How can I put this? Do you think you are making a better world by what you have done?

I'd like to think so, I'm sure not nearly enough.

Maybe.

It depends on what your definition of "is" is...


Personally, I think most people make about as much difference as poking your finger into a bucket of water and pulling it out.

I haven’t done much, I pretty selfish if truth was known. Made three kids that are good people, that’s about it. I haven’t taken a penny of government assistance. I’m very proud of that!!!

I am.

Yes

Go watch the movie Joker then get back to us on this.

[quote=hanco Made three kids that are good people, that’s about it. [/quote]

That's a lot.

Well, I’m sure I don’t measure up to what is expected. I do try to volunteer quite a bit.

Friends of NRA chairman
4-H shooting coach
Coach baseball
Coach soccer
On four church committees
Try do do as many missions as possible
I’ll do more once my kids are grown and on their own. LOTS of mission work in my future. We must serve!!!

Yep. Without question.

Yes.

Voting for Trump again in November will help also.

To my knowledge I haven't effed it up any worse that it was when I got here so hopefully that counts for something....

No, I'm a horrible person and a drain on society. I hear it all the time here.

Wabigoon: Good question I would have to lean toward YES to your philosophical inquiry!
I have lived 72 1/2 crime free years of life, have paid all my taxes, raised four wonderful VarmintChildren and two VarmintGrandChildren, stayed married and faithful to a wonderful VarmintWife for going on 50 years now, saved the lives of more than 27 (twenty seven) human beings during a 29 year career as a law enforcement type (lost track at 27 - I am guessing 30+ for sure!), been active in an honorable political organization for over half a century, and above all I have a clean/clear conscience.
I do though take some glee though in having outlived many outlaws and criminals I dealt with during my police career (including ted bundy!) maybe that will diminish my standing in the world - if so, then, IDGAF!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Yes, if for no other reason than I brought my son into it.

I hope so. Believe so, but that's up to others to judge, perhaps.

I served my country. I wrote two books about Vietnam that have helped quite a few veterans in their struggle with that war (so I'm told.)

I've saved hundreds of lives (again, so I've been told) both in the war and as a 21-gallon blood donor.

Raised two daughters, who have given the world two more lives. How they measure up and provide future betterment remains to be seen.

Human society? Meh, remains to be seen.

World? Doubt if it gives two frog snaxs, to borrow phrase.

I try every day but "the world" sure does seen to resist my efforts most times.

Boomers are funny.




And desperate.

We boomers are productive. Your generation has so far been nothing but parasites of the same value as ticks or tapeworms.

And envious.

Boomers are most entitled of all generations.

So far, I'd say I'm on the plus side of the ledger. I've at least tried not to be too much of a burden.

I've raised 3 good sons and I've got a granddaughter who says hunting with Grandpa is her favorite thing in the whole world.

My 91 year old mother still talks to me.

My wife still smiles when I come home.

Most people smile when I show up in their office.

I've got my name on a map. It's a small place, and it's a few hundred feet underground, but I was probably the first vertebrate to get there. It isn't exactly Ed Hillary, but at least I got to push the envelope a little.

There are about a half-dozen people who will say I saved them from suicide. So far no one has claimed I'm responsible for their attempts, so I guess that's a win.

An unintentionally snarky philosophical question.

If the majority of people have left the world a better place, after tens of thousands of years and billions of homo sapiens why hasn't their cumulative betterment made the world a literal paradise?

In a hundred years, who will remember your name or what you did in your life? In two hundred...?

My boomer inlaws are going to leave me a hell of a mess to sort out.

2-3 million in assets, no estate planning, nothing surveyed, no long term care insurance, 3 tons of hoarded magazines, newspapers, pickle jars, flower pots.

I‘ll start with a 20 yard dumpster

Sounds like your going to have fun when the time comes.

Hard to say, but I hope so. Like others have said, proudest thing is my two sons and the men they turned out to be. Both are married with great wifes, one is making me a grandfather in a few more weeks! Both love spending time with Mom and Dad and we talk routinely on the phone (we've moved 2300 miles away from them!)

We spent years coaching youth sports, staying involved with out kids and putting the values into them we felt where right. Sometimes happiness comes from unexpected places. One young kid we coached in soccer, at about age 12. He was very good. Found out a few years later that he only played that year cause he parents pushed him a bit, he was good, but wasn't having fun. By sheer luck we got him, we focus on having fun and learning the game, we found out when he was graduating form HS with a full ride soccer scholarship, that we turned his soccer love around from wanting to quit to loving it again. He's now a doctor, we had a small bit to do with that, at least helping get it paid.

