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SoCalCoug · 07-03-2007, 09:35 PM

It's because they're kids. Haven't you ever been to an over-the-top youth testimony meeting? These are kids who are just learning about testimonies and prayer and things like that, and because they're teenagers, everything is sooooooooo dramatic. They haven't had the life experience that helps them to differentiate between the spiritual part of their life and the secular part of their life (or to become jaded, depending on your perspective).

It's all new and dramatic to them, and that comes across in what they say.

I think this enthusiasm is also one of the reasons why we send missionaries out at that age (or maybe one of the reasons why that strategy works).

BigFatMeanie · 07-03-2007, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

It's because they're kids. Haven't you ever been to an over-the-top youth testimony meeting? These are kids who are just learning about testimonies and prayer and things like that, and because they're teenagers, everything is sooooooooo dramatic. They haven't had the life experience that helps them to differentiate between the spiritual part of their life and the secular part of their life (or to become jaded, depending on your perspective).

It's all new and dramatic to them, and that comes across in what they say.

I think this enthusiasm is also one of the reasons why we send missionaries out at that age (or maybe one of the reasons why that strategy works).

I agree with you on this. I just wish TBS would recognize that fact as well and maybe tone it down just a tad.

SoCalCoug · 07-03-2007, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

I agree with you on this. I just wish TBS would recognize that fact as well and maybe tone it down just a tad.

As they mature as writers, perhaps that will happen.

07-03-2007, 09:35 PM	#11
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	It's because they're kids. Haven't you ever been to an over-the-top youth testimony meeting? These are kids who are just learning about testimonies and prayer and things like that, and because they're teenagers, everything is sooooooooo dramatic. They haven't had the life experience that helps them to differentiate between the spiritual part of their life and the secular part of their life (or to become jaded, depending on your perspective). It's all new and dramatic to them, and that comes across in what they say. I think this enthusiasm is also one of the reasons why we send missionaries out at that age (or maybe one of the reasons why that strategy works). __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug