# Childhood is false imprisonment **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924 "2012-03-27T03:45:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/21 "2012-03-27T08:32:58Z")
Report from the Children’s Liberation Front: The little bastards refuse freedom. In fact, Johnny is outside the door right now crying for his oppressor to let him back in. Mommy sure knows how to infuse that Stockholm Syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/22 "2012-03-27T10:52:14Z")
Shut up and get in the car. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/23 "2012-03-27T11:20:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Report from the Children’s Liberation Front: The little bastards refuse freedom. In fact, Johnny is outside the door right now crying for his oppressor to let him back in. Mommy sure knows how to infuse that Stockholm Syndrome. Ha! Now that’s some funny damn shit right there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/24 "2012-03-27T11:28:32Z")
Worse still, the government is depriving them of their second amendment rights. Vive la révolution! Arm the children! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/25 "2012-03-27T12:02:34Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t care what it is, if you’re going through 3 packs of it a day, you’re not going to ever be that much older. He’s not long for this board either. Raving meltdown coming in 5-4-3-2-1… ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/26 "2012-03-27T12:15:02Z")
It’s there to show you the way of God. Even when we are adults and see what you stated in the OP we are usually still spiritually young. We will follow and respect any demon, any spiritual authority figure (such a a pastor, news commentator, head of a terrorist group or a political leader), we will even support them and do their work getting involved in their campaigns. As we mature spiritually we see that they don’t have good intentions and were not worth putting our faith in and start looking within. The reason why God makes it so clear and obvious in our physical world when we are children, is because that’s our state in the spiritual world and we are taken advantage of just as much as physical children are in our world. It realizing it in the small step of a physical child that allows us to see it in the bigger picture. So that false imprisonment is nothing but a lesson taught to us by God, without it many will never realize that they are still imprisoned in other peoples ideals. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/27 "2012-03-27T12:52:45Z")
I kinda liked my parents, the adults and authority figures in my life when I was a kid. In fact, I couldn’t wait to grow up and become one of them. I have been assimilated. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/28 "2012-03-27T13:03:56Z")
> [@Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](#): > > I couldn’t have put it better myself. Nor have you. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/29 "2012-03-27T13:10:09Z")
Sometimes I think that we should stop having kids read J.D. Salinger in high school. One shot of Catcher in the Rye and so many kids lose their imagination trying to turn themselves into Holden. (I thought he was a twit when I read it at 14.) It depresses me to see so many kids think that following his manufactured angst is significant of something or another. There are so many more imaginative ways to experience teenage angst. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/30 "2012-03-27T13:10:33Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Bonk! Bonk! On the head! Bonk! Bonk! Kill the Gr’ups! No more bla bla bla! Or didn’t you get the memo? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/31 "2012-03-27T13:14:05Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s there to show you the way of God. Even when we are adults and see what you stated in the OP we are usually still spiritually young. We will follow and respect any demon, any spiritual authority figure (such a a pastor, news commentator, head of a terrorist group or a political leader), we will even support them and do their work getting involved in their campaigns. > > As we mature spiritually we see that they don’t have good intentions and were not worth putting our faith in and start looking within. > > The reason why God makes it so clear and obvious in our physical world when we are children, is because that’s our state in the spiritual world and we are taken advantage of just as much as physical children are in our world. It realizing it in the small step of a physical child that allows us to see it in the bigger picture. > > So that false imprisonment is nothing but a lesson taught to us by God, without it many will never realize that they are still imprisoned in other peoples ideals. You are a giant dork. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/32 "2012-03-27T13:28:12Z")
Hell, I \*still \*resent all the adults in my life ordering me around and telling me what to do, and I’m in my _fifties_. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/33 "2012-03-27T13:34:58Z")
Dude, it’s OK to participate in threads that _you didn’t start_. Get your feet wet before jumping in head-first and people will tend to take you more seriously around here. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/34 "2012-03-27T13:56:01Z")
I, for one, welcome our new parental overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/35 "2012-03-27T13:56:04Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Dude, it’s OK to participate in threads that _you didn’t start_. Get your feet wet before jumping in head-first and people will tend to take you more seriously around here. I don’t think I’ve ever started a thread here. But then I’m not here to _ask_ questions. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/36 "2012-03-27T13:56:33Z")
I love that moment when you read a thread title and are immediately hit by a vision of perfect psychic clarity: “This person has a join date of _this month_!” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/37 "2012-03-27T13:59:46Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s there to show you the way of God…snip… > So that false imprisonment is nothing but a lesson taught to us by God, without it many will never realize that they are still imprisoned in other peoples ideals. Wait… this was serious? I thought it was a too-far-over-the-top-to-be-funny parody. As an ex-youth pastor, I’d like to point out that if we find any parents who believe this, we mock them ceaselessly. To their faces. Granted, there were some genuine insights in there, but buried by sanctimonious twaddle. I’m just glad you didn’t post “that false imprisonment is nothing but a lesson taught to us by God” in the [Faith-Based Molestation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=645763) thread. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/38 "2012-03-27T14:17:09Z")
No, he’s serious. Pretty much all his posts are like that. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/39 "2012-03-27T14:19:56Z")
Isn’t he great 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924/40 "2012-03-27T14:30:36Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > How many of these stupid fucking threads are you going to start? This is at least the third one I’ve seen, all full of " WAAAA! Poor little emo loser me" drivel. > > Get over it already. It’s worse than that-between 7:05 pm and 11:16 pm(PST) he started _13_ threads. Poster child for Attention Deficit Dis…Look! A puppy!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-is-false-imprisonment/616924.md?page=3)