Probably one of the
areas that has sapped,
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slowly sapped and
leached the spirituality from us
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and our people
faster and more suddenly
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than anything else
is our preoccupation
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with the entertainment industry,
particularly television.
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Are we on the same page
or off the page already?
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Can I hear an amen to that,
if you think that is a problem?
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Amen All right.
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And as I begin
this program today
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we have some
sober things to share.
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Some amazing references
from secular literature,
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from scientific literature
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and from Christian
literature outside of our faith,
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we have no Adventist sources
on this particular program
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which makes it all
that much more powerful
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and means that we need to sit up
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and pay that much
more attention, amen, amen.
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But before I
begin our program today
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I would like to
start with a story,
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one of my favorites,
from the book of Judges.
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And the Lord did an
amazing thing for the Israelite
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people after all their
disappointing behavior,
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He brought them
into the land of Cannon.
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And after a time
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the godly
leaders of those tribes
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they died away and
somehow the vision,
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the message, the
urgency was not passed on
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to the younger generation
and they began to settle
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and they began to meld
and they began to blend.
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As a matter of fact
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the Bible says
in Judges Chapter 2,
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that instead of
driving out the Canaanites
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they actually had
them pay tribute to them
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and just hang around.
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And so often I think
that that is our problem,
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we come out of the
world but not all the way.
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We say, well, I
can control this.
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I want this much of
it, this much was fun.
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So we'll just hang on to this
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and as a result it
weakened God's people,
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it weakened the Israelites.
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We have a sad account in
Judges Chapter 1 it says,
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"Neither did Manasseh drive out
the inhabitants of Bethshean,"
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and it says, they
put them under tribute
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but Ephraim didn't drive out
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the Canaanites
that dwelt in Gezer,
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neither did Zebulon drive
out the inhabitants of Kitron,
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neither did Asher drive
out the inhabitants of Accho,
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neither did Naphtali drive out
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the inhabitants of Bethshemesh.
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What a sad chronicle,
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because what was the one
thing the Lord them to do?
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You know, haven't you
had that with your kids?
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You tell them, I
want you to do this
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one thing while I am in town.
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How can you forget one thing?
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They forget,
they get distracted.
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They get
involved in other things
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and the Lord spoke to
the children of Israel
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about this in Judges Chapter 2,
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He said, in verse 2 He said,
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"You shall make no league with
the inhabitants of this land,
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ye shall throw
down their altars."
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That's pretty serious isn't it?
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You shall throw
down their altars,
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but then He says, like a parent,
like a frustrated parent says,
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but you have
not obeyed my voice,
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why have you done this, why?
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Why didn't you do
what I asked you to do?
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You know I've
given you the power.
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And then He, He
tells us the result,
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He tells them
the result of this,
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of this glitch in
their relationship with him.
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It says in verse 3
"Wherefore I also said, I."
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You know, you didn't do
your part of the bargain,
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he professes this little
speech to the Jews by saying,
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I told you I will never
break my covenant with you.
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He said, I promised you
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what I would do but
you didn't believe me.
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In verse three it
says, "Wherefore I also said,
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I will not drive
them out from before you,
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but they shall be as
thorns in your sides,
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and their Gods shall
be a snare unto you."
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Friends, have the
Gods of this world
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become a snare to us,
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have they become
pricking thorns in our sides
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as we see the spiritual poverty
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that presses in
around us and among us.
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And what was the
result for this dear people
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in Judges Chapter 6 it says,
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"Israel was
greatly impoverished,
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greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites,
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and the children of
Israel cried to the Lord."
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And what did the Lord say?
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Forget it, did He?
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No, He was right
there, wasn't He?
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And that's our hope today,
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but we have to realize our need
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and cry to Him to help
us straighten out our lives.
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Because we're losing a
lot of our young people
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and believe we're
losing them for some reasons
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that we don't need to lose them.
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Today, we're taking a
look at the entertainment trap
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and asking the question,
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are we
entertaining ourselves to death?
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Its statistics tell
the story, among adults,
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now this doesn't
surprise anybody does it?
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Ninety-Nine percent of
American homes have TV,
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99% of American homes have --
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does that surprise anybody?
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Here's the surprising thing,
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more people have televisions
than indoor plumbing.
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We have open sewer lines
right into our living rooms.
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We spend seven hours a day
watching television on average
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that's more than 2555
hours per year or 9 full years
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in front of the television.
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Now you come to
church once a week,
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you got that pastor has one
hour to get into your heart.
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What about
children, 48% of children,
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young children have
televisions in their room.
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They have an average daily
viewing of 4 ½ hours a day.
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Two hours a day changes
brain structure, two hours.
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Subtlety remodels the brain
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whether it's
good or bad television
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and we will talk about that.
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That's 31 hours a
week watching television.
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One quarter of boys
and one fifth of girls
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watch more than six hours a day.
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From tots to
teens we have become
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a television viewing
nation and it is a solo activity
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and it is highly
addictive as we will see,
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40% of two year olds
watch three hours a day?
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This figure now has been
notched up to a 18 month olds.
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That figure applies
to 18 month olds as well.
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Twenty-five percent age three
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and under watch
three hours a day.
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Those who do watch that
much are more than twice
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as likely to watch three hours
and more or more at age six,
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that is 5000 hours of television
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by the time a child
reaches the first grade.
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They witness 25 to 200 violent
acts per television hour,
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that's children's programming,
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200,000 acts of
violence by the age of 16
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and an average of 31
acts of sex, violence,
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and profanity
per programming hour.
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I think one of
the saddest things
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I have ever seen or ever
heard of is the recent murder
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that occurred at the gas station
in Maryland or Washington
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and customers were driving
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around the body
getting gas and leaving,
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it was on videotape.
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It was, there are
none, there are just none.
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Many of our
young people have seen
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one million
commercials by the age of 20,
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one million commercials,
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it is doing more to
shape the soul of our society
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and our people than any other
single factor, commercials.
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Now who do you
suppose said this,
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"television violence is the
single most significant factor
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contributing to
violence in the America."
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Who do you think said that?
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James Dobson, Pat Robertson,
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who do you think, yes?
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You're not gonna guess,
nobody is saying anything.
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Ted Turner, Ted Turner,
he's cashing in on it, isn't he?
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He's cashing in on it.
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Now this is a statement
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by Lieutenant
Colonel David Grossman,
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he wrote a book entitled
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"Stop Teaching
Our Children To Kill."
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He is in the United
States army special forces.
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He is a PhD in psychology
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and before he
became a Christian,
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he was trained in
the science of killology.
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He taught special forces
how to kill with accuracy
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and precision using
conditioned responses.
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It is interesting and I
heard him speak personally.
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I had a chance to talk with
him, he is an amazing person,
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a wonderful Christian man
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and he literally quit his career
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in order to take this
message all over this country
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because of his concern
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for what is
happening to our young people.
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He is an expert
witness at any school shooting.
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The Columbine, he was one
of the first ones on the scene,
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the little boy in Paducah,
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Kentucky that shot all
those people in church.
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He was the one that
was there and he said,
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"these kids have a completely
different pattern of killing
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than criminals of past
ages who conduct crimes,
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who are engaged in
crimes with passion."
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When someone is
involved in a crime of passion,
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you know, I'm
sorry to tell you this.
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I'm sorry to have to
repeat these kinds of things
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but I think we need to
be aware of what video games
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and television are doing to us
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and how
condition responses work.
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But he said that, the
way these kids are killing,
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when someone is
involved in a crime of passion
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they will attack a
person over and over again
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if they're using a gun.
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But these kids you'll notice
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they have one shot per
person head and chest shot
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and they're
laughing, they're smiling.
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And they have
actually become conditioned,
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it's called operate
condition -- conditioning.
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The boy that did
the shooting in --
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at Paducah,
Kentucky, had a 20% better hit
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and kill rate than
a trained FBI agent
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and he had never held a handgun.
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It was all through video
games that he learned to kill
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and they get rewarded.
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When a target comes up,
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and this is what Dr.
Grossman shared with me
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that was so interesting.
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He said in World War II
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they had an 85%
accuracy rate with targets
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but then when the men
would go out in the field
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they had a 15% kill rate.
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He said, because human
beings don't look like targets,
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so what did they do?
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They changed the
shape of the target
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so now it looks like a person
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and what does it do
when you hit it, it falls.
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So now what
you're doing as target
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comes up you hit it, it's down.
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The target comes
up you hit it's down.
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It is no longer in the
higher centers of the brain,
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it becomes a conditioned reflex,
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those things are
good, reflexes are good,
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that's why pilots are trained
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when they have certain
sequence of events occur,
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are they
thinking about what to do?
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No, they have conditioned
to respond without thinking
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and that is the way that
violence is taking a turn today.
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When you and I were little
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and we played Jericho or
War or Ford or whatever it is,
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and we got out of hand,
what did mother come and do?
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And she come out
and give you a whacker,
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make you sweep
or breakup the game.
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Today you get points
and you get rewarded.
