Post by Senbecc on Apr 18, 2006 0:02:42 GMT -5
Dictionaries define "children/child" as:
*A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children
"Children"....I've given this word a great deal of thought today. With such terms being passed around as "manipulation of" and the innocence of...We adults have come to comfortable IMO with this term as a means of putting people of ages...say 12 and up in their place when they become to much of a handful, or perhaps become overly opinionated, making them young adults until the gun is turned, then it becomes the manipulation of children.
The term "Child" was used to describe someone close to me (and us) here on this site today and I've given this allot of thought and it's bothered me, for if this is true then it is manipulation of children that drives the soldier in Iraq. An example of this is we "adults" telling our "children" that they're not old enough to drink our beer, make love, or mature enough to make their own decisions, though are old enough to fight our wars, both kill and be killed over seas for ideas not of their own making...And being the young adults they are they do it for us, and do it well.
And in the past, young boys as young as 12 and 13 years old fought wars, and had children becoming adults long before their times. In the Revolutionary war, the Civil war, World war 1 and 2 children who would lie about their ages to defend their families, people and their ideas.
So what is then that distinguishes a child from an adult-Not hard, it is an understanding of individualism, as well as the understanding that the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or the individual (Not to take to much from Star-Trek ). It is the understanding of their place within society, it is the understanding that true courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather the accomplishments which are made in it's face, or in-spite of it. It is being willing to say what you mean and mean what you say. It is in making a stand for what you believe is right whether it is or isn't, even when the means aren't exactly right either.
I've seen a great deal of young adults here on this site, who have fought for what they felt was right. However another aspect of being an adult is to know when to let the present flow into the past...Knowing when certain things, people and battles should left to the forgotten, and not spoken of.
I salute the young adults. Both here and abroad.
-Senbecc
*A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children
"Children"....I've given this word a great deal of thought today. With such terms being passed around as "manipulation of" and the innocence of...We adults have come to comfortable IMO with this term as a means of putting people of ages...say 12 and up in their place when they become to much of a handful, or perhaps become overly opinionated, making them young adults until the gun is turned, then it becomes the manipulation of children.
The term "Child" was used to describe someone close to me (and us) here on this site today and I've given this allot of thought and it's bothered me, for if this is true then it is manipulation of children that drives the soldier in Iraq. An example of this is we "adults" telling our "children" that they're not old enough to drink our beer, make love, or mature enough to make their own decisions, though are old enough to fight our wars, both kill and be killed over seas for ideas not of their own making...And being the young adults they are they do it for us, and do it well.
And in the past, young boys as young as 12 and 13 years old fought wars, and had children becoming adults long before their times. In the Revolutionary war, the Civil war, World war 1 and 2 children who would lie about their ages to defend their families, people and their ideas.
So what is then that distinguishes a child from an adult-Not hard, it is an understanding of individualism, as well as the understanding that the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or the individual (Not to take to much from Star-Trek ). It is the understanding of their place within society, it is the understanding that true courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather the accomplishments which are made in it's face, or in-spite of it. It is being willing to say what you mean and mean what you say. It is in making a stand for what you believe is right whether it is or isn't, even when the means aren't exactly right either.
I've seen a great deal of young adults here on this site, who have fought for what they felt was right. However another aspect of being an adult is to know when to let the present flow into the past...Knowing when certain things, people and battles should left to the forgotten, and not spoken of.
I salute the young adults. Both here and abroad.
-Senbecc