so I ask --- whats changed????

eSGEe

eSGEe

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THis song is 50 years old ----

the problems are the same-- the issues are the same----so whats changed?
This is what many millenials I know ask me -- and point to the fact the problems are the same----- decades after decade nothing changes -- the names -- the $ amounts-- the diversions--but nothing -- really changes--

Certainly makes ya think----
 
eSGEe said:
many millenials I know
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I generally try to avoid those...

The problems are similar, but not the same, imho. I was thinking through the other day how power and corruption work through small groups, feudal systems, countries, continents, and how backseat powermongers can, as the world becomes smaller due to technologies, move further from the scene of the crime while retaining greater reach and control themselves. Even in my relatively short 50 years, transparency and accountability have migrated out of sight.
 
ANd understand not trying to make this political as --- that is verboten---


just saying -- the "issues" of man ---- never seem to change -- the names-- the details yes-- but really--- no change -- so WHY worry ---
 
Humans...
We are nothing.

A very wise person on some other forum once said,

"The monumental ego we humans have......

Correct me if I am mistaken about this.
Every time a volcano erupts it spits more crap into
the air than all the cars on the planet do in a year.
Not a day goes by without a volcano spewing someplace on the planet.
The planet is doing fine and will someday decide to get rid of it's latest
annoying little skin rash.
That would be us.
"We are destroying the environment"
No.
We are screwing up OUR environment and may make life for us impossible.
Skin rash cured.
The planet will still be here and other life will bloom and flourish.
It has happened before.
It will happen again.
The planet is doing just fine thank you.
Ask the dinosaurs."
 
Tony M. said:
Humans...
We are nothing.

A very wise person on some other forum once said,

"The monumental ego we humans have......

Correct me if I am mistaken about this.
Every time a volcano erupts it spits more crap into
the air than all the cars on the planet do in a year.
Not a day goes by without a volcano spewing someplace on the planet.
The planet is doing fine and will someday decide to get rid of it's latest
annoying little skin rash.
That would be us.
"We are destroying the environment"
No.
We are screwing up OUR environment and may make life for us impossible.
Skin rash cured.
The planet will still be here and other life will bloom and flourish.
It has happened before.
It will happen again.
The planet is doing just fine thank you.
Ask the dinosaurs."
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I do support smog equipment on cars, and that's coming form a lifelong hot rodder. being in central America, where there are zero emission regulations, the air is so much worse than even downtown Los Angeles...
 
Tony M. said:
Humans...
We are nothing.

A very wise person on some other forum once said,

"The monumental ego we humans have......

Correct me if I am mistaken about this.
Every time a volcano erupts it spits more crap into
the air than all the cars on the planet do in a year.
Not a day goes by without a volcano spewing someplace on the planet.
The planet is doing fine and will someday decide to get rid of it's latest
annoying little skin rash.
That would be us.
"We are destroying the environment"
No.
We are screwing up OUR environment and may make life for us impossible.
Skin rash cured.
The planet will still be here and other life will bloom and flourish.
It has happened before.
It will happen again.
The planet is doing just fine thank you.
Ask the dinosaurs."
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WORD!
 
I have some old 1950's and 1950's Life Magazines. The problems are indeed the same...however what worries me most is the lack of normalcy and social interaction
with all the technology that we use. It's not healthy at all...
 
well one thing has changed ---- the person at the Woolworths check out register didnt look like this!
Beautiful-Face-Piercings-For-Men-JP1020.jpg
 
amen brudda

Liek the guy I worked for when I first moved to ALabama -- he owned a vending machine company -- selling condoms/sex toys and perfume vending machines to bars -- and who ever would buy them-----
HE also was a Pastor for a Batptist Church and did traveling Bible Study -----tent revivals -- no snakes though--

fleece the sinner --- fleece the saint ----- they all pay with green --- He was a great boss, and I learned a lot --- so did his wife-- and the daughter of a parishioner -- which he was "doing" things with --- he called it "product testing" ---- what a character---
Looked like the spitting image of Ted Knight (white hair and all) with a thick southern Drawl---
and was ALWAYS smiling----

so cliche really
 
eSGEe said:
amen brudda

Liek the guy I worked for when I first moved to ALabama -- he owned a vending machine company -- selling condoms/sex toys and perfume vending machines to bars -- and who ever would buy them-----
HE also was a Pastor for a Batptist Church and did traveling Bible Study -----tent revivals -- no snakes though--

fleece the sinner --- fleece the saint ----- they all pay with green --- He was a great boss, and I learned a lot --- so did his wife-- and the daughter of a parishioner -- which he was "doing" things with --- he called it "product testing" ---- what a character---
Looked like the spitting image of Ted Knight (white hair and all) with a thick southern Drawl---
and was ALWAYS smiling----

so cliche really
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I enjoyed the deep south churches who practiced snake handling. I've been fascinated with vipers since I was a kid, but I dont handle them for religious purposes.
 
eSGEe said:
amen brudda

Liek the guy I worked for when I first moved to ALabama -- he owned a vending machine company -- selling condoms/sex toys and perfume vending machines to bars -- and who ever would buy them-----
HE also was a Pastor for a Batptist Church and did traveling Bible Study -----tent revivals -- no snakes though--

fleece the sinner --- fleece the saint ----- they all pay with green --- He was a great boss, and I learned a lot --- so did his wife-- and the daughter of a parishioner -- which he was "doing" things with --- he called it "product testing" ---- what a character---
Looked like the spitting image of Ted Knight (white hair and all) with a thick southern Drawl---
and was ALWAYS smiling----

so cliche really
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Is he the same guy in Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction video???
 
Robert Herndon said:
In high school...in Porterville, California...we all had rifles and shotguns in tracks that were visible through the rear window of our trucks...
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A friend from Silver Spring Md had gunrack installed in his 80's pickup when we were in college. He mistakenly drove into DC one day and got some reaction from the PO PO that day.
 
Let's break it down shall we...

People movin' out, people movin' in.
Why, because of the color of their skin.
Run, run, run, but you sho' can't hide
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Vote for me and I'll set you free
Rap on, brother, rap on.
Well, the only person talkin' 'bout love thy brother is the preacher
And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the teacher
Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, aggravation,
humiliation, obligation to our nation
Ball Of Confusion that's what the world is today (yeah, yeah)
The sale of pills is at an all time high
young folks walkin' 'round with their heads in the sky
Cities aflame in the summer time, and oh the beat goes on,
Eve of destruction, tax deduction,
City inspectors, bill collectors,
Evolution, revolution, gun control, the sound of soul,
Shootin' rockets to the moon, kids growin' up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will solve ev'rything, and the band played on.
Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.
Great googa mooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you, just a
Ball of Confusion that's what the world is today. (yeah, yeah)
Fear in the air, tension ev'rywhere
Unemployment rising fast, the Beatle's new record's a gas,
and the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation,
and the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction,
City inspectors, bill collectors, mod clothes in demand,
population out of hand, suicide too many bills, hippies movin' to the hills
People all over the world are shouting end the war and the band played on.
Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.
Great googa mooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you, just a
Ball of Confusion that's what the world is today
Let me hear you, let me hear you, let me hear you
Ball Of Confusion that's what the world is today

Yep, nothing's really changed much at all.
Except the part about the Beatles new record being a gas.
 
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