LOL... I cant believe how entertaining this article is to read. I have
nothing against christianity but these people are pointing out most of the
teenage society so i guess we are all anti-christ's
This was an actual letter sent out by the St. Mary's Church.
If Your Child is a Gothic, Reform Through the Lord!
Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your child may
have
gone astray from the Lord.
Gothic (or goth) is a very obscure and often dangerous culture that
young teenagers are prone to participating in. The gothic culture
leads
young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil, darkness,
and
violence. Please seek immediate attention through counselling,
prayer,
and parental guidance to rid your child of Satan's temptations if
five
or more of the following are applicable to your child:
-Frequently wears black clothing.
-Wears band and/or rock t-shirts.
-Wears excessive black eye makeup, lipstick or nailpolish.
-Wears any odd, silver jewelry or symbols. Some of these include:
reversed crosses, pentagrams, pentacles, ankhs or various other
Satanic
worshipping symbols.
-Shows an interest in piercings or tattoos.
-Listens to gothic or any other anti-social genres of music. (Marilyn
Manson claims to be the anti-Christ, and publicly speaks against the
Lord. Please discard any such albums IMMEDIATELY.)
-Associates with other people that dress, act or speak eccentrically.
-Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such as: the
Bible,
prayer, church or sports.
-Shows an increasing interest in death, vampires, magic, the occult,
witchcraft or anything else that involves Satan.
-Takes drugs.
-Drinks alcohol.
-Is suicidal and/or depressed.
-Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation.
(This
is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God
and
His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local
mental
health center.)
-Complains of boredom.
-Sleeps too excessively or too little.
-Is excessively awake during the night.
-Dislikes sunlight or any other form of light. (This pertains to
vampires promoting the idea that His light is of no use.)
-Demands an unusual amount of privacy.
-Spends large amounts of time alone.
-Requests time alone and quietness. (This is so that your chid may
speak
to evil sprits through meditation.)
-Insists on spending time with friends while unaccompanied by an
adult.
-Disregards authority figures; teachers, priests, nuns and elders are
but a few examples of this.
-Misbehaves at school.
-Misbehaves at home.
-Eats excessively or too little.
-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this.
-Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood. (Vampires
believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and
should be stopped immediately.)
-Watches cable television or any other corrupted media sources. (Ask
your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)
-Plays videos games that contains violence or role-playing nature.
-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the
computer.
-Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.
-Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.
-Expresses an interest in sex.
-Masturbates
-Is homosexual and/or bisexual.
-Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism,
Scientology,
Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.
-Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various
phrases: "I'm so gothic, I'm dead", "woe is me", "I'm a goth".
-Claims to be a goth.
If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene
immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within
it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your
local
mental health center.
~St. Mary's Catholic Church
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angel_of_death
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posted on 16/7/2004 at 08:50 PM
lmao, i agree... they just named about 99.9% of teenagers, and it sounded
like they where serious... hahahahaha...
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fit in but you can't, how you hurt yourself on the outside, to try to kill
the pain in the inside.
Rogue
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posted on 16/7/2004 at 09:22 PM
Holy Fuck, Bat-Man, I think I'm gothic!! My job involves computers, so I
make lots of time for computers each day, I am extremely interested in sex,
I wear black, I drink alcohol, and I eat fucking Count Chocula whenever I
can! Save me, save me, O fifty foot amputee Jesus on I-75!!
____________________ Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 16/7/2004 at 11:11 PM
LMAO ROGUE! You almost got me in trouble. Its like 2 AM here and i wanted
to laugh so bad...
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Zero
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posted on 17/7/2004 at 10:14 AM
That has to be the most rediculous thing i've ever read and i know for a
fact that people take this kind of thing seriously. It's like when the
columnbine(sp?) masecre happened....all of a sudden if you wore black, read
all the time at lunch (instead of eating) wrote poetry, and used big words
you were immediatly ostracized and made an example of. Bastards.
Oh, and i hate count chocula!! i'm more of a corn pops or captain crunch
kinda guy.
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The Sandman, Dream Country
BlueLinn
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posted on 17/7/2004 at 04:17 PM
Ok,,,, lets see.
1 I wear band/rock t-shirts…. Though about 90% of them I have stolen from
my boyfriend….
