'It was a cult': Traumatizing troubled teens
'It was a cult': Traumatizing troubled teens
Outside the small town of Mayer, Arizona, 14-year-old Katie Farran and other teenage girls were engaging in a ritual they had done many times before.
This is a fantastic graphic comic depicting the artist's experiences in one of these "troubled teen" camps. Absolutely horrifying.
I think this is one of the extreme examples of revenge instead of rehabilitation. It's a prime breeding ground for control freaks who want to punish those that break the rules, and will stop at nothing to try to accomplish this by dealing out damage via a morality defense. And I think a lot of parents know this, at some level, as revenge for not conforming to their definition of normalcy. "Retribution for being bad." Like mob mentality.
That is horrible!
This is obviously brutish and inhumane, but it also highlights a real problem that we don't have a great solution for: what the fuck do you do about teenagers? They're often just unbearably awful. I know I was.
In the bible you get permission to declare your teenager wayward, take them outside the city gates and stone them to death.
Many Indo-European groups sent them off into the wilderness to harass and steal from distant or enemy towns, or to act as defensive scouts around your territory.
These teenagers sound like their behavior was pretty tame, but hormones are a hell of thing. Teenaged care facilities that aren't just jail or a cult should probably exist.
“In the bible you get permission”
Fuck off.
“to declare your teenager wayward, take them outside the city gates and stone them to death.”
Double fuck off.
Giving birth to someone does not give you the right to murder them.
Giving birth to someone does not give you the right to murder them.
Obviously not.
It just highlights how much of a problem teenagers can be that the only solution canaanites could find was "I guess sometimes killing them is ok?" It's not. Throwing teenagers into the wilderness to pillage and rape is also quite obviously not on, nor is abusing them in a blizzard in Utah.
My point is that for thousands of years, we've been failing to find a reasonable way to deal with the problem of teenagers.
In the bible you get permission to declare your teenager wayward, take them outside the city gates and stone them to death.
I was like, "Really...?" But sure enough:
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them. Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place. And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
... k.
Goddamn I’m just now realizing how obsessed the OT is with obeying mom and dad with no questions asked. Like there is so much shit in there about ‘do whatever I say, honor me, love me, obey me, worship me, or I will fucking kill you with rocks and the entire town will join in’.
Yep! It's bonkers stuff. And it almost certainly represents a widespread cultural practice, since they felt the need to regulate how and when you could do it.
It really highlights for me not just how irrelevant and detrimental the bible is to our world, but how disruptive teenage hormones can be to a society. Thousands of years later and exclusion, abuse and killing are still the tools that the troubled teen industry uses.
Yeah it’s made up bullshit used to control people.
Here’s another:
Leviticus 19:19
You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Cotten blends are a sin 😂
Humanity is so fucking gullible.