No sweetie that's Evil.

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

I wonder if anyone remembers this song? I'm sure you do. It came out when I was in year 5 at school, my teacher at the time absolutely loved it. She used to play it so much during class that we all kind of got sick of it, then one day it stopped playing, when we inquired we found out that a students mother had complained to the teacher about it. Apparently the mother did not want her daughter listening to a song that "referenced the devil and promoted satan." Huh? Did I miss something? How exactly...?

You may ask where this is going, well a couple of days ago my friend bought Dante's Inferno and took it home to play, his mother who is a devout Catholic, yelled at him took the game then went down to EB and attacked them for selling such an evil game to her "innocent son." Oh he's 17, of course under law one only needs to be 15 to purchase this game in Australia and of course her son is hardly "innocent", so his mum was just laughed off but the point remains that when he was younger he was never allowed to be "exposed to such evils" I myself have similarly uptight parents, though for different reasons and their problem was more with the amount of time I spent and my gaming habit in general.

So I ask of you escapists, is this normal and I just haven't noticed? This kind of behaviour seems common among conservative christians and other such groups - most of them mothers. It seems to me that this goes beyond people being conservatively stupid, but hey what do I know? I've "wasted my life playing games."

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[reg42]

You didn't embed the video properly so...

 

[delta46]

Some pepole are just so shallow that they can't execpt that things have changed, you friends mother sounds like a hardcore chrisitian so theres no point even talking to her

 

[cartzo]

it's an old outdated belief held by old outdated people, but ignorance is common, the best you can do if your parents are similarly uptight is to try and educate them.

 

[Alumit]

My parents are strict and such, but that's because we're a military family.

As Lexodus said, the video's not formatted properly, so I can't see it either mate. :/

 

[S.R.S.]

This is the greatest and best song in the world... Tribute

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

it's an old outdated belief held by old outdated people, but ignorance is common, the best you can do if your parents are similarly uptight is to try and educate them.

Haha after 18 years of me trying you think they are going to change their mind or even listen to me? No I've long accepted the fact that my family is quite disapproving of my hobbies.

 

[cartzo]

it's an old outdated belief held by old outdated people, but ignorance is common, the best you can do if your parents are similarly uptight is to try and educate them.

Haha after 18 years of me trying you think they are going to change their mind or even listen to me? No I've long accepted the fact that my family is quite disapproving of my hobbies.

do they interfere.

 

[hungoverbear]

Last I checked this song was more or less about insulting a demon, not promoting satan. I wonder how the woman would react if your teacher played "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", a song about a man who gambles his soul to the devil but winds up kicking his ass with a fiddle. Thats alot more "satanic" if you ask me.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

So I ask of you escapists, is this normal and I just haven't noticed?

No, that is not normal behaviour in Australia nor should it ever become normal behaviour in Australia.

I don't understand why but over the past... call it 2 decades or there abouts... there has been an attack on the mostly laid back and agnostic attitudes of the general population. Suddenly the religious people started demanding to be taken seriously and the fuckers mobilised to carve themselves out some serious political support.

I'd like to blame the Americans and their freaky evangelicals but I can't. If I can ever construct a logical argument to I certainly will but so far I haven't been able to find one. The sneaky innocent pricks.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

it's an old outdated belief held by old outdated people, but ignorance is common, the best you can do if your parents are similarly uptight is to try and educate them.

Haha after 18 years of me trying you think they are going to change their mind or even listen to me? No I've long accepted the fact that my family is quite disapproving of my hobbies.

do they interfere.

Of course, it's not enough for me to earn my own way, as long as I live at home I must not conduct this brain damaging business -_-. Trust me I've tried and it ain't happening.

 

[DividedUnity]

My family doesnt dissaprove of my gaming. Ive show that playing games has no effect on how I act even though they know that gaming isnt what causes violence anyway. I guess ive enjoyed a teenage life without most boundaries like this but thats because my parents know that I can take care of myself and know when to stop. Its the same with drinking. Most parents dont condone their kids drinking and a result alot of them end up pissed out of their head and throwing up because they are beginning to try it and dont know their limits. Ive been raised with alcohol and as a result I know how to drink responisbly which is more than I can say my friends know.

My familys pretty open about everything and I like it that way. They let me do what I want within reason and trust me to be responsible. I guess ive been pretty lucky in that department even if im not so lucky in others

 

[cartzo]

it's an old outdated belief held by old outdated people, but ignorance is common, the best you can do if your parents are similarly uptight is to try and educate them.

Haha after 18 years of me trying you think they are going to change their mind or even listen to me? No I've long accepted the fact that my family is quite disapproving of my hobbies.

do they interfere.

Of course, it's not enough for me to earn my own way, as long as I live at home I must not conduct this brain damaging business -_-. Trust me I've tried and it ain't happening.

man i wouldnt want to be in your shoes, all i can think to do is get your own flat fast.

 

[XJ-0461]

My parents were pretty similar, though not to any religious aims. My Mum didn't want me to see any strong violence, so there was virtually no chance that I was going to see something like Terminator 2 when I was a kid.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

So I ask of you escapists, is this normal and I just haven't noticed?

No, that is not normal behaviour in Australia nor should it ever become normal behaviour in Australia.

I don't understand why but over the past... call it 2 decades or there abouts... there has been an attack on the mostly laid back and agnostic attitudes of the general population. Suddenly the religious people started demanding to be taken seriously and the fuckers mobilised to carve themselves out some serious political support.

Because suddenly people who take religion SERIOUSLY attend church every Sunday or whatever they have become the minority. 50 years ago if you didn't go to church every Sunday you would have been labeled a heretic or something and kicked out of town. Despite the fact that most people would claim to be christian, ask how many of them actually practice their faith, I can't name you anyone under the age of 40 that takes religion seriously anymore and it's pissing off the ones that do.

 

[Booze Zombie]

EDIT: Yeah, I loves me some TD
Religious people are crazy. Anyone who thinks that there's some invisible bearded man living in the sky, or some red, horned dude under the ground, is just mental in my book.

God damn you, I was gonna say that... only less insultingly so the crazy people would have to work at being insulted.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

EDIT: Yeah, I loves me some TD
Religious people are crazy. Anyone who thinks that there's some invisible bearded man living in the sky, or some red, horned dude under the ground, is just mental in my book.

Personally I thought we were a little old for imaginary friends. Call him Fred and you're crazy, call him God and you're just zealous...

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Any sort of reactionary is an idiot. (One of my history teachers used to use 'reactionary' as the absolute lowest of the low when describing people throughout history)

A reactionary, by the way, is someone who sees anything new, and reacts in the most kneejerkish of ways, usually over the top. The same sort of people who condemned rock music 60 years ago are nowadays comdemning videogames. It's the way of the world for any new technology to be met with fear and revulsion from a specific group of society, usually fundamentalist religious people, though not always.

For more examples, see the various groups in history who have burned books, and the Luddites.

 

[Dana22]

(thank... uh. Anti-God?)

Thank Science !