¤ ¤ ¤ 00:00:00.96\00:00:15.61 >> Hello and welcome to our second hour of 3, A B and live. I'm Shelley JD Quinn. 00:00:15.61\00:00:20.98 And we have a compelling topic now we are talking about Counterfeit reality. Have a 00:00:20.98\00:00:30.56 passionate with us. Scott writes, I'm not Scott, you are the speaker director for Bell 00:00:30.56\00:00:36.20 to Truth Ministry. Sure. The father of 4 young children, a great excuse me. 3 young 00:00:36.20\00:00:40.60 children. And you are and author year Speaker you, you just do all kinds of things. 00:00:40.60\00:00:49.11 >> Welcome Thank you for having me. It's a joy to be with you. We enjoy that first 00:00:49.11\00:00:53.52 out. If you can get see the first hour at home. We want to encourage you to watch it. 00:00:53.52\00:00:58.72 >> But one thing I failed to do was tell you, Scott has a free giveaway tonight. Don't 00:00:58.72\00:01:03.96 contact 3ABN this is coming directly from his Minna Street. 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It airs on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays on 3ABN it's and it 00:02:12.79\00:02:23.00 is tough, fascinating program that we want to encourage. You to tune in to. no, it's very 00:02:23.00\00:02:29.18 popular. >> It is very popular because thing I love that Scott, 00:02:29.18\00:02:34.68 he doesn't just say something. Off the top of his head. Hey, 00:02:34.68\00:02:40.79 Scott. >> Pages and pages and pages of research and a lot of your research. You are looking 00:02:40.79\00:02:49.16 at. What brain scientists, this isn't a religious thing. This is what professionals. All 00:02:49.16\00:02:55.60 over are saying. What's happening to our kids? We want you to kind of summarize what 00:02:55.60\00:03:01.61 we talked about the last part of the last hour. Counterfeit reality and then tell us how 00:03:01.61\00:03:10.79 escape >> Yes, how to escape the kind of reality that's really 00:03:10.79\00:03:12.29 going to be the solution. And God has the solution to every single problem. The devil 00:03:12.29\00:03:18.13 creates for us. And we knowingly participate in. But at what the 00:03:18.13\00:03:22.36 counterfeit reality for the summit of their stairs to kind of 2 elements we talked about 00:03:22.36\00:03:26.77 last hour. One is the the virtual reality. The immerse in yourself into a screen-based 00:03:26.77\00:03:32.47 plane of existence. Divorce yourself from the three-dimensional, the people 00:03:32.47\00:03:38.35 places sights, smells and sounds God's creation. Satan immerses us into living online 00:03:38.35\00:03:44.69 with false personas of our south and ourself into a different 00:03:44.69\00:03:51.73 sort of existence rilling mentally with our consciousness merging into that. And that has 00:03:51.73\00:03:54.93 implications of what's coming down. The line also with technology. But another aspect 00:03:54.93\00:03:58.97 that we touched on last hour we can deeply go deeper into if you'd like here and this 00:03:58.97\00:04:02.80 hour. But Tom, the aspect of a thought control and deception. And so when the double dangles 00:04:02.80\00:04:10.81 out, the the worldly enticements and the the ideology or 00:04:10.81\00:04:15.82 worldview that contrary to the Bible and people bite on that hook line and sinker because of 00:04:15.82\00:04:21.59 the conditioning because of the priming in the mass formation in the group think that we're 00:04:21.59\00:04:26.90 discussing. So this was a kind to insidious aspects of what the devil is up to with media. 00:04:26.90\00:04:31.67 But, you know, in in this, let's redefine groupthink. Yeah. So 00:04:31.67\00:04:34.60 that's just basically. >> Someone is programming. Large groups of people to just 00:04:34.60\00:04:43.91 conform to a certain way of thinking exactly is the herd 00:04:43.91\00:04:48.98 mentality K? >> Which will eventually become the whole world wonders after the Yeah, 00:04:48.98\00:04:53.52 you know, we struggle as people to be to stand as individuals partly because of that priming 00:04:53.52\00:04:59.26 and the issues involving the schooling philosophy in the media that I want to teach on 00:04:59.26\00:05:03.70 6 hours right now. I can't give you all the quotes in a interview setting, but on, you 00:05:03.70\00:05:08.10 know, all of that aside, I was I was thinking about the Solomon Asch experiment and 00:05:08.10\00:05:12.61 how that conforming happens. This is an amazing experiment. A behavioral psychology 00:05:12.61\00:05:17.65 experiment they did decades ago and they would have people come into a room and they were 00:05:17.65\00:05:22.72 going to test this one person in a row of 8 people to see how he responds to the group's 00:05:22.72\00:05:29.49 weighing him this way or that. Now the group is in on the trick, OK? So it's one of 00:05:29.49\00:05:33.19 these kind of experiments where there's one guinea pig and he doesn't know he's a 00:05:33.19\00:05:36.36 guinea pig, OK? So here's how the game goes. 7 people that are in there already and 00:05:36.36\00:05:42.24 there. But here comes the 8th one. Welcome. You're one of 8 people who's going to answer a 00:05:42.24\00:05:46.91 series of questions on these cards and the experimenter holds up 2 cards, one of them 00:05:46.91\00:05:53.01 has 3 lines on it of different links. And what the other card has one line that matches in 00:05:53.01\00:05:59.42 length. One of the 3 lines on the other card. So it's meant to be a very simple quiz 00:05:59.42\00:06:04.49 question that you could give to a 3 year-old which line over here. Does this one match 00:06:04.49\00:06:10.13 with? Well, it's the same length line number and letter a so they 00:06:10.13\00:06:15.07 they remove error from the equation because they're going out test the sky to see how he 00:06:15.07\00:06:21.24 responds when all 7 people in front of him answer incorrectly, ha and the same incorrect 00:06:21.24\00:06:29.45 answer. They're prepared. Now the first few cards answer correctly and guy number 8 is 00:06:29.45\00:06:32.59 sitting there going. This is easy. What's going on. But then he all of a sudden here is 00:06:32.59\00:06:36.26 everybody in front of them. Answer letter be when it's clearly see on this round. So my 00:06:36.26\00:06:41.70 eyes playing tricks on me. He's what do I say? It's about to get to me and everybody is saying 00:06:41.70\00:06:48.14 that it's busy and it's clearly see. Solomon Asch. The experiments are found that the 00:06:48.14\00:06:53.71 majority of people, 75% of people, in fact, one answer wrong. At least some of the 00:06:53.71\00:06:57.98 time with the group knowing that they were answering wrong and some of them didn't even 00:06:57.98\00:07:04.25 know they were answering wrong. Their eyes were literally 00:07:04.25\00:07:07.96 playing tricks on them because if everybody says it's be, it must be be. But the majority of 00:07:07.96\00:07:13.66 those that answer draw, he interviewed them subsequently and said, you know, you answered 00:07:13.66\00:07:17.33 some of those incorrectly, didn't you? And probed as to why didn't want to stand out. Head 00:07:17.33\00:07:24.21 to head to fit in a peer pressure. And so we being. You know, we can secure it to 00:07:24.21\00:07:31.31 social creatures in general. Sometimes respond to the group in that way. And that's one of 00:07:31.31\00:07:36.82 the ways that groupthink can form. And it's not so much the media manipulation way that we 00:07:36.82\00:07:41.22 discuss in media on the brain. But it is an important aspect to think about when the whole 00:07:41.22\00:07:45.99 world wonders after the beast. When everybody says it's this way and there's a lot of 00:07:45.99\00:07:49.83 pressure from our peers, from family, from friends, from those around us. Will we stand 00:07:49.83\00:07:54.67 for the right though? The heavens fall, you know, kuz God's their issues on an 00:07:54.67\00:07:57.84 answer like that. It's an issue of obedience. It's an issue of