I know that it is, but I want to hear your opinion!
2007-03-02 03:28:15 · 8 answers · asked by wormwoodkid 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well physically, adolescence lets us grow into our adult bodies. Spiritually, I'd say adolescence is the time that God can show his strength within us because that is our most vulnerable time...
2007-03-02 03:34:24 · answer #1 · answered by Haz the Preacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adolescence is the crucial time when a person is learning to individuate. As a child, one learns that the world is not an extension of oneself. In adolescence, one gradually learns that one is not an extension of one's world. Absolutes become conventions. Truths become opinions. Previously unrecognized assumptions are called into question.
It is a difficult time because it is the disorienting process of erasing one's sociological background. Everything you know is wrong! Everyone with "answers" is stupid and opinionated! The world is not as it is made to appear. But what IS the truth? How does one determine a standard to evaluate ideas? It's like a two-year-old discovering the power of "No!", it's very freeing but also isolating.
It's natural for a suspicious, rebellious, questioning teenager to reject the old, unquestioned assumptions, just as it is natural to immediately cast around for a compensating paradigm, a new, better, ethical compass. The problem with most cultural mores is inconsistency. (Adolescents are very keen on consistency and will condemn any sign of hypocritical application.)
There is a temptation to embrace an opposite, a guru or doctrine as antagonistic to the old system as can be found. Alternatively, bonding with other teens, rebelling together, can make a kind of sense. The guru is not examined at first, the common ignorance of one's peers is not considered, only the breakaway matters. It is an opportunity for exploitation, either by the gurus or by the mass media, who carefully provide uniforms for anxious rebels to wear, on their bodies and in their minds.
Eventually, with experience, many people learn to detect the recurring flaws in every humanly contrived ethical system, the disturbing lack of "whys" in the universe, and the consistent principles that will enable them to forge their own personal system of values and standards, regardless of which group they may associate with. (Sadly, some never do.)
Adolescence is a testing ground that reveals the existence of a problem (the world doesn't owe you a life), the dilemma of making choices with insufficient information, and the solution of learning to live in and navigate in a world of uncertainty.
2007-03-02 06:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the time where you come into an awareness of who you are and develop a conscience. I know that I remember the moment it happened for me. All of a sudden I understood the why behind the things my parents told me were wrong. I had a reason to follow rules now that was coming from myself. That is the moment that I began to be my own person and make good decisions for my life. It was time to be responsible for myself instead of just relying on my parents. I still needed them for guidance, but I hit the age of accountablity before God. I knew that it was time to shape up or start paying the consequences.
2007-03-02 03:36:28 · answer #3 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love this Question.
I finally know why all the tradgedy, all the pain, all the violence, all the hatred had to take place.
How a great hatred for the Creator had to be to bring me to this place of having a Pastor that teaches from the original languages.
My fragmented soul has been put back together through great pain, disaster, love, hope, violence, fear..
Free excellent series on child abuse available:
R.B.Thieme, JR., Bible Ministries.com
Berachah.org.
Peace out.
2007-03-02 03:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by Lucy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's such a crucial time in a person's life - so many of the decisions teenagers make will effect the outcome of the rest of their lives...and you have some HUGE decisions to make in this time frame -
You choice of schooling (and future education or career)
Your choice of friends and dating.
Your choice of how you will treat your bodies - what activities you will or won't do, what substances you will or won't take in.
Your choice of personal religious beliefs will start to be seriously questioned - and either solidified, or disregarded.
...I could keep going.
2007-03-02 03:50:48 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a very critical growing stage for PROPPER mind developement
2007-03-02 03:31:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because puberty happens during it.
2007-03-02 03:31:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world has to have someone that KNOWS EVERYTHING.
2007-03-02 03:37:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