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What Girl Is The Hottest Female Member Of Tranceaddict??? (pg. 52)
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I disagree. Maturity can generally be inferred by age. It isn't because of age directly, but it reflects the things that you experience as you do get older. That isn't to say that someone couldn't have experience most of what we are referring to at a young age, but it is generally not the case. |
How do you assess maturity? My observation has been that most adults simply presume that their own behavior is mature and regard deviations from it by those younger than them as "immaturity."
I can definitely see behavioral trends that differ between those in younger age brackets and those in older age brackets, and I suppose one could call that typical progression "maturation." However, since it seems to me to consist only of exchanging one set of irrational behaviors for another, I find the connotation of the word "maturation" somewhat inappropriate. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
when you start getting in your late 20s and you've "been there done that" and have matured, etc... you won't care. |
LOL, is that why every other post of yours starts with 'well back in my coke days...'? Because you don't miss them and don't care? |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
How do you assess maturity? My observation has been that most adults simply presume that their own behavior is mature and regard deviations from it by those younger than them as "immaturity."
I can definitely see behavioral trends that differ between those in younger age brackets and those in older age brackets, and I suppose one could call that typical progression "maturation." However, since it seems to me to consist only of exchanging one set of irrational behaviors for another, I find the connotation of the word "maturation" somewhat inappropriate. |
By the way that one reacts to situations. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
LOL, is that why every other post of yours starts with 'well back in my coke days...'? Because you don't miss them and don't care? |
well i need to specify when the story i'm about to tell takes place so people don't think it just happened last weekend lol not that it would really matter i guess other than the fact that everyone would still think i'm a raging cokehead and i don't like to be misunderstood even though i am horribly on these forums. wow that was a great runon sentence.
anyway, how was your day? was it filled with cutting your arms while listening to manson music? |
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| lenazi |
| from now on everything is BB and AB for you jamie. |
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| Paradox Lost |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
anyway, how was your day? was it filled with cutting your arms while listening to manson music? |
I can't imagine anyone has cut themselves to Manson since 1998. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by lenazi
from now on everything is BB and AB for you jamie. |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
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York rhymes with dork! *points* |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Pffft yeah so? |
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| lenazi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
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before bobby/after bobby :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
How do you assess maturity? My observation has been that most adults simply presume that their own behavior is mature and regard deviations from it by those younger than them as "immaturity."
I can definitely see behavioral trends that differ between those in younger age brackets and those in older age brackets, and I suppose one could call that typical progression "maturation." However, since it seems to me to consist only of exchanging one set of irrational behaviors for another, I find the connotation of the word "maturation" somewhat inappropriate. |
I wholeheartedly agree with you. If there's one thing I learnt in life is that experience may be a necessary condition for wisdom in a few cases, but it's never a sufficient condition.
As we face new situations and challenges in life, we're given opportunities to go on and try new strategies, but it seems most people stick to whatever has worked in the past, making experience pretty much irrelevant. And, if you think about it, it does make absolute sense: if it is working, why change? A passive aggressive individual is probably not exactly someone you want to count on, and this is not at all "mature", if this word does stand for anything at all. However, there's no reason why one should believe the older a person gets, the less likely they are to exhibit any kind of passive aggressive behaviour. Sometimes, it may turn out to be the opposite. |
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