If you are in your 50s plus…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the recognition, acknowledgment and development of treatments for mental health issues is a good thing. I also think the explosion of sexual and gender identities is good. I think they existed but people were forced into polars rather the continuum that makes more sense. It is a good new world in that regard.

The other things are disturbing. It’s like we care less for our neighbors. Even when I hear things here like people hating on little kids who knock on their door to play with their kids and when I see people not helping their neighbors you can see the distancing where we were once a community.

The school shootings bother me most. Not only the guns and the needless death of kids. But what does it take for a kid or kids to get to that point and What is it that changed that we’ve gotten to this point and how are we missing the signs? I was particularly disturbed by the Ethan Crumbley case where pareants refused to take him home. The parents rejection of sound professional advice is something that has become so common and so different from when people respected those with special training.

I think people seem to need labels. People are on a wide spectrum when it comes to sexuality, autism, anxiety. That has always been the case. No one is "normal"; we're all different and span a wide array of personalities and sexuality.

Do we really need the + now? Nonbinary? Asexual. What is the difference between the Q and LGBT? Why do we need so many labels?

On the one hand, we have all these labels. OTH, we don't want to be labeled, so we have labels to not label us. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

Yes, I do, but I don't wonder why it's happening. I think I know why, and so do most of us in the 50+ category, who came of age in the relatively normal 70s - 80s - early 90s, if we really dig deep enough.

Why do you think?

Well a combination of factors obviously, but...

- The continuing erosion of the nuclear family, most specifically that there are too many homes in which a father is not present, or known, or around to guide his kids in moral development
- The loss of the common belief in God and the general societal understanding that we can know truth and good/ bad, as God alone has revealed to us
- A vision of the world to replace God - promoted in large part by schools - that the world is plagued by systemic injustices and an emphasis on identity-based differences, rather than harmony, repentance and forgiveness, and unity
- Sheer laziness, manifested in communication with other humans via social media, etc, rather than human presence
- The emphasis on the need to be entertained and "happy" at all cost, with any emotion contradicting that being unacceptable and something to be medicated or dealt with in some other artificial way

I could go on, but that's the general gist of it. All of us, again, who came of age before these profound changes in society know at level that this is true.

THere is a lot wrong with what you wrote, but I am going to primarily address the bolded and leave your God bullsh1t for others. Plenty of places don't believe in your God and manage to have a great moral compass.

Post WW2, huge numbers of men all across Europe never came back. My mother was one of the only kids in her class to have a living father. Not the only, but they were rare--and those that were not suffering from PTSD were even more rare. Yet somehow they all grew up with a moral compass. Your statement reeks of ignorance and misogyny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted above and amend my answer to include fearing people with attitudes like ^^.

I'd love to know where that silly cow grew up and lives now. Wonder if she voices those thoughts around others, or has to zip it to keep friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

The shootings yes. And the anger out there.

[Anonymous]

Also the horrible racism and misogyny. Trump unleashed the Id in many people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

Years ago, I read a book by an historian which consisted of the journal entries of a midwife in colonial New England, I think mid-1700s. In one of her entries, she wrote about a man who shot and killed his entire family: wife, five or six kids, and himself. Sadly, there have always been people who will do terrible things like this and it is not new to our era.

Unfortunately, it is true that “there is nothing new under the sun.”

[Anonymous]

As far as gender identity goes we just used different words

Tomboy
Tom girl or sweet
Butch
Lipstick lesbian
Flaming
Etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

wow after reading this thread I wonder who are you old people 😂

I am in my early 50s and I recognize that none of this is stuff is new it’s just that people talk about it and it’s easy to find those people via social media.
Gender identify pronouns are goofy to me but hey if it makes others happy well then have at.
I don’t worry about the downfall of society or democracy. At all.
I think people are still neighborly at times and people are still jerks at times. Just like they have always have been. Just like they will always be.
I remember when Tipper Gore was ranting on tv about heavy metal
music being the downfall of society. Still makes me chuckle.
I think it was the 80s when the conservatism of earlier decades breathed its last breathe.

