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Oldtimer · Mar 24, 2013

What is the Most Profound Change [you've seen] in Your Lifetime?

Things taken for granted tops my list.

I remember when REA brought power lines to our farm. Water was pulled, a bucket at a time from the well. After school chore was to make sure there was enough wood in the kitchen for supper and breakfast the next morning. A kerosene lamp graced our dinner table. And, yes, I have brushed snow off a 2-holer seat.

It's still a blessing to flip a light switch.
It's still a blessing to open a faucet.
It's still a blessing to press a button for heat.
It's still a blessing to have a cool pillow in August in NC.

So many take so much for granted.

Berean · Mar 24, 2013

RLBosley said: ↑

How old are you???

J/k I get your point.

I'm only 25 so I haven't seen (don't remember?) much of what others have mentioned here. But i think that for me the biggest change is in computer/information technology. I've had computers pretty much my entire life, but the IBM I first typed on is a wholly other beast compared to the gateway I bought last week...
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81 and as Bro Dave Gardener use to say U can look it up.

RLBosley · Mar 25, 2013

Berean said: ↑

81 and as Bro Dave Gardener use to say U can look it up.
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:applause:

Gregory Perry Sr. · Mar 25, 2013

Excellent!!!

saturneptune said: ↑

The posts made about technology changes in our lives over say 50 or 60 years are good points from a day to day living standpoint. The changes have come rapidly, and sometimes we do not realize how much has happened unless one thinks back to say being in school. We used to use slide rules, compasses, proctractors and the like to solve math problems. It would not surprise me if some here have never seen a slide rule, or having to figure out square and cube roots long hand.

I can remember watching the Jetsons on cartoons growing up, and the telephone calls where one could see a picture of the person calling were a thing of science fiction, as was traveling to the moon. Lap tops today are more powerful than the computer that propelled the Apollo 11 craft to the moon. The idea of a cell phone smaller than the palm of a hand to call anywhere one wishes is a radical change, not to speak of being able to get on the internet on the same machine and have anything one wants to know at the tip of your fingers.

The medical field has greatly advanced. Fifty years ago, a six way heart bypass would have been next to impossible. We have mad progress on diseases that were unknown in the 50s and 60s, such as HIV.

One thing remains constant, though, is our sinful nature. The wages of sin is still the same, death. Our pastor once said about all the huge medical buildings that line every community that they are "monuments to the delay of the inevitable."

For all we have advanced, our hearts are no more Christ like. There are certain things we will never do, like create eternal life through science or understand the mysteries of God in this life.

I also wonder at times, with all those you see with the phone super glued to their ears 24/7, what on earth are they talking about that we did not talk about fifty years ago?
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SN...the whole post is EXCELLENT but the highlighted part was particularly so! Thanks and AMEN!

Bro.Greg:saint:

Yeshua1 · Mar 25, 2013

righteousdude2 said: ↑

I am interested in seeing what your answers may be in regard to what one thing do you consider to be a profound change from when you were growing up, to the present day.

For me, it's a tie between the lack of morality and the growing support for same gender marriage. and the manifestation of cyber space and the computer.

A close second is the country's first black president [and I would have made this number one had Obama not been such a huge disappointment and impassioned socialist].

Another profound change is the growth in tattoo's and body piercing. It amazes me that people are so willing to make what God created, look so freakish [this is just MHO - so don't get mad at me].

Now, if there is more than one thing, feel free to list it.
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god taken out of the public square, abortion on demand legalized, homosexuality accepted even in the pews and pulpits!

righteousdude2 · Mar 25, 2013

I Know....

Yeshua1 said: ↑

god taken out of the public square, abortion on demand legalized, homosexuality accepted even in the pews and pulpits!
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....it seems like I woke up one day, and the morality of this world was somehow in a different dimension [like a syfy time warp???], or something! Surely, this is not the world I grew up in....:tear::tear::tear:

MB · Mar 28, 2013

For me it was when I accepted Christ as my Savior. Nothing can compare to it. Christ came into my life and literally everything changed. Even the way I thought about things and others. Life before was like getting hit by a truck everyday. It seemed I couldn't do anything right. At least now with God's help I can do right things.
MB

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