Re: Old and Wise?

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:18:59 +0000, MandlaX
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Its a hard time to be an old person now. 
> In old days old people were given 
> respect. An old man was a wise man. 

Could it be that old men were indeed wise then?

> Now the children say shut up you stupid 
> old fool. .. Shut up you old fool. You know nothing.
> You are stupid. No more wise old men.

Maybe they have a point.

> I  will have to remember to keep quiet and not get in the way.

Could it be that you are capabl;e of more wisdom than the
youngsters credit you with?  A few of your recent contributions
in the NGs are instructive:
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> From: MandlaX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Subject: Re: Bleeding Africa: Laundering 2
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.african, soc.culture.south-africa..
> Date: 2003-11-22 11:54:44 PST
> C Spinner wrote:
> <something. maybe true. maybe false. but anyway. bitter. so...>
>
> Fuck off.
>-- 
> MX.
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> From: MandlaX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Subject: Re: Bleeding Africa: Foreign Leeches 
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.african, soc.culture.south-africa...
> Date: 2003-11-22 11:54:45 PST
> C Spinner wrote:
> <if history is anything to go by, probably shit>
> 
> Fuck off.
> -- 
> MX.
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> From: MandlaX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Subject: Re: Currency Racketeers in USA, Zimbabwe
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.zimbabwe, soc.culture.african...
> Date: 2003-11-22 11:54:43 PST
> C Spinner wrote:
> <I didn't read all this bitter stuff, but anyway..>
> 
> Fuck off.
> -- 
> MX.
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and so on.

As an 'adult' and a 'parent', you are a role model to the
youngsters. Why do you complain when the youngsters tell you what
YOU taught them to say?