Tell kids there’s no God, no truth or meaning. Add money.
They’re running into Solomon’s wall, Ecclesiastes 1:2.
They need the living God.
Ecclesiastes is right. They’ve made an idol out of success and themselves and have nothing, and the children are suffering.
Add to that the Deathcult their parents believe in and who wouldn’t commit suicide?
Pray America is waking
Only took three posts - thank you!
Seriously, if you are told there is no God, and there is no purpose, and that entropy is the natural order of things (chaos) - you are going to ask at one point, “Why am I doing all of this?”
Also, Palo Alto is a fish tank. What a lot of those folks need to do is move out to the sticks - visit a farm and live and work there for a while, and find out what a meaningful living looks like.
In Palo Alto, success is an app that helps break up marriages (Tinder). It’s an idea and program you steal from your partners (Facebook). It’s a plan for surveilling the entire planet, and replacing human beings with robots (Google). People in that town aren’t curing cancer.
Precious little in that town is going to improve anyone’s lot. Oh, and kids are luggage there. As soon as a kid realizes this, they start asking whether it might make everyone’s life a little easier if they just die.
We’ve had two suicides here in the last three weeks (Western WA). Religion is one of those vacuums in life that refuse to be ignored. If God doesn’t end up in that part of your life, work, booze, drugs, sex, or fill in the blank will go there - and stay there.
My kids go to a Christian school in San Jose, and the kids there are very messed up.
No one has comitted suicide, but lots are in treatment for it.
Lots of the girls cut themselves. My daughter says it’s very sad to see their scars. Then there are lots of anorexia s. Even the Christian school pushes them with their theme Quest for Excellence.
Personally, I wish it was about the pursuit for God.
I wish we moved out of the Silicon Valley years ago.
However the problems here are elsewhere.
My son’s roommate at Texas A&M attempted suicide a few months ago. (My son saw the whole thing.)
I think kids do not have good coping skills, and I don’t know how you teach that.