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Is there anything more American than our high school athletic culture? From small town rivalries to Little League Championships, from cheerleaders and their pom poms to young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts, the pep rallies, the bleachers packed with parents and victory pizza parties, in every way teenage jock culture is the epitome of wholesomeness. This sports world teaches our children to decide between right and wrong in realistic situations. They treat their bodies as temples by exploring and mastering their physical powers. They learn to be part of a social group where the glory of the whole is based on the sacrifices of the individual. It is, in essence, incredible training for the Christianity inherent in our beautiful American boys and girls.
There comes a time in every youngster’s life when they must decide to follow the jock world, to work hard on their bodies and skills, or to chose another path. Often, it’s the freshman year of high school when social pressures are high and the girls start to look awfully pretty. Choosing to be a jock insures a boy popularity, a fantastic group of friends, the love of parents and eventually success with the female persuasion.
When video gaming first became popular, experts warned of the likelihood of increased amounts of obesity, apathy, suicide, school violence, Satanism, masturbation, homosexuality and unemployment. Despite the fact that these predictions have come true, not much effort has been made to stop the production and distribution of video games. Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft, the Sims, Halo, Guitar Hero and Mario Brothers, just to name a few, have made unscrupulous corporations rich and taught a generation of our children to hate society and their parents.
Now video gaming is developing into a high school “culture” itself, as more and more children chose this pathetic and harmful lifestyle instead of joining a fun sports team. It is a world of couch potatoes and basement dwellers. Mentally, they have not developed past the 12-year old stage. They were raised on imaginary cartoon characters like SpongeBob, Pokemon, Barney, Transformers, Scooby Doo and Raggedy Ann. All they want is to return to that tv funtime, but their bodies have become so pumped with hormones they’re confused. Video gaming turns their childhood dreams upside down. Suddenly, Raggedy Ann is killing Scooby Doo while SpongeBob sexually pokemons Barney and these kids have found a new outlet for their mixed-up physical urges. It is no wonder, then, that we have increased episodes of violence like Columbine today. Video gaming is an addiction scientifically proven to be just as dangerous as crack cocaine and it’s making our kids immoral and angry in the process. They have lost all sense of right and wrong. They cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality and shooting guns seems like a fun thing to do. This is all the more tragic when they shoot the jocks, the very thing they wish they could be but failed at so miserably.
Adults who were video gamers in high school are far less likely to become investment bankers, real estate salesmen, doctors, lawyers and sports coaches. They do not become our pastors or politicians. With less athletes learning social and moral skills in high school, we have less of the people who make this country truly great. Instead, we see young adults who cannot accept maturity. They find comfort in worlds of dragons and blue-skinned girls with wings, androgyny and dirty muscular fantasy men. They’re far more likely to meet strangers from the internet in public parks. These poor souls may never have the courage to ask a girl on a date. Homosexuality is often an easy answer for their awkwardness. Out of terrible shame, they will lie to your face and describe themselves as successful, goodlooking heterosexuals with gorgeous girlfriends and a rich social life. But we know this is not true. It’s a desperate attempt to cover up utter failure. Professionally, the video gamer may grow up to be your Radio Shack employee, your bug exterminator, your cable repairman or maybe if you’re lucky, your half pleasant IT guy. But is that what any parent really wants for their child? So please, parents, be vigilant with your children and push them into sports. Take it from someone who knows, you will be saving their lives.
Stephenson’s Five Tips for Happy Jock Kids!
- No laptops! Kids can sneak these into their bedrooms for late-night play. Instead, get a heavy desktop computer and set it up with the screen facing outward in your family room. That way you can monitor you child’s computer use (homework!) at all times without interrupting your television viewing.
- When you’re not at home, unplug the power cord to your computer and hide the mouse. You can always put it in one of your sock drawers. This is a great way to make sure no video games are played when you’re not around.
- Be honest with your boys and tell them they’ll grow up as failures if they don’t excel at sports. Make them go outdoors! Lock them out if necessary. On birthdays and Christmas, buy them sports gifts. Every kid enjoys a new baseball mitt or a football! (I’d avoid skateboards, however, there is too much drug use and anti-social behavior connected with it.) And when they’re 16, it’s time to consider the appropriate “muscle car” for your boy.
- Have a private talk with your child’s friends (maybe when you “accidentally” lock your own kid outside) and ask them some of my video game slang trick questions: “What level paladin are you these days, buddy?” “Gosh, this town is nothing like Vice City, isn’t it?” or “Did you lose your Wee? I found one in the station wagon.” If they answer with any knowledge whatsoever of these terms, you have a secret gamer on your hands. Beware!
- Be concerned about the physical shape of our young people. You don’t even need to be a parent to do this. Watch them run and throw and jump. Encourage them to lift weights. With a handsome firm body, you don’t need an afternoon of sweaty wrestling with a soccer ball as an excuse to celebrate the beauty that our Creator endowed us with. Remind them that jocks can tan themselves shirtless anytime! There is just something so wonderfully wholesome about America’s strong and cocky high school jocks. The pale and pimply loners in black t-shirts too afraid to shower in the locker rooms will never be able to compete with that!
6:34 pm
“young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts”
That sounds mighty gay, Billings.
“This sports world teaches our children to decide between right and wrong in realistic situations.”
No, it teaches children to be constantly competing with one another, and that physical violence (i.e. tackling) is an acceptable means of winning a game.
“They treat their bodies as temples by exploring and mastering their physical powers.”
So then what’s all this I hear about steroids, eh?
“Mentally, they have not developed past the 12-year old stage.”
Oh, right, and jocks are just sooooo smart…
“That way you can monitor you child’s computer use (homework!) at all times without interrupting your television viewing.”
So, you’re berating children for playing video games, but giving parents tips on how to keep their child’s homework from interfering with their own television viewing? Shouldn’t parents have their priorities straight as well?
“When you’re not at home, unplug the power cord to your computer and hide the mouse. You can always put it in one of your sock drawers. This is a great way to make sure no video games are played when you’re not around.”
Haven’t I already explained to you that if a kid wants to play video games badly enough, he/she will *gasp!* figure out how to plug the computer back in and manage to locate the mouse? By the way, what if the child needs the computer for homework?
“Be honest with your boys and tell them they’ll grow up as failures if they don’t excel at sports.”
So you want parents to lie to their children? My father did not play sports as a kid (he HATED them) and he turned out very successful. He married a wonderful woman (my mother), and they had two kids together, the elder of whom was among the top 3 females in her high school graduating class, got into American University, and has been on the Dean’s List for her entire college career.
“On birthdays and Christmas, buy them sports gifts. Every kid enjoys a new baseball mitt or a football!”
So, so, so untrue.
“There is just something so wonderfully wholesome about America’s strong and cocky high school jocks.”
Probably the second gayest thing you’ve ever said.
Now that I’m done picking apart various quotes of yours, I would like to add some more of my thoughts:
I HATE jocks. I DESPISE jocks. I’ve hated them my whole life. You know why? Having grown up as a quiet, shy little kid, I was the PERFECT target for teasing from the jocks (even before they were old enough to really be called “jocks”). Jocks are buckets of testosterone, and they feel the need to impress people wherever they go. They are also incredibly, incredibly greedy. It is absolutely mind-boggling how much food they eat in one sitting. In my college’s dining room, you can be guaranteed that whenever you see a jock, he will pile onto his plate: at least 3 hamburgers, at least 2 hot dogs, whatever specialty they are serving that day (usually some kind of meat, potatoes, pasta, etc) as well as several slices of pizza, and at least 4, count ‘em 4, overflowing glasses of powerade. They will LITERALLY pile all that food onto their plates. One time when they were serving something crappy for lunch, I had to resort to getting a hamburger. I had to wait in line for one, as they weren’t quite ready yet. There was a jock in line in front of me. The chef took four burgers off the grill and placed them on the serving plate. The jock took ALL FOUR, without any thought that there were people behind him also waiting for food. One time, during some sort of family day thing, my friend was waiting in line for a burger with her dad, and all of a sudden from across the room, I hear the dad yell “Did you see that? He took five burgers!”
However, NOT ONLY are jocks greedy, they also caused the possible deaths of three of the school’s beagles. Our Veterinary Technology program gets beagles and cats every year for us to train with (I know, it sounds inhumane, but rest assured, they live in very good conditions, receive LOTS of love from us, and are adopted out to loving families at the end of the year). We fall in love with them instantly, and they want love, too, so it’s a win-win situation. Well, one night a few years ago a group of the school’s football players thought it would be funny to break into the kennel and set the beagles free. We got all but three of them back, and for all we know those three little doggies could be dead.
That is why I HATE jocks.
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8:25 pm
athletes eat a lot cause they burn it all off playing around! dont you know anything about the body? i thought you was a nurse. and they growing up to be strong and big. some of them are real big, over 6 feet, so they have to eat. you’re really showing your colors here claire. this is just too bias your hate and all. so what if there good at sports and better looking? its how the world works!
and sorry about the beagles but what does that have to do with food or anything? your just trying to blame someone for anything.
and i like this story. reminds me of the chioces i try to make as a mom. you dont want kids getting all weird in lviing in there bedrooms all the time.
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9:01 pm
“athletes eat a lot cause they burn it all off playing around! dont you know anything about the body?”
I’m AWARE of that, you dolt. However, NOBODY needs to be that greedy when it comes to food. Yes, they do need to eat more than the average person, but they take it to the extreme, and it needs to stop.
“so what if there good at sports and better looking?”
Who said that they were “better” looking? In my opinion, they’re disgusting pigs.
“and sorry about the beagles but what does that have to do with food or anything?”
Why do you assume that the beagle story is connected to the food story? The beagle story was yet ANOTHER example of why I hate jocks. It has nothing to do with food. Do you need me to sum it up for you?
I hate jocks because:
1. they killed three dogs
2. they’re greedy pigs
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9:13 pm
Well I Still Think Your Jealous!
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9:17 pm
Please explain to me why I would be jealous of people who KILLED OUR DOGS?
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9:36 am
Everybody stop agruging!Whoever posted this is a closet homosexual,and anyone who takes this even remotely seriously is as stupid as the OP
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1:14 am
For Christ’s sake, its You’re. YOU ARE, not your. A typo is a one thing but if you’re arguing for one side and you can’t understand the difference of you and you’re you make everyone look bad.
Also, an interesting fact is online video games tend to not only encourage but will force players into working together if they want to win, improve cognitive thinking and increase hand to eye coordination. The truth is that videogames (like Dungeons and Dragons and various tabletop activities) are something that family values groups can sink their teeth into and blame when they do something wrong with raising their child.
Also the man who wrote this must be a closet pedophile. Just the way he describes the jocks really creeps me out.
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1:09 am
okay so my first day of high school i’m obese even though i eat less then i should due to asthma i cant be on a sports team so because of that i would’ve been unsucesful.okay let me see quarter back ended up in jail for dui.receiver just dropped out of school in his third year.i am making more money then the rest oh and now im in shape i out grew my asthma and now their the ones who are over weight
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9:38 am
Hahaha, the best part about that is they keep eating that much after they’re out of school and at home sitting on their asses. Almost every jock I knew from high school is now overweight with a dead-end job.
Nerds have this thing called intelligence that ends them up in high-paying tech jobs. And every nerd I know has a hot girlfriend, whereas the jocks just have ugly ditsy overweight ex-cheerleaders with the mental capacity of a football.
Thankfully, we don’t need to justify this article because everyone knows those above facts. This article is hilarious as hell.
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11:37 pm
You know whats funny… most jocks that I know have turned out to be complete failures in life. A good amount ended up in prison and another portion had their girlfriends prenant before they left highschool. Me one the other hand I am a “gamer” and I am going for a P.H.D in forensic psychology, have a wonderful girlfriend who I planning to marry as soon as I graduate and I have had no problems with my friendships and have had some of the same friends since 1st grade. I do not have an aggressive bone in my body, I am no homosexual, and I also work in a contract pharmacy not a fast food resturant (no offense to those who do.) Playing video games does not reflect your intelligence or social level. Also just because someone is a jock doesn’t mean they are stupid or cruel. Some of my best friends are what you could consider jocks and they turned out just fine. A good portion that I do know are idiots and really don’t have a bright future.
Clair much praise to you bringing logical and thought out responses. Too bad most people don’t do that and leave rubbish like “f**k you” or “you suck.” Keep up the good work. Billings… I really don’t know what to say to you… maybe get an education that isn’t so far right that it would scare the crap out of the Nazis. Or just maybe try logics some time instead of biased responses that hold no substinence. I’ll agree that violent games can breed violent behavior in children but it is rare and easily manageable. Increased obseity is another vaild arguement since kids just are not getting outside as much as they should. However the decreased social life and homosexuality or totally unfounded. As for the a “pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts” thing… thats all yours… ummm enjoy?
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6:30 pm
You don’t hate jocks. You hate yourself
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11:43 pm
Well nobody cares what you think claire, because you’re going to hell anyways.
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1:50 am
I’m really glad that you’re not the one who gets to decide that, dumbass.
