I’m sure everyone’s heard the hype about about explicit or violent music, movies and video games. People, most of the time christian fanatics, are saying that these things are planting messages in teenagers minds that make them want to kill people.
They’re worried about the images it can leave in our minds. I’m a peaceful person, I don’t bother anybody. But
because I like to wear black and listen to heavy music with ‘explicit lyrics’ I’m going to go nuts and start killing people.
I wrote something violent a few years ago for a school paper and my teacher turned it into my counselor because she thought I was planning on actually acting on what I’d written.
Apparently she’d been paying attention to the music I listened to and my ‘character’ as well. She even had the nerve to say that I didn’t have good ‘christian character’ in front of
half my class.I told her I wasn’t even a christian. All this crap resulted in conferences with my mom, the teacher, and my counselor. Luckily my Mom understands me much better
than the faculty at my school.
Those kind of people have missed the point of fictional violence entirely. It’s not meant as inspiration for these things. For most people its a way to blow off steam when they
actually want to go kill someone or hurt themselves. I’ve got news for all those people. If I didn’t listen to this ‘explicit music’ and write ‘violent’ things I probably would actually
start killing people. So they’d better be grateful that there are people in the world who are comfortable enough with themselves to write so called inappropriate things. Or we might just have a lot more violence in this world.
i fucking despise the kind of people who run your school,those fucking christians who think that anyone different to them is obviously “wrong” in one way or another because they in theit infinite wisdom know they are always right and argh,im sure i could put together a more intelligent argument but id rather shoot all of them.
i agree with you on the violence issue, but correlation studies have been done and proved that being exposed to violence does make our aggression stronger. males who watched videos during this study which had violent content towards women, were less apt to regard men who rape women contempt, and actually found it less wrong. violence does effect us, but just not to the degree everyone in power believes.
it’s stupid to say we should blind everyone to the violence, because if we did, once adults hit the real world they would be even more severly traumatized.
it’s a rock and a hard place. there’s not really anything we can do.
dessentization exists,but people who are overly affected by movies/games etc are pretty low in intelligence usually,sometimes they cant help being that way sometimes they can.god knows this world needs counselling…
Yes this world does need counselling-badly.
violent computer games and music are a good outlet for when you’re angry… instead of going off at people around you, you scream your head off to “explicit lyrics” or blow the shit out of aliens in a computer game.
Agression vented.
in agreement with both, sepulboy, and beautiful mess.
I totally aggree that violent things desensitize us. The thing that bothers me is when people assume that because of this music I am a violent person. I’d like to think that if I *was* a violent person it would at least be because I choose to be. Not because some heavy metal dude told me too.
You’re right beautiful mess… this whole world needs counseling.
Hey.. Im sorry that so many people claim to be worshippers of God and do & say crap like that but you dont have to label everyone. (Although I must admit that most people are casual Christians)
As for the wearing black bit, if you’ve ever been to a concert by Skillet, MXPX, Pillar, or the Benjamin Gate, you wouldnt think it was a typical praise & worship thing. I mean, their not like wussy music like “oh, give peace a bloody chance, love the whole bloody world, etc etc”
Some of the lyrics are really straight up about things like hypocrisy, liars, fakes, how their all sick and tired of the crap that people put out, such & such.
And as for the way your teacher freaked, thats too bad, but having it in a place where people can see it is clearly asking for something to happen. Ill admit I rant about how Im going to make certain people eat their own heart after I stomp it into the blood soaked earth but its kept in a private journal where I wont get unwanted attention. Thats just my opinion. I think its sad that so much of the teenage pop culture is so influenced by what some artist paid a writer to scribble onto a piece of paper. Its true, music & media influence the way we think and who we are. Anyways, whatever floats your goats.
~Rhane~
Hmmm, I came here thinking that I must debate against you. But it’s actually very good. Good job, you should have THAT in the newspaper.
Fuhahahahahaha!
Oh, but I do thing certain violent video games, may give a person an urge to act somewhat close to it.
I got to admit, when I played Grand Theft Auto 3, I did want to and thought it would be fun to run around with a pistol shooting people.
And when I first played Street Fighter II, when I was a small child is what got me into fighting so much in the first place. I loved it.
Lol. I write stuff like that for fun in my english journal that I have to write in twice a week. I just write about how I’d kill myself, and where, and it eventually finds its way into the principal’s office.
They can think I’m serious all they want, I’m just doing it for laughs.
One of the most amusing moments of my 8th grade year was when I got called to the counselor’s office for one of my stories. It was very amusing because they called my mother and she was on my side. ha ha. Gotta love those bastards.
I remember this one time when someone found out I had a book on Wicca in my bag and then the admins @school took it up and burnt it. LMFAO~! I was like.. dude, youre scared that I might call demons from out of the book to eat your babies?! Lol, its kinda sad that Wicca has such a misunderstood reputation. Not to say that Im selling out my own God but many of my friends are Wiccan and theyre always welcomed at my church & vice versa. Who knows, maybe its just a Georgian thing where no one has any contact with outside cultures and their all so bloody close minded. Pfftt… damn hicks.
