Tag Archives: American

26 Aug, 2007

TV Makes you Dumber

From our elementary days (at least mine), they told us intelligence comes from books. It makes perfect sense seeing how the Living Word is a book.
Here are some resources on the matter:
Does TV make you Dumber?
Believe it or not, there is actually premise given that TV makes you smarter……..
But alas, studies are showing otherwise…
Even science [...]

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18 Aug, 2007

Culture of Self

In this culture we see an overwhelming exaltation of self.
The problem we face as Christians is that we are collectively one temple of the Holy Spirit and not individualists. The world scorns us as being a bunch of “lemmings” and lemmings are often portrayed as stupid little creatures leading one another into a pit. But [...]

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04 Jul, 2007

Celebrating ‘Interdependence’

A great quote from a recent newsletter from my friends of the band Odon Soterias:
Today, on the fourth of July, we are sad not to be with rainbow family to celebrate our interdependence when the rest of the nation revels in its individuality and separateness from one another by spending millions of dollars on fireworks [...]

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11 Jun, 2007

“US TV sex scenes on increase”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4424366.stm
Here is an article dug up from BBC news a couple years ago. The sheer rise in the amount of “sexual demagoguery” in the corporate world is very telling of the direction that America is heading. It is, however, nowhere near yet to the sexuality of television and media that one can find in [...]

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09 May, 2007

America and Globalization

What is Globalization? What is America’s role in it? How does it affect you and me? The following is my extensive look into the phenomena of globalization and its effect on all of us.

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18 Apr, 2007

Superiority and Pride

“You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.” (Exodus 33:5)
Because of pride, one is unable to see their sinfulness. Pride completely blinds us to our sin.
Pride is so [...]

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