truth. It's an issue 00:07:57.84\00:08:04.18 that has a bearing upon eternal life. Will we choose Jesus when 00:08:04.18\00:08:09.98 the whole world is taking us as a herd off the cliff into destruction. And Mitt. And you 00:08:09.98\00:08:17.06 know, the Milgram. >> Oh, yeah. The Milgram experiment is 00:08:17.06\00:08:19.06 another interesting one to understand. >> A little bit how our minds become con formed in 00:08:19.06\00:08:25.80 this way. the Solomon Asch experiment taught about group conformity but the Milgram 00:08:25.80\00:08:32.64 experiment. Explains the power of of man's authority. So instead of a group, you 00:08:32.64\00:08:39.58 manipulating somebodys mind this time, it's going to be an authoritative figure that since 00:08:39.58\00:08:44.62 he says so it will be done and you will do things that you never thought you would do. So 00:08:44.62\00:08:50.63 the researcher Milgram gets people in and what prompted this was seeing how? Otherwise decent 00:08:50.63\00:08:54.03 people in Germany who had that had a Christian background. They were from families that 00:08:54.03\00:08:58.67 are regular folks became thugs and not see enforcers and mistreating people undoing. 00:08:58.67\00:09:07.84 Eventually unspeakable, heinous human rights violations in 00:09:07.84\00:09:10.68 genocide. How do you get to that point with just a regular population of people? And so he 00:09:10.68\00:09:16.58 has people come in and he says, OK, I'm going I'm going to have you be a teacher. And the man is 00:09:16.58\00:09:23.99 coming in. Doesn't realize he's being experimented on in this way. He just thinks he's 00:09:23.99\00:09:28.26 going to be teaching somebody how to answer questions on a quiz and an innovative 00:09:28.26\00:09:32.33 teaching way. And so he the experiments are says to the Guinea pig, the teacher. The 00:09:32.33\00:09:39.04 way that you're going to teach the man on the other side of the wall in another room to 00:09:39.04\00:09:42.51 answer questions correctly, as you're going to actually apply. Electric shock therapy 00:09:42.51\00:09:46.15 have you heard of this one? So there is nobody being shocked. There's nobody on the other 00:09:46.15\00:09:52.35 side of the wall taking quiz questions. But he thinks there is. The man has answered the 00:09:52.35\00:09:57.73 first question incorrectly. I want you to apply an electric shock at low voltage, Pete, 00:09:57.73\00:10:02.76 And then you hear the guy in the other room in a stay of recordings of people OK, he 00:10:02.76\00:10:08.04 answered another one wrong increase. The voltage. Now the people on the other side of 00:10:08.04\00:10:12.64 the room are screaming and saying stop, I want the experiment and because he's 00:10:12.64\00:10:17.41 increasing the voltage increasing it with every subsequent wrong answer. They 00:10:17.41\00:10:21.08 actually have somebody banging on the wall on the other side pretending that they're being 00:10:21.08\00:10:24.99 shocks terribly and all there is is an authoritative. Experimenter. Researchers 00:10:24.99\00:10:30.43 scientist in a white lab coat. He's an authoritative figure saying it is imperative that 00:10:30.43\00:10:35.26 the study must proceed. You must increase the voltage and press the button and again. 00:10:35.26\00:10:43.10 The vast majority of people would just keep on doing Even the k*** was even labeled as 00:10:43.10\00:10:51.21 lethal dose of of electric shock and they would still press it. 00:10:51.21\00:10:54.65 The majority of them. So it's a minority that are able to withstand the pressure of the 00:10:54.65\00:11:00.96 groupthink or the herd mentality or the conformity to the to the herd and a minority that are 00:11:00.96\00:11:06.70 able to withstand the pressure of an authoritative figure that says that's a tough man. And, 00:11:06.70\00:11:12.27 you know, theologically, there are some interesting connections 00:11:12.27\00:11:16.10 here because you know, in the last days it's a test between God's law and man's law, like 00:11:16.10\00:11:19.44 because man said so. And then the authorities come in and mandate and they use coercion. 00:11:19.44\00:11:27.05 And they say worship, according to the dictates of man's authority instead of 00:11:27.05\00:11:31.72 God's authority. And so these the same kind of issues will be facing us in terms of the 00:11:31.72\00:11:36.73 group taking us a certain direction or the authority of man. And I want to say as for 00:11:36.73\00:11:41.50 me in my house, we will serve the Lord. Now, you know, one of the scripture always 00:11:41.50\00:11:48.00 troubled me was when Jesus said. >> Rather will turn against 00:11:48.00\00:11:52.47 brother of parents child and they'll turn union thinking that 00:11:52.47\00:12:00.32 they are. >> Doing. >> The right thing doing got a service. And I 00:12:00.32\00:12:07.49 thought could that be when when the time of tribulation comes and people are basically we're 00:12:07.49\00:12:14.00 adding another people to turn them in to authorities and they're thinking they're doing 00:12:14.00\00:12:17.03 got a surface. Let that be any just light. I thought I can't see people getting there until 00:12:17.03\00:12:24.67 recently. When what we've over the last in her country. Is forcing people to come so 00:12:24.67\00:12:36.15 polarized. How many call stood week et about families. Are turning family members. They 00:12:36.15\00:12:44.59 believe different politically. They believe different than some think. And all of the 00:12:44.59\00:12:49.10 they are not. They could have been Pence for a while. Make Tokyo separate substance. This 00:12:49.10\00:12:57.64 people each other. mean, it's. It's going cold. Yes. In the midst of this polarize 00:12:57.64\00:13:06.25 society. So now I see how people could. I mean, that's an amazing 00:13:06.25\00:13:14.39 experience experiment. The experiment. >> And I think unseen the things that go on 00:13:14.39\00:13:20.06 today. Shows the reality of how there could be separation. I know in my own life pretty hard 00:13:20.06\00:13:24.90 for this particular issue right here. But I'll be able to stand real deal. Yeah. And you know, 00:13:24.90\00:13:33.21 we have nothing to fear right? Because greater is he? That is in you world? that's that's a 00:13:33.21\00:13:40.85 final promising. Remember, Satan's pH had got create or 00:13:40.85\00:13:45.09 it's no contest. >> Sometimes we derive our ideas of the battle between good and evil from like, 00:13:45.09\00:13:51.49 you know, the cartoons and stuff for the bad guys. Just as strong as the good guy and 00:13:51.49\00:13:55.03 that's where I got these ideas as a kid. And then as an adult, I liked. Satan. While 00:13:55.03\00:14:00.50 he is a wily foe and he's been he's had practice at deception for 6,000 years. His power is 00:14:00.50\00:14:05.01 nothing compared to that. got. And so you just rest in that piece and knowing that I have 00:14:05.01\00:14:12.75 nothing to fear because perfect drive out all fear. I love the Lord. And, you know, 00:14:12.75\00:14:20.72 he has not given us a spirit of fear, but he's given us us a spirit of power and love and 00:14:20.72\00:14:26.59 a sound mind? Yes, and that's not an I Q test. >> But the 00:14:26.59\00:14:31.87 sound of mine has to be because I just want to say this counterfeit reality is not just 00:14:31.87\00:14:40.21 happening. The world, the carnal secular world. There is also counterfeit reality that's 00:14:40.21\00:14:47.98 happening in There's different teaching stat. You cannot even find in the Bible. Yeah, and 00:14:47.98\00:14:53.09 so. The most important thing that I could recommend to anyone we're going to talk 00:14:53.09\00:15:00.80 about now. How does skane the counterfeit reality? But once again, so let me use that this 00:15:00.80\00:15:08.34 illustration when they are training people to identify counterfeit bill. Guess what? 00:15:08.34\00:15:15.38 They don't show him 1000 different counterfeit