Just a question, how many of us here deep down feel; old, obsolete and not relevant?

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Well, what the fuck. If you're spineless enough to believe that about yourself maybe you are old, obsolete, and not relevant.

So, either you're hopelessly wallowing in the shit that people have been forcing down your throat or you just need a wake-up slap to bring you back to reality. I can also understand what it's like if you're surrounded by gas lighters and you start doubting yourself and believing their bullshit.

If your last line about not ringing the bell is is a reference to SEAL school; this isn't SEAL school. In that school, what they make you go through is to build you up. When you ring the bell, you don't get thrown in the trash heap, you still get to be a productive member of the navy. School is out for you; there's no bell to be rung. It's sink, swim or tread water.

Thanks for the kick in the ass, I kind of needed it.

Not ever quitting and plenty spine.

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There's a choice cowboy..
.ride the bull or clean out the stall.

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Does my relevance depend on me being woke, or not white, Christian and male? That's what I'm getting at. I am Cowboying up, but I'm just wondering if I'm in the right rodeo some days.

I have some good news for you. I recently attended a wedding where most of the participants were between 25 and 30. I met "kids" the same age on the planes, and in the airports. I just hired a recent college grad yesterday to do some animation and writing for a project I am working on.

They are all fine, serious, hard working people who don't buy a lick of woke bullshit, and who actively recognize the damage wokeness is causing to society. They hate it. Wokeness is upper middle class white guilt manifested through Twitter and the mass media and magnified in upper middle class white woke echo chambers. It will collapse under it's own weight. It is as absurd as the old Dutch Tulip Bubble, and it will burst.

Keep your chin up, do your thing, ride it out and I'm proud to be on your team.

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Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

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Old? Quantifiably yes, but I don't feel it, and nobody believes it.

Obsolete? Out of step with the times, maybe.

Irrelevant? No, those of us in Prime Time have a lot to offer to members of the following generations, and some are paying attention.

Last weekend I went to the small town funeral of a 91 year-old Korean War era vet. Married his college sweetheart, settled down in the country and farmed and ranched the rest of his life. He was kind and calm and a blessing to everyone who knew him. Married 70 years and left a great legacy of friends and family. Worked leather up until he passed, leaving some gifts to be given posthumously. I hope I will be as well remembered.

Pragmatism: the relentless pursuit of seeing things as they really are.

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