Posted on 03/03/2009 5:05:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Oh, Brave New World.
Didn’t we kind of know this was coming with the new tatoo/piercing craze? Wanna bet cliterodectomies by choice are coming, from those who “don’t want to be slaves to their physical bodies?”
This has been a “startling new trend” for more than 20 years.
This is hardly a new trend. There were “Cutting” teenagers already in the 1990’s.
This is another unitended consequence of artificial contraception.
I am horrified, but not surprised.
This is what happens when the culture actively denigrates and villifies the Christian worldview.
If your existance is only here and now, and is only material, then why not do what you want to and with your body?
I knew a couple of girls who did this when I was in high school, I graduated in ‘58.
What is society doing for young men? These are the ones w/the target on their backs.
Pray for America
My emo lawn cuts itself.
I got cut from high school basketball...
OK, so I agree that this is horrific,
and that contraception has had many consequences (unintended? by whom?),
but I fail to see the connection here.
I see this as a consequence of the postmodernist (no truth) and materialist worldview being pushed on our young people.
Can you explain how you get from contraception to cutting?
Used to be the only thing in high school that got cut was math class.
O Brave New World, indeed.
I'd be really interested to learn how you make that connection.
Another non-profit that works not only with cutters but peripheral problems related like addiction, depression is “To Write Love on her arms”... I know they sometimes send out Christian bands and talk to young folks especially the women I met a marvelous woman who gave her testimony at a concert for TWLOHO.
Those of us who are way past that age probably are either in denial that this is a huge problem or wonder if its just some sort of way to get attention. But it is serious and effects huge numbers of young folks.
The best way to describe simplistically what I think is happening is that these persons hurt so much on the inside the act of cutting is a way to release the pain so it will come out when they bleed It is really a commentary on our society and the value we place on people.
It is TWLOHA...not TWLOHO...its early and I have not had enough coffee.
I knew someone who did this in the 70s. She was what is known as a borderline personality disorder.
This is as old as time itself, why pretend it’s new?
This is as old as time itself, why pretend it’s new?
Because the horror of it makes it seem as if the world is in worse shape than it was half a century ago.
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