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From Aesop's Fables:
THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER
A Charcoal-Burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”
Aesop's moral: "Like will draw like."
[NOTE on the story: In ancient times, a Charcoal-Burner was one who made charcoal from cut wood, and a Fuller was one who worked cut cloth into material suitable for sewing.]
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James 1:27 says: "Keep oneself unstained by the world." If we are not mindful of the potentially harmful effects which the world can have upon us, we might find that the negative influence of the world has negated all the positive work which the Lord has done upon us.
Source: SAGE Digital Library
Topics/Tags: Influence, evil; Worldliness
In August 1998, a 10-year-old boy from Birmingham, Alabama was found hanging from a tree by a nylon rope. After being rescued and revived just in time, he told his parents that he was acting out the opening scene from the horror movie "Scream."
Similarly, a movie about a group of female bank robbers called "Set It Off," released in November 1996, has spawned numerous copycat crimes across the country since its release. One such bank robber, arrested in Ocala, FL, in June 1997, was just 16 years old.
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 8/10/98; Ocala Star-Banner, 6/28/97.
Topics/Tags: Influence, evil; Parents; Entertainment; Crime
Don't bother adjusting your TV. The problem seems to be the images piped out of Hollywood. That's the conclusion made by a study of 104 leading television writers and executives. Conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, the study found that Hollywood's views run far from the mainstream of public opinion. Some examples:
- Though 85 percent of Americans believe adultery is wrong, only 49 percent of TV writers and executives do.
- Everyone else is less likely than Hollywood to say a woman has a right to an abortion (59 to 97 percent).
- While only 4 percent of Americans have no religious affiliation, 45 percent of the TV writers and executives have none.
Source: Reported in Newsweek, 7/20/92, "To Verify," Leadership
Topics/Tags: Morality; Entertainment; Television; Influence, evil
The average child spends 66 percent more time watching TV than he or she spends in school.
By the time a child finishes ELEMENTARY school, he/she will have witnessed 8,000 murders on television.
54% of children in America have televisions in their own rooms.
In 1989, the video store overtook the public library. Since then, there have been more videos rented than library books checked out each year. By 1998, videos were twice as popular as library books (6 million video rentals, versus 3 million library books checked out).
Source: Parent Life, 4/1999, p. 20-22.
Topics/Tags: Television; Entertainment; Influence, evil
A vice-president of MTV, when asked about the influence MTV has on young children: "We don't influence kids. We own them."
Source: unknown
Topics/Tags: Influence, evil; Children; Young people; Music
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