Silhouette
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Taken from this conversation (one I heartily encourage you to join and add to with your own stories or links) Positive News Challenge
If you really stop and think about it, 90% of what goes on with humanity each day is positive. It's just that the 10% is so outlandish, often, that it draws in your attention. The human eye is trained to notice rarer things. And the media chooses to use that tendency to rake in money via ratings and advertising. So they perpetuate the myth. They get off on dividing us like we are jersey-wearing political teams on a football field; pitching fury at one another inside a big artificially negative stadium they've created. It's quite the enterpri$e...
The GOP likes us hating the democrats because really their masters, BigOil etc. want us hating what the dems stand for: green energy (this is an example). The dems like us hating the GOP because really their master, George Soros, wants us hating what the GOP stands for: striving to be moral and of God. Both green energy and being of God are excellent ideas. But if they're attached to the jersey of the hated team, they become "hated ideas". See how that works?
Take heart! The world really is a good place. Instead of focusing on the one pile of dog shit in a field of daisies, try looking at the daisies more often. In fact, I've heard a rumor that if you focus on the daisies you may become part of the beautiful scenery.
Here's how not to become a media-tool:
I call it "the five in five".. Next time you're watching the news or listening to it in your car or wherever, when you hear a negative story that shocks you, turn it off. Just turn it off and breathe for 5 minutes. During that 5 minutes, think of at least 5 positive things you've seen in the last week. Don't have to be big things. Just a man opening a door for someone....a child laughing.. just anything will do. Then, turn the TV or radio back on and see if you're still interested in hearing the type of news most stations are dishing up..
If you think about it...if you walk down any street and think about it...what do you see? What do you find? People opening doors for one another. People saying "excuse me" or "thank you"....the man offering to carry the old lady's groceries to her car...the woman patting the back of a sobbing child...friends laughing over some silly pet video on an iphone while riding the subway...
If you really stop and think about it, 90% of what goes on with humanity each day is positive. It's just that the 10% is so outlandish, often, that it draws in your attention. The human eye is trained to notice rarer things. And the media chooses to use that tendency to rake in money via ratings and advertising. So they perpetuate the myth. They get off on dividing us like we are jersey-wearing political teams on a football field; pitching fury at one another inside a big artificially negative stadium they've created. It's quite the enterpri$e...
The GOP likes us hating the democrats because really their masters, BigOil etc. want us hating what the dems stand for: green energy (this is an example). The dems like us hating the GOP because really their master, George Soros, wants us hating what the GOP stands for: striving to be moral and of God. Both green energy and being of God are excellent ideas. But if they're attached to the jersey of the hated team, they become "hated ideas". See how that works?
Take heart! The world really is a good place. Instead of focusing on the one pile of dog shit in a field of daisies, try looking at the daisies more often. In fact, I've heard a rumor that if you focus on the daisies you may become part of the beautiful scenery.
Here's how not to become a media-tool:
I call it "the five in five".. Next time you're watching the news or listening to it in your car or wherever, when you hear a negative story that shocks you, turn it off. Just turn it off and breathe for 5 minutes. During that 5 minutes, think of at least 5 positive things you've seen in the last week. Don't have to be big things. Just a man opening a door for someone....a child laughing.. just anything will do. Then, turn the TV or radio back on and see if you're still interested in hearing the type of news most stations are dishing up..
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