…Whoa. You’re telling me they burned up your book? And it was a religious one nonetheless?
Shit, you’ve gotta sue those bastards. That’s something to take to authorities. Even if it’s just a book… they broke the first amendment, man. =X
In a way that totally sucked @$$ but then Im glad that my path’s led me up to where I am so far. And you know what? Its only just begun,
God bless,
Rhane
I hate that about Wicca, people’s stupidity and ignorance tells them Wicca is evil bla bla, if they had actually stopped and READ the book, they would have realized there is no need to burn it.
LOL, so true. Then again can you expect a bunch of back woods country hicks to understand culture and everything else outside their bloody trailer parks?
Oy veyt, I should stop before I get angry again.
Cheers,
Rhane
Hmmm… You mention Georgia and hicks. You’re from Georgia? If so I feel your pain. I’m from Georgia as well. Unfourtuntly I couldn’t even be blessed with the location of Atlanta. I live in the Northern Upper Buttcrack. Lol. True hicksville.
Damned double posting! Well.. as long as I’m taking up space, I’m with Illuminati. Sue the bastards. lol
That sucks 🙂 im about 10 minutes outside metro ATL but its not a major thing cuz atlantas a tiny city compared to most other places I’ve been. Dont mind my asking but do the hicks & rednecks
condemn you for being dark & morbid in a really scary Evangelist voice?
LOL, cant keep track of how many times Southern Baptists fear me until they find out Im a follower of Christ.
Hmmm… You mention Georgia and hicks. You’re from Georgia? If so I feel your pain. I’m from Georgia as well. Unfourtuntly I couldn’t even be blessed with the location of Atlanta. I live in the Northern Upper Buttcrack. Lol. True hicksville.
That sucks 🙂 im about 10 minutes outside metro ATL but its not a major thing cuz atlantas a tiny city compared to most other places I’ve been. Dont mind my asking but do the hicks & rednecks
condemn you for being dark & morbid in a really scary Evangelist voice?
LOL, cant keep track of how many times Southern Baptists fear me until they find out Im a follower of Christ.
Christian hypocrisy? Did no one ever tell you that the last Christian died on a cross? I have been to the Calvary Chapel that these people have set up (Yes, sadly it has found its way even into Scotland. BAARRGHH!) I went there, and for ages I believed in everything that they told me, blind as a bat. That wasn’t the worst place over here, though. We had some REAL nutters, I’m sure you’ll have seen the types. The entire church howling like maddened Lupines. The preacher calling out for anyone wanting healed and stuff, then grabbing those who do by the forehead and ramming them into the floor with great force.
How my blood boils when I remember it. I was lied to, betrayed, cheated by these people. Then, when I needed them most, the people in power there, after all of their promises, turned their back on me. I would’ve launched myself from the spire if my girlfriend hadn’t needed me around.
I promise you, unless your religion is a personal thing that is between you and your chosen deity, it will cause you trouble someday, and most often trouble starts at home.
Fare thee well, I must clear my head before I do something I might regret.
Durmegil
I have to disagree with you. Religion and what its lead to has been a great thing for me, my personal journey has only begun and its been great so far. Yes, its true that there are alot of cults who call themselves Christians out there but I choose not to involve myself with them. And yes, its true, I’ve had my ups & downs but I’ll just get up again, the hope of my Lord keeps me going & I honestly hope one day you’ll find something greater to believe in.
Rhane,
My brother,
Do not presume me among the fallen, whose beliefs have been crushed by their experience of humanity driven religion. My experience of the churches has been a bad one. They would hound me for things they thought I was doing, without proof, and things I was doing, again without proof. The old lie that a magickal system is a religion is still predominant in Scotland. Many of them have never even seen a paper, essay or book written on the subject. The old lie that all magick is somehow connected to Lucifer runs riot also. Most of these people even cut the horoscopes out of their newspapers.
I am glad to hear that your faith has not brought you opposition that you cannot handle, nor should it. But all the same, there are others who have not been so lucky (fated, predestined). Many friends of mine have similar beefs with the church, but they simply grind their teeth and get on with it. I couldn’t allow it, no man on earth today was given the authority to demand changes in my life. When I felt the call, I didn’t hesitate. The problem was that the others forgot where they had climbed out of.
I hope I have made sense, I don’t have time to read over this.
Durmegil
Oh yes,
As an afterthought, if anyone wondered why I had disappeared for so long, I have been away from University trying to find work. If all goes according to plan, I could be seen in about a year driving around in a white car with the Words “Straffclyde Polis”* sprayed crudely in black.
Fare thee well
Durmegil
*The actual sign reads “Strathclyde Police”, but if left unattended for too long, the local neds would simply add effects of their own barbaric dialect to the paintwork. Have a look next time you’re in Glasgow.