Makes you think......

[Pipp]

What will be the "turns out cigarettes are actually bad for you" of our generation ??

What I mean by this is ... at one point in time smoking was just something everyone did, even schools had designated smoking areas...then all the sudden you find out how harmful smoking is. What are things allowed or not allowed now that you think will be harmful in the future? I can think of things in our everyday life be it spiritually or physically , but Id love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

 

[MichaelOwen]

Smoking was definitely something everyone "just did", and I would have to say that moving forward now, it would be things like chewing tobacco, that is becoming more and more common in schools and so is saying the national anthem without the words, "Under God". This is dangerous what is being taught and how God is being completely thrown out of the classrooms and schools and public venues. Young minds and hearts will soak in more knowledge and understanding, and without God in the center, it's scary to think what could be in the next few decades. Just my thoughts on in a little bit.

 

[Pipp]

One I think is that kids aren't allowed to just get dirty and play anymore. So much emphasis is put on academia that kids don't know how to play with one another... am I the only one that feels like kids are being made to look and act older than they are?

 

[seoulsearch]

I'm a bit alarmed that so many young people seem to think vaping is a "harmless" alternative to smoking, especially since news reports are indicating that it will disintegrate your health several times faster than "old-fashioned" smoking. But I also understand that one of the reasons young people start it is because they are trying to keep up with the cultural pressures of being thin, and so they substitute ingesting poison instead of food.

I feel very dismayed that mainstream America is literally drugging itself to death. What were once seen as dangerous drugs that only "people from the wrong side of the tracks" tried or became addicted too are now seen to be as normal as reaching for aspirin. Having worked at jobs that require a lot of lifting, I've listened stories from co-workers who started out with prescription drugs for back surgery, then moved on to taking heroin because it was cheaper, or because they could manage their pain with street drugs while selling their actual prescriptions for huge profits.

These aren't "bad" people -- they're everyday people whom Jesus loves who are trying to hold it together so that they can support their families.

What alarms me the most is that drugs aren't even seen as "bad" anymore, but a necessary part of getting through each day, and are all the more justified if we can get them from a doctor. I remember going to a doctor once for a handful of ailments (lower back pain, allergies, problems sleeping) and receiving no less than 6 prescriptions. Out of fear of becoming reliant on any kind of medication, I filled just what I felt were the 2 most necessary, took them for 2 weeks, and threw all the others away.

It's only by the grace of God that I haven't become attracted to anything myself, and with the health challenges most of us face, it could happen any day.

I am genuinely shocked and saddened when I hear my young co-workers talking about using cocaine at parties "just because it's there", and taking their friends' prescriptions (such as Adderall) or trying to get their own in order to have enough energy to pull all-nighters before exams.

As long as it's seen as some form of "medicine" -- even if all it alleviates is boredom or improper time management -- it's seen as being ok. What amazes me most is that I NEVER hear a single person talking about the fact that some of these drugs could also land them in a concrete closet for a very lengthy amount of time. Has the fact that illegal drugs are, well, ILLEGAL, totally gone by the wayside?

Now, I am most certainly NOT trying to criticize anyone who has to take medicine for their health AT ALL. Rather, what I'm trying to say is how did we get to a point where people are taking drugs 100 times more powerful than previous generations, whether handed out by doctors or dealers (is there still much difference these days?), and now somehow call it "normal", as if there won't be a slew of terrifying repercussions just waiting to swallow us whole?

 

[PennEd]

Radiation from our phones, especially with the advent of 5G, will turn out to be incredibly dangerous and cancer causing.

 

[zeroturbulence]

Social media

 

[cinder]

I'm guessing it will be a combination of "Hey turns out that hearing things you disagree with and having to think of reasons to defend your point of view is good for you" "No one ever died of being offended" and "Oh wait I guess we needed those moral standards to keep people behaving morally" Also I think we'll discover the harm of deluding ourselves into thinking we can redefine our natures any old way we want because we feel it should be that way.

 

[GaryA]

Radiation from our phones, especially with the advent of 5G, will turn out to be incredibly dangerous and cancer causing.

Based on all that I have read [to date] about 5G - my advice might well be - avoid 5G at all costs...

 

[17Bees]

What I gather from your question is - what social engineering that alters traditional behavior will happen to this generation? And I think the answer is a continuance of globalism. Actually, I think this generation is in the earlier stages of it, but just like smoking, real dangers will be ignored before real action takes place.

So why is globalism a danger? My own belief is that God's prophetic will - His ultimate fulfillments - are allowances, in effect driven by the sins of man. In other words, I think God allows man, sometimes, to do His dirty work and that "supernatural occurences" happen in very natural ways. Right now, Christianity is shared by some two and a half billion people worldwide, the largest "religion" in the world. Islam is almost 2 billion. No other religions are very close in actual numbers of these two.

Many prophetic writings center the ultimate front - the good vs. evil apocalypse in Babylon. What is Babylon but the Roman Empire which is now dead and gone but in it's stead is the same geographical Mediterranean area from Europe to the Middle East and Israel. Right now, Islam has grown through Europe and the Mediterranean. Islamic birth rate now is about 1.8 and it's projected that Islam will equal Christianity in twenty years. Remember that Islam has grown well past their old borders of the old "Asia" of Paul's time. I really think Paul was told by the Holy Spirit to stay away from this "Asia" in Acts 16:6 because it was the country side of Turkey - Islamic and Asia Minor.

