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StarLover33
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posted August 05, 2003 01:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
Moving up since middle school and into high school, I've learned and noticed one thing from all my friends and aquaintences. When you become a teenager, that's when you lose your individuality and the ability to think for yourself. Quite honestly, I think it's very true.

It's not a bad thing to want to dress the same as your friends. But I think it's bad, when you can't think or act for yourself. The reason most people my age drink and do drugs is becuase their friends made them do it. They're part of a group and that's all that matters. Teenagers, are just little adults, why do you think parents have such a hard time telling them what to do? Quite honestly, they no longer have a right to tell us what to do. Biology speaks for itself. Who else can alter Biology? The Spirit only can. Parents have to learn to let go for good.

Not to sound gender biased, but I've noticed that a lot of boys like to think and act exactly like their friends. For one thing they dress exactly the same and talk exactly the same (atleast in my school). Most boys would be amazing if they weren't the same. I guess you can say it's a defense mechanism, but still, bravery is so important and rarely seen. Especially, the word nobility, something that should be put back into their vocabulary.

Anyway that's not my point, I guess what I'm trying to say, is that we should all stop playing follow the leader. Because whether you like it or not, we're heading into a time, where the future is rather uncertain and it may even be volatile. A time where everything is reaching a breaking point, environment and social. I can't stress enough, we may very well be the ones, who are in the middle of it all. Politically, they're doing a heck of job, don't you think?

I think it's time for us to be aware, that the way things are now, will not stick around for long. We got a lot of years left, but how long do you think the world is going to handle all of this inharmonious technology? Will there be a social breakdown? I don't know, but it's time for us to wake up and smell the coffee. The stuff they teach us in school is not going to help us anymore than getting hit in the eye. We got to find out things for ourselves. Honestly, our time is getting very limited. Maybe it's just a feeling, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

The first thing we can do, is vow to the "Golden Rule" treat others the way you would want to be treated. Nobody is perfect, so it's okay to tease, or to have an outburst of anger, jealousy, or hatered, but you must always apologize and forgive the other person, and yourself. Nor make a habit out of it. Make a goal to stop being critical or judgemental. In the end, I think we'll find out, that we're all made of the same stuff. We all have equal power. But it's the way we think and act for ourselves, that make us different and special no matter what. Come on guys', I don't have to say it, you already know it.

-StarLover

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*~*ikachigo*~*
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posted August 05, 2003 06:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for *~*ikachigo*~*     Edit/Delete Message
I totally agree with you Starlover, you've got some wise words comin outta your head over there! I a starting a new school (in a new country!) in about a week and i was pondering whether or not i should try really hard to make friends and be in the "popular" group. I knew that it would be a waste of time since i know that popular people don't do ANYTHING to deserve it! So, your post made me realize, and it put an end to my wondering, that i will just be myself...and if people don't like it....screw that! Who cares!!! So thanks!

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dorkus_malorkus
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posted August 06, 2003 05:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dorkus_malorkus     Edit/Delete Message
Rock on StarLover I know what you mean. Everyone in my school all seems the same. There was this one Aries dude, he was different then anyone I had known. But I suppose its best not to think about him now. It's so stupid people wanna do something just to be like their friends. Hmm, maybe that's why I don't have any friends. Anyway, we shouldn't try to mask who we are, we should embrace our individuality. Ah I don't know what I'm saying, I'm so hungry

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StarLover33
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posted August 06, 2003 07:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
Hey dorkus,

We have something in common. We both lack lots of friends, but that's okay, we only need one person anyway. We have each other! Right now I'm taking Driver's Ed with all of my peers and the energy in the room turns so low, and filled with uncaring, that after the third day I already dislike being there.

For one thing, our instructor, finds it wise to constantly speak of the DEATH factor. "You'll die if do this, you'll die if you do that. 1 in 4 of you might get into a car accident. Blah blah blah." It's so fearful that I've been imaging a lot white light surrounding my body. I did a Tarot reading on my class, and now I know why, I got the 10 of Swords.

