My son has struggled greatly with internet addiction. To all the filth it provides and the sleeplessness that brings!
He found ways to get around our filter subscriptions.
Even after taking his computer off line he found ways to sneak it on.
Being 20, we wanted him to take the responsibility to decide he wanted it to end.
God has answered our prayers today and given my son a great distaste for continuing with it.
My son asked us to take away the computer and end the temptations and access. He wants to return to the light and honor God !
Praise God. Thank you Jesus!
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"My son has struggled greatly with internet addiction. To all the filth it provides and the sleeplessness that brings!"
"He found ways to get around our filter subscriptions."
"Even after taking his computer off line he found ways to sneak it on."
"Being 20,"
Where's the BS spray? No way he "just decided"...
Hell, why is he in your home at 20 anyways? He better damn be in school then. A REAL college preferably, which would no doubt require REAL internet access so he'll just use the campus computers.
EDIT: Nope, nevermind, girl turned him down, he's just using good old religion instead of a rebound relationship like the rest of us would do.
hm? he's 20 and you're child-proofing his computer? way to raise a self-confident, functioning adult. [/sarcasm]
no wonder the fiancee left him. who wants to marry someone who lets his parents decide whether he can use the computer or not?
My son has struggled greatly with internet addiction. To all the filth it provides and the sleeplessness that brings!
He found ways to get around our filter subscriptions.
Even after taking his computer off line he found ways to sneak it on.
Being 20, we wanted him to take the responsibility to decide he wanted it to end.
God has answered our prayers today and given my son a great distaste for continuing with it.
My son asked us to take away the computer and end the temptations and access. He wants to return to the light and honor God !
You know, I was busting through internet filters in elementary school to play Neopets. It's really not all that hard.
And you're bitching about the Internet... on the Internet. Nice.
When I was reading this, I did a double-take at the son's age- not because he's still living with his parents, (I mean, what with the economy and the price of college tuition, independence is hard to achieve anymore..) but by how they're treating him. Good gods, I thought -my- parents weren't treating me as a mature being...
I call LYING FOR JESUS.
First of all, a 20y.o. (assuming he's normal, developmentally, and not retarded or something) doesn't need an internet filter.
Secondly, your hypocrisy is showing -- you're using a computer (and the evil internet) to post about this.
Third, I seriously doubt your son "asked you to take away the computer."
Look, under certain circumstances living with your family at 20 isn't anything bad. For example: fucking expensive college. Now, controlling your son's internet access? Filters? That's retarded. You're only going to force him to use a cyber or go to a friend's who has a normal family.
Retard.
p.s. Yes, I love my internet.
Later on in the thread, they say he had a fiance who just dumped him. Probably got sick of him letting himself be controlled so much by his parents. Not the kind of person who would make a decent husband.
I also agree with Blackvoice. Living at home at 20 is not as big a deal as people might think. With the higher educational requirements every workplace seems to have now, college is more of a need than a bonus, and it's getting stupidly expensive. Not everyone can get a high paying full-time, or even part-time, job nowadays to support school, especially in the current job environment.
I read the first few sentences and thought "Oh, probably a 13-year-old who's discovering the joys of the internet for the first time."
Then I saw 20 and freaked.
If it said grandson I would have thought this was my family! It's crazy how fundies can be over the internet, I live with catholic fundies and they constantly try to force me to church and restrict my internet, and I'm 26!
Now, I'm living with family because a natural disaster took my home, but for many people in their 20s it's just too expensive to move out on their own, and college is so high priced it tends to be out of reach, especially in the US. I feel bad for the guy, but I bet he's just found a way to get on without them knowing, just to shut them up.
@the original post
WTF? The guy's a full-grown adult. If you cannot get over the fact that he's a regular college-age American male, you have major issues and you NEED mental help. Seriously. Only an absolute whacko would filter their adult son's Internet.
Not to mention he could easily go to Sprint, Verizon, etc. and, oh, I don't know, buy his own by getting a broadband modem?
Sheesh. And I thought my parents are Stalinist...
@the people who think he should move out
I'm in my twenties and still living with my folks. Not by choice though--finishing college is expensive when the state Board of Regents and the governor decide to attempt to balance the multi-billion dollar government spending spree by jacking up state tuition by an average of 19% a year (which comes out to anywhere from $350 to $500 a year depending on the campus).
Not to mention that the cost of even an utter flat where I live would be sixty percent of my take home pay--and that would be a bargain. Most places I've seen in places I would want to live (which is anywhere in the city where there aren't murders or drug deals that make the news--which is a good portion of the city's residential area) would cost me over three quarters of my take home pay and put me in the position of going hungry so I can have the gas to get to work--my workplace is nowhere near the public transit system.
So, for many of us it simply isn't even feasible even though we itch for it quite badly.
God has answered our prayers today and given my son a great distaste for continuing with it.
So that whole thing about god not messing with free will was a crock of shit, huh?
My son asked us to take away the computer and end the temptations and access. He wants to return to the light and honor God !
Yeah, now what'd you blackmail him with to bring this little "miracle" about?
<sings>
the internet is for porn,
"My son asked us to take away the computer"
Ohhh, i know, hes being saving cash from his job (part time maybe? If hes in college.) and finally had enough to get a laptop, so he doesnt need the PC they gave him!
I have a friend that is under a similar sort of problem. In that their parents, for the most part, due to cultural and religeous reason, although mainly cultural, disallow her to be out of the house at various times, and other things etc etc. She'd be around 20.
I hate people.
"My son has struggled greatly with internet addiction. To all the filth it provides and the sleeplessness that brings!"
So he visited RR often then?i.e bigotry ,a blatant delight in the misfortunes of others and barely disguised racism,it would have to be Rapture Ready.
He's stuck under the same roof as you at 20, and became hooked on pr0n?
I'm not entirely convinced the 2 facts are unrelated.
Wait, you hate the internet yet you're ON the internet? Uh, I'm not the only one who thinks this is weird, right?
Considering the fundies I know.
1. The filth may not be porn, he may be a WoW addict. Considering his parents, it would be one way to escape.
2. I wonder if this fiance of his was one of those fundie arranged marriage things.
3. Considering what he's going through, they probably have him convinced that everything that is wrong in his life is because he's disobeying God. I broke away at 16, but came back into the fold at 19 because my life sucked. They convinced me that all I had to do is become an obedient little sheep and everything would of been fine.
4. 20 at home? Well I hope he's going to college, but with fundies I doubt it. He's probably got some shit job somewhere, can't afford to move out, and his parents aren't going to relinquish control any time soon.
lulz I assumed this nut was talking about their 12 year old kid or something. Seriously, what 20 year old doesn't look at porn?
The guy must've gotten tired of all tha BS and finally gave in. Probably make it easier to look at porn with the parents off his back.
Join up! When I was 21 I was drafted. (Yes, it was a long time ago.) That resolved any staying at home problems. Got three squares a day, shelter, medical care and a helluva nice rifle.
The number of times I was 'convicted' of crap like this and asked people for help, only to fall back in worse than before... it makes me sick to think that I ever cared enough to feel guilty...
Sonny-boy will be back on t'internet before you can say Flying Spaghetti Monster. I hope he reads this, and discovers what a manipulated, unfulfilling, dissatisfactory life he's living.
As many people have already said, there is only one valid reason for your son to be living with you at 20, and that is college.
Actually, I'll be nice and add, because of the sucky economy. I can see that it might be harder to get a good enough job right out of highschool right now.
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