generational gap ('millennials vs. baby boomers')

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I'm a baby boomer, though older than the ones you're talking about. I'm only too aware of the problems you mention. There are plenty of us.

Generation X, folks like me, tend to get left out altogether. Our generation was relatively small, we were a baby bust. We have a unique perspective all our own about these issues.

I do think differences in generations can make a difference in churches and make things more challenging. It's tough because our culture is changing faster than it ever has before.
 
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Curious, Do the younger Gen X's and Millennials know how to survive when the power finally goes out? Never forget to look back in the rush to move forward.

I’m a millennial, and I’m sure I’d know how to survive. I got some of my survival skills from my baby boomer parents!

We’ve had pipe bursts in our area, and my house has no heating, but I’m managing my house well. I’m using a coal/wood stove, and hauling water myself. If electricity goes out, then I have candles, oil lamps, and a solar light. I just think of The Hobbit, and Lord of The Rings, then it all seems like an adventure.
 
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I’m a millennial, and I’m sure I’d know how to survive. I got some of my survival skills from my baby boomer parents!

We’ve had pipe bursts in our area, and my house has no heating, but I’m managing my house well. I’m using a coal/wood stove, and hauling water myself. If electricity goes out, then I have candles, oil lamps, and a solar light. I just think of The Hobbit, and Lord of The Rings, then it all seems like an adventure.

That is good that you've connected with a generation that was fortunate to live both ways. What happens after a while when there is no more gasoline or food and ways of shopping etc without electronics. Have we gone too far into the grid?
 
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I have no desire to extricate myself from society. I'm much more invested in building healthy community and healthy culture than worrying about whether I'll be able to eat if our food supply chain and logistics break down.

Ie. I take a more communal than individual approach to questions of survival and human well being.
 
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Curious, Do the younger Gen X's and Millennials know how to survive when the power finally goes out? Never forget to look back in the rush to move forward.

Yes. Honestly, this sounds like it plays off crude stereotypes of young people.

BTW, younger Gen X can be fairly old now. I'm 43 and born in 1976, and I am not even the oldest in Gen X.
 
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That is good that you've connected with a generation that was fortunate to live both ways. What happens after a while when there is no more gasoline or food and ways of shopping etc without electronics. Have we gone too far into the grid?


Now that’s a scary thought! Perhaps everyone would be fleeing to the nearest Amish communities if that were to ever happen. God forbid
 
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I have no desire to extricate myself from society. I'm much more invested in building healthy community and healthy culture than worrying about whether I'll be able to eat if our food supply chain and logistics break down.

Ie. I take a more communal than individual approach to questions of survival and human well being.

Yes, if society broke down that drastically to the point of zombie apocalypse, then it will be those in community who have the best chance at survival. All these lone "survivalists" with their stored up supplies and gun caches aren't really going to last very long despite their 5 years of stored food and gun caches.

Are we putting our trust in God, or are we putting our trust in our own paranoia for all the "what ifs"?

With that said, it doesn't hurt to have a few things laid up for things like weather emergencies and the like.
 
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I'm much more invested in building healthy community and healthy culture than worrying about whether I'll be able to eat if our food supply chain and logistics break down.

Ie. I take a more communal than individual approach to questions of survival and human well being.
True, but you never know when someone will come along and kick down our sandcastles.
 
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Now that’s a scary thought! Perhaps everyone would be fleeing to the nearest Amish communities if that were to ever happen. God forbid
Exactly and the poor Amish who have lived a self sufficient life would be slaughtered for quick gain. We can only trust in the Kingdom, not the will of man.
 
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