bills. OK 00:15:15.38\00:15:21.92 say this. That's a counterfeit no. What they do is have them the real Until they know so 00:15:21.92\00:15:32.36 well. counterfeit come spy, even though it's 99% right. But it's got that one little Marc that's 00:15:32.36\00:15:39.17 counterfeit. So how can we escape the kind of tape? >> Hey, man, I'm in regards to 00:15:39.17\00:15:44.97 deception and the example you are using them in God's word is the standard and Sony be in 00:15:44.97\00:15:50.45 the word of the word. And speaking the word teaching the word and season and all the 00:15:50.45\00:15:55.52 time as we rise up and lie down. Walk. By the way, it says in Deuteronomy 6 to speak 00:15:55.52\00:15:58.12 of God's word. So the more that we are in that you know it as it 00:15:58.12\00:16:08.86 relates to the baptism that has taken place where people have immersed themselves in online 00:16:08.86\00:16:15.20 virtual And if heard that would immerse, you know, it one of my favorite antidotes for 00:16:15.20\00:16:23.55 media access for hyper stimulation for a addiction to media is simply nature. Yeah, 00:16:23.55\00:16:32.32 more of God's beautiful creation. You know, they did. A 00:16:32.32\00:16:35.56 survey actually of millennial as young adults while back and they ask them, what could you not 00:16:35.56\00:16:39.23 live without? And they rank them. And you know what ranked higher or what Internet 00:16:39.23\00:16:45.83 connection ranked higher than hot water and daylight in terms of things you can't live 00:16:45.83\00:16:50.77 without. And I thought that is sad daylight. That's seeing God's creation being out in 00:16:50.77\00:16:58.35 the outdoors. Hearing the birds singing hot water that's uncomfortable. Maybe slightly 00:16:58.35\00:17:02.98 gross. But how about God's creation? You're missing out if 00:17:02.98\00:17:07.26 you're an Internet connection, higher than that, and there's so much good research on the 00:17:07.26\00:17:11.79 stress, reducing effects of nature exposure, how it lengthens attention span, how it 00:17:11.79\00:17:18.07 reforms transforms us by the renewing of our minds. It literally helps to build our 00:17:18.07\00:17:22.87 brain back from the damage that's been done from the overexposure to hyper 00:17:22.87\00:17:28.88 stimulating media because nature's little smart, slow pace, isn't it? We're talking 00:17:28.88\00:17:33.08 about, you know, sitting beside the beach with the rolling waves coming in. We pick your favorite 00:17:33.08\00:17:38.32 place. And going for walks. I know, depending on the time of year and where you live, these 00:17:38.32\00:17:42.79 things can be difficult. May may need to invest in a good pair of snowshoes in order to 00:17:42.79\00:17:46.19 achieve this. whatever it takes get outside in Michigan where I live, I have to God's 00:17:46.19\00:17:51.97 creation is such a wonderful counter part to that counterfeit 00:17:51.97\00:17:58.41 because it's the original reality. And as we mentioned, God's word God's truth. Another 00:17:58.41\00:18:01.81 aspect is how do you counter the May? I call that the anti social media. You know, that's our 00:18:01.81\00:18:09.08 social life. You mentioned the story of the little girl, poor girl. She thinks that social 00:18:09.08\00:18:14.16 interaction, her brain is being hit with, though, coming as if she's getting a social 00:18:14.16\00:18:16.99 connection. Each time that post or that like or that oh, gee, appears. But the reality 00:18:16.99\00:18:22.63 is, as you mention, Shelley, she's missing out on the very people in arm's reach that you 00:18:22.63\00:18:26.67 can touch and look at the ice off. So anti social media can simply be countered by forging 00:18:26.67\00:18:32.24 in developing and deepening the real relationships we have in our lives. And that's not 00:18:32.24\00:18:38.15 to say that you can't text somebody and, you know, have been in touch that way. But 00:18:38.15\00:18:41.35 that can't be the majority of our human communication because it is not social and 00:18:41.35\00:18:47.39 it's not really very human. It's kind of robotic. It's kind of 00:18:47.39\00:18:49.76 just, you know, mechanical, if you will. Interaction human to human. Excuse me has has emotive 00:18:49.76\00:18:55.66 aspects to it. Yes, you know, we're into this feeling it the way you talk the way your 00:18:55.66\00:19:03.07 facial expressions communicate your heartfelt thoughts and feelings is part of that 00:19:03.07\00:19:07.98 tapestry and beauty of what it means to be humid, made in God's image and God is love. 00:19:07.98\00:19:13.65 How do we express love? You know, you can express it by sending an encouraging message 00:19:13.65\00:19:16.69 on social media, but even more so with Huck even more. So when somebody is suffering and 00:19:16.69\00:19:23.12 struggling and they see you come near to them, you minister to 00:19:23.12\00:19:26.39 you know, that's personal work. And that's not to take away from online digital evangelists and 00:19:26.39\00:19:29.96 we can spread the truth. I like media, I should tell you when media was formed, I know we 00:19:29.96\00:19:33.77 talked about that last time we interviewed, but maybe we should go there again is a 00:19:33.77\00:19:36.60 case 18. 44, as you know, Daniel 8.14, points to 18. 44 as a prophetic year, that 00:19:36.60\00:19:43.95 ushers in the last days of Earth's history. Well, the first electronic media device 00:19:43.95\00:19:49.22 ever invented with the Telegraph and it was the year 18. so God 00:19:49.22\00:19:54.39 has a plan to use media, too. 3 ABN. We're doing it right. This is the act with actual as Asian 00:19:54.39\00:20:02.00 of God's dream to utilize satellite networks and outlets that can go clear around the 00:20:02.00\00:20:05.03 world. That's powerful and wonderful. So. Getting the right balance, making sure that we 00:20:05.03\00:20:09.70 understand that these things are inherently the let me put it this way. The technology is a 00:20:09.70\00:20:16.04 moral right? It's not him it's not a good thing or a bad thing. It's depends how we use 00:20:16.04\00:20:23.52 it. And we have to be in the driver's seat using it instead of being used by it. Could I 00:20:23.52\00:20:27.76 say this? >> I have noticed something about. The generation 00:20:27.76\00:20:36.67 of young people. And and I'm seeing older folk are falling into the same trapped now what 00:20:36.67\00:20:42.94 we're doing because of all the media and the constant access immediate gratification. But 00:20:42.94\00:20:49.58 it appears to be. >> We're very nup that generation that has the 00:20:49.58\00:20:56.35 attention span of a hummingbird. Yeah, they just dip in here for 00:20:56.35\00:21:01.59 a second and they depere for a second ad pair. And they can no longer focus. And I believe 00:21:01.59\00:21:06.59 something that. Has always been important to me. I have tap. Periods of time. Absolute 00:21:06.59\00:21:16.77 silence. That's how I kind Grounded, I guess it's when I find that I open up the most 00:21:16.77\00:21:23.78 to the Lord. That is when I get quiet. But we have young. I guess, great grand are not 00:21:23.78\00:21:32.19 great grand. We have nephews and nieces and their children would be our great nieces and 00:21:32.19\00:21:41.40 They are. Very believe it or UM militant almost about the amount of time their children 00:21:41.40\00:21:53.21 are allowed on. Social media. They you know, they have so much. I think our 13, she kits 00:21:53.21\00:22:01.68 less than an hour. With any kind of access. So let's talk about. Kids being educated 00:22:01.68\00:22:11.46 today. I'm just going work a second. 