I found out that they retire at age 11!)
(We also had the yearly update volume from '68 til '80
Yup, we had the same, 3 or 4; likely a different set!
Got cable in our town in '78
10(local)" or "number 10(ABC from Seattle); channel 10 moved to 13 with cable & 10 was 4. . . (now ABC's on 2,
Aging puts everything into new perspectives, eh?
I guess I was around 10 at the time. Had a ride to school then get home on my own.
Was it a city bus or dedicated schoolbus?
I get that; I did that when on Gryhound, going cross-country.
What year were you born? I'm only as far back as 1967.
Like stores that move things all over the place and where you brought
X they were now selling Y and X was somewhere else. I hate when they
do that. Its to keep people in the store longer hoping they will buy
more.
I like to joke that at my age nothing much surprises me any longer.
I went on the bus just once, and that was enough.
I was born in 1950.
Beat me by 10 years...yet in some circles, I'm still "a puppy"...but, I'm weaned and toilet trained. :P
Beat me by 10 years...yet in some circles, I'm still "a puppy"...but, I'mwe
aned and toilet trained. :P
Well, you're partly correct. :)
The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.
Trinidad didn't have any tv until the cable arrived in 1966 and departments stores (we had two) had signs in the window reading "We now sell televisions!"
The cable company we had at one time did that a lot, shuffling local stations around so Channel 3 would be on 4, etc. Then after one learned where the channels were actually on they did it again.
Like stores that move things all over the place and where you brought X they were now selling Y and X was somewhere else. I hate when they do that. Its to keep people in the store longer hoping they will buy more.
I like to joke that at my age nothing much surprises me any longer.
I generally traveled cross country (WV to CO and back to visit my mother who was still in CO) on the train. C&O (now CSX)to Cincinnati, connect to the NY Central to Chicago, then the Santa Fe to CO.
I went on the bus just once, and that was enough.
I missed the through bus from Cincinnati to Denver, and had to take a local to Trinidad. That thing stopped at every wide spot in the road and if someone flagged it down in the middle of nowhere, it stopped, day or night.
Pull into some diner and told "20 minute rest stop", order the food and maybe it would be served at the 19 minute mark, then grab whatever one could carry and run back to the bus.
I was born in 1950.
The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.
The weather channel's humble beginning, eh?
Trinidad being a town you lived in, & not the island next to Tobago?
I'm in wonderful shape for the shape I'm in, I joke.
The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.
The weather channel's humble beginning, eh?
Trinidad didn't have any tv until the cable arrived in 1966
Trinidad being a town you lived in, & not the island next to Tobago?
I liked they could take me in my wheelchair
Definitely got a few years on me! You were a senior(17 in grade 12?) when I was born!
The weather channel's humble beginning, eh?
I remember when they went on the air. Like Virginia Slims cigarettes, "you've come a long way, baby". <G>
Trinidad being a town you lived in, & not the island next to Tobago?
Colorado to be exact.
I'm in wonderful shape for the shape I'm in, I joke.
I'm in shape...round's a shape.
I liked they could take me in my wheelchair
Our city buses are all HC accessible with "kneeling" buses.
The front drops down, a ramp is put out with front seating that is put up for wheelchair space.
Definitely got a few years on me! You were a senior(17 in grade 12?) when I was born!
Yep, graduated from HS in 1968.
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