I am starting my own personal study into the book of Philippians. I read chapter 1 for my personal devotion this morning. Pretty incredible stuff.
Verse 21 really stood out to me. I'm sure most if not all of you have at least heard this verse. "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." (ESV). To me, that sounds like something from a really awesome movie where the hero is being held at gunpoint and tells the villain that whether he lives or dies it's a win-win situation. That isn't always true however, because your typical movie hero is 90% of the time Agnostic or just plain apathetic and 10% of the time Atheist. That's just Hollywood for you. Christians just aren't "cool" enough.
Well you wanna know what I think?
I think "being cool" isn't "cool" enough. Meaning I think being cool is a rather useless endeavor. Oh, look at me, some guy I don't know knows who I am. I think I would be creeped out a bit if someone who I'd never met knew me. I'd also feel like there was a bigger target on my head. And right now I'm talking more about fame than local popularity. So what if everyone likes you. What most people don't realize is that "cool" people are not in control at all. They are controlled by those who think of them as "cool". They must act in the manner dictated to them to retain such a status. Any sign that they are acting of their own will and they're not "cool" any more. They simply obey the lies fed to them by enemy number one: the media.
Sorry guys but I really hate the media. Just saying. They have so much power whether they realize it or not and I've never once seen them use it for a productive purpose. They typically bash people and idolize self-destructive behaviour. Yeah, I spelled it the British way. Cup of tea? Nevermind. I love Earl Grey tea. And Chai tea. And Dragon Eye Oolong tea. Yeah. No green tea though.
So that really had nothing to do with Philippians. Funny how one thing leads to another, eh? Canadians.
But yeah. I'm studying Philippians in my personal quiet time now. Please pray that God will reveal wisdom to me through my studies, as I will pray for you, my readers. Thanks and Your welcome.
またね！
(Google Translate will give you "It also!" but this actually means "See you later." Never trust internet translators.)
Dunno that I agree with this. Cool people are the ones who set the trends, not follow them. If you are sufficiently cool enough, you can do whatever you want and will still be cool.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like that thing I read ages ago where this guy was all "There was a kid at my school who wasn't cool, and he didn't care that he wasn't cool, and everyone thought it was really cool that he didn't want to be cool, so suddenly he became cool. And then he kept saying 'I don't want to be cool' which everyone thought made him cooler, so then everyone else walked around saying 'I don't want to be cool' but it didn't work because everyone knew they were only saying they didn't want to be cool so they could be cool."
I agree with you to an extent. I don't hate all media, but I do hate the really shameless and destructive ones. *coughfoxnewscough* But I think this is a failure of humanity, not the media itself. After all, most media only tells people what they want to hear, so in a way, it's people perpetuating the problem, not the media. They're just a business trying to make money, and as the saying goes, nobody ever went broke appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Yeah, I think I meant the people who want to be cool and not just the cool people. Perhaps I have generalized.
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