1000 things going to When children are being 00:22:11.46\00:22:20.74 educated today. I want of Times Square starting them on computers and online reading 00:22:20.74\00:22:28.11 in things. First. >> And you've got statistics in his study. I 00:22:28.11\00:22:34.35 changing the way I started doing some of my reading of the Bible on Mike phone app. But you have 00:22:34.35\00:22:41.26 statistics that show when you train like I think you don't take you don't retain as much 00:22:41.26\00:22:49.16 when you're reading online. So that. And when we start children. So I really like age 00:22:49.16\00:22:55.94 for thinking that we're helping them get a head start. >> Talk to that. Starting with 00:22:55.94\00:23:03.45 the reading a book reading versus screen reading of the exact same tax to compare them 00:23:03.45\00:23:07.38 side by side and the death of a critical thought. Most importantly, but just 00:23:07.38\00:23:10.89 comprehension. And as you mentioned, retention is higher. When you're reading 00:23:10.89\00:23:14.02 the same text and up printed book versus a screen, you might say why? What's the 00:23:14.02\00:23:18.53 difference to the same tax? We've conditioned our minds to read a certain way. When we go 00:23:18.53\00:23:23.83 online, there's 5 tabs open. There's multiple browsers, different applications. The 00:23:23.83\00:23:29.44 phone is over here. We're doing that on the phone number clicking there. I got this. 00:23:29.44\00:23:31.17 And then attacks comes in. It's a it's a different way that our 00:23:31.17\00:23:36.21 brain functions doesn't go into its much depth and so interesting. We are better at 00:23:36.21\00:23:42.08 one thing on screens. Fact chasing. We can we can quickly find and identify effect on a 00:23:42.08\00:23:47.06 screen with the same text as it's in a book. So there's one advantage, although, you know, 00:23:47.06\00:23:51.76 I'd rather have critical thinking and efficiency. And, you know, fact, Jason, because 00:23:51.76\00:23:55.20 I can take my time a little bit over here. But I utilize screen-based reading as well. 00:23:55.20\00:24:00.40 And as you're mentioning, you know, there can be a place for both. But we have to retain 00:24:00.40\00:24:06.44 our ability to read in a concentrated fashion cognitively 00:24:06.44\00:24:12.51 cohesively thoroughly so that you're following linearly and logically, the ideas presented 00:24:12.51\00:24:15.88 in a text and that takes some time to unpack. And we tend to do that better and books 00:24:15.88\00:24:22.42 because that's you know, that that's how the enlightenment took place. I mean, the 00:24:22.42\00:24:25.56 reformation after Gutenberg printing press gave us the modern mind and the scientific 00:24:25.56\00:24:32.80 revolution and free markets and civil liberties and all of the wonderful things that came 00:24:32.80\00:24:36.60 out of that that period of time called the great Reformation. So 00:24:36.60\00:24:40.74 I want to lose that. And I want to go into a new dark age, you know, a digital dark age where 00:24:40.74\00:24:46.15 we've lost the ability to cognitively comprehend history beyond the present moment. 00:24:46.15\00:24:50.19 What is the immediate text and feedback that I get into my, you know, don't mean receptors 00:24:50.19\00:24:55.92 from the impression that I want to get on social media right now or what is that fun 00:24:55.92\00:24:58.39 fact or that interesting tidbit? How does that hit me right now 00:24:58.39\00:25:03.00 in the present moment, only and then I'm like you said as a hummingbird on to the next thing 00:25:03.00\00:25:08.10 in the next thing, actually, Time magazine actually reported on a study has saw the headline. 00:25:08.10\00:25:11.34 You now have a shorter attention span than a Goldfish. 8 seconds. The average attention span. So 00:25:11.34\00:25:15.88 you are you are literally on to it with a hummingbird Goldfish 00:25:15.88\00:25:20.38 have a longer attention span and the average human in the industrialized world going to go 00:25:20.38\00:25:24.95 fishes 9 seconds. We're 8 seconds. So yeah. On the book creating retaining that ability 00:25:24.95\00:25:30.06 to read and not losing that with the next generation because we do kind of have a illiterate 00:25:30.06\00:25:33.29 population coming up. If they don't know that style of reading 00:25:33.29\00:25:38.97 that method of literacy and all you not to do is, you know, you sound out words. You can make 00:25:38.97\00:25:42.07 sense of a sentence, but it's not true. Literacy to you're going into depth like you're 00:25:42.07\00:25:47.08 studying God's word. That's a deep type of study. >> And in 00:25:47.08\00:25:52.28 I've read several studies and I believe you brought this have digital disconnect as well that 00:25:52.28\00:25:55.45 when you look at all the software developer said create all of these online things that 00:25:55.45\00:26:00.66 we do even learn things. know, that in their schools for their children. They don't even 00:26:00.66\00:26:08.36 allow him to call what they teach them. How to use critical 00:26:08.36\00:26:13.34 thinking how to research. They don't allow them to go online. Tell there well as who wasn't 00:26:13.34\00:26:20.64 it. It >> Yeah. big tech executives of Steve Jobs did not have his kids on iPad before he 00:26:20.64\00:26:26.05 died. The iPad was about to hit the store shelves and they asked him, you know what your kids 00:26:26.05\00:26:29.25 think of this amazing new invention. They're going to be enamored with them. They must 00:26:29.25\00:26:31.02 be on it all the time. Now. He said no, they never used one. We have mealtime together as a 00:26:31.02\00:26:36.76 family. There's another answer to how to escape. The counterfeit reality is bring 00:26:36.76\00:26:39.69 back some of those traditional things. But then it's the. mid-level guys, the engineers, 00:26:39.69\00:26:44.53 all of that gurus, if you will. The tech wizards of digital far 00:26:44.53\00:26:49.97 makiya. The guys that can make these addictive guys and Platforms, apps devices and 00:26:49.97\00:26:58.61 social media platforms. They to a person. You interview them. They're very strict with their 00:26:58.61\00:27:00.98 media kind like we're just what you were describing earlier. They will put him in schools 00:27:00.98\00:27:06.52 that do not allow ad tech to come in until high school or middle school, depending on the 00:27:06.52\00:27:10.49 school. Their nannies are signing contracts. Like, you know, your 3 year-old my 3 00:27:10.49\00:27:13.70 year-old is not going to be on a device. Do real things of that. Put him in the sandbox, 00:27:13.70\00:27:16.77 go to the park, play with the play dough to a puzzle. Whatever 00:27:16.77\00:27:22.77 you know. And so they're very, very strict. And that's in Silicon Valley Facebook. Google, 00:27:22.77\00:27:26.84 all the big name, big tech companies. There's a New York Times Expos in the interview. 00:27:26.84\00:27:29.74 Tons of these people in. Let's kind of a consensus really among them that they do tech with 00:27:29.74\00:27:34.62 their kids quite differently than we do it with ours. And they're doing that predominately 00:27:34.62\00:27:40.19 for educational. You advantages. They want their kids to be the best and the brightest, OK, 00:27:40.19\00:27:44.36 one of the best educational methods so that they can become 00:27:44.36\00:27:48.76 whizzes and intellectuals. An interesting way that's going without media. The tech people 00:27:48.76\00:27:53.07 who want their kids may be to be the next tech billionaire or something accusing the tech of 00:27:53.07\00:27:57.84 the early ages. So it's not kids down when you put them on that. That's true. And I pay 00:27:57.84\00:28:04.85 and putting it bluntly pout nowadays they're talking about putting kids in school by the 00:28:04.85\00:28:07.92 time their age 4. >> Say I think kids don't even get to be kids 00:28:07.92\00:28:13.62 any more kids are missing out on their childhood because they're on these devices. And now 00:28:13.62\00:28:18.43 parents are like all we've got to start training them up to use all of this earlier. What 00:28:18.43\00:28:24.13 about going to school if they too. I'm so glad you asked that. I'm so glad we don't 00:28:24.13\00:28:30.94 prescriptions interviews weeks. I have not even thought to suggested that to be one of 00:28:30.94\00:28:33.11 our discussions because >> that a huge study just came out of the state of Tennessee. 