KillahBee said:
In the past week or so (and for a while now) I have seen several posters make pretty off-kilter (sp?) comments on age and maturity / knowledge. Let's settle this all right now, please:
1) Captain Obviouses - yes, we all know that as you get older, your mentality changes. Along with added experience and just longer time on this earth, you learn knew things and typically realize that you now know/understand more than you did a few years ago. Once again, overstating the obvious here.
2) Age DOES NOT EQUAL maturity. I think a lot of you here don't truly understand this. Age CERTAINLY does not guarantee maturity (I won't point out any examples, you all know what I mean). Getting older is not a feat you achieve - it's gonna happen no matter what you choose to do in life. So stop a) using age as a crutch to convince yourself you are automatically smarter/wiser/better than younger peeps and b) stop assigning a certain level of maturity/knowledge/intelligence to a person based on his/her age
3) For the younger peeps (younger being a relative word) - understand that there is a GREATchance that your values, beliefs, views, opinions and judgments will change as you increase in age. This is part of life.
In regards to how mature you are; how mature do you think you are?
To clarify, how much personal satisfaction do you derive by posting on an internet chatboard with topics that would define you as to what you strive for?
That people perceive you as 'A' rather than 'B'? 'A' being what you think you should have as your image, 'B' being defined as what you are or believe you may be to warrant actually putting effort into creating an online persona to match 'A'.
Given that most of this is anonymous IP addresses, a series of 1's and 0's in the digital age.
What exactly do you derive that satisfies your emotions as to put forth an effort to sit in front of a machine that you turned on and get letters flashed across the screen that you think either are for or against you?
I mean, you paid to have a machine sit before you that flashes messages, usually in English, but I am just curious why you go through such a dance rather than just going out with a nice girl or having nice friends or just chilling with some good peeps?
Why instead would you be ruminating about some backwards out of work white trash chica who made comments about how you have created an online persona closely resembling Italian movies? Why would that sting enough to care to respond?
There is always Bandura's social learning theory, that you learn from italian gangsta movies what retarded chicas are learning from watching Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton.
How is your online persona different than 12 year old tarts?
Making an obvious connection between the two is simple, why open yourself to such an inference when you could easily turn off the machine displaying these questions and go out and have friends?