"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
Think on that quote!
We are changing the world with our minds.
If we are tired of all the violence and crime in the world, the solution is staring us in the face, and not one person can do it alone! Undoing the damage may not happen overnight. It took many years to create such a violent world, and creating a better world will also take time. But it would be a start.
Everywhere I look these days, I see images of killing in one form or another: lethal weapons, torture, blood and gore, to name a few. It's everywhere, even books. Bright, shiny blood and a gun on a book cover is eye-catching and makes a book stand out. Publishers know this, and publishers are out to make money. Crime novels and Thrillers put some authors on the NY Times Best Sellers' List, and many of those books were probably sold by their covers alone.
I, for one, will not buy a book with bloody images of violence and death on its cover! I am terrified of guns, because I was once threatened with a Marlin 22 lever-action rifle aimed about a foot from my face by a drunk spouse. (I was three-months pregnant at the time.) Two days later - the day after Christmas - my mother-in-law was shot and killed by her second husband, whom she was divorcing. Then, many years later my eldest brother took his own life with a shotgun purchased at Walmart. He was in a wheelchair, but nobody questioned what a disabled person might want with a gun. . . .
Those horrible experiences are the reason I detest guns. Guns for our military? Of course. Guns for hunting food? Yes, if hunters are trained and careful. For sport? Perhaps; it depends on the individual and what kind of person he/she is. To show people how tough you are? No, no, a thousand times no! Yet they walk our streets. They strut around with their overblown egos on display in the form of automatic rifles slung over their shoulders!
Well, not only are book covers and automatic rifles big contributors to violence and criminal activity; in my opinion, so are violent video games that place the player directly into the game so he's actually guiding the action with his eyes, hands, and mind; the player may feel as if he has walked right into the scene. When gamers do this often enough, they may become confused and unable to distinguish fantasy from real life. This is an example of brainwashing. Repeated images focused into a person's mind over days, weeks, or months, often create a mind that can't tell right from wrong. Repetition is how we learn an activity, whether it's writing, singing, sports, dancing, gymnastics, golfing, or something else. Good eye-hand coordination and visualization are keys to learning.
When the "real life" games first came out, I predicted to a son: "In about twenty years, we're going to see these games materializing in our lives. People have been programmed and will act out the violence from all the video games they played." Nobody believed me then, but the evidence is now hitting us in the face. I've done a lot of research into this subject over the years and have seen and found enough to convince me of its truth.
All one has to do is look around and see what's happening. It's on the news. It's all over the world. Both old and young minds are automatically soaking up this violent garbage, and they're starting younger and younger. I've heard some state that killing someone in video games and movies is only "fun entertainment": I call it mind control.
A cranky baby? Oh yeah, just hand him a little video game with music and bright images to keep him occupied, and when he's in high school, he'll find more videos, some with violence that goes straight to his mind.
"Train up a child in the way he should go . . ."
Yup, we sure did! And mankind has not learned its lesson yet. If we succeed in destroying ourselves, as well as our planet, and if there really is such a thing as reincarnation, we'll probably come back in some other form and do it all over again.
I don't have statistics for this, but since not every gamer ends up with blood on their hands, we must assume that some repetitive games probably affect the weakest, most vulnerable minds.
I'm deliberately leaving out mention of subliminal suggestions which can be programmed into those videos as another path to brainwashing. Don't say it can't be done: It has and is being done. But that's a subject for another blog.
"Whatever the mind of man can see and believe, can be achieved." - ESP Writer/Lecturer, Harold Sherman
Namaste!
