The lucifer effect
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1) The document discusses the "Lucifer Effect" which refers to how human nature can be influenced by light or darkness based on a study where participants took on roles as prisoners or guards and it negatively impacted them. 2) It then relates this to the author's own experience with drug abuse and how engaging in bad actions leads to more bad actions and losing one's values and morality. 3) Finally, it expresses gratitude for being able to get treatment and realizing the damage done to their life, while acknowledging everyone has their own journey and God will teach lessons until they are truly understood.
The lucifer effect
- 1. THE LUCIFER EFFECT The impact of light and darkness in human nature. My understanding of the picture depicted during Saturdays TAG sessionis simply that human nature or human beings, can be engulfed by either light or darkness. The power thereof is infinite and all encompassing. Pastor Desmond explained that the Lucifer Effect was based on a study re-enacting prisoners and warders from world wars. Subsequently, the impact it had on them personally as individual human beings in the broader scheme of things. The mental impact of taking on subservient role and punitive role. I gathered that despite the fact that the actors were role-playing, the subsequent actions fed their souls adversely. The study was discontinued after afew days as aresult of the negativeimpact it had on the actors. I was not entirely certain of what to encapsulate in this assignment, so I have decided to bring the concept back to home with respect to drug abuse and the consequential results. What I see as I reflect and who I have come to be, being clean. I will reference back to the study for clarity where necessary. In essence, simply speaking, bad actions enable more bad actions and good actions enable more good actions. The more you sin, the easier it becomes without a conscious. You lose your values and morals and step where Angels fear to tread. Into the dark world. The dark world becomes and even darker place as you become careless with material possessions and reckless with things that are more significant,e.g.the love and care of your parents, kids and family. Once youve done enough damage there, its time to eat away at your self-respect and self-confidence by doing things that you thought you were never capable of. Some, rob, steal and hurt others to feed their drug habit. Others sell their souls through their bodies for more drugs. Fortunately, I was savedbefore reaching any of those levels. I am however ashamed of sexual experiences resulting from leaving clubs high and being jovial with people just offering me more drugs. I pray that God is merciful and forgiving of my shortcomings. Gods mercy and kindness is infinite and the opposite end of the continuum rings true as well. The more good you do, the more the light shines through. On the dark end, the darkness envelopes you and creates chaos, where everything in your life starts going south at an exponential rate because you lose self-control. The trouble is that you so self-involved and so far from reality that the problem always has other roots. There is
- 2. always someone else to blame for the mishap. It was always someone elses fault. You did nothing wrong. You have no responsibility, no accountability. In effect, you have no life because you are enslaved by drugs. Your entire being is centred on the getting and using of drugs irrespective of the consequences. In this state, you have absolutely no conscious concept of the true impact of your choices and actions on others or for yourself, for that matter. We are too blind when we are high to realisethat Gods power is omnipotent. That everything happens by his will based on our choices. Drugs takes away our freedom to choose when we become dependent on it to survive. Our choice by default becomes how do we get money for more? We use to celebrate, we use in sorrow, any excuse to use some more. But time waits for no man, before we know it, years have passed and we are still committed doing the same actions. Zero human progress. Contrary to human nature, we fester our souls and stagnate our potential. Ultimately, we regress as people and become liabilities to our families and society at large. As we clean up, we start realising the depth of the mess that we created. We become conscious of people we have harmed and the extent of our faults and the resulting holes. Having said all this, it is my belief that God picks his strongest soldiers to fight his battles. Everyone is on the own journey of learning and growing. The Almighty will keep teaching you the lesson until you truly and completely understand it, in order to move to the next step of your journey. Unfortunately, many dont move forward quick enough before death becomes them or until they completely rot. Some are not chosen to be saved. I am truly grateful for being awarded the fortunate experience of being a part of TAG as a divertee. Without it, I would have continued tainting my light by being a functional drug addict if such a thing truly exists. I realise the damage to my life with crystal clear vision.which is required to remedy. I look forward to living and I am deeply grateful for the support. Thank you, Bahia Dangor