Any other news junkies out there?

I watch a lot of left-wing and right-wing news sources on youtube - most of them have an agenda that I disagree with but they sometimes have good talking points. And I watch political streamers (Destiny, Hasan, etc.)

 

I watch news way too much. I started when I was around 12 years old stuck in the hospital with bone cancer. I watched the tsunami in Indonesia on tv and my mind instantly went to the verse about great earthquakes in diverse places and the waves roaring- the beginning of sorrows. A few years later I started working for this old man who told me to read Matt 24. He said these things are happening. So I read it and ever since I’ve been fascinated with news regarding biblical prophecies and the Jewish people.
The news is way more interesting with this in mind and I feel like I can’t get enough. It’s very interesting to me how the worlds focus is turning towards Jerusalem just as the Bible says it would and the Jewish people are returning to their homeland.

 

I don't watch TV, I also don't watch the news. I only watch a half dozen YouTube videos. Before NoFap I watched porn maybe 1X weekly. I hardly know what is going on in the world. I assume it's a dumpster fire. Mostly I play Pokemon Go, I decided to trancend western society by becoming an irl Pokemon Trainer and occasionally drinking purple drink. I do use Spotify a lot for walking around music.

 

It's easy to convince yourself that you need to keep up to date with the news, but it's difficult to know what is significant while it is still happening I think, one gets too easily carried away with the hysteria of it all.

I would aim to replace some/all of your news consumption with a non-fiction reading practice. You can gain a far greater and deeper understanding of the past - and, ironically, the present too - with a few well-chosen books than from many hours of news consumption.

 

Yep and I hate it. I need to stop watching it tbh its damaging my mental health.

 

Some say the news media used to be non profit and things dramatically changed when they became for profit.

 

i recently saw a funny reddit post and clicked on it and scrolled down and there was a post of a reddit thread called r/childfree and it has 1.1million members (i am not familiar with reddit) and it was full of anti-human posts, i didnt open that trash application again

so many negative people on social media beimg pessimistic and anti-human, its so ridiculous. i have never met someone like that in my life yet they are full of them on twitter and reddit

i swear i also saw someone say we shouldnt have a corona virus vaccine because people should die, and another saying the same for cancer saying it brings balance and that medicines should be banned. theyre not even being edgy they are actually that mentally backwards, but if it was their mother their opinion would change

i am so glad i left TV 5+ years ago and social media 3 years ago. so much less negativity in life. i also dont watch the news its all trash to get clicks, i'll occasionaly read some interesting headlines thats it but even then im just leading into their trap

just let me live life peacefully without pessmistic idiots ruining it

now i need to remove porn as my next step