Evil TV & kids: in the news

[kjvsteve]

In the UK press today: A 3-year-old being treated by specialist in California 'trapped in the world of Thomas the Tank Engine' after watching 5 hours of TV per day.

He should be running around laughing and playing with the other children at his nursery.
But because he watches so much TV, one three-year-old boy has already become cut off from his peers, trapped in his own ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ world instead.

The toddler, known only as Max, has spent so long watching the show that he barely speaks to other children at his nursery school and instead wanders around in a daze obsessively repeating phrases from the TV programme.

He watches the cartoon for as many as five hours a day – and doctors fear that it has had a long-term effect on his development and communication skills.

The programme is full of catchphrases, such as the character Thomas saying he wants to be a ‘really useful engine’ and exclaiming ‘well bust my buffers’, or those of his faithful coaches Annie and Claribel ‘We feel so full,we feel so full’.

Another well-known phrase goes ‘Silly old Gordon fell in the ditch, fell in the ditch, fell in the ditch,’ from the episode which shows the big green engine purposely running into a ditch to avoid pulling a goods’ train.

The boy, who lives in the U.S, is being treated by a specialist in California.

Doctors are so alarmed that they have reported his behaviour in a paper published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

The youngster’s mother reportedly lets him watch as much TV as he likes. He also likes to watch the Disney Channel, which includes popular programmes such as Hannah Montana and Phineas and Ferb.

However, his case is by no means unique and experts warn that children who watch too much television may be in danger of suffering learning difficulties later on.

Some doctors believe the problem is becoming so widespread that toddlers younger than two should be banned from watching any TV at all.

Researchers in Britain fear that television is increasingly hindering children’s communication skills and ability to concentrate as well as contributing to rates of obesity, because screen-based activities mean they are less inclined to be physically active.

They are considering drawing up strict guidelines which could even advise parents to ban toddlers from watching TV.

Stuart Biddle is chairman of the ‘sedentary behaviour and obesity’ working party, which is currently considering guidelines for the Department of Health.

He said: ‘We are considering what guidelines should say, and a statement around no television for the under-twos is potentially one of the more controversial ones.’

Some countries are already considering a similar policy. last year, the Australian government began drawing up guidance suggesting a ban for children under two.

The advice, which is being finalised, also recommends that those aged between two and five should watch a maximum of one hour a day.

France has also banned any programmes specifically being made for those under five.

[Article taken from www.dailymail.co.uk ]

[michelle]

It doesn't surprise me at all, sadden yes, surprise no.

My cousin's boy is almost that bad.

[Brother Ben]

Why are these children brain polluted by these programs and others like them? Because the home has been turned upside down. Marriages are trashed at the will of the enemy because the Christian world has turned its eyes away from the creative order. Fathers and mothers have betrayed the trust of the family to chase after vanity. To pay for it, mother has been sent into the work place:

Mic 2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

Yes, the house was pleasant when mother was there. I recall, as a boy, going over to a friends house to play. We would play in the yard and before long the door would swing open and the mother would call, "Boys, do you want some cookies?" Of course we'd run and dine on the feast! I don't recall if they were Christian or not, but I remember, their mom was there. . . mine was not. There was that sweet time when Grandma lived with us. She was a darling! But she eventually moved back out to her mountain home.

I grew up watching alot of senseless television. I guess the Lord had mercy on me, but then again, what could I have been without so much mindless rubish? There was an innocence. This was the faint semblence of the glory of God in the countenance of an age long since gone.

Mic 2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

Gone except to those who purpose to keep their children from being defiled. That's what television programming does to the mind. . . defilement.

Mic 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.

Mankind has slowly and methodically been being ruined. Culture is absolutely soiled by the design of the enemy. We have produced a mindless mass who will willingly open their arms and embrace that wicked one to come. With coldness in their hearts, they will turn on those around them with out the slightest twinge of guilt or remorse.

Eph 4:17 ¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Eph 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Eph 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

This may be the characteristic of the lost world, but this is not what we have learned of Christ. Or have we? There is a evil mirror image to Christianity that plagues the land. It looks like Christianity, it has the same phrases, it observes the same ordinances, it even has it's own christ, but it is a counterfeit.

It's neat, it ROCKS, it's hip, it's fun, it is comfortable, it is in style, it is well liked, it is popular, it sells well, it's user friendly.

It comes from hell.

Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

This is not persecution complex, this is reality. Oh yes, we should be lovely, lovely like our Christ. We should be friendly, approachable, joyful in the Lord, and every other grace he has bestowed upon us, but the time will come when the enemy puts his hatred of Christ in the hearts of them who have been. . .

programmed. . .

by television programs.

Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

An image that comes alive. There is already technology for 3-D holgraphic projection, but this will be more that 3-D, it will be the incarnation of the evil one. The christ of Satan. The evil mirror image.

So when, how can I know?

Dan 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Dan 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

We won't know, nor do we need to know a date, we just need to purify ourselves.

1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1Jo 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

If you mean business, get rid of that television.