Posted on 02/05/2006 10:53:35 AM PST by cinives
"All that just to get to the only right way to bring up a child is to homeschool. That was 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll continue to send mine to our pretty darned good public school."
Egads, should have looked at the source. Garbage.
There's nobody under 30 in the photos you posted. That's not youth culture. Death Metal, for example, is not youth culture. Not at all.
I don't have to read this article to already know why some kids are screwballs: Poor parenting.
Elvis, I blame Elvis....
I wish she'd invite me to her parties.
Ironic, coming from a woman with nudie pics of herself all over the Internet and a boring radio show.
Didn't say anything was wrong with homeschooling but I am getting very tired of the homeschool is the ONLY way crowd. Your pictures of the "good kids" could very well be from our school. Nice clean cut and no lizard men on any campus.
"Elvis, I blame Elvis...."
Yup. Or maybe it was Frank Sinatra. All those screaming teenagers in the early 40s. And he drank and smoked and carried on...who knows what all he got into.
Could have been that nasty ragtime music, too, back in the teens and twenties. Did you know that all that got started in brothels? The shame of it!
Maybe it was the Charleston! All those young people shaking themselves like that. And those skimpy dresses the girls wore! All those flappers driving around with boys in cars, drinking and smoking. I tell you!
The Creator of the heavens and the earth and all living beings is the great I Am. We call him "God". He gave us a life instruction manual called the Holy Bible and has sent His Holy Spirit. The Bible answers questions about who we are, why we were created, our fall from fellowship, His act of redemption or rescue, our future and the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin and enables us to overcome sin and live a victorious life.
We live in a fallen, sin-wracked world and God is gently calling each of us to surrender our will to His will. Even though we are all sinners, he loves us and is patient with us.
I pray for a revival in our church congregation, because before we can have revival in our nation we must have revival in the church body in America. Someday we will see a revival in our nation and much of the overt sin and immorality will be swept away as peoples lives are changed and we begin to live for God's purposes.
We as people must first deal with our own life, then our immediate family and then help our neighbor.
Sermon over.
"Your pictures of the "good kids" could very well be from our school. Nice clean cut and no lizard men on any campus.
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They could be from just about any school, really. You could also probably find some photos of awful kids from the same schools, of course, but they're way outnumbered by the decent kids.
That's not to say that the nice kids aren't also fooling around in ways we'd rather they didn't, but there's nothing new about that.
"Ironic, coming from a woman with nudie pics of herself all over the Internet and a boring radio show."
Yabbut...she was young then, doncha know? Those nudie pictures of her...well, they were youthful indiscretions. Now that she's an old woman, she's really offended when kids do things like she did.
And, by the way...never bring those photos up if you talk to her. She'll have your eyes out in half a second.
Nope, it was "Alexander's Ragtime Band" circa 1910!
"It has been my observation that pretending to like a girl is far more of a hindrance than it helps. The easiest way to get a girl interested is to ignore her. "
I found something different. I found, when I was a "yute," that establishing a friendship with girls generally led to further development of relationships. I had lots of girls as friends in High School. A few of them became girlfriends.
Ignoring girls never worked for me. Making friends with them did.
Yeah, I mentioned ragtime. It was evil. It didn't follow the beat, you see. How anyone could call it music, I'll never understand. [grin]
Dude. Get off the computer and go to the nearest mall. You will find a group of kids hanging at the food court. They're easy to spot- they all wear black, their pants are five sizes too big, and there's probably some sort of metal device protruding from their face. It exists.
Granted, as a percentage these kids aren't that numerous, but so what. Those are just the kids who display it on the surface.
So let's consider a large cross-section of the kids today: Go to myspace.com and read the profiles. Almost every high school kid I know has a page there. For many kids, maybe most, what's under the surface is just as wounded and desperate.
You're making light of something that deserves our attention.
"This has been what I have seen as a college student. Trying to befriend any girl is the kiss of death for that relationship going beyond being friends. The majority of relationships my friends have start as a one night stand. It is rare anyone who doesn't initiate the relationship based around "hooking up".
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"Dude. Get off the computer and go to the nearest mall. You will find a group of kids hanging at the food court. "
Dude? I'm no dude. I've been to the mall. I've seen the kids there. Guess what? Most kids aren't hanging out at the mall. The kids there are a small percentage of kids.
All kids go to the mall, of course. They shop there. The kids in black, with piercings, though, are a small minority of kids. When I was in high school they hung out at the local drive-in restaurant and wore their hair in "ducktails." They were creeps then. They're creeps now.
I didn't hang out with the creeps then. Most kids don't hang out with the creeps now, either.
Dude. Get out of the mall and go to the library. Kids there, too. Go to the football field after school. The team's there. So is the band.
Dude. Get out of the mall. Go to your local school's annual band and chorus concert, or go to the school play. Lots of kids there. Or, go to the science fair. Buncha great kids there.
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