Computer Games

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:34:42 -0500

I had an interesting experience last night. I recently bought a lap top computer to use for taking notes, writing, studying, etc..., and I bought a couple of games for it just to see what the computer could do, and for a little occasional diversion.

For those of you who haven't seen what the current computer game technology is, it is very realistic and the good ones actually create a sense of emersion in the reality portrayed in the game. Also these games can be highly addictive, by providing a degree of challenge and excitement thus engaging the emotions.

However, I have come to the conclusion that many of these games are also highly damaging to one's psyche. Why? Because these games promote a certain set of values, and in order to "Win" you have to act on these values. These values are: Conquest, Kill everything in sight, Greed/Avarice, Domination, Cruelty, Enjoying the suffering of others, etc... By playing these games are we not creating a reality for ourselves on the astral plane?

So for the past week I've played these so called "harmless games" on my computer with an interesting effect. Although these games were very challenging/pleasurable, after playing these games (for sometimes hours - I said they were addictive) I came away feeling an deep sense of Anxiety and a feeling that I was wasting my life playing these games. I actually physically felt like I was damaging myself!

Needless to say I have DELETED ALL GAMES (even the golf game that came with my computer) from my laptop computer, since for me I could feel the damage I was causing myself.

When I think of it, I think playing a realistic computer game is even more powerful than affirmations, subliminals, and looking at pictures. This is because a computer game (especially one that approximates virtual reality) engages your senses (sight and sound) AND your emotions, gives you pleasure, while it forces you to act out a given "Set of Values" to achieve a Win/Pleasure using that set of values.

What an insidious way to implant a set of attitudes and values into someone!

All I can say is God help our young people who grow up on these "games".

JC

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JC, your post on anxiety attacks stimulated some thought.

The reason for the existence of the kill games on computers, the violence in movies and fiction, and the existence of all religions, is our seeking to exert some control over circumstances. The powerless finding a way to express power, which is the arranged experience of the computer games, the vicarious experiences of movies and fiction, and the promise of all religions. Even the "revenge of the nerds." The nature of human consciousness is to pursue that which gives pleasure and satisfaction to its utter satiety and/or self-destruction and then abandon it or restrict indulgence to more manageable terms. Your sudden enlightenment will be the eventual experience of the West in becoming aware of what the nature of their enjoyment is.

There is always human debris, lives temporarily derailed in these excesses, before they are outgrown, that is, seen for why they attract us. The highly visible human debris generates demands for legal restrictions, always making that which is restricted more attractive to the inexperienced. And so we move down the evolutionary Path, bouncing off one wall of excess after another, and by this, gradually learning who and what we are and the nature of the experience in learning. Your gift of sudden awareness in this area will modify the mass. It is my personal opinion that the West alone will need to experience this particular excess; one, due to our access to and love of technology, computers in particular. I think we will experience this for both East and West. You and I are cogs in modifying the mass mind concepts. N.J.