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Sam and Friends BookOkay... I have just read the SMARTEST YouTube comment EVER, and it's prompted this week's topic: Where the Elmo is our world going?
Now, I admit that sometimes I'll click on a video at YouTube simply to read the comments, because half the time, the comments are more entertaining than the video itself, but for the first time, I've actually read a comment that was not only the smartest comment on YouTube I've ever read, but it surprisingly had thumbs up into thehundredds; here what the comment said:
And these are the hands that our future is in... what in the world is the world going to be like in the next generations to come?! Of course the real problem is that these kids learn from those who enable them, and who enables them? Their own slacker parents who don't give a crap about what their kids do, mainly because they probably had those kids by "accident" in the first place; as much as I tend to spout off about that kind of selfish and reckless sexual behavior, that's how much my mother spouts off about careless (in more ways than one) parents of today, you can't drive with her, and see a kid walking down the street by his/herself, without her going into her usual, "Doesn't his/her mother know he's/she's out here by his/herself? Someone could just come along and snatch him/her, and that'll be the last anybody sees him/her!"
And even more is that more people are born in this country than they die, so each generation continues to increase vastly in the numbers: if my generation looks somewhat bleak, and that gets passed along into our current generation which looks hopeless, what are our future generations going to look like? Especially as far as advances in technology goes, because let's face it, like they constantly say on the news whenever stuff like this happens, social networking is to blame for fueling the chaos, pretty much: so many youngens rely on the media, whether it's what they learn from watching these trite and tasteless movies or TV shows that Hollywood seems to think are goldmines, or the kind of tweets they read on Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
I know so many people out there love to predict the end of time, and there are still several out there who believe the world will end in 2012, but the fact of the matter is, we will never know exactly when the world will end, because God isn't telling anyone when He plans for it to... He isn't even telling Jesus, and if Jesus doesn't know, we sure don't, though at the same time, God never promises tomorrow will come, for all we know, the world could very well end tomorrow. But, I digress, people talk about signs that the "end time" is near, and that we're living in the final days... with the future generations we're going to be faced with, it wouldn't surprise me that this could very be the end days of this earth.
Of course, I'm GENERALIZING here... I'm not saying that ALL young people out there are like that, I know there are some fine and outstanding young people out there, who do want to do something with their lives, and do something worthwhile, who do want to make a difference in the world, who do want to lead by example, etc... all I can say si I wish there were more young people out there like them.
Now, I admit that sometimes I'll click on a video at YouTube simply to read the comments, because half the time, the comments are more entertaining than the video itself, but for the first time, I've actually read a comment that was not only the smartest comment on YouTube I've ever read, but it surprisingly had thumbs up into thehundredds; here what the comment said:
Now, don't worry, I'll spare my usual sex lectures, but one thing I've constantly been worried about is what the fate of the world will be in the hands of our future generations, not just as far as reckless and selfish sexual behavior is concerned. What are some of the popular pasttimes for today's troubled youth? Getting drunk, getting high, getting smashed, getting banged, getting hazed, yadda-yadda-yadda. And turn on TV, and what's constantly in the news these days? Kids having uncontrolable parties where someone's death is inevitable, kids running around killing their own parents or grandparents, kids running around causing riots and flash mobs, kids running around breaking into malls and stores and running off with goods, kids running around and burning down people's homes and livelihoods because they think it's a joke, etc, etc, etc.
And these are the hands that our future is in... what in the world is the world going to be like in the next generations to come?! Of course the real problem is that these kids learn from those who enable them, and who enables them? Their own slacker parents who don't give a crap about what their kids do, mainly because they probably had those kids by "accident" in the first place; as much as I tend to spout off about that kind of selfish and reckless sexual behavior, that's how much my mother spouts off about careless (in more ways than one) parents of today, you can't drive with her, and see a kid walking down the street by his/herself, without her going into her usual, "Doesn't his/her mother know he's/she's out here by his/herself? Someone could just come along and snatch him/her, and that'll be the last anybody sees him/her!"
And even more is that more people are born in this country than they die, so each generation continues to increase vastly in the numbers: if my generation looks somewhat bleak, and that gets passed along into our current generation which looks hopeless, what are our future generations going to look like? Especially as far as advances in technology goes, because let's face it, like they constantly say on the news whenever stuff like this happens, social networking is to blame for fueling the chaos, pretty much: so many youngens rely on the media, whether it's what they learn from watching these trite and tasteless movies or TV shows that Hollywood seems to think are goldmines, or the kind of tweets they read on Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
I know so many people out there love to predict the end of time, and there are still several out there who believe the world will end in 2012, but the fact of the matter is, we will never know exactly when the world will end, because God isn't telling anyone when He plans for it to... He isn't even telling Jesus, and if Jesus doesn't know, we sure don't, though at the same time, God never promises tomorrow will come, for all we know, the world could very well end tomorrow. But, I digress, people talk about signs that the "end time" is near, and that we're living in the final days... with the future generations we're going to be faced with, it wouldn't surprise me that this could very be the end days of this earth.
Of course, I'm GENERALIZING here... I'm not saying that ALL young people out there are like that, I know there are some fine and outstanding young people out there, who do want to do something with their lives, and do something worthwhile, who do want to make a difference in the world, who do want to lead by example, etc... all I can say si I wish there were more young people out there like them.
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