Are you a POMO?
[Okay - Jon started it.]
I wonder if you can be a postmodern traditionalist. Or is that an oxymoron? After all, 20 years from now the POMO's of today will BE the traditionalists. Most likely. I mean, that's just how it goes.
Think about it. 20 years before I was a teen "Christians" didn't think it was right for boys and girls to swim in the same pool. Let alone allowing the girls to wear "sinful" bikinis that showed their stomachs! God forbid! But in MY generation that kind of thinking became "traditional" - old school. Outdated. My generation broke those rules.
The way things are progressing, "Christian" girls will be allowed to swim topless 20 years from now. And it will be considered the norm. Progressive even. Some of you may think it's CRAZY to think that, but that's the way things seem to be headed. I mean, think about it. There was actually a time when it was considered wrong for the Christian GUYS to go topless!
[Selah.]
For now, I will continue to be who I am. I will let God show me new things. And I will try not to "box" God in. I think the POMO's out there would want that.
It's the best thing to do.
AND I'll also have to work on that generation gap thing that seems to be widening around me. Man, can THAT get uncomfortable.
I wonder if you can be a postmodern traditionalist. Or is that an oxymoron? After all, 20 years from now the POMO's of today will BE the traditionalists. Most likely. I mean, that's just how it goes.
Think about it. 20 years before I was a teen "Christians" didn't think it was right for boys and girls to swim in the same pool. Let alone allowing the girls to wear "sinful" bikinis that showed their stomachs! God forbid! But in MY generation that kind of thinking became "traditional" - old school. Outdated. My generation broke those rules.
The way things are progressing, "Christian" girls will be allowed to swim topless 20 years from now. And it will be considered the norm. Progressive even. Some of you may think it's CRAZY to think that, but that's the way things seem to be headed. I mean, think about it. There was actually a time when it was considered wrong for the Christian GUYS to go topless!
[Selah.]
For now, I will continue to be who I am. I will let God show me new things. And I will try not to "box" God in. I think the POMO's out there would want that.
It's the best thing to do.
AND I'll also have to work on that generation gap thing that seems to be widening around me. Man, can THAT get uncomfortable.
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6:27 PMI would think the "Best thing" would be to do what you feel is right and to not worry about what any post modernists would think at all. You can drive yourself right up the wall be worrying about what other's think. Trust me on this one. I know. And I got news for you Paul and this could be good or bad. I'm all of 23 and I feel sometimes as if I've been left behind half the time. I'm still tryin to wrap my mind around the fact that advertisments aren't aimed toward me anymore. I'll be watchin TV and see a commercial and go "What kind of nut would buy something like that?" And then I think "Oh yeah, the person that's being targeted, that's who." 23 and feeling old already...Almost time to bust out the Just for Men hair dye I think.
Of course that's just my opinion...I could be wrong
1:48 AM
i'm afraid that's the way the world flows.
i remember reading a mad magazine that i had as a child. one cartoon in there stuck out and has stuck with me. even now, 20 years later. the caption said, "20 years from now, kids are going to have to come up with music that will offend parents who grew up loving the beastie boys." then it showed a picture of an old couple with chains and leather jackets knitting in front of blaring speakers.
of course we know now that it has happened. hip hop! and it will happen again when their children grow.
that's why i am suprised to find out i am considered as "one having postmodern thought". i didn't even know until i read several things. i just thought i was doing what i could to listen to god and not limit him in the avenues and messages he would speak to me.
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