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He said, when violence,
when violent television
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and video appear in a
community 15 years later
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the murder rate doubles.
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That's when you
go to the islands
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and they bring in cable
TV and he explained this,
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he said, that these
children at a valuable age
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18, 19, 20 months
old are being genetically
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primed to kill under stress
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because of what
they are witnessing
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and we will discuss
that a little later.
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There are other factors
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contributing to the
deterioration of the society.
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The breakdown of the
home, gangs, domestic violence,
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drugs and alcohol,
abuse of every stripe
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and lack of family values.
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But for many, the
input of television
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is the determining
factor for a ruined life.
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Childhood exposure to television
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violence is implicated
in half of all homicides,
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that's from the
Sergeant General.
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Let's talk about
this for a minute.
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Are we seeing
classics on television
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or we being conditioned?
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This is from
Dr. Grossman's book,
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to make human beings do
something naturally repulsive,
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you make it what?
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Fun, that's how
Japanese soldiers
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were trained in brutality.
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They would these young
tender Japanese soldiers
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would be forced to slaughter
innocent people in live graves
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and then they would
be rewarded with women
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and food and festivity
and they became conditioned
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and a connection
was made in the brain
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linking pleasure and violence.
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To make humans do something
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naturally
repulsive you make it fun,
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this is called
classic conditioning,
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classical conditioning.
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And how often
that's the case with us?
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You know, we're tired
at the end of the day.
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We want to dwell
on someone else's
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problems beside our own,
00:14:41.15\00:14:42.46
so we sit down with
our favorite soda pop
00:14:42.47\00:14:44.80
and binge item and
watch violence on television,
00:14:44.83\00:14:49.94
or treachery or lying
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or stealing or
immorality for entertainment.
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Everyday, children of all ages
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and in all stages of
brain and ego development
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watch vivid
pictures of human suffering
00:15:01.21\00:15:04.48
and death for fun, for fun.
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And come to associate
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horror with their
favorite soft drink or candy.
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The Bible says in Ephesians 4:16
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that there would be a generation
that was passed feeling
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and the very
mechanisms of our brains
00:15:22.74\00:15:25.64
that regulate
executive function,
00:15:25.65\00:15:27.65
monitor fear responses
00:15:27.66\00:15:29.32
and control addiction
pathways are being altered
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by our
interaction with television.
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And as I said in
another meeting 80% of people
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that watch
television are not doing it
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to find a specific
program, they're just doing it
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because of the need
to watch television.
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Is that sound like an addiction?
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Hostility rates
in families go up 50%
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when television is
taken out of the home.
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Once the brain
solidifies the link
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between pleasure and violence
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it is difficult to convince it,
that it isn't normal to do so.
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Endorphins remember,
00:16:03.62\00:16:06.20
you see, when we
see something painful,
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terrifying or bad,
00:16:09.62\00:16:11.64
God has placed with in your body
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morphine like
substances that kill pain.
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It is possible
to become addicted
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to those
morphine like substance.
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We have heard terrible stories
00:16:22.32\00:16:27.05
about the leaders in Baghdad
and what they took pleasure in.
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And, friends, horrible
ways of thinking and viewing
00:16:32.44\00:16:36.93
evil things can
become an addiction.
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It can become an addiction.
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TV talks and trouble,
00:16:44.84\00:16:46.55
now this is from a
scientific literature
00:16:46.56\00:16:49.38
from several different journals,
00:16:49.39\00:16:50.57
they have been
more than 10,000 studies
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done on the effects of
television on the human mind,
00:16:53.83\00:16:56.02
and why aren't we
seeing this on CBS?
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How many reports have you
seen on television about this?
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And less than one half of 1%
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showed no effect
out of 10,000 studies.
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Excessive, excessive viewing.
00:17:13.58\00:17:15.94
Now this mind you
is not bad television,
00:17:15.95\00:17:20.04
this is just
excessive viewing period.
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Is associated with increased
aggression and hostility,
00:17:23.75\00:17:28.78
increased levels
of fear and anxiety,
00:17:28.79\00:17:31.40
more difficulty
with language skills,
00:17:31.41\00:17:34.21
decreased reading
ability or we're gonna,
00:17:34.22\00:17:36.63
we're gonna watch this movie
00:17:36.64\00:17:37.87
because it's gonna make them
wanna read about this subject.
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You know, forget it,
have you seen it happen?
00:17:41.51\00:17:44.53
Have you seen it happen?
00:17:44.54\00:17:47.21
And shortened attention span.
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I would like to
talk for a moment
00:17:49.75\00:17:50.88
about the increased restlessness
and fear and anxiety.
00:17:50.89\00:17:55.39
If you notice, if you
ever laid a baby on the floor,
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you can lay a six
month old baby on the floor
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and put a television
behind them with no volume on
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and you will notice that,
00:18:05.72\00:18:06.85
that baby turns
its head a 180 degrees,
00:18:06.86\00:18:10.62
as only a baby can,
to watch that television.
00:18:10.63\00:18:14.86
Now what is taking
place in that baby?
00:18:14.87\00:18:17.84
It's called an
orientation response
00:18:17.85\00:18:21.28
and as we've talked this
week about our beautiful,
00:18:21.29\00:18:24.05
magnificent brain and
how plastic and changeable
00:18:24.06\00:18:27.20
it is and how responsive
it is to the environment.
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We also understand
that the parts of the brain
00:18:29.89\00:18:32.60
that are the more stimulated
grow the most synapses
00:18:32.61\00:18:35.73
and get the most active.
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Well, there is a
portion of the brain
00:18:37.76\00:18:40.04
that is very active
especially in children
00:18:40.05\00:18:42.52
and it's called the amygdala,
it's your primary fear center,
00:18:42.53\00:18:45.68
in other words, when
you're walking in the woods
00:18:45.69\00:18:47.72
and you step on a stick
00:18:47.73\00:18:49.63
you're immediate
reflex is to what?
00:18:49.64\00:18:52.24
You jump, that's the amygdala,
00:18:52.25\00:18:55.48
it's a primal fear
response and then you look
00:18:55.49\00:18:57.90
and there are
other fear responses,
00:18:57.91\00:18:59.91
there are other organs
in the brain that pick up
00:18:59.92\00:19:02.43
at the higher
cognitive levels and say,
00:19:02.44\00:19:04.02
okay, wait a
minute, that's okay,
00:19:04.03\00:19:05.35
it wasn't a
snake, it's just a twig.
00:19:05.36\00:19:07.94
But the amygdala
00:19:07.95\00:19:09.01
is what
processes novelty and fear.
00:19:09.02\00:19:13.34
And what a baby does
is, anything for you and I
00:19:13.35\00:19:18.42
or any human being
that is new and novel
00:19:18.43\00:19:21.20
is a potential threat
and we have to sort it out.
00:19:21.21\00:19:25.94
But for a baby,
all of that stimulation
00:19:25.95\00:19:28.60
and rapid scene change is novel
00:19:28.61\00:19:31.23
and they orient themselves
toward it to watch it,
00:19:31.24\00:19:33.62
and it processes through
the amygdala part of the brain
00:19:33.63\00:19:36.49
as they begin to, to, to respond
00:19:36.50\00:19:39.46
and understand that this
is not going to kill them.
00:19:39.47\00:19:43.97
And the novelty
begins to become pleasurable,
00:19:43.98\00:19:47.95
but it is over stimulation
of this area of the brain
00:19:47.96\00:19:50.91
and it is associated
with increased levels
00:19:50.92\00:19:53.39
of stress
hormones and lower activity
00:19:53.40\00:19:57.84
in the frontal
areas of the brain,
00:19:57.85\00:20:00.28
because only so much --
only the part of the brain
00:20:00.29\00:20:02.77
that you're
exercising is gonna grow.
00:20:02.78\00:20:05.73
And so these
children become more skittish,
00:20:05.74\00:20:08.01
they become more frightened,
they become more daring,
00:20:08.02\00:20:10.50
they take more risks,
00:20:10.51\00:20:12.01
we'll learn more
about this as we go along.
00:20:12.02\00:20:15.11
It causes higher
levels of restlessness,
00:20:15.15\00:20:16.93
hyperactivity,
and less motivated
00:20:16.94\00:20:19.76
to want to learn, why?
00:20:19.77\00:20:21.78
As we've talked about
the addiction pathways
00:20:21.79\00:20:24.51
in the nucleus accumbens,
the limbic part of the brain,
00:20:24.52\00:20:27.36
that get stimulated and
stimulated and stimulated,
00:20:27.37\00:20:30.01
novelty,
novelty, novelty, novelty.
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Dopamine is produced.
00:20:33.23\00:20:35.65
But remember how we talked about
00:20:35.66\00:20:37.64
when you produce
too much Dopamine,
00:20:37.65\00:20:40.30
the I feel good hormone,
00:20:40.31\00:20:41.75
too much, too much, too much.
00:20:41.76\00:20:44.35
The production of
Dopamine results in antioxidant
00:20:44.36\00:20:47.37
damage and it kills the
cells that produce the Dopamine.
