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Introduction
What else did the researchers learn?
Surveys of the
X Generation
show them to be
" . . .
skeptical, survival-oriented, stressed-out,
self-reliant, pragmatic, and struggling to find an
identity. They want to rebel.
"
"The problem
is,"
says researchers,
"they don't know what to
rebel to."
Sound familiar?
It's not that we were placed here to
flounder. The Designer of the Universe put
spaceship earth here with a guidebook of
instructions. We were also given the common
sense to seek knowledge and to learn
judiciously from others. As I've chided some
graduation audiences in the Mid-South,
"Seniors, if you don't want to be
a
loser in the
game of life, watch what losers do --and don't
do that! Avoid dumbth, that is, willful
ignorance...Don'tmake the same mistake twice
more than once."
Alas, we must learn from those who have
been around the block a few more times than
we have. We won't live long enough to make
all their collective mistakes - as resourceful as
we might be behind their backs.
Two ladies were talking about a
handicapped orphan child - One lady had paid
for expensive surgery, so he could walk.
"Guess where he is today?"
she asked.
"Well,"
said the other lady,
"Is he
some
great person?"
"No, he's in Federal prison
--
we taught him
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