A world without Christianity!

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we are somebody else's Sims.

I am somebody's sim(s)pleton.....

^^mee too.

In reality, I am not being facetious.

I find it humourous when people assume to the nature of a supreme being on any front.

It's like this: When we are 5, everything mom and dad was magic. There was always food, shelter and health care.

Then you get older and begin to understand and question. This is good because it's how you learn. But, mom and dad are still mysterious. They tell you to do things and you really don't know why.

Basically, at each stage, you are growing, but still not at the experience level of the elders. This does not make them wiser by age alone.

But, it's hard to glean the actions of something or someone who is farther along that experience, evolutionary level than you. The things we were taught, right and wrong didn't make sense when you are young and don't understand why you don't get what you want.

As someone who is at once, child, parent and grandparent, it is interesting to see things from multiple perspectives. And, quite frankly, there will be times I am not inclined to explain things ten more times because of a variety of reasons to my two year old granddaughter. She is just not capable of understanding certain things yet.

So, to her, I seem mean, petulant and all sorts of bad things when she doesn't get what she wants.

I'm the guy that will let a child put their finger in the light socket after warning them 3 times (not babies of course...those sockets are baby proofed) because sometimes, repercussions are better teachers than words. I am not going to smack her hands because the socket will not do any more harm and it's a direct result. I just seem mean because I 'let her do it'.

And, when my daughter got old enough to be on her own, I had to let her live her life. I could not be there for her on everything, but I could be there afterwards when she needed to talk or lament. It didn't stop me from worrying. And, it's difficult when you do worry, but have to remain calm and just be logical. And, no matter what, it can still go sideways if I let 'the dad' in me out.

^^^you got to experience stuff I will not experience in this lifetime.

And, I am sure you experienced stuff that I never have. Your posts as I read them tell me that.

like what kindsa stuff?

Human beings are selfish creatures by nature, and being as intelligent as they are, they know how to exploit each other better than any other species on the planet.

but, by and large, they're NOT smart enough to know better than that.

And therein lies the problem.

the civilization-killing problem.

Well, let me list the things I notice, me bucko.....

1.) you are obviously well educated. That means that you have been exposed to things that I never have.
2.) your experiences in the military. Although I was military too, I was Navy.
3.) Different lineage, that means you experienced things I did not as a middle class white male in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
4.) Your manner of speech is a person of experience and not of just thought experiments or posing. I am old enough to recognize the truth you mention or allude to by way of having experience life kicking me in the teeth the way it did and does to people of our age group. So, by extrapolating what I observe to what can be a reasonable assumption; that given with your different experiences, that the same process can be applied to those experiences as well and I gain insights to things that I have not considered before.

And, if I have considered it, you offer a variation that either enlarges or confirms or dismisses something in my thought process. Basically, I can relate and build due to that difference in positive ways.

Now that you got the info dump you so foolishly asked for.....

"...are ya happy now...Punk!! Now, you gotta be asking yourself...Did he outline 5 or just 4 items?"

"Well, to tell you the truth, I lost count myself.....so...do you feel...lucky...PUNK?!?!?

yeh, I have working class roots. I felt a vague sense of inferiority compared to my age peers growing up, they were all middle-class. IMHO, navy people are smarter. and I am indeed, well edumacated in the school of hard knocks. from what I've read of your posts you seem to have been able to taste more of life than I have.

That's because my father moved a lot and I got taken places. See, I never grew up in one location and therefore saw stuff, but never stuck around long enough to really become part of anything either.

But, make no mistake, my father was the first to go to college. He was an electrical engineer. He knew the value of work and was brought up blue collar. He brought me up blue collar.

Lemme give you a 'for instance.'

I helped a buddy of mine with his paper route while he was on vacation. I was thrilled. I would be out, doing real work, unsupervised, in the wee, wee hours of the morning, on my bike.......ahhhh...it was fungasmic.....

I thought my dad would be proud that I got this thing going and being independent. Well,,,LOL....

He informed me that I still had chores to do and he would be making sure I was awake before he went to work. I got up at 3:00 all excited...got out, did the rounds and back in bed by 6:00AM. Ahhhhhh...6:30 AM...

BAM BAM BAM on the bedroom door...

"Time to turn and burn boy, let's get a move on! Shake a leg!! Let's go!! !"

And, he was loud too! I'll never forget that.....

But he did support me.

I was always a hustler of some sort or another. I could always make money until I burned out and have really started to feel this...all of this.....

I would sit in the back of classrooms, drawing Conan and Spiderman and whatever posters and then sell them in school. And, I would always pass the tests LOL The teachers would try to suprise me...didn't work. Well, not all of them let me do that. But some of them just gave up and things went smoother then.

I have made and lost two fortunes due to what I now perceive to be executive functioning issues. I may be wrong, but we'll see.

My ultimate point through all of that is this: MORE experience does not replace QUALITY experience.

A lot of your posts resonate with me. The humor in some. The insight in others.

^^^thank you us aspies oughta stick together

Here's the thing. I don't like all this 'equality' BS. Nobody can be equal. It ain't easy. If it was, we would all be rich, with fantasy type bodies doing nothing but good works just because it was right and we had the time.....

But, we should respect that diversity. Even when someone is ignorant, they can learn. Embracing that diversity, we find new strengths.

The one parable that resonated with me was about the poor woman who tithed the last of her money. The wealthy man belittled her for the pittance. The wise man pointed out that the woman gave more than he ever had because she gave all she had.

When we give all we have towards something positive like here, it is far better than all the crap I am finding out about some of the 'advocacy groups' such as Autism Speaks.

And, although I understand that there is rancor that all of them are run by NTs is also a bit disingenuous as well. It would be prejudicial if they were not involved. Also, what's stopping and Aspie from doing the same thing? I mean, if you're not the Aspie to step up and do it, complaining is useless and just a tad hypocritical.