pinkfade,
Man, this isn't normally the kind of thing I'd respond to, and it's been 2.5 years since your post, but for the sake of any other kids like you who might read this, I have to respond.
First off, if you had taken the time to read the previous posts, you'd have seen that Operation Rescue is an ACTUAL ORGANIZATION. A pro-life group (anti-abortion, in case I need to break it down further).
On that note, maybe if you would make an effort to listen more, read more, and learn to figure out for yourself the answer to, "Why do people say what they say or do the things that they do?", you might learn to appreciate your parents a little more. Every word or action (from ANYONE you encounter) is driven by a motive (conscious or subconscious). Figure out the motive and then judge your response. In MOST cases your parents genuinely love you, in spite of what you might believe. With that in mind, the things they tell you to do are generally driven by the belief that it is what is in your best interest. I'm not saying they are always right, dumb people can often have great motives. I'm just saying that maybe you ought to cut them some slack and at least consider the possibility that they know something you don't and think about what it is they are saying, and why they are saying it.
Want to know my motive for telling you this? I've been there, and my hatred for the "system" is probably best described by the Ramallah song "Heart Full of Love". It pisses me off that the vast majority of sheeple are so blind to the injustices, criminal acts, thievery and oppression that the power elite commit in our world every day. Why? Because I've come to understand that I genuinely love the sheeple. Poor, stupid bastards, I can't stand to see them taken advantage of just because they are too stupid to ask "Why?". My love for all people is what makes me hate seeing others make the same mistakes that I have. Calm down, brother. Look at the prisons and the graveyards, the streets and the treatment centers, and you'll find them filled with people who can't let that anger and hatred go (or at least have channeled it poorly). A world of addicts, bangers, and domestic terrorists is NOT the world I want to live in. In fact, these end up being the people that the "system" uses to justify MORE AND MORE strict enforcement of conformity. We need change, but burning down your school just makes YOU look crazy, it doesn't affect the REAL culprits AT ALL. In essence, you are making things worse. You want to make things better? Calm down, it's a long road. Don't go popping off like a bottlerocket, they don't impress anyone.
I'm pretty sure that Bad Religion (or Ramallah, Rob Lind for that matter) never intended to glorify that anger (as you relate to from the burning kid on the "Suffer" album), as much as point out that it is a SYMPTOM OF the state of society (that "society had better learn to recognize" ...as Lind says in a different tune).
The song is definitely about the pro-life organization of the SAME NAME. Oh, and by the way, to punkpirate ...like it or not, this song IS pushing a morality. EVERYONE pushes morality. You saying, "live and let live" IS a judgement against anyone who feels compelled to stop abortion. The general consensus of society pushes it's weighty morality on each and every one of us in different ways every day. We can't all be happy about everything all of the time, and that's just the way it is. Cheer up, "Slumber Will Come Soon".
pinkfade, Man, this isn't normally the kind of thing I'd respond to, and it's been 2.5 years since your post, but for the sake of any other kids like you who might read this, I have to respond.
First off, if you had taken the time to read the previous posts, you'd have seen that Operation Rescue is an ACTUAL ORGANIZATION. A pro-life group (anti-abortion, in case I need to break it down further).
On that note, maybe if you would make an effort to listen more, read more, and learn to figure out for yourself the answer to, "Why do people say what they say or do the things that they do?", you might learn to appreciate your parents a little more. Every word or action (from ANYONE you encounter) is driven by a motive (conscious or subconscious). Figure out the motive and then judge your response. In MOST cases your parents genuinely love you, in spite of what you might believe. With that in mind, the things they tell you to do are generally driven by the belief that it is what is in your best interest. I'm not saying they are always right, dumb people can often have great motives. I'm just saying that maybe you ought to cut them some slack and at least consider the possibility that they know something you don't and think about what it is they are saying, and why they are saying it.
Want to know my motive for telling you this? I've been there, and my hatred for the "system" is probably best described by the Ramallah song "Heart Full of Love". It pisses me off that the vast majority of sheeple are so blind to the injustices, criminal acts, thievery and oppression that the power elite commit in our world every day. Why? Because I've come to understand that I genuinely love the sheeple. Poor, stupid bastards, I can't stand to see them taken advantage of just because they are too stupid to ask "Why?". My love for all people is what makes me hate seeing others make the same mistakes that I have. Calm down, brother. Look at the prisons and the graveyards, the streets and the treatment centers, and you'll find them filled with people who can't let that anger and hatred go (or at least have channeled it poorly). A world of addicts, bangers, and domestic terrorists is NOT the world I want to live in. In fact, these end up being the people that the "system" uses to justify MORE AND MORE strict enforcement of conformity. We need change, but burning down your school just makes YOU look crazy, it doesn't affect the REAL culprits AT ALL. In essence, you are making things worse. You want to make things better? Calm down, it's a long road. Don't go popping off like a bottlerocket, they don't impress anyone.
I'm pretty sure that Bad Religion (or Ramallah, Rob Lind for that matter) never intended to glorify that anger (as you relate to from the burning kid on the "Suffer" album), as much as point out that it is a SYMPTOM OF the state of society (that "society had better learn to recognize" ...as Lind says in a different tune).
The song is definitely about the pro-life organization of the SAME NAME. Oh, and by the way, to punkpirate ...like it or not, this song IS pushing a morality. EVERYONE pushes morality. You saying, "live and let live" IS a judgement against anyone who feels compelled to stop abortion. The general consensus of society pushes it's weighty morality on each and every one of us in different ways every day. We can't all be happy about everything all of the time, and that's just the way it is. Cheer up, "Slumber Will Come Soon".
thought provoking response sentinel, i can relate to your sentiments.
thought provoking response sentinel, i can relate to your sentiments.