Such a beautiful thing, but...
There was a time in my life when I thought listening to pop music was a sin. For many years during my college years, I tried to listen to only Christian music. I don't see that as a sin anymore, but that doesn't mean I think it was stupid to think that way. Looking back after over two decades, listening to pop (worldly) music couldn't have been necessarily destructive or harmful for a college student. However, choosing to listen to Christian music instead probably had a more positive impact on my younger self. But if it was a middle school student, as opposed to a college student, I think pop music, or "pop" anything in general, can have a subtle but detrimental impact.
When we think about the lyrics of all the pop songs, I am pretty sure that more than half of the songs are about 카지노 게임 추천, not all types of 카지노 게임 추천, but specifically the romantic 카지노 게임 추천 between a man and a woman between the ages of somewhere in high school and until they get married. It is reasonable because romantic 카지노 게임 추천 brings out that unique emotion in almost all humans enough to write songs about and sing our hearts out. And it's something an entire generation can relate to. If someone wrote a song about how a sudden rise in interest rate brought grief to the homebuyers, it would be a bit awkward to sing together at a concert, wouldn't it? Romantic 카지노 게임 추천 is a beautiful thing, and it's somewhere near the core foundation of human history because the 카지노 게임 추천 between a husband and a wife is what initiates and sustains a family. The family is what keeps the generations and the humanity going. However, how much pop culture, mainly pop music and movies, emphasizes this theme of romantic 카지노 게임 추천 is just out of proportion.
We humans are constantly in the learning mode. Just like how ChatGPT can look through a massive amount of data available on the internet and give us answers, what we see, hear, read, and taste all become our individual "big data." As a generation, we consume too much overly stimulating media and believe what we see and hear is the norm. For example, when someone writes the storyline for a movie, the writer might portray the 카지노 게임 추천 between a man and a woman by showing scenes where one gives up everything to be with the other. The story will only contain moments worthy of entertainment, not everyday routine life. It's not hard to find movies where the main character has no flaws as a 카지노 게임 추천r, and we begin to think it's possible to meet such a person.
If all I hear and watch is how 카지노 게임 추천 makes or breaks us, how I cannot function if I don't have your 카지노 게임 추천, how your betrayal completely ruined my life, and so on, I will end up valuing romantic 카지노 게임 추천 over everything else. And that might be where many of our teenagers and young adults are right now. Like it or not, every scene of every movie and TV show, every line of every song we listen to and sing along to, is ready to be downloaded into our brain and to build the perspective of our world. In other words, we will be looking at the world through the glass made by the world, without knowing that the glass is uneven and distorting the images. Messages are everywhere, and if we don't have a foundation to discern whether the message is good or bad, everything will get downloaded without any filter. Thankfully, we have access to the Bible, the ultimate foundation.
Dr. Tim Keller had warned about "making a good thing (in this case, romantic 카지노 게임 추천) the ultimate thing" and how dangerous it is. I hope my daughters gain wisdom not to be swayed by the world's messages but to set the correct priorities and not make the mistake of making "카지노 게임 추천" the ultimate thing. Love is good and important, but that's not the be-all and end-all of our lives.
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