GOSMGO

 The nature of media is to give us more and more of what we seem to be craving. That's how it perpetuates itself, which means what they're dishing out to us is perpetual. How do we change the tenor of what they're serving once we understand the reciprocity of the relationship? First, we have to stop responding and reacting to what they put out. At the end of the day, they're profit driven. We need to watch and read what's positive, informing, affirming, and creating unity, and eschew the garbage, the mindless, the antagonistic, the slamming, the idle gossip

Every single day, every hour of the day, they're serving up topics for us to be irritated and angry about. It's full of stories of missteps, injustices, quarrels, stories about things people are wearing, where they're going, what they're doing, whether it's our business or not, and it's usually not. They make us think we all need to concern ourselves with and judge, opine, and take sides on everything and everyone, which we really don't. And when we do, we just create additional drama, controversy, division, discontent, and unhappiness. They are literally seeing us an addictive substance that is bad for us. We've come to crave 

 https://www.progressbaptist.com/about/church-covenant/ To walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; To avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; To abstain from the sale and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage, and to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Saviour. We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; To remember each other in prayer; to aid each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech; To be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay.

 Why must we give people a verbal beat down online even for small transgressions? If someone misspeaks or days something unthinking, which let's face it, we all have done or will do at some point, people on social media have to go on angry attack. They pile on, get on the case to identify the person if the Internet doesn't know their name, give out their personal data, and pound them into submission. They want them to lose their reputations, jobs, homes, and even their lives in some cases,over things that in the overall scheme of things matter very little. What do we get out of doing that?

 As soon as we see something we immediately look for a way to take a side or to be in opposition to someone about it or for a way to create another in the dynamic. We immediately have to give our opinion on it but we should not need to give an opinion on it it is not necessary

 People branding themselves People turning their children into commodities and pimping them out Allowing people to profit off of meanness and talking about other people and criticizing them that should not be profitable now it's even even can become an occupation

 We can stand to Let a lot of stuff go.

The middle-aged man standing next to his pickup truck two parking spaces over from me sputtered those final words to an angry worker who had just ushered him out of the takeout lobby of my neighborhood seafood restaurant. It was the end of a heated exchange I only caught the tail end of after pulling into the lot to pick up lunch for my family. As near as I can recall, this is what was said and how the next few minutes played out: I was about to get out of my car when I saw the two men emerge from the building, both fuming. I heard the uniformed worker, a young black man, yell, "You need to pay for those drinks, sir!" Then, the worker mumbled, "Racist mother******." The middle-aged man, who was white, heavy-set, and appeared to be in his sixties, set the paper bag he was carrying on the ground, took a bill from his wallet, and shoved it at the worker. "There! Keep the change!"  The man stormed in my direction. I stayed put in my SUV, fearing his wrath. He ...