Please explain lingo

[Smitty37]

Well we've (my bride and I) are working on 51 in about 2 months or so. Heck we were married 20 years before my mother-in-law would concede that it mignt --- might mind you, not would---last.

LOL!

Well she and I have both been lucky there - both our mothers could see it from the start. Been a few times since the start they've climbed 'onto the fence about it' (but that's neither here, nor there.)

',;~}~


FlowolF - Congrats Smitty to you and your wife on 50+ good years (and all you other long suf... married couples!) - Kath and I love the success stories like yours, us all these days being sourrounded by so many troubled and broken relationships, and folks marrying for not one of the right reasons, then walking away as soon as it gets sticky.

We have become a society of "instant gratification" and one where "lust" is trumpeted as "love" so people marry because they are "in love" when what they are really is lusting for each other. Well lust wears off and you get down to being married and making a life together and it isn't always easy and it takes time. My wife and I got engaged in 1960 and we got married in 1962, when we got married we both knew the other had some "faults" and we pretty well knew what the faults were. We have had, over 51 years, good times and bad, ups and downs, times when it would have been easier to just hand up our spikes and walk away --- but during those times we always looked back at the times we'd had and decided that the good times out weighed bad so we pulled ourselves together sometimers swollowed our pride and got back on track. Now both of us worry that the other will die first and leave us alone and neither of us can imagine living with anybody else.

 

[FlowolF]

We have become a society of "instant gratification" and one where "lust" is trumpeted as "love" so people marry because they are "in love" when what they are really is lusting for each other. Well lust wears off and you get down to being married and making a life together and it isn't always easy and it takes time. My wife and I got engaged in 1960 and we got married in 1962, when we got married we both knew the other had some "faults" and we pretty well knew what the faults were. We have had, over 51 years, good times and bad, ups and downs, times when it would have been easier to just hand up our spikes and walk away --- but during those times we always looked back at the times we'd had and decided that the good times out weighed bad so we pulled ourselves together sometimers swollowed our pride and got back on track. Now both of us worry that the other will die first and leave us alone and neither of us can imagine living with anybody else.

I don't know as *so* much is changing - seems the older folks have been saying the same things about the younger crowds/'the next lot along', for generation after generation, and from long since before we even had a verbal language, no doubt.

I think to some small varying degree of balance, there's been both types of folks coexisting in each generation, but the older the sample group, the more of the better values are adopted and the balance tips. When we make these distinctions between the 'us' and the 'them' we are speaking from our own experiences, with our own more mature peer groups being our major sample/example, many of these now wiser peers having been lusty, short sighted tearaways who wanted everything now or yesterday, back in their younger lives.


But what do I know - I'm *only* 44 years old and it's not like I'm a sociology expert, or known for any particular depths of understanding.

',;~}~

FlowolF - The wise man and the fool are only but flip-sides of the same coin.

 

[Smitty37]

True to a small extent - but if anyone thinks there is not the widest gulf in history between those born prior to the end of WWII and those born since, it is only because they have been born since. My father was born in 1888 and I was born two weeks shy of 50 years later with WWI and the Great Depression having occurred in between. Yet between my parents generation and mine there was virtually no difference in attitude toward most things, including:
1. marriage and divorce
2. religion
3. responsibility toward our parents
4. love of country
5. work ethics
6. dependency on government handouts
7. regulation of personal lives
6. the Constitution in general and the 1st & 2nd amendments in particular.
9. what the Declaration of Independance meant
10. the USA's place in the world
11. using credit
12. education
13. assuming responsibility for one's self
14. size of government

That is just a few of the things where there is a world bigger gulf between my children's attitude and mine than there was between my attitude and my parents.

Change happens, we all know that but, unfortunately not all change is good - somethings that we had right for a couple of hundred years have changed and we no longer have them right.

We were for a century and a half a fiercely independent, tough and resilient people, who valued our liberty above all else and were able to face adversity and do what we needed to do. I don't think we are that people anymore.

 

[JeremyLP]

The other definition of pith since we are a wood centric crowd (at times)

At the center of a log is the original tree stem, called the pith, surrounded by a zone of very unstable wood. When you have a fresh cut piece of wood you plan on drying for a later purpose, it's good to split it in half and remove the pith as it will usually cause the wood to split in ways you may not want it to.

This is what I think of when I read PITH, that is why I could not figure it out.