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Episode 25

1.      What are the ways young people use to escape reality? Discuss the attraction of an alternate reality and how it can be dangerous?

2.      Society and the media push young people to look for a life in an alternate reality. This is done through movies, clothes, video games, cyberspace web sites, fantasy books, drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, gambling, glamour and other addictions. What are the things that people you personally know do to try and avoid reality?

3.      Discuss this statement: "The grass is not greener on the other side; it is only green where you water it." How can this simple principle help keep young people out of fantasy-based reality?

4.      Discuss the dangers found in the escapism mindset. Why is it healthy to learn to face reality and cope with problems rather than to avoid them? How can people guard their hearts and minds against the temptation to run away from problems?

Key Scriptures

(New King James Version, unless otherwise noted)

Proverbs 20:1 ~Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 23:29-35 ~    Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new drinks. Don't let the sparkle and smooth taste of wine deceive you. For in the end it bites like a poisonous serpent; it stings like a viper. You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things.

Ecclesiastes 7:18 ~      The man who fears God will avoid all extremes.

Proverbs 14:8 ~  The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.