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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.

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

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

Tomboy
Tom girl or sweet
Butch
Lipstick lesbian
Flaming
Etc

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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.

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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.

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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.

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?

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?

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?

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

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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.

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.