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Actually I am a generation X and beavus and butthead were came out when I was quite young but you are correct tha tMTV was big during that time. I don't remember the Breakfast club or really Medonna and I don't remember Kurt Cobain but that is because I was during the latter gen X years closer to the Millenium.

 

 

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You are my younger son's age (also born in 1990).  You are nowhere near a generation x, my young friend.  You are as generation Y as they come. Consider that a compliment coming from this (somewhat) ol' guy.  Like I said, it's really one of the few generations I really like. I don't think much of the others, including my own. There's generation Z yet (those born year 2000 or later) but the oldest one is just 13 years old and the rest are now kids mostly in elementary school. I have yet to see what they will be like since they are only developing now.

 

Oh. I got my generations mixed up then. It is good you have more optimism about my generation but maybe my placement on this college campus has jaded my opinion about my generation to be more pessimistic. But I guess there is hope. Most don't necessarily analyze different viewpoints but generally my generation dislikes to be advertised to but since we are still being raised by the boomers there is a sense of not really wanting to be apart of anything or be labeled as something. 


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5. We want our LGBT friends to feel truly welcome in our faith communities.

 

Going to split my response to this in a seprate thread...

 

 


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3. We want to ask questions that don’t have predetermined answers.

 

3. Again, this seems an interesting or exciting way of looking at life. Yet it seems a bit off to me. The idea here being portrayed to me is that of relativism - what is right for me may not be right for you. I believe in God's Word and that there is a moral compass for a Believer in Jesus Christ - that is the Bible. I believe Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

 

God bless,

GE

 

 

I didn't read it that way, I read it that they want to ask questions that provoke a discussion.   When my daughter was a young teen her youth pastor would only answer questions that had an easy, preset answer.  He was not very good at why type questions.  I find this to be true of many Christians as well as many in ministry. One of the main reasons we loose so many young adults at least for a period of time is that nobody would let them ask the hard questions so when they are asked of them they have no answers.

 

 

This is an interesting point JDavis. I guess perhaps it's a CNN linked article I assumed the article was being written from a more liberal world view. Perhaps I'm wrong in that assumption? :noidea:

Sounds to me like this particular youth pastor didn't want to deal with the hard issues kids face today - for example...

How to deal with sex outside of marriage?

How to deal with pornography?

How to deal with homosexuality?

How to deal with homosexual friends or family members?

How to deal with abuse, conflict, and authority?

 

God bless,

GE


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I think this is also a generational thing.  The baby boomers was the first generation that broke all traditions, morals and customs, and were known as the generation of the "counterculture" movement. I do believe that several generations before that subtly planted their ideas into people's heads, but it came to fruition in the baby boomer generation.  That gets into conspiracy theories and whatnot as for taking over of minds to behave the way people do, but realistically I don't think it took on everyone anyway, and that's a subject for another thread.

 

 

 

Have you studied the 1920's or 1930's in the U.S. ?

 

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GE

 

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Yes, I'm somewhat familiar, so I don't want to make it sound like it started with the boomers, but I meant to say it came to fruition with them.  A lot of this ideology in the American government had its roots about 100 years ago. And if you want to get into Illuminati theories, even before.

 

Here's two good articles about generations.  One is about 4-generation cycles:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theory

 

And here is the list of generations:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations#List_of_generations

 

I'm not big into sociology as I am the other interests I have listed, but I still find it interesting.

 

 

Yes I agree. There's a lot that came into play in shaping American culture prior to the 1960's and 1970's. :thumbsup:

I'll check out the links you provided.

God bless,

GE


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Yes, I'm somewhat familiar, so I don't want to make it sound like it started with the boomers, but I meant to say it came to fruition with them.  A lot of this ideology in the American government had its roots about 100 years ago. And if you want to get into Illuminati theories, even before.

 

you can take that all the way back to Nimrod


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3. We want to ask questions that don’t have predetermined answers.

3. Again, this seems an interesting or exciting way of looking at life. Yet it seems a bit off to me. The idea here being portrayed to me is that of relativism - what is right for me may not be right for you. I believe in God's Word and that there is a moral compass for a Believer in Jesus Christ - that is the Bible. I believe Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

God bless,

GE

I didn't read it that way, I read it that they want to ask questions that provoke a discussion. When my daughter was a young teen her youth pastor would only answer questions that had an easy, preset answer. He was not very good at why type questions. I find this to be true of many Christians as well as many in ministry. One of the main reasons we loose so many young adults at least for a period of time is that nobody would let them ask the hard questions so when they are asked of them they have no answers.

This is an interesting point JDavis. I guess perhaps it's a CNN linked article I assume a more liberal world view. Perhaps I'm wrong in that assumption? :noidea:

Sounds to me like this particular youth pastor didn't want to deal with the hard issues kids face today - for example...

How to deal with sex outside of marriage?

How to deal with pornography?

How to deal with homosexuality?

How to deal with homosexual friends or family members?

How to deal with abuse, conflict, and authority?

God bless,

GE

Not to be too blunt, but these are easy questions to answer...all one has to do is throw out some preset bible verses. It really does not even take much thought.

But questions like "how do we know that we are right and other religions are wrong?"

Or "why did God do what seems to be terrible things in the Old Testament"

Or "why does God allow evil things to happen"

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