“Nothing impure will ever enter it… but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
How about you stop being a judgemental asshat and start living with the attitude of your damn savior.
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3:04 am
Claire, just because I celebrate the success of our young Americans, you shouldn;t work yourself up into a frenzy. You accusations of homosexuality are offensive and childish. I’m sick of your outrageous and inexplicable claims. Obviously a man like myself, a dedicated Christain with incredible ties to his community, would not stand such words in person. It’s so easy, however, for you to throw this horse dung at me online. That’s just shameful and shows how low you have sunk. If you had pride, you could say these things to my face instead of in some anony chat room. Well, shame on you!
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6:22 am
Stephenson Billings, oh you arrogant retard.
Everything you post just makes you look like more of an idiot.
Tell me, who dropped you on your head as a child to make you think like this?
Yes i would say any of this to your face and no you would not do anything about it.
you are retarded.
THAT IS ALL. BE GONE NOW, FOOOL
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9:40 am
“If you had pride, you could say these things to my face instead of in some anony chat room. Well, shame on you!”
Rest assured, if I ever do meet you face to face, I WILL say those things. I’m not afraid of you.
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10:23 am
You sound like a jock, that had a few girls around you that played football in high school and are now depressed because a VIDEO game player makes millions while you sit on your butt all day writing worthless articles about nothing.
How is it christian to talk about men’s sexy bodies, cheerleaders, and how cool jocks are?
Writing this article is not being a christian, please review it over and over again.
I am a gamer, I make $45,000 a year, I am a IT professional, and without trying to figure out how to fix my computer so I could play games I would have never understood a computer. So yes video gamers can be successful and many I play with make a very good living.
Saying a gamer most likely will not be a lawyer or politician means nothing, how is making a living lying all day christian and right?
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10:48 am
haha, what an absolutely ridiculous article… I dont mean to sound like an ass, but why is it that whenever christian’s tend to speak there mind, its always far fetched and extremist..this article almost should have been put in the movie jesus camp. And I am open to the idea of new beliefs, however I can never seem to meet you nutjobs half way.
Anyways, you are so incorrect its not even funny.. Why do you have such hard feelings over video games? You have no control over this issue. What you should be doing is trying to unify the two groups instead of making people seem as if gamers are the devil… Unbelievable, I would really love to see your proof for that accusation. And another things, whats with christians and the devil? I was raised catholic although Im not anymore (because of video games probably!) and we never droned on about the devil as much as you guys.. leave it alone, please.
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12:36 pm
Dear Stephenson Billings:
It’s people like you that have caused my generation to become “heathens” and “godless pagans”.
Your article sounded more homoerotic than almost anything I’ve ever read. While you were busy jizzing all over yourself, writing about muscular and sweaty teenage boys, some of us were doing good in the world.
Does your God not preach of tolerance, acceptance, and love? Did he not heal a leper, and did he not wash the feet of others? Yes, he did.
I play video games, yes. I’m not a virgin and I’m unmarried. I curse, I look at pornography, and I enjoy movies with a violent and graphic plot.
Yet, I am the same person who holds doors open for others, and says ‘please and thank you’. I am the same person who was never kicked out of class or reprimanded in school for being disrespectful to a teacher or others, unlike many of the ‘jocks’ I attended school with. I’m the same person who would never mistreat a woman. Many of the jocks that you dream about being the ‘good future of the christian faith’ often cheat on, abuse, lie to, and generally mistreat women.
I’m sorry. I have values and I am a generally good person. I’m respectful, kind, courteous, and willing to help others when I can. I’m not perfect.
But neither are the jocks that you blow your wad over. They do more harm in the world than someone like me. If you can’t see that, you were either a jock in high school, or you are overly delusional.
I wish I could still believe in God. But it’s people like you, Stephenson Billings, that make me unable to believe that there is an all powerful God who loves each and every one of us.
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7:06 am
Your post makes me feel awkward about being a christian.
I didnt fail at school.
My parents never pushed me into sports, I’m studying to become a teacher.
I am a voluntry youth worker and you know what? I play video games!
Also every ‘Jock’ I have met has been a selfish idiot who bullies everyone around him who is not like him. I personaly will not force my children into sports.
I would also stop my children getting into the crowd of jocks to begin with.
So I would be saving my childs life by stopping them getting into sports, as most of the jocks ive known over the years have died in pub fights, car accidnts (their faults), drugs and getting involved with riots.
Out of the 20 or so jocks I went to school with only 4 of them are alive today.
Worst part is their all over weight and jobless.
I seriously hope your going to reconsider this post.
I have given you a non christian awnser to your non christian argument.
Next time you feel about ranting on your weird glory days do it on a sports site.
Its people like you who make christians look bad.
You have had enough of my attention now.
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3:59 pm
I am at such a loss for what to say, here, but I felt the need to say something. Mr. Billings, it’s people like you that have made it so difficult to even mention our Savior in front of my peers without being greeted with a slew of horror stories about bad experiences with alleged Christians.
I know we’re called to rebuke, but we are called to do so LOVINGLY. This is just mean.
I am a Christian. I teach a 3rd and 4th grade Sunday school class, assist the worship ministry as a soundboard technician, and work on the IT team. And yes, I am a gamer. I am not, however, obese, or even overweight. Nor am I underweight. I’m healthy. I’m not pimply or pale (although acne has nothing to do with athleticism, and I think it’s unfair to bring that up), nor am I unintelligent. I have a 3.7 GPA, and have just been inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society.
I will concede that I’m not a part of the WOW crowd, nor the GTA fans, but I loved video games all through my childhood, and still do. I play Mario Kart and Dance Dance Revolution with my students (with their parents full knowledge), and we talk about Wii Fit and Sonic the Hedgehog during leisure time. There’s nothing wrong with it.
I can see that you’re passionate about what you believe, but please stop being so closed-minded! Jocks are NOT the only face of future Christian America. I could never play sports because I had asthma. I cooked, read, studied, sewed, drew, and played video games. So what if I was shy and still am? So what if I preferred solitude in my room during adolescence? Does that make me a liar or a hypocrite or a threat to society? No. You’re alienating your own family, and making Christians out to be a cruel, prejudiced, and narrow-minded people. It hurts my heart to read through your article and see such intolerance for diversity within the body, and makes me ashamed to have kinship with you through our Lord.
I will pray for you.
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9:08 pm
So, I’m trying to figure out if Stephenson Billings is a Troll, does this for the collection plate funds or is just clueless
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2:01 pm
To Claire and Stephenson;
Dear Claire,
Thank you so much for everything you have said. You make excellent points, and honestly if Stephenson wants to keep dodging answering, there is nothing we can do. I was a jock in high school. It was a small Montana school, however, and I was respectful to all women, and enjoyed the game, exactly as it’s meant to be enjoyed. A game. I currently am in Pre-Med, and I do not think being a jock was a bad decision. It taught me leadership, honesty, and to enjoy life. However, I agree that most jocks are complete tools, and, although from Stephenson’s picture, which looks like he himself is either a necrophiliac, or a pedophile, and that it does not take “being a jock” to be successful. The whole article seems hastily written, by someone who is so numb-skulled and set in his ways that he can “assume” whatever he wants about America’s Youth. Thank you Claire, you are a very intelligent person, and the world needs more of you than radical egotistical assholes like Stephenson.
Stepehson,
How in the world can you say any of the things in your article with any confidence? I know you are the extremist religion type, but for God’s sake, this is completely ridiculous. Honestly I know why I’d never heard of you until a friend dropped the article by in college because it is a hilarious attempt to push your propaganda. All I can say to you is that you honestly have not contributed to society any more than a video game player. Video games are completely fine! If it’s raining and ya don’t want to read, or you just want to relax it makes no difference. However, people writing half-witted, moronic articles such as yours are the real problem today. I was All State Football, placed at State track, and All Conference Basketball, and I still am not the Herculean depiction of a successful person you claim will come without personal effort. I strive in school through school work, not my sports achievements. Sports ARE good things, but they are not life in general. Life, is what motivates you. To me, life is spending time with family, camping, recreation. My life has not/will never be affected by video games or your religious/ignorant rants.
Thanks people who realize that this is completely retarded and poorly thought out by a biased writer, who most likely is hypocritical in his beliefs, sexual orientation, and most likely never actually had a sports career in the first place.
Peace.
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8:07 pm
Excuse me, assmunch, but how the hell is she supposed to say that to your face when she doesn’t even know you in person?! And with all that talk about muscles beneath shorts and whatnot, you sound an awful lot like some kind of pedophile. Judging by your picture, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were.
I know one thing: if I were to meet YOU in person, I’d see to it that my LaVayan Satanic boot would make quick friends with your ignorant conservative ass. And trust me, you wouldn’t like it.
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8:43 pm
dude, Billings is so gay.
Have you seen the bananna filling thing? You’re so gay I don’t even have anything mature to say here. You are just so gay it blows my mind like your load all over some poor high school football player’s back.
anyway I just wanted to point that out.
did I mention how gay that billings dude is.
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10:16 am
Wow! I would unsubscribe to this site just for posting that crap. First off it says video gamers most likely wont be politicians or lawyers? The writer is saying that like its a bad thing….No instead video game players are inventors of google, facebook, and are some of the richest people in the world!
I am also christian, and when is talking about bulging muscles, and girls all over a jock being christian? The author basically said that being a jock makes you more popular and sexy…hmmm ok.
Anyways, so the author of this probably makes $25,000 a year and is angry that gamers are making millions in game, out of game, and still writing better then he or she.
I am a gamer, I play 25+ hours a week, plus I work 40+ hours a week, I own a house, 3 cars, I work in IT and am 24. I have played since day 1 and guess what! I would not have my job without gaming and being determined to fix my computer so I could play games!
So the author of this is false! And he, or she needs to understand the culture of gaming before he, or she starts typing on that fancy computer that was MOST LIKELY BUILT BY A GAMER!
Thx for posting this I have officially vented!
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11:27 am
I think the much more important concern is the effect of spending hours and hours more or less motionless in front of a TV or computer rather than the effects of the content of the some silly games.
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9:24 pm
Where is your data to support the claim?
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10:18 pm
you guys are so stupid it makes me want to puke i am the star quarter back in my skill and guess what i own all the systems so every thing you said is stupid also one of my dearest friends killed himself over football from taking steroids to get bigger i dont hear video gamers dieng of that dumb shits
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1:15 am
Nerds rule the world just think about it a nerd could steal all of you account information and the jock would have no clue!!i myself and a videogamer and i run so am i good or am i bad?also if a jock picks on some one in school then when will the memories come back to haunt them…When they get a job working for the person they picked on!so i think nerds/video gamers rule the world cause through cyberspace they can do what ever they want.
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6:46 pm
Oh wow, this entire article has confirmed to me that you’re actually a pedophile. It probably wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t use phrases like “young firm men”, “they treat their bodies as temples”, and let’s not forget the best one: “a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts”.
Oh how I laughed.
And as for computer games being the root of all obesity, could that not also be blamed on the wide availability of automobiles and increasingly popular fast food chains, not the mention the ease to simply order a pizza out and eating it while watching the television? Surely that plays some kind of role.
Apathy? Well I can surely tell you that I’d be just this apathetic with or without computer games.
Suicide? Who’d want to kill themselves when Command & Conquer 4 is coming out next year?
School Violence has always been a problem. I’ve a feeling that the jocks you worship so much are major players in THIS particular sport.
Satanism has always been there, computer games hardly promote that kind of thing. You’re more likely to be fighting demons in a computer game than siding with them.
Masturbation has always existed, and there’s no argueing that bit of fact, I’m afraid. If you’re going to blame anything, blame the wide availability of porn. Or are you bored of that one already?
Now that society is beginning to accept people with different sexual preferences to others, it only makes sense that homosexuals, who have ALWAYS been there, are beginning to show their true colours. Um, which would be all of them, in a rainbow. I suppose.
Unemployment, blame the economy. Jobs are being cut and people are being laid off of work, it’s not their fault, but with these cuts comes a rising unemployment figure. In actual fact, people out of luck with work are trying their hand at creating their own games, with many proving successful and earning them a small fortune. The growing market for computer games is creating jobs in an economic climate that is doing the opposite.
Now really, you should research these topics more. I KNOW it’s easy to just blame it on something and be done with it. But isn’t that a bit… You know…
Lazy?
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if you sit on the floor all day playing a game on the tv of course your going to get fat! you have no logic. thats just stupid. and sure some of that other stuff has been around, but the whole video gamer thing just makes it all worse. there are plenty of science behind that so dont try and be all crazy here and just blind yourself to thr truth! and if a boy is sitting around all day what skills is he learning for a job? its the kids who get out there and network new people and shake hands and do honest work who get ahead. if you sitting home alone all the time that just sad.
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Who says the person spends all day playing video games? I go to the gym a few times a week. I’m actually a tad underweight, how is that so if I spend a bit of my time playing video games? Maybe this only happens in America because most of my friends in England who play video games are thin and quite a few are athletic.
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Helolo I am JaniceFun I LIEK to say MeANIngless and biASEd garbage with strANge PUNctuation so thAT i can THink IM CLever and stUFF LOl.
