Sarah in SC
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I could see a sword working pretty well...
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Every generation is worse than the last, yet the world in continually a better place, century after century.
Is this world really better than the one in 1985? Why, just because we have cell phones an an Internet now?
I think that was dallas27's point. It is human nature as people get older to have a jaded view of the past and an erroneously negative view of the present in comparison. To be fair, there absolutely are ups and downs along the steady path upward, but there is no rational basis on which to assert that 337 of ascendancy of human civilization has suddenly, just this generation, stopped and reversed. If anything, it would be far too soon to even think one has the valid perspective necessary to see such an inflection point, much less be able to prove such an assertion.Is it? Are you sure about that? Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical
yearsI think that was dallas27's point. It is human nature as people get older to have a jaded view of the past and an erroneously negative view of the present in comparison. To be fair, there absolutely are ups and downs along the steady path upward, but there is no rational basis on which to assert that 337
of ascendancy of human civilization has suddenly, just this generation, stopped and reversed. If anything, it would be far too soon to even think one has the valid perspective necessary to see such an inflection point, much less be able to prove such an assertion.
Just the millennials. Everyone else is fine.We're all doomed!!!!
Born in 1980, only 15 years left before they start getting those ads for river cruises and walk-in tubs...poor things
Uh, I was born about 15 years prior to 1980. Is my mail content going to undergo a change in tone soon?
-gauss
Here is some random guy on the internet trying to say: YES.
Because:
- Child mortality has dropped like a rock.
- People have never lived longer as today.
- Extreme poverty has more than halved in the last 15 years or so.
- Girls in most places in the world are going to school.
- People dying in wars is drastically down.
- Accidents and fatalities in the workplace are way down.
- Child labor is on track to being eradicated in most countries.
From 5000 BC to 2014 AD, pick a year that you would choose to be born into an an "average" family.
I would expect all of us who really think it through choose a number relatively close to 2014.
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People who are below average intelligence like me
Aaron, you've said this before on the forum, and I refuse to believe you. You have more good sense and express yourself better than some Ph.D's I know.
Amethyst
That may be true but I bet they didn't get a 19 on their ACTs.
That may be true but I bet they didn't get a 19 on their ACTs.
I really wouldn't let that bother me. All that proves is that they tested for abilities/knowledge that you didn't have. Perhaps only on that day.
It took me an embarassingly long time to figure that out since I didn't test out so well either. But that does not equate to low intelligence which any psychiatrist will tell you is very difficult to quantify, let alone measure.
Uh, I was born about 15 years prior to 1980. Is my mail content going to undergo a change in tone soon?
-gauss
Millennial will be just as dumb and consumeristic as the rest of us once the money starts rolling in for them. There just caught in a down cycle. The old people will eventually HAVE to retire, freeing up the promotions and advancement they've missed. They will create the next bubble, whatever decade it may be, and history will repeat. Reversion to mean.