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Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

Farkel

ResistenceIsFutile,

Your response is sophomoric at the very best. For any of your arguments to stick, i.e. more college graduates today than in the past, you must first prove that those who made it to college were at least as well-prepared with the same amount of education as they were say, 50 years ago when I was in High School. Since you weren't in High School 50 years ago or even alive 50 years ago, you have NO personal anecdotal evidence. I do. I also raised 4 children and know intimately what they were taught in high school. My oldest daughter is 44 years old. She's probably about twice as old as you are, given your immature and silly comments.

The ONLY comments I've seen about how wonderfully educated our young folks are today are from our young folks who don't have a firsthand clue about how wonderfully educated we were. Why don't YOU find some evidence from someone who has lived through my generation AND yours who will validate your thin and vapid assertions, because you obviously are clueless. One cannot know what bad times are when one has only lived through good times. Likewise, one cannot know what a piece-of-shit education is when they haven't lived in a time when a good and rounded education was the norm. (At least where I grew up.) Please note that I am not arguing the typical codger argument about how disrespectful, thoughtless, selfish and rebellious the youngsters are as codgers have been doing for centuries. I am arguing about EDUCATION today compared with yesterday. That is quantifiable and whether a codger makes it or a 5th grader makes it, it is a different animal than that gripe I heard my grandparents and parents make about my generation when I was young. In fact, Socrates whined about it 300 years before Christ Jesus was born.

I could give you numerous examples of what I mean, but with your likely inferior education you would merely dismiss it and say, "that stuff is not relevant today and is worthless." You would say that because you haven't read nor been taught what I read and was taught in just High School. You simply have no personal frame of reference.

You are like a nippy Chihuahua, biting at my ankles just to make everyone think you are a St. Bernard when you are just a puny little Chihuahua. You irritate me. Run away little boy and pat yourself on the back and tell yourself how well educated you are. Damn the facts, just do it.

Farkel

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Were Any of You Part of the L.A. JW Party Scene in the Late 60s/Early 70s?

by DNCall in

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if you were, you'll remember how happening it was..

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isot4,

That's where I was in the late 1960's and early 1970's: Maywood, South Gate and Lynwood!

Brother "Stoussan" was my CO in Maywood and Brother Ed Dunphy was my CO in Lynwood. I still went to the Maywood congo when I moved and stayed briefly in South Gate. Downey and Huntington Park were also my stompling grounds and Dodger Stadium was where we always went for the District Assemblies.

Ah, the fun days when we knew for certain that we would never die!

Farkel

93

Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

Farkel

Beks,

Nice Jefferson quote. Very Jeffersonian. Note that he wrote that long before we even had our Constitutional Republic and he wrote it for the Virginians. In that context it is idiotic not to agree with what he wrote. In fact, I fully embrace what he wrote.

Now tell me where he even implied that it was the job of a FEDERAL Government (which didn't even exist at the he wrote it) to provide the education for our children. Better yet, tell us all where the FEDERAL government now is or should be soverign over the States or local governments in providing our children with a good education. Just name the article and paragraph in the United States Constitution where they are granted that power, please. The Federal Government ONLY has powers which are specifically enumerated in the Constitution. There are about 17 or 18 of them and providing schooling is not one of them. The "General Welfare" clause doesn't cut it. Read the Federalist. That clause was mainly and almost exclusively meant to protect us from foreign invasion, and not meant for the Federal Government to tinker with our school system. That is why I despise George Bush for his No Child Left Behind tinkering. He should have been tarred and feathered for that one.

ResistenceIsFutile,

You again blathered:

: There is also currently a higher percentage of educated Americans than at any other point in U.S. history. As measured by the percentage of Americans with four year college degrees.

That assumes a college education implies graduates are better educated than children in my generation who merely graduated from High School. I've had a half-dozen college Graduates who worked for me, including one who had an MBA from USC. I fired him in two weeks. He was an idiot. The others were also soon let go because, simply, they were not that articulate nor educated. I had another one who graduated from Harvard with a major in real estate finance interview with me. He didn't have the skills to market my sophisticated major institutional real estate analytical software I was promoting. I did not hire him. He was unqualified to represent it. He didn't even understand the complicated loans that were commonplace for major commercial real estate at the time!

As I believe I stated, many college degrees today only insure that the graduates are at least more literate and well-rounded than non-college graduates. It does not necessarily mean they are better educated than those of a few generations back, though, as you implied using your citation.

To be fair, several decades ago I took a test that was given in the late 1800's which was given to 8th or 9th graders and which must be passed in order for them to get their diplomas. I failed miserably! I would assert that today's PhDs would have a hard time passing that one.

I still assert that today's students are not given the same education we were given in my generation, and anecdotal or not, I see it in the real world almost every week.

