Yes, you are right. I am very emotional. My parents have/had a hard time trying to make me less so, but all were in vain.

 :whistleblower: :sign-thread-hijacked:  :whistleblower:

*ahem*

Hmm... about those kiddies on the internet...  :idea:

Sort of, but not quite as off topic as where this has gone... I think one of the rarely discussed tragedies of this phenomenon of kids spending their whole lives virtually (no pun intended) on the internet, is this fact: that they aren't just trying to escape reality that way, but that in fact it seems to also be where they are now going for any and every kind of guidance that they feel they need.

They aren't just replacing their real lives and real family lives (like with gangs). They're using it to replace their real PARENTS. And that is actually something that has worse consequences than anything else they may be trying to replace.

Today, Jr decides he doesn't feel like "being good" anymore, so he throws away his parents (in his mind and heart) and gets himself on the internet where he can make up his own rules.

Instead of asking mom and dad what the right thing is, or if something is okay, they're saying "I'd have asked mom or dad, but they're both morons, so... what do you all think about this? Is it okay to..." and of course, the answer comes back, "sure... do whatever you feel like doing, as long as it's not against the law! you shouldn't feel guilty about this at all, because everyone does it, so it's perfectly normal" ... even about horrible perversions of just about every kind.

I think the internet has become something almost as powerful and evil as atheism itself... It has become a kind of atheist catechism, atheist confessional, atheist priest (to turn to for advice), and so forth. Atheism is bad enough in itself, but the internet has more or less become it's replacement of every good and wholesome aspect of religion and life. It is the victory of complete revolution in the home, life and heart... the place where the atheist sits a king in a wonderful domain, where his views triumph and reign solidly victorious, where everyone agrees with him wholeheartedly, and loves him so long as he continues to hold to his errors and sins, and where anyone moral is lynched on the spot with universal delight, like a...  

:heretic:

The internet is the perfect platform, in short, for atheists to try to fulfill themselves mentally and emotionally, to reinforce their views and sinful ways, to find acceptance in a world where people should be naturally repulsed by sins. It is a whole world for them to escape, so they do not have to face the misery of trying to live as what they are in the REAL world, or to meet the condemnation of the truth about what sins do to ourselves, our lives and our happiness.