The lost generation?

it's still a precursor to what will happen, and shows the mood is there, and revolution could be on the cards.

 

im having the exact same problem im only 16 and i have no options, i already have a hard time in highschool and i dont have a job. ive applyed to places but im young and i only have a C average in school, i realy have no way to make money other then a mimume wage job and after im out of highschool thats as far as im going to get. i cant get into a good collage only community, i could go get a trade but alot of the trades are dieing my father is an enginer he use to make realy good money but all the work is over seas so he has lost 20,000 in pay a year, and has shit benifits and no retierment, thats a huge problem with factory work now. im already stuck working the rest of life so i can die at 65 with nothing to show for it. i have no skill, no money, no family name. once meaning is lost the pattern will destroy itself and we will have a chance to rebuilt the way we want to, the only thing i can think of at this point is to pass on to other people this realization that this generation is doomed and we have to rebuild it

 

Exactly. Seems like you would eat up an arts degree. PoliSci for instance

You want to be proactive, but you are just complaining about what you aren't doing.

 

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

 

not all action is on a political spectrum. my change is social. my impact is with the individuals and people of this world on the most basic medium of interaction, comminication. whether it be verbal, physical, emotional, or what have you. helping someone feel better and help find happiness is a motive to be addressed. when looking for satisfaction in my life, i find a lot of it in human interaction. any thoughts?

 

Marx predicted globalization decades before it happened

 

I seek intelligence but I personally am not looking for the value of X or the chemical formula for plastic.... i seek a real intelligence

 

Absolutely. So far, I've only been able to change things on a 'micro' level. One-on-One. I might change a few lives, but I want to change the world.

 

Prepare yourself for a let down...

 

In what way do you want to change the world?

 

I don't understand why this guy is upset about chaging (however minute) something in someone's life. One person cannot tackle and change the world. That is all I am saying. That and that basically all social movements have failed...

Look at what happened at the US capital today. A congresswoman or something like that punched a cop in the face because he touched her arm when she refused to get checked at a security check. She claims he was checking her because she is a "black woman", which anyone who has a shread of common sense can see is hooey. If she (and the media would have us believe that there are others out there who think this way too) that black people are still oppressed in THAT regard, then that specific social movement has failed. Ys, it may have acheived some thigns, but failure is failure.

I never said I wanted to change the world. I am changing the world though; I am living as I can. Nothing is static.

EDIT: My major is Religious Studies. Yes, I am going to focus on Christianity as much as the program will allow because that is what I am most interested in, but I am going to try and take some comparative classes and classes on other faiths. Why? Well cause I want to try and stop religious intolerance, and I hope that somehow I will be able to. Taking the chrisitanity classes will also help me lear about my own faith so that I can defend it better when others say something that is untrue (whether they know it or not) and hopefully through deeper study of my faith I will walk o a more righteous path...

 

I've decided that lent is a terrific idea.

 

I read a great article in the Edmonton Journal about lent. It was about how giving up chocolate or using it as a second go at New Years Resolutions wasn't the point and that you don't have to "give stuff up" (mainly because the things people most often give up they don't acctually like) but it is a period of spiritual growth (which can be done by volunteering somewhere or you know--other stuff)...

 

I'm not that familiar with the concept. I just think moderation is probably an extremely underrated life principle.

 

1. In what way don't I want to change the world? It may very well be the sort of hopeless idealism that you can only enjoy while you're young. If so; I'm bloody thankful for it.

2. That congresswoman wasn't Rosa Parks. She wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. She was, simply put, a black congresswoman. To say that her personal failure is evidence of the failure of a movement is ridiculous. Not every person of color is a spokesman for their race. That particular movement hasn't failed. It has waned, but then again - a lot has been accomplished.

3. You're right. Nothing is static, and I should probably be more than happy with the small changes that I can make. But I'm not. I want more. And if my focus is only on the here and now, then I will never change the world.

 

You say one person cannot change the world, but there are people in history who have effected the world big time. I mean look at (However VERY BAD he was) Adolf Hitler, yes he was a horrible person, but he did change the world drastically.

And since you said you are studying Christianity, you should know that Jesus Christ changed the world very much as well.

A quote I like is something like, It's really bad when bad things happen, but it's worse when good people do nothing about things.