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Re: Modern attitudes - young generation

Postitivone,

For a 15-year old you write with quite a bit of wisdom.  Admittedly, I had a hard time processing some of your text when I was first reading it (just spelling/grammar stuff), but I definitely remember back when I was 15 and was much the same way, so I'm certainly not finding fault there or anything... and more importantly, you seem to have much more insight into your peer group and generation's attitudes towards life than I did.  I also spent a great amount of time in high school hopeless and depressed, and I knew a good part of it was that I didn't quite see "eye to eye" with most of those people, but then I couldn't easily pinpoint why at the time either.  So in that regard, you definitely seem incredibly mature for your age.

With that said, you are absolutely right that distraction is the name of the game right now, but personally I would take the response to that in a slightly different direction than depression... because while it may not seem like it, honestly I'd say there is great hope left, and this era of relentless distraction is a critical half to this hope.

The reason I say this is that another half is coming soon... deprivation.  I don't want to look at it negatively in terms of words like chaos or collapse or whatnot, but more in non-judgemental phrases like deprivation and "forced detachment".  Coming calamities like climate change and deep economic recession/depression/downfall are almost inescapable now; with many of these issues we've simply taken the train too far to turn back now.  And just as relentless distraction can be depressing, extreme deprivation can also be extremely depressing, when taken on its own terms.

But when you combine the two, in the context of someone who goes from a life of permanent distraction of such a degree that everything is so loud they can't even hear the quiet inner voice inside their heads, and suddenly transitions to a life of such material emptiness that the inner voice is now the only thing they have left... I can only thing that that transition would be so jarring to them that the inner voice would be their new center of reality.  And as that inner voice is the very thing that connects us to our true selves, our real eternal nature... maybe, just maybe, the number of people who will finally "wake up" as a result of this very extreme transition will be sufficient to truly turn this world into the better place we'd always hoped it would eventually become.

At least, that's my take on it.

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Re: Modern attitudes - young generation

*sniffs*

You'll know your old when "kids these days" no longer applies to you.

Huraah for a new generation of troublemakers that keeps us adults on our toes tongue If they werent around we would forget what breeding is all about tongue

"Every boy has to kill their father" I dont remeber who exactly said that in the ancient world but it is certainly evident in here as well. 70's value one thing so the 80's value another and the 90s another and so forth. Everything values a slightly opposite view of what the previous gender valued. 60-70's were hippies and 80-90's were generation X and so forth.

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I'm glad this thread was resurrected!  While I definitely resonated with 99% of the list of "adult Indigo" qualities and often felt out of place (and still do) among my peers, I think my nephew, Sean, is much more amazing.

He qualifies in my view as a Crystal child.  He's as stubborn as a little ox, but already shows signs of empathy that are amazing for a toddler.  Since before he could even walk, he's had a gentleness with animals that most children have to be taught.  He also has a strong sense of justice and fairness, and becomes  very angry when he thinks another being is being abused.

A funny story:  my parents have a dog named Gus who's a large black lab, and has lots of allergy problems.  Sean is extremely close with this dog, and they love to play together.  One day when Sean was under a year old, he was sitting in a high chair while my dad was administering anti-allergy eyedrops to a goopy-eyed Gus. 

Sean apparently thought this was some form of abuse, because he watched on with very apparent disbelief.  Every moment that passed he leaned in with eyes wide open as if to say, "What the.... can this be happening?  Are you REALLY doing what I THINK you're doing?"  Finally, he could take it no longer and he banged on his little highchair tray and said, 'EEEEEEEEEEHHHHH!!!!"  It couldn't be more clear what his thought processes were, and I thought it was so cute.   I told my sister that she had a future animal rights activist on her hands.

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Re: Modern attitudes - young generation

Postitivone,

If you like myspace so much, then go here.

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Myspace, right Troy.

kinsei- What I meant is that I'm hopeless and depressed because everyone that could be my friend is addicted to distractions aswell as my family.

Yea I love to write as I speak, formal writing isn't my style because I have feel as if the emotion is lost, mabye not in the writing but in my charisma.

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On the one hand, Myspace is a terrible to waste time.  On the other hand, it's a decent cross-section of modern society -- so you can easily gauge just how many idiots are out there, and what is on their mind.

I've never found anything even half-intelligent on there.  Except for Alex Jones having a profile, but just look at his bulletins and you'll see that even amongst his followers are plenty of idiots.

So then you have us.  And yes, we may still be idiots, but perhaps a little more enlightened than most?  Makes you wonder what we're doing here -- we obviously can't help much being so outnumbered by the idiots and the system itself... or can we?

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Nice post postitvone and good luck whichever way you go. You remind me of myself when I was 15 expect that I was a lot more naive and am still a victim of distraction.

I swear it's not all the fault of todays youth, it's that this place, this game we are thrown into is such a rigged crock of shit and people so gullible that they eat everything the media throw at them with gusto (i love that word, will make it my signature) because they know no better. And I didn't know much better which is why I get so bitter sometimes. Oh well, if only I knew then what I know now eh?

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Well, it's kinda funny from my perspective. I just turned 19, and it was in the past year that I really became more of a spiritual person. Right around the time where people usually "crystalize" their belief systems, I was the opposite; it was a time of rethinking basically everything I had known.
What started this was a bizarre set of experiences. Seeing people disappear, shapeshift into other people, and seeing "watchers" (who I later realized were angels), completely alters your way of perceiving reality. I still see this happen once in a while, just to remind me that the reality we perceive is but a small fraction of the grander scheme, but the experiences served their purpose. They awakened me.
My friends often say I'm too "philosophical" or "You're the hippiest friend I have"...but hey, they'll hopefully really think about what I've said. But many people simply don't, and these are the people who choose to live a life of mindless, purposeless distraction. They take it to the extreme, while in my opinion, there must be a balance. Mindless distraction does have it's purpose: to relax your mind, or to create new thoughts in your head in the better cases. It's finding the balance that's the key, and it's something I'll admit I have a problem with. It's pretty damn easy when you've just finished first-year college to play games all day, and drink beer with your friends at night. But I usually take the time to go out on bikerides, meditate, go to Buddhist classes, and talk with psychics and other like-minded people (that's why this forum is great). All of this is starting to rub off onto me, as I think I'm starting to develop some psychic abilities.
I was literally given an opportunity to change my life, and I'm slowly accepting the challenges this new reality brings me. Awaken one person at a time. Then move onto the rest of your peer-group, then to your society, then to the world. One of the awesome things about the silver-screen is the potential it has to awaken people on a massive scale. Get the right movie out there at the right time, and BAM, you'll change peoples lives for the better.

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