Respect Your Elders

It certainly is.

 

It's spelled MENU

 

I think "Respect Your Elders" is merely a platitude which many repeat but few people adhere to. I don't know many folks who would blindly respect the elderly, regardless of any facts to the contrary. People repeat this phrase, but a quick walk down the corridors of any nursing home would indicate that most American's don't respect their elders.

 

This thread is getting highly repetitious.

The only elderly person I know anymore is my mother-in-law. She's definitely proven that she doesn't deserve respect.

 

The need a Senior Citizen "Express Lane" where they can take their time and then yell when they are ready to order!

 

patience is a virtue.....stay out of those places selling fast food and the problem is solved for all of you

i'm shocked that not only do y'all eat that shit but you actually get impatient if a slow senior is standing between you and your grease fix

 

Maybe they need a door over to the side that says =Senior Citizens Enter Here. It goes to the parking lot in back. Some would say--'what the hell am I doing here--time to go home."

 

Everyone will be there someday, unless you die first...it's not like it's a disease, or rare thing to be old. So when you feel aggravated at an elderly person walking, in line or whatever, just remember....that will be you someday. How do you want to be treated?

 

first....let me say that I have been respected by young teens many many times.....always calling me ''sir'' lol....I wanna punch them.....kidding........its nice someone taught them manners


now this

now you can apologize to ''the seniles'' too my brother.....it is a form of racism to refer to a group of people in a poor light....such as calling people ''the seniles''

you best clean your own yard before you complain about my yard

which is spotless....I respect everyone everywhere until they give me a reason not too

 

i didn't know. sometimes my mind, trying to remember how to spell anything.

('human' is an alien language to me, even if amerenglish is the only human language i know well enough to communicate in)

 

Let's round up all the dopes and the old fuckers and put em' in cages where we can control 'em. Shit, I'll go. Plenty of dopes to fuck over.

It's not that fun to get old------much less fun to be in a box under the dirt.

 

the problem is with that word "respect". a universally mutual consideration, would make considerably more sense.

 

Correct in order to be PC these days we use the term Age Associated Memory Impairment


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Well then speaking as a black man I say let’s get rid of welfare entirely and see what happens................


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i don't believe you need to single out one group, like people who are older then you are, but rather, to simply be considerate of everyone, them, along with everyone else.
and i prefer the word "considertation", because "respect" carries an implication of authority, for which any basis is more an anomaly then common.
and i suspect, this is why, there is so much resentment, understandibly, toward the whole idea of "respecting" anything.

what i really believe is more important then any of that, is for everyone to be considerate of each other,
because its the lack of THAT that screws everything up and keeps it that way.

that's also why i think its completely wrong, this idea you have in many religions, espcially 'western' religions,
that everything has to either be kissing the ass of some hierarchy, or be somehow, evil, destructive, and wishing to cause harm.

so again, you don't need any of that, and i don't believe a god that was good would want that either,
a god, or anything else that is good, the measure of nobility is humility. even for god.

what we need to be considerate of, first, is the realization, that the whole universe isn't here just for us,
that we're no 'better' then anything else in it, (nor worse, we're not doing it any favor by beating on ourselves either),
and THEN go on to realize, that yes, we're also part of it, and for THAT reason, to be universally considerate of each other.

you know young, old, rich, poor, black white, gay straight, brilliant retarded, male female, and so on, anything else, ideology, belief, any of it.
any living organism, mostly, or at least anything with either green leaves or a cerebral cortex.

of course a lot of people don't understand this, a lot of people don't want to understand this.
that's not just their loss, its everyone's.

 

"Growing old is not for the faint of heart"..... I learned an awful lot from my elders growing up and most of them were very good to me. There of course were those who could not tolerate my long hair or odd clothing choices but for the most part I respected them. There is no better teacher than experience, and they all had more experience than I did, so I learned a lot about the old ways of doing things. Especially farming and homesteading, what I was interested in during the 60's. It has sure been a long strange trip thus far......

 

There's different kinds of respect, and I guess the thing that bothers me most is when people stereotype the elderly based on their appearance and react to them that way. Some of them have accomplished incredible things when they were younger.

 

to me, its not about whether age makes anyone wise. its about acting decent toward everyone so you can live in a world where everyone acts decent toward each other.
sure they're'll always be a few who don't, but all you need is a simple majority who do, and it becomes the culture.
and that's what matters. a culture of being considerate of everything, and that requires logic, logic and consideration are not antithetical to each other,
only people who buy into the lie that thoughtlessness is freedom, buy into hating logic: a culture of being considerate of everything,
doesn't destroy the ability of the only planet they have to live on, to be a planet they can live on.

so it doesn't have to be about treating anyone special because they're old. you can do that too if you want to.
and if you're considerate generally, you realize a lot of things get more difficult for people as they get older,
and cut some slack for that, just like you do for infants, at least until they realize that pain hurts.