Everything depends on your own attetude on things. I read harry poter, play
sarah, Shades of doom and Mota, but if you take something too seriously it
can really damage you.
A game stops being a game when you start seeing it as real. In my opinion
that would be your own fault or in some cases the persons influencing you.
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From: "ari" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games and religion
Good one Wil! But, I hate to really throw a spanner in the works here, but
what I find interesting is, and I'll tell you guys why I think it's
rubbish, but as a liberal Christian myself I find it weird how some
Christian pastors who claim that somehow playing some games actually
loosens evil spirits, or makes you vulnerable to becoming possessed
somehow. This is especially so where I live, because in Africa many people
have very strong beliefs in spirits and evil forces being able to
influence the world. Like, I know you have them in America as well, the
people who say you listen to the music, when it gets played backwards you
get the hidden messages? I'll tell you why I don't believe the whole thing
about spirits and games, because if it was so, Phil and Dark and everyone
who likes and does fantasy RPG's would have been really mentally disturbed
by now! You just need logic and balance. I won't say that elements in
games could influence you or could disturb you mentally enough into taking
up wrong spiritual practices, but it is for you to not allow that, like I
would consider a game that had something like glassy-glassy to be
uncomfortable for me to play, since I believe that is wrong in real life
that is not something I would ever want to dabble in. If I think a game
could be spiritually disturbing for me, I just don't play it. I remember,
and this was even a long time after the Berlin Wall came down, in my
defense I was only 9 years old, didn't understand politics and was very
impressionable, but at school we had this weird old guy who loved teaching
us, probably from an old sylabus written during apartheid gave us Life
Orientation, and one of his favourite topics was the evil influences
computer games had on people. They were iether introduced to the West by
Leftist and Soviet Russian forces to lead us away from our Christian
values through brainwashing, and some aparrently were openly from the
devil, apparrently he claimed that there was a game where you had to go
into churches and break things. It's disgusting to make little kids like
that so paranoid and even a bit fearful, but I was lucky enough to have a
great older brother and friends who told me that normal games are not like
that, that games are actually good, and that, at that time you'd hardly
ever see games with such disturbing and wrong themes for me in the shops.
Ari
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