weird comments.
Sandra Dodd
On YouTube, a new comment under the little video of Holly:
"I've been schooled my whole life but I can still think for myself and
learn what interests me in my own time outside of school. Just because
you're in a school setting doesn't eliminate your ability to be an
individual. Plus, by "falling into line" for the first 20 or so years
of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
long run."
I don't know if that person is past those "first 20 or so years" or
not (profile says 21, but profiles say lots of things).
What I know about Holly is that at 17 she turns down jobs and has
$1800 in the bank. I've been watching Annie lately as background
noise, and reading "big monies and easy living" totally brought images
of Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett singing and dancing
"Easy Street."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLqYn1OYdU
And the first comment under one of mine keeps making little rattly
noises in my head even weeks later.
I was talking about "the universe inside your head" and someone wrote:
"very interest idea .. i like the parsed reality.
"i think it could be a mode of thinking if refined."
I think it was a positive comment, and the courtesy in such cases is
to smile wanly and accept the vague compliment. I'm curious about
what sorts of modes of thinking need to be refined, and who would run
the refinery and how the refined mode of thinking would then be
distributed for use by thinkers everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyGgmin0t8
Sandra
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"I've been schooled my whole life but I can still think for myself and
learn what interests me in my own time outside of school. Just because
you're in a school setting doesn't eliminate your ability to be an
individual. Plus, by "falling into line" for the first 20 or so years
of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
long run."
I don't know if that person is past those "first 20 or so years" or
not (profile says 21, but profiles say lots of things).
What I know about Holly is that at 17 she turns down jobs and has
$1800 in the bank. I've been watching Annie lately as background
noise, and reading "big monies and easy living" totally brought images
of Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett singing and dancing
"Easy Street."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLqYn1OYdU
And the first comment under one of mine keeps making little rattly
noises in my head even weeks later.
I was talking about "the universe inside your head" and someone wrote:
"very interest idea .. i like the parsed reality.
"i think it could be a mode of thinking if refined."
I think it was a positive comment, and the courtesy in such cases is
to smile wanly and accept the vague compliment. I'm curious about
what sorts of modes of thinking need to be refined, and who would run
the refinery and how the refined mode of thinking would then be
distributed for use by thinkers everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyGgmin0t8
Sandra
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Bea
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html
(It's called Life and Music, it's a talk by Alan Watts, animated)
Bea
>Plus, by "falling into line" for the first 20 or so yearsHmmm, this reminds me of that:
> of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
> long run."
>
http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html
(It's called Life and Music, it's a talk by Alan Watts, animated)
Bea
Tina Boster
====Plus, by "falling into line" for the first 20 or so years
of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
long run."=====
This sounds incredibly naïve. This is the comment of someone who is on the
treadmill and wont realize the school, good job, easy retirement myth is
just a myth until his 401K runs out before he is done living. He obviously
has not figured out that the majority of the people in this country who look
like they are wealthy are really in debt up to their eyeballs with a
negative net worth.
I would like to know where my big monies and easy living went. I fell
into line long enough to get a masters degree, and the highest paying job I
have ever had in my life was $36K. That is about my income cap. I will
never earn much more than that.
Big monies and easy living come to those who make themselves stand out in
some way. Falling into line only prepares you to work for those with money.
It is the choices we make that determine our lives. I hope my children will
always be active decision makers rather than living in default mode. If
big monies and easy living happen to come their way as a result of the
choices theyve made, then fine. However, that is not the goal. I would
rather they are able to be happy with who they are no matter what
circumstances they find themselves in due to the choices they have made.
Tina (who now earns a whopping $0 a year after falling into line most of her
life)
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of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
long run."=====
This sounds incredibly naïve. This is the comment of someone who is on the
treadmill and wont realize the school, good job, easy retirement myth is
just a myth until his 401K runs out before he is done living. He obviously
has not figured out that the majority of the people in this country who look
like they are wealthy are really in debt up to their eyeballs with a
negative net worth.
I would like to know where my big monies and easy living went. I fell
into line long enough to get a masters degree, and the highest paying job I
have ever had in my life was $36K. That is about my income cap. I will
never earn much more than that.
Big monies and easy living come to those who make themselves stand out in
some way. Falling into line only prepares you to work for those with money.
It is the choices we make that determine our lives. I hope my children will
always be active decision makers rather than living in default mode. If
big monies and easy living happen to come their way as a result of the
choices theyve made, then fine. However, that is not the goal. I would
rather they are able to be happy with who they are no matter what
circumstances they find themselves in due to the choices they have made.
Tina (who now earns a whopping $0 a year after falling into line most of her
life)
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Sandra Dodd
-=- If
�big monies and easy living� happen to come their way as a result of the
choices they�ve made, then fine. However, that is not the goal. I would
rather they are able to be happy with who they are no matter what
circumstances they find themselves in due to the choices they have
made.-=-
Happy with or without money is what I want for my kids.
Just as every test and contest in school has a winner or two or three
and a WHOLE bunch of kids who did not "get an A," same with the end of
any part of the treadmill of school-to-career.
Sandra
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�big monies and easy living� happen to come their way as a result of the
choices they�ve made, then fine. However, that is not the goal. I would
rather they are able to be happy with who they are no matter what
circumstances they find themselves in due to the choices they have
made.-=-
Happy with or without money is what I want for my kids.
Just as every test and contest in school has a winner or two or three
and a WHOLE bunch of kids who did not "get an A," same with the end of
any part of the treadmill of school-to-career.
Sandra
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Jenny C
> "I've been schooled my whole life but I can still think for myself andI wonder how falling in line helps someone be an individual! I don't
> learn what interests me in my own time outside of school. Just because
> you're in a school setting doesn't eliminate your ability to be an
> individual. Plus, by "falling into line" for the first 20 or so years
> of your life you're set up for big monies and easy living in the
> long run."
>
even think falling in line helps set someone up for "big monies and easy
living". The only people that I've known that have "big monies and easy
living" had really generous and wealthy parents. Someone worked very
hard to earn that "big monies and easy living" to pass on to the next
generation. Just look at Paris Hilton, the Hilton family started off
with a B and B, and the man who started the hotel chain, did all the
duties a bell boy would do, carry luggage to and from the train to the B
and B that his parents owned. He worked HARD for years and took a
gamble at expanding and it worked. I doubt very much that he "fell in
line" to get that hotel empire up and going!
Every person that has been successful like that has NOT been a person
that has fallen in line! Perhaps, one day, that person will realize
what I lie they've been told! I went to school for 17 yrs and I don't
have "big monies and easy living". I have small monies and happy
living. Perhaps it's because I'm shy of the 20 yrs mark that this
person suggested. Ahhh if only I'd stuck it out for another 3 more
yrs... but I'm thinking I'd still be a stay at home mom, and my student
loans would just be bigger. I have friends that pay out over a thousand
dollars a month for student loans. That would be more like "big monies
and hard living" to me!