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Originally Posted by RoyalEmpress33
Ok, I understand now, we are from different generations. I didn't know that. I was in a crappy mood yesterday and probably shouldn't have responded in that manner. But I will say this though. If my way of thinking is some how awkward to you, as they are to many who can't fathom or agree with my way of thinking, that's fine. No feelings of mine are hurt actually but I felt misunderstood. No one is whining because frankly, I have nothing to complain about. If however I feel as though someone is trying to insinuate something that's not true, as I felt you were, I'm going to speak my piece as well. I am not lying to myself about anything. How could I? No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't do it because I know where I came from. I simply responded to what you first typed about my own personal outlook, and asked you to back up your claims, and thus far, you haven't. Therefore, your own statements (not inquires) are "weak" and I told you how they were. But anyway, all of you, have a great weekend!
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Can someone please explain to me why folks need to back up claims these days? Your the second kid on here who has said this bullisht to me. WTF?
Are kids these days that crazy to be so petulent?
Okay, I get it. You didn't have that kind required reading in school. "The Power's that Be" cut all that kind of stuff out...
Okey, we were required to read in my high school and college books and they open from left to right.
We had to read titles like
Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, William Faulkner
Plays we had to read to graduate were
Importance of Being Earnest, Glass Menagerie, Julius Caesar, Waiting for Godot, Raisin in the Sun.
I chose to do extra reading from like,
Native Son, Invisible Man. Poetry from June Jordan, more Alice Walker.
Then, I chose to read Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Adolf Hitler's Mien Kampf, and the orginal reasons for South Africa's Apartheid, written by Rhodes (of Rhodes Scholars), Alfred Nobel (Nobel Prize), and DeBeers (Diamonds).
I read books by Greek and Roman authors. Of course not in the original language. Such as Antigone, Lysistrata, Odyssey, the Iliad.
Then I was forced to write papers on the
Divine Comedy,
Milton's Paradise Lost/Regained. I almost learned Latin.
Of course I read
Jane Erye but I like the movie "Sargasso Sea".
And I have always read scifi, like tall the Dune books, Star Wars and Issac Asimov's Foundations Series... We had to read Ray Brabury's Farenheit 451, And we also read "1984" and "Brave New World".
And I did side read rather than my scientific reading, such as Physics, General Chem, P. Chem and Molecular.
My back up is my life and it cannot be stored on a jumpdrive. This is the way WE HAD to do it in the old days, B.C. before computers.
When I was young, we had to go to the library and read the book before we could see certain movies...
And old professors are EXPECTING these concepts from you.