Another reason I posted, was because of this girl in my Driver's Ed class. I guess as a person she seemed very hyperactive and enjoyed talking a lot. Well some would say she has ADD, if it was an actual disorder, and it isn't. But anyway, she was the only girl raising her hand to answer the questions and talking a lot to the teacher.

Well after a while she became rather annoying and was asking silly questions and giving silly answers. Which wasn't her fault. The instructor was turning very insensitive and the others peers soon followed. Everytime she began talking, the others would start to laugh and snicker at her. The instructor wasn't helping much, he just promoted it more. But the girl did not stop. she continued to be defiant throughout the whole class. By the end it was sad, I believe someone said she walked out crying, people were laughing and turning against her.

That was yesterday, and today she didn't even show up for class. The instructor felt obliged to make rude remarks about her, so that everyone could laugh again, and even insinuated that she quit. People spoke out and called her crazy and wished that she wouldn't return for her own good. It was so sad, becuase all she wanted to do was learn and have fun talking in the class, but the instructor shrugged her off, and made her look even worse. It was so sad, but I think she's the real winner no matter what.

-StarLover

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Tuesday
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posted August 07, 2003 11:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tuesday     Edit/Delete Message
That sounds so vicious and cruel SL In my psychology class there was a Sag girl who talked and talked and talked, always raise dher hand, and went on and on, even telling personal stories. It was hard not to roll your eyes even just a little. But a couple of weeks into the semester I switched to the front row because I was having trouble seeing the board from the back, and I ended up sitting next to her. It turned out she had a Gemini moon so we became good friends and talked to each other for the rest of the semester

When it comes to being a teenager and fitting in, I've always felt the urge to swim against the current. I'll just automatically dislike something if I see everyone else into it. Like with clothes: I really don't like trendy stuff and I hate it even more when I see it on everyone. I like walking into a room and being the only one not wearing a ruffly peasant shirt. I like listening to artists that no one else in my age group has heard of or are too young to remember. I even have the urge to be independent in my close group of friends (where the strongest influence/need to be accepted is) When everyone in my group got into Livejournal, I made and kept my own private journal on my website. I just never "felt" the desire to be like everyone else, if I was like everyone else I'd hate it. But I study psychology and sociology alot to try to understand this behavior; I know at our age, people are very insecure and have a fragile sense of identity, so it makes them feel safe to belong and feel accepted, to be a "somebody".

I don't feel like I belong in my age group anyway. I feel like the cranky old man who rolls his eyes and goes "Bah! Teenagers!"

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Zerep
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posted August 07, 2003 02:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Zerep     Edit/Delete Message
Wow, so in americain schools it's just like the americain high school movies ! It's quite different over here, there still is the group thing but it's not the'popular' people & the 'unpopular' people, we're all just "there" really

Some may have more friends than others but I don't see much importance in it. We haven't made our real reliable friends at 15. We make them a few years after that. I was what you could call popular at my last school, I had a big group of friends. Next year I'm off to a new school, how many people am I gonna miss ? not one. They weren't real friends.

I agree strongly with what you say, be yourself & if someone complains tell'em to **** off!!

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dorkus_malorkus
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posted August 07, 2003 06:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dorkus_malorkus     Edit/Delete Message
Hi StarLover That is really messed what they did to that girl. There are a lot of stupid people like that at my school that have to put people down and a lot of the teachers are rude like that too. My Leo friend is a little like that girl. She was the first one I met when I moved her 6 or 7 years ago. She's always there when I need a shoulder to cry on and vise versa. You could say she marches to the beat of her own drummer and she's always very enthusiastic, a true Leo all the way. She's not afraid to be herself like when we have kareoke sometimes out on campus she's not afraid to go up and sing even if everyone'll laugh just coz it's her. She's one of the best friends I've ever had and she's not afraid to be herself. I really respect that about her.

