The arogance of youth is something I find utterly disdainful... we're all such idiots when we're young. [Spirituality & Religion]

I watch this show called The Big Questions on BBC1 most Sunday mornings. It's hosted by Nicky Campbell. He & the audience discuss important issues around society & faith. This morning one of the questions was 'is death easier if your u believe in God'

After one lady who is dying of cancer spoke so beautifully about her faith, & another spoke eloquently of her humanist beliefs up pops this spotty little imbecile who's only contribution was to say that anyone who has faith is deluded, while parroting Dawkins. The bloody cringe!

Lock them all in a cupboard till they're thirty. It's the only way around it I reckon.

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SW-User

ok I can't get on board with this, one cringeworthy fedora does not make all young people stupid

When I was young, I didn't know a lot of stuff, I hadn't been through university or owned a car or home or had a real job. I hadn't seen a generation's worth of changes. I hadn't been married for 20 years.

But I wasn't an idiot. I was writing Macintosh GUI software and Mandelbrot set generators in Pascal when I was 18.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@crossproduct: intellect has very little to do with the idiocy of youth, I find. Could be all those hormones, & self righteousness.

But I'd bet you believed you knew the answers & that older people where all just out of step, that's what I'm talking about: Arrogance

SW-User

@Sonnet: I'm afraid you lost that bet, you owe me one q-tip. Please don't generalize. The only thing I felt that way about was computers, because it was true.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@crossproduct: you were special then. Go you, I wish I hadve been more like you!

SW-User

@Sonnet: idk, I was mired in a sea of uncertainty about everything, and that was around the time I started questioning whether the universe had any kind of tangible existence at all. I didn't know who I was, or even what I was.

I was angry at the way the world was, but I had no solutions and basically despaired. I thought Boomers were too ideological and there were still a lot of nakedly racist bigots and violent homophobes around when I was young.

Mostly I just concentrated on school and work and drinking and unhappy music.

tx for being gracious 😘

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@crossproduct: you sound more like the average teen there. Overwhelmed pretty much.

SW-User

@Sonnet: yeah, in that respect I was, it was too much to deal with. Arrogant I wasn't, though.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@crossproduct: I hope it passed though, & that you've found some kind of contentment.

SW-User

@Sonnet: oh definitely. I feel so much better and happier now than I did then, I got many of my problems resolved, and that did take years and years.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@crossproduct: well, good. I'm delighted to hear that 😀 Coming out the other side is a wonderful experience