In the 7th grade we always said grace before leaving the classroom to go to lunch and the whole class recited the 100th Psalm each morning. You weren't afraid to walk your own neighborhood after dark or even considered closing your windows at night since we had no AC in those days. Lock your car at night? What for? No reason to do that. They're wasn't car hijacking back then either. No one committed suicide either.
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D46, there have been carjackings as long as there have been cars, and suicides as long as there have been people. You just had the blessing of living in a rural/suburban area. They weren't simpler times, just simpler population densities.
that almost made me weep. What a sad, sad man, mourning for a fantasy era that never really existed. If his childhood really was that idyllic, he was very fortunate indeed.
Wow. I live in a rural/suburban area too. No one on my block has commited suicide, or has anyone ever stolen my car (I don't lock the doors either, since I live out where I do, which isnt to say I dont have many close neighbors). But, I still know about people committing suicide and carjackings.
Ah yes, the good ol' days when prayer was allowed in schools.
"They're wasn't car hijacking back then either."
Because car locks weren't as sophisticated. You could break open a car lock and start a car with a screwdriver. Nowadays it's not possible to do that anymore, so it would be easier to carjack, since you can get the original owner to unlock and start the car for you.
"No one committed suicide either."
Sure they did. It just wasn't nearly as frequent, or at least it wasn't publicized as much.
So, back then, there was no violence? What so ever? Huhn.. Thats strange, because I'm pretty sure history books say otherwise...
One of the biggest problems with today's America is this delusion of what yesterday's America was.
You wanna explain why there were laws against such things? And why prisons, courts and a police force back then (no matter how old you are) if these things didn't happen?
Everyone believes they lived in the good old days because everything seems simpler and more innocent when you're a child.
I'm certain I could find a local news paper from this guy's area and it would still be full of depressing news just like news papers today are.
And there was no income tax, the Sun shone every day (even in the middle of the night), and people all lived forever, sometimes longer.
In Japanese schools, they don't say 'Grace'.
Japan has among the lowest crime rates on the planet.
Shinto must be going right for them somehow, eh, D(erp)46(IQ)...?
If we all believed that reciting some mumbo jumbo every day would turn the world into a better place, we'd all be doing it.
Unfortunately, there is no link whatsoever between prayer and anything.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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