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Good or bad?

  Just because something makes you happy doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good for you.   Take Twinkies. Twinkies are high in sugar and fat. They’re also full of chemicals to extend their shelf life.  Twinkies are obviously not good for you.  Yet some people eat them. And In moderation a Twinkie or two won’t kill you. Not in the long run anyway.  But what might happen if you start craving Twinkies? What might happen if you start buying them in larger quantities? If you start eating one every day? What if you start to crave them more snd more until you begin eating them after each meal? What if you started eating them AS your meal and eventually never ate anything else? You know what would happen. You would get sick snd fat. Eventually you would become malnourished. You might even go to a doctor who would tell you to stop eating Twinkies and eat some vegetables for heavens sake! But if you refuse and keep going down that path you will wind up dead.  This isn’t ...

The Truman show: Christian Allegory?

I believe the whole point of the Truman show is that  Media has taken the place of God.   The Media tells us what to wear. What is desirable in a mate. What love is. What to wear eat and drink. What to buy. What to think. And what to worship. It tells us who we are and informs our every move. It even spies on us and then targets ads to us based on our private conversations.  Many people start their day immediately by turning on their phone. It used to be that people started their days in prayer and Bible reading. That’s because they wanted to be informed by God. Today they are still informed by their god - the mass media. Hollywood.  The one true God gives us free will. Hollywood does not. Hollywood gives us fantasy. Illusion. Entertainment. Escape. But what we need is not fantasy, nor illusion, entertainment, nor escape, but Truth.  Truman’s life is literally based in a Hollywood fantasy.  He is the only person who isn’t living a lie - thus the name “True ...