i am proud of who i am, it's their annoying questions that get me...frustrated.

So tell em to bugger off. "Blessings, and light to ye... now, please... BEGONE!"

embracing individualism doesnt pertain to what you wear or do to yourself otherwise you would have to make every single bit of your own cloths. it's the ability to stand on your own in defence of your belifs and lifestyle as well as seeing teh world through your own eyes.

what are family values. i see that simply as loving your family and helping out where needed. nutcases see it as respecting elders and toeing the line....even madder nutaceses regard getting a good belting and not fighting back as instilling family values. the world is ever moving. we are having a break down of morality and responsibility. "with great power comes great responsibility". that said it's not only this generation. i have seen many children leanr by example of their parents as they cry in the street and the parent walks on...occationally turning around and swearing it's head off at teh child.

WHY DO POEOPLE ASAK QUESTIONS -
because they are stupid. no really, they havent learned to just do it. why do people go to martial arts classes, seeking out the wise old yoda. and quite often the yoda teachs them wrongly. i picked up nunchuks and learnt how to use them properly without any instruction....simply my own hands and mind. i do that with all weapons. i dont need a wise man of the mountain, combat is commonsense, yet time after time we get studants who require us to BE the wise man of the mountain. i dont know why people dont have the commonsense that they were made with....i do, but they are given a weapon and it hangs there limply. im given one and it srpings to life in it's purpose. the same is with magic. they want rules, intructions, dice even. the fact you dont need anything is too BIG for them to handle. you dont need to read.....but it doesnt hurt finding how others feel.

still nothing beats the expeirience of age.

Depends on how you spend your life...you need experiences to grow and learn from.

Or relearn and grow from.

it's easier to learn, than relearn...growing is the easiest part of all...

age...now thats another debate. i dont regard age gives you any more maturity or...how to put it. Respect "your elders, experiance equalling skill etc". it's a fundamental, well for want of a better word, lie. with age should come expeiance, but it seldom does. When i was a child, i beat adults in sword combat fairly, i was even teaching people how to fight. now im twenty two, with all those years worth of swordfighting under my belt and im no differnt in that regard. im still as good as i ever was, if anything i DONT want, or rather am reluctant to teach my skills in combat. but time after time i hear the excuses from people that they havent been doing it as long as i have. age, time has nothing to do with it. for all my experiance id never fought against a large axe before untill someone wanted to learn how to use it, so we showed him, and since it was his first time i was the one, being a tutor who had to fight him, he did a couple of nice blows on me, i had to assess the situation, formulate my own plan of action, watching how he moved, and then i simply stepped in and beat him untill he couldnt get a blow in. an important lesson since theres no end of studants he could beat, but only i could proivde an opponant who could beat him. I tought people daggers last night and their excuse was ive only had a go for two weeks now, i pointed out how this was my first go in over 17 years if ever.......
my point is i was doing now, what i did then. plenty of our studants are in their fitys, some in their twentys and teh more mature studants are just as bad as teh young ones.

it's the person, not teh age or looks or intelligance

Swordfighting may be an innate skill to you... But I dare say computer programming is a wholly different matter. After all, previous iterations CANNOT have developed that skill for you, it is too new.

err i didnt quite understand Aeternus. your reffering to the ability to "know/master" a skill naturally as i pointed out in swordfighting. ?
If that is what you meant, i dont want to be going off on a tangent and have misunderstood you.....people are still born who are naturals with such technologies. an old ex-buddy of mine who ive mentioed before with spinabiffida, well despite any problems he has he took to computer programming, web design etc quickly. from an early age he was doing things with his spectrum when others like me coulnt figure out how to turn it on and that was at primary school, vice versa he's useless at practical thinking, if he doesnt have everything he needs technically he falls ot peices while i was fighting away at that age. he knew more about computers than his IT school teachers who were much older. it isnt age, it's experance and ability

true

see we can agree

yeah i know we can agree but it the other things that have got us locked in a stalemate.

eventually you will encounter things so beutiful and important to you that them being taken away would be the greatest crime, when you see and feel something like that youll understand why Snowman wants to save life and cherish it.

the only thing i would realy despair about loosing is probably my dog.

thats good. our animals are a part of our family, not simply pets and so when they do die naturally we mourn for a long time. theres enough bad things and people killing each other over nothing that we dont need to help it by being the same. sure we will hurt, but by enjoying and loving the happy things in life you feel more fufilled.

true..............