Did you ever...?
Did you ever get tired of the hype? One of the worst things for a person's mental health is hype. It can do one of two things to you.
One I call the heroin effect. You always need more and you buy into the hype deeper and deeper everytime you get a chance to fix. All of a sudden you are eyeballs deep in a vat of pop culture excriment and you are succumed to the world and it's sinful pleasures. This effect is usually displayed by the very weakminded that are results of having been raised by a television. Hype is a stimulus that holds an unbelieveable amount of negative influence to a person that is either crying out for nurturing and attention, or simply to a child that wants to learn. Most of the time what, pop culture has to teach is the first and only thing that child will learn. When they learn the world's defination of life first, it is alot harder to let them know what the truth is later.
The second way hype can effect (or infect) you goes this way. It can make you the most bitter, cynical, miserable person in the world. Guess which one I turned out to be.
I hope beyond hope that somday I will be past this stage of being so hurt by the world and the pop around me. I realize good and well that my problem, the thing that causes the emptyness in me, is that I cannot change the unchangable world around me. That's not to say I stop trying to make a dent, but I feel painfully inadiquite that I cannot fix the whole thing. Hype has left me hating it and sullen in that I cannot stop it all.
When I was in the world, I lived for the hype. Everything from the pot to the porn was extreme in my life. It took almost losing my family, my life, and everything to see that nothing in the rhelm of worldly pleasures will ever satisfy. EVER. So I turned my life from the junk and I stopped disobeying the whole false idol commandment.
For a while I was much worse in my cynical stage. Dawn would tell you I'm still the same. Really what it boils down to is that the hype in the world today sickens me. Everything is hyped to sell. Wether it's a product, an adgenda, or hype it's self. Example: You couldn't watch one thing Superbowl week this year without hearing a mention of a wordrobe malfunction. There is constant fallout from that STAGED publicity stunt that will haunt us forever... all in thanks to the hype.
This morning I heard on the news about Superbowl Commercial Payoffs. It was about what commercials did the best promotion for its company. The absolutly sickest ad was by GoDaddy. I used to go to them to buy EVERY domain name I needed. Their commercial got me so angry. I thought this year would be different and not focus on sex to sell products. Well, it seems that GoDaddy's sales have increades by 40% since the softcore porn commercial. WHAT DOES SEX HAVE TO DO WITH DOMAIN NAMES AND HOSTING???
I just wish man would understand... porn does not satisfy, drugs do not satisfy, alcohol does not satisfy and this imaginary world of no rules and the attitude of 'live for the moment' created and hyped by the pop culture, the media, and Paris and her ilk will not satisfy. You see, with all these things, there is nothing to look forward to except for that next fix. In Christ there is a reason.
Living as Children of Light
In lew of a rant that would not please God one little bit, I will let his word say what I feel.
Ephesians 4
17With the Lord's authority let me say this: Live no longer as the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused. 18Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him. 19They don't care anymore about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immoral ways. Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed.
20But that isn't what you were taught when you learned about Christ. 21Since you have heard all about him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, 22throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception. 23Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. 24You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God's likeness--righteous, holy, and true.
25So put away all falsehood and "tell your neighbor the truth" because we belong to each other. 26And "don't sin by letting anger gain control over you." Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27for anger gives a mighty foothold to the Devil.
28If you are a thief, stop stealing. Begin using your hands for honest work, and then give generously to others in need. 29Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.
30And do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he is the one who has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
31Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of malicious behavior. 32Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
Gosh Dar-Diddilly-Arn to Heck
Don't you just hate being half right???
Seems that my prognostication was turned 180 degrees on me. It was New England who ended up winning by three points... JUST AS THEY ALWAYS DO!!! Before I take it out on them, I'll first blame the person who is really responsible: Donovan 'Chunky Soup be Good' Mcnabb.
Sorry but that performance was pitiful. Where was the first down scramble? Where was Donnie's run? He let the Pats shut him down. Many a times Mcnabb had alot of time to chuck the rock and someone to throw it too. If not, I didn't see him run for it once.
Now I also have to take back everything I said about T.O.!!! He played his butt off man.
And finally, if I hear one more 'media' person say "dynasty" or compare the Patriots to the 49ers with Montana and Rice in the 80's, I'm gonna freak. Even worse, they were comparing Bilicheck to Vince Lambardi? The dynasty of the San Francisco 49ers in the 80's crushed all others into oblivion (too dramatic? I can never tell). They didn't win most of their games by three points.
Anyways, what I saw today was a great quaterback buckle. The first quarter told me it was to be a low scoring defensive game. The Eagles should not have put themselves in the position of having to try to win out of desperation.
OK I have vented. Better luck next time Philly... or whoever plays New England again.
Paul McCartney is the man. Didn't think I would ever see another tasteful halftime show unless they went back to having 'Up With People' doing a tribute to the greatest hemisphere in the world... The Northern Hemisphere!!!
I hope the Saints don't stink again next year.
todAnthony
