Just last week another writer on this blog suggested all oldsters were Republican Luddites, hopelessly untrainable and not much use for anything other than ranting and raving.
Went to church, voluntarily, for about 6 or 8 weeks. The only thing I remember about that was you shouldn't shave under your nose the wrong way or the hair will grow in upside down.
That wasn't meant to disparage people with Tourette's. I was referring to the profanity, which isn't necessarily a tick everyone with Tourette Syndrome shares. Not my best thinking and I am heartily sorry to anyone I've disrespected
"Once, when I was in sixth grade and reading Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", I tried to float some "I don't trust anyone over 30!" shit past my mom and uncle, which resulted in both of them cracking up for at least an hour"
Even in the late 1960s, when I was several years short of 30, this sounded deeply weird to me. What will they do, I asked a few acquaintances, when they themselves are over 30? (Vow to not trust anyone over 40? And a decade later, advocate distrust for anyone over 50; on and on until a 90something warns his/her contemporaries to not trust anyone over 100?)
Most often, the hearer would strike a tragic pose, sigh and say "oh..... I don't think I'll live that long."
Of course, it's about a sure thing some of them didn't -- the sad fact of life in every generation is that some people die young. But I expect most of the people I harangued about it lived long enough to shake their heads over things they did and believed when they were young.
Loved seeing this phrase on over passes in the south: “Jesus or die”. Certainly there’s something in between there!
Just last week another writer on this blog suggested all oldsters were Republican Luddites, hopelessly untrainable and not much use for anything other than ranting and raving.
Went to church, voluntarily, for about 6 or 8 weeks. The only thing I remember about that was you shouldn't shave under your nose the wrong way or the hair will grow in upside down.
you've never heard of Trump? /s
Geez - sounds like a story The Onion would run. Hard to believe it's actually happening.
That wasn't meant to disparage people with Tourette's. I was referring to the profanity, which isn't necessarily a tick everyone with Tourette Syndrome shares. Not my best thinking and I am heartily sorry to anyone I've disrespected
No harm, it was a lame joke
I don’t have the syndrome
It's cool. It did occur to me that you might be joking what with the F-bomb but I never trust myself to tell the difference
Next time I’ll include the snark tag
Con + insult -> consult. Follow the money. That is all.
Positively sacerdotal, and pharasaically so.
That's why God invented 8AM services.
Moral relativism can take you anywhere. Allegedly!
People/Are hard to manage/When they know too much.
Lao Tzu
"Once, when I was in sixth grade and reading Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", I tried to float some "I don't trust anyone over 30!" shit past my mom and uncle, which resulted in both of them cracking up for at least an hour"
Even in the late 1960s, when I was several years short of 30, this sounded deeply weird to me. What will they do, I asked a few acquaintances, when they themselves are over 30? (Vow to not trust anyone over 40? And a decade later, advocate distrust for anyone over 50; on and on until a 90something warns his/her contemporaries to not trust anyone over 100?)
Most often, the hearer would strike a tragic pose, sigh and say "oh..... I don't think I'll live that long."
Of course, it's about a sure thing some of them didn't -- the sad fact of life in every generation is that some people die young. But I expect most of the people I harangued about it lived long enough to shake their heads over things they did and believed when they were young.
That sounds like the right church for him/her, in the event of "gettin' religion."