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Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Felixandra: 6:19pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Yes, they were happier. Considering some facts such as Un-polluted air unlike what we have now due to industrialization Consumption of fresh foods unlike intake of preservatives and other chemicals(carcinogens) nowadays They(our forefathers) do things in common(togetherliness) unlike our own "me and my family" Although, no electricity they have 'beautiful' moonlight which they can sit under it(with sweet melodies coming from insects and moon talestories from an elder) without fear. If you are not in fear, you are not far from being happy. 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SamMilla1(m): 6:23pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
byvan: Thanks for civilization,at last women have got a say in their own destiny.Ofcourse our forefathers were happier,what of our foremothers?There were a very sad lot.Civilization suits me just fine!! You may now shut up. Those women were a lot happier than your mother and you combined together. They have everything they needed. Now you don't have everything you need, do you? what happened? There were a lot of respect for men because they hustled for the food, money and security. Men of nowadays do the same but what do they get? A gold digger for a wife who knows some girl in America called Kim Kardasian who wears PRADA, Drives Bentley, dances naked and makes money. Our mothers of then had handworks, they farm, fetches water with babies tied to their backs and tell moonlight stories. You and your fellow girls of nowadays don't farm, you dont fetch water, you have no stories to tell. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by ofeseluayakata(m): 6:33pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Would any woman want to live in times of our ancestors? Of course not! Women now have substantially more power than they previously did. How do we know that our forefathers were happy? Do we have any facts? If women were happy, they wouldn't have fought for equal rights. If we say that our forefathers were happier, aren't we essentially saying that Christianity and Islam are essentially useless since our ancestors were happier without these religions? Maybe men were happier since they had all the power, as opposed to modern times where women are competing with men for control of the ship. I think it is wrong to say that our ancestors were content, because they did not have choices like we do. If a human being doesn't have options, s/he has no choice but to be content. As for me, I would not want to live in those times, and I doubt anyone here would. 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by ofeseluayakata(m): 6:37pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Sam Milla: You and your fellow girls of nowadays don't farm, you dont fetch water, you have no stories to tell. Neither do men. Dude, my mother and sisters hustle like any other hardworking men. You cannot simply put all women into one box. No WOMAN would want to live in the ancient times because they had no power. A man was basically the dictator of the family and his word was final. If women were that happy, why are they now clamoring for equal rights? You cannot know whether or not a woman is happy since you are not one. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by honeric01(m): 6:37pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
musiwa-x: This can't be musiwa lailai 2 Likes |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SisiKill1: 6:41pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
honeric01: Dude you beat me to it only because I was still paralyzed with shock and a little fear. . .oh alright, a lot of fear!! @ Topic Is possible not to turn this into a gender warfare?!! |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Nobody: 6:50pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
greatgod2012: Civilisation is good but as im looking at it now, d negatives that come along with civilisation is much more than its positives, therefore, i can say they were happier than us, d way we are going to be happier than many generations that would be coming after us, because.............we are just starting, in terms of civilisation. How do you mean "civilisation?" Or you were referring to western civilisation?? Our forefathers had their own civilisation(s) - you need to read more!!! Topic: Our forefathers were happier because they lived in a "smaller" with peace and joy in everything they did... and their way of was guided by ways which were natural to them without any external influence nor the make belief world that we live in... in this day and age... May God bless our ancestors!! 2 Likes |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by biolabee(m): 7:01pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
musiwa-x: So upon all you burst All you talk na dust |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Fhemmmy: 7:15pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
They were much happier, cos they are not on the kinda pressure that we are on and they live a simple lifestyle compared to what we live. . . 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by pak: 7:58pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Sisi_Kill: On a slightly funny note, I remember my great grandmother regaling us with stories about dating and courtship in the old days and then went on to say how one of her mates married one man, even though he only had two tippers (apparently that was low class) now tell me how that is different from what some ladies do today? Sisi Kill, please what are 'tippers' |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Philolos: 8:09pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Ndipe: Everybody gotta admit that we live in a dog eat dog world filled with competition and bragado on the latest purchases, be it Gucci, Samsung Galaxy, a million dollar house, etc, and in most instances, such purchases are bound to evoke envy and spite in the lives of certain people. OP, the basis for your thesis needs review. I don't think we can compare apples to oranges even though they both grow on trees. Our forefathers lived in a totally different era. While are post industrial and now in the internet age, most of our forefathers were illiterates, ignorant, superstitious, etc. Today, some of us have access to the internet, through which if we choose may be more informed than the average Joe living in the West. Robbery on the other hand has its roots in so many other societal and environment factors including our government or lack of during recent times in Nigeria. More so, robbery or armed robbery is caused by greed, which roots are sown in poverty ridden inner cities, lack of good infrastructure for children to grow, hope, and think positive-good thoughts. If you are content with what you have, it doesn’t matter who has a Gucci bag, Prada or whatever. Or in the right environment, you know you can get funds or save to get your own. Unfortunately, that’s not the story for a lot of our youths. We want them to go to school but there is no employment upon graduation. Some of the younger ones even go to school hungry, only to beg their peers for part of their food during lunch. How is someone meant to retain any lessons taught going through this? Teachers are also not adequately paid and neither are they given respect in our society. By the way, they do have armed robberies in the West. It’s not only a Nigeria type of problem. 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by delors(m): 8:13pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
How many times u go ask this question? Che we dey there that time wey u dey ask us? Abeg go ask them joor...for inside grave! Kinta Kunte should give u a satisfactory answer.... NEXTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SisiKill1: 8:21pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
