It is so simple to just turn on the program, sit back, and let the laugh track program you when to laugh ...and what to laugh at, which is what??

You laugh at what they think is funny.

You learn quickly what others are saying is funny ...what is implied that you also should think is funny.

Conclusions are not meant to be made, but come rather automatically ...in a relaxed state, of being sort of mesmerized by what is before you.

Soon you can perceive what you expect others to possibly say, to what they may think ...and how you are expected to respond to that.

Many of the perceptions are wrong ...but, by believing them, you are contributing to making them an accurate representation of something that may have otherwise not been so.

Callie: Remember what your brother said that got him in trouble.

Aaron: He wasn't ever convicted in a court of law of any unlawful act ...perhaps you can define trouble, and give me a time frame of when you are talking about.

Callie: When your brother was with a bunch of guys and girls at college.

Aaron: Oh, so we're talking about 35 years ago ...at least that narrows it down.

Callie: You've mentioned this story before, and we laughed about it.  The girls were talking about Jaclyn Smith.

Aaron: Oh, yes, she is a stitch ...she's one of my favorite comedians.

Callie: Now, you're trying to mess with me ...you know she's not a comedian, they were talking about how beautiful she is.

Aaron: That's understandable ...women are always comparing other women's looks.

Callie: It was your brother's comment about how far apart her eyes are.

Aaron: Just for the record, that was his comment, not mine.

Callie: Oh, so you think she is perfect?

Aaron: I didn't say anything about her.

Callie: You said Megyn Kelly's eyes were too far apart ...what is it with your family, do you guys calibrate eye distance?

Aaron: Well, their ages are 25 years or so apart ...that's further apart than their eyes.

Callie: But, for both of them to come to mind, you're worse than your brother.

Aaron: I never mentioned Jaclyn Smith ...I haven't even thought of her in years.

Callie: You mean, you used to think of her?  In order to say their eyes are too far apart ...you would've had to been looking at her eyes.  You think they are both beautiful, don't you?

Aaron: I didn't say that!

Callie: But, you thought it.

Aaron: Do I get credit for not saying it?

Callie: So, you do think it?

Aaron: I think you're beautiful.

Callie: You're just changing the subject. By the way, what do you think of my eyes?

Aaron: I think you should look through them ...instead of trying to look through other people's.

My father-in-law tells a story of a neighbor who was like Archie Bunker, and it seems that my father-in-law's father-in-law was also somewhat like this.

I realize that it may be difficult as a child growing up in that environment ...and I'm very grateful that my parents did not act disrespectful to one another.

I also know the psychology behind laughter, and perhaps seeing that you aren't the only one ...that others are like that.

It is also easier to see on TV, as we are more emotionally removed from the characters ...at a safe distance, and not as personally involved nor potentially damaged.

Yet, what is perceived good for some ...may not be good for others, or for anyone in the long run.  My hope is that we have a generation mostly removed from this, but it's difficult to imagine that a generation of children saturated with TV, movies, and video games ...can look forward to an expansive wonderful world of adulthood, where there is little restraint from which even their own parents, or scholastic supervisors would have allowed them to participate in. 

The many wonderful stages of indoctrination that we have stepped back and watched take place. Again, we have the psychologist ...there being many diverse views, with mostly the popular ones being given the elite status of being worth noting.

Yet, I beg to differ.

I look at the changing scene, or screen of the TV ...though subtle sexuality is having its day, the main road is traveled through violence. It is presented more as supervised evening shows ...presenting it to us as how it really is.  Yet, if it is not presented as real, then it can even travel further.  Here we see zombies in a very violent way, though often defeated, they are viewed as slightly humerus with their mindless appetite.  But, the attraction of the vampire bring a more desired and committed role to the subtle sexuality that does not need to be subtle in movies which are viewed as requiring maturity on a more adult level.

Video games bring us beyond TV mode of perhaps viewing how others are, and even beyond the vampire implication that it could be you ...with the video games, you are placed within the role of the person.     

It is beyond anything that I can imagine would be allowed ...not even for those eager adults, with the video games.  The person becomes the murderer, the rapist, the one who massacres at the school, the one who hates and kills people of different religions or stations in life.

This is where I really get upset with those psychologists who get the platform to say that these things should not be illegal, and are actually healthy ...because they create an outlet, so the person does not feel they have to act out those things.  But, I say, they have been walked through every other step ...and that is the only step left, that they are encouraged to take that next step of not only pretending they are the person.  They become the actual person.

They don't create an outlet for these feelings ...they create the feelings. They minds that create these things have moved beyond the fringe ...and now are sharing with everyone that beyond.  

What is beyond the actions??  It is not reacting to the violence, or meeting the violence with violence.

It brings chaos, driven by no thought other than anger and the thoughts to carry it out.  

Yes, from rude ...to crude, and the mind filled with a sad naivety, which views others as being ignorant and intolerant. Their own acceptance of the wrong things leaves them striving for the pride of achieving these temptations, always readily within their reach. Everything seems so out-of-touch, they grasp onto what is available in abundance ...but, sadly abundantly problematic.

It creates a new culture of thinking ...along with the confidence, that comfortable status of, everybody is doing it!

John: Eric, I want you to meet my sister, Amy.

Eric: Hi, Amy, good to meet you!

John: Eric, I have a couple of bagels here, do you want one?

Eric: No, thanks.

John: Well, Amy says she can only eat half ...how about half a bagel?

Eric: Okay,

John: How are your classes going, Eric?

Eric: Okay, I'm through for the day.

John: Great, would you mind escorting Amy to the bus?  I have a meeting with the professor, and here he comes ...Amy's class is across campus.

Eric: Okay, see you later, John.

Amy: If you don't mind, I'd rather not take the bus.

Eric: (I must have intended to continue, as I typed Eric's name ...but, again, I have no idea where I was going with this.  In a way it's just like a TV show, that doesn't end ...and you have to tune-in next week. But, you don't see the next episode, so it ended there. In this case, no re-runs.  I will try to find my notes, but it's been a while, and I was asked to clean up my mess ...which included my notes.)

Okay, the notes appear to be gone ...and that is probably just as well.  I don't like to live in an ivory tower, with ignoring all that is going on in society.  Many of the wrongs that happen, are very wrong!

So, when I read about something, or hear about it on news ...well, I take it seriously.  And I often attempt to deal with it by writing ...though perhaps it would often be best just to pray about it. But, obviously we can't just dwell in that place forever. I believe in bringing the wrong to light ...but, I also believe we should mostly focus on the Light.  And that would be bringing it to Him ...in prayer.

I read in the Bible about Sodom ...and other horrific events. I try to learn from what I read ...inclusive of what is being told for me to learn, and how God directs us towards solutions.

Primarily, the solution is to first of all turn to Him.  That's where I am at this moment ...and I don't know what Eric and Amy were going to do.  I just remember she didn't get on the bus.  I don't know what Amy's aim was, nor what Eric's error was.  I guess, at this point I should be concerned more with you and me.  After all, when you read ...you are where I've been, and we are both real.

But, for what it's worth ...the last part of the blog remains, though I don't really know my point.  I just know that eventually, before I finished, I would have pointed to God.

What is it ...and where does it really come from??

It is evil ...and it comes from whoever does not recognize it as such.

It may not all appear as evil, but evil is merely an attempt to destroy truth.

And that is most effectively done in an atmosphere of fear and turmoil.

Turmoil speeds the process of deception, to deceive further before the deception can be explained, or even identified.