Hello,
A post by You Know, our local hero, that was basically filled with speculative nonsense and an eccentric interpretation of scripture has gone on, as of this moment, to generate almost 300 messages, and has been viewed over 5,400 times. An alarming waste of time imho.
As a result of this our lawns have overgrown, our families have been neglected, the parrot is losing its feathers due to starvation and the real world has passed us by with an understandable glare in our direction.
Yes, ‘screen sickness’; that desire to converse ad nasuem with digital acquaintances whose eyes ( or in YK’s case ‘eye’ ) we have never seen, has spread greedily among us.
In his wonderful essay on ‘Painting As A Pastime’, Winston Churchill gave some excellent advise for those who find their concentration becoming obsessed or overwrought, he said:
Change is the master key. A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using it and tiring it, just in the same way as he can wear out the elbows of his coat. There is, however, this difference between the living cells of the brain and inanimate articles: one cannot mend the frayed elbows of a coat by rubbing the sleeves or the shoulders; but the tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened, not merely by rest, but by using others parts……The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to….man.
Now, granting the validity of this argument to the great man, what ‘change’ or ‘hobby’ would you recommend to someone who finds that the balance of their mind is perhaps becoming excessively wound up with WTS & XJW matters, an activity my long-suffering wife describes as the ‘Wimbledon without a winner’.
What works for you?
HS