| Term Paper Title | Quick Fix Mentality2/28/04 |
| # of Words | 934 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.74 |
Quick Fix Mentality2/28/04
Religion Quick Fix Mentality
A quick fix mentality is the thought process that individuals go through to help them get through the problems that they face in life. Examples of a quick fix mentality are that people take drugs, have casual sex, speed, gamble, drink and do plenty of other sins to help them feel better about themselves at the time but this is false happiness or pseudo happiness which is the happiness that Satan creates to make people feel content and replace the happiness that God gives us. False happiness or a quick fix can be found almost anywhere and is portrayed all over the media.
While researching this topic we have found more quick fixes than we have ever imagined even existing. There were examples of quick fixes all over such as alcohol advertisements, cigarette advertisements, birth control, crest white strips, contact lenses that change your eye color, steroids, diet pills, lipo-suction, breast implants and advertisements that used sex to sell their material. Basically everywhere we looked there was something that was there to help someone quickly fix themselves so that they were no longer the way they way. The media promotes people to feel this way too, with their perfect images of the perfect people tries to make people feel sad and guilty that they too do not look like the people in these advertisements. Although we think that this is very wrong, we also sometimes fall victim to it. A Society should not be based on the appearance of a human being and they should not be told what makes them happy, yet they should find their happiness in the lord. Mark 8:36 says, “ For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” – from the Bible.
This social sin was probably around in the beginning of time and will probably never end. The society that we live in promotes this certain social sin everywhere, as I have previously stated, we found plenty of advertisements for quick fix solutions in one magazine you can at least find half of these advertisements that display solutions to the problems that you face in life, but as I read on gbible.org, “ Happiness is not having what you want; it is wanting what you have.” This quote basically says that happiness is not found in getting what you want, but it is wanting and enjoying the blessings that God has already given you. Also from gbible.org we go the statement, “ Whatever happiness is, it is someth...Read entire document
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