Had a chat with my wife one night, she was a bit bummed because she always wanted to make a difference in life and didn't feel she was. I essentially told her "how do you know? You may not personally cure cancer, or any humanity altering thing like that, but what if your purpose is to raise a kid who does that, or a grand child. You never know how the plan all plays out"

callnem: You are just talking out your ass now - and making a fool of yourself publicly!
I am a baby boomer (born in 1947) and the son a wounded WW-II veteran and prisoner of war!
He and I are/were "entitled" to exactly NOTHING in our lives and worked industriously, honestly and intensely all our lives to attain all we have/had (small fortunes apiece!)!
Please illustrate any and all "entitlements" that you are under the misunderstanding of, that I took advantage of?
Keep in mind I lived the first several years of my life in a tar paper shack and used an outhouse - and I was 5 years old before I used a flush toilet at my "home".
Because, if there is ANY truth at all to what you are burping up, I would sure as hell like to know of them!
Sheesh, there seems to be a never ending supply of idiots around our country anymore?
Double sheesh!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

hanco I wish everyone that made kids were able to say the same thing. Good on ya

That alone is bordering on a miracle in this day and age. Congratulations.

Lynn

Nothing there extraordinary, entitled yes.

I see it as an accumulative process.
we, as a species, are trending toward the better?
not that it doesnt go completely into the schitter every now and again.
but by and large, a lot of the planet has only "first world problems" to contend with.

I flush the toilet with better water than my father drank in Germany.

Don't sweat it VG, Cal-nut has free time on his hands[see the Antifa thread]

Millennials aren’t...Funny!

I’m XGen. I didn’t stand on the shoulders of others. I made my own way through life making, money, mistakes, learning from others, making more money, not having kids - figured there’s enough population without me adding to it.

I never considered who fücked up before me, I guess, it didn’t matter anyway, I was responsible for myself and making a life for me, and eventually my wife. Probably too busy making my life to blame a previous generation for anything.

Homes, cars/trucks, guns, toys, clothes, food, whatever else God or man made is available if a person makes a decision to go for it, knowing life mistakes are going to happen that set a person back, or make it hard to start, that is, unless someone gifted you a silver spoon in your mouth...Life is a work or art, and you’re your own artist.

Why you bitch about the mural you are painting is beyond all of us...If you don’t like it, repaint it. 😎

It depends on the yardstick. As I measure it, yes. I care about my peeps. I have a twisted view of the world, see things through weird eyes from abnormal perspectives, connect dots others miss. When I apply that to the problems people I care about are facing often I find solutions they've missed. Measured by their appreciation as I do, yes, I make the world better.

If you mean did I save the gay whales, find whirled peas, solve world hunger, fix pollution and global warming (hee hee), find a cure for cancer, whatever the glamorous thing are .. nope, I'm a failure. I'm ok with that. We can only do what we can reach to do. By chipping off our little piece of the big thing, the big thing gets smaller, maybe small enough for someone else to whip it.

Tom

I guess so. I saved a little girl from drowing when she was about twelve years old. Later on two occasions I was told, "If it wasn't for you my address would be boot hill."

Also I was instrumental in bringing a few people to the Lord.

I haven't done much for the world during my life but I can guarandangtee that one is in the bag unless I croak....in which case I might vote democrat through no fault of my own.

Some of us can leave the world a better place just by getting on with leaving it.

I'm curious why you think Boomers are more entitled than anyone else.

I'm not eligible for SS benefits even though I contributed over 12K to it.

Never did unemployment compensation.

So, why is my generation more entitled?

True dat...!

Callnum, I'm waiting......

Ive done some things that I am not proud of. I like to think I'm slowly making up for them though.

Well I did have a friend stop poaching and chasing married women. He thanked me for that. He even goes to church now.

Ha! They raise the max age of enlistment to 80 recently?


The senior NCO's are Millennial and Xers now.


I am especially proud of one LCPO.



Anyway....to expand my post.....I am teaching my children how to work with nature, stay on the land, produce healthy food, and show others how to farm with nature as well.


Its a groovy scene man.

The only thing I have to offer are my two daughters. To date, they have far exceeded my expectations as far as being good kids. I was expecting teen problems, which have never surfaced. They are great students and talented musically, and their teachers tell us they wish all their students were like ours. Our youngest is graduating HS this year and our oldest in in college, and we have hopefully steered them in the right direction so they make smart choices as they grow older. So far so good....

I really hope I can say that in a few years. Mine is 10yo.

Well been employed since I was 12, bought all my own stuff, floated my own boat, registered Republican at 18 and voted the same all my life cause even a crooked Repub is straighter than any demmy.. Was married once and never made that mistake again bought my house twice cause of that. Never been arrested or printed. My daughter is a good person and an honor student. I am getting ready to retire and will work on doing more for others as life progresses. When we go, each and every one of us could make the world a better place by just taking a couple of libs with us..... MB

Do the right thing all the time and you don't have to worry past that.

Unless you feel the need to brag about what you have done like my mother. She better watch it if she thinks its the right thing to do, do right and then tell everyone how great you did.... Pretty sure God doesn't like that.. BUT I worry about me and I do the right thing and thats all I need worry about.

I'd really boo hoo about all that....

Good stuff!

I dread the day my folks die.


It's gonna be a mess.

“Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.”

― Ovid

Lord, I have done so much wrong -

I could leave this world and it would be a better place.