Hi LJ,
Thanks for the good words ;)
First, before I say any more, I want to point out that the Koranimals that killed these kids should be tracked down and shot. Period. Much as I may think little of the whole Emo thing, I do not wish what happened upon them.
Now as for the rest...
Although I have been know to be spectacularly wrong on occasion (See my Palin prediction) this is a subject I am well versed in for 3 reasons. One, I raised a daughter as a single parent (wife died of cancer when she was young) and as such I had access to info daughters do not usually share with fathers...since I had to play both parts. Two, my hobbies are musical and so I’m immersed in a world that often puts me amidst that culture. Three, my ongoing book project on critical thought and the lack thereof in modern society included a lot of research that again, landed me in that (online) culture on several occasions and I researched it deeply since it is the definition of decisions lacking any critical thought whatsoever.
...And those ‘smart’ kids will be the leaders of this and other countries in a few years... using the lack of critical thought they grew up with and that established their worldview, to really help wreck the joint.
Now, for those on the thread who brush off the whole Emo phenomena as just smart kids doing their thing, protecting themselves etc...YES, there is indeed truth there. They DO do that and many of them are HIGHLY intelligent. To a point. Follow along and notice the paradoxes and the inherent problems such cause...
The problem is not that. The problem is the rest that goes along with it. Remember all the smart kids in the 60s who got into the whole Hippie thing...which in turn shaped their future worldviews? Guys like Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dorn, Charlie Manson, Barak Obama....
Emo ‘teaches’ that Bi/Homosexuality is not only OK but the superior way as it doubles your chances for free and unrestricted sex and promoter ‘tolerance’. It ignores all the social and health problems like agonizing death from AIDS and killing a few dozen of your F-buddies in the dame agonizing fashion.
Emo ‘teaches’ that multi-culti is the way of the future, that there are no differences in cultures and that we can all co exist – muslim/christian, etc. Like magic. No problem.
Emo is primarily atheistic and blames problems in cultures on religion, ALL religion...which means if you end religion, you and associated problems.
Emo is the definition of counterculture. Anything us old folks (old being anything over 25ish or so) do, think etc, is bad and should be abolished. The difference between that and any similar thinking kid of the past 5 centuries is that they actively work to do it. See above on religion/homosexuality and....
Emo ‘teaches’ that liberalism is the way truth and light. Free sex, free abortion, communistic economics et all.
There are also things like Emos being a large part of the OWS movement. “Hipster” is merely an older emo. Same people, just older (though not always). So you have a hate of the capitalistic system.
Now this is already a full printed page and I have just scratched the surface.
These kids are the end result of broken families, liberal ideals, the MSM pushing those ideals and ‘old’ people like us turning a blind eye and through our inattention to them, ensuring their broken view on life, the world, morality et all, will propagate.
Those of you who have kids or contact with kids into the Emo thing, Talk to them. Ask them to REALLY use the intelligence they have to critically look at themselves and their friends and say “does this really add up”?
Lastly, until people stop looking and saying ‘oh, it’s just a phase’, we are collectively letting an entire generation of our future, perhaps one of the last, self destruct. It isn’t cute, it isn’t harmless. It is the polar opposite of everything we believe in.
Everyone doubting any of this, PLEASE, Don’t take my ranting for it...
L-O-O-K I-T U-P F-O-R Y-O-U-R-S-E-L-V-E-S!
I don’t know exactly what it is you gentlemen want from me or why you keep badgering me. I gather you want me to try to convert emo kids to Christianity? That’s not happening. They are correct when they say that religion is toxic. That they might embrace liberalism in its place is problematic, but does point to the difficulty humans have in finding structure without other people giving it to them. I will always be a voice for certain conservative values: individualism, hard work, responsibility, clean living, etc. But I have no interest in shoving the kids back to Christianity. If they are trying to free themselves of a gang culture (that is actually comfortably entwined with Christianity) or muslim culture in Iraq, they have my sympathies and support.
There are a lot of dysfunctional fads among youth and emo is hardly the only one.
I wonder how many Christians who are seriously upset with the emo movement are equally serious about trying to get the gospel to the people being drawn into it? It’s easy to take pot shots from behind a comfortable keyboard. Jesus Christ willingly yielded to being violently mutilated and sacrificed on a cross. If anyone can sympathize with every woe, this is it.