Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: esper41@yahoo.co.uk (esper41) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: A Sudden Shock on Sunday Morning Date: 18 Aug 2002 03:29:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <3d4d0e25_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.106.215.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029666562 27289 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2002 10:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 2002 10:29:22 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:1995 "Disaster" wrote in message news:... > "Vaughn L.Porter" wrote: > > Tessai wrote: > > > Personally, I found that scene shocking (only because I didn't expect > > > it). However, you'll come to find out later that there was a reason > > > for all of that madness. Would you stop reading a novel because your 6 > > > year old son saw a picture of a naked woman on the page you were > > > reading (typical in fantasy novels)? I don't think so. You would just > > > explain that it wasn't his time to understand it now, and that he must > > > not trouble himself with trying to understand. Just remember that it's > > > not the rap music that makes the kids do stupid shit, but the fact > > > that parents don't discuss how to deal with life with their kids. The > > > more honest you are about topics, the more confidence your children > > > will have in you, and the less likely they are to do something stupid. > > > > Do you have kids of your own, or just read Dr.Spock for fun? Seriously, > > that's exactly right! Parents need to talk with their kids instead of at > > them. And NGE is proof of that! Think Shinji would be as screwed up as > he is > > if Gendo talked with him? Parenting IS important. > > Rubbish. Kids of the general age group we are talking about here really > have nothing to bring to the table. That's why it's there job to shut up > and do nothing but listen and obey. Wish I had known this from the start. > If I knew then what I know now then my life would have been a lot easier. > I could have closed my trap and stucked up all the knowledge I could. > Unfortunately, I can't take my pittiful 24 years and give it to myself > from the ages of 1 to 23. Adults can be fuckwits too, you know.