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That's because your grandfather's childhood was shoveling shit, or shoveling coal, or shoveling snow, or shoveling dead baby animals into the furnace... it was never fun and always involved shoveling. Your grandfather was damn happy not to be a child anymore because being a child used to suck balls. The best that you could hope for was to go to bed without being given something to cry about.A buddy at work said this, and I agree.
"We are the first generation that remains nostalgic about the things we loved as children, our hobbies and entertainment. Our grandfathers do not think about their favorite TV shows, toys, or past times. We however, have Transformers and G.I. Joe emblems tattooed onto us."
We did grow up, and get nice jobs, and have families. Maybe we're just the first generation that didn't define shitty childhoods as our personal legacies. Thanks to our grandfathers, childhood wasn't a cross to bear. They earned their rights to watch their grandchildren enjoy simple things, then make lives for us without making us see what they saw. Then they watched cartoons with us.That's because your grandfather's childhood was shoveling shit, or shoveling coal, or shoveling snow, or shoveling dead baby animals into the furnace... it was never fun and always involved shoveling. Your grandfather was damn happy not to be a child anymore because being a child used to suck balls. The best that you could hope for was to go to bed without being given something to cry about.
Instead your grandfather got tattoos about the things worth remembering; like women's tits, time spent in the military and the names of people he vowed to kill. You grandfather was a bad-ass and always wondered where the hell your parents went wrong with you.
He tried his best to teach you about the finer things in life; like drinking, smoking cigars, playing cards with your war buddies, shooting guns, and working on farm equipment. But you always started crying and he always had to get your mother to take you home before he went and got the belt to help "whip the girl outta yah".
We aren't the first generation to be nostalgic for our childhoods, we're the first generation that missed our opportunity to grow the fuck up.
*Goes and gets the belt*We did grow up, and get nice jobs, and have families. Maybe we're just the first generation that didn't define shitty childhoods as our personal legacies. Thanks to our grandfathers, childhood wasn't a cross to bear. They earned their rights to watch their grandchildren enjoy simple things, then make lives for us without making us see what they saw. Then they watched cartoons with us.
This is not even remotely true.Our grandfathers do not think about their favorite toys, or past times.
So what does all this mean?The universe is mostly empty space. The world we experience is strange in terms of how it is structured. The smaller in scale, or larger in scale at which one observes the universe, the greater the ratio of empty space to non empty space. Everything appears to exist in complete isolation separated by vast gulfs of emptiness. It is only here, at our level in the cosmos that things seem as if they are in close proximity. To be able to touch and interact directly with anything is an illusion produced by our unrefined senses.
Time is not a constant. Every individual part of the universe is experiencing a slightly unique rate of time based on the current gravitational field it exists in. The physical laws and observations made here on earth only appear correct in similar gravitational fields. If we could move ourselves to a different part of our own galaxy and then observe the earth, it would appear to be moving too fast or too slow. So, time suddenly becomes a byproduct of being able to observe a universe in motion. If there is nothing to observe or there is no motion, time loses all meaning and effectively disappears.
Every piece of matter in the entire universe is connected to every other piece directly through gravity. Every atom in your body is pulling on the farthest observable galaxy and everything in between. Gravitational forces between two objects weaken with distance, but never go away. All other matter in the universe combined pales in comparison to the pull the earth is exhibiting on us, and then moon and then the sun and other planets, and the rest of our own galaxy, but it's effects are still there.
When you look at a star, the photon of light that enters your eye and reacts with the photo receptive cells in the back of your retina can be a few million years old. If you happen to take in light from one of the neighboring galaxies in our local group; you will be seeing light that began it's journey around the time our earliest ancestors in the genus homo first evolved.
I forgot to put out the trash.
Best thing in the world x2 if you're in a hurry.best thing in life is when you take an enormous shit, go ahead and wipe assuming the worst and it comes back clean