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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 12:48:01 AM | | In one way that you have mentioned, maybe things have got more complicated as we have got older, but with age also comes the freedom of "uncomplicated" things. The older I get, the more free I feel to say what I think, do what I want, express my feelings... and NOT CARE about what others think. Ahhhh.....I feel a lot less complicated now... | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 9:24:35 AM | | Atomic Bombs Air Raid drills in school. Kennedy assassinated. The KKK marching in the street Phl Midride babies. Race riots were all pretty simple. The 1950's and 1960s were not so simple. We were just simpleminded littel kids that all. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 1:36:44 PM | Phoebe, Lucy and Desi did not share a bed, The first couple on TV to share a bed was The Bradys. Thus, that would leave out Ozzie and Harriet, The Clevers, Father know best, etc.not sharing a bed. Just FYI
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 2:46:19 PM | The black and white TV was not that simple. I had to fix it as a kid. I would take the tubes to the store and test them. Now we simply throw it away thanks to technology from people like myself. I learned how they worked then and now. Its the same with most technology for me. I didn't understand girls/women then but have learned a lot. Still more to learn and hopefully unlearn.
Does morality tend to get lost in the advance of technology or is it the forebearer?
I don't think they are related. Humans were cheaper and humanity valued then but now humanity seems to have little value.
Does anyone want to predict what 30 years from now will bring?
For technology, I'm already working on it. Considering my success rate finding a life partner, I'll probably still be fishing.
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 3:05:00 PM | Things are pretty screwed up out there in the world.
Busy, complicated, media hype, uncertain times,
and real human contact going down the drain.
But ya know what?
Life for me right now is "pretty simple".
And I don't let it be otherwise.
Not a whole lot of life left for me.. rollin' on the downside now.
(many of us are)
So UN-simple can just go hang out someplace else.
I'm just plain ole' enjoying life around me. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 5:45:03 PM | That was when Beatles were four guys from England
The Ed Sullivan Show was the launching pad
When the number 1 talk show was Johnny Carson
When music played on vinyl records with diamond sylus needles
When a twinkie(hostess) was favored over making out
When a 60 cent candy bar only cost a nickel
In thirty years
Cars might be run on solar panels
Mars might outpost colony
American citizens might be crossing the border to Mexico to get a job | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/10/2009 6:15:44 PM |
That was when Beatles were four guys from England
The Ed Sullivan Show was the launching pad
...Ahhh the Beatles, they were so apart of my teen years just like school dances and sling back shoes. I remember that very day they appeared on Ed Sullivan...my girlfriends and I all sitting around the television set that night. Then afterwards my dad watching Bonanza.
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/22/2009 8:28:16 PM |
...Ahhh the Beatles
For the last 9 1/2 years, one of the first questions I will ask a woman if I am interested in them is, "Can you name the 4 Beatles?" I found many can't. I don't who you are, what you have or hot you are, if you can't name the 4 Beatles, I am not interested. I can cut throught the chase by one simple compatibility question.
I didn't think life was simple then. God to had the internet in college to do all those assisgnments. You think looking up information from a card catelog was fun and doing all that searching when we can get it instantly now. I think the young generation has it simple and easy now. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/22/2009 9:23:46 PM |
Does morality tend to get lost in the advance of technology or is it the forebearer? Does anyone want to predict what 30 years from now will bring? I think things have changed, they are different, but not necessarily any worse. I have direct experience daily with kids from all over the world. They are not any different than kids ever have been. They may be a bit more sophisticated as far as the 'ways of the world,' and they may be engaging in sexual activity at a younger age (some of them, not all: many have their own personal take on what is right for them and wait until they are ready, which is often not until college). I think, always, times change, and whatever age or era we are living in, we see the difficulties and hardships. But, if we look with open eyes and knowledge at human history, all things considered, we are not living in a time that is worse than any other. And kids are just as good as they ever were. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/22/2009 9:28:00 PM | Well I'd certainly pass the Beatle's test, but I'm older than you, guess that doesn't count!
The title of this thread reminds me of the Beatle's song:
Lyrics to Live And Let Die :
When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live,
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did)
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give it a cry,
Say live and let die!
Live and let die,
Live and let die,
Live and let die.
What does it matter to ya,
When you've got a job to do you gotta do it well,
You gotta give the other fellow hell!
You used to say live and let live,
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did)
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give it a cry,
Say live and let die!
