Death, Games and Drugs

Death, Games and Drugs

| An simple equation with a deadly result.

There is a new trend now it seems, sadly is not a good one.

There are two key components that are very compatible, and when they come together they can really put up a big show. But the interesting part, is that you don't really see them performing, no, you will have to go behind the scenes to know they are there.

Well since they like to be “behind” the scenes, making all the moves for the show, let me tell you then, what is the show they like to put up.

I'm sure you all have seen the performance or at least read about it.

Let us then take a look at just four of the events that have happened recently.

(2007) Worst U.S. Shooting ever kills 33 on Va. Campus (nbcnews)

(2012) At least 12 dead, 59 injured in Colorado theater shooting during 'Dark Knight Rises' (Fox News)

(2012) Sandy Hook Elementary shooting leaves 28 dead, law enforcement sources say (Washington post)

(2013) Shooting rampage at Navy Yard in D.C. leaves 13 dead (USA Today)

So there you have just four of the tragedies that have happened recently. I'm sure you remember them well. But as you may also know, many more events like these have happened throughout the years. Many don't really know the reasons behind these atrocities, therefore many speculations have emerged, but you don't have to be to intelligent to find these two components behind all these events. I am sure that there are more factors that contributed to these violent crimes, but let us bring up these two that seem to be behind these shootings and many others.

First: Psychiatric drugs and antidepressants

Take a look at these news headlines.

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common... and it's not guns (Natural News)

60 School Shootings Linked To Psychiatric Drugs Over Past 20 Years (USAHitman)

True Source of Random Shootings and Violence is Often Psychotropic Drugs (Veterans Today)

Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings (WND)

You can't doubt the fact that these legal drugs are very dangerous to your mind. It is sad that the ONLY solution today in, the “medical field”, for any problem is drugs.

Is there anything wrong with you? The doctor will give you a pill for it or a vaccine, guaranteed.

And be careful, don't let others see you cry or laugh too much, you might have a mental problem!

Yes, you laugh too much? Well, you are going to have to see a doctor and get medication!

Take a look at this article:

Uncontrollable Laughing or Crying? You Might Need an SSRI (Infowars)

Sadly, as you may know, if your child acts strange or does anything “not normal”, teachers or doctors may tell you that your child may have Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). And if that is the case, your child is going to have a nice drug diet, perhaps FOR LIFE!

Well, let me just show you this article, which will explain why these drugs are not good. Becuase there are things that you will not hear very often about this. Take a look:

Psychiatric Drugs: Side Effects – Citizen commissions on human rights

Psychiatrists can’t predict what adverse side effects you might experience because not one of them knows how their drugs work.
Psychotropic drugs are increasingly being exposed as chemical toxins with the power to kill. Psychiatrists claim their drugs save lives, but according to their own studies, psychotropic drugs can double the risk of suicide. And long-term use has been proven to create a lifetime of physical and mental damage, a fact ignored by psychiatrists.
Common and well-documented side effects of psychiatric drugs include mania, psychosis, hallucinations, depersonalization, suicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and sudden death.

Not only that, but The US Food and Drug Administration admits that probably one to ten percent of all the adverse drug effects are actually reported by patients or physicians.

Now that you have seen all these, let us see if you can find these drugs behind the shootings:

Virginia Tech shooting

Virginia Tech Aftermath: Did Legal Drugs Play a Role in the Massacre? (Huffington Post)

Are antidepressant drugs an accomplice in the Virginia Tech shootings (Natural News) 

Colorado, Batman Shooting

As Predicted, James Holmes Was Taking Violence-Linked Antidepressant Drugs (InfoWars) 

Follow the Trend: Batman Shooter James Holmes Was On Hardcore Pharmaceutical Drugs (Activist Post) 

Sandy Hook shooting

Michael Savage says Conn. school shooter Adam Lanza was on antidepressants (Examiner) 

State of Connecticut Refuses to Release Adam Lanza’s Medical Records (InfoWars) 

Navy Yard shooting

Trazodone antidepressant, used by Aaron Alexis, described as ‘very safe’ (Washington Post)

Navy Yard Mass Murderer Aaron Alexis was Taking Antidepressant Trazodone – How Many More Drug Induced Shootings Until Lawmakers Wake Up? (Health Impact News)

Second: Violent video games

The second component that we see also associated with this shooting is violent video games.

Where video games to blame for massacre? (NBC News)

Who knew what, when about shooting suspect James Holmes? (ChristianScience Monitor)

Killer's basement his eerie lair of violent video games (New York Post)

Aaron Alexis: Washington navy yard gunman 'obsessed with violent video games' (Telegraph)

So, we see violent video games also behind these shootings, and some of them very obsessed with them.

Now, I am not saying that video games are the cause of the shootings, but you can't deny that they are a factor contributing to it, just one part of the whole equation. But when you put antidepressant drugs and violent video games in the same equation you are likely to have a very sad and tragic result.

So we see, how these two components are present in every one of these last 4 tragedies.

I know this subject can get a little personal for some people (victims or family of victims, etc.), but I am not trying to justify the killer at all! They are totally guilty for the crimes the have committed.

Now, that doesn't mean that the enemy of humanity, the devil, is not going to try to use everything he can to control the minds of people. And toxic substances (legally prescribed or illegal), and violent video games are undoubtedly some of his tools.

I will not try to be a preachy expert on the subject, pointing fingers at what is wrong and what it's right, but I feel that I can definitely give you, my dear reader and brother in Christ, a good bible based opinion and a good loving encouragement.

