Parrot…

Patriot Act? How has the Patriot Act infringed upon YOUR freedom? Is your phone tapped? Are you being forbidden passage into or out of the country? Are you being denied basic rights? Other than you just don’t like it, I’d guess it doesn’t affect you at all. I’ve lived in this country all of my life, and the Patriot Act has changed nothing for me.

The truth is, it’s unlikely you’d agree with anything that any conservative comes up with. Just hate it right out of the box, it’s all W’s idea.

I wasn’t aware that if a human rights violation doesn’t happen to me, then it doesn’t really happen nor matter. Weird.

Off topic, but the same could be said about legalizing the right for peculiars to marry.

You said, “…it would be nice having the age to back up my words…seeing as my words are usually meaningless otherwise.” Not so!!! Increasing age is no guarantee that a person’s words become more meaningful. Sometimes knowledge and wisdom increase with age, sometimes not. How much knowledge and wisdom a person gains and how rapidly, varies from person to person, depending on any number of factors, including their innate intelligence, social influences, psychological influences during their formative years, etc., and just plain chance.

You are a very intelligent young person with drive and a desire to make the world a better place. So, never put yourself down. You’ve got to let yourself develop at your own pace. Don’t worry if all the pieces to the puzzle don’t fall into place right away, things begin to sort themselves out with time. I’m 73 and I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. You’ll always meet people who know a lot more than you, and you’ll also meet people who know a lot less than you. But as the Greek philosopher Socrates said, “To thine own self be true.” Just accept yourself as the individual you are and don’t sweat what other people think of you. You’ll find that you’ll be much happier and the consequences won’t be anyway near as dire as you think. As an illustration, sometime I’ll tell you about my experience when I attended my 50 year high school graduation reunion.

Contact Ron Britton by clicking on the contact link on the Bay of Fundie web page and ask Ron to send you my email address. He said he’d send it to you once you request it.

Got to run now. Talk to you later.