Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?
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Haha, I beg to differ...fill your mind with lies and it will eventually kill you...
Better get off IPCT then, this is social media. People may say things you dont agree with or that will hurt your feelings, or even lie right?
There are lots of reasons for suicide. Some I understand, some I don't. But at the end of the day only one person makes that decision.
And don’t confuse logic with lack of compassion. I like many know people who committed suicide. I grieve for them and their families.
There are heinous acts and situations that allow one to understand and empathize with the deceased.
But being bullied on social media isnt one. One can choose to participate in open discussion with all of the good and bad that comes with that, or not.
There are lots of reasons for suicide. Some I understand, some I don't. But at the end of the day only one person makes that decision.
And don’t confuse logic with lack of compassion. I like many know people who committed suicide. I grieve for them and their families.
There are heinous acts and situations that allow one to understand and empathize with the deceased.
But being bullied on social media isnt one. One can choose to participate in open discussion with all of the good and bad that comes with that, or not.
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The whole Internet is Social Media. It is a broad spectrum. Sadly, our youth are glued to their phones and are being attacked by continuous Lies. "There are more than two genders, you can be any gender you want". "Men can get pregnant." This is extremely dangerous/destructive for our youth. It is the reason Trans. has the highest suicide rate of any group.
Next, add Online Bullying. Sadly, it remains online pretty much forever. This is a huge difference from when we grew up where all is forgotten.
I truly feel for our youth, they are pressured to have an online presence. Phones and Social Media has made them Addicts...don't believe me, try to take away a phone from our youth.
Next, add Online Bullying. Sadly, it remains online pretty much forever. This is a huge difference from when we grew up where all is forgotten.
I truly feel for our youth, they are pressured to have an online presence. Phones and Social Media has made them Addicts...don't believe me, try to take away a phone from our youth.
I suppose with that logic crime can be attributed to social media too? I mean when people post that you’re discriminated against and your position in life is someone else’s fault therefore it’s morally acceptable to steal or use violence?
The difference is simply numbers and lack of censorship. You should be following the EU vs X saga currently playing out.
In the late 1700’s, early 1800s mass communication didn’t exist. Your world view and beliefs were dictated by a very small group of family and neighbors.
Newspapers came along and occasionally printed less than accepted opinions, even lies, but by and large your social circle was quite small. Opinions were dictated by pressure from that small group, family, church, social gathering.
Those who held different beliefs were socially excluded from the group. Censorship in its purest form dictated what you knew and what you believed.
Then they invented that damn evil telegraph. Your world view was changed as you discovered people and things that didn’t 100% agree with yours from thousands of miles away. News, cultures and events you may have previously never heard about were transmitted almost real time. Including outright lies.
Air travel, telephones, and then the Internet all contributed to everyone around the globe having a voice and you had to use your noggin and values to sort out which opinion you agreed with and which you didn’t. What was true and what was a lie.
My 5th Great Grandfather and his 8 children’s view of the world in 1756 was about 25 miles and less than 100 other families in the hills of West Virginia on Hackers Creek with the occasional visit to a larger population center to sell his crops or buy supplies they couldn’t make themselves.
One of his offspring was tempted by the ways of the big city, moved to Wheeling and died a drunk and cocaine addict. Thankfully others made it through to the Industrial Revolution and integrated into the growing population centers along the Ohio River valley working in the mills, brickyards and potteries working long hours and raising families.
At the end of the day my values, beliefs, opinions and ability to determine what is true or not is influenced by my parents, and my own curiosity of the world. (I leave out education because I only did high school and 1.5 years of college, and it didn’t have a huge effect on my views. It validated some and conflicted with others. But it didn’t fundamentally change me)
I’ve made some good choices and some bad ones.
The difference is simply numbers and lack of censorship. You should be following the EU vs X saga currently playing out.
In the late 1700’s, early 1800s mass communication didn’t exist. Your world view and beliefs were dictated by a very small group of family and neighbors.
Newspapers came along and occasionally printed less than accepted opinions, even lies, but by and large your social circle was quite small. Opinions were dictated by pressure from that small group, family, church, social gathering.
Those who held different beliefs were socially excluded from the group. Censorship in its purest form dictated what you knew and what you believed.
Then they invented that damn evil telegraph. Your world view was changed as you discovered people and things that didn’t 100% agree with yours from thousands of miles away. News, cultures and events you may have previously never heard about were transmitted almost real time. Including outright lies.
Air travel, telephones, and then the Internet all contributed to everyone around the globe having a voice and you had to use your noggin and values to sort out which opinion you agreed with and which you didn’t. What was true and what was a lie.
My 5th Great Grandfather and his 8 children’s view of the world in 1756 was about 25 miles and less than 100 other families in the hills of West Virginia on Hackers Creek with the occasional visit to a larger population center to sell his crops or buy supplies they couldn’t make themselves.
One of his offspring was tempted by the ways of the big city, moved to Wheeling and died a drunk and cocaine addict. Thankfully others made it through to the Industrial Revolution and integrated into the growing population centers along the Ohio River valley working in the mills, brickyards and potteries working long hours and raising families.
At the end of the day my values, beliefs, opinions and ability to determine what is true or not is influenced by my parents, and my own curiosity of the world. (I leave out education because I only did high school and 1.5 years of college, and it didn’t have a huge effect on my views. It validated some and conflicted with others. But it didn’t fundamentally change me)
I’ve made some good choices and some bad ones.
^^^ No one had a device in their hand's spewing deception 24/7 at them. Huge difference...Today our youth are controlled by Social Media...they are targeted...sadly their parents are also addicted. Add AI control/deceptions and this will not end well...
Absolute Truth is disappearing...Social Media is a tool in which Evil is currently dominating...just look at the divisions it has caused within families...
Matthew 10:21 “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly,
I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
^^^ Jesus is warning us of the times to come. The above is closer than we think, the birth pains (Matthew 24) have already started IMO, the world will not get better until His return.
There is only One Truth:
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Absolute Truth is disappearing...Social Media is a tool in which Evil is currently dominating...just look at the divisions it has caused within families...
Matthew 10:21 “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly,
I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
^^^ Jesus is warning us of the times to come. The above is closer than we think, the birth pains (Matthew 24) have already started IMO, the world will not get better until His return.
There is only One Truth:
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."