Live and let die,
Live and let die,
Live and let die. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/22/2009 9:36:25 PM | Well I failed THAT test, I googled "Beatles Live and Let Die" and got the lyrics but upon further research you are correct. I have Wings albums but that particular song obviously didn't stand out distinctively in my mind as Wings. 
In any event, my point was the title of this thread, combined with the posters above mentioning the Beatles, made me think of that song.
Favorite Wings song.... SILLY LOVE SONGS! Just looked up the you tube video, love it. Why can't love be so "simple?" | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/23/2009 12:29:23 AM | if they were that simple, how come so many of us come from "dysfunctional" families? i think we led a life of illusion. so many were disenfranchised, but those of us "not" had no clue.
this was predicted to be a time of hi tech/hi touch. i think hi touch started to confuse people. it was supposed to be a nurturing touch. i hope we find our way!
i think we have to look at society as a whole and the universe overall. the usa will not be the great power in the future and clearly our earth is cleansing itself. however, over time, many have migrated in times of disruption. my grandfather escaped from siberia via south africa to nyc in the late 1800's. who the h-ll knows where my grandson will end up? his genes already represent all the continents. maybe another planet. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/23/2009 10:23:19 AM |
But, the fact is crime rates have risen.
The fact is that population has increased as well.
Numbers don't tell the whole story.
The statistics would be more meaningful if the crime rate and population #'s were comparative.
In other words, if crime rose x percent, I want to know what the increase in population was as well.
Simpler life...
Life was simpler in that we didn't have as many options...3 major broadcasting networks (off the air late at night), a handful of toothpastes to choose from, disciplines for study offered at colleges, English (USA) required to conduct one's affairs, air travel was not an arduous endeavor, the dispostion of the disabled/impaired-institutionalized, marginalized, disenfranchised...etc.
On the other hand, we can pay bills sans envelopes, return labels, checks and a trip to the post office. Loss of a limb can be ameliorated with high tech prosthesis, do research without going to the library at our own leisure and convenience...etc.
As far as the level of rude, offensive, in your face behavior...we make choices to accept/embrace such or not.
We cannot lay the blame soley on the media.
Jerry Springer, for example, would not have survived past 2 episodes if they relied on me for ratings. The Enquirer would have been out of business after the first printing if I was their barometer. When a celebrity behaves badly don't support them/their franchises.
We, collectively have alot of power in our wallet. That money talks, and talks loudly.
The more you buy, the less simplicity in your life. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/23/2009 2:28:03 PM |
I wouldn't want to be a child growing up today for anything in the world. I'm so glad I grew up feeling the world was a wonderful, good, safe place to live. I doubt that many children feel that way anymore. And isn't that terribly sad.
It IS terribly sad. That's one of the few reasons I'm grateful for my "age"..it made for a terrific childhood.
30 years from now will probably be Bladerunner-ish.. or pretty damn close to it. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/23/2009 2:52:32 PM | Whoa Nellie! 
While I would agree that from all appearances today's children live in a much scarier place than the boomers did growing up. But appearances can be deceiving. I think a lot has to do with the media and that we know instantly when something dangerous or catastrophic is, or has, happening/happened.
But I remember being warned about "strangers" lurking about when I was a small child. I remember learning about the ever lurking "stranger" and not to talk to him from both my mother, and from the safety class at school. The pictures shown at school to illustrate the "stranger" was of a man who wore a felt fedora type hat like a lot of men wore in the early 60's. Coincendentally, my grandpa wore the same type hat. When my grandpa would wear the hat I would be afraid that he was "the stranger" and was going to somehow hurt me. When he took off the hat, he was just grandpa again. That's how the warnings from school and mom affected me. Strange how a small child's mind works.
Yes, there were simple times.....running barefoot in the back yard, chasing lightening bugs (fireflies) with the neighbor kids on a warm summer night, playing hop-scotch and jump rope, eating grape pop-cicles that turned our tongues purple....but there were other things that were lurking "out there", bad things happened even then, we just didn't know about them all the time. | |
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| When we were young, things were pretty simple
Posted: 11/23/2009 3:00:47 PM | bad things happened even then, we just didn't know about them all the time When I went to high school, my mom drove me to school in the morning. Afternoons, most days I walked home, about an hour's walk. Always along the same route, for 4 years. Some years later, it turned out I had been walking past a murderer's house. Someone who had murdered a young couple on the lover's lane of our city. But hadn't been caught and convicted until many years later. Yep, there were plenty of bad people out there. | |
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