Remember how you grew up, how things have changed.
Listen to the stories of the baby-boomers of World-War-Two parents who had grandparents telling them how the world had changed during their life-time.
Josh McDowell tells us that what used to take a hundred years to change in culture now changes in less than a quarter century.

So the experiences you faced are not the same as those of your children. By far.
Mass media is the biggest reaching tool in the world.
It affects wars, money, elections, dictators, gov. and people of all kinds, ...and finally it affects
schools, and your child.

Do not be ignorant of the power of TV to engineer the way people think and do. TV satellite bounces around the world with information, whether true or false who can tell? Just like Mrs. Sorenson predicted, tv has been the biggest instrument of change in America.

Today we have news about families cloning their dead child.
Just a few years ago we had Dolly the sheep cloned.
Brave New World talked about it 50 years ago.
Satellites cramming the space above earth till they're so thick it takes special maps to track them.
These seem common-place to children nowdays, but remember the very first one went up in 1958.
And it was a Russian satellite called Sputnik. Most highschool boys were immediately encouraged to go out and buy sliderules so we could close the engineering gap with Russia and win the space war.

Today's kids have computers that routinely track satellites, and it all seems so routine.

But so does the appearance of gay movies and sitcoms seem routine now and commonplace, totally acceptable by society who has learned to laugh with their jokes. What you allow to amuse and entertain, you accept.

On the background of all this remember that just 50 years before that first Sputnik, people were riding around in horse drawn carriages.
In those days, most any kid could see the stars at night without smog haze or city lights.
In those days, more kids got to catch a tadpole and seine for minnows. They saw trees grow in their back yard, and flowers that their mother planted. Many helped with a family garden. Yes, even up through the days of WWII.

There is much importance missed in the statement from scripture, "The things of God which can be known are clearly seen by what He has created." We do err to ignore or minimize such truth, such guidance. Removing children from nature, almost completely, and raising them on concrete playgrounds, with virtual entertainment filled with examples of gore and death,... what is happening? What is different for a child raised in the country without VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT and a child who only knows VIRTUAL REALITY?

I have much to say on that subject but will leave it for you to consider. Another time maybe can write on that theme.

Here's a hint, one of many possible. In the last days, people will be without natural affection...Romans 1:31 and Second Timothy 3:3

Isaiah 5:20 Woe be unto them that call evil good and good evil. That put darkness for light, and light for darkness. That put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

That which they laugh at and accept in good humor, they tend to come to accept in general.
This includes the many transvestites portrayed in so called humor.
It includes the bold portrayal of homosexuals as acceptable behavior.
And much more.

Rome had its amphitheater of gladiators. We have pro-football, wrestling tv style,and detailed gory
war shows in hyper full details of gore and blood, murder, killing and death.

But we've gone far beyond mere physical execution.
Far higher ratings and faster publicity to those programs promoting pain and violence where the victim doesn't die, but just keeps on enduring. With gladiators there is a moment of pain and then death. But tv has progressed to the exquisite sweet pain release of emotional vampires, feeding on the heart suffering and pain, the bleeding souls of sick and maligned souls.

The emotional soap operas have replaced the simple ones of the forties and fifties and sixties.
Now teenagers can sit and watch bisexuals fight on tv over their territories.
And much more.

Physical death in Roman gladiator fights was simple, direct, and then over. Only America, with its mass merchandising advertising budgets could pull off such a stunt as you see on the morning, afternoon, evening and night EMOTIONAL INTERVIEWS and EXPOSES. Oh, America has progressed to surpass the height of drug induced ecstasy, and done it with the pure adrenaline of emotionally battered souls,... sending the by-products out over the mass media for our children and families.

Too many school teachers and parents and important people have said to me words like this: "What does it matter what the children read, so long as they are reading? We are glad just to get them reading."
This was said in response to my questions on books like Harry Potter, and a popular theme of a major school library supplier, Scholastic Books, which typically is something like a little girl metamorphosing from a snake or back into a snake, or teen-age blues, suicide, sick, stuff.

It's like back in 1910 when we only had telephones and electricty and lights and simple cars and some pretty fancy printing presses and telegraph, life was much simpler. People still couldn't attack around the world in minutes.

Technology was like a small bunny in your arms. It was nice and pleasant, and there was plenty of nature to go around. Kids still caught tadpoles, and families still went to church picniks.
Now, technology has grown to a rampaging beast, dragging us along by the chain we have on us tied to its neck. It is growing faster than we can adjust to its potentials. That is how America was caught off guard, by one man applying technology in a way that had not been considered to defend against. Existing technology was used by our enemy in a way we did not think necessary to guard against. He out manuvered us on the chess board using our own pieces.

A hundred years has changed the face of the world, the time to traverse the world, and the things that can be done.

See the history of electricity at http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html
Students of every subject should first study the history of that subject. If for nothing else than to put it into perspective.
They should also study the science and culture change connected with the MAJOR inventions.
But how sadly our schools fail in this also. (Just had to get that in.)

