Video Games vs Television

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I’ve done years of research involving mental breakdown through media and societal corruption. I find it strange how certain Apostolics are bent on the dangers of TV, not allowing this media flow in the home, yet, they allow Video Games.

I have worked with several psychiatrists who openly told me about the danger of Video Games. They expressed that they are so habit forming that marriages, jobs, and health have all been lost from Video Game addiction. One counselor with 30 years experience told us, Video Games attract the same lust and brain activity as when someone looks at pornography.

I have my own personal experience with this. My Son-in-law is so obsessed with Video Games that he has sacrificed his family, spiritual life, and personal health. At 29, he is now divorced, has health problems of a man twice his age, and no longer attends any church. I’ve watched him for the last 15 years deal with this crisis. He would throw away the games, smash his game player, only to return to the vice and challenge of another game.

After the divorce, my daughter revealed the nightmare that she lived in. He would play games almost every waking moment of his life, rejecting intimacy, time with his children, and even his job. His intimate acts became perverted with playing a game, and my daughter literally becoming a part of this false world.

I’ve never seen or heard about TV doing this to anyone. Yes, TV has many negative ramifications to those who over indulge in it, but I grew up with TV and never did I see me or my friends wanting to watch TV instead of playing outside. I’m sure there were some, but overall kids loved the outdoors. Today, kids who have the appetite for these games are finding themselves “Hooked” and unable to let them go for the important things in life.