Pastor John MacArthur "When God Abandons a Nation", Korean actress - Psychology of Communication

I agree with this message. Especially, I was impressed with the message that when a man or a society is abandoned by God, it operates only out of the passions of its own impure heart.
I interviewed my friends and parents. They feel sad about the current moral direction of South Korea, because South Korea's moral direction is going with wrong way. There are many people who break morality.
We discussed morality, abortion, drunkenness, the occult, rebellion, technology, greed, theft, TV shows. Today, these issues are big problems. As the technology develops more and more, some people become greedy, and they don't think of morality as an important matter.

Here is the story of the Korean actress who committed suicide after being forced to sleep with the Chaebol business men and other factors.
Jang Ja-yeon was a South Korean actress. At the time of her death, Jang had been starring in the KBS television drama series Boys Over Flowers. She had been suffering from depression, and a police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide.
Since the death of her parents in a traffic accident in 1999, Jang had been living with her older sister and younger brother. Prior to her own death, Jang had been suffering with depression and had received medical treatment for her illness during the past year.
An alleged suicide note left by Jang describes how she was beaten and forced to entertain and have sex with several program directors, CEOs and media executives, causing considerable debate about relations in the entertainment industry, as well as a police probe into her management agency. According to South Korean reports, Jang claimed that her agent Kim Sung-hoon had regularly beaten her and forced her to have sex with a string of VIPs, including directors, media executives and CEOs. Kim Sung-hoon, who was in Japan, denies the accusations.

War of the Worlds, dust bowl, nazi, japanese, and economic collapse - Psychology of Communication

1. I listened to War of the Worlds from Youtube.com and read about it from wikepedia.

2. How did it meke you feel? - 5 strange things about War of the Worlds
- 1. Many people didn't listen that it was a play.
- 2. People were too weak. They believed that it was true.
- 3. It was so realistic.
- 4. It was a sensitive content.
- 5. People wanted to be crazy about something. Americans were thingking of invasion.

3. dust bowl, nazi, japanese, economic collapse
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.

Nazism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany. It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and anti-Semitism. Nazism presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies; in practice, Nazism was a far right form of politics.

Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion (22 August 1910 to 15 August 1945). Japanese rule formally ended on 2 September 1945 upon the Japanese defeat in World War II that year.

An economic collapse is a devastating breakdown of a national, regional, or territorial economy. It is essentially a severe economic depression characterised by a sharp increase in bankruptcy and unemployment.
The decade of the 1930s witnessed the most traumatic economic collapse since the start of the Industrial Revolution. In the USA, the Depression began in the summer of 1929, soon followed by the stock market crash of October 1929. American stock prices continued to decline in fits and starts until they hit bottom in July 1932.

I think that all of the isssues show that each one was a hard time to people. Even though there were a lot of damages from these events, people tided over difficult situations well.

From The X-Files episode "Talitha Cumi" - Psychology of communication

1. Can men never be free?(because they are weak, corrupt, worthless, and restless...)
- I think that men can never be free. The reason is that everyone has their concepts about something, so people can never be free perfectly.

2. Do people need miracles/signs to believe in God?
- I don't think that people need miracles or signs to believe in God. Because people believe in God not because of visual things that they can see. I think there is something like trust in people's minds and hearts in believing God.

Carrie Prejean and John Edwards - Psychology of Communication

Carrie Prejean is an American model, author, former Miss California USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 first runner-up. Prejean received national attention in 2009 stemming from her answer to a question about same-sex marriage in the 2009 Miss USA Pageant. Prejean was later ousted of her Miss California crown for alleged breaches of contract.

John Edwards is an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for VicePresident in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.

When Carrie Prejean mentioned about same-sex marrigae, what immediately followed was a rash of media venom and character assassination.

John Edwards infidelity scandal has shown members of the mainstream media (MSM). He had an affair, the National Enquirer reported it, the story was ignored by the MSM, the Enquirer followed up, provided enough proof and detail to finally get noticed, and Edwards was forced to admit the truth.
Media irresponsibility is being acknowledged from some unlikely quarters..... the media themselves in their opinion sections.

Here are the sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Prejean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2009/05/05/carrie-prejean-s-miss-calfornia-triple-scandal-nude-photos-boob-jobs-and-gay-marriage.aspx
http://celebrifi.com/gossip/Carrie-Prejean-Cries-Foul-over-Treatment-521729.html
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/258416?tp=1

The Little Drummer Girl - Psychology of communication

Karen Russell is a woman who won her local pageant, Miss Belize.
Amina Lawal is a Nigerian woman who was accused of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death under Nigeria's Sharia Law. She has her little baby called Washila.
After Karen heard the news, she and the other contestants left Nigeria just before Christmas that year in an expression of solidarity with Lawal and baby Wasila.
I was impressed because Karen left the pageant all for the sake of two strangers named Amina Lawal and her little baby, Wasila.

5 Photos of Afghanistan - Photojournalism

Cosmos and Steroids - Psychology of Communication

Cosmos
For a long time, people had dreamed about going to cosmos. However, it takes long time to reach the moon and cosmos. By radio contact, people tried to sent messages to the cosmos, but it didn't come true. I think that in the future, scientists can discover how to reach the cosmos fast, so we can explore the space.

Steroids
Nowadays, we can easily see many athletes who take steroids to win the games. Although people's opinion about plastic surgery become more positive, they can't accept the steroids as positive things. But, people expect athletes to be more excellent than ordinary people in the performance-enhanced society. I think that taking steroids is not good, but it's difficult for athletes to avoid taking the steroids in this society.