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QueenofSheeba
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posted August 08, 2003 03:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for QueenofSheeba     Edit/Delete Message
I usually think of the little private school where I go as friendlier than most public schools, but all the same we still have problems with ostracism and 'popularity'. I'm not in the cool crowd, and unfortunately I knew all the people who suffered socially in my class last year, but I'm not exactly an outcast either. It's pretty easy for me to do my own thing- everybody encourages it. So they allow you to 'just be yourself' (btw, I hate that phrase ) but you aren't supposed to be irritating, ugly, or uncool.

Like StarLover said, the times ahead are looking turbulent. Our generation is going to be fixing all the crises for the next thirty years. Personally I think that highschool is way to early to judge how a generation is going to turn out, and I think we will pull our act together soon. Who said we where underachievers?

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StarLover33
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posted August 08, 2003 05:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
Haven't seen you around, it's been pretty rough and tough at LindaLand, it's a like a nasty storm which will pass. Hopefully, the light will shine in again.

I guess you and I are agreed. With the way things are going politically and socially we may be the very one's in the middle of it all. Astrologically, we've got Pluto in Scorpio, this means that our generation will see the end and beginning of many things but it gives us a lot of power. Saturn and Uranus are in Sagittarius meaning that we might change laws and religion. Now I just got to figure out, when the Aquarian Age sets in, has it already?

BTW, I'm a avoiding Global Unity for awhile, there's not much I can say there anymore!

-StarLover

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QueenofSheeba
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posted August 10, 2003 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for QueenofSheeba     Edit/Delete Message
The Light at LindaLand always returns. We're just having an extended bad day.

Technically, the Aquarian Age doesn't begin for another century or so. We're still in the Age of Pisces, though we probably are feeling glimmers of Aquarianism already at this point. Could we say that our generation will 'prepare the way' for the Age of Aquarius?

PS- Having Pluto in Scorpio makes me feel special, I don't know why.

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silverbells
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posted August 11, 2003 12:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverbells     Edit/Delete Message
Hi just wanted to say that I have this theory (and maybe and hopefully it is a lot of other people's theory too) about teenagers; that when humans reach puberty, they start to realize their power. Hence the intense concentration on sex (the pelic area being the power region or something like that) and the rebellion. I think that they are feeling their potential power and at the same time they see how brainwashed the adults are and they rebel because deep down suconsciously, they know something that the adults have forgotten. But of course the adults keep telling them that it is a phase and punish them for they're behaviour and all too soon, most of them become brainwashed adults as well and forget the vast stores of power that they felt the promise of when they were entering adulthood.
If adults would only try to guide their children and recognize certain teenage behaviours for what they are (a realization of the feminine or masculine energy/POWER inside).
Since most of the adults aren't doing that it is important for teenagers to realize what they're sexual, romantic, violent, personal etc. urges mean and nurture it and then teenagers would not be wreaking havoc based on their frustration at being surrounded by a bunch of "grown-ups" who really and truly don't understand them and confuse them by telling and showing them that what they think and feel is not as valid as it is.

I hope that post was understood, that might have been the most important post that I have ever made here.

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StarLover33
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posted August 11, 2003 02:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
Teenagers lose their powers becuase when they're penial gland closes up, they're taught to listen to society and what other people tell them to do. Most teenagers are conditioned by their friends and the environment surrounding them. This may lead us into a tough future.

Teenager's wouldn't care about drugs and sex if they're were busy gaining their spirituality. We must always be taught mudane subjects like math and reading, but with that must come trancedental subjects like karma, healing, and meditation. Linda believed this as much as I do.

Infact there is no such thing as teenagers it's a word our brains invented. The ancients knew that when a person reaches 12 or 13, depending on how evolved he is, that means he's become a man no matter what. It means that he's allowed to have sex, get married, raise a family, and also go to war. Jesus was 12 when he began his spiritual mission, and no one knows about his 18 lost years.

