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Date Posted: 14:41:29 05/21/03 Wed
Author: SYNTARSUS
Subject: Re: Hey! Does anyone here HATE Pokemon?
In reply to: Rev Joe 's message, "Re: Hey! Does anyone here HATE Pokemon?" on 14:05:23 05/21/03 Wed

>Hi Syntarsus,
>
>Wow! That really is a Madhouse! I don't know if I was
>a parent that I would encourage a friendship between a
>9 year-old and a 14 year-old. Five years difference
>isn't so big in the adult world, but at those ages
>it's HUGE.

Of course, I think that with girls it can be a bit different because a lot of times they do babysitting and have more of an instinct to teach and protect children from dangerous influnces. So, there are exceptions, I'm sure. But I wouldn't trust two boys of such different age groups, especially when one is so mischevious. Who knows what sort of trouble they could get into!

>And this kid shows a propensity towards
>violence and lying, and has at least one ineffectual
>parental unit that through wimpy neglegence reinforces
>his self-centered, demanding behaviors. And it sounds
>like his mother doesn't like having him around any
>more than you do!

I told the kid one day: 'Why is it that you are determined to exhaust our good-will?'

He just laughed and said: 'Exhaust your good-will? Ha! That's a good one!'

That just burns me up!!!

I should love my neighbours, yes . . . But do I have to put up with their childish crap? No. Just like a parent doesn't have to take a child's smart-alec remarks.

>As far as your own parents not seeing the situation
>clearly, there's an old saying - "Denial ain't just a
>river in Africa."

Yeah. Tell me about it.

>Watch your back, Syntarsus - and keep focusing on what
>you need to do to get out of that Madhouse. I lived in
>such a place while I was growing up, and it gave me a
>perverted, inaccurate view of the "outside" world - so
>much so that I stayed in the madhouse much too long
>because I was afraid. I mean, if my own family was
>this dangerous and bizarre, it scared me to imagine
>what the unknown, great-big-world outside my front
>door would be like. I finally did make it out and was
>pleasantly suprised to discover a beautiful world with
>some beautiful souls inhabiting it. There is ugliness
>and some real shitheads too, but without the bad we
>just take the good for granted. My only regret was in
>not doing it sooner.

I know! I've got to get out of here!!!! I sleep with scissors under my pillow when my brother's friend comes over because the lock on my door doesn't work and I understand that this kid has no boundries. I'm going crazy!

Thanks for the advice, Rev. Joe. I hope to be off to college soon so that I won't have to put up with this all of the time.

The world can be an ugly place sometimes, but whenever I see a flower or tree or deer or butterfly, I can see that not everything is completely corrupted. There is still some good in this world, however hard it may be to find it. I believe that God is working in the hearts of Believers to restore creation and it takes determined & loving individuals to make this possible. Someday, this world will be made new and all of creation will be restored to its original glory (the way it was before we sinned and the whole world fell into darkness). At least, that's my belief.

- SYNTARSUS

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