Seriously… get a fucking clue
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8:27 pm
I think you just gave Billings a Hard on by posting those pictures…
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8:34 pm
that’s just not proper to say such things here, sorry.
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That’s probably a very good bet. You could make bank off of it.
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Oh, YOU’re telling people what is proper to say and what’s not? Not only do you treat homosexuality as some sort of desease, you confuse young people with false statements, trying to “push” them into stuff they do not want to do.
If you want your kid to end up derailed and criminally, push them to do stuff they do not want, and raise them with an orthodox view on the bible. I’m sure they’ll thank you for it when they grow up to discover the truth.
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6:30 am
Jeroen you say that they’re calling homosexuality a disease when in the article it says:
“These poor souls may never have the courage to ask a girl on a date. Homosexuality is often an easy answer for their awkwardness.”
Sounds like the author thinks the same thing.
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7:39 am
I was talking about the author and JaniceFun, the reply wasn’t posted where I wanted it to.
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Hmm…. let’s look at this. Janice syays- ah, screw it, I’m just going to copy/paste the entire string I want to flame her with.
Frank says:
September 8, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I think you just gave Billings a Hard on by posting those pictures…
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JaniceFun says:
September 8, 2009 at 8:34 pm
that’s just not proper to say such things here, sorry.
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The Defiant Soldier says:
September 8, 2009 at 9:25 pm
That’s probably a very good bet. You could make bank off of it.
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Jeroen says:
September 9, 2009 at 5:22 am
Oh, YOU’re telling people what is proper to say and what’s not?
HYPOCRITE!
By the way, Commisar, (or however you say it, I’m not going reply hunting again) WARHAMMER 40K IS AMAZING! CAN’T WAIT FOR THE MMO!!!
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9:30 am
As much as I Agree,Rules 1 & 2
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7:59 pm
Well, I think Claire and Chris pretty much summed it up, so I guess I’ll take the “Pot-Shot.”
“Are those…..”(ok get ready for this.)
“Are those the little altar boys that sit under your desk? Wow. You must doing pretty well billings. Did you take beefman up on that offer to split halfsies on facebook? You naughty boy!”
There. I’m done. And Claire and Chris, GOOD JOB!
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8:47 pm
Well I think this artical is VERY BRAVE! You people all love your video games and talk it all the time but you know what? There are so many bad things that come from that life and there is a whole nother world out there away from you computers. Kids who plays sports are just happy and nice. I am a MOTHER and I know these things. I am happy that my sons always loved there sports. They have good friends and I am proud there life. I just think you guys are so fast to attack what you dont understand. Well this one is plane and simple to me! I am happy my boys are old enough (17, 19, 23) that they dont get into this silly stuff. Its all just a big watse of time really.
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“Kids who plays sports are just happy and nice.”
Happy? Maybe. Nice? No way. Throughout my ENTIRE school career I was teased, simply because my quietness and shyness made me an easy target. You know who teased me? The sporty kids, primarily. Also, it’s not really “nice” to kill three innocent dogs.
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9:26 pm
Thank you, Janice. I always appreciate your words of support. It is interesting that there is so much anger from some of the people posting replies right now. It perfectly exmeplifies the type of angry, loner character that I was referring to in my article. I am happy to hear that your sons were raised with an involved and loving mother. It must really show in their promise!
Bless you, Janice!
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10:22 pm
Janice… did you just reply to yourself an hour after your comment? are you that lonely?
and jocks don’t all turn out successful, we all know jocks are “cool” and drugs are “cool”, put them together, most jocks take drugs, usually not the heavier deadly one like cocaine, but softer ones like pot. Does God want kids to take pot, i doubt it.
and why are video games evil? if they are, then theres a flaw.
we all agree sports are good(its true!
)
you say video games = evil
a sport videogame is what? it cant be good, cuz its a video game, but it cant be bad cuz its a sport, not a “gay-inducing” magic weapon buying game (lol)
You say a kid played for 24 hours? well thats not the kid’s or video game’s fault, thats just bad parenting.
please use common sense, video games are like any hobby, too much of it is bad, just like too much sports, or too much exercise or eating, yet all these things in moderation arent bad for you.
Let kids play video games if they like it, but make sure that they understand that the priority list doent change:
1) yourself
2) family and friends
3)School/work
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x) video games
you need to take care of yourself and your family before other things, that completely true, but starting lies about magic items making you gay and satanic dress up parties with wild sex isn’t the way to set priorities straight.
I’ve played video games since i was a wee lad (like 4 years old), I’m going to college in nutrition, i could be the one making diet plans in hospitals or preventing you from getting the swine flu from that dinner you ate at.
video games are a hobby, if they become to much more than that, it can be dangerous for your self and your social life, but if you take care of yourself and take all things in moderation, video games are a fun way to spend the evening.
PS: Don’t hate gays because they like men, its like hating someoen because he like blue instead of red. I dont mind them, i dont want them hitting on me, but i dont mind them, in their core they are people, just like you and me, and thats all that matters in Gods eyes.
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7:20 am
“Janice… did you just reply to yourself an hour after your comment? are you that lonely?”
Nah, she didn’t. Stephenson just forgot to log out of his Janice account and into his actual account before posting. Way to go, Stephenson! *cheer*
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10:28 pm
Uh oh, looks like Janice is talking to herself again.
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6:44 am
oh i heart you claire <3
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SAMEFAG LOL
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HOW DOES I LOG OUT
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Lol I take back what i said. You dont deserve a second chance. I thought you were just a misinformed reminiscing old fart. But you have to be about the stupidest person on earth. you blow your cover as janice wide fucking open then continue to use that profile to back up your arguments.,.. what a bitch little samefag. OMfg i didnt know stupidity came in that level. It shouldnt be possible, but damn.
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8:13 pm
Well hey, there are some people who are actually adults who really enjoy video games. because they were raised under different beliefs. and what sickens me is the idiot sports kids who pick on those who WERE raised or grew up differently. it’s like kicking a starving African child in the face because they are that way. It is YOU people that are ruining it for the kids who like video games.
also, having a girl doesn’t mean INSTANT WIN at life. have fun being dragged around the town and to the mall with your fat wife you met in high school.
I’ll have fun with my life, hope you enjoy yours and we never meet.
-stan has fooled you :3333333333
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9:31 pm
“… a whole nother world”??? I suppose you work as a publishing editor when you are not forcing your kids into sports?
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8:01 pm
OH MY GOD. You’re a mother?! I thought you were some confused preteen judging by your lack of grammar skills and basic knowledge of the English language. That’s terrible, people like you shouldn’t be allowed to procreate.
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8:54 pm
OP is right
but jocks (most of them) are crazy single minded stupid people. true they maybe strong at body but they are weak at mind. what people should do is to invest thier time on what is going to benefit them now and in the future.
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9:37 pm
Once again, a claim with no evidence to back it up. Why, oh why, do people try to make unfounded claims, assuming that their own prejudices are backed by fact?
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9:09 pm
This article is an embarrassment to everyone involved. I am a 17 year old gamer, a senior in high school. I have a dozen close friends who I hang out with regularly, I am friends with almost everyone else at school as well, and I do not plan on shooting the jocks any time soon, although the jock-y-est of them are shallow assholes who I have seen sell out their friends over a girl or a game. I know exponentially more drug-abusing jocks than gamers. The image of the “popular football player in high school who fails later in life” exists for a reason, and is far more well known than the “gamer who fails later in life”.
And sadly, you are too wrapped up with your fond image of jock-culture being a great thing to realize that that aspect of America is already dead. Giving a muscle car to your son for his 16th birthday?
Dead.
Preventing your kid from experiencing any videogames?
Impossible. If they go to friends’ houses, they will see them, play them, and wish they had them.
The thing that shows that you honestly just don’t belong writing articles, however, is your claim that gamers never grow up in maturity past 12 years old, when you in fact are stuck at 16 yourself, as you’ve proven with this article.
So I am going to tell you a terribly ironic statement coming from a 17 year old gamer:
GROW. UP.
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9:58 pm
Rezeil, I’m glad you’re one of the lucky ones. But not everyone has it so easy with the poor life choices they make as an early teen. I hope you put a greater value on friends and schoolwork than on your video game world. It really contributes very little to you later in life. And maybe kids will always sneak behind their parents backs, but don’t you think it’s important to get the word out about the dangers they face? I do. And I’m trying my best to inform parents who really don’t know any better.
As I noted in this article, I am older and experienced enough to know what the future is for people like this.
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No, you’re old enough that you don’t understand anything about this culture. You say that people who play video games will end up with bad jobs. Who do you think created the internet? How do you think you have this website? Do you really believe a jock developed the internet while at the sidelines of a football game? Video games have no impact on what job you could get as long as they don’t affect you work. I’m sure Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have played video games at some point in their lives and they’re doing a lot better than most, if not all, of the jocks who were at their schools.
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8:16 am
I could care less who created the internet. It’s been around much longer than your gamer “culture” so stop confusing yourself. I was writing about a very real and sad issue here. Gaming has made our children so sedentary that they’re losing physical stamina. And morally, it’s teaching them nothing.
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9:22 am
Losing physical stamina? I’m sure there are many other things contributing to that in America. It is very easy to play games and exercise. Maybe we won’t have that body of yours you keep saying about but I can live with that. Hey, it doesn’t matter anyway, you’re just going to be rotting in the ground when you die!
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9:35 am
It saddens me you have to throw such childish and negative language around. I pray that I’ll be in heaven in my afterlife.
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7:54 pm
Technically, the computer game came before the internet.
The first computer game was a tic-tac-toe game in 1952
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/timeline_flash.html
The internet arrives in 1957.
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml#1957
Both the internet and video games started at roughly at the same time. And they all eventually made their strides into what they are today.
Please do more research before making incorrect statements.
I mastered multiplication as a kid from a School House Rock computer game. Games aren’t the problem. Obsession over a game is the main problem and is often caused by poor parenting due to lack of discipline. The parent has the right and responsibility to look at the ESRB rating on the game and take it away.
Also,
Do you really think Tetris is the work of the devil? Or do you think Grand Theft Auto is the work of the devil, and then summarily lump all video games, including Tetris and all the educational games targeted for children into a generic statement and lump them together?
Please write better and refrain from lumping everything in the same boat.
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11:52 am
Are you fucking kidding me? The time between the birth of the internet, and the gaming culture can be measured in DAYS, you moron!
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9:13 pm
I’ll bet that Billings sniffs jockstraps.
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claire why do you put up your photos here? you should shave your legs laughing out loud!!!
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Those are some damn fine legs, right there.
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So, wait a second, I think you got some of this backwards. First of all, Video gamers are more likely to become the successful businessman than some slovenly failure, unlike a jock. Also, you seem to have missed that most people in the military (yes, the defenders of your countries freedom!) either got the idea to join up from videogames, or actively play video games during what little free time they may have overseas. Along with that, Video gamers usually make the best pilots in the world for both military and commercial applications (working as an ENGINEER (holy craop a successful gamer no way!) I see pilots who make over 10000 dollars…just for getting off the ground), and their highly developed reflexes help them avoid potential hazards.
With this article, you are also telling parents that allowing thier children free choice is bad (what about democracy?), censorship is good (so, you’re korean I take it?), and that anyone who is different deserves to be shunned from society.
Another problem I have with this article is how you consistantly emphasize that jocks are so perfect, and how everyone should aspire to be a muscleheaded roid rageing failure. You are telling these parents that the people who constantly abuse fellow students, are one of the HIGHEST causes of violence and depression in schools, and who frequently fail half thier classes…are the perfect examples of christianity. Violence and ignorance sounds pretty christian to me actually, so I guess you got that one part right…
Now, if anyone is willing to have an intelligent discussion about this, and not just consistantly say “Science tells us so!” without having any proof, or supporting statements, feel free to leave a reply and I’ll get back to you ASAP. To any parents reading this-TALK to your children, ask them WHY they play video games, dont just mindlessly push them into something they may hate.
-[LM] CjAy
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10:20 pm
First of all, I highly doubt your connection between military men and World of Warcraft players. Look at our soldiers and their body types. They look more like football players than gamers. Though since the military is so high tech these days I’m sure there are a few nerds in the back rooms keeping the radios running and all.
Also, you say gamers grow up to be successful? Sure, you can look at Bill Gates and a few other internet millionaires, but the bulk of Fortune 500 company CEOs are serious, hardworking men where the ability to socialize intelligently, including navigating obstacles is very important. They’re also the types who know how to motivate large groups, their sales forces for instance. This is a definite ethic learned in sports and being a team captain or a school president. Again, our CEOs and politicians did not grow up geeks. Maybe their number crunchers did.
And don’t give me the free choice nonsense. Parents need to be PARENTAL! And that means making choices for our children and leading them down the right path for development and success. I wouldn’t let a 14 year old girl go on a date with a 30 year old, just because she felt it was an expression of her “Free Choice”.
And of course, I find some of your claims to be outright exaggerations. That’s precisely what I was referring to in my article when I stated: Out of terrible shame, Video Gamers will lie to your face and describe themselves as successful, goodlooking heterosexuals with gorgeous girlfriends and a rich social life. But we know this is not true. It’s a desperate attempt to cover up utter failure.