00:20:47.38\00:20:50.78
So now you have less receptors,
you have less Dopamine,
00:20:50.79\00:20:53.53
you have more depression,
you have more cravings,
00:20:53.54\00:20:56.15
you have more of a connection
00:20:56.16\00:20:57.98
with this thing
in an addictive way.
00:20:57.99\00:20:59.88
You need more and
more and more and more
00:20:59.89\00:21:03.30
in order to get
appropriately fixed
00:21:03.31\00:21:06.79
and it doesn't take
very long for that to happen.
00:21:06.80\00:21:09.97
Increased severity
00:21:11.06\00:21:12.26
and frequency of
asthma in children,
00:21:12.27\00:21:14.12
200% higher
incidents of asthma in children
00:21:14.13\00:21:16.85
because it's a stress response,
00:21:16.86\00:21:18.25
more overweight
and we will learn
00:21:18.26\00:21:20.10
why as we go on.
accident proneness,
00:21:20.11\00:21:22.84
because children are more
likely to engage in the risk
00:21:22.85\00:21:25.62
taking behavior
that they see on the set,
00:21:25.63\00:21:27.64
because everything
is solved in 30 minutes,
00:21:27.65\00:21:31.02
I mean, can you imagine real,
a real life television program.
00:21:31.03\00:21:38.62
Come to the Griffin home,
00:21:38.63\00:21:40.73
as we engage in
worship for evening worship,
00:21:40.74\00:21:43.73
and their son Anthony's
arm get stuck in the springs
00:21:43.74\00:21:47.49
because he is playing
with the piece of paper.
00:21:47.50\00:21:49.88
Watch as he is given
bathroom duty as the result.
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Stay tuned because
this attitude isn't resolved
00:21:53.66\00:21:56.60
until next week.
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You see, is that interesting?
00:21:58.40\00:22:00.69
This is life, this is life,
00:22:00.70\00:22:03.41
90% of life is just mundane,
00:22:03.42\00:22:07.85
doing what you don't feel
like doing at any given moment
00:22:07.86\00:22:10.60
but TV takes care of
that for us, doesn't it?
00:22:10.61\00:22:13.34
It puts us in an unreal
world where unreal problems
00:22:13.35\00:22:16.36
are solved in an unreal way
and we have lost our ability
00:22:16.37\00:22:19.46
to work our problems, or
communicate with one another.
00:22:19.47\00:22:23.53
The Bible says,
don't bring an abomination
00:22:23.54\00:22:26.02
into your house, lest you be
doomed to destruction like it.
00:22:26.03\00:22:31.31
You will utterly
detest it, it's a command,
00:22:31.32\00:22:33.94
Jesus, it is said
of Jesus in Hebrews
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.30
"You have loved righteousness
and hated iniquity."
00:22:36.31\00:22:40.21
Friends, are we teaching
our children to hate evil?
00:22:40.22\00:22:46.62
Are we teaching
them to hate evil?
00:22:46.63\00:22:50.36
Have you taught your children
00:22:50.37\00:22:51.60
how to walk from one
end of a mall to another?
00:22:51.61\00:22:54.75
It's an amazingly
frightening place to me.
00:22:54.76\00:22:58.42
First of all, teach
him not to wanna go there.
00:22:58.43\00:23:01.45
Let alone letting him hang up,
00:23:01.46\00:23:02.75
but every once in a
blue moon we have to go.
00:23:02.76\00:23:05.56
And I remember
when my kids were little
00:23:05.57\00:23:07.93
we had to walk
past Victoria Secret,
00:23:07.94\00:23:11.39
we do not have permission
to look at nude bodies.
00:23:11.40\00:23:15.08
So you teach them.
00:23:15.09\00:23:16.56
Children, your
mother is behind you,
00:23:16.57\00:23:19.01
we're walking, straight
past a store that Jesus hates.
00:23:19.02\00:23:25.80
You're gonna keep
your head straight forward
00:23:25.81\00:23:27.38
and mommy is gonna watch
00:23:27.39\00:23:28.82
and it's gonna help
you learn self control
00:23:28.83\00:23:30.47
and you'll be so glad
because your head won't
00:23:30.48\00:23:32.08
be filled with stuff
when we have worship tonight.
00:23:32.09\00:23:34.91
Oh, we've got to teach
them to negotiate this world
00:23:34.92\00:23:39.32
and yet we bring this
filth into our houses.
00:23:39.33\00:23:43.12
The Bible says,
teach them to hate it.
00:23:43.13\00:23:45.77
It's a cursed
thing, I remember one time,
00:23:45.78\00:23:48.57
we were driving down the
highway we lived in Florida.
00:23:48.58\00:23:51.88
My family was in
the wine business,
00:23:51.89\00:23:53.36
I grew up in the wine business.
00:23:53.37\00:23:55.61
The biggest wine producers
in America are my relatives,
00:23:55.62\00:23:59.52
my dad had three
wine distributorship
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.74
and I grew up -- the first time
00:24:01.75\00:24:02.93
I ever went to
a neighbors house,
00:24:02.94\00:24:04.90
the lady offered
me some strawberries
00:24:04.91\00:24:07.12
and I asked her to
put burgundy on them,
00:24:07.13\00:24:08.91
I was three, and
she sent me home,
00:24:08.92\00:24:12.72
she said, we use milk here.
00:24:12.73\00:24:14.05
And I thought
oh, how disgusting,
00:24:14.06\00:24:16.83
I didn't used
the word disgusting,
00:24:16.84\00:24:18.06
but it seem nasty
to me to put anything
00:24:18.07\00:24:19.82
but burgundy on my strawberries.
00:24:19.83\00:24:21.02
She send me home.
00:24:21.03\00:24:22.02
That was my first exposure
to how different my life was.
00:24:22.03\00:24:28.11
And I remember, you know,
00:24:28.12\00:24:29.83
I'm a Seventh-day Adventist
now and I am a teetotaler,
00:24:29.84\00:24:33.55
don't touched that stuff.
00:24:33.56\00:24:34.62
And we were
driving down the highway
00:24:34.63\00:24:37.20
and my little kids were looking
at a black velvet poster,
00:24:37.21\00:24:42.99
I'm in this busy traffic
and they're just like this,
00:24:43.00\00:24:45.31
there's this slinky
woman with this incredible,
00:24:45.32\00:24:48.58
the glass and the ice on it
00:24:48.59\00:24:50.33
and the
condensation all over the glass
00:24:50.34\00:24:53.58
and she looks so
friendly and alluring.
00:24:53.59\00:24:55.79
And they were just like this,
00:24:55.80\00:24:57.02
they were just
staring at this picture,
00:24:57.03\00:25:00.78
and I just shot up a prayer.
00:25:00.79\00:25:02.60
Now friends, don't get the idea
00:25:02.61\00:25:03.78
that I did everything
right and this and this,
00:25:03.79\00:25:06.27
I'm just pulling
out a couple of examples
00:25:06.28\00:25:08.60
that we got to watch and pray.
00:25:08.61\00:25:10.68
Deuteronomy Chapter 6
says, "Everyday when you get up,
00:25:10.69\00:25:14.54
when you walk, when you talk,
00:25:14.55\00:25:15.94
when you go to bed,
00:25:15.95\00:25:16.98
when you're in the fields
be looking for ways to have
00:25:16.99\00:25:21.51
your family ready
for Jesus when He comes.
00:25:21.52\00:25:24.04
Help them to
learn right from wrong."
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.13
Anyway my kids are staring
at this vamp up there see,
00:25:26.14\00:25:30.54
and I was raised in night clubs,
00:25:30.55\00:25:32.35
I was raised in night clubs,
00:25:32.36\00:25:33.90
so I
immediately, I don't see that,
00:25:33.91\00:25:36.70
I see all this other
stuff that's behind it.
00:25:36.71\00:25:40.85
I said oh,
children, look at that woman,
00:25:40.86\00:25:44.63
well, they were
already looking at the woman,
00:25:44.64\00:25:46.11
that's a foregone
conclusion, I knew that.
00:25:46.12\00:25:50.89
I said, do you know
that there are men and women
00:25:50.90\00:25:56.93
who are drinking that drink,
00:25:56.94\00:25:58.84
that kind of drink right
there because of that woman
00:25:58.85\00:26:00.81
laying there in her nightgown,
00:26:00.82\00:26:04.18
who shouldn't be
in her night gown,
00:26:04.19\00:26:05.44
she should have a
bathrobe on it and be at home,
00:26:05.45\00:26:08.34
dressed like that.
00:26:08.35\00:26:10.81
She's laying
there making daddies
00:26:10.82\00:26:13.42
and mommies
want to go to the bar
00:26:13.43\00:26:15.78
and drink that will
make their heads dizzy
00:26:15.79\00:26:18.26
and then their poor
children come home from school
00:26:18.27\00:26:20.71
they have nothing to eat
and then their families break up
00:26:20.72\00:26:23.26
and daddy goes
away and they went oh,
00:26:23.27\00:26:26.16
bad, that is a bad,
00:26:26.17\00:26:28.11
oh bad, that is so bad.
