“I’m afraid” and I need your help.  You can’t let this just roll by as another topic you ignore, if you agree, say so and ask friends to join. United we stand, divided we fall. What would your heavenly Father say about the media you watch?

Mat 6:23 “But if your eye is evil, all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

What would he say if he saw the shooter games kids play, that your money buys?

“I am a sniper and always hit the mark, a paid assassin working after dark… Don't you know that killing is my business...  and business is good
You better believe it.”

Megadeth

How many deadly shooting rampages does it take before all of us WAKE UP and realize that we are paying for the bullets? Not directly but by buying into the medium that creates, promotes and glorifies FEAR, Music that glorifies death and video games that teach people to rampage our money goes to create more of the things we don’t want.

2010, Occultist believe this is the, “Dawn of the New World Order”.

2012, is the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012 with a celestial pagan sign of the “grand cross alignment” to occur on this date.  A recently heavily advertised movie, “2012” is based on supposed “prophecies” of major catastrophes occurring on this date.   

From “The Stand” to “The Day after Tomorrow” the world has filled itself with tales of destruction, death and end of the world scenarios that catapult ordinary people to being respected leaders that in some way saves a remnant of humanity.  Death of billions, destruction of civilization, serial killers.. entertainment how do these things get stringed together and include participation of believers of the scriptures?

Pro 8:36 “But he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me LOVE DEATH!”

 A tragic situation has arisen where the vast majority of people do not recognize their own divinity and by extension, their own greatness that they already possess. Isn’t it “entertaining” to see a movie that makes the death of a billion people a sideline story as we focus on the selfish self preservation of the “hero” with the logic of “Who cares as long as I survive” as the theme.

From Harp weapons and  biological weapons to mind control, a lot of people are dreaming up ways to kill off humanity or enslave them.  Killers are cropping up on a daily bases looking to take as many people with them as possible and societies answer by making more horrific mind viruses promoting FEAR from the daily newsroom to your living room.

Jas 3:9 With it we bless our Elohim and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of Elohim.

People call destroying the very image of our creator (other people) entertainment, every time they pay for a horror movie!  Have you ever thought about just how evil and Satanic that is?

Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th.

From the serial killer series, “Friday the 13^th” to “Halloween” occultist sell us stories of destruction with days and dates to instill fear. 

Chronophobia - Fear of time.

From “The Omen” being released on 6/6/06, fear of dates and times projecting hysteria inundate western culture or have we forgotten “Y2K” was first promoted in the movie, “Strange Days” and followed up by made for TV movies and then we have, “The day after Tomorrow” released during the Reagan administration promoting Nuclear holocaust.

These fears being projected in the media become part of the world psyche and the worse part about it is that heading the lines into theaters around the world are those very people that are suppose to love and choose life, believers of the scriptures.

Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.

It seems hard to imagine that this is an actual phobia but it is… maybe by extension it arises from fear of being judged, I don’t know and it’s sad because church is the one place people should never be afraid.

Ecophobia - Fear of home.

Some homeless people actually suffer from this phobia because of tragic loss in their lives and they feel, if they don’t have a home, they can’t lose one and by extension this also extends to relationships… You can’t have your heart broken if you don’t love anybody.

Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions.

Some people have become so afraid of the world outside that they fear even leaving their own home because they are unable to control events around them. What about the little lady down the street? Instead of filling her television with messages that tell her it’s safe, we sensationalize murder and the evening news confirms it. What kind of future are you buying for your children watching “Saw 5” or “Hostel 3”?

Deu 30:19 “I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed.

Have you ever not walked down a dark alley at night time?  You shouldn’t think you are immune to irrational fear.  Ever gone out of your way to avoid certain areas of the city?

The underlying theme in all these phobias is FEAR and we continue to pay for it.  What you might see as “harmless entertainment”, might be the very thing that pushes somebody else over the edge.  From Arachnophobia [Fear of spiders] to Xenophobia [Fear of foreigners] shows seek to push every boundary of the imagination that permanently scars a part of human consciousness.  The mind becomes a burial ground of our own self fulfilling prophecies by the mediums we pay for and we call its art.

“Since mankind's dawn a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives, responsibility that we should have accepted ourselves.  By doing so, they took our power.  By doing nothing, we gave it away.”

V for Vendetta

The ironic thing is that if YOU wanted to make the world a better place, you wouldn’t have to do a thing.  The only thing we would have to do is NOT go to the church of Satan and pay for movies that promote death and destruction.  If horror movies and “apocalyptic” genres don’t make money and if YOU and I stop contributing towards it, they will disappear.  If they didn’t make a profit, they would stop making it.

Stop buying violent games, satanic music and paying for your own destruction.

Gal 5:13 For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Gal 5:14 For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Prince once said something like this, “Very few of mankind's creations are designed to make you feel good, unless you get pleasure from seeing the human body desecrated by guns, explosions, fights, and any other of these things these so- called "artists" create. In the name of freedom, many have used art as a means to destroy the human mind. As an excuse to continue we hear

"Art reflects society".