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kk To the OP who claims out Military men and women are not gamers…..several of my buddies are in the Military with me (a gamer) considering the Air Force…..gtfo….this is why I don’t believe in God
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Actually in world of warcraft there are these things called raids where you get 25 people together and kill bosses with scripted abilities. Each boss does different things and each player will have certain jobs in the fight in order to be successful.
Someone has to lead these raids. Guilds will die on a boss for weeks and weeks before getting it right. Do you think that takes some kind of motivation and leader to kill these very difficult encounters? In fact, in the higher guilds, you might have to fill out an application on why you are a good player and what will you bring to your guild that someone else won’t. This is JUST LIKE A JOB APPLICATION. Spelling/grammar/intelligence count for A LOT on these applications. It takes teamwork, dedication, and organization as well as accuracy and precision in order to lead and accomplish a raid.
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Oh what a simplistic mind you have… You think wrangling with your joy stick will really teach you the skills to hold down a job? You’re far too myopic to truly understand what I was trying to say here. There’s an incredible difference between hanging out with your computer screen and actually interacting with live human beings in person and getting them to accomplish things. Sports teaches our youngsters some great values and life skills. Why else do we put so much emphasis on athletic scholarships at colleges?
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9:54 am
Stephenson there are some very good Christian video games. I think you overlooked that. Guitar Praise for instance is very popular with Christian adults and children.
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8:35 pm
Unfortunately, the majority of the high-end universities have gotten rid of their sports scholarships.
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2:55 pm
Ooo, I know why! Offering high dollar scholarships to good athletes means better athletes for your athletic programs and a better athletic program means more students paying to go to your school and better ticket sales. Ka-ching!
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“And don’t give me the free choice nonsense. Parents need to be PARENTAL! And that means making choices for our children and leading them down the right path for development and success.”
Parents do have the right to tell their kids to take a break from video games, but they do NOT have the right to force their kids to play sports. There are lots of kids like me, who FUCKING HATE SPORTS.
And, there’s always the possibility of severe injury or even death when you play sports. If I were a parent, I’d feel mighty guilty if I had forced my child into sports and then the child died.
CSB image warning.
“I wouldn’t let a 14 year old girl go on a date with a 30 year old”
But you seem to find it okay for a 60 year old to hit on an 18 year old.
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9:44 am
Seriously Claire? This is what you’ve debased yourself to? Posting nasty bloody pictures because you’re so confused by my journalism? I worry for, my girl.
And believe me, I am only interested in your soul. Please do not let others trick you into thinking I am inappropriate towards children. That is quite upsetting to me.
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10:23 am
“This is what you’ve debased yourself to? Posting nasty bloody pictures because you’re so confused by my journalism?”
Confused by your journalism? Hardly. I merely posted those pictures to make a statement about how dangerous sports can be.
“And believe me, I am only interested in your soul.”
My soul is for me to be interested in, nobody else.
“Please do not let others trick you into thinking I am inappropriate towards children.”
Considering how I wrote the first reply on here, I’m pretty sure I managed to find out all by myself how perverted you are. If you don’t want to be labeled a pervert, perhaps you should stop posting things such as: “…to young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts…” or telling 18 year old girls about your body.
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11:45 am
“And believe me, I am only interested in your soul.”
Yeah. That’s the only reason you were hitting on her. Riiiiight. So I wonder…..
If I went through this entire site, how many times could I count Stevy contradicting himself?
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2:27 am
“First of all, I highly doubt your connection between military men and World of Warcraft players. Look at our soldiers and their body types. They look more like football players than gamers. ”
That’s just plain bullshit I know of atleast 10 people who play World of Warcraft while they’re not on patrol in Iraq and I mean frontline soldiers I’ve played with a soldier who was on medical leave after getting getting shot twice while in Iraq. What do you have to say about that?
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Exactly! I mean, when I played on Crushridge in my guild there were so many soldiers from all over Europe! Some were still in Iraq and used WoW to relax a bit.
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I am a former commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. I was a Chemical Officer (a specialist in surviving nuclear, biological and chemical warfare). I went to OCS (Officer candidate school) with a whole bunch of people who were convinced that PT (physical training) was leadership. This was a problem (not an asset) with the Army. These ‘PT is leadership’ types failed to use their brains for much other than keeping their hats and/or helmets above their eyes.
Gamers have joined the military (as have jocks). Neither group has an exclusive capacity to lead, organize, motivate or succeed. I played table-top wargames (Avalon Hill) when I was younger (my father got me into them). I had nearly died as a baby, so I was not much of an athlete. I did play some sports for a while, but found that I was too small for most of them.
AFAIK, you believe that my ability to: Help train troops for the first Iraqi war; help to double the product line of the #1 OTC Pharmaceutical company in the U.S, work on AIDS research for three years, and finally work for a year on the toughest-to-analyze pharmaceuticals (gels, creams and pastes) all before I became disabled at the age of 34 (from a syndrome that the medical community is still yet to understand properly) is abject failure.
Oh yeah, I also have 4 children (ages 16 to 23) who are loving children who never got into drugs, don’t have a greedy bone in their bodies and help others whenever they can.
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As a teenager in high school I had very, very little to do with the “popular” crowd. I pretty much hated the lot of them, seeing as how most of them made fun of me all through grade school up until about senior year. In my freshman year, myself and a handful of the “unpopular” kids, i.e.:gamers, LARPs, bad geeks and the like, started playing rugby after school on the band practice field a couple days a week. In junior year, some of the jocks got interested in playing and actually showed up one or two at a time. Every single one of your precious jocks that ever came to play left with minor concussions, broken fingers, lacerations, avulsions, and abrasions out the yin yang.
So there’s what I think of your oh so wholesome jocks and the phony, wannabe badasses they think they are. Oh and by the way, I play World of Warcraft and have actually progressed quite far in the game, all while passing exams through paramedic school with high B’s and A’s. I also have a terrific girlfriend named Katie, who is working through nursing school to be an RN. I am also not fat. I’m about 5’9″ and about 150 lbs. The Air Force served me as well as I served it, I think.
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10:09 pm
Daniel, hmmmm… So you’re telling me you beatdown a bunch of jocks because of your physical superiority picked up fooling around with a joystick? Please don’t make up nonsense for me so easily. I’m older and have been around the block far too many times.
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Just like you haven’t made up any nonsense? Where are ANY of your sources?
“When video gaming first became popular, experts warned of the likelihood of increased amounts of obesity, apathy, suicide, school violence, Satanism, masturbation, homosexuality and unemployment”
“Video gaming is an addiction scientifically proven to be just as dangerous as crack cocaine and it’s making our kids immoral and angry in the process”
“Adults who were video gamers in high school are far less likely to become investment bankers, real estate salesmen, doctors, lawyers and sports coaches.”
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8:21 am
Welcome to the internet, my young friend. In case you’re unfamiliar with it, there are these things called links. I have provided several with my article. Just click on them! Please do this before posting your wrong-headed silliness.
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Okay, let me first of starting by saying.. I dont belive in god, heaven or hell or ANY other religion.. i am an Atheist and if you find that wrong.. so be it.
Second. YES World of warcraft have gotten the official ”title” of being the most addictive game in the WORLD..Even got a place in Guinies worlds records.. However, this dont mean that EVERY player in the WORLD that plays world of warcraft is addicted to it..
Looking at the replies you gave us.. You hate Gays/lesbians.. Though alot of people think of being Gay as an insult, i dont.
People have a tend to look down on things they dont see as normal, in this case. You dont see video gaming as normal. You think playing too many video games will make you stupid and fail in life.
I dont say i can proove you wrong. What i do say though is. We live in a world were, like it or not, technology is becomming part of the day. Today we declare war, and ”Do” war with weapons and other ”close up” stuff.. Seeing the way technology evolves.. i belive that in maybe about 100 years from now, we will start the first ”Internet” war. Meaning that we wont use guns and other stuff.
About the ”People are getting stupid from video games” part again.
I live in denmark.. In my class we got 22 students, 9 of which plays world of warcraft (Indluding me). ”Strangely” enough its those 9 students who are ALWAYS getting top rating when it comes to english essays.
Also, its those 9 people who are ALWAYS getting top rating when it comes to Medie/IT..
People who play video games WILL become VERY handy with computers and such.
And seeing the world we live in at the moment. In only a few years, you couldent care less about being in top shape when applying for a job.. You NEED to be handy with computers.
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On a side note I started to Learn english when I was around 6-7 YO doing that and playing video game ( and I’m born french in Canada)
Oh and By the way the people who actually fail at school are the Jock in almost everything
Oh and for the military there is a Lot of soldier who play video game not just WoW but FFXI as well ( I had a party with 3 US soldier, 2 japanese and me
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4:49 pm
Yeah, that’s because you’re too drunk to find the house!
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That’s cute. I’m writing that one down, Charlie!
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haha you know what guys im a jock and a gamer and guess what JaniceFun<—gay you need to shut your shit mouth(yes you ate shit for breakfast) because jocks are fine some are gay shits. You need to understand that your being opionated i hope u can understand that word because you dont seem to understand that this is a troll site.
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9:57 pm
just hope that author of this text don’t have any kids. “you have a secret gamer on your hands. Beware”. wtf is that about??? does he think there’s a devil hiding in pc? and btw computer kids are smart (most of the time:), cuz u need more than hand/leg-eye coordination to use it), not like jock’s, strong and brain-dead. and shame on u Stephenson Billings, Investigative Journalist publishing yuour work on internet, maybe even using pc to write it, shame on you
sorry for bad english, not my native tongue, and what i know, learned it from computer, not from jock
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6:44 am
I’m sorry, you’re wrong. It has been scientifically been proven that if you play video games for so long you turn into the character you’ve been playing. For example, if you are playing GTA you will go out, pick up a hooker, screw her in an alley and then mow her down and steal her money.
You have been warned, go to this website now! http://www.god-helps-gaymers.com
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3:49 pm
Well obviously, the solution is to play Madden 24/7
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8:23 am
I am not a father myself but I do work with many children and have learned a great deal about their struggles with internet and gaming addictions. Try not to be so facetious with your comments, it’s really not productive.
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9:14 pm
Hey Stephenson, you’ve already acknowledged yourself that you have no children of your own and are basically basing any and all arguments you’ve put forth on pointless conjecture, backing up your own arguments with ‘evidence’ that consists of posts written by other bloggers on this very website. That’s the kind of thing you would get an F for writing a grade school essay.
Oh also, a soda bottle collector has absolutely no business deriding someone else for a hobby. That was probably the funniest part of your post.
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10:00 pm
i cant believe that i acctaully read all this. and for once agian i came into the same conclusion, that when christianity is in danger (loosing ppl) they start blame the way the lost them cuz less ppl = less money and less crowd control. so good job blaming the ones who choose a different way of living and dont believe in that bullshit called religion and to make all the religion fanboys happy YES i will burn in hell!!! happy now? good
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10:28 pm
Haha oh wow, this site is really full of it. This site pretty much explains why no one takes Christians seriously anymore, and why the agnostic and atheist population continue to grow. If parents actually follow the advice posted here, you’re the most laughable parents in the country. Disregard this comment though, as most here probably will. So very close minded and intolerant…
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10:31 pm
Articles like these are the reason fundamentalist fanatics shouldn’t be allowed in the internet, they keep breaking the boundaries of stupidity.
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10:55 pm
tottaly agree with u m8
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11:00 am
I got one thing to say and one thing only…
Those who agree with the OP if this post will all burn in hell.
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10:59 pm
10/10
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11:47 pm
You know, someone else had a very similar view on topics like this. He knew He had the answers, and could show people the Way. He promised that if you followed Him, the world would be a better place.
I’m talking of course, about Adolf Hitler (What, you thought I meant Jesus Christ??? lol)
Hitler preached just this kind of intolerance and hatred that you are streaming on this website right now. Kind of makes you feel a little sick inside doesn’t it? No, it probably doesn’t, since your ego has inflated to the point of being the only actual thing you have left. I pity you. Christianity is supposed to teach tolerance, and peace.
You are a very perverse individual, I hope you change someday.
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8:27 am
As many of my friends here can attest, I find Nazism and Adolph Hitler incredibly awful. It’s also personally offensive to me that you accuse me of having these types of sympathies. The Nazis were very cruel to Christians and Adolph was never one himself (he persecuted priests, married out of a church, invaded Christian countries like Poland and France, etc. etc.). So save you rhetoric for the Daily Kos.
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10:04 pm
Oh dear, poor Mr. Billings feels bullied. What’s the problem Mr. Jock? Why don’t you just shove all of us into lockers like that poor kid at the end of your article? You’re clearly a strong member of the jock master race, so I think you should have no problem.
Sarcasm aside, this article is disgusting. Would you really compare the actions of modern jocks with the Christian ideal? If there is a parallel there, I think I’ll have to rethink my faith.