00:26:28.12\00:26:30.29
Oh boy, was I happy.
00:26:30.30\00:26:32.27
You know, we're in, you
know, we take our babies,
00:26:32.28\00:26:34.96
we dress them up in
all these little frills
00:26:34.97\00:26:36.72
and laces and we
have them dedicated
00:26:36.73\00:26:38.16
and then we go home
and forget about it.
00:26:38.17\00:26:40.51
You got to go home and
put your army clothes on.
00:26:40.52\00:26:43.47
Have we been
overexposed as a people,
00:26:46.33\00:26:49.42
repeated exposure to profanity,
00:26:49.43\00:26:53.25
sensuality, lying, cheating,
00:26:53.26\00:26:56.46
and stealing comes in
many flavors in our homes,
00:26:56.47\00:27:00.91
drama, sitcoms, news,
commercials, and cartoons.
00:27:00.92\00:27:07.82
Now based on what
I've already said,
00:27:10.10\00:27:14.35
which of these
forms of entertainment
00:27:14.36\00:27:17.33
do you think
changes values the quickest?
00:27:17.34\00:27:20.35
The most quickly, pardon.
00:27:20.36\00:27:23.06
Not cartoons,
somebody is saying sitcoms,
00:27:23.07\00:27:28.91
and your reasoning on
all of them is very good
00:27:28.92\00:27:32.30
but it is actually sitcoms.
00:27:32.31\00:27:34.83
Because if you can
get someone to laugh
00:27:34.84\00:27:37.65
and enjoy the process of wrong,
00:27:37.66\00:27:41.79
even if it's
carelessly you have achieved
00:27:41.80\00:27:45.39
a material change in the brain.
00:27:45.40\00:27:48.65
It embosses itself in a change
00:27:48.66\00:27:50.93
in synaptic
structure in the brain.
00:27:50.94\00:27:52.45
You see the pastor,
00:27:54.43\00:27:55.91
the preacher man you take
your family to church on Sabbath
00:27:55.92\00:27:59.56
and the preacher
man says, don't lie,
00:27:59.57\00:28:02.13
don't steal,
respect your neighbors,
00:28:02.14\00:28:05.76
and the man's
in-charge at that home.
00:28:05.77\00:28:07.82
Maybe you get it
all in one sermon,
00:28:10.09\00:28:11.51
that's pretty rich.
00:28:11.52\00:28:14.75
You go home, sun's going down,
00:28:14.76\00:28:20.50
it's time to go out
and get a dairy queen,
00:28:20.51\00:28:22.56
pizza, and watch
our favorite sitcom.
00:28:22.57\00:28:26.51
So now we watch some comedian,
00:28:26.52\00:28:31.42
Lucille Ball or
whatever, under cut her husband,
00:28:31.43\00:28:35.12
lie, cheat, steal,
00:28:35.13\00:28:37.47
and do the very
things that pastor preached
00:28:37.48\00:28:39.31
against that day and
we laugh, and we laugh.
00:28:39.32\00:28:43.60
We hear people
calling each other names,
00:28:43.61\00:28:45.78
exhibiting racism,
00:28:45.79\00:28:49.08
and we laugh and we
without realizing it
00:28:49.09\00:28:52.66
have been changed,
00:28:52.67\00:28:54.44
we have lost
the urgency of being
00:28:54.45\00:28:57.95
a disciple of Jesus Christ.
00:28:57.96\00:28:59.57
Do you know that the Bible says
00:28:59.58\00:29:01.41
that it is not more
earthquakes, famines,
00:29:01.42\00:29:04.16
and disasters that's gonna bring
the second coming of Jesus.
00:29:04.17\00:29:06.68
It says, these are only
the beginnings of sorrows.
00:29:06.69\00:29:08.60
No, when the image of Christ
is reproduced in His people,
00:29:08.61\00:29:11.68
He'll come, He says,
00:29:11.69\00:29:13.55
when you preached the
gospel to the kingdom,
00:29:13.56\00:29:15.28
then the end will come.
00:29:15.29\00:29:16.78
Friends, we can
hasten His coming.
00:29:16.79\00:29:20.47
That's the
reason He hasn't come,
00:29:20.48\00:29:23.81
because we take
pleasure in unrighteousness.
00:29:23.85\00:29:25.89
It is so sad for me to see
00:29:29.17\00:29:30.86
the values suddenly
change in our young people.
00:29:30.87\00:29:33.23
I see these pristine,
00:29:33.24\00:29:34.48
beautiful little children
come up for the children's story
00:29:34.49\00:29:39.08
and they lovely
and they're precious
00:29:39.09\00:29:41.35
and they're pure,
00:29:41.36\00:29:42.91
and then the years
roll by and they're 12,
00:29:44.11\00:29:50.48
and they're 13.
00:29:50.49\00:29:51.57
And we have little girls
dressing like prostitutes,
00:29:54.34\00:30:01.41
they're copying their mothers,
00:30:01.42\00:30:04.61
slits all the way to Kansas,
00:30:04.62\00:30:07.95
guys dressing like
they have loaded diapers
00:30:10.59\00:30:14.09
and their hair has
been washed in Ty-D-Bol.
00:30:14.10\00:30:17.15
Who is spending the
money on these kids clothes?
00:30:20.57\00:30:22.95
Why do they look
like they've had their --
00:30:22.96\00:30:24.94
their clothes pored on
them, instead of modest,
00:30:24.95\00:30:28.97
pure, chased, what has happened?
00:30:28.98\00:30:31.69
May the Lord help
us, to take control,
00:30:31.70\00:30:36.24
not in an evil way,
not in an arbitrary way.
00:30:36.25\00:30:38.67
But friends, my parents did
that make my choices for me,
00:30:38.68\00:30:43.25
they let me do whatever I
want and I hated them for it,
00:30:43.26\00:30:46.61
they didn't protect me.
00:30:46.62\00:30:48.57
Dads, are you
protecting your little girls?
00:30:48.58\00:30:54.50
Why are they ending up
in the backseats of cars?
00:30:54.51\00:30:56.75
Why are they marrying
because of physical attraction
00:30:56.76\00:30:59.22
instead of spiritual grounding?
00:30:59.23\00:31:00.62
We have to turn the set
off and turn the worship on.
00:31:00.63\00:31:06.45
And worship is about
more than talking to God.
00:31:08.82\00:31:12.58
I tell you, we
debrief during family worship,
00:31:12.59\00:31:15.78
we're talking back and forth
and what's happened in your day
00:31:15.79\00:31:18.34
and what were you exposed
00:31:18.35\00:31:19.38
to and how are we
gonna deal with this?
00:31:19.39\00:31:22.32
My son and he is 20 years old,
00:31:22.33\00:31:23.89
he's in an Airframe
and Powerplant class.
00:31:23.90\00:31:26.58
He's a he got his
pilot's license when he was 16
00:31:26.59\00:31:29.51
and then he's getting
this Airframe and Powerplant
00:31:29.52\00:31:31.50
in case he decides to do
missionary bush piloting,
00:31:31.51\00:31:35.80
and he's doing that
before he goes into engineering.
00:31:35.81\00:31:38.25
And a lot of these
guys are ex-military.
00:31:38.26\00:31:40.21
He comes home and he says,
00:31:42.25\00:31:43.28
mother, he said,
you would faint dead
00:31:43.29\00:31:49.61
if you saw what I have
to see in here in my class.
00:31:49.62\00:31:53.51
He said, I won't even
tell you it would kill you.
00:31:53.52\00:31:55.55
He said, there is
some kind of genius,
00:31:57.59\00:31:59.49
he said, it's not
just what they say
00:31:59.50\00:32:00.76
he said it's the way
they string them together.
00:32:00.77\00:32:03.81
Do you think we do
some parental debriefing?
00:32:03.82\00:32:06.53
Because I tell you what,
00:32:08.22\00:32:09.30
if you don't actively
resist the minute you hear it,
00:32:09.31\00:32:12.23
when you hit your thumb with
a hammer what's gonna pop out?
00:32:12.24\00:32:15.77
These kids need instruction.
00:32:15.78\00:32:17.92
They need help, you see purity,
00:32:17.93\00:32:21.65
modesty and chastity
is part of our message
00:32:21.66\00:32:24.17
and mission as a people,
00:32:24.18\00:32:25.23
that's what makes us
distinctive isn't it?
00:32:25.24\00:32:27.98
There is nothing wrong with
being feminine and beautiful,
00:32:27.99\00:32:31.25
but we should not
be sensual and sexy
00:32:31.26\00:32:36.10
outside of private
places with our husbands.
00:32:36.11\00:32:40.74
We need to teach our
young girls to be modest.
00:32:40.75\00:32:43.65
We need to be modest, I
had a pastor talk to me,
00:32:43.66\00:32:46.08
you know, I came
out of the world,
00:32:46.09\00:32:47.55
I mean, big time.