2 I associate with many people who dress and speak eccentrically
3 I listen to everything and anything… other than country… or pop..
4 Wait, I take that back, I like Johnny Cash.
5 And there is NOTHING wrong with a bit of the green fluff.
6 Or Booze
7 I like staying up late at night, especially when there is no air
conditioning and it is the only good time to get silence for painting.
8 Hey, I like my privacy! I don’t want people coming into my personal
bubble when I’m in the can!
9… :snicker: I thought I was an adult.
10 Count Chocula is good breakfast food
11 WHOAH! No cable?
12 Don’t you dare take away my video games!… I’ll shoot you with my
Nintendo duck hunt gun!
13 Nothing wrong with a healthy mash pit.
14 Sex? Yes please
15 Masturbate? Constantly
16 Doesn’t everyone like boobs?
17 WHOAH, whoah, wait a minute here… Whats wrong with philosophy?
18 Oh,,, and I’m bored……
hey, wait a minute,,, I thought I was a hippie?
____________________ When the world is over, will we wonder how it began?
why are we submitting ourselves to any labels what so ever?
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Schizo
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 03:36 AM
Blue Linn - I wish I knew how many times you've called yourself a hippie on
this site. Or even how many times you've referred to it in the past week
or so. Substitute the word "goth" for "hippie" and people would be jumping
all over you. I wonder why it is so important for you to make sure we
realize you wear a certain style of clothes. Because, if hippie was more
than cloth deep with you, we would certainly discover it from the way you
express yourself in your posts, without the constant reminder. Unless you
didn't bother to post anything that revealed your opinions or views. In
which case it really wouldn't matter to us what label to put on you,
anyway.
____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
Monolycus
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 03:58 AM
Didn't really feel the need to pipe in on this one... but...
Item: -Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such as: the
Bible, prayer, church or sports.
in close connection with...
Item: -Complains of boredom.
Okay, I'm no expert, but unless you are excited by the most painfully
mind-numbing activities known to mankind, you have a problem? Hmmm. Must
be why my employers were always shocked when I didn't take their crap with
a smile on my face. Okay, I'll jump on to the 12 step bandwagon here.
Hello, my name is Wolf and... and... stupid things really irritate me and
I'm not interested in pointlessness. ~sob!~ Can I get a group hug
here?
And where the hell are these evil spirits to talk to when you meditate? All
I ever hear are those voices that tell me to burn things.
~M.
____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 05:28 PM
I just figured it would amuse you all to see how shallow things can get in
society and the church.
"OMG! IF I EAT A CERTAIN TYPE OF CEREAL I"M SO GOTH!"
It's like pop culture got hay wire, not that pop culture isn't already
crazy and stupid.
____________________ Anata ga sabishii toki, bokumo sabishii n da yo
why must those that are labeled take the labelling seriously...
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Domkitten
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 08:12 PM
Last time I checked, this kind of right wing parinoia was not new.
As I recall, it's been around since the dark ages, since girls tried to
learn how to read, since, boys thought to jerk off, since, if you want to
be biblical about it, Adam ate the apple and God got kinda t-totally
pissed.
I mean seriousy, wasn't it listening to to much twisted sister that drove
Cain to kill able.
Wasn't it the invention of the black t-shirt that caused good, god fearing
catholic school girls to turn into raving sluts. Or was it the catholic
church and it's many minor blasphemous dieties that started that, hard to
say. Really, many of those saints spent time alone talking to voices, and
communing with "the lord", obviously they had problems.
But seriously, this reads almost like a list of reasons to put kids on
ridilian as much as it does a list of Gothness.
It hasn't gotten out of hand, it just hasn't really changed that much.
____________________ It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus
farther back than that... in rome, it was ok to be gay, but not the
bitch...
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VampCourt
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 10:09 PM
quote:WHY MUST THEY LABEL
US?!
Why do you GIVE a flying fuck?
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devil, for thou art scarey and mean." -The Goth commandments
KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 10:47 PM
They put me on ritalin ... then aderall.. they though i had adhd just because i could
multitask at the age of 6. I think thats called Not-Having-Good-Parents
more than anything. Why not put them on ritalin?
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KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 18/7/2004 at 10:48 PM
quote:WHY MUST THEY LABEL
US?!
Ummm.. Is you substitute for large and colorful font a bold text?
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