Video games are one of, if not the most popular forms of entertainment these days. In fact, many social boundaries have been lessened or eliminated due to this common ground where you don’t have to have a chiseled body or play sports to compete. More and more people of every gender, age group, and lifestyle play games because it gives them all an even playing field, not to mention they’re entertaining.
I’d love to see your reaction to how the Wii is being integrated into nursing homes as physical therapy and entertainment. Would you take that away from the elderly and claim you did it for Jesus?
I’m just appalled, honestly.
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12:28 am
Are you serious with this article? You even have a picture of a jock bullying another kid in the article. Guess what???? bullying is now a CRIME in most states which can result in time in Juvi for the most serious cases. Guess who is leading things like our nation’s military…….that’s right video game JOCKS! We have the brain power necessary to do something more then grunt and beat people. I say GO TO HELL CHRISTWIRE!
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12:30 am
“When video gaming first became popular, experts warned of the likelihood of increased amounts of obesity, apathy, suicide, school violence, Satanism, masturbation, homosexuality and unemployment”
Whhyyyy the fuck do you people think that homosexuality is caused by video games? Homosexuality has been around longer than video games.. They are just coming out of the closet now because it is slowly getting more accepting to society.
And no, just because a man isn’t all muscles and firm buns DOES NOT mean he isn’t going to get a girlfriend. You are promoting shallowness based purely on looks, thus also promoting the whole ‘women are property’ bullshit.
You fall in love with who shares similar interests, not those two can bench press 200 pounds. I would stay away from an idiot like that, men with egos are suck assholes. Your kids SURE are going to be successful like that.
Oh, and if you look at a lot of suicide victims.. You don’t see a lot of these kids killing themselves because video games told them so. Pressuring parents, sports, and school is a lot more likely to lead to alcoholism and drug use. More of these ‘perfect jock kids’ that I knew in school used drugs and alcohol than any of my gaming friends. I used those jocks as an example NOT to follow, because greed, being full of ones self and thinking they’re better than everyone else in the school is SO christ like.
You people are seriously fucked up in the minds. Pressuring your kids to be chiseled into what YOU want them to be is really going to work, your brainwashing is pathetic.
FAIL MORE PLEASE!
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1:16 am
NOT TRUE! Homosexuality started at THE SAME TIME as video games. TRY TO PROVE ME WRONG! Homo inhibitor!
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Get off your high horse. Go look up some history.
How about Saddam and Gamorrah?
Or the Romans? Check out some of those emperors.
Homosexuality has been around for a LONG time.
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5:47 am
Hey, hey, how do you know his horse is high? you must be one of those internet stalkers PEDO!!! And also his reply was a fact written by the mighty Linken DONT ARGUE WITH THE FACTS OR YOU ARE ARE A FAGGOT, and i need someone to go up and down with me in the elevator. i’m also a slow learner
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6:54 am
…what?
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K, I’ll prove you wrong. ^^
“Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. The aim is to defeat an opponent—either computer-controlled or a second player—by earning a higher score. The game was originally manufactured by Atari Incorporated (Atari), who released it in 1972.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
“The first known appearance of homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny, published anonymously,[12] arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law.[13][14] In 1879, Gustav Jager used Kertbeny’s terms in his book, Discovery of the Soul (1880).”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality
FAIL MORE PLEASE!
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2:07 am
MOAR!
“Hitler popularized the ideology that Germans were the master race of Earth and that everyone else was inferior. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for Germany’s problems, and believed that they and any deemed as a life unworthy of living was no use beyond working in a labor camp. He basically targeted anyone who wasn’t German, many of which did not have blonde hair and blue eyes. Some groups besides Jews that he targeted were the homosexuals, the blacks, socialists/communists, anyone who opposed the Nazi ideology, etc.”
So, according to you, Hitlers nazi’s must have busted down the door of homosexual jews playing Super Smash Brothers back in the 1940′s and 1950′s?
And here’s some more Christian hate in history, sounds a bit like our little Hitler, don’t it?
“In the year 342, the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans declared the death penalty for a male who aped the role of a bride.[7] In the year 390, the Christian emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and Arcadius denounced males “acting the part of a woman”, condemning those who were guilty of such acts to be publicly burned. [8] The Christian emperor Justinian (527-565) made those who would now be called “homosexuals” a scape goat for problems such as “famines, earthquakes, and pestilences.”
Year 342 AD! Wow! I wonder what kind of video games they had then!
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3:13 am
Why should i defend myself against inaccurate and inane quotes you’ve picked up from wikipedia? I have made no such claims in support of Nazism and in fact I find the suggestion is highly offensive to me. I am a journalist with many, many years under my belt. Why don’t you leave the intelligent studies to me? You’re clearly not capable of handling anything more complex than 10th grade algebra.
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4:10 am
How is this an intelligent study? Sounds like a close minded rant screaming “I’M RIGHT YOU’RE WRONG.”
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Wait what? What does algebra have to do with anything, you ancient retard?
Wikipedia is actually surprisingly accurate, since anything on there that is stated as fact must have its source cited so people can confirm it themselves if they wish.
More than I can say about your articles, though.
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9:51 am
I know there are a lot of young people reading this article and I know you’re not about to give up your game consoles, so may I suggest some really wonderful video games that will keep your moral values intact:
Guitar Praise
Noah’s Ark
Bible Adventures
Left Behind Eternal Forces
There’s also the Christian Centered Gamer website which I highly recommend: http://www.ccgr.org/
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10:00 am
it would be nice if these kids tried other games once in a while. thanks for the links i sure they will try them.
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12:27 am
give it up OP. In cae you cant do tech no lo gy here is what OP means. You know when you wrote that piece of shit and hit post that means you are the OP. Your teh motherfucking poster you piece of shit, give it up.
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9:01 am
I didn’t write that bit about Nazism, so I’m not sure what you’re accusing me of. Please see my previous responses in regard to Hitler’s fascism and why I find it horribly offensive. There is so much joy and promise in Christianity. I just wish you children could welcome His light into your hearts!
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.” –Psalm 23
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10:06 am
I believe they were referring to the aspect of the Nazi movement which favored physical perfection above all other traits. Blonde hair, blue eyes, large, well formed muscles. A jock culture.
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10:35 am
kevin that just dumb just because some boys are better looking and hav nice hair you cant say were nazis. you liberals always throw that nazi term around but you have no idea what it means.
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10:55 am
I found this article very helpful. Thank you.
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11:04 am
New studies from the University of Indiana Medical School show that violent video games like World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto disrupt the functions of the frontal lobe, desensitizing the brain and making habitual players less able to understand the effects of actual violence. The brain changes are most apparent among heavy users.
We also know that under George Bush the military used computer simulations to desensitize soldiers and make them able to kill, overriding their natural human aversion to extreme violence. This same technology is now our fastest growing form of children’s entertainment.
This is not a First Amendment issue! It is child abuse, pure and simple. The marketers of these games, and the parents who buy them, should be held accountable.
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11:26 am
I dont have any evidence but i think its possible that children get violent from games.
I don’t believe children should play violent games but there are self proclaimed experts whos unprofessional careers are devoted to banning video games with any violence, and somethimes i think all videogames. Adults I believe should be able to make the choice whether they want to play them or not.
Its just that when i hear thinks like this i ask do they have an agenda?
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11:45 am
I have no secret “agenda” with this article, except to promote the solid, moral values on which this country was founded. I realize it has upset a lot of you younger folks, but ultimately I think it’s for your parents to decide. They are my targeted audience for this, I want to inform them about the perils of video gaming and give them guidance on how to draw their children away from it.
Many parents just don’t have a clue what their children are up to. Technology is often out of their realm and few have the patience to witness or explore all the levels of a video game that their boy or girl is addicted to. But it is important to understand the broader effects here.
Many people of my generation grew up around a sports culture. Parents today are shocked to see that it’s fading. And it’s fading precisely because of things like the internet and video games. Kids, and I realize this is an old cliche, but kids are just spending too much time indoors.
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12:07 pm
“Many people of my generation grew up around a sports culture.”
NEWS FLASH: Not everybody likes sports.
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1:51 pm
I don’t see how someone posting they are successful and play Warcraft means they are lying. You have no way of knowing or proving them wrong or correct. Just like I have no way of proving or not proving that you are a giant boy toucher(”young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts”). That has to be on one of the most homoerotic things I have ever read. Just saying “sports makes kids fit” would have done just fine. The internet has no accountability, I can say and do what I want with no consequences. But why do you use something you dispise as a outlet for your writings? In the time it took you to write this article and respond to the comments its more time then I spend playing Warcraft. So now who is the one that spends too much time infront of the computer?
Sports are fun and a great hobby. Warcraft is fun and a great hobby as well. Homosexuality and video games are linked together as much as the sky being blue and cannibalism are link. You prove no facts at all. Alexander the Great who conquered most of the known world at the time “kept the company of men” if you get what I’m saying. Alexander was gay, and he has done more in his time then then you will ever do with yours.
You completely warped Columbine. The jocks picked on the two kids so much that there hate and rage blinded them into committing one of worst acts in recent history. I don’t blame video games I blame the jocks for picking on them, the teachers for not stopping it, and the availability of guns. No where do video games come into it.
Janice, I weep for your children. You honestly have no idea what is going on. Please just stop now. “Boys will be boys” and it “toughens them up”, are you honestly serious with that kind of thinking? I have three older brothers and quite often got picked. At no point do I feel tougher or more thick skinned. You fail at parenting completely. Please stop thinking like its 1930, no one watches Leave it to Beaver any more. “you liberals always throw that nazi term around but you have no idea what it means.” I don’t think you know what a Nazi is. Nazi was a term for the German Workers Party. The Nazi, German Workers Party, were a political party set up by Hitler. However, when most people use the term Nazi, they are thinking of a Totalitarian person who forces there ideals on other people. So please don’t blame the “liberals” for something you dont’ understand yourself.
The only thing I will agree on Billings, that there is a connection between playing too much video games and being overweight. However, that is why people need to view it as a hobby and not a way of life. As for “why don’t World of Warcraft Players have Girlfriends” article I find your pie chart most amusing. Because I have an 80 paladin and a girlfriend. So where do I fit in on your chart?
As for your tips. Locking your childern outside? That in 50 out of 50 states is called Child Abuse. Having talks with your kids friends and throwing out “slang”. That is the dumbest thing I have heard. You will be laughed at, and your child will be made fun of to no end for having a creepy parent.
This all being said, I feel like the rest, and this is just one giant troll. I normally don’t like to feel trolls, but here is a nice tasty morsel for you.
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Well pea brain you really are a piece of work saying those things. You dont know anything about me or my life? I happen to have raised three wonderful and great CHRISTIAN boys. Thank you. ANd I am happy they like the sports they do because it has made them strong and show them to compete. Life isnt all fantasy and internet chats. Sometimes you got to deal the real things and people like you are just living with your head in a well. My children are happy and well adjusted and I have been a very good mother to them. You dont know anything. What did your mothe teach you?
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4:14 pm
“Remind them that jocks can tan themselves shirtless anytime!”
Stephenson what the hell does that mean? You want to see more naked jocks? Is that the real reason you wrote this garbage?
You old perv, I would call the police if you ever came to one of my soccer games!
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5:25 pm
Lets all go back to why alot of people, well majority of people trashed this article with disgusting and very harsh remarks. A decent un-biased well written article doesn’t deserve these kind of responses. Unfortunately, Mr. Billings’ article is far from anything described above. If he’s ignorant enough to wrote things like:
“Adults who were video gamers in high school are far less likely to become investment bankers, real estate salesmen, doctors, lawyers and sports coaches. They do not become our pastors or politicians.”
“This sports world teaches our children to decide between right and wrong in realistic situations. They treat their bodies as temples by exploring and mastering their physical powers. They learn to be part of a social group where the glory of the whole is based on the sacrifices of the individual. It is, in essence, incredible training for the Christianity inherent in our beautiful American boys and girls.”
“These poor souls may never have the courage to ask a girl on a date. Homosexuality is often an easy answer for their awkwardness.”
“Professionally, the video gamer may grow up to be your Radio Shack employee, your bug exterminator, your cable repairman or maybe if you’re lucky, your half pleasant IT guy.”
Just STOP, and think about these very offensive, demeaning, biased, non-credible, anti-homosexual, faith based arguments he put in his article. You can only expect these kind of arguments come from self-righteous, religious nut, delusional, hater, old cranky bastard type of individual. Now, immediately, people will jumped on these instead of looking and try to understand author’s good respectable intentions he try to delivers. There is no use defending this article, there are few of you that try to defend this article while there are so many others that got offended by it, and it really shows! You got flamed NOT necessarily because you deserved it, but because there are reasons behind it. Expect more to come, you just offended millions of gamers around the world which many don’t fit your ugly descriptions of “gamers”.
Janice, your personal experience alone can’t be used to justified what he wrote in this article just as others on the other side of the fence that experience quite different can be used against yours. People, just because you can testify by your personal experience, it doesn’t always hold any truth for everyone else.
Reasons, not faith.
