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    Quote Originally Posted by EduLeics I View Post
    Renton, you just don't look old enough..... Too much Oil of Olay (is that still around???) or what???

    You'd have be insane in the membrane to be using Oil of Olay now that a scientific study (a real scientific study, not some marketing one) has said that Boots No 7 is only one that actually seems to work.

    Everyone knows Inuit men are the best. They can make a house in a day, good at making fire, catching fish (which proves they have a great deal of patience) and they can even get you a fur coat. Practically perfect in every way.


    Quote Originally Posted by bubbaluba View Post
    to some degree age can be used to determine how sophisticated some ones thinking TENDS to be. This is by no means always accurate but it can help in forming a judgement of someones level of education and thinking. MOst 13 year old kids have not read Sun Tzu or Marcus Aurelius, Even less have studied the Winter campaign's of WWII; and fewer still KNow anything about the battle of Hasting's other then the name.
    I disagree. I find my wits and senses duller than ever. If anything age complicates and convolutes my thought process. I would not necessarily say I was better or wiser. In some areas I am weaker, others stronger. I am certainly not the same person I was when I was 13, and to say that I am more sophisticated would be a gross over simplification. Just because a 13 year old hasn't read the works of Sun Tzu and Marcus Aurelius that doesn't mean you can write them off. Indeed there aren't many of any age who have read both I am sure, myself for one. Personally while I feel The Art of War was an interesting read with plenty of excellent quotes, it is largely only useful now as a text for business management, a subject that I am not fond of. The Battle of Hasting's and the Winter campaigns of WWII's relevance are entirely subjective. I doubt the Battle of Hastings is of any particular importance to those not from the british isles. Whereas you may be more than familiar with it, I doubt you could be equally familiar with the history of the Holy Roman Emperors, or the Capture of Quebec City. What of the history and causes behind The Opium Wars, which I would argue is of much more relevance to our Age than the Battle of Hastings.
    Last edited by Erit; 05-30-2009 at 01:47 AM. Reason: grammar corrections

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