Beware Of Television!

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By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze


Introduction
         Television provides education, information and entertainment. By watching television and video, people find relief, seek pleasure, connect to the world and as well escape from everyday problems and distractions. However, both television and video have many bad and harmful effects on people, even without people knowing it.
         You will discover that those who are spiritually advanced are not interested in TV, except for use in spreading the Gospel of Truth. Unknown to the public, what people call civilization is like the parable of a people that moved from light into darkness and do not know again how to come out of the darkness. Unknown to people, the television is one of the greatest curses of our time. It pretends to make life interesting, to show people the better things of life, or to entertain, whereas it gives people poison, a spiritual venom, that is utterly deadly.
         What suppose to be a blessing to man, has become a curse for humanity, simply because people allowed it to be so. Today in the society, the television is like a bulldozer, luring and hastening people away from God. The kingdom of darkness use it ‘push and pull’ multitudes into the hell. Before, a child is up to twelve years of age, he has been exposed to uncountable forms of evils and how to commit them. And the government and society keep quiet? You call it civilization, but heavens call it massive self-destructions.
         Television is good. It should be moderately used, especially for general education and spiritual enlightenment. Bad enough, man has made it a tool in the hands of the evil spirits and demons, who are busy misleading the world through the famous but devil-inspired stars and actors and producers. It is amazing that despite man’s claims of civilization, he does not know that a terrible and horrible warfare is raging on against humanity, and he is busy everyday facilitating his enemies’ victory, to his own doom and destruction. How blind people are!

Good Effects Of Television
         Some of the benefits of television are:
  1. The original purpose of television and media are to educate, to inform and to entertain.
  2. Children who watch educational programmes perform better in class than those who do not.
  3. Children who watch useful programmes tend to watch useful programmes in adulthood.
However, today the bad effects far outweigh the good effects, because people abuse and misuse the two.

Bad And Harmful Effects Of Video And Television
         Majority of the experts think video and television have so many negative effects in people. The bad and harmful effects include:
  1. The make people inactive, by the viewers sitting down in one place for a longtime.
  2. The make people develop obesity, by preventing people from exercising their bodies in various activities. In the western countries where people watch television and video often, obesity and heart disease are rapidly on the increase.
  3. It encourages laziness and insensitivity to vital needs in life.
  4. They take away the time youths and children need to exercise, time to develop important skills like creativity, physical and social skills. They prevent time and activities to develop the brain, like interacting with other people. Poor social development of children, who because of television and video do not play and interact with other children in the neighbourhood.
  5. They make the spirit and mind dull.
  6. They prevent youths and children from reading and developing reading skills.
  7. Children bombarded by background TV noise have trouble paying attention to voice over when or where there is background noise.
  8. Video and television make people take less sleep, and thereby make people less alert during the daytime.
  9. Research shows that children who watch lots of videos and television programmes have criminal tendencies, conduct problems, problems in relationships and emotional problems.
  10. Children who are exposed to all kinds of violence on the media develop aggressive attitudes in life.
  11. People who watch television and video so much have heart problems.
  12. Videos and television:
  13. They promote worldly lifestyle and materialism, which are the broad and easy way to hell fire.
  14. They make the environment and society un-conducive to spiritual life, study and growth.
  15. They public media promote and spread sensation, the very thing that prevents spiritual balance and growth in life.
  16. They feed the public with false information, manipulated reports, biased coverage.
  17. They encourage spiritual indolence (laziness). People prefer ignorance to the earnest search and knowledge of the Truth. Unknown to the world, ignorance provides bliss that is false, deceptive and misleading.
  18. They spread sexy lifestyle, nakedness and romance. Thereby, destroying the spiritual life and growth of people.
  19. Those who watch TV a lot, complain of not having enough time to do important things. Video and television are time-wasting.
  20. Sometimes, children sent on errands spend precious times by the roadside watching video screens that are facing the main roads.
  21. They lead to sedentary lifestyle, inactive lifestyle, keeps people indoors, unnecessarily for too long.
  22. Despite the increasing number of television and video in the society, and enormous time spent on them by youths, students’ academic performance keeps on falling. Many youths today cannot make or write sentences that are grammatically correct. Since the introduction of handset messages and social network, English Language has suffered the worst form of devaluation and unbridled nonsensification.
  23. They entertain people with false impressions, and thereby create false images of reality, people get lost to the world of fiction, which is a non-existent illusion.
  24. They discourage and erode moral standards, by regaining every moral conduct tough in the schools and churches.
  25. Rising case of valence, all over the world, are being promoted and spread by television and video films.
  26. They en courage economic exploitation, promotes the habit of consumerism and sustain the trend of worldliness, to the extent that people become spiritually dead without knowing it.
  27. Television and video give peace, joy, relief and bliss that are false. Only true spiritual practice provides true peace, joy, relief and bliss.
  28. They entertain, and thereby create false images of reality. People get lost to the world of fiction, which is a non-existent illusion.
  29. They encourage economic exploitation, sustain the trend of worldliness and promote a habit of consumerism, to the extent that people become spiritually dead without knowing it.
  30. They discourage and erode moral standards, by negating every moral conduct taught in the schools and churches.
  31. Rising causes of violence, all over the world, are being promoted and spread by television and video films.
Television Factors That Worsen The Bad Effects
         The following factors worsens the bad and harmful effects of television and video:
  1. Watching television or video inside a dark or dim won.
  2. The loud sounds.
  3. The harsh lights
  4. The incessant changes in the scene.