How many times has this lie been repeated: "these creations are not real", they say this and yet any one of you can call to mind images and complete scenes of utter horror in graphic detail.  They will carry these so-called "unreal" creations around with them for the rest of their lives. These images are now a part of their being. In the name of RECREATION these people in fact are re-creating themselves in their own images.”

SOCIETY THEN REFLECTS ART.  “

The medium we choose is then internalized and either darkens or lightens the beholder of the eye and incorporates itself into our spirit.  We must exert our will at the gateway to the soul (the eye) and not empower that which would destroys us, the darkness of our own “art”.

 Will anybody join me in saying NO to VIOLENCE in the media?

In the past, people have argued that it should be the television and media executives that reduce violence in programs and movies and this makes no sense at all.  Rather than wait for the fox watching the hen house, we should be individually responsible for what we watch and buy… In other words, “If you don’t like the show, change the channel”.  

The campaign against violence must speak to the individual and illustrate the harmful effects of violence in the media in the modern world.  It’s non-sense to call for regulating industries when people are still desire violent content and are willing to pay for it and encourage it by passively watching free to air.

The only truly responsible action is INDIVIDUAL COMMITMENT to not purchase violent content in any media form and that is what I am asking for from all people, regardless of faith because when confronted with the evidence against media violence, it becomes apparent that we are destroying ourselves with art.

A brief case against media violence:

"Media violence not only increases aggression among viewers, it breeds a callousness toward violence directed at others."

In 1994, Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders said "By portraying violence as the normal means of conflict resolution, the media gives youth the message that violence is socially acceptable and the best way to solve problems. After 10 years of research, we know that a correlation exists between violence on television and aggressive behavior in children."

Research results in two different studies strengthen Elders' statement.

One study shows that "two years after television was introduced to the remote city of Notel, Canada, physical aggression in children in the area increased 160 percent".

 Once televison arrived in South Africa, the homicide rates among whites, which had been in the decline, increased 130 percent in twelve years. (Goodwin, 49) There may have been other factors which contributed to the increase in violence, but, these studies show that television does have an impact on youth behavior.

Dr. Dimitri Christakis of Seattle Children's Hospital Research in a December 8, 2008 interview, says, “Watching violent cartoons increases real life aggression. Decades of research have proven that children imitate what they see on screen – this includes both undesirable and desirable behaviors”

Research shows a strong link between media violence and the way children behave. Exposure to screen violence increases real world aggression. Also, children frequently exposed to violence on television are indifferent towards real life violent experiences. Children become immune to the pain and suffering of others. Children don't have much experience in the real world; that is why it is hard for them to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Consequently, they imitate what they see.

As a member of The Children's Broadcast Institute, Toronto child psychiatrist Dr. Arlette Lefebrve was actively crusading against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (a show which was eventually taken off the air; but not necessarily due to violent content). She found following examples of the impact the show had on younger viewers: "A six-year-old boy wearing a turtle costume stabbed a friend in the arm for not returning a borrowed toy; A three-year-old boy picked up the family cat and swung it around his head like a Turtle hero wielding a weapon. When his mother tried to intervene, the boy said "It's just like Michelangelo".

When an ad is shown on TV, no one expects that it will sell the product to everybody. If the ad influences only 1% of viewers, it is considered to be a great success (Medved, 1995). Suppose violent media make only 1% of the population more aggressive. Should society be concerned about a percentage so small? The answer is a resounding "Yes!" Suppose 10 million people watch a violent TV program. If only 1% of the viewers will become more aggressive afterward, then the violent TV program will make 100,000 people more aggressive! Because so many people are exposed to violent media, the effect on society can be immense even if only a small percentage of viewers are affected by them. It takes only one or two affected students to wreak murderous havoc in a school.

Much of this material is available on several web sites:
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/grossman.htm

From an interview with Jamie Rouse after he killed a teacher and a student at his school in Lynnville, Tenn. In the LA Times, 4/22/00:

"In the 10th grade, that's when I started wearing all black. I wasn't aware of the Gothic look when I was doing it. Part of it was the anti-God attitude. But it [also] reflected how I felt. Dark. I listened to evil music and dark music, and that was part of it too.

"The 10th grade was when I went from heavy metal to death metal." From Alice in Chains, Megadeth and Pantera to Obituary, Deicide and Napalm Death. "I think I bought a Marilyn Manson tape after that. It's evil heavy metal, I guess you'd call it. Straight-out hating God. The one song that I listened to over and over was 'Diary of a Madman' by the Gravediggaz. It was about these people going off and killing these other people."

The day before he shot two people, Rouse argued with a girl. As he recalls it:

"I went back to my truck, [and] I was listening to Morbid Angel, the particular song called 'Hatework,' [and] of course, after I listened to my music again, it was back to anger again.

"I just went home. I took my portable Discman in the house and listened to it and went to bed. I mainly listened to one song: Gravediggaz' 'Diary of a Madman.'

"I'd get extremely angry, and in a split second I'd feel like crying, and then I would go back to being extremely angry. I was listening to the music until I went to sleep."

“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.' And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.“

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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written by belovedgift, 23 March, 2010

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