Since it’s clearly what caused this guy to go crazy. [/sarcasm] Seriously, if these had been video games instead of books, we’d be hearing just that argument. There are even people who are claiming he must have been playing violent video games, since they’re the Root Of All Evil‚Ñ¢. I’m actually surprised that there is no evidence of him playing such games: I know I do, and I know that I could throw a brick and be assured of hitting someone who does, too.
Hey, I know! We should just ban reading!
Posted by Miko on April 23rd, 2007 at 6:18 pm · 6 Comments
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1 Jonathan // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I’m with you Miko - I’ve been a gamer since I was 8, and I’ve never had a violent tendency to hurt someone because of it. Actually, to be honest, lifting weights at the gym caused me to feel like punching people out rather than video games. I guess we should ban weight-lifting too.
I really am annoyed by the Christian community around me because they seem to think video games cause this. I’ve looked into this a little and realized it’s mostly the baby boomer generation (my parents) who think this. They don’t trust it because they don’t understand it - like Dungeon’s and Dragons - that was the big one 15 years ago.
Oh well.
I’m working hard to keep all my friends (Christian and otherwise, but especially Christians) and I well stocked with the latest games and game systems and plenty of deep philosophy and bible verses to backup why they are OK to play and are not of the devil :). I’ve now purchased World of Warcraft or WOW gamecards for about 8 different people. Actually, doing that makes me a mean friend - suckering them into $16.25/month contracts to play an addictive game. Strangely, I feel no guilt.
It’s great - at one point, I knew we had up to 6 Warcraft players on our block!
It seems to me that video games are like books or movies - they have the same mythic elements in them that inspire us (of this generation at least).
2 John // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Blogging sometimes makes me feel angry–we should add that to the list, too!
Here are other things that make people feel violent that perhaps we should consider banning:
- Snoring (Jesse James kilt a man for it)
- Car alarms
- George W. Bush
- Plumber butt (wait, that’s disgust, not anger)
- Teenagers
- Internet Trolls
- Leaving the seat up
- Accordions
- Dissenting from Mormonism
Speaking of violence, what servers are you on, Jonathan? Alliance or Horde? WoW is the only game that CatGirl will play with GameBoy and I. As they say, the family that plays together stays together!
3 Jonathan // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:45 pm
LOL! That’s awesome you guys play together! I have my 2 1/2 year-old daughter playing with me on my lap or in the chair next to me. She asks me every day - “Daddy, horsey?!” - meaning she wants me to ride my horse in Warcraft. When we play, then she points to enemy monsters on the screen and says “Daddy, bad guys.” If it’s a taller monster, she says “Daddy, look! Big one!” It’s so cute
My mother would be appalled.
I’m on the following servers as Alliance characters. That would be amazing if we happened to be on the same one as the same faction!
- Bloodscalp
- Terenas
- Vek’ Nilash
- Kul Tiris
4 Miko // Apr 24, 2007 at 8:37 am
I have one word for you people: bloodscalp.
I remember my sister telling me that if I read D&D books or played D&D games (both of which she did, too, but that didn’t occur to me at the time), I would become a satanist.
5 Jonathan // Apr 24, 2007 at 10:12 am
Guess I’m a satanist
I love R.A. Salvatore (read only 15 of his books so far) and I love the latest video game based on the the D&D world and ruleset - Neverwinter Nights 2. Haven’t tried out their latest Warcraft-like online game yet.
6 Miko // Apr 24, 2007 at 11:41 am
I dropped out of it a while back, but always enjoyed the Dragonlance series. The only game console I had as a kid was Intellivision, for which we had one D&D title & my aunt had another. They were my favorite games besides Thin Ice (also my aunt’s).
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