As faithful followers of our master, teacher and Savior Yeshuah the Messiah, we know that we should treat our bodies like the temple of the Holy Spirit, as the bible says in:

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not of yourselves?

1 Corinthians 3:16 You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?

      17 If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

In these verses, we clearly see that we are to take care of our physical body, and not destroy it with the things we put in it. We saw the terrible side effects that drugs have, and how it can destroy our body, our mind and therefore our spirit as well.

Now, I am not saying that we shouldn't used prescribed drugs at all, no. I know that there are times when we will have to go to the doctor for any emergency, and  it is NOT a sin to take medication, so don't get me wrong.

But what I do want to say is that we can surely try to avoid them as much as we can, and try to have a better healthy lifestyle.

I really like this article from renown doctor Mercola, where he recommends exactly this:

Diet, Doctor- and Drug-Avoidance Can Help You Live Longer (Mercola)

Your diet accounts for about 80 percent of the health benefits you reap from a healthy lifestyle, and it's become quite clear that avoiding drugs is a good idea if you want to live a long and healthy life.

(Some of the articles highlights)

Prescription Pain Killers are Now the LEADING Cause of Accidental Death

Americans Consume 80 Percent of the Global Supply of Pain Pills!

Rampant Conflicts of Interest Fuel Drug Use and Deaths

More than 25 percent of all children and teens in the United States take prescription drugs on a regular basis

Approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug. Many children in foster care are prescribed as many as five different psychotropic drugs

How Can You Avoid Being Killed by a Prescription Drug?

Proper Food Choices

Comprehensive Exercise Program

Stress Reduction and a Positive Attitude

Avoid as Many Chemicals, Toxins, and Pollutants as Possible

Avoid Prescription Drugs

Interestingly enough, an inspired author, wrote many articles expressing the same concept, the only difference is that she wrote them more than 100 year ago!

There are many articles like these, but I will just share two of them.

Healthfulliving p. 245, september 1899

The endless variety of medicines in the market, the numerous advertisements of new drugs and mixtures, all of which, they say, result in wonderful cures, kill hundreds where they benefit one. Those who are sick are not patient. They will take the various medicines, some of which are very powerful, although they know nothing of the nature of the mixtures. All the medicines they take only make their recovery more hopeless. Yet they keep dosing, and continue to grow worse until they die. Some will have medicine at all events. Then let them take these hurtful mixtures, and the various deadly poisons, upon their own responsibility. God’s servants should not administer medicines, which they know will leave behind injurious effects upon the system, even if they do relieve present suffering.

Testimonies for the Church v.5 p.311, 1885

My dear friends, instead of taking a course to baffle disease, you are petting it and yielding to its power. You should avoid the use of drugs, and carefully observe the laws of health. If you regard your life, you should eat plain food, prepared in the simplest manner, and take more physical exercise. Each member of the family needs the benefits of health reform. But drugging should be forever abandoned; for while it does not cure any malady, it enfeebles the system, making it more susceptible to disease.

Finally, the last item on our list are the violent video games. I know that some good sincere Christians, specially young ones, don't really see anything wrong with this. I know because I was one of them.

When you start studying the holy scriptures, you won't find commandments saying: “thou shall not play violent video games”, but you will definitely find many concepts and principles that express that idea, and sometimes we don't see them right away. Until we discover them in our studies or someone point them at us.

So that is what I want to do here, point you to these concepts and principles, so you can study them and make some decisions.

For example, the bible says in:

Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Also Isaiah, asks us a very profound question, and also gives the answer which also teaches us the same principle.

Isaiah 33:14 The sinners of Zion are afraid; terror has seized profane ones; who of us shall tarry with consuming fire? Who of us shall tarry with everlasting burnings?

Isaiah 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from taking the bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil.

So, who will live forever in the everlasting fire, with God who is consuming fire?

Take a look at the last two answers: “He who stops ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil”. In this verse and many others we can clearly see how God is teaching this very principle. We shouldn't expose ourselves to any violent entertainment, and that can include video games as well as movies or music.

Even though I would like to go deeper with this thought, I want to leave it for a future article where I want to focus on the facts that show how media can impact our mind body and spirit.

But I will finish with this thought, and that is, the idea that we will become what we contemplate.

For example, when you like a Hollywood star or a singer or a sport player or even a video game character, you start by contemplating him, watching him. If you keep doing that, you will eventually take the next step, which is admiring that character. Now pretty soon, after you contemplate and admire that certain character you will sooner or later imitate him/her.

Did you know that even the bible says something similar? But the only difference is that in this case we are contemplating somebody else, take a look...

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

My dear readers, when we start to behold our Lord Jesus, we start to change into His same image!

That is the secret! That is how we can grow from glory to glory into His same image, by beholding Him. And what does that mean? You may ask..

Well it's simple, we find Jesus in His word, in the bible, in His teachings. As we read the bible, we find God's character, we can see God's love, promises, advises, and his eternal Law.

We also find God in nature, as we contemplate His awesome creation we can see God's finger in every living creature. The big mountains speak of His might, the tranquil waters whisper of His peace and love. The vast firmament shouts silently of His unmeasurable power and wisdom.

Psalms 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Even the microscope cellular world in our body tells us that God is an awesome and intelligent designer.  (Video)

Let us behold Him, as in a glass, and we will be changed into His same image, from glory to glory. And leave behind the images of this world, to finally behold Him face to face with His millions of angels, very soon, to go with Him to the heavenly mansions.

Jonh 14:26 But the Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.