[QUOTE]Originally posted by ralper

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ralper
It can't be that you've given up on the future.

 

Well, I sure don't think it's going to get better through cloning! I also know that I wouldn't want to trade eras with my children.

 

Hmmmm...This discussion seems to have deteriorated a bit. No need for the use of all caps. Perhaps it's time to take a break?

 

Geez, you sound like old fogies lamenting your lost youth. Personally, aside from the useful technology it developed, the lunar missions didn't do much to make my life any better or my future more bright.

Take the medical field today. Such great advancements are under way with a future no one can predict. I know several children of others who have embraced this field.

The internet . . . I used to wade through volumes of encyclopedias to get 1/1000 the information available to me now. Expediant yes, but what is wrong with that? Calculators replaced slide rules for good reason.

Entertainment the primary way to make big bucks? I really don't think so. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and the Walmart clan probably wouldn't agree with you. So a few publicized stars make lots of money. You know about it because they are stars and publicity is their world. You really think an entire generation aspires to be Las Vegas lounge singers?

You can contract AIDS simply from kissing a girl?

I think some of you are making rash generalizations strictly based on YOUR perceptions.

 

I'm not saying there's no future improvement ahead. I am saying that there are dangerously scarce shining examples to guide our youth towards it. I won't rehash my tediously long first post here, but there are very few "untainted" role models left. Gone too, it seems, is a sense of national purpose and pride.

That's why it's up to the parents now more than ever

 

Kids today have it too easy. when I was a kid the druggest kept the condoms behind the counter in the drug store. You had to go up and ask the guy for them. Then he'd yell out "WHAT DO YOU WANT??? CONDOMS??" You'd get all embarrassed and run out of the place.

Now you walk into anywhere and there are hundreds of condoms to choose from right on the shelf. Kids can buy some gum, a chapstick and some condoms at the regular check out line. That's what's wrong with kids today. No challenges to overcome.

 

YEAH! All we had were dad's old copies of National Geographic... now they've got photos of naked women streaming into their e-mailbox on a daily basis whether they like it or not!

 

Right, but the guys who can't even see the problems, want to make it seem that a discussion of reality is a discussion of impending doom. They are so silly.

As far as the effects the space program has had on our lives, I must say that this evening I read one of the most uninformed assessments imaginable, right here in this very thread. The failing of our educational system was all too obvious.

RED

 

New cans of worms: Premarital sex and religion!

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