quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: but I still maintain its a good thing that we don't like to sit around waiting, or doing nothing.
You contradict yourself. If your generation is indeed concentrating their time on eating burgers and watching Big Brother, I'd be inclined to say sitting around wasting time is all they are doing!
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Was it Hemingway that said, "If I contradict myself, so be it" or something like that? ;p Anyway, like I said adjacent to that, it would be a good thing if we filled it with good things instead of shitty things. I think you shouldn't waste time learning about topics in school that you won't remember or use once you get into the real world, or putting up with the government jacking you around, or putting off that trip to the doctor, all reasoning that good things come to those who wait, or that nothing lasts and one day it will change on its own... you don't have infinite time slots to fill, and you should fill them with what's important. It's just that what's important to people is utterly unimportant.
As long as we're talking about the future being bleak and/or great, I found this.
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Not has it. People these days have the idea of what they want, and they want it NOW, regardless of any consequenses. They don't think that far ahead, or if they do, they don't give a damn.
I say people, but I think it is only a true problem with net connected people, and not all, but a very good portion of them.
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Anyway, when you get right down to it, it's utterly pointless to talk about. If we're that bad we'll destroy ourselves; if we're not, we won't. Whether we 'grow' or not is really down to our nature, and not to debates between people who will never agree. As a very wise man(like creature) once said, sod it all and try to be happy.
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I forget who said "A good conversation is one that makes you think afterwards." Or close to that.
A debate is nothing more than a conversation, so how could a good debate be pointless. Agree or not, if it makes you think/reflect afterwards it can, possibly, change your point of view.
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And I believe that this conversation is over....
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