Are you desensititized?

[JohnD]

1 Timothy 4:2 (AV)
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Just what sears our consciences?

 

[missmuffet]

One of my favorite movies of all time is "The Sound of Music" I don't remember anything bad in that movie. 

[Selah7]

On 6/19/2022 at 11:48 AM, missmuffet said:

I would watch a very old classic movie. 

 

I would watch a very old classic movie. Most of those movies are ok. You will sometimes see an actress with a top that is too low. The old television shows are usually ok as well Father Knows Best, My Three Son's. 

And how about Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, Gomer Pyle, Gilligan’s Island, That Girl …. I still like Gunsmoke and the Waltons.  And of course, Little House On the Prairie.  …. Columbo.  

[Selah7]

It seems almost any modern movie has to have profanity.  They just have to ruin a perfectly good movie. Too bad.
 

…selah 

[missmuffet]

2 hours ago, Selah7 said:

And how about Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, Gomer Pyle, Gilligan’s Island, That Girl …. I still like Gunsmoke and the Waltons.  And of course, Little House On the Prairie.  …. Columbo.  

Some of the really older television shows were ok. 

[Marathoner]

That's the beauty of farm life. Who needs the telly when livestock are comedians?

Like that nosy old 🐄... you're mending a fence, turn around to grab a hammer, and find yourself inches away from her nose. 

"Shoo!"

She just stands there.

Mmhmm.

"Would you at least unhoof my hammer? I need it." 

[Starise]

I have triple play on Comcast. That's phone/internet/cable TV. 

I absolutely can't stand 99 percent of everything the cable channels offer. I could probably do without the home phone because we have cell phones.I have wasted literally an hour just looking for something to watch, found something I thought was ok only to get part way through it and realize it was garbage too.I would love to cut everything but internet. Me and probably 100,000 other people think the same about it.

If I call them and try to negotiate an internet only deal the concessions are very small. In fact almost not big enough to matter much. I might do it anyway strictly on principle.

[Sower]

4 hours ago, Starise said:

I have triple play on Comcast. That's phone/internet/cable TV. 

I absolutely can't stand 99 percent of everything the cable channels offer. I could probably do without the home phone because we have cell phones.I have wasted literally an hour just looking for something to watch, found something I thought was ok only to get part way through it and realize it was garbage too.I would love to cut everything but internet. Me and probably 100,000 other people think the same about it.

If I call them and try to negotiate an internet only deal the concessions are very small. In fact almost not big enough to matter much. I might do it anyway strictly on principle.

When our kids were young living at home they wanted us to get cable like their friends had, but I have stuck to the (cheap)FREE antenna TV since forever. Our family plan cell service runs about 35 bucks for unlimited use/long distance. We also have direct antenna to tower internet, 21 bucks (cheap) a month. I'm frugal (cheap). I watch old movies on the internet, those Classic Black and white movies from the forties-fifties, and some really good ones in color, old classics. Also found a slew of U-Tube movies of faith called "Encourage TV"- Free Faith and Family. And there are other faith movie producers on the net, U-Tube, and it does take a little extra time to locate them.

When my wife and I head to an old waterfront house we rent during off season (cheap) the TV has cable we watch when the fish aren't biting. It's just like you said Starise, it takes literally 1/2-1 hour to surf through the ten thousand available movies/stations just to find anything decent. By the time I do find something, my wife is asleep on the couch. So I go out on the pier casting my 3/4 oz Johnson Sprite gold spoon to see if the trout or reds have moved in under the lights....or a juicy flounder...(Fishing is free-cheap:) So are the fish!!  God provides!!

I think everybody gets desensitized to some degree no matter how hard we try to not to.  I think God built that into man at creation, like some kind of protection. Just like a child has to grow up to the realities of life to maturity, even adults have to (subconsciously) callous the mind in many instances lest they loose it and have a breakdown. Like the callouses that develop on my hands when doing rough work, they protect my hands after the blisters heal. The things I've seen in a war torn country, the children that appear unaffected by the dead mangled bodies, laughing and asking for cigarettes or candy, while the hardened Marines are puking their guts out. They have adapted to the horrors...

Sin is something I get the opposite direction in view. The more sin I eliminate (feeling proud): the more sin I become aware of.
The more targets/standards I hit (not miss-sin) the more targets keep popping up, and they are harder to hit. And so many, as I am more aware of them, the ones not known, but now revealed, becoming more sensitive to them, as I continue understand God's word that reveal them. The little things.
I can remember saying to myself as a young believer; "You mean not only am I not supposed to do something, but I'm not even supposed to even entertain it in my mind"
Instead of getting ahead of the game, I find I'm discovering just how weak I really am concerning this old flesh I inhabit, and it's demands.
I understand Paul's statement in Romans; Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.    The things I would and don't, the things I wouldn't and do.

The more we learn what the scriptures are showing us what we should strive to achieve, to reach toward the mark and run the race, the more overwhelming becomes the load, unless we give it to Christ and rest in Him.  Not I but Christ. Praise God for His long suffering, praise God for His mercy!
 

[chesed]

On 6/18/2022 at 12:33 PM, missmuffet said:

Take a look at our television,movies,literature and video games today.

No thanks, that's half the problem.