Reply #42: Don't get high and mighty with me [View All]

[Zensea]

and try to pull rank. It's really kind of silly.
I know there are a lot of folk on this discussion board who are youngsters but you have no idea how old I am or where I was back then now do you?

Besides you were talking about how you felt after you came back also safe in the US of A.

"after Viet Nam it was the Rolling Stones."

I wasn't in Viet Nam because I was a conscientious objector, doesn't mean I didn't experience terror then or since then.
I've seen plenty of the "dark side" of existence, just hasn't happened to be in the specific place of Vietnam .... and the experience of death is really what you're talking about shaping your consciousness, isn't it?

(edit to add -- of course it's easy for me to cop an attitude right now safe in my living room in 2007 ... & if I was sitting in a room with you I'd be more polite. Don't mean to diminish/minimize your experiences :toast:)