Posted on 12/11/2005 11:43:48 AM PST by PolishProud
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
He was a pompous ass!
As an over fifty person, I'd have to say that the great majority of young people I know tend to be very liberal political-wise. We'll see what they think twenty years from now. I do have one son-in-law who is a conservative. He's also a computer whiz (runs the computer department at a state universty). But I would guess that most young people are very apolitical. They're interested in other things. However I do have a very political daughter-in-law who is also a rabid lib. She's a lawyer, but a very nice person. No, they're not mutually exclusive.
I think you meant that you can be nice and liberal. Although, you may have meant you can be nice and a lawyer.
Or they were like my older bro who went to Nam, came back and got his college degree, and became a hospital administrator. The myth of the Nam vet as a mental case is also a huge myth. All the Vietnam vets I know are very well adjusted and very successful. That goes for the ones who saw plenty of combat, like my brother.
Exactly my sentiments.
"He who is a conservative at 16 has no heart. He who is a liberal at 60 has no head"
Now, doesn't that sound better?
I thought Apple records sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement.
With age comes wisdom
No longer driven by hormones and blinded by limited vision
Able to see much more clearly the complexity of social interaction
And the consequences of not standing against evil
Not only were most boomers not whiny hippies, not even all freaky-looking rock stars were. Years ago, I read an interview with Frank Zappa in which the interviewer asked him about his hippy following. Zappa corrected him, saying he'd never had much of a hippy following. He said (paraphrasing from memory here), "The stupid hippies thought they were going to change the world and stop war by sticking daisies down National Guardsmens' rifle barrels. They were full of s**t, and I told them so. They never liked me much after that."
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