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“CAD: Chronological Amnesia Disorder.” I totally snagged that from Rick Thomas and it is a completely fictional disorder he made up to describe this communication gap some of us older folks can have with younger ones. He tells a lovely tale of not understanding why his grandma hung empty milk jugs in the garage, “just in case she ever ran out of gas.”
Ha! Alas, it seems I totally suffer from CAD and fully understand why his grandma saved the milk jugs. Makes perfect sense to me. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time zone, because prewar times and the great depression all make a great deal of sense to me. That’s my comfort zone. You get up to WW2 and baby boomers and I am just lost. I really don’t get it. You soon arrive at the 1960’s when I was actually born and I am completely confused. I see nothing but a world gone mad and I cannot even relate.
The times they are a changing. I don’t even like Bob Dylan. Nails on a chalkboard. Cant believe we gave that guy a Nobel Prize.
It’s only gotten worse. Things have not improved at all. You should see me trying to deal with an escalator, a security camera, and a drone. A while back the gas pump actually started talking to me and I freaked out. Still haven’t recovered properly.
I appreciated Rick’ post because it reminded me to be patient with people, to understand that we are all products of our environment, our culture, our taboos, mores, and also a great deal of propaganda, indoctrination, and social pressure.
Human nature doesn’t really change, but culture sure does, fads and fashion, and people really are impacted by their environment. You really have to spend a lot of time in self-reflection and prayer to fully understand how much of our thinking is not really our own, not really a reflection of who we are. I’m a big fan of, “don’t believe everything you think.”
This post is a bit tongue in cheek, but Rick poses a really good question, a symptom of “CAD” that I really do struggle with, that I must work on constantly. He says, Are you more apt to become discouraged by or angry with your culture, or are you more willing to engage your culture with the gospel?
Discouraged and angry, quite frequently. I love that saying, the disciples didn’t go about saying what is the world coming too, they said, look at Who has come into the world.
Good mindset to cultivate.
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See, there's this thing called biology... 
I’m a few years older than you, but I’m totally with you on this. My memory is starting to falter, my hearing is nearly gone in one ear, I have difficulty moving, I want to do things I did when I was 30, but can’t. The other day I closed an app on my phone and said to my husband, how difficult that particular app was to work. Suddenly a voice came from my purse saying, “Some days are just like that.”
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LOL! Very funny. I don’t like it when my purse tries to talk to me. 🙂
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Ilove this, well weitteno
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Great post…and Rick’s question: “Are you more apt to become discouraged by or angry with your culture, or are you more willing to engage your culture with the gospel?” tells the tale–too many would rather be angry or discouraged at the culture rather than engage it with the Good News of God’s Kingdom! By the way, I finally watched The Matrix. I fully understand your references to red pills and blue pills. Wouldn’t have made that connection without you help!
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Thanks, Pastor Randy. Glad you got to see the Matrix and now understand the references.
I recently chatted with a guy who was recovering from the Red Pill cultians and he talked about laying on his floor for three days after he took the red pill, just devastated because he believed everything he had been told about reality was all wrong. The word pharmakeia came to mind like, dude this is witchcraft, you’ve been totally brainwashed. He was recovering, he had some people he was talking to, but I got to share, “God is not the author of confusion” with him.
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Great wisdom to share with him, IB. We can change our culture–but it will happen 1 person at a time….we just need to be constant and ready at all time to set people free! Now, that’s the Kingdom of God–setting people free!
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So close to Christmas, it looks like we could get a mindset of “Look who came into the world..” But I wanted to tell why we old folks have six or more washed milk bottles hanging in the garage just in case we run out of gas. One thing he doesn’t know is that I have one more in the car. The reason I can’t rely on those in the garage is that my offspring keep taking them to refill with “purified” water. That water that I trust my city to do for me. I have yet to hear of someone getting sick on my town’s water supply. But I have no doubt my young crew would; they have no immunities. Never ate mud eight feet out from the barnyard. Oh, IB, you probably side in with my younger set. 😀
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LOL! Ha! I guess I am part of the younger set, because I’m telling you, there’s something in the water. Don’t trust the city to get it right at all. We used to drink out of a garden hose and wells and even a creek! Have no idea how I even survived. 🙂
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Ughhh I can’t stand Bob Dylan!!!
You know up until about 5 years ago I worked in “IT” and I was up on EVERYTHING. Had to be. We had to be up on the latest and greatest at all times, so I didn’t have that experience of my teenager having to show me how to use The Google, or any of that stuff – it was ME saying, hey let me show you this cool new thing!
But it’s been 5 years, and 5 years in tech is a lifetime. I haven’t kept on top of things and I feel like a frickin Luddite now!
I personally think it’s quite possible to train oneself to cultivate an attitude of Gospel grace towards others we encounter, and a corresponding mode of behaviour in our interactions with them. I mean, it’s not easy or anything – to “be Christ” to others in all we do? That’s setting the bar pretty high. Still, with discipline you can at the very least make an attempt to aim towards that target, and perhaps with practise and patience you might makes some gains despite yourself, lol. The flesh is weak, after all.
Still, it’s the absence of the willing spirit that is more often the problem. If my spirit isn’t even willing, the flesh will reign.
Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
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