Diversity -Life

[August1991]

The diversity in life is not skin colour, religion, language, orientation - it is age.

We all must live amongst people of different ages. 

In a sustainable society, old people live with children. Kittens bother older cats.

Life is a process.

[Moonlight Graham]

1 hour ago, August1991 said:

Life is a process.

Life is also a highway.  And I want to ride it.  All night long.

[August1991]

5 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Life is also a highway.  And I want to ride it.  All night long.

You miss my point.

Life is not a highway. Life is a road-trip.

[Legato]

10 hours ago, August1991 said:

You miss my point.

Life is not a highway. Life is a road-trip.

One hit, albeit a good one.

[Michael Hardner]

11 hours ago, August1991 said:

The diversity in life is not skin colour, religion, language, orientation - it is age.

We all must live amongst people of different ages. 

In a sustainable society, old people live with children. Kittens bother older cats.

Life is a process.

It's all of those things.  

But it's especially money and its attendant power.  I can change my skin colour, religion, language, orientation, gender ... and effective age ... with enough money.

[TreeBeard]

12 hours ago, August1991 said:

The diversity in life is not skin colour, religion, language, orientation - it is age.

You completely redefined what is normally meant by the phrase “diversity of life”.  
 

You took a term we all learn in grade 8 biology class referring to biological diversity and mangled it to fit some social construct you happen to like.  Although, I would point out that in our N.American culture we tend to jam our old folks into communal living apartments when they become a pain to deal with.  
 

Don’t tell posters here you admire the Chinese treatment of elderly family, or you’ll be called a commie.  
 

Why do you feel the need to redefine terms?

Edited January 25, 2024 by TreeBeard

[Zeitgeist]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

It's all of those things.  

But it's especially money and its attendant power.  I can change my skin colour, religion, language, orientation, gender ... and effective age ... with enough money.

It’s only about the material with you.  You’re a true Marxist.

[Michael Hardner]

1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

It’s only about the material with you.  You’re a true Marxist.

If you don't think money is important, then YOU might be the Marxist.

[Zeitgeist]

24 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

If you don't think money is important, then YOU might be the Marxist.

Okay Treebeard (just hazarding a guess here), but much legislation is based on more than just generating wealth from production.  We are more than workers and owners of production.  Man does not live on bread alone.  

[TreeBeard]

58 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Okay Treebeard

???

Why do you think we’re the same person?  @Michael Hardner is a Christian who describes himself as a conservative.   I don’t ascribe to either, for the most part.  

[Zeitgeist]

13 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:

???

Why do you think we’re the same person?  @Michael Hardner is a Christian who describes himself as a conservative.   I don’t ascribe to either, for the most part.  

Michael is a Christian?  A conservative?

Edited January 25, 2024 by Zeitgeist

[TreeBeard]

3 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Michael is a Christian?  A conservative?

I’ve seen him describe himself that way.  He seems to at least have an affinity for religion and holding onto societal moors of the past. But that’s something for you to argue with him about.  
 

I’m just wondering why you would assume we’re the same poster. That seemed weird. 

[Michael Hardner]

1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

Michael is a Christian?  A conservative?

Very much so.

[herbie]

eYou can't possibly be. These people have defined you out of both categories. Like they have to the vast majority of normal Canadians.

Zealots. Your either with us 100% of the way or your agin' us 100%. Politics is the art of refusing to compromise at all, isn't it?

[Guest]

On 1/25/2024 at 1:08 AM, August1991 said:

Life is a road-trip.

Technically life is a cul de sac.

The closer you get to that end, the more you're aware to make the most of the scenic road you are on, vs worrying of what you can't control. 

Like speeding drivers, or those who realized driving in that slow lane and taking things in works best for them.

Socially speaking, we are seeing an insane amount of traffic violation agents, red light cameras and speed mitigation practices trying to dictate almost everything virtually up to how we sit in our cars.

[August1991]

On 1/25/2024 at 12:48 PM, TreeBeard said:

You completely redefined what is normally meant by the phrase “diversity of life”.  
 

You took a term we all learn in grade 8 biology class...

Steve Jobs famously said that death is the ultimate change agent.

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My point was different.

Diversity? Life itself forces us to live among different beings.

Some are bouncing kittens, others older tired cats.

 

Edited January 27, 2024 by August1991

[eyeball]

In another month or so my grand-kids will be up for a visit.  Life's also a logging road to go ripping up and down untethered in the back of papa's pick-up while screaming your heads off.

[August1991]

On 1/27/2024 at 3:43 PM, eyeball said:

In another month or so my grand-kids will be up for a visit.  Life's also a logging road to go ripping up and down untethered in the back of papa's pick-up while screaming your heads off.

Well said.

In finance, they say: diversify.

Life itself has its own way to force us to diversify. We are forced to live among people of different ages.

[Michael Hardner]

11 hours ago, August1991 said:

 

Life itself has its own way to force us to diversify. We are forced to live among people of different ages.

But there's a drive to separate us, to have us divided into designed subgroups which are increasingly defined in blurry ways.

Progressives vs chuds... but in the real, non rhetorical world, we are all citizens with a hand on the public sphere.