paul h,

Please calm down with your self-assured pretentious arrogance, you've barely learned how to do 'joined-up' writing, and you're lecturing grown-ups as if you were an old man! You have the enthusiasm of youth, and that's admirable, but until you've actually lived a little in the real world you ought to perhaps listen, absorb and learn. It would do you well to beware of what you say now, you may live to regret your words...nobody knows what lies ahead of them and what they have to deal with in the future.

It's also advisable to know what you're talking about in answering questions, although I must admit you've learned a lot (please note, 'a lot' is two separate words!) from John G and Eugene over the last few months.

You're 21, going on 81 paul,

Get a Life, have some fun, maybe even a 'mis-spent'youth!!!

-- Old enough to know better :-) (astonished@thearroganceofyouth.org), December 03, 2003

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bumping

-- top (top@topping.com), December 03, 2003.

Beleave it or not adults may learn a few things from younger people weather they admit it or not, just because you may have a few years on us does't mean we don't have experices and knowledge to offer. We may have a different way of looking at the world or at a certain point of veiw. I won't claim to know more or have lived through more, but i will say this: it is a mistake for you to claim in your "your self-assured pretentious arrogance" that because we are younger we cant point out your wrongs and "lecturing grown-ups" maybe you should take some of your own advice: "you ought to perhaps listen, absorb and learn"

KeV

-- Kevin Wisniewski (kez38spl@charter.net), December 03, 2003.

A year lived is another year to forget as much as was learned the year before.

-- Skoobouy (skoobouy@hotmail.com), December 03, 2003.

You have the enthusiasm of youth, and that's admirable, but until you've actually lived a little in the real world you ought to perhaps listen, absorb and learn.

I would disagree, if only in this situation. I think that if all those who lack experience in "the real world" avoided posting on a public internet forum, this might be a practical way to build a solid database of worthwhile information.

However, there are many who continue to post despite their misinformation and unfounded beliefs. I don't think that paul deserves chastisement for his posts. At least he is on the side of right. And even if he does make mistakes, there are others who can (and do) correct him, which is better than to leave him believing errors.

-- Catherine Ann (catfishbird@yahoo.ca), December 03, 2003.

That's very true, Catherine. Paul is fine just as he is. I'm happy to give him all my attention, every day.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), December 03, 2003.

wow, i thought threads entirely devoted to one person were for people more influential here than myself... wow.

thanks to the people who support me. thanks to old enough to know better. i appologize if i sometimes come off as over opinionated or arrogant, and i ask your forgiveness. a lot (yay for california high school educations and poor spelling) of times it can be easy to slip into arrogance... especially when youve dealt with some of the "adults" that i have.

BUT... while i have learned alot from eugene and john g, dont forget that i came here as a fairly knowledgable catholic as well. and, while no doubt ive yet to experience many things, dont count my current experience as moot, there is alot to learn as a youth today that was not available in generations past... and a lot more to deal with at a younger and younger age. the first girl to get pregnant in my graduating class was in seventh grade. the first to die? eigth grade... father went nuts and murdered him. the first to OD on drugs? that was in freshman year. the first to get expelled for smoking pot? believe it or not, fourth grade. so dont count youth as inexperienced in the ways of mis spent childhood, by the time we're twenty today, most of us (with at least half a brain) are fed up with "youth."

by the way, for an interjection such as "please note" you follow it with a colon, not a comma... ie please note: this is how it is supposed to look. but gramatical errors aside, this is an internet forum, not a place where i write award winning essays. (chuckling, since john doesnt like lol anymore) im just playing with you... but there isnt one of us who is stellar on our grammar here.

-- paul h (dontSendMeMail@notAnAddress.com), December 04, 2003.

Have a blessed Advent season paul.

You're doing fine. Just keep praying!

-- - (David@excite.com), December 04, 2003.

Everyday We all learn something (new) from eachother !!

Technology & new things , today ----- History , from the past !!

We need both for our future ==> Watch & Learn !!

Salut & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:

-- Laurent LUG (.@...), December 04, 2003.

Let us speak in accents of love. Anger closes doors. Love opens them.

-- Padraig Caughey (padraigcaughey@hotmail.com), December 04, 2003.

Paul H, I hope you noticed the supreme compliment I paid you on another thread two or three days ago. (If not, say so, and I will copy it here.)
JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), December 04, 2003.

thanks john,

i think i caught it (the one about being nice to you on another thread). im honestly not offended by this thread though, i know that sometimes i may come off as arrogant. thanks for your kindness everyone.

-- paul h (dontSendMeMail@notAnAddress.com), December 04, 2003.

Jmj

No, Paul H. That is not what I was talking about when I referred to the big compliment I had paid you.

At the bottom of this thread, you'll find the following November 29 comment of mine:
"Paul H, you have wisdom beyond your years. If only I had known as much, at your age, as you do -- and if only I had had your faith and willingness to sacrifice -- my life would have been very different and far more pleasing to God."

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), December 05, 2003.

thank you, john, i had apparently missed that post in the endless onslaught of anti catholic garbage from jeanie.

-- paul h (dontSendMeMail@notAnAddress.com), December 05, 2003.