I don't understand why there are so many people that refuse to read books like Harry Potter or Twilight for that matter. The most I can get out of anyone is that they don't want to read it just because its "the cool thing" or the "most popular" thing.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!! Its like saying I'm not going to be Mormon just because everyone is so excited about being Mormon and thinks it so great. That is part of the reason we share the gospel. Because its a good thing. I am in no way saying that Harry Potter and Twilight are better than religion or that everyone should read those books or see the movies.
When you think about other movies like Batman, Transformers, or any other sell out popular movie you don't hear anyone complain and say "I'm not going to see it because I made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to see it because everyone else absolutely loves it and thinks its so good."
Granted I don't think that the Harry Potter movies are that great or Twilight. But I do like the books and have read them several times. Movies just really are never the same as the books but they can be as entertaining. But seriously what is with people just declaring they won't read a book or see a movie "just because".
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Why should I have kids?
Other than the obvious religous reasons why should I or why would I want to have kids? This world is full of so much hate, garbage, and evil that I don't want to subject anyone else to the pure evil that is running around in this world. I know that there are special spirits waiting to be my children but at the same time I find it very hard to want to raise children in today's society.
We live in a world where more and more things are becoming normal and accepted. Until it was brought to my attention I didn't realize all the trash and garbage that is on TV, in movies, and in music. I was absolutly apalled when I found out that the movie industry can leagally put partial nudity in a PG rated movie. Even G rated movies now tend to make some kind of inappropriate comment. We live in a society where it is ok to take an 8 year old child to a PG-13 movie that has sexual and drug related content and references. But its OK because that child won't know what it means. I was sitting next to a child in the movie Transformers 2 and he couldn't have been more than 9. He was laughing at inappropriate comments because everyone else in the theater was laughing. I figured that he didn't know what he was laughing about and it made me sad.
We live in a society where pornography, violence sex, and drugs are becoming more and more ok. Where people choose to live in a virtual world instead of the real world. Because the real world won't/doesn't or they don't think people will accept them for who they are.
Satan is becoming more and more powerful by the day and it is sad that it takes so little now to corrupt someone. That even a "harmless" video game or movie can seem so funny and so hilarious when I know that if it were to have been released when I was young, let alone my parents, there would have been quite a few thousand people outraged by what people are trying to subject us to.
Maybe I am living in a sheltered world but things are worse now than when I was a child. Maybe I shouldn't let that influence my decision on whether I have children. I know that I, as a parent, can choose what I subject my children to; but even then that is only limited. And then you get criticized by others because you "shelter" your children. Because, as it was pointed out to me, most kids now have cell phones so how, as a parent, are you supposed to monitor who you children are talking to and what kind of person they are. Let alone who they are spending time with.
I have a fear that if I do have children that they will be very sheltered because I don't want them to know and be tempted by all the evil things in this world that are becoming more and more accepted.
We live in a world where more and more things are becoming normal and accepted. Until it was brought to my attention I didn't realize all the trash and garbage that is on TV, in movies, and in music. I was absolutly apalled when I found out that the movie industry can leagally put partial nudity in a PG rated movie. Even G rated movies now tend to make some kind of inappropriate comment. We live in a society where it is ok to take an 8 year old child to a PG-13 movie that has sexual and drug related content and references. But its OK because that child won't know what it means. I was sitting next to a child in the movie Transformers 2 and he couldn't have been more than 9. He was laughing at inappropriate comments because everyone else in the theater was laughing. I figured that he didn't know what he was laughing about and it made me sad.
We live in a society where pornography, violence sex, and drugs are becoming more and more ok. Where people choose to live in a virtual world instead of the real world. Because the real world won't/doesn't or they don't think people will accept them for who they are.
Satan is becoming more and more powerful by the day and it is sad that it takes so little now to corrupt someone. That even a "harmless" video game or movie can seem so funny and so hilarious when I know that if it were to have been released when I was young, let alone my parents, there would have been quite a few thousand people outraged by what people are trying to subject us to.
Maybe I am living in a sheltered world but things are worse now than when I was a child. Maybe I shouldn't let that influence my decision on whether I have children. I know that I, as a parent, can choose what I subject my children to; but even then that is only limited. And then you get criticized by others because you "shelter" your children. Because, as it was pointed out to me, most kids now have cell phones so how, as a parent, are you supposed to monitor who you children are talking to and what kind of person they are. Let alone who they are spending time with.
I have a fear that if I do have children that they will be very sheltered because I don't want them to know and be tempted by all the evil things in this world that are becoming more and more accepted.
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