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6:31 pm
Atheist, I am a certified Investigative Journalist. I am sorry you don’t like the “angle” of my story, but this is clearly a CHRISTIAN website. We practice conservative traditional morality here. Is that concept so inexplicable to you? What sort of world do you come from that you describe yourself as an atheist? You have absolutely no room in your heart for the light of spirituality? That’s genuinely sad. Jesus is YOUR salvation! People called Jesus “delusional” too, and look at what He accomplished!
And I don’t know why you’re bring up flaming– are you suggesting homosexuality or the fiery depths of hell? Are you acquainted with both? Frankly, I find your comments here condescending and poorly written. You sound like a blogger.
Sure, I’ll admit my writing style has some colorful flair to it. That is essential in getting your point across, particularly when the point is so important, like it is here. I am not biased or inhumane, I just happen to live by my FAITH and love of GOD.
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” –John 15:13
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7:47 pm
“People called Jesus “delusional” too, and look at what He accomplished!”
I find it interesting that you make snide remarks about people’s anecdotes in these comments and that they can not possibly be true (because they would disprove your point), yet you make this statement which is based on your belief of another anecdote.
Were you alive circa the year 0? No, the story of Jesus was told to you as an anecdote, yet you believe that. Faith is a strange beast indeed!
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8:31 pm
Honestly, I find all this ganging up on me terribly unfair. You people should be ashamed of your actions. You have no sense of what is right and wrong. You are bullying me. And that is something you all claim to abhor. Well, I am very upset. I just don’t think you’re the sort of people I want around me. The truth is, your posts here clearly prove my point that gaming corrupts the brain of the young. Please forward this article to your parents. They clearly are not raising you right.
Calling me fat, elderly, homosexual, pedophiliac, stupid, hateful, etc. is just plain childish. I happen to be an established Christian journalist! And I am professionally certified.
Since you people seem to be insanely curious, YES! I did play football in high school. So what? You seem angry that I myself was a jock once. It was a glorious time of my life and it still means a great deal to me. I remember those hard practices and the camaraderie of the locker room.
So, is this your revenge? Teaming up to harass the old jock? You should be ashamed of your selves.
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9:35 pm
Look Stephenson, I’m sorry for teasing you. I was wrong for calling you fat, old, homosexual, a pedophile, and stupid; I feel genuinely bad about it. The only person on Christwire who I could bully without ever feeling remorse is Adam Nelson.
Every single person who posts on this website is a hypocrite, myself included. We all demonize people who we don’t agree with and accuse them of being hateful, only to turn around and call JaniceFun a bitch. For example, I’ll yell at you guys for being intolerant, but then I’ll turn right around and degrade you for reading the bible. Even you, Stephenson, will tell people to stop hating on jocks, but the only reason we’re openly hating on jocks is because you just wrote an article demonizing non-jocks. We’re ALL hypocrites, and the hate train just goes round and round, round and round.
And as for your time as a high school jock, I’m glad that you enjoyed that period of your life. But just because you enjoyed it, doesn’t mean that all teenagers like sports, and doesn’t mean that you can try to force us into sports. Just like the stereotypes that you see in movies, high schools are made up of SO many different groups of kids – the jocks, the artsy kids, the goths, the nerds, the shy kids, the druggies, the ESL kids, the special kids, the rappers, and then the kids who are just sort of…there. In your article, you made it seem like if you’re not a jock, then you’re automatically a lazy game addict who spends every waking moment of his/her life in the basement with the XBox, which simply isn’t true, considering all the groups that I just mentioned.
So you see, tolerance is needed on both sides of the argument. I was wrong for making fun of your weight; making fun of physical appearance is a childish tactic that I have not grown out of yet. I was also wrong for calling you a pedophile, but the truth is, in today’s day and age, grown men have to be careful with the things that they say, especially on the internet.
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12:29 am
It’s great to see you finally have some understanding into your wicked ways, my friend. But it’s sad that you have such malice toward me. I’m just a guy who enjoys reading news every day and this site is one of my favorite stops. I know at times everyone gets a little tense, but I still keep everyone in my heart and thoughts in a good way . I have nothing but Christian love for you, Claire. Can we be friends?
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3:14 am
I just want to let everyone know that I’ve already copyrighted the idea for “Godless Gamers vs. Aging Christian Closet Cases: The Epic Trolldown.” It should be hitting stores in time for the Christmas season!
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8:52 am
I’d play that game to death.
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9:32 am
Everyone is mad because you fail to see any other point of the argument beyond your own. ALL Jocks=Good wholesome Christian boys and ALL gamers= fat lonely failures at life that have to lie on the internet just to make themselves feel better is just false. You make all these statements with nothing to back them up. If you can prove me ONE single piece of evidence showing clear link between Homosexuality and Gaming I will be impressed with your “certified Investigative Journalist” abilities for proving something Biologist can’t figure out.
You bash all people that bring a counter-argument, and then hide behind your Christianity. I am a catholic born and raised. I was taught that Jesus loves one and all. And that during his time on earth, he hung out with the undesirables. He is a champion of the poor, the sick, the people that everyone else shuns. So why is it that all of a sudden Homosexuality is wrong. If you try to prove homosexuality is wrong with the bible please don’t. The bible is not fact, because if it was, then its cool if I own slaves, beat my wife because she wasn’t subservient to me.
You direct attack gamers, and expect them not to respond with anger? What if I say that ALL White people are Ben Afflick and have massive hands. Some guy says “Hey I’m white, but not Ben Afflick”, I have no way of proving or disproving his argument so I just say “Nope, sorry I did research you must be ashamed of your Ben Afflickness and massive hands.” You completely write off what disproves your argument.
I was Captain of my crew Crew team in highool, went to Duquesne Univeristy and graduated. I am currently working on getting my Masters in Education. I’m not just showing off my epeen (thats gamer slang). Now I am on my 3rd year of coaching crew. I did this all while playing video games.
However you will just write me off as a lonely loser who is lying, just because I am living prove that your entire argument is complete and utter crap.
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1:40 pm
“Can we be friends?”
No, we cannot. As I’ve said before, I do not make friends with people who view me as inferior because of my gender. I do not make friends with people who believe that every single cat on earth should be exterminated (step into a vet. clinic and say something like that, and you’ll come out in a body bag, I kid you not). I do not make friends with people who refer to Native Americans as “savages”. I do not make friends with people who demonize and torment homosexuals. I do not make friends with people who accuse me of plagiarism, simply because I’m a female, even though they cannot provide a single piece of evidence to support their claim. Need I go on?
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10:34 am
Good for you. I like people who stand up for what they believe in, who stand up for their morals in a way that does not infringe upon the rights of others.
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11:00 am
Dear Peed, you have your own liberal view of history from the liberal media and I have my own memories of what happen. I was alive and watching tv for the first gulf war and i remember very clearly when the iran hostages and Reagan. Saddam was a very evil guy and all that stuff about CIA giving him money is just progander. He was in power long before we noticed. And so stop trying your conspiracy theory on me, ok? I know your crazy and probably believe that 911 was a inside job, that Hoover shot Kennedy and the moon was fake. Your just stupid.
And deviant you are a little dumb to! the comments when they more than a hundred post upwards and if you want to be at the bottom you got to hit the “reply” button to the very last one to be at the bottom.
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12:24 pm
Liberal Media? Liberal Propaganda? Since when fact considered Liberal Propaganda? Fake moon landing, 911 an inside job, hoover shooting Kennedy? I was alive during the Gulf War too, but does it mean I’m the end all be all expert on it? The United States is the biggest arms supplier. We sold weapons to Osama Bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, we even trained them too. we did this because we didn’t want the spread of communism. We sold weapons to Sadam during the Iran-Iraq war. We did this because we didn’t want the spread of the Iran Islamic Revolution. Because then there would be no way for us to get out oil. These aren’t liberal rantings, propaganda, or conspiracy. Im not even a Liberal, I’ve been a Republican since I was 18.
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6:35 am
Will you crazy nerds stop pestering me about the sources for my story here? Don’t you think I have better things to do? Are you too limp-wristed to click on a link? Because they’re all up there in the story itself you whiney gamers. Ok, to put this all to rest once and for all, here are the very legitimate sources for my journalism:
Video Games and Obesity, Best Evidence Yet
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/60891.html
World Of Warcraft More Addictive Than Crack Cocaine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1157362/World-Of-Warcraft-addictive-crack-cocaine-teenager-suffers-convulsions-24-hour-long-game.html
World of Warcraft and Cosplay With Destroy Your Child
http://christwire.org/2009/03/parent-alert-world-of-warcraft-and-cosplay-will-destroy-your-child/
Gay Characters All Over Video Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_characters_in_video_games
Violent Video Games Produce Violent Behavior
http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/vidgameviolence.htm
Satan and World of Warcraft Cataclysm Release
http://christwire.org/2009/08/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-release/
Brain Damage Caused by Gaming
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article786445.ece
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Caused by Gaming
http://www.time-scout.com/register/index.php?act=tv_adhd
Computer and Video Game Addiction
http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_gameaddiction.shtml
World of Warcraft Boy Goes Insane
http://christwire.org/2009/06/world-of-warcraft-is-evil-boy-goes-insane-after-parents-cancel-account/
Why WOW Players Don’t Have Girfriends
http://christwire.org/2009/09/why-dont-world-of-warcraft-players-have-girlfriends/
Epilepsy Caused by Gaming
http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/8/925
Obseity Caused by Gaming
http://children.webmd.com/news/20040702/video-games-tv-double-childhood-obesity-risk
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8:09 pm
I like how several of the sources for this article was christwire its self. Because a horribly biased website is for more accurate than any other source available on the internet.
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10:53 am
Will you crazy kids stop harassing me about the sources for my article here? Don’t you think I have better things to do? Are you too limp-wristed to click on a link? Because they’re all up there in the story itself you whiney gamers. Ok, to put this all to rest once and for all, here are the very legitimate sources for my journalism:
Video Games and Obesity, Best Evidence Yet
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/60891.html
World Of Warcraft More Addictive Than Crack Cocaine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1157362/World-Of-Warcraft-addictive-crack-cocaine-teenager-suffers-convulsions-24-hour-long-game.html
World of Warcraft and Cosplay With Destroy Your Child
http://christwire.org/2009/03/parent-alert-world-of-warcraft-and-cosplay-will-destroy-your-child/
Gay Characters All Over Video Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_characters_in_video_games
Violent Video Games Produce Violent Behavior
http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/vidgameviolence.htm
Satan and World of Warcraft Cataclysm Release
http://christwire.org/2009/08/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-release/
Brain Damage Caused by Gaming
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article786445.ece
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Caused by Gaming
http://www.time-scout.com/register/index.php?act=tv_adhd
Computer and Video Game Addiction
http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_gameaddiction.shtml
World of Warcraft Boy Goes Insane
http://christwire.org/2009/06/world-of-warcraft-is-evil-boy-goes-insane-after-parents-cancel-account/
Why WOW Players Don’t Have Girfriends
http://christwire.org/2009/09/why-dont-world-of-warcraft-players-have-girlfriends/
Epilepsy Caused by Gaming
http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/8/925
Obseity Caused by Gaming
http://children.webmd.com/news/20040702/video-games-tv-double-childhood-obesity-risk
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8:31 pm
Six of those “sources” are irrelevant.
Four of them lead to your own site (the equivalent of just saying “it’s true because I said so”), one leads to Wikipedia (not moderated) and one that leads to the Daily Mail (it’s the goddamned Mail).
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9:03 pm
My sources are far more reliable and intelligent than you will ever be, my young little friend. Please stop trying to compete when the mature people here are discussing important topics.
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7:39 pm
Important topics like your lack of friends on Facebook? Then excuse the fuck out of me…
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9:56 pm
in that case itshould be easy to explain WHY they are reliable right? care to do that?
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11:36 am
I don’t know what has gotten you teens all lathered up today and frankly I don’t even know why you’re all on a Christian Conservative website that is genuinely intended for ADULTS, but let just say this: Your attempts to discredit me are incredibly immature and biased. You feel threatened by me because I am a former high school football player. That’s just unfortunate. I mean you no harm, I just want to help children out of this dangerous lifestyle. There are many great things about high school sports culture. It’s about time someone stands up for them.
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’ (this is the first commandment with a promise), ‘that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.’” –Ephesians 6:1-4
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12:29 pm
Who the hell cares about your stupid quotes? most of sure isnt, so stop hiding behind them.
Does the church stand above the law? no, and since basic human rights (including minor age) includes freedom of choice then your so called opinion (more like opression i think) is less than nothing.
It should be a direct insult to basic human rights.
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7:10 am
Please reply to my post, a tad above yours. Tell me what gives you the right to judge? And you have been calling people names the entire time while holding tight to the Christian flag. Not very sportsman like in my opinion.
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10:54 am
“I don’t know what has gotten you teens all lathered up today” No where in the English, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic Language is that a phrase. I honestly don’t see how someone who claims to be a wise elder would ever say that. “panties in a bunch”, “pissed in your cereal” or if you wanted to keep it PG “woke up on the wrong side of the bed” Any of the previous statements, are 100% less homoerotic and acceptable in society.