00:28:33.11\00:28:38.21 This was reported on NPR. In fact, our ministries putting out a newsletter very soon. 00:28:38.21\00:28:42.78 And if if this being watch later than it would, you can just get 00:28:42.78\00:28:45.72 it after the fact. But a major report on comparing children who who attended preschool versus 00:28:45.72\00:28:52.79 those who did not and everybody in the educational community has 00:28:52.79\00:28:59.07 always said give them a head, start get him. An organ is organized school from an early 00:28:59.07\00:29:04.24 age, at least half programs better yet full-day programs. There's a book a while back in 00:29:04.24\00:29:05.97 the 90's that was published called it takes a village and it was a book about children from 00:29:05.97\00:29:11.45 the age earlier than age 3 should be in sparkling classrooms and full time. Child 00:29:11.45\00:29:17.52 care professionals and as somebody believes in the Bible and the family and the parental 00:29:17.52\00:29:23.59 unit that God has placed as the guardian of that child's heart and soul and mind to train 00:29:23.59\00:29:26.59 them for the Lord of the nurture, an admonition of the Lord commander children after 00:29:26.59\00:29:29.50 them as Abraham did. It was a horrifying thought. In fact, interestingly, that book was 00:29:29.50\00:29:34.44 written by somebody who had been receiving counsel from one of 00:29:34.44\00:29:40.21 these sort of spiritualists gurus who is leading the author and conversations with the dead. 00:29:40.21\00:29:44.15 So that should tell you something about the book. It takes a village, but 00:29:44.15\00:29:48.02 nonetheless putting the kids in school early. The preschool teachers. Meanwhile, I had a 00:29:48.02\00:29:49.85 wonderful preschool teacher. I remember her so not to take anything away from the 00:29:49.85\00:29:53.99 preschool teachers, but the kids who are put in school later 00:29:53.99\00:30:00.86 perform better academically as they got older and in through high school in every subject and 00:30:00.86\00:30:04.57 in more importantly, in that character development areas, social problems, detentions, 00:30:04.57\00:30:10.37 suspensions, those types of things were lower in the kids who went to school later, not 00:30:10.37\00:30:13.98 earlier. And the researchers said I don't want to report this. This is contrary to 00:30:13.98\00:30:19.51 everything I thought and believed and advocated for. And all my colleagues are mad 00:30:19.51\00:30:22.88 at me for reporting this. But I have to tell people the truth. This is the result of 00:30:22.88\00:30:24.62 the research. So that was a that was an we knew it. You know, I've I've read a book 00:30:24.62\00:30:31.86 called Education Education for over 100 years that has advocated that we know wait a 00:30:31.86\00:30:36.33 little bit. Let the mother be the only teacher for the first 8 years, even 8 to 10 years. 00:30:36.33\00:30:40.10 It says that might sound radical to us. It's an impossible to us. 00:30:40.10\00:30:44.07 But with God, all things are possible in his ways are always best. >> And there are the 00:30:44.07\00:30:47.41 exclusions people too. Maybe a single mother who has to be gone at work all day long and 00:30:47.41\00:30:55.08 maybe there's an abusive home. So there's always those who could benefit. But in general, 00:30:55.08\00:30:58.89 I think it's fascinating that they're finding quit pushing the children to grow up. 00:30:58.89\00:31:08.63 >> In skills sense. >> Too soon let be children. Let them 00:31:08.63\00:31:17.04 experience Scott's nature. Help them to learn to be critical thinkers that they can and 00:31:17.04\00:31:24.28 character development. >> That Chris here just a little bit. Shelley. Because you keep 00:31:24.28\00:31:29.65 bringing this up. I would like to know. Don't the main. Re sceptres. Use that word. 5, 6, 00:31:29.65\00:31:42.13 7, times you get around the medical feel you hear this quite often. 25 words or less. How 00:31:42.13\00:31:47.37 does that fit into all of this? God created us for pleasure to enjoy life. Where when we do 00:31:47.37\00:31:55.61 good things for him, it activates the pleasure. Receptors. Doping is released 00:31:55.61\00:32:00.95 and we feel joy fulfillment. We figured out a way to do an end-run around that the drugs. 00:32:00.95\00:32:07.96 Hi stimulating types of food flavors. Set the big corporate establishment can manipulate, 00:32:07.96\00:32:13.46 as you mentioned. I've got a story on that. By the way, media addictions, they target 00:32:13.46\00:32:20.10 and release doping mean which is a neurotransmitter that about 250 word just like rest 00:32:20.10\00:32:23.81 of us do. Yeah, that the neurotransmitter fires off because it targets the 00:32:23.81\00:32:28.88 pleasure set receptors. The reward circuit fires off, even though you deserve no reward 00:32:28.88\00:32:34.45 because you did nothing right for the Lord that requires. >> Self-discipline effort the 00:32:34.45\00:32:40.62 runner's high went for a jog. You did something good for somebody and got a thumbs up 00:32:40.62\00:32:44.06 or thumbs down. Yeah. I got a like on my Facebook. proved 00:32:44.06\00:32:49.26 right. >> And they included dad, was today added opening. So so to to hone in on the answer of 00:32:49.26\00:32:55.94 what is doping. It is the neurotransmitter that is a chemical that bridges the gap 00:32:55.94\00:33:01.58 between 2 neurons. The Senate's in apps is called The Gap. 00:33:01.58\00:33:05.61 >> There are true transmitter bridges that gap so that the electrical circuit can fire 00:33:05.61\00:33:08.58 and your brain. You have that experience of that Nusra logical 00:33:08.58\00:33:13.02 path way. >> So how important is that in someone's life? >> You know, we we will have 00:33:13.02\00:33:17.59 dough coming in our life when we when we live life God's way. 00:33:17.59\00:33:20.70 Pleasure follows naturally. And we have a proper amount of it. And stead of surge of it for the 00:33:20.70\00:33:29.14 wrong reasons because we went on and website are because we. Ate or drank or put something in our 00:33:29.14\00:33:35.34 body that we shouldn't have those kinds of things give a rush and a flood of doping. 00:33:35.34\00:33:40.12 And you know what happens then? The receptor start to shut down because the brain so 00:33:40.12\00:33:48.42 readily available here. We don't need so many receptors for whatever reason they start 00:33:48.42\00:33:50.83 shutting Now you need that higher input in order to get the same effect and more and 00:33:50.83\00:33:59.13 more. It's a numbing of our pleasure. You look at the brains of people who've been 00:33:59.13\00:34:03.57 on drugs and the pleasure receptors in their brains are just very muted in the week. A 00:34:03.57\00:34:07.31 normal, healthy, happy brain. It lights up in just joyful life of, you know, living in a 00:34:07.31\00:34:13.68 balanced way. That's the same thing with drugs and media addictions. So I'm glad you 00:34:13.68\00:34:17.39 asked about that because you throw these terms out and opening receptors. What is 00:34:17.39\00:34:21.22 that? Satan's way to get us addicted? Well, it's something parent apparently it's good. 00:34:21.22\00:34:27.76 >> Are as bad, just like anything, you know, got gifts that you can overuse it. Yeah. 00:34:27.76\00:34:35.84 And you run out of And whenever you run out of it, well, then 00:34:35.84\00:34:41.64 your personality changes true. yeah. And then. You've just lost something. Yeah, you've lost 00:34:41.64\00:34:48.38 joy. You mentioned depression. Every addiction leads to higher rates of depression. 