Do They Feed Us Tranquilizers Or Sedatives ?

originally posted by: Kenzo
a reply to: BeNotAfraid

I really hope you are right

I feel like many people out there cant be helped , because they dont want any help .

Perhaps they are not aware that they need help. That they need to wake up to something important. Or for those who already count themselves as among the awake ones (such as on ATS), what it is that they need to wake up to.

Awake from Sleep!—Why? How? (Awake!—1971)

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But of particular interest to us at this time is the fact that the Bible also refers to “sleep” ... in the sense of being unaware of danger or being negligent as to your responsibilities ... . The apostle Paul warns against this very thing at Romans 13:11-14: “Do this, too, because you people know the season, that it is already the hour for you to awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became believers. . . . Let us therefore put off the works belonging to darkness and let us put on the weapons of the light. As in the daytime let us walk decently, not in revelries and drunken bouts, not in illicit intercourse and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.”

So Paul here urges all of us not to fool ourselves. If anyone tends to enjoy things that lead to loose, immoral conduct​—whether in conversation, entertainment or in his personal actions—​he needs to wake up. He needs to face up to the fact that we reap in harmony with what we sow. (Gal. 6:7, 8) For a time he may seem to get away with loose conduct. But God does not sleep, and it is with him that we have an accounting. Does your life show that you are awake in this regard?

Because so many do engage in “illicit intercourse and loose conduct, . . . in strife and jealousy,” the apostle further counsels: “So, then, let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses.” (1 Thess. 5:6) Surely persons who carry on wickedness do not ‘keep their senses.’ To such Paul further commands: “Wake up to soberness in a righteous way and do not practice sin.” No question about it, to be practicing sin is to be morally asleep.​—1 Cor. 15:34.

Why is especially now the time to keep awake? Because of the times in which we are living. When you read news reports about war, food shortages and earthquakes, what do they mean to you? Many people react with indifference. They do not like the conditions, but they do not get excited about them. Do you see any special significance in the events of our day? The Bible foretold the “last days” of the entire wicked system of things, when men would be ‘lovers of themselves, lovers of money, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, without self-control.’ Do you know your Bible well enough to be able to say whether the things that are happening now fit these prophecies? Are you awake to the significance of our time? Jesus likened these days to those of Noah. Back there ever so many perished because they were not awake to the fact that they were living at the end of a wicked system of things. And concerning these very days Jesus warned: “Keep looking, keep awake.” Your life depends upon your being wide awake.​—Matthew, chapter 24; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; Mark 13:33.

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“You people know the season, that it is already the hour for you to awake from sleep.”​—ROMANS 13:11.

As Armageddon gets closer, mankind in general is spiritually asleep. The Bible is warning us against this kind of sleep when it says: “Happy is the one that stays awake.”​—Revelation 16:14-16.

People who are sleeping are usually not active. In contrast, those who sleep spiritually may be very busy, but they are not busy doing the things that can help them have God’s favor. They may be focusing on the daily cares of life or doing everything they can to have pleasure, fame, or money. They are so busy with these things that they do not think about their spiritual needs. But people who are spiritually awake realize that we live “in the last days,” so they are as active as possible in doing God’s will.​—2 Peter 3:3, 4; Luke 21:34-36.

They are also not asleep as to who the real 'powers that be' are:

The Bible says that those who sleep spiritually are doing “works belonging to darkness.” These works include wild partying, drunkenness, immoral sex, loose or shameless conduct, fighting, and jealousy. (Romans 13:11-14)

Some people think that there is no God who will judge them for their actions. (Psalm 53:1) Others think that God is not interested in us, so we have no reason to be interested in him. And others think that belonging to a church will make them friends of God. All those who have these false ideas are spiritually asleep. They need to wake up.

False Religion is a Snare and a Racket (playlist)

Who needs tranquilizers anyway when you have the entertainment media, with its promotion of pseudoscience and false religion, including philosophical naturalism (see the next video in the playlist linked above). Or this propaganda project moving ahead at full steam (also in the entertainment media):

Bait-and-Switch Atheist Propaganda

a reply to: whereislogic


Thank you

You really brought new level to this. Interesting all that , bible references etc...

As we look the daily happenings in World, it does look more and more
Black every year , or that is at least my humble feeling.