Age

[Anzac]

From what I've seen and read so far I appear to be the youngest person - by quite a long long way! How old is the average person that uses the board (ish) and what made you join the board? (this is more knowing people's motivation rather than anything else).

[I, Brian]

I'm sure age is is irrelevant here - it's simply attitude that counts.

Btw - welcome to the comparative-religion forum, Anzac!

I'm 31, btw - think it's in my intro.

[emong]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

I'm sure age is is irrelevant here - it's simply attitude that counts.

Thanks Brian for that.
I was going to say, "What's age got to do with it!"

Except that youth has a certain naivite (thankfully I've been able to hold on to mine throughout my life).

There are many "youths" I respect alot, along with "old" people that have not earned my respect.

But we do manage to pidgeon-hole people into age brackets that have nothing to do with the topics on this forum.

To Anzac: Don't let age intimidate you, be it only us, or those in your actual life. And never judge anyone by how long they've lived. It has nothing whatever to do with what they have or have not learned.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Zdrastvuitsye, hola, shalom, salaam, Dia dhuit, hej, namastar ji, konnichiwa, squeak, meow, :wave:

As both enomg and I, Brian have stated, what's age got to do with it? I am 38 years old (and darned proud of it) and a poster on a few different boards (plus I'm a college student.) I have encountered some people both online and offline who are half my age or younger and are much more mature than some who are my age or even older. Chronological age has nothing to do with anything other than you can legally do some things that someone younger than you can't or you can't do some things that those older than you can. That's it.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[brucegdc]

*Sniff* now you're making me feel old :-)
[As Bill & Seige crack up]

.... Bruce (the answer until next August :-)) [42 for non Douglas Adams fans]

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by brucegdc
*Sniff* now you're making me feel old :-)

I'll break out the Geritol just for you, Bruce.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[IMSassafras]

The actual age of a person doesn't mean anything. The words "Young at Heart" come to mind. I'm 28, and my husband (who is 57) says when I turn 29 (in December) that when I tell people that I am 29, they will think I am really 30, because 30 year-olds don't want to admit that they are 30 so they say they are 29. People are too concerned about age.

Everyone is older than me - all of Mick's children and step-childen are older than me. Our friends are older than me. Ok, our grand-children are younger than me - hurray!!

I have met some pretty "young" people no matter what their age. A lady just the other day came into a store and was talkin' up a storm... she mentioned her age and it surprised everyone... she acted like she was in her 50's, but she just had her 80th birthday this year. She was lookin' good
And yet... we were traveling through Wisconsin and there was this old man sitting in a booth behind us. We had asked the waitress for directions and the old man heard us. We were traveling pretty much across the state, but the old guy seemed to have the idea that getting us to some sort of road was going to do the trick. He was giving us land marks right out of the movies - brown barns, rocks, silos, red barns, old vehicles in fields. We thought he must have been in his 90's, but the waitress told us he was in his late 50's. Unbelieveable!!

Well, just thought I would put my 2 cents in.

Sassafras..... Another Newbie!!

[faryal]

Originally Posted by Anzac

From what I've seen and read so far I appear to be the youngest person - by quite a long long way!

Assalamoalaikum,

hey,Anzac, dont worry you are not the youngest one here. I happen to be 16, going to turn 17 in May.

take care,
AllahHafiz

[The Fool]

This is turning into quite an interesting thread - not least on how age affects social perceptions.

It's funny how age can often be completely unrelated to behaviour - I've met 15-year olds who were incredibly mature, and yet also met 50+ yr old men who act like such bratish pre-teens in forums!! (not this one, btw. ).

Life experience does a lot to shape us, and age is no guarrantee of experience, I guess.

And thnaks for the posts in this thread - make good and interesting reading.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by The Fool
It's funny how age can often be completely unrelated to behaviour - I've met 15-year olds who were incredibly mature, and yet also met 50+ yr old men who act like such bratish pre-teens in forums!! (not this one, btw. ).

Ah, yes. I can think of a few fora that I subscribe to that can be described the same way (although, in one of the fora you can't say that it was 50+ year old men [Milwaukee branch of the National Organization of Women]). One list I belong to has blacklisted five people because of bratish behavior ("trolling" in one instance, posting porn in another, I could go on, but I shan't.)