00:34:48.38\00:34:52.32 >> not possible to be addicted to something and not have higher risk for depression or 00:34:52.32\00:34:56.29 just to be less happy. You start eating well, I mentioned unhealthy foods. You start 00:34:56.29\00:35:00.96 adding fruits and vegetables to your diet for every additional 00:35:00.96\00:35:04.57 for serving of fruit and vegetables that you add to your diet, you get a measurable boost 00:35:04.57\00:35:07.60 of happiness in your life. Up to 8, they studied up to 8 additional servings, fruits and 00:35:07.60\00:35:13.44 vegetables. I'm sure it work at 9 10 11 also. But you just add one additional serving of 00:35:13.44\00:35:18.91 fruit vegetables to your diet daily die and you feel happier than you did before you have 00:35:18.91\00:35:20.75 that in your diet. >> I like that. Pretty good information. 00:35:20.75\00:35:25.89 Yeah, you know, God's ways always worked best right? He wants us to have joy. Some 00:35:25.89\00:35:29.26 people have this picture of God like he's got rules and the rules are there to just kind of 00:35:29.26\00:35:34.40 dictate to us as some sort of curmudgeon in the sky, taking away the abundant living that we 00:35:34.40\00:35:39.97 think we can find in our own pursuits of pleasure. What a false notion. Satan is not 00:35:39.97\00:35:44.51 better at pleasure than God is God is better at players say is better at addiction. He's 00:35:44.51\00:35:48.48 good at giving a high, which is followed by a crash which causes 00:35:48.48\00:35:53.88 depression and dysregulation of the Delta mean reward circuitry. >> Hey, he's good at 00:35:53.88\00:35:59.29 controlling conforming. He stood at trying to make to that and then giving you free 00:35:59.29\00:36:03.79 will say want you to be conformed. He wants you to become the robotic. Autumn. 00:36:03.79\00:36:11.47 Autumn. >> Dot com. But I'm I think it's but, you know, when 00:36:11.47\00:36:15.34 you think about God and pleasure it guard into the pleasure. Use the card, the card and of 00:36:15.34\00:36:23.01 pleasure for the eyes for the nose, for the census that the touch and the feel. And for 00:36:23.01\00:36:29.78 that 3 thing that tastes. But I love how. Gautz pleasures. >> Bring a G satisfaction 00:36:29.78\00:36:40.96 trains from a shooting. >> But artificially stimulating in 00:36:40.96\00:36:47.14 these, you know, if you get on cocaine, didn't take long all before you are. Receptor center 00:36:47.14\00:36:52.44 turned off thing you suddenly need more and more and more. And it's the same way with the 00:36:52.44\00:36:59.55 digital connections. True. So you used when you recording. I got to produce So you are 00:36:59.55\00:37:08.72 recording disconnect and you talked year. Try happen. Explained the pleasure 00:37:08.72\00:37:17.40 trapped. >> Okay. So that's a term that comes from 1954. From 00:37:17.40\00:37:19.63 a scientific study called the Milner study. And in this one, this is where they had the 00:37:19.63\00:37:24.54 mice. The mouse could tap a lever, a little electronic lever that had a wire that was 00:37:24.54\00:37:28.54 connected into the brain of the mouse and right into the nucleus 00:37:28.54\00:37:33.85 accumbens of the brain. That's where the pleasure reward circuitry is. So the mouse taps 00:37:33.85\00:37:38.79 the lever and signal goes right into their in the mouse. Feels pleasure. So they found the 00:37:38.79\00:37:41.96 easiest quick fix way to get a mouse addicted, if you will. He just perhaps that. And it's 00:37:41.96\00:37:48.90 an end-run around normal mouse living the traditional and natural routes to pleasure 00:37:48.90\00:37:55.14 that a mouse must acquire through running on a wheel or chomping on its healthy miles 00:37:55.14\00:37:58.94 food. All of those are now negated because the lever is the route to pleasure. All. I 00:37:58.94\00:38:06.08 want to tap that again, the mouse as again and again and again. And they did a number 00:38:06.08\00:38:08.18 of mice on this and what they found was. The mouse would smell 00:38:08.18\00:38:15.92 as food it's not interesting taste. I don't want to even eat my food. I mean, it's going to 00:38:15.92\00:38:18.86 go for the lever again. Should I run on? My will add that's too much effort. I just want to tap 00:38:18.86\00:38:23.40 the lever again. So the mouse would just keep going back to the lever again and again, not 00:38:23.40\00:38:27.47 eating, not living like a normal to live. Not thriving. Started wasting away becoming 00:38:27.47\00:38:33.21 emaciated. And these mice were on the brink of death. They had to remove that from them 00:38:33.21\00:38:37.88 or they were starving themselves literally to death. So they were 00:38:37.88\00:38:42.65 in what's called the Pleasure Trap. The pleasure trapped as a scientific way basically of 00:38:42.65\00:38:47.79 saying addiction, if you will. But it's where the brain just demands that addictive 00:38:47.79\00:38:53.76 substance or behavior, even though it means harm to myself and we humans are rational 00:38:53.76\00:39:01.30 beings, rational a mouse. Can't reason 3 things quite to the level that we can. God 00:39:01.30\00:39:06.41 gave us a mind. And so we could see. look ourselves in the mirror and be honest and 00:39:06.41\00:39:12.88 say I even know that this is Jaime, but I can't stop doing it. It's a pleasure. Trapped 00:39:12.88\00:39:18.39 addiction. And that's where intervention and help and admitting that you need some 00:39:18.39\00:39:22.42 help in accountability and no, you go back to your question about how to escape these 00:39:22.42\00:39:27.00 things. That's another counterfeit reality. There's mind control. Virtual living 00:39:27.00\00:39:33.80 and then theres just media addictions in general that becomes our own reality where 00:39:33.80\00:39:37.11 it's my obsession. I have to have that. I can't live without 00:39:37.11\00:39:43.61 that. And for that type of addiction, how to escape that usually involves some help from 00:39:43.61\00:39:47.35 month's where you say honey or mom or whatever. I've got a problem. And you know, it. And I 00:39:47.35\00:39:54.09 want to break free from this because I want to be a slave anymore and I can't help. But, 00:39:54.09\00:39:59.76 you know, I'm in the pleasure trap. And I want the power of Jesus prayed for me. Hold me 00:39:59.76\00:40:03.87 accountable. Take my stuff away. Do whatever is needed. >> tell about the calls you 00:40:03.87\00:40:08.00 get from newlyweds. I was just mentioning that. >> We do get 00:40:08.00\00:40:14.54 calls Weds and they're very concerned because my husband. Doesn't say much keen post too. 00:40:14.54\00:40:20.78 Talk to He does want to spend time with May. This is well what you are too gather. issue. We 00:40:20.78\00:40:27.92 don't do much together anymore. He can't wait to get home from work and run in and going get 00:40:27.92\00:40:34.00 over is games. Cause. I guess it's like that now. So you know, this is keeps coming 00:40:34.00\00:40:40.80 like that. It is. That's a sad situation because it's one thing if you're your own life. 00:40:40.80\00:40:45.47 Yeah, it's something else. If you bring. That special person 00:40:45.47\00:40:51.75 into it. Yeah. >> So to help somebody, you know, because we hear this quite often. married 00:40:51.75\00:41:00.26 couples are calling this June, really, the wife who's doing the complaining saying my husband 00:41:00.26\00:41:04.86 is on his games all the time. To help someone overcome this. First. They've got to 00:41:04.86\00:41:11.23 recognize this is a problem, it's having destructed tissue saying, you what, most people 00:41:11.23\00:41:18.64 don't recognize that on their own. You might even pointed out and they don't recognize 00:41:18.64\00:41:21.88 it. But what you have to do and and I say this. It said they found re. Making boundary 00:41:21.88\00:41:30.99 keeping got we take a 10 Commandments. It was to run in the path of righteousness, he 00:41:30.99\00:41:38.66 says. And I that humid heat in my commandments your piece would have been like a man. So 00:41:38.66\00:41:45.07 these