Biology is always correct, a teenager is an adult, their is no middle ground, a child is opposite an adult. Although you need to mentally balance both child and adult, which is what the teenager does but fails, because of the corrupted adult.

Drinking would cease to exist, if people woke up to feel the powers inside them. The thing with Jesus was that he never drank or ate meat. But you're not going to here that, because Constantine did a great job eliminating it among other things in the gospels.

Once people learn to become more spiritual, which is what the Aquarian Age promises, then material and corparate greed will cease to exist, what you see now, will not be here tomorrow. Technology will lose a lot of steam and it's definitely not the way. I think you're right Q.O.S, the Aquarian Age will not come until the next century, only because this century is meant to be rough like a woman giving birth.

The Revelations in the bible, are coming true, more then any other prophecy given around this time. Whatever happens in the future I don't think it will have anything to do with nuclear war. More to do with weather conditions and disease, which in a positive light, can be prevented by listening to your heart and the voice within. There will always be warning signs, so it's important that we learn to listen to ourselves, which is the greatest defense of all.

-StarLover

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posted August 12, 2003 12:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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QueenofSheeba
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posted August 12, 2003 06:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for QueenofSheeba     Edit/Delete Message
It's true that adolescence was 'invented'; earlier, you were a child or an adult, and there wasn't much of a middle ground.

But being a teen is quite different from being an adult, or a child- you have an adult's body, but still parts of a childlike mind. Now, being a teen is a very recognized part of growing up. I think that it was always important, but before it was simply under wraps.

I agree with silverbells that teens do have a lot of power and energy. But we waste a lot of it rebelling, which doesn't leave much for more important things.

Maybe the teens weren't necessary centuries ago- it's possible that, since survival was more in doubt in ancient times, people took everything more seriously and so grew up faster. People really do allow themselves a lot of time to mess around now. I know 20 and 30-year-olds who still act exactly like they did in high-school. On the other hand, as lifespans increase, maybe it's only natural that we spend more time growing up.

I get told how serious and 'grown-up' I seem all the time, and I rather don't like it. Childhood is nice. Stay a child as long as possible (Linda always talked about how enlightening children were to her, didn't she?). After all, you do have the rest of your life to be an adult.

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StarLover33
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posted August 12, 2003 08:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
The important thing to be, is an Adult-Child, balance between the two is very important.

The thing I was trying to prove is that some parents still believe they have control over a teenager. But that's simply not true, their influence is over, and so the teenager is just another adult who dislikes being bossed around.

I believe when you become a teenager it's important to disconnect from the home, which is why I like the idea of co-ed boarding schools. I know this is just fantasy, but the idea that J.K Rowling portrays in her books, is what kids and teenagers really want in their lives. Why would something be so popular, if UNconciously we didn't desire it?

Why do teenagers anticipate going to college? Becuase that means they can finally leave the home and become independant. Why not allow them to leave when they're 12 or 13, biologically it is the more appropriate age? If they do, the shock effect of leaving home will wear off, and so you won't have teenagers rebelling during college.

-StarLover

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StarLover33
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posted August 12, 2003 09:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
If I had the financial power, I would create a co-ed boarding school for mostly 12-21 year olds to live. It would teach not only mundane subjects such as reading, writing, math, and history, but mostly meta-physical subjects of all kinds, it would be a perfect balance of the two. I would also have an extensive public library, so that all people of all ages, can study there as much as they want. That's a far-fetched dream of mine, and I just pray that other people will finally catch on to it as well.

-StarLover

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QueenofSheeba
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posted August 16, 2003 05:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for QueenofSheeba     Edit/Delete Message
If that's your dream, go for it!

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StarLover33
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posted August 17, 2003 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarLover33     Edit/Delete Message
Yep, once I become Donald Trump. I'll definitley go for it.

I think him and Oprah are the nicest billionaires around.

-StarLover

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