The more things change....the more they stay the same

Rube Burrows · January 24, 2010, 10:37:53 AM

I got this from another forum and thought it was interesting enough to share here.

Quote from: subdjoe on December 04, 2009, 12:11:11 PM
The local newspaper ran a piece yesterday about "sexting," mostly about how young teens seem to be taking nudes of themselves with their cell phones and sending the images to friends. And then, those friends passing them on, sometimes then running afoul of the law and being arrested for distributing child porn.

What has this to do with the War To Quash Southern Independence, you may well ask? Well, it seems as if the problme is not a new one, note the date:
QuoteTuscaloosa Independent Monitor, Saturday, Feb. 18, 1860, page 1, col. 5 --

GIRLS, DON'T DO IT – There is a practice, quite prevalent among young ladies of the present day, which we are old fashioned enough to consider improper. We allude to their giving daguerreotypes of themselves to young men who are merely acquaintances. We consider it indelicate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any young girl should hold herself as cheap as this. With an accepted lover it is of course all right. Even in this case the likeness should be returned if the engagement should by any misunderstanding cease. If this little paragraph should meet the eye of any young girl about to give her daguerreotype to a gentleman acquaintance, let her know that the remarks made by young men when together, concerning what is perhaps on her part but a piece of ignorance or imprudence, would if she heard them, cause her cheeks to crimson with shame and anger. "Were it a sister of ours," we have often said, with a flashing eye – were it a sister of ours! But that not being the case, we give this advice to anybody's sister who needs it, with our best bow, and most anxious desire that she should at all times preserve her dignity and self-respect.

Shameful!

Steel Horse Bailey · January 24, 2010, 08:22:41 PM

Nothing ever really changes ... people are still people. I don't know who, but a very wise person said that:

(sic.) There is no limit to the extent of human stupidity!

Texas Lawdog · January 24, 2010, 08:59:12 PM

Two quotes come to mind: Jerry Clower: "He has done been educated beyond his intelligence". Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as Stupid does".

Steel Horse Bailey · January 25, 2010, 10:00:33 AM

Indeed!

Don Nix · January 25, 2010, 02:27:34 PM

What once was,,Will Be

That is why the Old Testament is so importnat,as an object lesson so that we do not make rhe same mistakes over and over.

Steel Horse Bailey · January 25, 2010, 08:52:21 PM

Quote from: Don Nix on January 25, 2010, 02:27:34 PM
What once was,,Will Be

That is why the Old Testament is so important, as an object lesson so that we do not make the same mistakes over and over.

You're right, of course, but an amazing amount of folks never seemed to have learned to read ... and many who CAN read either ignore or don't retain what they read. The same mistakes are made over and over; over and over; over and over; ... you get the picture.

Daniel Nighteyes · January 26, 2010, 10:20:58 AM

A related thought: Its impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious... $:-\$ $:-\$

Steel Horse Bailey · January 26, 2010, 02:54:52 PM

Texas Lawdog · January 26, 2010, 05:45:26 PM

SHB, I share your opinion.

Steel Horse Bailey · January 27, 2010, 09:58:07 PM

No foolin'!

Texas Lawdog · January 28, 2010, 08:32:32 AM

Yessir!

Rube Burrows · January 28, 2010, 11:26:36 AM

Drayton Calhoun · April 28, 2010, 02:46:29 PM

Curious how some things never change. Technology has only enhanced our ability to be stupid.

Trailrider · April 28, 2010, 05:23:28 PM

You CAN make things foolproof...but you can't make them IDIOTPROOF!