15 Myths Millennials Accept as Fact

Taki's ^ | 6/13/14

[DeaconRed]

I agree with #13.
THINGS ARE GETTING MUCH WORSE WITH MR ZERO AT THE HELM. . . . .

[hoagy62]

I have to take issue with #13.

Yes, technologically, we are so much better off than we used to be. Advances in science, medicine, communications, and a host of other things make this a fantastic time to be alive.

However...morally and spiritually, things are getting worse....MUCH worse. Deviant behaviors are running rampant and increasing. The majority of people are no longer outraged by corruption and malfeasance, governmental or otherwise. People are caught up in a mindset of “Well, that’s okay for you so I won’t say anything”. Only a very few seem to want to stand up for what is morally right anymore.

A certain Book already said this was going to be the case.

[hinckley buzzard]

Pretty good, but one correction, about the smallpox blankets. They were real, used in New England-- by the British. Lord Jeffry Amherst, a British colonial governor and Indian fighter, who was fed up with Indian raiding parties and attacks on outlying farms, decided to take radical action. He was rewarded by having a college named after him.

[sitetest]

Ahem... Where are the necessary trigger warnings to this column??

[Borges]

Well he got a town named after him. The college was named after the town.

[GreyFriar]

ping

[Mears]

“Well he got a town named after him. The college was named after the town.”

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Amherst,a town that has become a liberal hell.

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[SamAdams76]

I don't think that is correct at all. You make it seem that things were morally and spiritually better in the past. That is decidedly not true as any reading of history will tell you. Great evil and decadence has flourished throughout the whole of human civilization. Countless millions of people were enslaved, exterminated, or otherwise kept in their places while being ruled by a small elite who lived extremely decadent lives.

Take the popes, kings and other rulers of the medieval era for instance, their lifestyles make today's politicians look like Boy Scouts.

In fact, we are living in a time where the average human has an astonishing amount of freedom, wealth and privilege. There is actually much less deviant and criminal behavior going on. Think about this: The streets of Manhattan are among the safest in the world - try walking the same streets just 50 years ago at night. The only difference is our mass media culture. Some pervert in Tulsa, Oklahoma can make national headlines where in earlier days, nobody ever would have heard of him. Don't let the 157 channels on television make you think the world is going to hell in a hand-basket. If they had cable TV in 1850s America, there would be plenty of horrible stuff to show.

[stylin19a]

This country was built on legal immigration, and the ones who made it through learned the language and assimilated.

yep...every coolie & irishman working on trans continental railroad were legal...

[Darren McCarty]

However...morally and spiritually, things are getting worse....MUCH worse.

Really? Or is it that people don't choose to remember past decadent behaviors?

Some of this stuff was a major issue in the 1920's and mid 1800's, especially in cities.

[SubMareener]

Maybe one in ten Americans believes the earth is only a few thousand years old, and most of those people are old ladies and dirt-poor farmers. They’re not shutting down schools and canceling Cosmos. The other 90% of us are totally okay with the big bang theory. Even the pope supports it. We understand there’s evolution and an incredible universe. We just think God is the one who set the whole thing up.

There is a quantum field theory (QFT) developed by Burkhard Heim and extended by Heim and Walter Dröscher that does not involve a "Big Bang". What appears as the "inflated" universe after the big bang is really a phase transition as the quantum of space-time shrinks to the size that produces electron and positron masses that disintegrate into photons. (as in "Let there be light!") Heim's QFT also contains dimensions and interactions that explain how God created a complete plan for His Creation that also allows us free will to accept or reject it.

Here is a summary. Wikipedia article here. It even includes a Warp Drive for spacecraft!

[kabar]

They were legal according to the laws at the time.

[depressed in 06]

I agree with #12, within the next 2 billion years the Earth will be engulfed by the red giant the Sun becomes. Let the ants deal with it.

[hoagy62]

Some of this stuff was a major issue in the 1920's and mid 1800's, especially in cities.

Homosexuals promoting their disgusting behavior in our streets? A significant portion of the population receiving welfare/EBT/Section 8 and making no plans to EVER get off of it? A pRes__ent who is making decisions that are actively destroying the country? People rejecting God in greater and greater numbers?

Yes...there were problems back then, but (IMO) the ones prevalent today would not have even been THOUGHT of in society back then. To me, it seems like there's only a very few people left who even care how bad things are getting....and barring an utter miracle, there doesn't seem to be a way to reverse it.

Yes...I am depressed this morning.

[Wingy]

Gee, it seems that Louis Pasteur who was born some twenty five years after your Lord Amherst died, stole all that knowledge about germs and such that Lord Amherst had at his fingertips. I don’t know how the smallpox blankets deal could be true if it took another fifty or sixty years before anyone even thought about germ theory.

[Future Snake Eater]

Zimmerman was a statistical anomaly...

Speaking of myths as fact...

[Monorprise]

“”Zimmerman was a statistical anomaly...”
Speaking of myths as fact...”

Indeed it seems rather self-evident that he was an all too common victim of black sub-cultural self-destruction and collapse.

[Oratam]

bumpity

[DuncanWaring]

You sure about the “smallpox blankets”?

Were they handled exclusively by those who had had smallpox and survived?