pak: Commercial trucks with the tilting back....Tipping backs. . .ya know tippers Before lorries, people used those wooden wheel barrows to transport goods and since those had to be pushed one couldn't travel long distance and if they did, it took months and months. Then the lorries came along and now you could transport your stuff from the North to the South in days which meant more money for the owners. Now Tippers even made transportation easier and especially the offloading part....coz of the tipping, which meant even more money. Men who owned tippers were like....DA MEN!! I mean in today's terms, that would be like owning. . .I don't even know what to equate it with. Point is. . those were the men any sane girl would...should want to be with and if he had more than one, better for her. . Gosh I wish I had access to old pix from my great granma's albulm...see these men with their babarigas and "tophats", goro in mouth, posing with their tippers. Hilarious! |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by pak: 8:28pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Sisi_Kill: Thanks, nice going back in time. by the way, you mean your grandma's clique regarded someone with two tippers as low class ? Then her circle must have been really well to do, lucky you. (I'll definitely love to see dem pix) Papa always told me about how all his siblings and parents had to go to work to raise enough to pay for his education |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by dayokanu(m): 8:35pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
They probably were contented with what they have Thats how in 100yrs those then would look back and say we suffered back in 2010. When we couldn't teleport to Pluto at will and we couldnt have virtual sex 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SisiKill1: 8:36pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
pak: Bwahahahaha!! Not necessarily, you know. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SisiKill1: 8:40pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
dayokanu: They probably were contented with what they have It always comes down to that with you!! |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by dayokanu(m): 8:42pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Sisi_Kill: Have you thought of it that most of our struggle in life revolves around Money(food) and Women/Men(Sexx) |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by slimyem: 8:42pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Its not fair to make comparisons between both generations. They certainly had things and lives we can never have and we have things and lives they could never have dreamt of.. They had loads of issues to deal with from famine to war to poverty,diseases and all sorts just like we have same and equilvalents now. If there was a way to incorporate some enviables they had then like the peace and quiet,the food and some parts of the civilisation we have now without the ills that come with it then it might be one happy generation but there can be no such thing.Good and evil are linear.You can't have all good and all evil. They might have truly been happy against the odds just the way we can be if we choose against the odds too. This is our generation and these are our lives now. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Nobody: 8:46pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
yuzedo: HELL YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!dog.that's all u can think of. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by slimyem: 8:53pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
dayokanu: They probably were contented with what they havehuh? What generation are you again? |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Nobody: 8:58pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Yes na |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by SisiKill1: 9:00pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
dayokanu: Rotflmao! Have you seen Dave Chapelle's Killing 'em Softly??!! If you haven't. . .please do! Best 60mins you'll ever spend watching a stand up. I don't wanna post a clip here because it's a bit racy but it's on youtube. (If you don't wanna watch the entire show, which I don't know why you wouldn't. . .did I mention, it would be the best 60 mins you'll ever spend watching a standup ) checkout the one with title DAVE CHAPPELLE MEN & WOMEN PSYCHOLOGY |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by dayokanu(m): 9:29pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
slimyem: huh? I mean actual penetration virtually |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by slimyem: 9:34pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
dayokanu:Oh!! |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by stupor(m): 9:38pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Very much happier ! Infact far happier ! With a family sharing a large rôasted Antelope as a dinner ! Eat and drink unadulterated fresh palm wine and at weekends wrestle with tough six-packed young peers as sports and for fun. The best times are cömpletely gone ! *sad* 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by theripper: 9:40pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
honeric01: U no serious, wetin u mean by that? Person no fit improve again? Take ur time o. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Nobody: 10:39pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
Ignorance is bliss so they were probably happier but we are far more comfortable. Ur opinion on this issue basically boils down to the kind of person u are, which do u consider more important comfort or happiness? |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by mimifonwon(f): 11:45pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
mazaje: Are you mad? They were happier, society had more morals and ethics. People feared God, and robbery and all this kidnapping and other vices, though they existed, they hardly got as horrible as they are today. slavery my foot, sold who? that was a small portion of the people and those sold were mainly slaves from war. |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by Nobody: 4:59am On Mar 02, 2013 |
I think that generation was happier, for the simple reason that unhappiness comes from craving something you don't have, be it love, an Ipad, a Lamborghini, a US Green Card, constant electricity, or a mansion in Lekki. There was a narrower range of things to crave back then, so they would have been A LOT happier. 1 Like |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by deols(f): 5:31am On Mar 02, 2013 |
By what are we measuring happiness? if they thought they were happier than how we think we are happy then, yes, they were. and if they thought they were happy at a significantly more number of times than we have these thoughts, again, they were happier. and vice versa I wont for any reason wish to live at their time. The thoughts of what the sanitation was like, the rituals, child marriages, too large families etc come to mind. It doesnt change the fact that I may have been happy as the youngest of 13 wives marrying the man with the largest farm |
Re: Were Our Forefathers Happier Than Today's Generations? by babyphaze07(m): 9:46am On Mar 02, 2013 |
Our forefathers could be happier then but they have more troubles to deal with. They have troubles wit dealing with outbreak of epidemics. If you ask your father how many children did his parent have or wat position he belongs to in the family. So many are not happy at all. Women are the less privileged wit so many pains to deal with. How many fresh fruit do they even eat then? It was survival of the fittest. The kings had no plans to curb famines, pestilence. Women are left crying wen their husband had been in the war. We are happier than them. |
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