Gozreht, great reply, thanks for taking the time to respond, God Bless you man, so very nice to meet someone who can discuss and debate ideas without getting personal, or angry. This made my day after reading your reply.
To answer the addiction question.
I regarded music as an idle entertainer for the first 12 years of my life, and simply hummed along to the catchy tunes, and enjoyed them at face value.
Somewhere between my 12th and 13 birthday, I was given a brand new cassette tape of Judas priests album "Sad Wings of Destiny", and from the very first song on the first side, it was like a hook had dug into my soul, and I could not go more than a day without listening to that album. As I discovered more and more about the band, and how many albums they had out, I begged, borrowed and stole to get all of them, and with every new album, came the temporary relief of having something, new, that soon wore off, leaving me hungry for more.
This was not a teenage infatuation with a band, even as an adult now, I could only recite some of the band members names, and I know absolutely nothing about them, other than that they collectively make up the band. I don't relate to any of the band members, they are not from my home country, or anything, they are just "the band", but there music is to me, what cigarettes and alcohol have been over the years, an addiction.
Obviously, I have an addictive personality or predisposition to getting hooked into things, which is precisely why I have never done drugs, but the closest thing I have had in my life that shares commonality with a drug addiction is music.
I firmly believe God showed me through that experience of being hooked on Judas Priest, that music has the ability to snare people, and I have seen first-hand, perfectly happy kids, turn into family destroying ratbags, from listening to music that told them they had issues or problems in their lives, that simply were not there, it just raised up a spirit of rebellion, and it poisoned their minds, in almost a kind of mind control system, with repetitions of phrases and words, that re-programmed their psyche.
This probably all sounds very "conspiracy theory" I guess, and there will be plenty of people who think I am just an old fuddy duddy, but I am a father of two wonderful children, who have not been bombarded with the secular music of today, and are polite, respectful, happy, and love school, and The Lord, and I believe music has a power, and where Satan cannot get a certian person to drink booze, smoke drugs, or stick a needle in his arm, he offers more subtle (where have I heard that word before I wonder) addictions to the masses.
God is truth, his music is truth through worship, the rest of it is basically nonsense to me, and shares the same spirit whether it be Simon and Garfunkel, or Slayer.
I will respond to your other points soon, I am partaking of another addiction as we speek, being coffee. God Bless you, you made my day.
To answer the addiction question.
I regarded music as an idle entertainer for the first 12 years of my life, and simply hummed along to the catchy tunes, and enjoyed them at face value.
Somewhere between my 12th and 13 birthday, I was given a brand new cassette tape of Judas priests album "Sad Wings of Destiny", and from the very first song on the first side, it was like a hook had dug into my soul, and I could not go more than a day without listening to that album. As I discovered more and more about the band, and how many albums they had out, I begged, borrowed and stole to get all of them, and with every new album, came the temporary relief of having something, new, that soon wore off, leaving me hungry for more.
This was not a teenage infatuation with a band, even as an adult now, I could only recite some of the band members names, and I know absolutely nothing about them, other than that they collectively make up the band. I don't relate to any of the band members, they are not from my home country, or anything, they are just "the band", but there music is to me, what cigarettes and alcohol have been over the years, an addiction.
Obviously, I have an addictive personality or predisposition to getting hooked into things, which is precisely why I have never done drugs, but the closest thing I have had in my life that shares commonality with a drug addiction is music.
I firmly believe God showed me through that experience of being hooked on Judas Priest, that music has the ability to snare people, and I have seen first-hand, perfectly happy kids, turn into family destroying ratbags, from listening to music that told them they had issues or problems in their lives, that simply were not there, it just raised up a spirit of rebellion, and it poisoned their minds, in almost a kind of mind control system, with repetitions of phrases and words, that re-programmed their psyche.
This probably all sounds very "conspiracy theory" I guess, and there will be plenty of people who think I am just an old fuddy duddy, but I am a father of two wonderful children, who have not been bombarded with the secular music of today, and are polite, respectful, happy, and love school, and The Lord, and I believe music has a power, and where Satan cannot get a certian person to drink booze, smoke drugs, or stick a needle in his arm, he offers more subtle (where have I heard that word before I wonder) addictions to the masses.
God is truth, his music is truth through worship, the rest of it is basically nonsense to me, and shares the same spirit whether it be Simon and Garfunkel, or Slayer.
I will respond to your other points soon, I am partaking of another addiction as we speek, being coffee. God Bless you, you made my day.
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