What Are You Feeding Your Brain?
I am now coming to an even deeper understanding and conviction regarding media programming ( teevee ).
I have been given the notion to only watch things streaming from the box ( boobtube / teevee ) which adds to my faith and helps build it, and which in contrast, does not take away from my faith and helps in demolishing it. This faith by default is in God. It is also faith in mankind, faith in my 'self,' and faith in the good and the love which is evident in the world... if only we can learn to stop soaking up the negative and faithless narratives fed to us via the media and learn instead to soak up what is already present and prevalent: the proof of love and goodness the world has open to us every day. If we can only learn to cease the framed view of life that is marketed to us by this commercial world and see things for what they really are.
I wonder, what 'shows' or 'programming' can I watch which will land on my conscience in a great and positive way?
Look up these two words; "show" and "program" to look further of what is being fed to your mind via media.
I remember studying mass communications in college and being in awe of the power and influence the media has on the lives of all who watch teevee, listen to the radio, view billboard advertising, etc... ( all the forms of media ). It is, dare I say it, the most influential man-made thing outside of schooling, religion and government.
Media is a tool to pacify the masses as well as instigate them. Take the example of 9/11 of how those images were rebroadcasted and repeated over and over again to instigate the deadliest 'response' to the biggest false flag of this century ( it's only 2013 as of this writing ) reminiscent to the controversy surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident last century.
Aside from nature documentaries ( I don't mean the silly animal shows that have ridiculous narration, but the serious in depth look at nature where you discover something about the animal kingdom ), what other 'programming' adds to you and your faith, personally?
Sports: I see the trading of men as commodities and the commercialization of their actions through the selling of mostly useless products in sports programming. I see tribal mentality and people associating with each other according to teams and brands, and the subsequent banter regarding such teams and such sporting actions... a created fiction and distraction from real events and topics of life.... so sports is an obvious no for me.
Reality Shows: The further deprivation of the mass conscienceness via the exploitation of people and the exposure ( and mostly framed, scripted and edited ) of people's insecurities, indifference and ignorance.... all to drive commercial revenue and put the next stamp on popular culture.... so reality shows is another obvious no.
News: Have you noticed news programming is mostly bad news? It is mostly pointing at the common denominator of your psyche: pain, fear, distrust, hate and violence. It is the worst kind of reality teevee, for it has an air of authority and credibility in its so-called "reporting," but falls on its face when it talks about celebrity gossip as 'news' and moments later war and the 'propaganda' they read off of their daily memos... so the news is an obvious no.
These are three big no-no's for me ( and, I'll admit, they usually are the most desirable to watch ), for they tempt and instigate me to think badly of others and reinforce the stigmas and social cues ( which are mostly false ). Watching these somehow make me think I'm better than others, and that's a false perspective to have. Watching these three types of programming kills my faith and the perception of what has been created for us and in how many ways this creation is actually good ( nature and people ), but somehow, my mind being raised with the years of childhood media programming has stamped my mind into a type of mold I've been trying to break out of since I realized a mold had taken place.
Are there any particular things you'd like to change in the feeding of your brain? Are you satisfied with the numbing effect of programming and have you considered what it does to your view of the world, of yourself and what it does to the faith you have in the Almighty and your fellow man? Have you noticed too how you are a product of the images and notions that have been fed to you you're entire life? Isn't it about time to break the cycle and cut off that which is slowly making you into something you were not meant to be?
- You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. -
- Psalm 139:1-14
I suggest: less man's creations and more God's creations..... what do you suggest?
I have been given the notion to only watch things streaming from the box ( boobtube / teevee ) which adds to my faith and helps build it, and which in contrast, does not take away from my faith and helps in demolishing it. This faith by default is in God. It is also faith in mankind, faith in my 'self,' and faith in the good and the love which is evident in the world... if only we can learn to stop soaking up the negative and faithless narratives fed to us via the media and learn instead to soak up what is already present and prevalent: the proof of love and goodness the world has open to us every day. If we can only learn to cease the framed view of life that is marketed to us by this commercial world and see things for what they really are.
I wonder, what 'shows' or 'programming' can I watch which will land on my conscience in a great and positive way?
Look up these two words; "show" and "program" to look further of what is being fed to your mind via media.
I remember studying mass communications in college and being in awe of the power and influence the media has on the lives of all who watch teevee, listen to the radio, view billboard advertising, etc... ( all the forms of media ). It is, dare I say it, the most influential man-made thing outside of schooling, religion and government.
Media is a tool to pacify the masses as well as instigate them. Take the example of 9/11 of how those images were rebroadcasted and repeated over and over again to instigate the deadliest 'response' to the biggest false flag of this century ( it's only 2013 as of this writing ) reminiscent to the controversy surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident last century.
Aside from nature documentaries ( I don't mean the silly animal shows that have ridiculous narration, but the serious in depth look at nature where you discover something about the animal kingdom ), what other 'programming' adds to you and your faith, personally?
Sports: I see the trading of men as commodities and the commercialization of their actions through the selling of mostly useless products in sports programming. I see tribal mentality and people associating with each other according to teams and brands, and the subsequent banter regarding such teams and such sporting actions... a created fiction and distraction from real events and topics of life.... so sports is an obvious no for me.
Reality Shows: The further deprivation of the mass conscienceness via the exploitation of people and the exposure ( and mostly framed, scripted and edited ) of people's insecurities, indifference and ignorance.... all to drive commercial revenue and put the next stamp on popular culture.... so reality shows is another obvious no.
News: Have you noticed news programming is mostly bad news? It is mostly pointing at the common denominator of your psyche: pain, fear, distrust, hate and violence. It is the worst kind of reality teevee, for it has an air of authority and credibility in its so-called "reporting," but falls on its face when it talks about celebrity gossip as 'news' and moments later war and the 'propaganda' they read off of their daily memos... so the news is an obvious no.
These are three big no-no's for me ( and, I'll admit, they usually are the most desirable to watch ), for they tempt and instigate me to think badly of others and reinforce the stigmas and social cues ( which are mostly false ). Watching these somehow make me think I'm better than others, and that's a false perspective to have. Watching these three types of programming kills my faith and the perception of what has been created for us and in how many ways this creation is actually good ( nature and people ), but somehow, my mind being raised with the years of childhood media programming has stamped my mind into a type of mold I've been trying to break out of since I realized a mold had taken place.
Are there any particular things you'd like to change in the feeding of your brain? Are you satisfied with the numbing effect of programming and have you considered what it does to your view of the world, of yourself and what it does to the faith you have in the Almighty and your fellow man? Have you noticed too how you are a product of the images and notions that have been fed to you you're entire life? Isn't it about time to break the cycle and cut off that which is slowly making you into something you were not meant to be?
- You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. -
- Psalm 139:1-14
I suggest: less man's creations and more God's creations..... what do you suggest?
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