re: A person born in 1981 is a Millennial or Generation X?

All this new fangled stuff that the kids seem to be so enthralled with. I don't know man. I'm not convinced.

I love technology but there does seem to be an over reliance on it. Not because technology is evil, but because the more complex a system is the more opportunity there is for something breaking. And the more difficult it is to make repairs.

Electric car windows are awesome until they stop working and it starts to rain. Then you're wishing you had crank windows.

Technology is great but I like to have a backup plan.

quote:

---

That is a bad thing. Too much of it is alienating. Man is an integral part of nature. Not separate from it.

---

man live "with nature" for tens of thousands of years

do you honestly think we need to go back to that?

quote:

---

made us use a sliderule

---

quote:

---

I still had mine, in a little leather carrying case for a long long time...lost track of it it could be suitable for framing, as an antique

---

If you find it, keep it around. When some kid says he can't do something, show him your slide rule and say, "They designed the SR-71 with this SOB, so get your arse back on your computer, and do your job".

quote:

---

Definitely don't want to go back to the era before modern medicine or climate control, but jesus, kids need to play outside, go camping, wrestle, play king of the hill and have some connection to the earth and to other humans.

---

Exactly, Cooter. Too much artificial intelligence and technology becomes a detriment at a certain point. I just look at how obesity has exploded since I was growing up. Kids getting diabetes in their early twenties. It's not normal and it's not how the human species is meant to function. Our operating system is intimately intertwined with the natural world.

quote:

---

SlowFlowPro

---

Begin thread hijack:




So, when I was in high school, I somehow stumbled onto a webpage about a tenth planet, which, if I'm not mistaken, was called Nibiru. I can't remember why the hell I was looking into this stuff, but once I found it, it was fascinating as hell if for no other reason than out of my interest in Science Fiction. Caution: it is fricking ridiculous.

Anyway, this tenth planet was from another galaxy and had been catapulted out of that galaxy into the orbit our own Milky Way and, indeed, into the vicinity of our solar system. It would collide with a planet known as Tiamat (now, apparently, the Asteroid Belt -- I think) and would splinter off and collide with earth, rupturing the moon from the earth, bringing water to the earth, and ultimately bringing life to it.

This planet Nibiru got into orbit with our sun on an extremely long, elliptical orbit that is roughly perpendicular to the orbits of all the other planets. It comes within the general vicinity of earth once every several thousand years--something like 3,000 or some nonsense. I can't remember.

Anyway, every time Nibiru orbits back toward us, its inhabitants, beings far more advanced than humans, stop by ol' Planet Earth to impart wisdom and knowledge on its inhabitants, which is why there is a massive leap in technology every roughly 3,000 years. According to ancient Sumerian tablets (if you're to believe this website I was on), the aliens are lizard-like creatures that walk on two legs.

So, one of these times that they visited, they imparted humanity with the knowledge of harnessing the electromagnetism within earth's atmosphere. Essentially, according to this website, preparing us for interstellar travel. This knowledge led to the creation of the Tower of Babel which was, in fact, a machine to harness the earth's electromagnetism.

But something went wrong, the Tower blew up and everyone was struck deaf and dumb, which is why we do not all speak the same language anymore.

Like I said, it was a wild fricking website.

There are some people out there that think the Hadron Collider is basically the same thing...



End Thread Hijack.

quote:

---

sounds like a common theme with that vein of CTs people LOVE to diminish the ability of man to develop over time

---

I just think it makes for great fodder for SciFi.

I'm born in 80, and I certainly wouldn't consider myself a millennial.

quote:

---

people LOVE to diminish the ability of man to develop over time

---

I believe in man's ability to develop over time with humility and the understanding that there is an intelligence in this universe far superior to our own which we can tap into. Divorced from that, man's development is like giving the nuclear suitcase to a tribe of chimps. Dangerous and suicidal. And I am as anti religious as they get. But I do believe in a spiritual principle which underlies all religions and philosophies which have been expounded and developed over the course of recorded history. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in that spiritual intelligence and we ignore it at our own peril. The evolution of the universe and man's evolution within that universe are not random events. There is a great wisdom and intelligence behind that evolution. We can choose as a species to align ourselves with that wisdom and prosper or ignore that wisdom and perish. It is as simple as that. And too much of the development of technology in the postmodern world is done without wisdom and without tapping into that innate intelligence in all living things.

quote:

---

337Tiger19

---

You suck worse.


Signed,

Old People