00:32:47.56\00:32:48.87
When I went to
school I was an atheist,
00:32:48.88\00:32:50.81
I went to Southern
California University
00:32:50.82\00:32:53.14
and I was an
atheist when I went there,
00:32:53.15\00:32:55.25
I thought Seventh-day Adventist
00:32:55.26\00:32:57.31
was some kind of roffing
and air-conditioning outfit,
00:32:57.32\00:32:59.56
I had no clue what
this advent thing was.
00:32:59.57\00:33:02.18
I said, it must be some
kind of air-conditioning place
00:33:02.19\00:33:04.13
that's open seven days a week,
that's all I can make of it.
00:33:04.14\00:33:06.64
But I like their
landscaping, and a girl told me,
00:33:06.65\00:33:09.34
she said, no, no,
no, it's university,
00:33:09.35\00:33:11.26
it's a religious school and
they'll let you in if they--
00:33:11.27\00:33:14.61
if you tell him
the body is a temple.
00:33:14.62\00:33:17.01
I said, man, I can do that.
00:33:17.02\00:33:18.74
I didn't know what
I was getting into.
00:33:18.75\00:33:22.35
And I used to wear these
cocktail dresses to church.
00:33:22.36\00:33:26.14
Well, just like we see now,
00:33:26.15\00:33:28.43
but it was a long time ago
and it was left coast, you know.
00:33:28.44\00:33:31.31
And I remember after I was
married I was still that way,
00:33:33.48\00:33:36.61
I mean, we-- I
went down a dry devil
00:33:36.62\00:33:39.13
and came up a wet one
in the baptismal tank.
00:33:39.14\00:33:43.11
And one precious pastor --
and I was a woman's lever too.
00:33:43.12\00:33:46.69
When my husband and I
got married I told him,
00:33:46.70\00:33:48.80
I said, if you throw
your socks on the floor
00:33:48.81\00:33:51.35
I will nail him to the ground.
00:33:51.36\00:33:52.80
Do you think I was put
on this planet to serve you,
00:33:52.81\00:33:55.32
you got another thing coming.
00:33:55.33\00:33:56.73
He didn't know what he
had gotten himself into.
00:33:56.74\00:34:01.58
So this pastor comes to
the house to talk to me,
00:34:01.59\00:34:07.85
it was an
unbelievable experience.
00:34:07.86\00:34:10.14
I had just been
delivered from bulimia.
00:34:10.15\00:34:11.85
I was bulimic for 20 years,
00:34:11.86\00:34:13.33
trying to get that perfect body,
00:34:13.34\00:34:14.65
you know, our girls are
suffering from this disorder,
00:34:14.66\00:34:16.62
you know, you can't wear clothes
00:34:16.63\00:34:18.10
that are too small and watch
TV and read women's magazines
00:34:18.11\00:34:22.47
and even look at the
back of Time Magazine
00:34:22.48\00:34:24.50
and have those
pictures around our house
00:34:24.51\00:34:25.87
without getting that,
00:34:25.88\00:34:26.92
that sickness
in your brain about
00:34:26.93\00:34:29.48
what we're
supposed to look like,
00:34:29.49\00:34:31.14
and it's happening
it's happening big time.
00:34:31.15\00:34:34.04
So he comes to the house
and I knew something was coming
00:34:34.05\00:34:38.05
because he put his hand
on my shoulder and he said,
00:34:38.06\00:34:39.75
Sister Griffin,
our hearts are wicked.
00:34:39.76\00:34:42.94
And then I knew
something was coming
00:34:42.95\00:34:44.93
and it was gonna be aimed at me.
00:34:44.94\00:34:47.19
And he said, Sister Griffin,
00:34:47.20\00:34:48.86
he says, when a
woman put her arms out,
00:34:48.87\00:34:50.77
you shouldn't be able
to see from east to west
00:34:50.78\00:34:52.78
when she bends over you
shouldn't be able to see
00:34:52.79\00:34:54.83
from north to south
and when she sits down
00:34:54.84\00:34:57.14
I don't want to see her knees.
00:34:57.15\00:35:00.99
Oh, he hurt my feelings
00:35:01.00\00:35:04.86
and oh did they need hurting.
00:35:04.87\00:35:09.46
But I knew that
it was God speaking
00:35:09.47\00:35:11.28
and I cleaned out my
wardrobe by God's grace.
00:35:11.29\00:35:16.29
I took one button off one
dress that I wanted to keep,
00:35:16.30\00:35:18.93
it looked like a lightening bolt
00:35:18.94\00:35:20.08
and I liked it
because that's what I was.
00:35:20.09\00:35:22.12
And it was in my
box on the dresser
00:35:22.13\00:35:25.76
and I could not sleep
until I threw that button away.
00:35:25.77\00:35:28.34
The Lord replied,
you get rid of all of it,
00:35:28.35\00:35:30.68
drive out the Canaanites,
get rid of the spike heels.
00:35:30.69\00:35:33.19
I threw it all out.
00:35:33.20\00:35:34.46
I filled the refrigerator
box with that garbage
00:35:34.47\00:35:38.58
and I started to dress
to protect my brothers.
00:35:38.59\00:35:42.89
I went into Sabbath school,
00:35:42.90\00:35:44.52
oh, I am so thankful
for -- it's for winter.
00:35:44.53\00:35:47.44
I sometimes I wish it
would snow in the sanctuary.
00:35:47.45\00:35:49.86
I went to one church
00:35:54.80\00:35:56.78
and I used to love
sitting in a circle
00:35:56.79\00:35:59.87
for Sabbath school, no more.
00:35:59.88\00:36:03.68
There was this
darling woman older than me,
00:36:03.69\00:36:05.83
had her hair in
this cute little bun,
00:36:05.84\00:36:07.33
she had this real cute wool
jacket on and a long black skirt
00:36:07.34\00:36:12.56
we were filed into
Sabbath school and we sat --
00:36:12.57\00:36:14.82
we went to sit across from her.
00:36:14.83\00:36:16.30
My son and I, my tender son
00:36:16.31\00:36:18.35
who I raised to be
pure, who wants to be pure,
00:36:18.36\00:36:22.45
here's a woman older than me.
00:36:22.46\00:36:25.54
We sit down and she has a slit
right up the front of the leg.
00:36:25.55\00:36:30.43
Now, we had to
move, we had to move.
00:36:30.44\00:36:36.01
What are the moral
effects of this exposure?
00:36:41.64\00:36:45.56
A loss of a sense of shock.
00:36:45.57\00:36:47.82
We have
magazines laying all around
00:36:47.83\00:36:49.19
our house with
filthy pictures in them
00:36:49.20\00:36:52.07
and it doesn't even move us
00:36:52.08\00:36:54.49
and our children are
absorbing it like plastic.
00:36:54.50\00:36:58.43
A loss of sense of shock,
00:37:00.28\00:37:01.38
you know, Lord just pitched
his tent towards out of me.
00:37:01.39\00:37:03.46
He didn't start out there,
00:37:03.47\00:37:06.19
He ended up there
and my question is this,
00:37:06.20\00:37:09.29
do we secretly admire
the lifestyle of the wicked,
00:37:09.30\00:37:16.45
do we want it?
00:37:17.38\00:37:18.79
Boredom and apathy,
00:37:21.22\00:37:22.74
yeah, that's the
result of addiction.
00:37:22.75\00:37:25.21
That's the result of
over stimulation, boredom.
00:37:25.22\00:37:28.35
Compromised
values, enjoyment of wrong,
00:37:28.36\00:37:31.75
yes, we begin to enjoy wrong.
00:37:31.76\00:37:34.47
Decline in spirituality,
00:37:34.48\00:37:35.93
a false sense of entitlement
and we will get in that.
00:37:35.94\00:37:39.09
It changes our thinking
00:37:39.10\00:37:40.91
and eventually
our behavior changes
00:37:40.92\00:37:43.00
and that's why we are told
that it will not be a hard thing
00:37:43.01\00:37:46.48
for most of God's
people at the end of time
00:37:46.49\00:37:49.69
to take the step into Babylon.
00:37:49.70\00:37:51.60
Because they've been
living like them all along.
00:37:51.61\00:37:54.20
That's why we need to start
proclaiming the Sabbath more
00:37:54.21\00:37:56.73
fully in our
hearts and in our homes,
00:37:56.74\00:37:58.68
everyday our homes are a
sanctuary for Jesus Christ.
00:37:58.69\00:38:02.69
It's a landing place for angels,
00:38:02.70\00:38:04.58
I want His converting
power in my home don't you?
00:38:04.59\00:38:07.08
We've been adverted to apathy,
00:38:10.59\00:38:12.48
this is written by a
Christian psychiatrist
00:38:12.49\00:38:15.94
and the title of the book
00:38:15.95\00:38:17.37
is "Still Bored in a
Culture of Entertainment."
00:38:17.38\00:38:19.82
What does the
advertising industry do to you?
