[PenultimateManStanding]

btw, maybe some of you mature adults would appreciate the amazing Geology lesson I tried to teach the kids. I'm here in San Diego. To my east is a range of mountains that stretches from Baja California to L.A. 6 thousand feet high in this vicinity though it gets higher up closer to L.A. Beyond that is a sea level valley. Right here in town we've got rocks that washed down a riverbed from central Arizona 20 million years ago. There was no mountain and there was no valley at that time. Ponder that.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'G')osh, how do slide from reading to troubled kids to the apocalypse?

I am not criticizing just curious.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Another post before this goes down the memory hole. I was thinking as I was looking at these kids, "why are they in a psychiatric hospital?" They were not bright looking kids. I suspect, but I don't know, that they were all in Forrest Gump territory. But I don't think that's it. These kids have emotional problems. I saw them. But they were very receptive to my story reading. It may just be that their parents are fuck-ups who don't know how or care to love a child.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '
')
Mercurygirl, my portraits of the kids weren't caricatures. They were true portraits, done in the style I developed as an art student at UC Santa Cruz. Everyone has seen caricatures, but the kids liked the drawings I did of them because they were true. Nothing cartoonish about them.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '.')..I was thinking as I was looking at these kids, "why are they in a psychiatric hospital?" ... It may just be that their parents are fuck-ups who don't know how or care to love a child.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hese kids have emotional problems. I saw them. But they were very receptive to my story reading. It may just be that their parents are fuck-ups who don't know how or care to love a child.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiley', '
')Turned out that the school was such a success because the kids felt comfortable there. For them it was an escape from everyday harassment, a place where they were treated as normal human beings.

[peaker_2005]

I'm beginning to genuinely feel that people are beginning to forget how to feel, how to truly think (not apply NeoCon Mental Filter v 1.21), and most frightening of all, how to love.

People haven't used some of their instincts for generations. The lights are off upstairs, and it's resulting in poor decisions (such as electing BushCo in twice -- if they were indeed elected). People are working longer hours in pointless jobs than they ever have. By the time they get home from work, their minds are too tired to think. And so they sit in front of the TV, and let it do the thinking for them.

They mindlessly consume propaganda and silently utter 'thankyou'. They are blindly led toward the slaughterhouse, unknowing the whole time. And they don't have time for the kids, so they plop them in front of the 'tube and let it do the parenting.

We can forget how to think to a certain extent, but if we forget how to love, the world will be one hell of a messed up place. Forgetting how to think and how to love will, I suspect, result in the end of modern civilisation.

And yes, I myself post sober. So if you think I'm insane, there it is.