Dec 9, 2009
Kids are pretty terrible when you think about it.
An estimated 98 percent of children…are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
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Kids are terrible. ;) I work in a special education classroom, and that’s really the most frustrating part of the kids – they haven’t grown up and grown out of being little 2 year old sociopaths.
The Onion. Some might say Americas finest news source.
Oh! Maybe this can be a useful reflection when thinking about what Paul was saying when he said ‘When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.’
I get to spend my evening with a group of remorseless sociopaths, otherwise known as ‘youth group’
Cheers!
along those lines…
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Sounds like youth group to me!
The Onion has the first point down: total depravity. Only four more to go!
Abraham read The Onion, Abraham reads The Onion!
Some of us might deny having any knowledge of “Americas Finest News Source”.
He only looks at it for the pictures.
…perhaps someone sent him the link?! :)
It’s true, regrettably. Most of us grow out of it though.
ah contraire to this. age offers little assistance.
we just learn how to make our egocentric sociopathy more socially-acceptable
So does Matthew 18:3 imply that we are also to become remorseless sociopaths if we want to enter the kingdom?
If so, can you drop the whole “saying stuff” parts of this blog and just post clips from the Simpsons? That’d be great…
No arguement here. My one year old grandsons are little savages.
Hey, I remember reading that one the other day!
98%? So, what are the other 2%? :)
The other 2% must be taking a nap.
Well played.
I have a neighbor (a professing believer) whose kids can do absolutely no wrong (just ask her, she’ll tell you – it was the other kid’s fault, her son couldn’t possibly have been involved, etc.)
Mine, on the other hand, are first rate terrorists-in-training. The sad reality is that I see myself in their ways far more often than I’m comfortable with. I’m convinced that’s one of the great “blessings” of having kids – I’m more aware of my need for my Savior than I could possibly have been without them.
Lawrence Kolhberg’s theory of moral development basically argues that young children are sociopathic.
http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm