Under 38? Are you intimidated by

[freescorfr]

the wisdom of us who have a lot, lot more experience than you?

I know you can't see age on the board, but you must feel a bit cowed by our posts. A quietly, confident sagacity.

You see, I know it must be there, and you're hiding the deference you actually feel. This is bad for you.

Let it out - show your reverence. Don't inhibit yoursleves, let the adulation flow for those of us who are full of learned, wise advice.

 

[Ambrosious]

Is that you , God?

 

[riff]

I turn 39 in 17 days. Does this count?

If you miss my birthday, I am gonna throttle you.

freescofr: not to hijack a thread, but sometimes i look at your name and think:

free: He is a briton in france and he is free and in france (fr)

sco: He uses SCO-UNIX, Santa Cruz Operations flavored UNIX

fr: he is in france and he is free (fr) and then we are back at the beginning again.

 

[MissTaken]

Perhaps you are all those things?

But can you get all hot and sweaty, down and dirty, two undulating bodies in a torrential storm of passion?

Can you?

Huh?

Come on.... can you?



Just kidding, guys....

 

[heterotic]

I must admit, sometimes I do feel my youthful brilliant energy and undimmed enthusiasm for life is a bit overshadowed by your venerable years. Sometimes it almost seems that the strength and vigor of my body is as nothing compared to the hard-won wisdom contained in your hoary heads.
But then I remember: I have but 17 years to go before I, too, will be one of the wise elders.
I can but hope I have the patience to make it.

 

[alexandraaah]

Actually, it rather turns me on.

Riff...I'd say lay off the pipe, but I've drawn my own unusual conclusions about the name.



Aw hell, lay off the pipe anyways, I like how that sounds.

 

[riff]

Actually, it rather turns me on.

Riff...I'd say lay off the pipe, but I've drawn my own unusual conclusions about the name.

Aw hell, lay off the pipe anyways, I like how that sounds.

Alex, my bong and pipes will be thoroughly scraped by next weekend. Won't have any choice!

 

[Black_Bird]

Wisdom, I'm not intimidated by. Age, I'm not intimidated by. Experience... maybe a little, but its mostly because in my mind, I'm placing myself in their situations and wondering just how *I* would survive.

Life experience does not always translate into wisdom. Age does not always translate to life experience. Therefore Age does not equal Wisdom.

Oh sure, you can learn from living your life, grow as a humanbeing... but you have to pay attention to learn. Not everybody pays attention in classroom 'life'; in fact, too many people ignore the teacher. These people don't get old and wise, they just get old.

One should *never* be intimidated by wisdom - they should embrace it upon every meeting. To be intimidated by wisdom is like being intimidated by a friendly dog; he knows all the interesting places in town and will show you if you follow him.

 

[Cheyenne]

Let it out - show your reverence. Don't inhibit yoursleves, let the adulation flow for those of us who are full of learned, wise advice.

Hey, just in case we can't figure it out by their posts, can we get a list of who these old geezers are? LOL

 

[riff]

Ma? Is that you? I ain't makin' chemicals or nothing! I am just burning NASCAR models! I swear!

 

[Mellon Collie]

the wisdom of us who have a lot, lot more experience than you?

Not at all you silly old fools.

 

[Black_Bird]

Ma? Is that you? I ain't makin' chemicals or nothing! I am just burning NASCAR models! I swear!

[fake jamacian accent] Ah, you know you be sniffing the glue, aren'tcha? Lets see what the cards have instore for you!

The cards say that you're a libra, aren't you, and that the you're burning more braincells then all the rockstars in hollywood combined. That's okay, because you're really half alien, and pretty soon you'll be going back to the mother ship, aren'tcha? The cards *never* lie![/fake jamacian accent]

 

[freescorfr]

The easter Bilby has just whispered to me that I'd better get back and post to you young bunnies and B_b.

Riff, I said under 38 deliberately because I knew I'd get no deference from you.

Miss Taken, you've posted some corkers this Easter Sunday afternoon. I assure you I can still get hot and sweaty - it all just takes longer - demands another perspective on time. So, heterotic, you'll get the patience through necessity.

Alexaaandraa - you're really sweet, as always - and you're six hours are up you can be an arsehole again.

Mellon Collie, I challenge you to an experience fight - any time!!

When I read 1984 the book was set in an impossible futuristic time. All the Sci Fi I read as a youth has come true.

Cheyenne - we had the age thread last week - there's a lot of over 40's but only a handful of over 50's. It would be interesting, though.


Overall, I've had this theory that, the generations after us, leapfrog us in wisdom and total experience at some point (general evolutionary principle) but that the rate at which this is occurring is speeding up, and the age at which it happens is decreasing. For me Lit is a great window into the world of the 20's and 30's folk. It gives me a lot of hope.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Under 38? Are you intimidated by

Hey, just in case we can't figure it out by their posts, can we get a list of who these old geezers are? LOL

Let's see, there's Cheyenne,..........

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Re: Re: Under 38? Are you intimidated by

Let's see, there's Cheyenne,..........

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

LOL... now THAT was the response I was expecting...

 

[SINthysist]

How can one be intimidated when...

They are still at the age where they know everything...

 

[freescorfr]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Under 38? Are you intimidated by

LOL... now THAT was the response I was expecting...

Yes, Cheyenne, it's your grace that overpowers the intimidation.

 

[heterotic]

Freescofr, all the SF you read as a kid has come true? Some of the SF I read has too, since I read a lot of Heinlein, but have you really been to Mars and rescued a beautiful princess named Dejah Thoris?
I know you had to have read Edgar Rice Burroughs, that's simply something no child can do without...

Actually, come to think of it, we do need to make the John Carter of Mars series come true. You see what those red martians wore? Yow!

 

[Cheyenne]

Yes, Cheyenne, it's your grace that overpowers the intimidation.

Thanks, I think. But I'm just a geezer like the rest of you.

I do smile to myself every once in awhile when a still wet-behind-the-ears youngster here posts something that I probably did or believed 20 years ago, too, until I got older and learned better. Those 20-something year old posters now will do the same thing in 20 or so years.

 

[KillerMuffin]

It's true. I'm intimidated. People intimidate me. I have trouble in conversations with other people because I'm very timid and I'm just afraid that I'll be rejected. Or worse. I can' handle confontation, it intimidates me, too.

I am a shy wilting flower cast adrift in an ocean of sharks.

Please don't hurt me.

 

[Black_Bird]

I'm just afraid that I'll be rejected. Or worse. I can' handle confontation, it intimidates me, too.

*Touches KM's forehead with his wrist* Are you okay, hon? You're feeling kind of warm. I think we should get you to the hospital...

 

[freescorfr]

It's true. I'm intimidated. People intimidate me. I have trouble in conversations with other people because I'm very timid and I'm just afraid that I'll be rejected. Or worse. I can' handle confontation, it intimidates me, too.

I am a shy wilting flower cast adrift in an ocean of sharks.

Please don't hurt me.

God, KM I'd always thought you were an oldie - you've a sort of geriatric twang to your posts.

 

[Yoni]

God, KM I'd always thought you were an oldie - you've a sort of geriatric twang to your posts.

oh oh free..moving out of the line of fire..

 

[freescorfr]

oh oh free..moving out of the line of fire..

KM's got too much respect for her elders for that.

 

[Lady_Sam]

Intimidated? Hrm...um...erm...Nope.

Wisdom in anyone is questionable..even those of you older than dirt