Sole Entertainment or Lessons Learned?

My firstborn son Jaden, nearly seven, said he wanted to watch a Care Bears movie that his three-year-old brother has, on the sabbath day, and perceiving that I'd likely reject their watching that movie on the sabbath day, he said, "It's teaching caring." 

So I said, "Well, okay, that's wonderful.  I love caring.  Caring is good.  If it teaches you, then, how to be loving and caring, then I can find no lawful reason against it.  So, does that mean you are going to be more caring toward your little brother?  He likes it much more when you're caring than when you're mean." 

He said the movie would help him do that.  I asked him how long it had been since he told his little brother he loved him, and he said about a month, though I don't think it's been that long.  Nevertheless, I said, "A month?  You tell me every day."  (In reality, many times every day.) 

I continued, "You should tell him right now that you love him.  And hug him, too."  When he did, Trusten hugged him bag, and I could tell by his face that he loved Jaden hugging him.  I said so.  I told Jaden that Trusten was loving back, when Jade loves him, but Trusten's mean in return, when Jaden is mean to him.  Hugs, not pushes! 

"Jaden," I said, "you should always get a lesson out of something you watch, because if you do not, then it's not worth watching.  It shouldn't be there to solely entertain."

Then it hit me.  I've wondered for some time how people are so blinded about everything, when even the stories people dream up (people record these dreams/fantasies as books and movies) and are broadcast to an audience of millions upon millions do nothing to change them.  Those who are deep thinkers, who meditate upon things and are looking to grow in knowledge for good, learn lessons from what they watch, otherwise they stop watching it as not to waste their time or pollute themselves.  There was a movie not too long ago that my husband and I watched, though I cannot remember the title, which we both thought was rather stupid from the beginning, and within mere minutes into it, I said, "There's just no way we can watch this entire thing.  It's far too stupid and not even very funny."  Nathan agreed, and we did something else.  We'd just rented it online, so it was a bit of money spent, but better to waste only money than waste both money and time.  Both are only temporary, and wisdom and knowledge are superior.

It's still difficult for me to understand, because I'm just not that way, but it's very apparent to me now that people are out for sole entertainment, and somehow they walk away from movies without learning anything to improve their lives or the lives of others.  They learn no lessons.  These people would likely even say there were no lessons to learn or of which to be reminded.  They just do not exercise their brains by thinking.  There is no real meditation in the minds of the millions of people residing within this nation, Israel-Manasseh-United States, those of both Israel and the aliens in our borders.  That must be the reason why everything has to have excessive sex (including the dress code), violence, profane language, etc.  I'm starting to catch on, to see how these people are missing the actual STORY, the actual DREAM that the writer had and that they're viewing.  They're not getting anything from it, because they're thinking of how "hot" a certain actor or actress is or how hilarious the sex jokes are or how great the excessive shooting and car crashings are (not to mention far-fetched as to all the things these people go through without being killed).  That's all they must be thinking the whole time! 

Oh, it's no wonder!  And see, the story's message, the actual lesson learned (regardless of whether the original writer even knew he had a lesson to teach), could get across without all that excessive broadcasting lusts of the flesh, except the movies would not sell that way, because there is such a small audience that is learning from these things.  The greater percentage of the audience are those who want to see sin, the lusts of the flesh, and so those who are producing the movie make sure to give heavy doses of it.  The downside is that those who actually learn lessons and grow in knowledge from these stories/dreams is that we have to be exposed more to the filthy nature of our sinful population.  Many things that the majority of the population, including most who identify themselves as Christians, see as fine, those of us who are faithful believers who meditate on things see as abominable.

Israel, Israel. YOU, Manasseh--United States--those of you with an Anglo-Saxon (Israelite, "Brit-ish," Hebrew for "covenant man") blood line and also those of you who are aliens with our borders who fear the Most High God, do you love this world and the lusts of the flesh, or do you have your hopes and priority on the world to come, the true New World Order that Christ will establish at his return?  Are you being solely entertained by SIN, by lusts of the flesh, or do you BEAR with the abominable sights of sin as you grow in grace and knowledge?