Comments on: Forty-Seven

By: NotSoBlueStater

NotSoBlueStater — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:50:40 +0000

My fiancee lives here life as conservatively as anyone I know, but her identity as a liberal Democrat is baked into her essence.

It’s interesting to watch this very bright woman navigate the dissonance. One wonders if the Obama Administration will end up being a wake-up call for a lot of these folks…

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:55:24 +0000

I’ve never been to the left side of the aisle. I joke with my friends that I know I’m on the edge of the extreme right, because everyone who has ever tried to move to the right of me has fallen off the edge.

By: OccamsRazor

OccamsRazor — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:02:10 +0000

this downthread, which mimics what I posted upthread.

By: OccamsRazor

OccamsRazor — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:00:14 +0000

when I was 12.

By: Brian Hibbert

Brian Hibbert — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:30:02 +0000

I think one of the best descriptions of maturity is in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”

Many people seem unable to put childish ways behind them. Your transition was abrupt, others are more gradual. But I see all too many people who have remained in the womb. I have family members in their 50’s that are still unable to break the dependence on parents for sustenance. The same is true with great numbers of people who have developed a dependency on government largess.

By: LJ "Beaglescout" Miller

LJ "Beaglescout" Miller — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:22:45 +0000

Thanks for the ideas. I chased down Polonius’ speech to Laertes too. And along the same lines, it is not unheard of for youngsters to complete their schooling on the same sort of schedule as our founding fathers.

Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, graduated with honors Friday from East Los Angeles College, but he’d rather you not call him a genius.

“I consider myself a regular kid who works hard and does his best,” says this only child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father.

When Moshe started college at the age of 8, he may have been the youngest person in class, but he ended up tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates in math and science.
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Astrophysics is his passion. Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee are among his idols.

I think it’s very interesting that Moshe sees video games as a total waste of time.

By: DONTREADONME

DONTREADONME — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:13:33 +0000

LJ, seems like your story is quite similar to mine though you have more than a decade on me. Jump out of the nest and make it for yourself. I believe that quote was from Admiral Farragut.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:02:27 +0000

mugged by Obama’s failed policies as we speak.

By: molybdanthan

molybdanthan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:13:05 +0000

http://www.redstate.com/amymiller/2009/06/05/twentyfour/#comment-659

Peter Pan’s got nothing on them.

By: LJ "Beaglescout" Miller

LJ "Beaglescout" Miller — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:20:00 +0000

Most liberals grow up.

But for some reason they don’t think that growing up is important, or worth acknowledging in their politics. Instead, their politics emphasizes protecting people who haven’t grown up and doing things “for the children,” who turn out to be everyone in the end.

By: JadedByPolitics

JadedByPolitics — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:45:25 +0000

that they never grow up to take responsibility for their actions oh and let me be clear there are ‘Republicans” with the same missing gene!

By: molybdanthan

molybdanthan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:58:09 +0000

Nice piece on growing up. Gotta be done eventually. I like what it says in the Desiderata, about “gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” Actually, that’s all it has on the subject, but the rest is good too:

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Desiderata

Maybe it’s something kids should read, along with the speech Polonius gives Laertes. “To thine own self be true…”

As for the boot link. What a great little read. From Orwell. I find it interesting that he wrote to warn the people of the threat of Big Government. But it seems the BGers use his message like a road map. Guess that’s why they’re still on course.

By: Karina

Karina — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:41:13 +0000

A friend and I took out a map of the US, decided we wanted to live where we had no family (we wanted to be independent), and picked a two spots. Charleston and New Orleans. We chose Charleston because we had been there on a college trip and loved it. Two weeks later we went down to find jobs and an apt. Two weeks after that we moved. A month later, my friend had moved back home, my brother and my best friend had both moved in with me. A month after that I met my now husband on an island there and the rest is history. What would have happened if I hadn’t broken away from the controls of my family? Who knows? But I wouldn’t change what I have now. It’s been tough but I know I’m a lot stronger than that 24 year old who needed to exert her independence.