commandments are not Trick shuns, right to control us. It's 00:41:45.07\00:41:53.24 to give us a path that we can. Run in his government of love. So when you put boundary SAP and 00:41:53.24\00:42:02.95 I think this is very important probably good thing to do before 00:42:02.95\00:42:10.16 you get premarital counseling, some boundaries and it comes down to that. You people still 00:42:10.16\00:42:17.03 to treat my husband like child. I don't tell him what to do because I'm not mother. But if 00:42:17.03\00:42:22.57 tapes, if you are doing something like this, we have a serious top there be some 00:42:22.57\00:42:27.81 boundaries. It's going to be between this time and this time. And if you can't through year 00:42:27.81\00:42:34.18 spouse on your own, get your pastor and everybody else involved. That's my $0.2. You 00:42:34.18\00:42:38.95 know, when you mention the path of pleasure and freedom, I was taken back to Eden. 00:42:38.95\00:42:43.39 >> The Garden of Eden. We talk about the tree of the knowledge 00:42:43.39\00:42:48.53 of good and evil. The one that we should not eat We don't all the rest we felt we should not 00:42:48.53\00:42:53.00 touch Hollywood. We should not touch the music industry. It's all it's demonic. Lee infuse. 00:42:53.00\00:42:57.67 The spiritual it's my control as a whole bunch of worthless nonsense. Vanity at best anti 00:42:57.67\00:43:02.28 Christian at its norm. So don't touch it. But you just said it of these ye may freely 00:43:02.28\00:43:09.35 eat, enjoy the abundance of that. To the wife that calls in. I would also ask how much 00:43:09.35\00:43:16.16 time are you on social media? So fair question. I'm not excusing 00:43:16.16\00:43:24.03 the husband in the least. I preach at the husbands much harder as you've noticed. I 00:43:24.03\00:43:29.37 preach at men to be because I'm a man. So maybe ladies need to be harder on the ladies. I don't 00:43:29.37\00:43:32.31 know. But I would ask that question because what if the wife tried this and and the 00:43:32.31\00:43:39.15 boundary think because you can't be an enabler of an addict. John Mann boundaries are key. 00:43:39.15\00:43:42.52 Interventions are needed. And another tack you can take it is. I just cited. I have a 00:43:42.52\00:43:50.39 problem with media says the wife to that video game addict. It has been I know I'm 00:43:50.39\00:43:56.67 on my social media too much your humbling yourself at this point. I'm going to do a 30 00:43:56.67\00:44:02.34 day social media fast. Keeping accountable. And by the way, as a reward, I've skew I'd 00:44:02.34\00:44:09.74 like for 2 weekends from now for us to go to this resort. We like this camp out or we're 00:44:09.74\00:44:16.12 going to go on a trip together. We're going to do a little vacation a long weekend 00:44:16.12\00:44:20.09 together and she can make it really enticing to him. You know, we're going to run 00:44:20.09\00:44:23.19 really nice time together as video games are left at home. And this is where we can have 00:44:23.19\00:44:29.06 those talks. FOX in that context of relational connectedness. We 00:44:29.06\00:44:33.23 have that revival and rebirth of that love. She's admitting that she's not perfect. And then 00:44:33.23\00:44:41.54 that's what that's a win some way to be able to have that confrontational conversation 00:44:41.54\00:44:44.55 where you need to lay down those boundaries firmly. That's good. 00:44:44.55\00:44:49.68 You know, I was just thinking earlier that you're talking about kids. >> I talk with so 00:44:49.68\00:44:54.06 many parents who take their kids into the mountains or something and they'll say, OK, we're going 00:44:54.06\00:44:58.43 to no media this. We can exactly the parents are going like even 00:44:58.43\00:45:05.13 for the parents they're having with All the kids whining way. >> No no TV. What you know, 00:45:05.13\00:45:11.37 movies. >> And it's interesting because it takes several days 00:45:11.37\00:45:15.41 to make that disconnect before people really start have kind of been there. They say they 00:45:15.41\00:45:22.98 have the best times they've ever had I just want to we can just. 10 minutes left. We were 00:45:22.98\00:45:29.16 talking about. Shaping society and how group think we've got people that are pulling some 00:45:29.16\00:45:38.67 strings, trying to make us puppets. Social media. We're having a negative impact. The 00:45:38.67\00:45:53.18 group think and how it influencing the development of sight. Talk to There's no 00:45:53.18\00:45:58.55 doubt about that. In fact, that some of the founders of social media have admitted as 00:45:58.55\00:46:03.26 much and they know the anatomy of how these platforms are designed to function. 00:46:03.26\00:46:07.93 >> They say we deliberately we're giving people a dull coming hit and getting them 00:46:07.93\00:46:10.87 addicted to try to keep them contributing more content to our platform because we can't 00:46:10.87\00:46:16.54 We change the color schemes. We change the sounds the sights, everything they can do 00:46:16.54\00:46:20.94 and a sensory perception type of way. Kind of like Pavlov's dog that you mentioned to keep 00:46:20.94\00:46:25.85 us salivating. For more of those pleasure hits that we get on there. But not just 00:46:25.85\00:46:29.55 that they shape you're thinking too. It's not just to keep your 00:46:29.55\00:46:35.22 keep you on their for their advertising. Bottom line so they can be more profitable. There is 00:46:35.22\00:46:40.63 a worldview agenda in big tech. Just so as much as there is in Hollywood. And we've accepted 00:46:40.63\00:46:46.33 that about Hollywood, that they have an agenda. They pushing an 00:46:46.33\00:46:49.34 ideology, an anti-Christian ideology. What about big tech? What about search engines and 00:46:49.34\00:46:55.14 social media? Do they have a perspective that they are trying to push forward are 00:46:55.14\00:47:01.08 certain muted. Our shadow band are other things elevated. Our warnings put on this that 00:47:01.08\00:47:06.76 maybe it's just free speech and dialogue and scientific and 00:47:06.76\00:47:10.69 >> may actually said I heard it recently. They knew they were 00:47:10.69\00:47:14.46 putting out misinformation, but it actually got warm response. So they did it on purpose. 00:47:14.46\00:47:19.13 >> was Yeah, it's big business. That sure is a Sean Parker, the 00:47:19.13\00:47:24.07 founding president of Facebook right there with Mark Zuckerberg. >> He said we know 00:47:24.07\00:47:28.28 that we were exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology. So you're preying 00:47:28.28\00:47:31.58 upon people's weaknesses securities, people who tend to be the issues with social 00:47:31.58\00:47:38.25 media. You mentioned it's affecting our society in men, mental health and emotional 00:47:38.25\00:47:41.82 health of young people, particularly young girls to most age 12 to 14. There was a 00:47:41.82\00:47:49.06 threefold increase in suicide in that age group in just a 5 year period of time are so 00:47:49.06\00:47:54.24 when social media was becoming big and you think how is that even possible threefold 00:47:54.24\00:47:58.24 increase a 20% increase would be making headlines. This is hundreds of percent increase 00:47:58.24\00:48:04.61 of suicide and depression anxiety, all sorts of mental health conditions on the rise. 00:48:04.61\00:48:11.79 For those who are a little more just just at fragile stages of life or that's their 00:48:11.79\00:48:16.66 personality or in securities from childhood. You've got young women, even and men as 00:48:16.66\00:48:19.29 well. People needing the validation that the social media offers them because I'm 00:48:19.29\00:48:25.13 not somebody. I mean, I don't have worth and value until I've been approved of on 00:48:25.13\00:48:29.10 there. So I go there to get my sense of self-worth, which is not a healthy place to be 00:48:29.10\00:48:33.48 getting it because it's shifting sands. It's