wow.. they were right Posted by poolboyjames on September 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM comments (0)one thing that is funny to me is the people who seemed ridiculously paranoid in the past were actually right in their predictions and assumptions
like last yr i had a theater class and the teacher said that in the past people only allowed plays that had moral fibers written into the script.. they were careful not to let the arts get away from God's standards of morality they were against art for the sake of art because they believed that it would eventually take on a new life and undermine morality and prudence when he taught this, the way he taught it made these people seem dumb but today i see they were right a normal person would say, there's no sin in art, theater, dancing, or music but with people being fleshly, without God's presence in our artistic endeavors, it doesn't take very long for us to begin using our imaginations for immorally suggestive themes u look at an old man speaking of dance like its a sin and u automatically think he is a complete idiot but maybe he had way more foresight than you because look at what dance has become.. dancing these days isn't what it used to be.. it has become what the old people warned us about.. its people at a club imitating sexual movements.. even ice cube called it "freaky gyrations close to fornication" in a rap these days clubs have become pretty much synonymous with sinful behavior so is that old man really "out of touch?" or was he actually more in touch than any of us could have imagined? was he truly against dancing by itself? or was he simply trying to warn you of dangers you may not be able to see yet? and those people who feared theater done "for the sake of art".... were they out-of-their-mind religious radicals? or did they have the foresight to see the ability theater has to change a culture.. the suggestive ability it has to completely flip a culture upside down on its head.. its ability to make right appear wrong and to make wrong appear right maybe they saw the "jersey shores" the "sex and the city" years before they came.. a result of humans just doing what humans desire to do as opposed to what God wants them to do results in fleshly (sinful) things "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." proverbs 14:12 we looked at the older people in the 60s as being "uncool" or "not hip" because they didn't like the hippie movement.. well were they the uninformed ones? or was it the youth? a lot of times when we ask artists how they went about making a song they don't know how they did it.. they claim inspiration.. well the word inspiration comes from the older word "inspiritation" (to be filled with a spirit) so what is inspiring these songs that promote drug use, illicit sex, "freedom" from God's "oppression", etc? u see what i'm saying? the old people who warned us seemed to have the correct thinking all along.. the ones we said were "old fashioned" and "out of the loop" ... they seemed to know.. we are mere vessels.. and no matter what we do we are going to be used for one of two kingdoms we will receive inspiritation from one of two powers are you dancing to entice, seduce, arouse, and sexually excite those around you to gear up for immorality later tonight? or are you dancing in an honorable way, like balet, interpretive dance, or for clean fun? are u doing a play to show that waiting on God benefits the believer? or are you doing a play to show that disregarding God and His ways is the only way to have pleasure and fulfillment? are you making a song with positive lyrics that can help someone through a tough time? or are you making a song that promotes drug use and revelries/gluttonies of various natures? all i'm saying is when u really look at it.. the old people were right.. the people we said were paranoid were right.. the ones who warned us of the dangers were right.. the ones who tried to stop the arts from being taken away from God's morality were right i think we likely are ALL guilty of thinking they are/were out of touch or "fanatical"... but in the aftermath.. who was really right? i struggle to find a decent album that has positive lyrics and messages dancing has been reduced to dry-humping movies seem to all be about the pleasures of fornication ^that's just off the top of my head, i'm sure u can think of ur own examples so what do u think.. were the old people wrong in trying to keep things above a certain morality line? or were they just "old fashioned" think about it like this which one is the better mom the one who tells her daughter she can dress nice but she should still respect herself and dress conservatively or the one who sees her daughter dressed like a woman in a rap video and sends her out the house anyway HMMMMMM
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