No one is getting back at you for being a jock in high school. Everyone is mad that your trying to pass off a horrible, offensive, STEREOTYPE off as fact. Yes, there are great lessons learned from sports. Honestly you can get most of the lessons that you learn, anywhere else. Throwing a football, baseball, or kicking a soccer ball isn’t going to get you far in life. Unless you become a pro athlete, those skill sets are useless. No employee cares what you did in high school period.
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11:11 am
“I don’t know what has gotten you teens all lathered up today” No where in the English, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic Language is that a phrase.”
What the heck are you trying to say? Is English not your first language? How should I respond to the comments from an avowed imbecile?
And I’m sorry you imagine homoerotic imagery in my articles. You’re clearly projecting your own personal issues onto my journalism. I am in no way interested in the gay lifestyle. And you should be a little more circumspect about your private problems.
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1:06 pm
This site isn’t meant for adults, it’s meant for racist stupid twats. Everyone from all ages is converging on this to try and give you a glimpse in reality
When people gang up on your that’s a really really really obvious sign that everyone thinks your wrong, usually for a very good reason.
English not being someone’s first language is not being an avowed imbecile. Racism, Homophobia, hatred and fear of Gamers, hatred and fear of Foreign people, liking Jock’s, those are all very good sign’s of being an avowed imbecile.
I honestly can’t come up with an adjective that aptly describes how stupid you are.
I thought dead zero IQ (-273) might come close but it’s still not quite there.
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3:58 pm
you completely miss what I’m saying. “I don’t know what has gotten you teens all lathered up today”…..that isn’t a phrase that mean someone is angry for no reason. It means that are soapy and wet.
Lather- A foam formed by soap or detergent agitated in water, as in washing or shaving.
“young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts” “Remind them that jocks can tan themselves shirtless anytime” Most of your references to teen jocks, have them either naked, wet, shirtless, or bulging muscles. Sure we can admire athletes. But do we have to admire the THAT closely.
You talk about sports teaching lessons, and skills. What does being able to throw a football 50 yards with a perfect spiral have anything to do with the following professions :doctor, lawyer, preacher, priest, investment banker, teacher, accountant? I get that sports teach teamwork, motivation, and determination. But honestly most anything can teach those lessons, drama class, school, carpenter or any hobby just to name a few. The horribly offensive STEREOTYPE about gamers that you promote is beyond stupid. More people have died during sports that gaming. More jocks die to do drinking and driving than gamers. Pro Athletes are horrible role models. Ray lewis killed a man, Plexico Buress shot himself, Mike Vick ran a dog fighting ring. Bill Gates the head nerd, gives millions each year to charity. You know nothing about gaming, video gamers, what World of Warcraft is.
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3:43 pm
English is my first language and the phrase you were looking for was “In a lather” not lathered up. I thought you were Certified Journalist? So how did this imbecile figure that out, when you didn’t? How did you get that I am a Homosexual from what I’m saying? You know nothing about me, you ASSUME that I’m projecting. “When you assume, you assume, you make an ASS out of U and Me(get it?)” Meaning when you make blind assumptions you end up looking like an ass.
“Why should i defend myself against inaccurate and inane quotes you’ve picked up from wikipedia?”
You, the amazing journalist you are, used a Wikipedia entry in part of your argument linking homosexuality and video games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_characters_in_video_games is the article you linked.
Beyond the completely failing in this ignorant article. You also fail as a Christian. Didn’t Jesus say “he who is without sin may cast the first stone”
For someone who hold himself as a christian, your casting a lot of stones here.
“You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Matthew 5.38-41
So why insult back, when in the bible it says that if someone insults you, you let it go? See I can throw around bible quotes too. And since my quotes show that you are bad person, and the bible is the word of God. Then you sir, according to God are a bad person.
The holes in your argument are bigger than then ones in Titanic. Please just admit you made blind assumptions, video games are not the Anti-Christ and you have no idea what you are talking about. And I will apologize for calling you a Little Boy Toucher.
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10:18 pm
I find it rather repulsive that you all comment on here what great young bodies you have. Why are you so preoccupied with male beauty? What are you boys trying to prove? And you accuse me of homosexual tendencies! That’s a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?
First off, anyone can say they’re a fantastic athlete on the internet. Clearly, everyone who posts here wishes that was true about themselves. But the fact is, there’s no way to back up your childish claims. Honestly it’s very offputting that you stress how much you weigh and how big your muscles are and what sports you play. Am I really supposed to believe you’re all jocks and gamers and A plus students all in one? Hahahaa. Not so fast. I’m not that easily fooled so crawl back under your rocks and stop trying to overwhelm me with your fake responses. It’s just childish, but not surprising considering how you people over identify yourselves with magical dragon slayers on video screens. You live in rich fantasy lives.
My article made many important points and the fact that it upset so many of you must mean it hit a nerve. I know many parents today are worried about the culture that their children are growing up in. Many of us older people grew and learned and prospered because of the value system we learned playing sports in high school, outdoors with other children and pushed to our limits by our coaches. Frankly, it’s very sad to me personally that you’re all missing out on that.
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9:03 am
“Why are you so preoccupied with male beauty?”
We could ask the same of you, Mr. Billings:
“young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts”
“There is nothing wrong with celebrating the male physique”
“There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the successful bodies of our fellow Christians!”
“A healthy Christian is handsome to me!”
“Honestly it’s very offputting that you stress how much you weigh and how big your muscles are and what sports you play.”
You do realize that you just wrote an entire ARTICLE about teenagers with big muscles playing sports, right?
“Be concerned about the physical shape of our young people. You don’t even need to be a parent to do this. Watch them run and throw and jump. Encourage them to lift weights. With a handsome firm body, you don’t need an afternoon of sweaty wrestling with a soccer ball as an excuse to celebrate the beauty that our Creator endowed us with. Remind them that jocks can tan themselves shirtless anytime! There is just something so wonderfully wholesome about America’s strong and cocky high school jocks. The pale and pimply loners in black t-shirts too afraid to shower in the locker rooms will never be able to compete with that!”
You are the world’s biggest hypocrite.
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9:29 am
Religion is acceptable in sense of teaching base of what is good and evil..
now having Mr Billings argumentation based on religion makes it subjective..
Subjective is ones point of view which in this case sounds pretty gay to me..
Objective gives change to all without condemning anything..
as objective point of view is required to be taken seriously…
Mr Billings you are a FOOL
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10:28 am
“But the fact is, there’s no way to back up your childish claims.”
You realize that there is no way for you to back up any of these following claims that your name is Billings, you were a former jock, you are a christian, or you are a certified investigative journalist. Well, just about anything you said can’t be backed up. Hell this entire article could have been made up. So you claiming everyone to be a liar, the same can be said about you.
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5:03 pm
The amount of drug abuse claims and sexual confusion in your responses truly saddens me. You people are so awfully young. You have no idea what future awaits you. Sitting around in front of your video screens for hours on end stunts your physical and emotional growth and contributes nothing to society. You will grow up with no moral foundation.
The jocks clearly upset you people because you were never able to make it into that high school group. Society exists with structures and hierarchies. These people have competed and won. You are the losers. Your online bullying does not change that.
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7:09 pm
“The jocks clearly upset you people because you were never able to make it into that high school group.”
Not all boys aspire to be jocks in high school, just like how not all girls aspire to be cheerleaders. I have always disliked jocks and cheerleaders alike, the jocks because they’re sweaty, testosterone-saturated hulks who have no respect for women, and who worship a game that teaches that violence is okay in order to get something as insignificant as a ball and that requires an ambulance on-site, and the cheerleaders because they buy into the sexist stereotype that females should be on the sidelines cheering on the males. Jocks and cheerleaders also tend to be rather whorish; the jocks believing that they can get any girl they want simply because they’re “sports heroes”, and the cheerleaders being the type of teenagers who delight in displaying their bodies, whether by wearing skin-tight jeans or skimpy cheerleading outfits, and who smear their faces with makeup.
To summarize: I have no reason to want to be a jock or a cheerleader; I have many reasons to not want to be a jock or cheerleader.
“These people have competed and won. You are the losers. Your online bullying does not change that.”
You can’t be a loser if you weren’t competing to begin with. Jocks have huge egos, and therefore may THINK that everyone wants to be them, but in reality the majority of people don’t give a flying fuck about being a jock. Some people have better things to do, you know, like studying to be nurses, or doctors, or veterinary technicians.
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2:05 pm
Whatever
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4:24 am
It’s sad to think that most of these video games are bought by PARENTS for their children.
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10:39 pm
So, Steve-o, where does that put you? Winner? Or loser?
I think you may be too old to understand this, Steve, but the world is running out of uses for people with sports scholarships. It is turning out that sports is just a past-time. What employers seek these days are people with brains. They want people who think out of the box. People who can re-invent. Hell, if they can fix the photocopier… It is a different world, now Steve. People like you are outdated. Your way of thinking is archaic. Primitive and superstitious. People don’t like that anymore. Nobody respects fear. Especially your trivial fear. You might win in a game of football or wrestling, but you have failed at the game of life.
And you fail at being American. What you desire is a single religious center in a country. America is not about that. America is about religious freedom whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Baptist, or even Pastafarian. The country you want to be in is a tyrannical dictatorship, where you are told what to believe [in], where to worship, what to wear, how to act…. this is not America. This is not your country. You do not belong here. If you feel you DO belong here, then it is not your place to judge whether homosexuality is a sin. What people should and shouldn’t do with their lives. It is their decision. Not yours. That is the American way.
And molesting children is not the American way, Steve-o. No matter what your reasons are or what religion they hail from. The supreme court is pretty clear on that, just so you keep that in the back of your mind when you ‘counsel’ children for your little church group.
The 50s are gone, and no one wants them back.
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5:40 pm
I cant believe that sports are seen as wholesome google sexual assaults and sports and you will find lots of articles for every sports season.
As for chrisitianity how many Ted haggard instances have popped up recently as well as churches whos leaders have been found to be child molestors.
If you want to look for rampant sexuallity it is found in the lockerrooms im afraid.
And having been in the Marines i can say that gaming is used to simulate environments for field exercises as well it is a very popular thing for us to do in our downtime so please get in touch with todays military.
There is balance in all things if you focus in only sports you will lack education and self reasoning abilities and if you only play video games there will be health and social problems.
Please stop viewing the world in black and white as many of the fundamentalists do it does not show true christian morals but bigotry and ignorance in spades.
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6:35 pm
dear Mr. Billings please be quiet and let the adults speak because it seems as if your mental maturity is the same of a brainwashed 5 year old and stop saying it’s weird to be talking about male human bodys because you idolised muscle ripped teens and i suggest that if you want to chill a little bit smoke weed because god made it must be good for you peace my fellow homo sapiens
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7:40 am
What the hell?
Okee dokke i’ll start with this.
I am a national level swimmer, i placed 6th in canadian junior nationals in the 50free last year. I have stopped swimming, and am now a swim coach with our local swim team, and i am also a lifeguard at our local pool. i am 18 years old and have already been around dead people, and have to had to bring a few back myself. I would say so far i have been quite successful in my lifetime, and now i have stopped these things to go and travel the world to see what the world has to ofer, to open my mind a little bit to how it all works, and if this is what i am going to find then i might as well go home. Because you wanna hear a real big shocker coming from a national level athlete/coach and lie guard? i played videogames! The fact that you can be so closed-minded about other culture just amazes me! i would love to hear your views on the the rest of the world. Open your eyes man! there is a world out there to see and apperently you are blind because you assume that these “gamers are wrong” i am going to ask you something, how do you know any gamer is wrong? what exactly makes them wrong, why are they wrong to not go and play sports? because i guess apperently you come from, choice is no-no. well darn i was hoping to have the choice to play video games or sports, or have the choice to go to the gym every other day or have the choice to play video games or not. but i guess i don’t get that in your world do i? Oh well, i am glad in the real world i get the choice to be open minded and do what i want, thank god…well not really because i made those choices not him, he really doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Cheers,
Jason
Ps.Time to grow up bud, because life doesn’t really work like that.
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12:54 am
LOL. shame is for the weak. you brought this upon yourself. don’t go baaaaawwwwwwwwing about it. or should i call the waaaaaaabulance?
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10:27 am
You sir, need to shut the fuck up. I know you don’t care, but can you even imagine how mature you really have to be to be able to admit that you were in the wrong? It is extremeely difficult sometimes. I know from experience. On stephensons part, he may think he is helping us. The thing is is that I for one just don’t want his help. I live my own life and have my own opinions. If you can give me that zone of comfort without infringing on it…then I apologize Stephenson. And Janice and Tyson. But not ABE. I hate Abe.
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11:13 am
Yeah, that was meant for the anon….My computer keeps fucking up.