man's opinion. It's 00:48:33.48\00:48:37.81 false. It's not really social in delegating in the relational Sen and it counterfeit reality 00:48:37.81\00:48:43.12 because what I not talk with people. >> I'm not just speaking off staff and the head. I've 00:48:43.12\00:48:47.62 talked with people who have said to me, people think I have such wonderful life only 00:48:47.62\00:48:53.33 post pictures of me. We have all dolled up for when I'm at my best are doing this. And I 00:48:53.33\00:49:01.54 only show the happy news, you know, looks like where we're going and I mean, callous 00:49:01.54\00:49:07.04 where we are. But she said my husband and I run news. Triple our children are miserable and 00:49:07.04\00:49:12.88 she said everything I post is a lot. It's it's a false So then you've got other people, 00:49:12.88\00:49:20.92 especially young kids. We're looking this. They get body images and their thing. know 00:49:20.92\00:49:26.43 I'm now This is what's acceptable. It's a mess. >> Before IOUs, last question 00:49:26.43\00:49:32.13 here. But it's a trickle down, though. Let's just talk about the 12 year-old. Well, she's 00:49:32.13\00:49:38.97 getting her information. Let's just say from an 18 worst, the 18 year-old getting her 00:49:38.97\00:49:43.35 information and then her their information. And so it's just it's if you can see. Satan 00:49:43.35\00:49:49.05 working at his best sure stream this man. This is just really, really situation. But 00:49:49.05\00:49:56.32 us. We certainly should expect this and we should just read more. Yeah, we knew this was 00:49:56.32\00:50:04.43 coming. That's exactly right. We are. There's always principals 00:50:04.43\00:50:12.54 involved in life. What ours, some of the principles overcoming bad media I have to 2 00:50:12.54\00:50:19.11 word combinations. I'm Jesus Christ. His power, his promise, 00:50:19.11\00:50:24.19 his presence, something better, something the have to replace. The addictive habit. The thing 00:50:24.19\00:50:28.49 I'm spending my time on what I'm putting my thoughts on what I'm feeling my mind with. I 00:50:28.49\00:50:32.93 have to not just throw the garbage away. >> But Phil, the 00:50:32.93\00:50:36.93 life of something better. So Jesus going to him with repentance and seeking his power 00:50:36.93\00:50:40.47 to overcome. And then the practical programming plan of replacing the time I'm 00:50:40.47\00:50:45.27 spending with something better. That's that was at closer to 25 00:50:45.27\00:50:49.44 words. I was better than my doping answer which went on a little long. But that is the key 00:50:49.44\00:50:53.48 question news out the most important question. So they're somebody at home thats just 00:50:53.48\00:51:00.49 extremely measurable. They just don't think they can go any further south discontented. do 00:51:00.49\00:51:07.93 they need to do? Get out of that right? So that they've got meaning in their life. You 00:51:07.93\00:51:15.54 know, I want to speak to that person specifically and just say the first thing that your 00:51:15.54\00:51:21.71 father in heaven wants you to hear is you are loved. Doesn't matter what you've done, who 00:51:21.71\00:51:26.95 you think you are, what you think your value is what other said about you. What's been 00:51:26.95\00:51:31.82 done to you? God loves you. He forgives you for all your sins. You go to him a week and 00:51:31.82\00:51:39.16 with nothing to offer and he fills you with all of the validation with all of the 00:51:39.16\00:51:44.53 power with all of the promise that we ever thought was even possible is beyond. That's a 00:51:44.53\00:51:50.37 pipe Well, I'm telling myself and every struggling soul who wants that victory that Jesus 00:51:50.37\00:51:58.08 has offered the answer. He says you are my beloved child I'm well policed. Don't let 00:51:58.08\00:52:03.72 the accuser come in and say that you are not worth it to God. Jesus Christ died for 00:52:03.72\00:52:10.53 your sins. Let the power of the Gospel speak deeply into your heart. And then you start 00:52:10.53\00:52:16.53 to say now I can develop a program and a plan because until we feel like we're worth 00:52:16.53\00:52:19.67 it. What's the point? But I'm telling everybody and I used to say the storm, my students 00:52:19.67\00:52:28.01 say it to my children and I hear it from gone myself every morning I opened his word 00:52:28.01\00:52:32.11 because he speaks his truth to your soul and says I have a plan for you. I love you. Get 00:52:32.11\00:52:36.92 to work and here's how I feel about you. it's it's God's message of affirmation to us 00:52:36.92\00:52:43.89 every day. We need to hear that again and again to know that we can. Dig ourselves by 00:52:43.89\00:52:52.00 the grace and merits and power of Christ out of the holes that we are in that you say 00:52:52.00\00:52:54.74 what do you say to a person is in that situation? Feels powerless. It starts by 00:52:54.74\00:53:00.34 knowing that God God believes in you and not because he knows what Christ did for you 00:53:00.34\00:53:04.28 and that will do in you. And he knows that you have an issue he 00:53:04.28\00:53:10.39 cares. >> You know, he hears he does. He sais. >> I like what 00:53:10.39\00:53:19.59 you tell people when they call in and they're not sure I'm for that. They believe in God or 00:53:19.59\00:53:24.37 not. You always tell them in the middle of the night they can't 00:53:24.37\00:53:32.07 sleep. Let me say. >> What I've told many people in. And they've come back and they said, Is in 00:53:32.07\00:53:39.08 the middle of the night, you find yourself that perhaps you just restless. At that 00:53:39.08\00:53:43.95 particular time. I don't use the Salar de if you're for real. If you're for real Lord. Police 00:53:43.95\00:53:48.62 impress upon my heart. Give me a direction. The way that understand it, God is ready 00:53:48.62\00:54:00.30 all-time. 24. 24 24 everything. Okay. Normally if you have an 00:54:00.30\00:54:07.51 issue, you're encapsulated. So how the other. And so he's looking for the crack so that 00:54:07.51\00:54:13.52 the Holy Spirit can go in there and do what called the spirit That's called healing time. 00:54:13.52\00:54:18.09 That's a good place to start a man so hot. If you find yourself. Measurable, that's 00:54:18.09\00:54:27.60 where the capital him your measurable. Unused. Find yourself restless. Just invite a 00:54:27.60\00:54:33.90 guard. If you're for real, I give you permission to prove yourself to may. No black and 00:54:33.90\00:54:39.94 white westerns. That's where hear the bugle low because the cover was coming. know. Try 00:54:39.94\00:54:52.05 prayer is guaranteed to be. >> when you asked the father for the Holy Spirit, it's like 00:54:52.05\00:54:56.86 a child asking bread from his father. Jesus said he's not going to give you a stone. 00:54:56.86\00:55:02.10 It's a prayer that is guaranteed to be. And you will receive the 00:55:02.10\00:55:03.80 Holy Spirit. When you ask that prayer, you just asked them out. >> Scott, we just want to 00:55:03.80\00:55:10.11 thank you so much. I know we could talk there's so much longer fit. I want those if 00:55:10.11\00:55:15.24 you at home to know how to get in touch with Scott, you can get we are fully booked that 00:55:15.24\00:55:20.45 offering you buy. It's called tale of 2 mountains. You can email Scott at Truth Ministry 00:55:20.45\00:55:29.36 said she mail dot com. the truth. Ministry said G mail dot com or you can reach him 00:55:29.36\00:55:40.44 on Web site the Truth. Ministries Dot Archie. Also, it's OK to give out your 00:55:40.44\00:55:46.54 ministry from number, please. 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The love of the father and the 00:56:50.04\00:56:58.11 fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Today. >> a plus. 00:56:58.11\00:57:03.32 >> I ¤ ¤ 00:57:03.32\00:57:15.86 ¤ ¤ ¤ 00:57:15.86\00:57:30.98 ¤ ¤ ¤ 00:57:30.98\00:57:45.69 ¤ ¤ 00:57:45.69\00:58:05.68