00:38:19.83\00:38:23.08
Its endless
commercials breed in you,
00:38:23.09\00:38:25.74
discontent with your house,
00:38:25.75\00:38:27.84
your car, your
body, your clothes,
00:38:27.85\00:38:30.19
in an old
fashioned biblical language,
00:38:30.20\00:38:32.08
it inspires you to covet.
00:38:32.09\00:38:33.40
It promises you
satisfaction, peace, meaning,
00:38:33.41\00:38:36.48
and happiness but only if
you get your needs met now.
00:38:36.49\00:38:41.97
Children learn
that they are the most
00:38:41.98\00:38:44.57
important
person in the universe.
00:38:44.58\00:38:47.15
You know, I
talked to one elderly,
00:38:47.16\00:38:49.12
elderly evangelist and he said,
00:38:49.13\00:38:51.64
you know, when I was a boy
00:38:51.65\00:38:54.44
we waited till the older people
ate before we got in line.
00:38:54.45\00:38:57.88
We let them serve --
they served themselves
00:38:57.89\00:38:59.86
and then the children went.
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.34
He said, now that I'm
old the children go first,
00:39:01.35\00:39:03.80
he said I've been
waiting all my life
00:39:03.81\00:39:05.25
to be first in
line at the potluck.
00:39:05.26\00:39:06.96
Children learn that they're
00:39:08.16\00:39:09.51
the most important
person in the universe,
00:39:09.52\00:39:11.46
impulses should not be denied,
00:39:11.47\00:39:13.49
pain should not be tolerated,
00:39:13.50\00:39:15.54
and that the cure for any
kind of pain is a product.
00:39:15.55\00:39:18.68
They learn a weird mix of
dissatisfaction and entitlement.
00:39:18.69\00:39:23.86
With the messages of ads we
are socializing our children
00:39:23.87\00:39:26.94
to be sub-centered,
impulsive, and addictive,
00:39:26.95\00:39:29.79
and I would take one more step
00:39:29.80\00:39:31.12
we are wiring
their brains that way,
00:39:31.13\00:39:34.65
and they will be past feeling.
00:39:34.66\00:39:37.82
This is actually a
statement from Robert MacNeil,
00:39:37.83\00:39:43.90
member of the
MacNeil/Lehrer Report,
00:39:43.91\00:39:45.28
he is a -- one of the --
00:39:45.29\00:39:46.46
probably one of the best
television news commentators,
00:39:46.47\00:39:49.50
here's what he has to say.
00:39:49.51\00:39:51.11
The trouble with television
is it discourages concentration,
00:39:51.12\00:39:54.66
its variety becomes a narcotic,
00:39:54.67\00:39:56.79
not a stimulus, to
keep everything brief,
00:39:56.80\00:40:00.42
not to strain the
attention of any one
00:40:00.43\00:40:02.62
but instead to provide constant
stimulation though variety,
00:40:02.63\00:40:06.07
action, and movement.
00:40:06.08\00:40:08.23
You are required to pay
attention to no concept,
00:40:08.24\00:40:10.83
no situation, no
scene, no character,
00:40:10.84\00:40:13.42
and no problem for more
than a few seconds at a time.
00:40:13.43\00:40:18.11
Here's what happens,
00:40:18.12\00:40:20.68
everything on television
is just for the moment.
00:40:20.69\00:40:23.87
It's just television
and the kids pick this up.
00:40:23.88\00:40:28.65
This devaluating tone, the
sense that nothing matters.
00:40:28.66\00:40:34.57
Does that mean that there
is never anything to watch?
00:40:34.58\00:40:36.91
Does that mean
it's never appropriate
00:40:36.92\00:40:38.26
to watch a television program?
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.70
No, what my
husband is the media guy
00:40:39.71\00:40:43.47
for this
conference, he does videos.
00:40:43.48\00:40:48.14
But if a person replaces videos,
00:40:48.15\00:40:51.11
replaces study with
videos, it doesn't accomplish
00:40:51.12\00:40:56.37
what it's
supposed to accomplish.
00:40:56.38\00:40:58.02
We have enjoyed
through out the years
00:40:58.03\00:40:59.85
with our children
nature videos, documentaries,
00:40:59.86\00:41:03.41
historical documentaries,
00:41:03.42\00:41:05.11
science videos
as a special treat.
00:41:05.12\00:41:09.53
But friends, we are so
careful in what we chose, amen.
00:41:09.54\00:41:13.40
I remember one time
the kids picked up a video
00:41:13.41\00:41:15.72
at the Goodwill for 25 cents
and it was on daring rescues
00:41:15.73\00:41:21.03
and we thought oh
that will be interesting
00:41:21.04\00:41:24.13
and so Saturday night we
went up into Dan's office,
00:41:24.14\00:41:26.88
because that's where the TV is,
00:41:26.89\00:41:28.22
and he got it all hooked up
00:41:28.23\00:41:29.28
because he just does
health education videos
00:41:29.29\00:41:31.46
and he does evangelistic
things and that's wonderful,
00:41:31.47\00:41:34.62
we want people to watch those.
00:41:34.63\00:41:37.04
But there will be no
tape forms in heaven,
00:41:37.05\00:41:39.66
the purpose of
tapes and video evangelism
00:41:39.67\00:41:42.61
is to get people to do what?
00:41:42.62\00:41:45.80
Study, study, study,
00:41:45.81\00:41:48.68
there is no substitute
for using your own brain.
00:41:48.69\00:41:52.92
So anyway, we brought
up pillows and blankets
00:41:52.93\00:41:56.02
and we made popcorn
and some hot apple juice
00:41:56.03\00:41:58.70
and we're gonna watch this thing
00:41:58.71\00:42:00.46
and the very first scene and,
00:42:00.47\00:42:03.21
I really don't want to go
over in this program today,
00:42:03.22\00:42:05.13
but I'm gonna
tell you this story.
00:42:05.14\00:42:06.42
The very first scene is
this guy on this water tower
00:42:06.43\00:42:10.17
and he is hooked on
with this nylon thing
00:42:10.18\00:42:12.64
and he slides off of it
and he is dangling in mid-air
00:42:12.65\00:42:15.58
and I just screamed,
00:42:15.59\00:42:17.34
I couldn't
believe it how this guy
00:42:17.35\00:42:18.97
and then the whole thing
is how they rescue this guy,
00:42:18.98\00:42:21.34
the helicopters
and the boom trucks
00:42:21.35\00:42:23.71
and every thing and then before
we had a chance to breathe
00:42:23.72\00:42:27.08
it's another guy
falling off a cliff,
00:42:27.09\00:42:28.97
he is hanging by his fingernails
00:42:28.98\00:42:30.20
and all the rescue workers
and it shows them all slipping
00:42:30.21\00:42:33.22
and sliding all
over this mud and fungus,
00:42:33.23\00:42:35.09
to try to get this guy, and wow!
00:42:35.10\00:42:39.36
By the end of the program
00:42:39.37\00:42:41.05
a guy in a
bicycle gets hit by a car,
00:42:41.06\00:42:45.27
the car locks on
to him and the bicycle
00:42:45.28\00:42:48.35
and he is
dragging him a 100 yards
00:42:48.36\00:42:50.09
and I'm just
sitting there like this.
00:42:50.10\00:42:53.10
I looked at my
husband and I said,
00:42:53.11\00:42:55.03
I've become a monster,
this is not affecting me.
00:42:55.04\00:42:58.02
We weren't
watching a training video,
00:43:00.22\00:43:02.30
we were not learning to
go out to rescue anybody,
00:43:02.31\00:43:05.12
we're watching all this
00:43:05.13\00:43:06.13
harrowing stuff
for entertainment,
00:43:06.14\00:43:08.13
that video went in the trash.
00:43:08.14\00:43:09.92
What about television news.
00:43:14.09\00:43:16.20
This is again,
our news commentator,
00:43:16.21\00:43:18.56
this is from one of the key
news people in the industry.
00:43:18.57\00:43:22.12
I question how much of TV's
nightly news is really what?
00:43:22.13\00:43:26.45
Observable, have you ever
sat down to watch the news.
00:43:26.46\00:43:30.77
You sit down watch the news,
00:43:30.78\00:43:33.25
after these commercial messages
00:43:33.26\00:43:35.75
you will be able to see
the bloody hotel in Jerusalem
00:43:35.76\00:43:39.25
as we go and they
pan, they pan, they pan,
00:43:39.26\00:43:42.84
now you see the
blood on the walls
00:43:42.85\00:43:44.21
right before commercial break,
after these commercial messages
00:43:44.22\00:43:46.98
we're gonna talk and see how
this latest explosion happens.
00:43:46.99\00:43:50.53
So you have a
commercial messages
00:43:50.82\00:43:52.32
and then you get
to see this gory stuff
00:43:52.33\00:43:55.23
and this goes on and on and on,
00:43:55.24\00:43:57.12
two hours later you
get up you feel dead.
00:43:57.13\00:44:00.18
What on earth did you do?
00:44:00.19\00:44:01.64
You've watched the
same series of news
00:44:01.65\00:44:03.84
in three different programs
stuck there like a magnet,
00:44:03.85\00:44:07.34
it's happened to me and I'm sure
00:44:07.35\00:44:09.53
it's happened to
many of you as well.