The grammar used today by the young-uns is atrocious! I shudder to think what the HR people think when they interview those people and hear how they butcher our language. Then again, maybe the HR people talk like that, too!

Sigh.

Farkel

93

Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

Farkel

ResistenceIsFutile:

: Just because they won't stay the hell off our damn lawns doesn't necessarily imply that the younger generation is intellectually inferior to us.

Great. Using your own assumption to prove your other own assumption.

Idiot.

Farkel

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So What Do You Think: Are JWs The WORST Religion One Could Be In?

by minimus in

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be realistic..

Farkel

:So What Do You Think: Are JWs The WORST Religion One Could Be In?

Worse than ending a sentence in a preposition? Shudder the thought!

Seriously, min, I would think that the dubs are one of the best of the worse. And that ain't no compliment! Folks have already named a bunch of the really bad ones. I agree with them. It doesn't mean that the JW religion isn't a big pile of toxic and dangerous shit, though.

Farkel

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Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

Farkel

Capping this thread off, let the board note that "Resistence is Futile" has proved that it won't respond to FACTS, but doesn't mind hurling slander at me until it was called on its bullshit slander by me. (Still checking my references and friends, Mr. Futile?)

Bengaria also won't respond to FACTS. It made claims about Thomas Jefferson and when called to the carpet on it, somehow decided to take a vacation in the Bahamas, or something.

Why do the mudslinging, lazy-assed, non-researchers think that everyone will believe their nonsense without calling them on their nonsense? Not EVERYONE is as ill-educated as the dummies they are used to fooling with their bullshit, you know.

Farkel, NO Bullshit CLASS

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Were Any of You Part of the L.A. JW Party Scene in the Late 60s/Early 70s?

by DNCall in

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if you were, you'll remember how happening it was..

Farkel

In the late 1960's I lived in the Los Angeles area (very close to Downey by the way). In the early 1970's, I lived in San Diego. I was a loyal, faithful (and ridiculously stupid) pioneer.

I never had that much fun then, but in a few years, I had more fun than any dub has had in an entire lifetime.

I regret nothing about all that fun. I rue the years I sold Watchtower horsehit books and magazines.

Farkel

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Meet our very own Sarah Palin

by barry in

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au.yahoo.com.

Farkel

It's always a hoot to see a thread populated by so many idiots who cannot think rationally.

You need to know who you are and the rest of you obviously know you are not one of them.

(It's great to see you in action again, beks. You give me endless hours of laughter.)

Farkel

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Why do the GB need a new Bethel compound if the end is so close? Here is the "official" answer

by sir82 in

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as most of us know, the society is spending 10's of millions of dollars on a giant, state of the art, secluded bunker country club headquarters in very remote, isolated warwick ny.. the question that "some" have is, why?

if armageddon is coming "very soon", why go to all that time & effort & expense?

why have thousands of jws dedicating their time to this massive effort instead of the "lifesaving ministry"?.

Farkel

Why did Joseph Franklin Rutherford have a bomb shelter built in Beth Shan to protect him from a Japanese invasion in WWII? He didn't trust in "Jehovah" any more than the cynical GB does today.

Hypocrites. They are using the money they extract from their true believers to protect themselves and leave the sheep kicked under the bus at their stupid "Armageddon" myth.

Farkel

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Do You Regard President Obama In The Same Way As You Did BEFORE The Election?

by minimus in

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lately, even late night comedians are starting to make fun of the president.. i hear more negatives about the president than ever before---even from his own voters.. (i had high hopes for him when he beat mccain but since then, i believe the president has been a huge disappointment)..

Farkel

When Obamanation took office, he was given a one trillion dollar deficit. Half of that was caused by George W. Bush. That would be 500 billion dollars. A LOT of money!

Nearly 5 years later we have a 17 TRILLION dollar deficiet. That folks is 17,000,000,000,000, or to put it another way, that is 17,000 MILLION dollars. If on peels off a million dollar bill from that stack of money, there is still left 16,999 million dollars left. Given the fact that a dollar bill is about .0046 of an inch thick, that is enough money to stretch to the moon 5 times. That is 5 times 230,000 miles of money when stacked up!

It is peanuts compared with what the USA spent fighting in world war II, even counting for any inflation numbers one wants to use.

Can anyone name a single bridge, road or any other infrastructure that Obamanation has built in this Country with that stolen taxpayer money?

Can anyone name any cronies, unions, failed and idiotic businesses Obamanation has thrown money at that was wasted and squandered and not use for the general welfare (see the US Constitution) of the people of the United States? I can. Can anyone justify why this man is a good and just President who cares for the citizens of this Country?

I certainly cannot.

Farkel