Which generation do you belong to ? (page 3)

edmond dantes

Thanks everybody, how is it we can see what the term generation truly means but the JWs just don't get it?

Getting back to the baby chair; When the chair had been in existance for 23 years and kept in the same family (let's call them Mr and Mrs Overlap) and handed down is it not logical and obvious that only a new baby generation could sit in it because the original generation for whom it was first made had got too big for it and were creating the next generation. Who but a new generation could sit in it after 23 years ?

The overlapping theory is just plain stupid!

00DAD

Interesting question ... I was born in 1961, clearly LONG AFTER 1914, so I would like to say I'm somewhere in the MIDDLE. But ....

Until Armageddon actually comes we will not be able to accurately calculate where in the "overlapping generations" I belong. Could be towards the end, could be the middle, could be the early part ... only time will tell!

tornapart

00DAD...sorry.. it was my Brit sense of humour.. I was being totally sarcastic.. I believe it no more than you do.. in fact it was the very thing that brought me to my senses.

OnTheWayOut

The Lost Generation, primarily known as the Generation of 1914 in Europe, is a term originating with Gertrude Stein to describe those who fought in World War I. The members of the lost generation were typically born between 1883 to 1900.

The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation, is the generation that includes the veterans who fought in World War II. They were born from around 1901 to 1924, coming of age during the Great Depression. Journalist Tom Brokaw dubbed this the Greatest Generation in a book of the same name.

The Silent Generation born 1925 to 1945, is the generation that includes those who were too young to join the service during World War II. Many had fathers who served in World War I. Generally recognized as the children of the Great Depression, this event during their formative years had a profound impact on them.

The Baby Boom Generation is the generation that was born following World War II, from 1946 up to 1964, a time that was marked by an increase in birth rates. The baby boom has been described variously as a "shockwave" and as "the pig in the python." By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it. In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of affluence. One of the features of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before them. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.

Generation Jones is a term coined by Jonathan Pontell to describe the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965. The term is used primarily in English-speaking countries. Pontell defined Generation Jones as a distinct concept, referring to the second half of the post-World War II baby boom (1954–1965). Its members are still usually identified with either Baby Boomers or Generation X'ers. Many have children that are in the latter end of Generation Y and earlier part of Generation Z.

Generation X (also known as the 13th Generation and the Baby Busters) is the generation generally defined as those born after the baby boom ended. The term generally includes people born from the latter 1960s through the late 1970s to early 1980s, usually not later than 1981 or 1982. The term has also been used in different times and places for a number of different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.

Generation Y, the Millennial Generation (or Millennials), Generation Next, Net Generation, Echo Boomers, describes the generation following Generation X. As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s (decade). Experts differ on the start date of Generation Y. William Strauss and Neil Howe use the start year as 1982, and end years around the turn of the millennium, while others use start years that are earlier or later than 1982, and end years that in the mid to 1993. One segment of this age-group has often been called the “eighties babies” generation, in reference to the fact that they were born between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1989. Generation Z, also known as Generation I, or Internet Generation, and Generation Text, and dubbed Generation @ by New York columnist Rory Winston and the "Digital Natives" by Marc Prensky and is the following generation. The earliest birth is generally dated in the early 1990s.