Pizzaguy
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Rhea,Johhny, it is not healthy for you to see every news item as the end of the world. The body's response to stress causes a flood of chemicals that surpresses your immune system and creates increased risk of cancer and other disease. THAT would be the end of your world.
Seriously, friend. You gotta live for happiness, not tragedy.
Oslo? How about Vesuvius? How about the black plague? How about the inquisition? The Mongol invasion? How about the SF earthquake in 1912? How about the Civil War with 100-thousands dead? How about the war of the roses and the 1930s dust bowl? How about the school in Chechnya? How about Rwanda, the congo war, the Holocaust? How about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, or the invasion of Korea by the Japanese. How about the German barbarians invading Rome?
There's just nothing particularly alarming about today's world except the fear-mongers shouting every bus accident on the news in far-away towns. There are no particular signs of impending doom or catastrophe, you just hear about MUCH more worldwide news than any generation before you.
But that doesn't equal more danger, it equals more news. Your job is to have a realistic filter to comprehend what that means. And 100 people dead in Oslo is NOTHING on a single Viking raid of the English coast 1200 years ago. It's nothing on the destruction by Jews on other tribes in the book of Judges, if you believe the book actually happened. Killing men and babies and raping women by hundreds. It's nothing on Genghis Khan's pillaging of the same sort, if you believe Khan existed.
You're slowly killing yourself and harming your loved ones by trying to find evil in every moment of your life.
Why do you seek evil? Why do you wait by your TV hoping to see evil?
What's wrong with embracing love and keeping your health intact? Turn off the news, Johnny. It's going to kill you. God is Love. Seek love, not evil. Seek God, not Satan. Look for God's impact on the world, not Satan's. Is there anything in scripture that punishes you for ignoring Satan and looking only for god? Nope. And there is much in secular medicine that confirms this approach. You can't go wrong with it.
This is a STELLAR post!
Thank you for it.