I liked growing up in the 70/80/90s era. But I love all the technology that has come into existence yet and I can’t wait to see how much more there is to come.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

wow after reading this thread I wonder who are you old people 😂

I am in my early 50s and I recognize that none of this is stuff is new it’s just that people talk about it and it’s easy to find those people via social media.
Gender identify pronouns are goofy to me but hey if it makes others happy well then have at.
I don’t worry about the downfall of society or democracy. At all.
I think people are still neighborly at times and people are still jerks at times. Just like they have always have been. Just like they will always be.
I remember when Tipper Gore was ranting on tv about heavy metal
music being the downfall of society. Still makes me chuckle.
I think it was the 80s when the conservatism of earlier decades breathed its last breathe.

I liked growing up in the 70/80/90s era. But I love all the technology that has come into existence yet and I can’t wait to see how much more there is to come.

I am 67 and I totally agree with you!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I worry about America's decline. It's happening a lot faster than I thought it would.

Boomers ruined the environment.

And enabled misinformation.

Yes! The hippies who were all "free love" are now all "don't tax me, tax the next guy". GTFOH - selfish b*stards.

[Anonymous]

Re: school shooters - look at the parents and their stellar ability to enable their destructive child. That is not a coincidence.

Same parents have stellar ability to point fingers for sport.
The needy parents become a real problem, so people tend to rightfully steer clear of the problematic adults who have problematic kids.

Deal with your sh*t, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

Yes, I do, but I don't wonder why it's happening. I think I know why, and so do most of us in the 50+ category, who came of age in the relatively normal 70s - 80s - early 90s, if we really dig deep enough.

Why do you think?

Well a combination of factors obviously, but...

- The continuing erosion of the nuclear family, most specifically that there are too many homes in which a father is not present, or known, or around to guide his kids in moral development
- The loss of the common belief in God and the general societal understanding that we can know truth and good/ bad, as God alone has revealed to us
- A vision of the world to replace God - promoted in large part by schools - that the world is plagued by systemic injustices and an emphasis on identity-based differences, rather than harmony, repentance and forgiveness, and unity
- Sheer laziness, manifested in communication with other humans via social media, etc, rather than human presence
- The emphasis on the need to be entertained and "happy" at all cost, with any emotion contradicting that being unacceptable and something to be medicated or dealt with in some other artificial way

I could go on, but that's the general gist of it. All of us, again, who came of age before these profound changes in society know at level that this is true.

THere is a lot wrong with what you wrote, but I am going to primarily address the bolded and leave your God bullsh1t for others. Plenty of places don't believe in your God and manage to have a great moral compass.

Post WW2, huge numbers of men all across Europe never came back. My mother was one of the only kids in her class to have a living father. Not the only, but they were rare--and those that were not suffering from PTSD were even more rare. Yet somehow they all grew up with a moral compass. Your statement reeks of ignorance and misogyny.

And that is very sad and very tragic but it in no way disproves what I wrote. There is a big difference in children losing a father to death versus losing one to abandonment. If you don’t know or believe that you are simply obtuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As far as gender identity goes we just used different words

Tomboy
Tom girl or sweet
Butch
Lipstick lesbian
Flaming
Etc

None of these people tried to convince other people that they actually WERE the opposite sex, however. That is what is disturbingly different now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted above and amend my answer to include fearing people with attitudes like ^^.

Yikes. Yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you look at the explosion of various sexual identities, rampant mental Heath issues including ADHD, depression, Autism and Anxiety, violent crimes including school shootings but too numerous and disturbing to list individually, and think WTF is happening and why?

Yes, I do, but I don't wonder why it's happening. I think I know why, and so do most of us in the 50+ category, who came of age in the relatively normal 70s - 80s - early 90s, if we really dig deep enough.

Why do you think?

Well a combination of factors obviously, but...

- The continuing erosion of the nuclear family, most specifically that there are too many homes in which a father is not present, or known, or around to guide his kids in moral development
- The loss of the common belief in God and the general societal understanding that we can know truth and good/ bad, as God alone has revealed to us
- A vision of the world to replace God - promoted in large part by schools - that the world is plagued by systemic injustices and an emphasis on identity-based differences, rather than harmony, repentance and forgiveness, and unity
- Sheer laziness, manifested in communication with other humans via social media, etc, rather than human presence
- The emphasis on the need to be entertained and "happy" at all cost, with any emotion contradicting that being unacceptable and something to be medicated or dealt with in some other artificial way

I could go on, but that's the general gist of it. All of us, again, who came of age before these profound changes in society know at level that this is true.

Wow. I came of age in the 70s/80s and I am so glad there is a lot less of this attitude (^^) in the world today. WTAF?!