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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (63997)	11/27/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 108807

Hi Michael, someone emailed this to me today. Interesting I thought. Enjoy... We're Sorry From: The Baby-Boom Generation To: Everybody Else Re: An Overdue Apology We're sorry that because we were raised in an era of prosperity we took it all for granted. We belittled discipline, laughed at delayed gratification and scoffed at the work ethic. We're sorry that we rejected the schools of our day. Now our kids can't read unless we send them to private schools. We're sorry that our misplaced desire to expand our minds made drugs look so attractive. We're sorry that we needed to "get in touch with ourselves." Now we are a bunch of blubbering, daytime-television watching crybabies, constantly looking for the next self-improvement fad to come along. We're sorry that in caring about our foreign neighbors we made our borders unprotected, our aliens illegal and our education bilingual. We're sorry for wanting to be more open and accepting. It made us turn our backs on our nation's heritage in the name of tolerance. We're sorry that because we didn't want to be selfish like we thought our parents were, we supported a welfare system that imprisoned the poor by pretending to be daddy. We're sorry we viewed sex as free love. We didn't see the skyrocketing divorce rate and record breaking teenage pregnancies that were sure to come. We're sorry for mocking religion. We thought it was too unsophisticated. Now our kids can't say grace in school, see the Ten Commandments on the wall or put on a pageant at Christmas time. We're sorry that we wanted to liberate society from the old-fashioned rules that our parents embraced. We were sure that there was no right or wrong. Now we have increased dishonesty, corruption and crime at the highest levels of our land. We're sorry that our generation protested a war we didn't like. We didn't realize our peacenik mentality would turn our military into a pizza delivery service. We're sorry for wanting to get rid of prejudice. We believed in the brotherhood of man. We never thought our government would discriminate instead. We're sorry that in wanting to treat women fairly, we tore moms away from their homes and their kids. We're sorry that although we fancied ourselves as being free of the trappings of fashion and vanity, we have now become a self-obsessed, tummy-tucked, liposucked, pretty people who refuse to grow up or grow old. Most of all, we're sorry for all of the good intentions that went away. Our penance will be spending the rest of our days convincing you that we were wrong.

To: Michael M who wrote (63997)	11/27/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Gee, there are a lot of people using different aliases than they used to. Are you someone I know? In any event, I will get to global warming later. The Feelings thread would not be a purposeful place unless serious environmental work was being done once in awhile, would it? I believe penni is not capitalized because it ends in an "i". As penni has pointed out, it is hard to take utterly seriously someone with a name like that. Penni, were you a cheerleader? It is a delightful cheerleader-type name.