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Comments on: Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Us https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/comment-page-1/#comment-31996 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:16:55 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/#comment-31996 That’s what really bothers me. The kid had problems that were recognized 5 years ago, so why wasn’t he helped? Why wasn’t he referred to counseling?

I have a gut feeling that everyone “prayed for him” and no one did anything. There are Christian counseling services that do involve a lot of prayer, but they also include mental health professionals. I feel certain that there were a number of such programs available, but noting was apparently done and five people are dead.

]]> By: andante https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/comment-page-1/#comment-31995 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:47:14 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/#comment-31995 If this description is correct – “disturbed individual who resented his sheltered upbringing, had problems with his mother, heard voices in his head, felt rejected and abused and yet appeared to be searching for a place to belong” – I can’t say I blame them for getting him out of a program with other young people.

However….

We haven’t heard yet how, if they recognized psychological problems, they helped him.

It would seem to me that’s what real Christians would do.

And it would be “irresponsible to not speculate” (that’s Big Media News’ job) – did it have anything to do with teh gay?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/comment-page-1/#comment-31983 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:32:33 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/#comment-31983 One of the problems with homeschooling is the lack of peer socialization. This individual had no a minimum of outside contact and was rejected from his main social network at 14. In high school there would have been other options, but Murray wouldn’t have had many. I don’t even know that abuse would have been part of it, with the fragile nature of the teenage psyche, but something happened to trigger this antipathy. People don’t just reject their religious roots for no reason.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/comment-page-1/#comment-31980 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:30:24 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/12/why-is-everybody-always-picking-on-us/#comment-31980 You know, I’ve heard of a lot of cases where young people are abused in some programs, and that can certainly contribute to mental and emotional problems and blowback. Not saying that happened here, I have no knowledge of the facts.

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