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I recently had a conversation with my roommate about things that are natural and not man-made. God created us with many “unnatural” things. God gave us imigination and wonder and so the show is an extension of this. The show gives us the ability to explore and imagine, which I think God indented . Whatching the show doesnt mean you agree with its values and idea, you just engaging in it. Not commiting to it. It’s a great show because it makes you question the “natural” order of things. Idk if any of that made sense, but boom that’s what I got lol
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- 4y ago
This is a difficult one to answer, because modern television is generally going to have content that isn’t necessarily “honoring God”. I think you just have to watch these things keeping in mind that while some of the content doesn’t align with your faith, it’s just a show. It’s not like you’re doing the things the characters are doing. It’s just a story and everyone loves stories. If there’s something particularly upsetting, you can always fast forward through it. We are human and humans are curious. It’s only natural to want to watch things that catch our curiosity.
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- 4y ago
Well I think God answered my prayers because tonight was absolutely terrible. The show is always gruesome and a lot of violence, but tonight was terrible. A man killed the lady by stomping up and down with one foot on her chest. Then died after 3 times he jumped up and down and her sternum. 😭I had to fight back the tears when I saw it. I feel like it's scarred my brain with that image.... I feel like I was playing with fire to keep watching such darkness 😔😔😔
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- 4y ago
Yeah that sounds pretty terrible. I think with every new show they try to push the envelope more and more and with some things that’s fine, but with violence it’s just unnecessary and harmful to universal mental health.
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- 4y ago
@Anon4 Yes it was absolutely terrible! Films, games, music try to numb us down to murder all the time. It's almost put in a heroic and romantic sense now a days. It's terrible. I genuinely felt nauseous after seeing that scene and I tried to hold back the tears.
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Hello everyone. I was just wanting to post on here regarding a situation that I have been dealing with for a few months now. I have been taking my walk with Christ seriously for about a year now and ever since I started I’ve noticed a bunch of intrusive thoughts and it’s caused me much distress. It all started back in June of 2024. I missed a church service because my wife and I were taking care of our daughter and I went to a Best But store and upgraded my old Apple Watch to a new one. I felt like doing so I committed idolatry because I went and bought that instead of going to church. I felt immense guilt for doing so and the next day I cancelled my order. I thought that maybe I was over thinking the entire thing so I went ahead and placed a new order and got the watch. For two weeks after getting the watch, I ruminated about whether I should keep it or not. It didn’t feel right with me and was overwhelmed with guilt for having it and it was debilitated with anxiety and stress. Eventually I decided I would just give it back so I went to go return it on the last day I could do so only to find out I could not. I thought that was a sign from God that I could keep it. I felt the most relief after that that I had experienced in quite awhile but then the next day after I started have thoughts again thinking that I didn’t try hard enough to return it and that I’m some how putting it before God. Well eventually I came to terms that there was nothing I could do about it and I was able to stop worrying about it being an idol. Well my mind jumped from that to another thing in my life and this one has been harder to get over. I have been on hair loss medication for 7 years and I had a thought one day telling me that “if I’m a true follower of Christ, then I shouldn’t take the medicine because I’m placing too much importance on my looks” I again felt immense anxiety and dread and tried fighting these thoughts away but could not help but think” what if it is and this is conviction of the Holy spirit”? I would constantly look up online any answers I could find to help relieve my anxiety but I can’t. I pray to God all the time for his will to be done in this situation and sometimes I feel better but then it all comes back. It’s hard for me to read the Bible because there’s so much about idolatry I always feel like it’s God talking to me like it’s a sign or if I’m just taking it that way? I asked God to show give me an answer about this situation and a day later a YouTuber I follow posted a video about removing idols from our lives. I felt that was God speaking to me or wasn’t sure maybe it was a coincidence? I just feel so cornered and out under so much pressure on what to do. Of course I would like to keep taking my medicine because it has helped me but then I have thoughts that tell me it is an idol because I am not able to give it up. I cut back taking the medicine a lot more often over the last months but I don’t know if this is God telling me to do so or my own mind. Like if I want to keep my hair I believe God allows healing through medication and it’s a gift. But these thoughts are telling me that I rely on taking it and it’s an idol and that unless I give it up completely I’m not following God’s will and it’s an idol. It’s caused immense doubt because then I read Romans 14 and it says anything you do with doubt is sin because it’s not of faith. I feel like I’m being attacked and cornered because I’m forced to stop taking something that has helped me. Now I have thoughts telling me to stop wearing my retainers every night because I got Invisalign a few years back to fix my teeth and that unless I stop taking my medication and wearing my retainers I’m not authentically following God. I don’t know what to do at this point. I don’t want to go against God and I don’t want to commit idolatry. I know God is all loving so I doubt this is all coming from him. I have to take/wear these things daily for them to work and the ocd will twist that in saying they are idols because of that and I just feel so cornered and defeated. I try to find things constantly online to see if anyone else has similar issues but I can’t. I know this is a long post but just trying to get some clarity on the matter. What should I do to help my situation?
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