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PhoenixPhail · M
Agreed. Even saying "a young person" or "an old person" creates a particular mindset.
I think people often miss out on so much just because they use their taught age prejudice to keep themselves from connecting with others.
Our society is loaded with all kinds of promotions of separateness, keeping us from uniting as the oneness we truly are.
It's no wonder there's so much loneliness and isolation.
I think people often miss out on so much just because they use their taught age prejudice to keep themselves from connecting with others.
Our society is loaded with all kinds of promotions of separateness, keeping us from uniting as the oneness we truly are.
It's no wonder there's so much loneliness and isolation.
Carissimi · F
Like attracts like. I’m more inclined to discuss things with people who are mature enough to know what I’m talking about. I talk to all ages, but there are things that young people can’t understand in the way a person closer to my own age can, and Vice versa. @PhoenixPhail
PhoenixPhail · M
@Carissimi I agree. Like does attract like. And, I'm also more inclined to discuss topics with people who share my own mindset, which, a good deal of the time correlates with ones own age group.
However, I don't want to automatically rule out the possibility of discovering new viewpoints on those topics or others, based on my thinking this person couldn't possibly be someone good for me to talk with because they're too old or too young.
Pre-judging with whom to talk on the basis of age, alone, removes opportunities to even find out if someone who might be outside of my age range might have something significant to contribute.
Not often, but every once in a while, I'll find someone I think must be an "indigo child." They're certainly around, more now than ever, since there's an ever-growing need with our world being in the condition it's in.
Even without knowing their age (as it's sometimes been on social media), I'll think I'm talking with an Einstein. That's how they come across, my easily placing their ages in their 30s or 40s, if I were to take a guess. I don't want to miss out on someone's brilliance, regardless of their age, do to anything, much less a would-be age-prejudice.
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However, I don't want to automatically rule out the possibility of discovering new viewpoints on those topics or others, based on my thinking this person couldn't possibly be someone good for me to talk with because they're too old or too young.
Pre-judging with whom to talk on the basis of age, alone, removes opportunities to even find out if someone who might be outside of my age range might have something significant to contribute.
Not often, but every once in a while, I'll find someone I think must be an "indigo child." They're certainly around, more now than ever, since there's an ever-growing need with our world being in the condition it's in.
Even without knowing their age (as it's sometimes been on social media), I'll think I'm talking with an Einstein. That's how they come across, my easily placing their ages in their 30s or 40s, if I were to take a guess. I don't want to miss out on someone's brilliance, regardless of their age, do to anything, much less a would-be age-prejudice.
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