[14 years old. Not bad, just sad. :( ]
This could be the worst generation on Earth, and even I can see it! I've been disrespectful, I've lied, I've kept my secrets (and still am) and the only point of keeping my life is GOD. Other than that, it would be pointless. I could care less about marrying and having kids. I want to go home to Heaven!
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Whenever someone asks why atheists would want to live in a "hopeless, purposeless" universe, I always think of sentiments like PiC's. When fundamentalists fervently denounce all actual sources of hope and purpose, is it any wonder that we get desperate people like PiC?
Just accept the fact that you are "totally depraved" like the rest of us, and have a life.
You'll probably need to put hundreds of miles between yourself and the wretched tribe that brainwashed you.
Find a counselor. NOT one of your parents or church elders, after all, they are the people that poisoned your soul.
There is life outside the bible, and it can be very good, even if you choose not to "sin".
rarely do we see the sham that is xianity exposed for the shell it is. It is supposed to be a religion of hope, love, and even happiness. To live a good (xian) life and then ascend to a just reward.
Whoever crushed the spirit of this child is evil. To allow such dispair to flourish and point to "Heaven" as the place to put all your hopes is a vile abuse and rape of a child's life.
Rarely do I feel sorry for fundies, but I do for this child. And an immense ANGER against those who have custody of his life if they brought him or her to this.
What was that about "better a millstone..." It is apposite
You say you've been disrespectful, lied, and kept secrets. That's part of being a normal teenager.
Now get the hell away from that religion before you wind up on Prozac.
Yeah, I did all those things too. Then I grew up and my hormones leveled out.
It's quite sad to me that this kid is thinking about ending what could be a great life to go to heaven.
Life is too short! Suck the marrow!
Please do yourself a favor, and run from that cult that has you believing this tripe. You are on the verge of suicide, and I can only hope that deep down, something is telling you that this is not fulfilling. Please, for your own sake, just run.
God this gives me flashbacks to my days of religious schooling...
'Now children let me tell you about life. Life is a horrible, miserable thing and the world is a cold, cruel, evil place. You can't be happy, happiness is impossible in this world. The world is pointless and you're better off dead. Nobody loves you, everyone hates you .... everyone except Jesus. Jesus loves you and can save you from this wicked world.'
'Teacher ??'
'Yes, my child ??'
'Well ... I quite like the world, I think life is quite good and I enjoy each and every day.'
'WICKED CHILD !! Satan is in you my boy.'
"Tomby, is that for serious?"
Nah, I mean that was just a parody but I did go to a strict catholic school and that's basically the message they try to give you. If you're told repeatedly that you can't be happy unless you follow Jesus at that age you're going to wind up seeing most of life as a horrible pointless thing. Luckily I had a supportive free thinking mother.
Edit - Actually this sounds a bit like I'm using a strawman argument. Basically I was just trying to be funny and failing.
i agree with doctor fishcake up there. "saddest post of 2007." geez, this makes me so depressed just reading it. something tells me this kid has some other actual problem, like clinical depression, and whoever is feeding him these spoonfuls of religious bullshit is just aggravating the problem. i hope someone gets this kid some help before he goes the way of betty's son.
Why the fuck can't fundies let their kids be happy?
I'm happy because I know this is probably all I'll ever have, so I have to make the most of it while I'm here.
I'd like to believe in reincarnation, because I want to see my family again after we're gone, but I'm aware that that's more wishful thinking than anything. There are no guarantees. All you have is right here and now.
Why is that so horrible? Why is that so wrong? It's the main reason I can't fucking understand religion. Why is it so, so, so terrible to laugh for no reason other than you're happy, to cry when you're sad, and to love the world anyway?
Why?
There's hope. Find help for your depression--real help. Your generation isn't the last, and by far, isn't the worst, either. Mine has yours beat for general asshattedness. You're not any worse than anyone else, and probably better than most.
There's beauty and peace and joy and laughter and a million things to love in this world.
I feel bad for this kid, if only because I know their family/church has been feeding them this pile of shit.
This is depression, and this person needs some therapy.
"Saddest Post of 2007" for sure.
You know, though not to this degree, I was one of those kids. If I met myself at about age eleven or so, I'd smack me for being a priggish little dolt trying to grow up before his time. (I would also perhaps send a message to the then-manager of the Red Sox telling him not to put Bill Buckner on the roster for the '86 World Series, but I doubt he'd listen.)
And people have been saying "kids these days" at least as long as some form of civilization has existed. It was bullshit seven thousand years ago, and it's bullshit now.
Yup, internets, abundant food, freedoms, medical wonders, computer games, movies, TV and sex just round the corner.
Damn it's rough.
@Jabba the Hut:
Please show a little tolerance. She's 14, the hormones are just kicking in, she'll be feeling horribly uncertain of herself, who she is, what she is, what she wants, and over and above all the natural angst that goes with the change from child to young adult, it sounds like she's also having to deal with the guilt and depression she's been brain-washed into by the evil cult she's in. My son is nearly 13, has been brought up without any sort of religion, encouraged to question everything in a loving, trusting home where we can discuss absolutely anything freely, and even he is beginning to feel edgy. Kids today are the same as kids have always been - but they have access to a lot more information than when I was his age, are far more aware of what's happening in the world, and feel a damned sight less safe in it than I did. From an objective viewpoint, it's horrifying.
So please, show a little compassion. The last thing she needs is scorn.
That's funny, I'm part of this generation, two years older than you are, and I am finding this world just fine. Maybe you should simply adjust your viewpoint.
3 years extra and I can say that since I started to earn my "name" at about that age, well...
I can't say much apart from: "Live on."
And the point of my life is getting in my skull that there isn't any that I know and that I can take any.
I take "becoming God".
This made me sad.
Dude, you should join my church--I'm Lutheran, and in bible school they told us masturbation is good for you and they pray that pres. Bush will wake up one of these days and do the right thing and end the war. XD
Tempus said There's beauty and peace and joy and laughter and a million things to love in this world
Too bad all the people being mocked on this site are the ones trying to destroy those things. :(
Jesus did not teach that. I'll give a reason of why you should keep your life in this world: You can change it.
Optimism aside, seriously, get off of that cult and join another church, become a atheist, whatever.
They have taught you disrespect, they have taught you how to lie, and you persist in thinking that their god is the only point, and their fictional goody-land is your home.
Break away.
sad. but now i wonder, whats wrong with keeping secrets?
in my family everyone is secretive and to expose someone else's secrets is thought of as just about the most disrespectful and low thing you can do to someone.
also we use the phrase "taking your secrets to the grave" very literally. the mentality is that if your secret is harmful, gross, shameful, or anything else you might regret saying aloud then we really don't want to hear it or keep it for you.
i wonder if my family is a shade stranger than i thought -w-;
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