What do you think about the phrase: “Everyone has their demons?”

Been thinking while driving, thought this might be interesting to discuss, cause most of us have probably heard:

“Everyone has their own personal demons to deal with”

Or

“Everyone has a dark side to them.”


I can honestly see how these statements can be true, for we are not perfect. We struggle with judging others, addictions, not loving, etc. as examples and that stuff I think can be considered “personal demons” or a “dark side”. It’s all part of the human condition for our minds to wander and go to dark places, for we live in a fallen world.

So what’s your take on these phrases? Would like to hear if anyone else has ever heard of these phrases ^_^

Holy Spirit talks to you when you're driving too? That's where I hear Him the clearest.♥️

I guess maybe, you see the thought occurred because I got back into animation memes and I was listening to some Persona 4 music on the way home (Which for anyone familiar with videogames know that Persona has some sketchy stuff, but hear me out). So in most animation memes I see, it will show the character okay, before it switches over to them looking broken down, like lost their mind, if that makes sense. For Persona 4, a big theme of the game is confronting yourself, like literally because a character that is focused on in that chapter of the story, will come across “their dark side” and each time this happens, the character will deny the darkness and yell, “You are not me!”, and then the group of characters (Because it’s a RPG with a long story), must work together to save the character from their dark self, which is the boss battle of each stage. Once the boss battle is over, the character that must confront their darkness (Or in some cases worries/fears), they accept that part, and then the story moves along.

Yes I know Persona has questionable stuff, I will not defend it cause you do use demons to help win fights and it is very rooted in Japanese mythology and some other questionable stuff (There’s a reason why the games are Rated M), I got into it before I knew God, but for some reason, I’ve always really liked that idea, of how we have a dark self to confront, and wether we let the darkness win and consume, or accept it. This could easily relate to bible lessons, not saying darkness is good, but I think accepting the flaws of being human is important, we will never be perfect. People that think they are more likely to look down on others, which is toxic overall.

So you could say the Holy Spirit guided me to listen to that music and to get back into animation memes, for possibly sharing unique perspectives on CC, which I think is a good way to strengthen our need and knowledge in God.

I have my opinion of those games and such, but I also know that the Lord chooses to work all things for His good.
I'm not here to judge you, as it is not my job. I would however, encourage you to dwell on things that are pure, righteous, and Holy. This is often hard to do when the devil uses the things of this world such as music, tv, books, video games, and media in general to get a foothold in our lives to cause turmoil. I do think that many Christians struggle with this, as do I.

I haven’t played Persona in a long while, and I am struggling. Cause the artist/creative mind/nerd in me likes the gameplay, the characters, and the deep story of Persona games, but the Christian in me knows even though you play as the good guys, you are using demons (AKA Personas) to defeat evil.

I went to college for Videogames, I just recently gave up on that, because the videogame industry doesn’t care for a Christian mindset, plus even if Christians want Christian videogames, we have to be honest and the Bible is really hard to adapt into videogame form. Not saying it can be done, but the world is honestly not interested and the game wouldn’t sell well. I wanted to write stories/do concept art for videogames, but since of my stories had demons, monsters, or supernatural stuff, I don’t know what to do.

That’s why I have given up, and just want a full time job, I don’t care anymore.

I think there is a huge demand for Christian video games. It may not go over well with teens, but for grade school children, it would be a great way to teach them. I still have a second grader at home and have been searching for Biblical video games to enforce good ideas and morals with entertainment....but I can't find anything that engages her because it's non-existent. I emplore you to please pray about your decision. You know, Veggie Tales was an easy pick...and they have done well and are still popular. Hey, I still listen to Silly Songs. 😜

I think there is a huge demand for Christian video games. It may not go over well with teens, but for grade school children, it would be a great way to teach them. I still have a second grader at home and have been searching for Biblical video games to enforce good ideas and morals with entertainment....but I can't find anything that engages her because it's non-existent. I emplore you to please pray about your decision. You know, Veggie Tales was an easy pick...and they have done well and are still popular. Hey, I still listen to Silly Songs. 😜

Been thinking while driving, thought this might be interesting to discuss, cause most of us have probably heard:

“Everyone has their own personal demons to deal with”

Or

“Everyone has a dark side to them.”


