Posted on: 2020/12/03 12:00pm
By: Anonymous (IAMATA)
I do want to comment on the frivolity boards, The only place I posted was on the serious discussion thread. I found it to be a hot bed of pro-trump posting. I cannot overstate how much contempt I have for Trump because it is so obvious about who and what he is. I could never understand how otherwise rational people could support the man.
I learned through that there really are two alternative worlds. The real one, the one I live in and the alternative reality world, the one Trump and his supporters live.
Seeing what these people bought into was eye-opening. I mean there is a video of Trump mocking a disabled reporter and yet these people deny it ever happened. They make excuses for doing horrible things to other people. His insults, his firing people left and right because they don't tell him what he wants to hear, his separating babies from their moms and then losing track of where over 500 of the parents are. His destruction of regulations helping to keep our air and water safe. His indecency and his pathological lying. His claiming real news was fake news and fake news, conspiracy theories were real news and on and on and on. Even now I have no doubt these people believe that the election was stolen from Trump.
Eventually I realized that spending too much time arguing with these people was damaging to the Soul, which is why I chose to get away.
The point is these are the people who make up half our country. And these are the people who make up half of the participants on message boards.
That being the case, it is impossible...given the huge chasms between the characters of people and the way people view the world that there are ever going to be smooth sailing on any message boards.
Even the finance boards, where you would think that giving opinions about stocks to buy would be simple...and yet even there people start blasting each other.
Its just the way of the world it seems.
Makes me glad that my wife is not political and does not bother with message boards....Life is far more peaceful that way.
Re: The fivolity boards serious discussion
Posted on: 2020/12/05 04:00pm
By: Anonymous (Mr J Cash)
This morning TV Land was showing old Andy Griffith shows. I enjoy watching these old shows. The show reruns were always on in the late morning on one of the Youngstown TV stations when I was a young child and I enjoyed it then.
Today, as an adult and father, it often surprises me how relevant so many of the old Andy Griffith reruns are. Most of them are silly old slapstick but many have messages that are as relevant today as they were then. Many are values that seem long lost.
The two scenes linked below from the episode "A Medal for Opie" are two conversations Frederick Christ Trump Sr. obviously failed to have with little Donny. If he had these type of character-building lessons with little Donny, Donny may have developed some maturity rather than being a 74 year old spoiled brat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4moswaa7_M[*1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OS-LJgBj_s[*2]
Besides these scenes being some little Donny obviously didn’t get as a child, it is also easy to look at them as a narrative. In this narrative Andy (Paw) is representing the majority of this nation as reasonable and intelligent mature Americans and 8 year old Opie is the 74 year old outgoing spoiled brat and bully and those gullible enough, and/or bullied enough, to blindly accept his unfounded unproven lunatic fringe conspiracies and rants.
Surprising how well these two scenes from the 1962-episode parallel current events.
~ J $ ~