The same holds true on campus. I've encountered some students/teachers who are remarkably mature, and I personally know of one student that I dread running into anywhere on campus (he's "two interns short of a scandal", to quote somebody I had a creative writing class with about four or five years ago) and there's another student who has been thrown out of computer labs repeatedly for using profanity at a high volume when he's the one who did something stupid (like forgetting what he named a file that he spent 3 hours working on, and can't access it again, yet he won't try "surfing" his own files to find the bloody thing.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Khaledistani]

[quote=I, Brian]I'm sure age is is irrelevant here - it's simply attitude that counts.

Marhabatere,(this is how they say hello in Kingdom of Khaledistan, whose natives are Palestonians decendants of arab-estonian alliance, county situates somewhere between baltic and levant )

I am a newbie here,
and here are my two cents! I personaly believe that one is exactly as young as one feels or thinks. I feel sometimes like i would be only 5 years old(one pshycolgist said to me it could be so because at level of emotions we are children or as some put it we have inner child), i am 27 now chronologically, and at other times i feel that i am like much older than i am actually am. I know one 90 year old lady who is so full of energy, and teenagers who are socially in coma , and as it was mentioned in this thread teens who are quite mature and some adults who dont realize how afwully childish, not childlike they can behave. I have observed this interesting thing in life, after i grew from relatively happy childhood to adolecence i became more serious, i felt to be old a bit, although i was not seasoned in life. True i have experienced some things like civwar in lebanon and change of lifestiles from socialicm to capitalism in estonia and me going to explore diiferent realites of thought, also i read a lot and have sensitive personality, maybe all this made me older. In highschool I read that Hegel was nicked by classmates Little Old Man Now after 19 I found my path in life, which is also spiritual in essence and i have friends who i think are blessings in my life, ive lightened up, actually i think my rationality playes big part in it as well, i found that sense of humor is great help and although iam not stage comedian, and sense of humour is coming from being mature and ability to laugh at yourself and the funny liitle cases that happens in your life Life is funny yet a gift. Sometimes i am dreamer and then at other times i feel like Smile...tomorrow is worse or am carrying world on my shoulder. But then i am thankful for mind that keeps me balanced and spirit that keeps me hopeful so i will be concerned about whats going on the world so it doesnt kill me, but rather keeps me going in this blink of an eye moment in full span of time of universe that we are on this planet which is nevertless not less significant, well at at my thinking.

[IMSassafras]

Humor is the best part of life!! Since I have been with my husband I have learned what it means to have a sence of humor. I thought that I had a sence of humor when I was growing up, but looking back I realize my moments of humor, or lack there of, was few and far between. Sometimes I wish I had acquired humor at a much younger age. But that was then and this is now, so.... .

Maybe that is it!! All the "old" people lack humor and all the "young" people have humor. Just something to think about.

Just Me
Sassafras

[WHKeith]

Sheesh, Bruce! If YOU'RE old, where does that leave ME!!?? [Reaches for his walker.]

Bill

[The Fool]

Hi Khaledistani - and welcome to CR! That's quite some life-experience you must have yourself there. do you ever write about it in prose?

Originally Posted by [b

IMSassafras[/b]]
Since I have been with my husband I have learned what it means to have a sence of humor.

I hear many married women say that they need a sense of humour to deal with their husbands.

[Khaledistani]

Originally Posted by The Fool

Hi Khaledistani - and welcome to CR! That's quite some life-experience you must have yourself there. do you ever write about it in prose?


I hear many married women say that they need a sense of humour to deal with their husbands.

Yeah, a bit, on my webpage, haven yet writen my memoirs, maybe one day i will. Or better someone else after my death, to avoid civil wars during my life time, Lifetime biographies by people themselves are tricky things they are either beautified by person or not having all facets to one person deeds and character and what he thinks of his family friends life, sometimes ther eare sensitive issues, one chooses to skip beacuse one doesnt want to. and then you get incomplete picture. in any case it would be bit biased. One saying i read once said that there are 4 sides to the story, the right side, wrong side, his/her side and your side

Hahahaha, are we that bad,