Are We Warping Kids or Am I Too Uptight?

I didn't take SSJN's comment at all like you guys are. Looking for problems where there aren't any.

Same.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

This is the becoming the Sound Off equivalent of the PC/console debate in Gaming Discussion. Christians don't have the facts on their side, just like console gamers, and you're even more unlikely to change the religious people's minds.

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And people jumping on anyones case who may or may not have faith is the equivalent of your endless preaching about pc vs console. It is fucking tiresome. If what i do in my own house on my own time affects you not at all, shut the fuck up about it. I really don't understand why people doing drugs to escape reality get a pass but people who believe in a higher power to escape reality don't. It is incredibly hypocritical.
It is true. I was brought up in a "christian" home. I went to a "christian" school. Does that make me a christian now? I dont pray, go to church, or believe that the Bible is anymore important than any other book and less so than quite a few; so I don't think so. Aside from a few basic morals, i have carried none of that into my adult life. I don't know what happens after we die, but i am pretty sure it isn't the christian picture of utopia that was only twisted into what it is portrayed as now in order to get a lot of poor people to feel ok with being abused and unhappy in this life.
All that said, if someone else wants to believe in christianity, or islam, or whatever, i am not threatened by their belief and they're welcome to it.

Lets not shit ourselves guys.

Home Alone is more violent than most of the things we expose kids to today.

if the kid was reasonably well adjusted socially, what's the big deal (I liked zombie stuff when I was < 10 years old, infact I used to play zombie GI Joe where Cobra would kill the joes and reanimate them as evil)

it's the super sheltered kids/helicopter parents that are the real bane of the future

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

I really don't understand why people doing drugs to escape reality get a pass but people who believe in a higher power to escape reality don't. It is incredibly hypocritical.

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Religion perpetuates lies, delusion, and denial. There is nothing dishonest about drugs.
The only common thread is that both are harmful in the wrong hands.

There's nothing dishonest about drugs? Lol!

First one's free, baby.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

If your kids hate you when they're young but come back and thank you when they're 30 you did good.

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QFT!

My parents were pretty hard on me growing up and back then I was pissed as a kid that I couldn't watch Terminator or RoboCop. Yet when I got old enough (12 or 13), my parents let me play Mortal Kombat. Said I was old enough and proved that I knew real from fake and didn't need them to explain/oversee/prohibit that kind of stuff anymore.

All in all I'm really grateful that they did. I was a punk about it growing up but looking back, I knew exactly why and appreciate it. I hope to do the same when/if I have kids of my own.

What it really comes down to is parents knowing their kids, and doing what's best for them ultimately. Regardless of what's easier for the parent, more socially acceptable among adults, or a kids' peers, do what's right for your specific kid.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

sports are for fags

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Sports are fine, it is another area where parents can become overbearing assholes though. I'd love to deck anyone who treats their kids pulled hamstring like a race horse that failed to recoup investment, or barks at middle school events like a baboon.