Kids these days are vegetables

[DVad3r]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: NaOH
I like being anti social sometimes (after a long day at work) but damn, you sound like a severe case.

Dammit I'm asocial, not antisocial. 😛

Antisocial people actively do things which are detrimental to society.


Interesting about recess being used to "burn off steam." I guess I never had a problem with racking da disciprine. Sit still and read for a long time, or do some quiet activity? Not a problem. I could read for hours on end, or tinker with solar panels and electronics for a weekend. I'd get irritated when told to "go outside and have fun," especially since I was already enjoying myself doing something which I perceived to be educational, by the standards of the grown-ups around me.
"Outside" wasn't especially interesting to me. The really interesting stuff was beyond outside - out in space. I could only see that through books.
My parents did get me this book, but I remember being dissatisfied with it because of its age, despite it being less than 4 years old at the time. I knew that Voyager 1 and 2 had visited Jupiter out through to Neptune. This book was published in 1986, and thus it didn't yet have any of those pictures. The best it had of Neptune was some fuzzy picture from an Earth-based telescope and artists' renderings.
My grandmother bought me several books from Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe books. Well before 4th grade, I'd memorized the diameters, orbital distances, rotational periods, basic compositions, and # of moons of all 9 classic planets.


ZOMG there they are!
Ahhhhh yes, such fond memories. :heart:


That was interesting. Outside was just trite by comparison.
And of course, this kind of interest really went over well with other kids my age. Hell, I knew more about the solar system than my science teacher in 4th grade, and would often point out errors in the textbooks we had, which were probably written shortly after the Moon was discovered.
Eventually, I learned that such behavior (demonstrating knowledge of something) wasn't good in terms of improving social standing. After long enough, I just learned not to talk in class at all. I felt more at ease talking to teachers; I didn't feel like I had to dumb down everything, and they actually seemed interested in things other than sports or prime-time TV.


....god damn, school sucked. Buried memories, they can stay there.

I had a couple of those books also, not the full set though, they were cool 🙂

I also remember reading this book from cover to cover several times, and when they finally had a space unit in grade school I already knew everything.

http://www.amazon.com/National...Universe/dp/079222731X

 

[grohl]

Nicely done

 

[rhino56]

if you look at kids like that and you're only 24, think of how i look at you because Im 42. it has always been that way with any new technologies. I think the kids these days are very brilliant in there own ways. i have a 15 y/o nephew who is the most calm, logical and rational minded person i have ever met.

there is a lack of responsibility and accountability these days that has become mainstream behavior and commonplace. The parents aren't responsible, they don't spend enough time with their kids nor do they discipline them. There are a lot of reasons for this and that in peoples lives but one thing i have noticed is that there is more and more evidence of a greater force at work. While to some the evidence of a god is all around them, the simplicity and beauty of something that is more complicated than time itself. But I'm referring to a different force, an evil force that seems to be singular minded with a purpose that is much larger than one specific evil act. When i see the results of some of the outrageous crimes, and the perpetrator who doesn't even know why he committed them. It really does lead one to believe that there is a larger force at work.

when you hear of a crime, abductions, murders or just anything these days, think of what the results of it are on a community. People live in fear these days, so as the monsters have become hidden within normal people, unable to distinguish a priest from a child molester, not sure who is going to snatch your kids, how could people respond any different to this terrorism on our lives. So think about what is really being attacked, and what the real battle is, and remember things always get worse before they get better.