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11:33 am
Janice, please read a history book before you comment “Your comment is plain stupid. America was very happy when Saddam Huseein was caught. He was terror to his own people, dropping them in acid baths and his sons raping girls. You really think it was so wrong to free Iraq from him? Not to mention the ties with terrorists and nuclear bomsb. I just think you people need to grow up and learn the values of responsibiluty when your adult.”…….who put Sadam in to power during the Iran Iraq war? OH WAIT, America did! Why did we do this you might ask…because Iran Revolution happen, and Iran kicked out the Pro-Western Shaw and the Ayatollah Khomeini took power and cut us off from Oil. So we gave Sadam a country and supplied with weapons to fight Iran. And while we are at it, we gave weapons to Osama Bin Laden during the Afghan War to fight the Communist Russians. We are fighting the same terrorists we gave arms to 30years ago.
My Mother raised me to be a good CATHOLIC boy. She also raised me to be respectful, when people are deserving my respect. Your “I’m a mom, so I know everything” kind of thinking is just plain wrong. I’m glad your kids love sports, I loved Rowing in high school. But don’t go bashing video games when you don’t know anything about them.
Billings, I get we should respect elders, but why would I respect or listen to when you honestly contribute nothing. You claim to be a christian, and investigative journalist just like a video gamer claims to have a girlfriend and a nice job. So why is it that they are lying and you aren’t? So like you, I’ll will blindly assume that you are just some man who stumbled into the internet to rant since parents won’t like kids come to your house. “I remember those hard practices and the camaraderie of the locker room.”…..Hard Practice, OK….Camaraderie, Ok….Camaraderie in the locker room????? There are nothing but naked boys in locker rooms. So why talk about it? Camaraderie outside of school, work, and practice is what I liked best
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5:33 am
“Honestly, I find all this ganging up on me terribly unfair. You people should be ashamed of your actions. You have no sense of what is right and wrong. You are bullying me.”
Hmmm, that’s a little hypocrtical don’t you think? Considering that in your article you are pretty much encouraging bullying on teens that aren’t your ideal lover child. And before you start writing your reply about how wrong I am, just take a look at the picture that you posted with your article, of a jock (complete tosser) pushing a decent teenager into a locker. If this still doesn’t do it for you, take note of the name of that picture: ‘Jocks win’.
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12:33 am
Jesus was a bastard child.
And given the location of his birth, his skin was probably brown or black, unlike the fair skinned lumberjack seen in todays art.
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4:58 pm
I am sorry you don’t like the “angle” of my story, but this is clearly a CHRISTIAN website.
Many don’t like your ‘angle’ of your story, and there are good reasons for it. I’ve already explained this in my previous post.
““Professionally, the video gamer may grow up to be your Radio Shack employee, your bug exterminator, your cable repairman or maybe if you’re lucky, your half pleasant IT guy.”
In what kind of ‘angle’ do you truly believe that statement of yours coming from? Christian? I was a Christian, and in no situtation any decent Christian
will spout that kind of hatred and cruel remark for any purpose. Please do explain if you don’t mind. I truly, honestly want to understand.
“You have absolutely no room in your heart for the light of spirituality? That’s genuinely sad. Jesus is YOUR salvation!”
No I don’t have much room in my heart for spirituality. I’ve spent time praying for guidance and praising this Christian God in my time for nothing.
Absolutely nothing. Prayers were answered 50-50, time were spent praising the god that may or may not exist, may or may not care, may or may not
even acknowledge my own very existence. “God have divine/ultimate plan for you/everyone” “God work in mysterious way” If these kind of answers
are good enough for you, that’s genuinely sad. Did you ever wonder why God answer the same prayer to certain someone but not others? What makes you
think that certain people are so special and others not? You don’t, because “God work in mysterious way”? Did you ever wonder why God waited
for so long to save and intervene his so proclaimed ‘His people’ from Nazi’s concentration camps? Did you ever wonder why God decided to answer
the prayers of this girl in Austria who were raped, abused, jailed by her own father in a cave after 20 years?! Should I go on and on with this? If your answer are
the God’s divine plans and the mysterious way of God, then I’m sorry Stephen. You are delusional.
Jesus is YOUR salvation? Keep telling yourself that. This kind of statement is preaching and doesn’t hold any kind of evidence or truth behind it
but the ones that been told by the bronze age scriptures and indoctrinized to you since you were a child.
I find your comments here condescending and poorly written.
With our fundamental difference in what to believe and what not to believe, I think my comments are bound to offend believers.
I’m not very good at writing things. It’s something that I’m trying to improve upon.
“Sure, I’ll admit my writing style has some colorful flair to it. That is essential in getting your point across, particularly when the point is so important, like it is here.
I am not biased or inhumane, I just happen to live by my FAITH and love of GOD.”
What you call some “colorful flair” have outweigh the point in your article. Have you not learn this by now?
“yet you make this statement which is based on your belief of another anecdote.”
If you would like to call this belief of mine, ok, let’s call it a belief for the sake of this argument. My belief of the non-existence of super natural, omnipotent, timeless being
that govern our day to day life is based of the issuffecient evidence that presented to me to this moment. Btw, that sounds weird, because it’s not a belief system of another anecdote
like you claim. Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence. I only see an extraordinary claims here, based on bronze age scriptures that clearly ‘man’ made as the evidence.
Sorry, if that’s enough to proves the ‘god’ existence for you Stephen, that’s just genuinely sad.
“Faith is a strange beast indeed!”
It is strange for people that’s blinded by faith. It is not so strange for people that use “reasons”. You declare your faith in your god based on what you’ve been taught to believe at some point in your life
You declare your faith by your own personal spiritual experience and you label it ‘God’ and therefore you beleive it’s true. If you were born in India
then you will label the similiar spiritual experience with ‘Krishna’ or other gods you would’ve been taught into. How do you even know that out of all
these religions which one, is the true religion that will take you to heaven? They’re all can’t be true?! It’s just a matter of probibility that most people will go to hell for this multiple choice
given by ‘God’. What a God we have here huh?
Thank you for this exchange, Stephen. As it may seem strange to you, how an atheist like myself can still appreciate other things in life,
we’re all just normal people. It’s just a matter of different time and probability in life that we have choosed a different path in life.
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12:12 pm
“Atheist, I am a certified Investigative Journalist. I am sorry you don’t like the “angle” of my story, but this is clearly a CHRISTIAN website. We practice conservative traditional morality here. Is that concept so inexplicable to you? What sort of world do you come from that you describe yourself as an atheist? You have absolutely no room in your heart for the light of spirituality? That’s genuinely sad. Jesus is YOUR salvation! People called Jesus “delusional” too, and look at what He accomplished!
And I don’t know why you’re bring up flaming– are you suggesting homosexuality or the fiery depths of hell? Are you acquainted with both? Frankly, I find your comments here condescending and poorly written. You sound like a blogger.
Sure, I’ll admit my writing style has some colorful flair to it. That is essential in getting your point across, particularly when the point is so important, like it is here. I am not biased or inhumane, I just happen to live by my FAITH and love of GOD.
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” –John 15:13″
A certified investigative journalist? oh my god!!! you are of course then, completely incapable or writing a bad article and I take back anything I said to insult you, you clearly know so much more than me and I am privileged to be talking to someone with such qualification. God Bless you.
(as someone as thick as you might need a hint that was sarcasm)
I have plenty of room in my heart for the light of spirituality, the only thing that’s missing is the light of spiritually. I strongly advise you read my reply to:
http://christwire.org/2009/05/15-questions-that-will-stump-secular-evolution-teachers/
There has yet to be ANY evidence for god, but when you dig some up maybe I will see the light.
As for what you practice here, it’s traditional racist immorality. That is to say how America has operated 50 years ago. I have never written any form of blog, as for my comments being poorly written, I have some evidence and research in every major post, unlike you, who pull false studies, statistics and experiences out of your arse.
“What the heck are you trying to say? Is English not your first language? How should I respond to the comments from an avowed imbecile?”
(I know that is related to someone else but I might as well answer there as well anyway)
English not being your first language is not the sign of an imbecile. Intolerance is a sign of being an imbecile. Intolerance of people who don’t have English as a first language, or are a difference race, or are a gamer or are gay etc. is the sign of being an avowed imbecile.
Jesus achieved as much as Derren Brown, just Derran Brown admits it’s all tricks and hasn’t, so far, got himself nailed to a cross after he went insane… Let us bask in the enormity of Jesus’s achievments…
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11:45 am
So your no way interested in the gay lifestyle but you’ve written a large in-depth article on it and claim that you can’t lose an argument of gay life styles.
It’s hard to believe you beat 1 million other sperm, your father’s cock must be pathetic.
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3:56 pm
Stephenson, I enjoyed your article. I seem to be the only one! Ha ha ha! My own kids are very attached to the XBox and I regret having purchased it for them last Christmas. They can spend the entire day on it and sometimes they’re not interested in their meals. I think it is a phase, though. I’m hoping they’ll grow out of it. One thing I worry about is the content of these games. I don’t know much about them and sometimes I do Google certain titles to find out more (Amazon is a good resource for quick synopsis of games) but sometimes it can be cryptic. I doubt I could get away with taking video gaming out of my family’s life but your suggestion to gently nudge them towards sports is a solid one.
Take care,
Richard
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FYI is says right on the video game box what age the game is for and what kind of content it has. It’s called an ESRB rating.
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8:27 am
I am not sure why everyone is so worked up over this. Your article was pretty spot on about sports and how kids are just spending too much time on the couch. Also, Guitar Praise is a pretty great Christian vid game for those who are interested. There are some good Christians ones.
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4:16 pm
Wha’?!
America was founded on a jock culture?
History lesson ahoy. With a tad bit of salt and humor just because you’re so horribly wrong I can’t help making fun of you.
America was actually founded on a man’s first correct assumption then incorrect assumption that randomly led to the discovery of a new continent. As soon as he brought the news, hundreds and thousands of people living in utter poverty decided to migrate across the sea because the Christian lords preached about rivers of gold in the area.
Being gullible idiots living in deep poverty, they simply went like $.$ and took a nerve-wrecking, ridiculous and utterly hazardous trip across the Atlantic Sea in boats of wood and then proceeded to wipe out hundreds of civilizations and then almost dissolve themselves again in civil war and chaos.
Thankfully they’ve outgrown that since then and changed – at first into the jock culture and now into a gamer culture. It’s going to change again, I assure you.
Also – jocks are responsible for huge part of the mockery, and they are always portrayed in the media as being big, brainless dudes who like picking on people that are smaller than themselves but with a brain a billion times brighter than their own. Why do you think that is? Why do you think the avarage IQ in America is so low? Because all the stupid jocks made their way in life while mocking the “nerds” so much they lost all self-esteem and never got anywhere. Or worse yet: Killed themselves.
Yes, you guys sure have mighty good reason to be proud of your past. Whoop-de-freakin’-doo.
Also, I’m a gamer and studying in University in Lyngby north of Copenhagen. Absolutely no problems and I raid (that is “mandatory” 12 hours of playing video games a week) plus more if I want to and I do damn fine.
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1:56 pm
Because knocking on my intelligence is really going to make a point here, isn’t it?
“There is so much joy and promise in Christianity.” There is SO much joy in christian radicals that outcast groups of people and focus on the bulging muscles of teenage boys!
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12:36 pm
You left out the fact that Christianity caused at least three crusades in which handfuls of people were massacred… at a time. This means that in each crusade masses of people were killed in the name of Jesus Christ and his “light”.
Also, you (the author) stated that wikipedia isn’t a valid source, yet you used it yourself. Oh, not to mention the other contradictions that I see within your incredibly stupid and outrageous accusations.
Also; posting as another person simply to boast your own cause? Are you really that weak? Can’t you even defend your own argument, or do you (like most religious people before you) use lies and deceit to spread your cause?
People like you are why I left Christianity. Your “values” are so maniacally twisted and naïve that it makes me sick to my stomache.
If being a jock makes me upstanding and moral, then I am proud to be the immoral, furry heathen that I am.
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HAHAHAHA So video games were around the same time as the ancient greeks? WOW! I never knew that!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you for this wonderful laugh at the morning. I think you are just plain retarded.
While gamers actually develop their minds playing games and doing well in school, jocks go around, smoke pot and start working at Burger King.
It is a fact, when you play you develop and expand your mind. After jocks went out of high school, what do they have? A year salary which a gamer who took his studying seriously earned in two months as an engineer or something else.
The fact that you are christian isn’t making your argument better. Actually, people like you are the reason that the atheist and agnocist community is growing.
Screw you, I am not even gonna go further into this, because you just broke every boundary of stupidity. Now go fuck yourself.
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8:30 am
I’m getting very fed up with you angry teens posting such deliberate lies here. There are clearly so many wonderful reasons to participate in team sports. You’re just not up to the task, are you?
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“I’m getting very fed up with you angry teens posting such deliberate lies here. There are clearly so many wonderful reasons to participate in team sports. You’re just not up to the task, are you?”
Mr. Asswipe, let me ask you something. Have you ever been picked on by those testosterone driven meat heads to the point of wanting to kill yourself? Have you ever been so lonely that every night you lay your head down you think it would be easier for you to just not wake back up? The reason we are so angry with you is because of the fact that you are so far up on your high horse that you can’t see where the real problem lies.
Read this artticles, and tell me that the problem lies with us angry teens.
I don’t care that it’s wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Psychopathy_and_depression
Bullies tend to pick on targets they think are weak. J