| Deleted User | That is REALLY courageous of you and I admire you for it.
I have made very many more mistakes than you in my life an whenever I know it (which is frequent) I try to face them, correct them, and apologize.
IMHO, there is no shame in that.
I was a teacher for very many years and from time to time made mistakes certainly factual ones and sometimes personal ones. It happened quite a few times that a pupil or student would pull me up over one of my errors. If it was justified, and not infrequently it was, I would not try to hide it but 'own up', and if necessary apologize - same with my love of computer games.
Enough of this - no more apologies on EITHER side.
The confrontation NEVER OCCURED.
I sincerely hope that with time you'll snap out of your depression – I DO know what it’s like and it can be overcome – sometimes only with great difficulties but it CAN be routed, and permanently. I hope that some time in the not too distant future you will have a happy family - I see no reason why not.
I seem to understand that you would like a child or children some time when suitable, and I greatly hope you will and be able to give them all the deep love and affection that your mother heaped upon you. [smiley=blush.gif] [smiley=kiss.gif]
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HalcyonSchattenjger
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Joined: 17 NOV 2006
Status : Offline | What you are witnessing in the yellow press is the politicizing of the normal global temperatures due to many factors. NO science has proven global warming, only a consensus of opinion has made the news.
So, ignore Al Gore and the small countries looking for funds.
Still, we have a big problem with pollution and general disregard for our waste. If you need a cause, latch on to greener initiatives of your local communities and be informed. It was long thought that disposable diapers would kill the planet. The lesson is that extremists have big hearts and big blind spots.
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Exercise your vision.
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CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | One of the outrageous proposals at Copenhagen was that Papua New Guinea offered to preserve a certain percentage of forest in exchange for large amounts of cash. It transpired that the areas they were offering to preserve were steeply wooded and inaccessible and totally unlikely ever to have been logged.
No doubt there is some climate change BUT it is by no means certain that a) it is as urgent and catastrophic as predicted, b) that it is man-made, c) that man has any chance of altering it.
If by chance, it is a natural cycle for our planet, then we stand buckley's chance in hell of altering it. The planet has its own time-table which we don't have enough data to correctly interpret.
I think more research is needed, less scientific ego, a lot less money-grabbing by big industries and small countries and some real efforts to cut pollution and stop the extinction of numerous species.
We should also investigate alternative renewable fuel sources, better farming methods and a less wasteful lifestyle.
This planet has a history of climate change and shorelines shrinking and changing. But all the dirty linen is coming out now about how the figures were fudged by the scientists to pressure the politicians. We can't make sound policy judgements on falsehoods.
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| Deleted User | Earlier in this thread it was maintained that elderly folk are incapable of judging certain inter-relationships due to "not being with it" on account of age.
I am certainly NOT going to rake this subject up on any personal basis whatsoever - but I DO think that it is a contention worth examining.
Of course as with so many subjects, one is liable to present generalities. But there are always exceptions to every rule., and what I say is only an opinion for what it's worth and probably a generalization not applicable to everybody.
Whilst not attempting to improve the Bard’s “7 Ages of Man”, I think that there are at least 3 adult ages – or stages.
When one is young, one tends to see all things in black and white. When Middle Aged all controversial subjects seem grey with 2 or more sides to every question.. When old, one can hardly know what are the questions, let alone the answers.
But seriously – with regard to the contention that old people are incapable of judging today’s issues due to their age.
There certainly MAY be some truth in this – - at least for many pensioners.
But the first world is charging along and changing at breakneck speed exponentially and “young” is no longer people in their 20’s and 30’s but in their very early teens – if not even younger.
Many (maybe even most) members of this Forum are in their early 50’s. Many have children – and some even grandchildren (one or more odd-balls may have great-grandchildren).
Those even born around the late 1950’s grew up with no or hardly any TV’s, certainly no computers, whose parents were lucky to own a home telephone let alone cell phones, bipods and the like. Internet, Face Book, Twitter, Goggle, etc. were unheard of. Not every family even owned a single car, to say nothing of one for every 16+ year old child. The pill (and Viagra) had not been invented – and this had a profound influence on sexual mores. And so on and so on.
So those middle aged folk here who have children are already miles ‘behind’ their offspring – assuming they have any.
In short – I believe that every generation recently tends to regard their elders (if not necessarily betters) are really “Old Fogeys”.
We may feel very young – even if we aren’t – although many folk say that age should not be measured in years – or aches and pains and illnesses – but in spirit and attitudes.
OK – let the Tsunami, tidal wave of disagreement and/or refutation, begi
n. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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