Comments on: Thanks for Setting Us All Back… http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/ by Hemant Mehta Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: James http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-57789 James Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:32:24 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-57789 yeah, talk about teenagers. take a look at this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnoP0XxYr4 it's been the "rage" all over youtube-people are flagging this video like crazy, and I don't blame them. this idiot goes around talking about what a great atheist he is, and talking about religion as a mental disorder, then he turns around and defends pedophilia? he's either doing it for shock value, or he's got serious issues. either way, it's in poor taste with poor brains. this is why I have issues with many teenagers who just use atheism as an excuse to be jerks. yeah, talk about teenagers. take a look at this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnoP0XxYr4

it’s been the “rage” all over youtube-people are flagging this video like crazy, and I don’t blame them. this idiot goes around talking about what a great atheist he is, and talking about religion as a mental disorder, then he turns around and defends pedophilia? he’s either doing it for shock value, or he’s got serious issues. either way, it’s in poor taste with poor brains. this is why I have issues with many teenagers who just use atheism as an excuse to be jerks.

]]> By: Maria http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-57788 Maria Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:11:11 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-57788 <blockquote>I’d say “teenagers, no matter what background, seem to love to do stupid things” - period. This isn’t a new phenomenon; I’d say it’s pretty timeless. My kids’ high school had a brain researcher from UC Irvine give a talk for parents a couple years ago and it was absolutely fascinating. (He was also a terrific lecturer.) The adolescent brain really doesn’t develop fully until the mid-20s, it turns out. So that pesky frontal cortex is woefully inadequate in important things like reasoning and impulse control with teenagers. Yet we give them keys to the car, legal access to alcohol (at 18 in many states), and lots of unsupervised time. Let alone Internet access. The amazing thing is that they don’t do MORE damage!</blockquote> I agree. that's why I have issues with organizations who target teenagers for their own purposes-both religious and non religious

I’d say “teenagers, no matter what background, seem to love to do stupid things” – period. This isn’t a new phenomenon; I’d say it’s pretty timeless.

My kids’ high school had a brain researcher from UC Irvine give a talk for parents a couple years ago and it was absolutely fascinating. (He was also a terrific lecturer.)

The adolescent brain really doesn’t develop fully until the mid-20s, it turns out. So that pesky frontal cortex is woefully inadequate in important things like reasoning and impulse control with teenagers. Yet we give them keys to the car, legal access to alcohol (at 18 in many states), and lots of unsupervised time. Let alone Internet access.

The amazing thing is that they don’t do MORE damage!

I agree. that’s why I have issues with organizations who target teenagers for their own purposes-both religious and non religious

]]> By: Polly http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56983 Polly Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:27:40 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56983 Merci, Herr olvlzl, no ism, no ist. Peut-etre sie konnen partager mit moi Ihr geheimnis? Welchen websiten, pozhalsta? Merci, Herr olvlzl, no ism, no ist.

Peut-etre sie konnen partager mit moi Ihr geheimnis? Welchen websiten, pozhalsta?

]]> By: Polly http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56982 Polly Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:26:09 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56982 Merci, Herr olvlzl, no ism, no ist. Peut-etre sie konnen partager mit moi Ihr geheimnis? Welchen websiten? ??????????. Merci, Herr olvlzl, no ism, no ist.

Peut-etre sie konnen partager mit moi Ihr geheimnis? Welchen websiten?
??????????.

]]> By: olvlzl, no ism, no ist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56958 olvlzl, no ism, no ist Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:44:22 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56958 Polly, C'est un Geheimnis. Polly, C’est un Geheimnis.

]]> By: Maria http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56953 Maria Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:46:00 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56953 <blockquote>Aren’t you curious as to what motivated these brats? If not, why?</blockquote> I am. There are some anti religious websites mostly made up of teenagers and run by them........maybe it was one of those or something. I tend to take anything teenagers say with a grain of salt, cause they change their minds all the time.

Aren’t you curious as to what motivated these brats? If not, why?

I am. There are some anti religious websites mostly made up of teenagers and run by them……..maybe it was one of those or something. I tend to take anything teenagers say with a grain of salt, cause they change their minds all the time.

]]> By: Spook http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56928 Spook Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:28:54 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56928 Ugh, I hate to see things like this happen. I can already hear the nitwit commentators on Faux News ranting about this already. I say we should just claim that they aren't "true atheists." After all, if Christians can get that type of cognative dissonance when one of them does something atrocious, why shouldn't we? Ugh, I hate to see things like this happen. I can already hear the nitwit commentators on Faux News ranting about this already.

I say we should just claim that they aren’t “true atheists.” After all, if Christians can get that type of cognative dissonance when one of them does something atrocious, why shouldn’t we?

]]> By: Logos http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56926 Logos Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:26:41 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56926 <strong>The adolescent brain really doesn’t develop fully until the mid-20s, it turns out. So that pesky frontal cortex is woefully inadequate in important things like reasoning and impulse control with teenagers. Yet we give them keys to the car, legal access to alcohol (at 18 in many states), and lots of unsupervised time. Let alone Internet access. </strong> That seems odd to me given that in the past people did not live as long as they do now, Does anyone have an explanation for this? The adolescent brain really doesn’t develop fully until the mid-20s, it turns out. So that pesky frontal cortex is woefully inadequate in important things like reasoning and impulse control with teenagers. Yet we give them keys to the car, legal access to alcohol (at 18 in many states), and lots of unsupervised time. Let alone Internet access.
That seems odd to me given that in the past people did not live as long as they do now, Does anyone have an explanation for this?

]]> By: Tammy http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56922 Tammy Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:19:47 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56922 Amen to that, Karen. There's a little church in Ohio we used to pass on the way to my aunt & uncle's house, and rather than grafitti anything, the neighborhood kids had rearranged the letters on the sign to say something like "Satan Worship 10 am every Sunday", and the pastor's name and all. Too much unsupervised time, but at least nothing was destroyed. Amen to that, Karen. There’s a little church in Ohio we used to pass on the way to my aunt & uncle’s house, and rather than grafitti anything, the neighborhood kids had rearranged the letters on the sign to say something like “Satan Worship 10 am every Sunday”, and the pastor’s name and all. Too much unsupervised time, but at least nothing was destroyed.

]]> By: Polly http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56920 Polly Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:08:16 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/26/thanks-for-setting-us-all-back/#comment-56920 @olvlzl, no ism, no ist: <blockquote>atheist blogosphere in English and in two other languages</blockquote> off-topic: Which other languages? I'd be interested. @olvlzl, no ism, no ist:

atheist blogosphere in English and in two other languages

off-topic: Which other languages? I’d be interested.

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