Not the negative ones. Negativity is easy. It always has been easy. How do we recharge the batteries? How do we let the younger generation know that, even though the U-boat has vanished with the Ark of the Covenant in its hold, it’s still possible to stow-away? To stage yet another confrontation? Even when all seems lost…" -- Morgan @ House of EratosthenesPosted by gerardvanderleun at April 17, 2015 12:33 AM
Indeed. Reading the Old Testament, and looking at my two young lads, this is a question that weighs on me.
I guess I myself have to be a worthy Old Testament to these New Testaments.
Posted by: smitty at April 17, 2015 12:54 AMPain and deprivation and not for a few days is the cure for mental slothfulness. Even those Kool-Aid drinkers, after wallowing in their socialist Xanadu will feel the bite of the leech of remorse as the real chill of reality sets in to their bones. That Radiant future never produced any heat.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at April 17, 2015 3:56 AM"How do the elders, lacking the vitality to last indeterminably into the succeeding generations, send their positive messages? "
I bring forth the Ghost of Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
That... is worth passing on.
My side-note goes back to teachers, to my father, and to all my other 'fathers' (and the painful lesson that required nearly 20 of my years to learn so that my own cracked foundations would become whole): It is VITAL to pass on the un-editted truth as you see it as any bit of knowledge you hold back (think programmers "hack'/'cheat'/'backdoor'/'trapdoor') so that you still have 'access'/'control' will weaken and distort their reality right down to its cracked foundations. Whats sad is that it will allow others (and they may not love them as you do) access to control them too. So, open you heart fully and give purely all that is known. Give your power away as if you were in a confessional. Give them your vision.
You are their elder. They want to hear it. They need to hear it.
Knowledge is Power; and yet a Good Teacher gives it away - and does not look back.
Give it all before you depart.
www . youtube . com/watch?v=eTspwR5dEEk#t=33s
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ― C.S. Lewis
Somewhere someone wrote something to the effect of,
Someone suggested to live your life in a way that when you leave the stage of life, people will call out, 'Bravo, bravo! Encore!'
Posted by: Howard Nelson at April 17, 2015 10:01 AMThough I looove the Star Wars Brand (Especially the first Tilogy), I ...
Okay...
Here goes:
www . youtube . com/watch?v=tgbkN9vb__8
You're welcome.
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ― C.S. Lewis
Very well said. Love is at the end of your arm.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at April 18, 2015 12:29 AM""How do the elders, lacking the vitality to last indeterminably into the succeeding generations, send their positive messages?
Well it damn sure won't be in the hands of Lucas on popular movie wings.
The way to convey any knowledge or values is hand to hand. Set the example for others to follow.
The written word has done well and, assuming future generations can read, it will suffice.
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