I don't believe in "age" after 18!

Too much emphasis on a number and not nearly enough on character. In my experience, while older folks tend to show more character and wisdom it is by no means an absolute. One of the wisest people I've met happens to be less than half my age (recently turned 21)- though much of that "seasoning" resulted from a rather difficult period of time- but the person definitely became a far better person than had he not been through the darker chapter. This individual has earned my respect.

One of the dumbest fucks whose path I've had the distinct displeasure of crossing happens to be a 43 year old grandfather.... but everyone has unique value and apart from serving as a consummate bad example (whatever you do with your life don't ever turn out like him!) he furnishes an opportunity for all that come in contact with him to cultivate patience because they will most certainly need it if they are to deal with him. This person has earned my compassion... which takes some effort to generate.

 

Well I believe in age until I’m 39; then each year I’ll change my profile allowing my age to remain at 39 :2thumbsup:

Hotwater

 

Oh really? and "not letting me buy the things i want" is not a way of telling you what you should and shouldn't be doing? There is a contradiction in your own sentence so there you go. What about when you should have completed high school and college? what about when you should retire? what about when you are too old to drive? Or too young to drive/have sex/etc etc? Or people telling you you are too old to be doing something?

All of these don't count to you?

 

As far as it being meaningless what I meant is hat any incremental time scale is arbitrary. The point is that it is incremental and we are getting "older" with watever cycle we follow. For instance, if we didnt measure age in years, we could be like 16643123 months old (or something...). It is useless biologically because you are assigning a exact scale to something that cannot be measured precisely on that basis.

An accurate way of measuring our actual age would be to persuse through the telomeres in our dna and see how long they are.

 

I smoke, can't buy cigs. I drink, can't buy alcohol.
Laws=/=restricting actions.
Laws = providing punishment for bad actions
So there you go.

I'll complete high school once I have achieved 24 credits, not 18 years.

I'll know I'm too old to drive when I forget to start the car.

I'm older then the legal driving age and still don't drive.
I'm younger than the age of consent but I still... well, you know.

F them, I'll buy a coloring book if I want to.

No one can force me to act a certain way at a certain age. The most anyone can do is set up punishments and hope I (we) abide.

 

All you have done is confirm everything that I said: there law restricts when u should be considered dangerous behind the wheel because of age and when you are allowed to get a license, when you can drink/smoke, etc...

"The most anyone can do is set up punishments and hope I (we) abide."
That is a way of controlling behavior if you dont realize

 

No, I directly contradicted your argument.

You still don't grasp my point:
No one can control your behavior.
YOU choose what you do, and you have to deal with the consequences set up by society.

Let me reiterate: There are laws in place restricting me from smoking, drinking, having sexual relations, etc.

If the laws were able to restrict my actions based on an appropriate age, how would I be able to do these things at my current age?

 

And this frame of mind is a restriction set up by someone else. Those are just society paradigms.

 

Age

Noun:
The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed: "he died at the age of 51".

Your age is how long you've been alive. I understand what your saying, but do you have a feasible solution?

 

Good points Sarah.

 

The standard of time we all know and live by is a man made concept. Natural time does not restrict anyone.

 

So age is nothing but a time restriction.

 

Age does not equal maturity level. But you cannot put your maturity level on an ID card. Someone might be very mature in some aspects, but naive and immature in others. You might be the most mature person in your town, but compared to the nation you might be towards the bottom. It's relative.

I get the OPs point, I do. And it would be fun stuff to say on an acid trip, but in real life there needs to be age restrictions.

Say if they issued maturity tests. When kids go in there they're going to be consciously thinking about what the mature thing to say would be.....but would not reflect their actions on a day to day basis. You can't measure it in any concrete way. The best we can do is put a # on it that applies to the average citizen.

 

eighteen shmeighteen

 

I personally feel that there's a difference between an 18 year old and a 60 year old.

 

One is hot the other is not


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didn't know you were into oldies