The Sixties

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Billyd

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p_rehbein said:
I'm just surprised so many of you REMEMBER the 60's........

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It's hard to forget the sixties. Now the seventies, eighties and nineties are a different story.
 
Willie-T

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I will probably be spending a little more than $400 on a new computer soon. But this is a decision that has been 7 years in the making, and has only come about because less and less programs will work efficiently on my existing computer. Whereas, I know young people who probably don't have a twentieth of the money my wife and I do, (seriously!) driving 2015 and 2016 cars, buying brand new $500 cell phones for each of them... including children, twice a year, drinking Starbucks every day of the year, and trying to pay for the latest 50" curved-screen TV, and buy a new house on top of that.
 
JosephsDreams

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Willie-T said:
I have to admit that I do not understand all the "consumerism" talk... as though you are mindless robots.

Despite the fact that I have made substantial sums of money in my life, I have never felt compelled to have the latest and greatest of everything. Yes, I have bought 6 or 7 extravagant items in my lifetime, even bought a new car once, but it has never been an ongoing thing with me.

In fact, I live in a house built in 1954, and I drive a 1988 truck, own a 1990 motorcycle, and my wife drives a 1999 car.

How do you guys let yourselves be controlled and manipulated this way? I honestly don't understand it.
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Willie, your right. None of us, but especially Christians, should not allow this to happen. Our identity is not defined by what we own, but by who owns us.
Unfortunately, the world does not always look t it this way, and sometimes even Christian's get caught up in materialism. The lust of the eyes.
If we were all tithing and praying as we should, and stay that course, then succumbing to that temptation would be less likely.
 
p_rehbein

p_rehbein

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Those who grew up in the South (especially Bama) remember the 60's, but those memories aren't based on consumerism or TV Advertising.......
 
Willie-T

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JosephsDreams said:
Willie, your right. None of us, but especially Christians, should not allow this to happen. Our identity is not defined by what we own, but by who owns us.
Unfortunately, the world does not always look t it this way, and sometimes even Christian's get caught up in materialism. The lust of the eyes.
If we were all tithing and praying as we should, and stay that course, then succumbing to that temptation would be less likely.
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Sadly, most of those people I was talking about are young people right in my own congregation.
 
JosephsDreams

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People under around 33 or so have been brainwashed by Madison ave.
Years ago advertising was about the quality of the product.
Then around the late '80's early to mid nineties companies and advertisers realized it was more effective to sell to ego and 'cool'.
They grew up in a hyper materialistic atmosphere. it is a spiritual sickness.
Things and stuff to fill the void instead of Christ.
 
Willie-T

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JosephsDreams said:
People under around 33 or so have been brainwashed by Madison ave.
Years ago advertising was about the quality of the product.
Then around the late '80's early to mid nineties companies and advertisers realized it was more effective to sell to ego and 'cool'.
They grew up in a hyper materialistic atmosphere. it is a spiritual sickness.
Things and stuff to fill the void instead of Christ.
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I think there is a lot of truth in that.
 
zeroturbulence

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The only things I remember from the 60's is watching the astronauts landing on the moon and hearing the numbers of killed in action or missing in action and where the fighting was in vietnam every night on the news. I don't even know why I remember those. I was really too small to care but they stuck with me for some reason..
 
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Billyd said:
It's hard to forget the sixties. Now the seventies, eighties and nineties are a different story.
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Sounds like the 60s was something else;) Too bad I wasn't there.
 
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Willie-T said:
I will probably be spending a little more than $400 on a new computer soon. But this is a decision that has been 7 years in the making, and has only come about because less and less programs will work efficiently on my existing computer. Whereas, I know young people who probably don't have a twentieth of the money my wife and I do, (seriously!) driving 2015 and 2016 cars, buying brand new $500 cell phones for each of them... including children, twice a year, drinking Starbucks every day of the year, and trying to pay for the latest 50" curved-screen TV, and buy a new house on top of that.
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We are a nation of indulgence and money worship,big time.

I have been verbally attacked over the concept of picking up our cross.
DYING.
we should have embraced it,and championed that item from the first moments of conversion forward.

So bizzare,and am guilty myself. ....pathetic.

I pray we get it right.
 
Willie-T

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Susanna said:
Sounds like the 60s was something else;) Too bad I wasn't there.
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It actually was one of the greatest times I can imagine growing up in.... if we could have left out the racism and the war. The music was unbelievable.
 
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Willie-T said:
It actually was one of the greatest times I can imagine growing up in.... if we could have left out the racism and the war. The music was unbelievable.
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You know what? You're making me want to go there;)
 
JosephsDreams

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Hard to believe the last year of the 60's was 47 years ago.
Man, I'm getting old.
Someone once told me "different time, different world". So true.
The '60's and '70's almost feel more like a different world to me then a different time.
 
Willie-T

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Funny as it sounds, the fact that you could easily identify every single car, and that each musical group was distinctly different were some of the neatest things in my memory.
 
JosephsDreams

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New York City in certain areas was like the wild west in the late '60's, early '70's. I am not kidding. Today it is sanitized compared to then.
Some of the New Yorker's my age or a bit older say they miss that.
Crazy, because at the time, we use to say how bad it (crime and decay) was.
Speaking only from my perspective, it was more fun, if not also more dangerous.
But I was young then too.
 
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