            History of Technology and Law as Changes in our experiences

1. 300 BC Gun powder used by Chinese in rockets
2. 200 AD Catapults in major use, Romans
3. 300 AD Steam engine first described in a book, by Hero of Greece
4. ?? BC to present - chemistry and physics being developed
5. 1700-1850 Steam Engine development and in practical use, coal mines then ships.http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/lord/8.htm
6. 1745 - Leyden Jar, capacitor, invented and nearly kills one of the observers http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html
7. 1748 - first flourescent light http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html
8. 1766 - Joseph Priestly, acting on a suggestion in a letter from Benjamin Franklin, shows that hollow charged vessels contain no charge on the inside and based on his knowledge that hollow shells of mass have no gravity inside correctly deduces that the electric force law is inverse square.
9. 1812 - Michael Faraday gets his first science job 1812 - Michael Faraday, a bookbinders apprentice, writes to Sir Humphrey Davy asking for a job as a scientific assistant. Davy interviews Faraday and finds that he has educated himself by reading the books he was supposed to be binding. He gets the job. http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html
10. 1816 - David Brewster invents the kaleidoscope. Apparent chaos out of ordered plan!
11. 1826 - Ohm's Law
12. 1830 - 1850 Telegraph - a needle form of the telegraph was first used in the 1830's http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/pertel.htm
13. 1924-1934 The crucial years of wireless communication development.
14. 1870-1947 Schools begin teaching evolutionary law to replace Absolute Law as referenced in the Declaration of Independence
15. 1895 - X-rays discovered from cathode ray tubes
16. 1889 - Theory of radiation, as for antennas, radio, wireless communication
17. 1898 - radioactivity discovered, Marie and Pierre Curie
18. 1905 - Albert Einstein completes Lorentz's work on space-time transformations and relativity is born.
19. 1917 - WWI, tanks, poison gas warfare, threats of chemical and biological war use, planes, machine guns
20. 1939-1945 WWII rockets, atomic bomb
21. 1948 - Supreme Court ignores Declaration of Independence and moves from on campus to off campus all Bible study (yes it was on campus till then)
22. 1958 - Sputnik, the first satellite in orbit around the earth placed by man
23. 1961 - 1963 Supreme Court invents new Constitution for the United States of America, takes out prayer, 10 Commandments
24. 1997? Dolly the sheep is cloned
25. 1994 - The worlds first international world wide web conference held in Cern
26. 1998 - anyone can buy GPS, Global Positioning by Satellite, hardware for a couple hundred dollars
27. 1999 - Cell phones by satellite are common place
28. 2000 - Earth's orbits are filled with satellites, and some have fallen to earth
29. 2001 - First news article in print on parents wanting to clone their dead child.

IN SUMMARY

1. 1800'sMost common people lived on or near farms, many many farms everywhere
2. 1825 - Steam engine Ships of war and commerce,
3. 1850 - Telegraph
4. 1876 - 1925 Telephone development, included wireless telephone
5. 1895 - Radio, long range transmission first happened
6. 1899 - Some cars, Henry Ford factory began in 1908
7. 1905 - Einstein's Theory of Relativity
8. 1913 - Federal Reserve System of Banking, privately owned and operated, no external audit ever
9. 1929-39 Stock Market Crash and Decline and Great Depression, -> Gov take-over
10. 1940 - Atomic bomb work began
11. 1950's - Strategic Air Command, B-52's filled the skys with atomic bombs on alert, in case
12. 1950's last times we saw many mommies taking care of their own children instead of day cares.
13. 1950's last times it was popular to say No Sex Before Marriage, no living together without marriage
14. 1956 Time or Life magazine, front cover says God is dead, existentialism rules popular America
15. Proliferation of bio-chem-nuk war ways and means for terrorists, suitcase atom bombs etc
16. Now one man can kill a million. The machine gun has outdone the rifle and the bow and sword.
17. 1970's computer usage begins to grow
18. 1992-99 - FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Act (ie Military Authority) by Clinton
19. 1999 - ?? Stock market bubble collapse begins, aided by fears of Y2K computer problems world-wide
20. Computers and satellites are now indespensable to national governments
21. 2001 - Public accepts need for military protection on streets of U.S.A. because of technology threats
22. 1990 - 50,000 people work in two high-rise buildings in NYC. Think about it.

How fast have we changed. In 1900 we had one thing. And now we have so different a country. Technology has made it possible, but technology is not the cause. Beware how you use technology. It is a multiplier of power, even the power to change. And yet the Gov allows the changing of our food, genetically engineered food is everywhere, even in baby food. Did they bother to ask your opinion? I don't think so.

They are filled with their power, and they feel free to use it for profits disguised as being for your benefit. With all the genetic engineering by ignorant men with the complex things of God's animal and plant kingdom, do you think it so unreasonable the scriptures predict weird plagues and weird beasts, maybe insect mutants and the like to be a plague on mankind?
We ourselves will be partakers of that genetically altered food which no man can say what the effect will be. Our children being second generation partakers of altered corn and beans, of beef fed with female hormones, and of chickens nourished through tubes to grow,...
how will they think it is strange, since it will have been the world to which they were accustomed.

The principle is: That which is acceptable as humor today, is acceptable period tomorrow.
Look around. See the children who have grown to defend homosexuality as acceptable.
Look at the things introduced as humor which are now mainstream.