To make a long story short, I think globalism engineered with good intention - with passive cultural acceptance and persuit for a diverse population will instead end with the four horsemen galloping terror across the sky. The original Abrahamic schism of Isaac and Ishamel.

I think globalism sounds and good and right to many. I'm cautious - maybe because I'm just crazy. Or not.

 

[laughingheart]

Screen time. The amount of time spent staring at phones and computer screen is ruining eyesight. Eyes need a balance of look near and far. Putting video devices in the back of vans keeps children from looking around and using their far vision. Also the use of cellphones and the bent head position is seeing young people going to chiropractors with spinal curvatures not usually seen in that age group. Balance is needed. Remember to look up.

 

[Lanolin]

High heel shoes.
Cant believe people still wear them. Very bad for your feet.

I have heard them called 'tart's trotters'.

Plastic cling wrap. And plastic bags. Those things are lethal.

 

[Pipp]

I think extreme overprotective lifestyles are a bit unfair to children. They grow up not knowing how to function in the real world. I dont mean let them go crazy, but parents need to talk to their kids about everything instead of just sheltering them from it. Kids need to be prepared to know how to deal with real life situations and circumstances. This world is sinful and kids grow up to be adults in this world... if they are too sheltered they dont know how to function among people that are different than them. I think some parents are so scared their kid wont make the decision they want them too, that they just make it for them. I hope I make sense here.

 

[Lynx]

I think it would be football, if football didn't make so much money. They'll never shut down football, no matter how many players it ruins.

I wish it was pre-K schooling. Kids should have a few years to be kids before they get thrown in the "you're not reaching your potential" meat grinder.

What do I think will really be the big thing that people suddenly realize is bad for us? Nothing. We like what we like and we have become very adept at ignoring the downsides of the things we like. I mean we are crazy good at ignoring harmful effects. If people avoid something the majority does because it causes damage, they are considered crazy or sticks in the mud, because they are not going along with what everybody else does.

 

[Lynx]

Wow, that sure sounded cynical... But I still think it's the truth.

 

[Moses_Young]

What will be the "turns out cigarettes are actually bad for you" of our generation ??

What I mean by this is ... at one point in time smoking was just something everyone did, even schools had designated smoking areas...then all the sudden you find out how harmful smoking is. What are things allowed or not allowed now that you think will be harmful in the future? I can think of things in our everyday life be it spiritually or physically , but Id love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Turns out, vaccines do give you autism and smallpox afterall.

 

[Lanolin]

I think extreme overprotective lifestyles are a bit unfair to children. They grow up not knowing how to function in the real world. I dont mean let them go crazy, but parents need to talk to their kids about everything instead of just sheltering them from it. Kids need to be prepared to know how to deal with real life situations and circumstances. This world is sinful and kids grow up to be adults in this world... if they are too sheltered they dont know how to function among people that are different than them. I think some parents are so scared their kid wont make the decision they want them too, that they just make it for them. I hope I make sense here.

then theres the other extreme, underprotected lifestyles.
Children grow up with no mum or dad who is reliably around and then have to be the adult before they turn 14. They literally have no childhood.

 

[GaryA]

They literally have no childhood.

Please tell me:

~ What is your definition of 'literally'?

~ At what age do you consider 'childhood' to begin?

~ Whatever that number is - are you saying that the child (after becoming a child at that age) is "forced" - from that age until 14 - to grow up into an adult?













Don't get mad at me, darlin' - I am only teasing you for amusement.



I think the word you perhaps meant to use was 'virtually' . . . ?

"They virtually have no childhood."

 

[kinda]

Air bags. Guess what the largest automobile recall in the U.S. was?

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https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/takata-recall-spotlight

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[LittleMermaid]

Premarital sex is done by just about everyone. It's extremely rare to hear of a couple that waited for each other even within the church. I believe this is what causes divorce in many cases (not all of course; please don't misinterpret me). People cannot bond to their spouse because they've slept around too much.

This is a major concern because the more divorce there is, the more kids are being raised by a single parent. This leaves the younger generations broken in some way. Just about every child that grew up with only a single parent, is somehow broken. I should know. I'm 30 years old and I'm barely starting to work on my own daddy issues. People raised by single parents (usually the mother) are more likely to fail academically, have higher rates of depression, and they're more likely to end up incarcerated.
It's very sad because the culture of today tells young people to go ahead and sleep around. But they don't talk about what happens emotionally and spiritually when they do.

So I hope that someday soon, people will be informed of how bad premarital sex is. It ties you to a person and you become one with that person. It's very serious and it baffles me how even some Christians engage in it.

Sorry for the rant...this is something I'm passionate about I guess. lol

 

[Lanolin]

Please tell me:

~ What is your definition of 'literally'?

~ At what age do you consider 'childhood' to begin?

~ Whatever that number is - are you saying that the child (after becoming a child at that age) is "forced" - from that age until 14 - to grow up into an adult?



um ok. You can use the word virtually if you prefer.

Im just meaning they take on burdens only grown ups (adults) are meant to handle.









Don't get mad at me, darlin' - I am only teasing you for amusement.



I think the word you perhaps meant to use was 'virtually' . . . ?

"They virtually have no childhood."

um ok you can use the word 'virtually' if you prefer. I am just meaning when they are children they take on burdens only grown ups i.e adults are meant to handle.