00:44:09.54\00:44:11.81
Nothing in
television shall ever require
00:44:11.82\00:44:14.71
more than a few
moments concentration,
00:44:14.72\00:44:18.74
much of it has
been aptly described
00:44:18.75\00:44:21.93
as machine-gunning with scraps.
00:44:21.94\00:44:25.64
One news director
told my husband he said,
00:44:25.65\00:44:27.60
if it bleeds it leads, it
has nothing to do with news.
00:44:27.61\00:44:32.07
The technique fights,
coherence, what is coherence?
00:44:32.08\00:44:37.13
What does coherence mean?
00:44:37.14\00:44:39.46
Understanding,
this is a British study,
00:44:39.47\00:44:43.91
just 14 minutes of
negative news increased levels
00:44:43.92\00:44:47.12
of three different stress
harms, particularly Cortisol.
00:44:47.13\00:44:49.97
Cortisol
destroys delicate neurons
00:44:49.98\00:44:52.90
in the
hippocampal area of the brain.
00:44:52.91\00:44:54.87
The hippocampus is
what is responsible
00:44:54.88\00:44:56.90
not only for short term memory
00:44:56.91\00:44:58.65
but retrieving memory from
different parts of the brain.
00:44:58.66\00:45:01.85
So if you -- it's
responsible for associating
00:45:01.86\00:45:05.28
a name with a place, you
see, it's a very, very important
00:45:05.29\00:45:09.32
and a new nerve cell
generation in the brain
00:45:09.33\00:45:12.96
does not take place
00:45:12.97\00:45:14.02
when cortisol levels
are chronically high.
00:45:14.03\00:45:16.42
When cortisol levels
are chronically high,
00:45:16.43\00:45:19.10
it also is associated
with clinical depression
00:45:19.11\00:45:22.06
because of
destruction of nerve endings,
00:45:22.07\00:45:24.86
in those key areas of the brain.
00:45:24.87\00:45:26.31
So it increases
personal catastrophizing,
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.75
facilitated worrisome thoughts,
00:45:28.76\00:45:31.49
increases anxiety and sad news,
00:45:31.50\00:45:33.58
how many minutes?
00:45:33.59\00:45:35.19
How many minutes?
00:45:35.20\00:45:36.79
Fourteen and reading news
does not have the same effect
00:45:36.80\00:45:40.48
because you're reading.
00:45:40.49\00:45:42.23
It's not going through
amygdala in limbic system,
00:45:42.24\00:45:45.18
it's not novelty,
00:45:45.19\00:45:46.48
you are actually
cogitating on the information
00:45:46.49\00:45:49.81
that you are reading.
00:45:49.82\00:45:50.88
You're reflecting on it,
00:45:50.89\00:45:51.97
it's using a
different part of the brain.
00:45:51.98\00:45:54.02
Here's where we
come to the crucial point
00:45:54.03\00:45:56.26
about mental
stimulation and the brain.
00:45:56.27\00:45:58.79
Passive experience does
how much for the adult brain?
00:45:58.80\00:46:02.51
Hey, are any of you teachers?
00:46:02.52\00:46:04.79
What if you told your students,
00:46:04.80\00:46:05.87
all right, this
semester you can come to class,
00:46:05.88\00:46:08.53
all you have to do is sit there,
00:46:08.54\00:46:09.78
you can eat and
enjoy watching me
00:46:09.79\00:46:12.07
lecture and flash pictures.
00:46:12.08\00:46:13.94
You don't have to talk,
you don't have to interact,
00:46:13.95\00:46:16.39
you don't have to give a paper,
00:46:16.40\00:46:17.91
you don't have to take a test.
00:46:17.92\00:46:19.11
How much do you
think they're gonna learn?
00:46:19.12\00:46:21.68
They're gonna
learn how much weight
00:46:21.69\00:46:22.78
they gained that semester.
00:46:22.79\00:46:24.52
To keep the brain
learning and growing,
00:46:26.98\00:46:28.81
we need to
generate active responses
00:46:28.82\00:46:30.90
to cognitive challenges
and I will repeat again,
00:46:30.91\00:46:33.30
an advise that my dad gave me,
00:46:33.31\00:46:34.58
it's probably the
only piece of sound advice
00:46:34.59\00:46:37.02
I remember getting,
but it's a good one.
00:46:37.03\00:46:38.37
He said, "always be reading
something too hard for you
00:46:38.38\00:46:41.56
and associate with your people
that are smarter than you are."
00:46:41.57\00:46:44.47
I think that is wonderful advice
00:46:44.48\00:46:46.09
and I aren't seen that much
genius on television, are you?
00:46:46.10\00:46:51.02
A wealth of new
scientific evidence
00:46:51.03\00:46:53.24
shows us the difference
between the effects of active
00:46:53.25\00:46:56.08
and passive
experience on the brain.
00:46:56.09\00:46:58.64
Active responses to
cognitive challenges
00:46:58.65\00:47:01.59
is unquestionably what
turns on adult neurons,
00:47:01.60\00:47:04.48
do you want adult
neurons to turn on?
00:47:04.49\00:47:06.52
How many of you
would like a better memory.
00:47:06.53\00:47:09.37
New brain cells migrating
to your memory centers.
00:47:09.38\00:47:12.18
How many of you
would like that today?
00:47:12.19\00:47:13.54
This ain't gonna do it.
00:47:13.55\00:47:14.55
The healthy
condition of the body
00:47:17.91\00:47:19.80
is undermined by
inactivity and indolence
00:47:19.81\00:47:22.63
and to a great extend
preserved by energy and motion,
00:47:22.64\00:47:25.83
guess who said that?
00:47:25.84\00:47:27.64
Socrates, he didn't have
TV but he knew the principle.
00:47:27.65\00:47:31.56
Is television an addiction?
00:47:31.57\00:47:34.69
Here's the
symptoms of substance abuse.
00:47:34.70\00:47:36.94
Spending a lot of time with it,
00:47:36.95\00:47:38.60
actually television stimulates
the same opioid receptors
00:47:38.61\00:47:41.89
and the same addiction pathways
in the brain as any drug,
00:47:41.90\00:47:46.61
there's no difference.
00:47:46.62\00:47:48.46
Using it more than you intend,
00:47:48.47\00:47:50.20
repeated failure to
reduce time with it.
00:47:50.21\00:47:53.00
Giving up useful
activities for it,
00:47:53.01\00:47:55.56
withdraw when it stops.
00:47:55.57\00:47:57.54
You actually feel depressed,
00:47:57.55\00:47:58.99
people are not
watching television to feel good
00:47:59.00\00:48:02.33
they are watching it
to keep from feeling bad,
00:48:02.34\00:48:06.71
that's addiction.
00:48:06.72\00:48:07.79
Drug use is not a necessary
00:48:09.24\00:48:11.67
and sufficient
cause of addiction.
00:48:11.68\00:48:14.92
It is improper to
consider drugs as the necessary
00:48:14.93\00:48:17.93
precondition of addiction.
00:48:17.94\00:48:19.95
It stands to reason and
we've already seen the slide,
00:48:19.96\00:48:22.71
if you can derange
brain circuits with drugs
00:48:22.72\00:48:25.16
you can do it
with natural rewards
00:48:25.17\00:48:26.67
like food or sex or television.
00:48:26.68\00:48:30.07
A lot of addiction is
a result of experience,
00:48:30.08\00:48:33.24
repetitive high emotion,
high frequency experience
00:48:33.25\00:48:37.22
and our brains
have gone on a binge.
00:48:37.23\00:48:40.91
When stimulation, this
is again the psychiatrist,
00:48:40.92\00:48:44.51
still bored in a
culture of entertainment.
00:48:44.52\00:48:47.19
When stimulation comes at us
from every side we reach a point
00:48:47.20\00:48:51.23
where we can not
respond with depth to anything,
00:48:51.24\00:48:54.43
is that happening
in our homes today?
00:48:54.44\00:48:56.26
People are not
responding to one another
00:48:56.27\00:48:58.61
with the depth of
interest an emotion
00:48:58.62\00:49:01.07
that the situation may call for.
00:49:01.08\00:49:04.78
Bombarded with so
much that is exciting
00:49:04.79\00:49:07.50
and demands our attention,
00:49:07.51\00:49:08.81
we shut down our
attention to everything.
00:49:08.82\00:49:13.30
Here's the effect
of over stimulation,
00:49:13.31\00:49:14.99
apathy and
boredom isn't that ironic,
00:49:15.00\00:49:17.90
the very thing we do
to entertain ourselves
00:49:17.91\00:49:20.55
is the very thing that
creates an aura of boredom
00:49:20.56\00:49:23.70
and
dissatisfaction and ahedonia,
00:49:23.71\00:49:26.88
that is what drug
addicts experience
00:49:26.89\00:49:28.93
when they go off of a drug,
00:49:28.94\00:49:30.11
and because their
dopamine is so low
00:49:30.12\00:49:32.59
they do not have the
ability to enjoy or experience
00:49:32.60\00:49:36.04
pleasure in the
normal activities of life.