I can honestly see how these statements can be true, for we are not perfect. We struggle with judging others, addictions, not loving, etc. as examples and that stuff I think can be considered “personal demons” or a “dark side”. It’s all part of the human condition for our minds to wander and go to dark places, for we live in a fallen world.

So what’s your take on these phrases? Would like to hear if anyone else has ever heard of these phrases ^_^

Are there any Christian video games...that would be exciting or entertaining for adults?
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Hooray, this is my kind of thread! :3

Anyway, I went to college for this stuff, to become a story-writer and art designer for videogames, because I believe there is soooo much potential in videogames to tell great stories. Like I have seen some great stories in RPGs, but I think it is a format to consider for storytelling, because the amount of different story possibilities is high, cause of all the different ways to design and create games. Like letting a story have full player control to determine how the story ends, or something more linear, or maybe even something in-between, to where choices could lead to different endings,but with gameplay leading the player to said choices, like "a fork in the path".

But for christian videogames, this seems to be the norm:

Either too preachy and gameplay gets boring:


(Warning video will have bad language, but gets the point across)

It seems the people that made the game...have never made a game:


I'm just also adding this video cause from what I can tell, it would be a interesting watch for everyone on here:



So yeah, christian videogames haven't had the best history, so I think it can only work in these two ways: For it to be a "Edutainment game", you know, a game a kid would play to learn about the bible, it is fun to play and not pandering, or the other way: It involves christian morale themes in a interesting way.

I can't remember the author, but I was watching a book review series on "Empress Theresa" (Infamous book on the internet, considered to be one of the worst books ever, if anyone is interested to hear about it, I can leave some YouTube links) and the guy reviewing the book said this christian fiction series where it's a detective and he goes through stuff, and the detective sometimes questions God like "Why did this happen?". I believe that can be a complex story for a videogame, I'd play it. Also, I gave up on writing because I didn't think most of my writing ideas were not christian, but I thought about it while driving home:

What if we had a game where we see the after effects of rapture? Like doesn't it say in the bible that those who accept God when the rapture has already happened, don't they get to go to heaven? I'm sorry if I'm wrong cause I'm only going on memory, but this was a story idea I came up with awhile back: "Hell took over earth, all humans were taken over, all heaven did was watch as it happened". I came up with this idea before knowing God and I know it doesn't sound the best, but I think it could be re-worked into a story about how somehow wasn't saved during rapture, but then seeing the effects of rapture, accepted God and made it to heaven. That could be such a thought provoking story.

I never thought I would be sharing one of my original writing ideas on CC, cause I've given up on writing, cause I want my writing to be christian, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I think this thread might help, thanks ^_^

I didn’t know about that “Left Behind game” till you mentioned it/the YouTube link I sent on the history of Christian videogames, that game looks legit awful, lol. But yeah I can see where you are coming from, to be honest most of my story ideas are more like setups that haven’t been built upon yet like: “School has a fighting tournament they hold after school, main character focus is on a group of kids with each one having different colored hair, plus they each have their own story (I was getting into fighting games and wanted to see if I could make a story...can you tell I used to be into anime? Lol), lots of my ideas are “people teleported to a new realm for a reason and must survive”, I had an idea of “After World War 3, the humans have left earth and have created a new earth: Neo Earth (Yes I’m awful at naming things): a completely metal sphere that can be seen from earth, like the moon can be seen, but all the time cause it has lights on it, one character learns the history he has been taught is a lie because they taught him that earth is no longer live-able and has no life. He somehow ends up on earth and sees Neo Earth from earth, letting the harsh truth take place”, and then I had an idea for this environment of a “Great Gatsby inspired steampunk setting, with the levels of the city showing wealth, the higher the better the city looks, with the highest level having a “futuristic look”. I actually finished one story, it is awful, wrote it before I went to college, it was my take on a Pokémon videogame, as in you know in the anime, they usually have a party of 3 people? Well what if there was a Pokémon videogame built around that idea? It would be like “having scripted battles” for some of the people in the group of 3, so you couldn’t be slacking on a team member.

But yeah, I understand how trying to do a game on end times might not be a good idea, especially since no one is supposed to know the end time. Maybe it could be “vague” (Like what MegaMan does with 21XX or 20XX) but even then I don’t think that would be good enough.

Are there any Christian video games...that would be exciting or entertaining for adults?
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Persona series of games... ah, where is J-T when we need him?

Are there any Christian video games...that would be exciting or entertaining for adults?
*laughs*