The transformation of kids over time

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term —-the generation gap.

In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest—-church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.

In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion….It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.

In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.

In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.

In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

Tatted up! (& Body piercings)

I see that people can do things based on deeper motives. Is it possible for people to just want a tattoo just for the sake of wanting one, in your opinion?

Brady Goodwin answers: I am not anti tattoos. I am pro understanding the motives behind what we do since we are not strictly instinctual beings. Each of us have motives, desires, appetites, itches that we are trying to scratch and if you don’t properly identify the itch, a tattoo will not scratch what you’re after. If we can trace our motive back to wanting affirmation, attention, recognition, significance, identity, meaning or a sense of stability or authority . . . I would suggest that this itch can be better scratched by investing in a deeper relationship with God the Father, who gives us all those things with no regrets.

 --taken from www.urbanremixproject.com