00:49:36.05\00:49:38.28
Is that happening with
television viewing today?
00:49:38.29\00:49:41.04
Some people have no
pleasure in their life anymore.
00:49:41.05\00:49:44.55
So they sit down and eat
highly addictive condensed foods
00:49:46.87\00:49:50.05
that highjack the
pleasure centers of the brain
00:49:50.06\00:49:52.12
and watch television and
we are in nation of addicts.
00:49:52.13\00:49:55.40
Detachment, we become detached.
00:49:55.41\00:49:57.80
People driving around
a body at a gas station,
00:49:57.81\00:50:01.71
the need for greater
stimulation and addiction.
00:50:01.72\00:50:06.87
Here are the
withdrawal symptoms,
00:50:06.88\00:50:08.30
depression, restlessness,
fatigue, aggression, tension,
00:50:08.31\00:50:13.29
and poor concentration.
00:50:13.30\00:50:17.15
This is an amazing statement,
heading into the millennium.
00:50:17.16\00:50:21.53
America has embarked
00:50:21.54\00:50:23.29
on a national orgy of
thrill seeking and risk taking.
00:50:23.30\00:50:28.84
All I hear
these dear people say,
00:50:28.85\00:50:33.26
I only watch
educational television,
00:50:33.27\00:50:35.82
I watch Wheel of Fortune.
00:50:35.83\00:50:38.74
Now, let's take
Wheel of Fortune,
00:50:40.44\00:50:42.75
got nothing
against Wheel of Fortune
00:50:42.76\00:50:44.02
but let's take it
apart for a minute.
00:50:44.03\00:50:45.72
Here is the main
feature of this thing
00:50:45.73\00:50:47.84
is a Las Vegas rule out wheel.
00:50:47.85\00:50:52.03
Okay, a woman in a
glorified night gown,
00:50:52.04\00:50:55.47
a gown less evening strap is
stay somebody spins this thing,
00:50:55.48\00:50:59.33
I don't know who
would-- she goes out there
00:50:59.34\00:51:02.62
and turns this letters
around, this is educational?
00:51:02.63\00:51:05.32
Oh, yes, it is educational.
00:51:05.33\00:51:07.08
Are we're getting an education,
00:51:07.09\00:51:08.81
there is no question about it.
00:51:08.82\00:51:11.77
Boredom is a chronic symptom
of a pleasure obsessed age.
00:51:11.78\00:51:16.99
When pleasure becomes
ones number one priority
00:51:17.00\00:51:19.90
the result is boredom.
00:51:19.91\00:51:24.71
That's an addiction journal.
00:51:24.72\00:51:25.84
Now here's a new definition of
hell for Seventh-day Adventists.
00:51:25.85\00:51:28.20
Hell is an endless holiday,
00:51:28.21\00:51:31.41
the everlasting state
of having nothing to do
00:51:31.42\00:51:34.72
and plenty of
money to spend doing it.
00:51:34.73\00:51:37.56
It increases our
risk of dementia,
00:51:39.59\00:51:41.51
it is possible this is from
the journal medical hypothesis.
00:51:41.52\00:51:44.61
It is possible that
stress derive damage may magnify
00:51:44.62\00:51:48.09
the risk of a
dementive process in long term
00:51:48.10\00:51:50.93
habitual viewers.
00:51:50.94\00:51:52.00
What the article
is saying is that,
00:51:52.01\00:51:53.79
television viewing
habits are a risk assessment
00:51:53.80\00:51:57.43
for institutionalized
demented patients.
00:51:57.44\00:52:00.48
And the risk is
that four hours a day
00:52:00.49\00:52:03.53
of any kind of
television programming.
00:52:03.54\00:52:05.70
The plot sickens,
00:52:07.25\00:52:09.45
violent frequent television
is linked to memory loss,
00:52:09.46\00:52:12.74
elevated blood
pleasure, increased heart rate,
00:52:12.75\00:52:14.96
weakened immunities,
double elevation of cholesterol,
00:52:14.97\00:52:19.11
lowered metabolic rate,
00:52:19.12\00:52:20.96
it takes less mental energy
00:52:20.97\00:52:22.98
to watch television
than to eat a whiny.
00:52:22.99\00:52:27.76
Increased stress
hormones particularly cortisol
00:52:27.77\00:52:30.50
and we talked about
increased asthma risks.
00:52:30.51\00:52:33.61
This is an amazing statement
from a medical journal,
00:52:33.62\00:52:36.96
results indicate
that metabolic rate during
00:52:36.97\00:52:40.71
television
viewing was significantly
00:52:40.72\00:52:42.94
lower than during rest.
00:52:42.95\00:52:46.08
TV viewing has a fairly profound
00:52:46.09\00:52:48.46
lowering effect
of metabolic rate
00:52:48.47\00:52:50.58
and maybe a mechanism
for the relationship between
00:52:50.59\00:52:53.48
obesity and television viewing.
00:52:53.49\00:52:56.82
It takes the body uses
more energy to sit in a chair
00:52:59.71\00:53:05.07
and do nothing
than to watch television
00:53:05.08\00:53:07.59
that's what that is
saying, the Bible says,
00:53:07.60\00:53:11.34
I will set no wicked
thing before my eyes.
00:53:11.35\00:53:15.39
I hate the work of
them that turn aside,
00:53:15.40\00:53:18.64
does that mean that if
some cataclysmic things happen,
00:53:18.65\00:53:21.64
we won't catch a
view over on television?
00:53:21.65\00:53:24.19
But man, I tell you
have to see the hassle
00:53:24.20\00:53:26.23
we have to go through
in our house to hook up
00:53:26.24\00:53:27.80
a TV to watch something.
00:53:27.81\00:53:29.37
I am so glad, I am so glad.
00:53:29.38\00:53:33.10
The Bible says, I hate the
work of them that turn aside,
00:53:33.11\00:53:36.17
who so privately
slanders his neighbors,
00:53:36.18\00:53:38.15
I'm not gonna laugh at
it, I'm gonna turn it off.
00:53:38.16\00:53:42.06
I will not know a wicket person.
00:53:42.07\00:53:45.98
He that has a high
look and a pride heart
00:53:45.99\00:53:48.43
I don't want to see it.
00:53:48.44\00:53:49.92
A froward heart
shall depart from me.
00:53:49.93\00:53:52.79
He that works deceit will
not dwell within my house,
00:53:52.80\00:53:56.09
he that tells lies
shall not tarry in my sight.
00:53:56.10\00:54:00.64
We have to fix our focus,
00:54:00.65\00:54:03.38
turn away my eyes it's a prayer,
00:54:03.39\00:54:06.03
turn away my eyes from
looking at worthless things
00:54:06.04\00:54:11.92
and revive me in your way.
00:54:11.93\00:54:13.84
Do we need that today?
00:54:13.85\00:54:15.62
I need that today.
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Let's look at some
television alternatives.
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Visiting,
visiting, family worship,
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playing musical
instruments, reading,
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there are so
many fun things to do.
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You know, I tell people to,
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don't bellyache to me
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if your bathroom
floor boards are rotting,
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use it as a family project,
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rib them up and put a
new bathroom floor in.
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Not yet, Sheryl.
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You see what I am saying,
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hey, our son
learned how to lay toilet,
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he made me a
beautiful toilet floor
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because our
bathroom floor rotted.
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It's wonderful,
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Dan and I just have the fun
of building bookshelves together
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and we learned we
have some very different
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approaches to
building sanding and staining,
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it was a very exciting time.
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Hobbies, you do
not know what fun is,
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finally he gave me a
bookshelf and he took one.
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He says, I can
not work with you.
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He does like a brain
surgeon, and says oh,
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get it done
nobody is gonna look.
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There is nothing
more exciting to be chased
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by thousand
Italian bees, we kept bees.
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Oh, we can carve soap,
there's kits you can buy,
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you can build clocks,
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there is so much stuff
you can do that is so fun,
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even chores are fun, I
call them laundry parties,
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do you have laundry
parties at your house?
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Home projects,
cooking, baking, doing chores,
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gardening is so fun
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and we can learn
to like it, can't we?
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Sight seeing,
helping with homework,
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attending church
and community programs,
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some people get
so stuck watching
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religious material
on TV on video tapes
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that they don't --
they stop helping a church,
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they stop getting involved.
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It's a solo activity,
friends, don't forget.
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Exercising,
playing and having fun,
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enjoying your pets,
doing nothing for a change,
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isn't it hard to do nothing?
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God wants us to think.
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It's time to relax,
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we are literally
running from ourselves unless
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we regain the art of silence
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and the ability
for non-activity,
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unless we
substitute true leisure
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for our hectic amusements,
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we will destroy our
culture and ourselves.
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And friends, that is
exactly what's happening
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but God doesn't wanted it
to happen in His church, amen?
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The question is, is it
time for it to be quiet
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on this set, TV, is
it time to cut it off?
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