Note: Online dating was a really tough time for me. Just after my divorce from the man I had thought was my "best friend" who turned into a nightmare. I'm not exaggerating by a lot. I was not physically beaten but emotionally and mentally torn down and discarded. Only to be (bad word inserted here) over again twenty years after the divorce when he said he wasn't apologizing for anything, after giving me the highlights I already knew and saying he wasn't a great husband. He also let me know he was talking/ seeing other women while we were married. Until then, I had thought that was at least one thing he did not do while we were married. Considering we lived in a one bedroom apartment, I guess I should have suspected more when he stayed up into the night on his computer.

So, I'm still feeling pretty bruised up by it all. Rehashing it 20 years later has not helped. I never did find someone new. I guess it is just as well. I don't know if I could have, or really wanted to try it again. Anyway, yes, the below list is a bit rough on men, but at the time I read it and reposted it, I needed a few laughs. Yes, its at their expense but my whole marriage was at my expense, literally and figuratively.

This is from my old Live Journal posts, about 2005.

Pampurred

15 PIECES OF ADVICE TO BE PASSED ON TO YOUR MOM, YOUR DAUGHTERS OR GRANDDAUGHTERS, NIECES, AUNTS, GIRLFRIENDS, ETC.

1. Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.

2. What do you do if your boyfriend walks out? You shut the door.

3. If they put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all up there.

4. Never let your man's mind wander - it's too little to be out alone.

5. Go for the younger man. You might as well, they never mature anyway.

6. Men are all the same - they just have different faces, so that you can tell them apart.

7. Definition of a bachelor: a man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.

8. Women don't make fools of men - most of them are the do-it-yourself types.

9. Best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he is too old for it.

10. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

11. If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.

12. The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in Biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.

13. If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him checkbooks.

14. Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.

15. Sadly, all men are created equal.

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Comments

dakitty -

Cute!

I'm really just 'here' to say howdy... It's been a while... What are you up to? (Isn't that what blogs are for, to tell people what's been keeping you busy? lol)

me -

I am keeping busy or pretending to fairly well. The car needs repairs, nothing new there. I am waiting to hear back from various editors. Not news there either. I've stopped the whole online dating process, just got fed up with men in general. I don't think it's really possible for men over 35 to really connect with a woman. We want a companion and they want a battery operated sex toy.

Overall I'm doing ok, still living in chaos and having moments of bliss just to show them all I'm still doing it my way. Bite me. :)

itsdarkatnight -

I'm sure you won't agree, but women are much better, Hon. ;) It's never too late to start looking at women instead of males. :P lol

Liked your post. It was hilarious. :D

-Laura

"There are no future facts." - Fred Polak

From the Association of Professional Futurists:

What is a Futurist?

A professional futurist is a person who studies the future in order to help people understand, anticipate, prepare for and gain advantage from coming changes. It is not the goal of a futurist to predict what will happen in the future. The futurist uses foresight to describe what could happen in the future and, in some cases, what should happen in the future.

Most people use some sort of foresight all the time - something as simple as listening to the weather forecast to prepare for the next day. A professional futurist uses formal methods to develop descriptions of possible futures. The output of a futures study may include the driving forces, assumptions, evidence or indicators of the futures. A futurist is more likely to say how or why a future could appear rather than to say what the future will be.

One of the founding principles of the field of futures studies is the idea of personal and organizational choice. Although the future is unknown, a person can identify possibilities, select the most favorable outcomes and attempt to influence events to create a desired future.

By considering systems and human agency, futurists help identify choices that affect the future, for ourselves and future generations.

What do futurists do?

Futurists work in large and small businesses, governments and non-profits, as teachers or researchers in education, and as consultants or as permanent staff. Many futurists focus on one topic such as a technology or an industry. Other futurists study broad social changes or global problems. All futurists take a very wide view of the world in both scope and time. Futurists tend to take a much broader perspective, consider longer time horizons, and include many more factors in a study than analysts such as economists, technology specialists, social critics or political commentators.

A futurist's analytical process falls into five general areas:
Framing - understanding the current state of affairs
Visioning - opening the range of possibilities
Describing - explaining or reporting on possible futures
Scanning - looking for indications of the future
Planning - creating/implementing a future direction

About Future Studies:

Wikipedia: Futurology - Future studies (also called futurology) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of history. Futures studies (colloquially called "futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and what is novel. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.[1] Unlike science where a narrower, more specified system is studied, future studies concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The methodology and knowledge are much less proven as compared to natural science or even social science like sociology, economics, and political science.

While forecasting---i.e., attempts to predict future states from current trends---is a common methodology, professional scenarios often rely on "backcasting" -- i.e., asking what changes in the present would be required to arrive at envisioned alternative future states. For example, the Policy Reform and Eco-Communalism scenarios developed by the Global Scenario Group rely on the backcasting method. Practitioners of futures studies classify themselves as futurists (or foresight practitioners).

Futurists use a diverse range of forecasting methods including:
Anticipatory thinking protocols:
Causal layered analysis (CLA)
Environmental scanning
Scenario method
Delphi method
Future history
Monitoring
Backcasting (eco-history)
Back-view mirror analysis
Cross-impact analysis
Futures workshops
Failure mode and effects analysis
Futures biographies
Futures wheel
Technology roadmapping
Relevance tree
Simulation and modelling
Social network analysis
Systems engineering
Trend analysis
Morphological analysis
Technology forecasting

Backcasting starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect the future to the present.[1] The fundamental question of backcasting asks: "if we want to attain a certain goal, what actions must be taken to get there?"[2][3]Forecasting is the process of predicting the future based on current trend analysis. Backcasting approaches the challenge of discussing the future from the opposite direction.

Resources:

Wikipedia: List of futurology topics
World Future Studies Federation
Association of Professional Futurists
Future Timeline
Acceleration Watch: Futurist

Published in 1942, to LIfe Magazine.

Albert Robida born in France, (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. Which are still available now, but most are in French.

I did find several of his books, translated to English. They can be read online at Book Read Free - Albert Robida Each book has a summary and then page by page of the book below. Digital download isn't available for the book as a whole. I may turn up something like that yet.

Albert Robida: A Visionary Illustrator Shaping the Dawn of Modernity

This lithograph from 1882 depicts the fanciful world of 2000; flying buses, towering restaurants, and of course, 1880's French attire. Albert Robida is less well-known than Jules Verne but contributed just as much to the collective imagination through his amazing illustrations.

Quoted from Paleofuture - Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882)

Albert Robida - Encyclopedia Britannica

Science fiction (in French) from Albert Robida.

You can read it online, or just look at the drawings if you can't read French. I did find a translation on Amazon.

I'm not posting this to upset or poke the US people with sticks. Predictions of the future always interest me. Ironic that this is written with the perspective of someone from the Middle East coming to the remains of the US in the year 2951.

Of course, most of this shows how people were thinking in 1882. No one can predict the future and get it right. Every prediction is based on what we already know, our current time period. I don't think anyone could correctly predict the future 200 years from now. Too many little things will change, too many to understand from where we are now.

The Last American "Short future history novel from John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918). First published in 1889, it is the fictional journal of Persian admiral Khan-Li, who in the year 2951 rediscovers North America by sailing across the Atlantic."