Irritating elders

There's a saying, 'Respect your elders', I'm not entirely sure why. Simply being older does not make an individual wiser. I was chided on some message board by an older woman, (of twenty years experience, a high priestess of her own coven of course), because I publicly stated how much I disproved of proselytising. She went on at length about why JWs and Morons, I'm sorry I meant Mormons, go door to door. Yes I know this, but it makes it no less irritating, and no less objectionable. Just because they have a right to their beliefs does not mean I'm not entitled to disapprove of the practise. Of course what annoys me most about the whole affair is the fact that she seems to be of the opinion that because she is older and more experienced she is automatically right, and everyone else is a foolish child to whom she is giving the benefit of her immense wisdom. And you can't argue, because that just proves you ARE just some foolish child.

I just hope that when I am old enough to earn the title of elder, I may actually retain some degree of modesty. I hate to think I'll become more of an obnoxious know it all than I am already.

Of course in all other respects she's a very nice woman, whom I respect greatly. It just frustrates me that this attitude is so prevelent.