Hyper-stimulation is an increasing evil about which we should be aware...

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 3/26/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[markomalley]

Full title: Hyper-stimulation is an increasing evil about which we should be aware, learn its moves, and then rebuke its influence.

[markomalley]

Msgr Pope ping

[wastedyears]

Hyper-stimulation? Can that happen from music with a lot going on?

[equaviator]

My ‘technique’ is to look at some of these things from the perspective of a critic and not so much as a consumer under the influence, which is what I was as a younger person.

[DannyTN]

I was too bored and distracted to read this all the way through.

It needed some pictures.

[Woodman]

Even without the religious angle, so much of what he has to say here is true. I see the effects in my children, not being interested in classic films for instance (too boring, and have tried to counter it while raising them. I think I’ve always known what the issues were, but this article has given me more insight into the problem.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Gina Miller column
Suffocating evil and the descent of tyranny
Listen to an audio version of this column

[mitch5501]

Thank God Moses didn't spend all those years watching sheep with an IPod strapped to his head!

"Be still and know that I am God"

Good article,thanks for posting.

[Skooz]

bump for later

[NYer]

Excellent. Ping!

[fortheDeclaration]

Very interesting article.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Communists must always consider that of all the arts the motion picture is the most important.” – Vladimir Lenin

[spankalib]

Imagine being alive in the 1700’s.
How might it have affected you, say if you came in off the farm to trade in town, and found a small, traveling ensemble playing the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven...

I would be overwhelmed...with such richness of sensory input.
Coming from relative silence to hearing - perhaps for the first time - such music? It awes me.

[Mister Da]

When I go canoeing or camping with a friend he always brings a boom box & wants to listen to Rock all day.

I like Rock, but this is a bit annoying. Here we are, it's a beautiful day, the birds are singing. It's just not the time or place to hear the Rolling Stones or even the Moody Blues.

Why spoil the quiet beauty of nature?

[Envisioning]

Good article. Reminds me that I did not spend near enough time in the treestand last year.......

[metmom]

I agree with him.

God tells us *Be still and know that I am God.*

[ravenwolf]

I agree with the thread and i think that is why all we have will be destroyed.

People have never been able to control them selves because their desire for more will not let them.

The Government will never control its self because its desire is to control every one else.

Industry will not control its self because that is how it survives.

I believe God is going to see to it that this crazy house gets torn down.

[metmom]

Homeschool ping.

Most homeschoolers are probably aware of this. I could see it in my kids and still do. Computer games do rewire the brain.

But this article articulates it in a wonderful way and is worth reading.

[Bigg Red]

Wow! Msgr. Pope’s articles are always good, but this one is just chock full of pearls of wisdom.

[left that other site]

Absolutely! I teach music, and it is very difficult to peel some children away from their iPads, iPhones, Tablets, Video Games, Wide-Screen Plasma TV’s, hand-held devices, etc to get them to sit still for even a half hour. These children are often “Special Needs” (my specialty) and suffer from varying degrees of Hyperactivity, ADHD, Autism, and behavioral Disorders.

I have no doubt that “Hyper-stimulation” is a contributing factor.

Some wise words from the Monseigneur.