Hollywood Repents, Sort of

Colin Farrell "I'm just grateful I'm actually alive"

Hollywood Repents, Sort of

Written by Denise Rochelle M.

Is it just me or is Hollywood growing up?  There was the sexual revolution, and I think we are about to go in reverse in this new millennium.  What would that be called?  We rarely see Hollywood stars who travel down the wrong pathway of drugs and self-destruction survive and reverse their actions.  So, when we do witness those who do change their lives, we should make these actions known as well.


I truly love Hollywood, and I love movie making and I love, love, love Los Angeles.  I recently moved from Los Angeles a little over a year ago and saw it from a different view while living in Santa Monica.  I witnessed about Jesus and the Messiah's return in our time to several people in the business and people just passing through.  The lifestyles that I witnessed was a life that turned my dreams of Hollywood to being in the industry and revise my plan of reforming Hollywood. 

It was extremely easy to have people in the industry support your peace ideals, but when it came time to bring values onto the table such as waiting for marriage and God we would never see people again.  What's the big deal about morals and Hollywood, what's the connection?  These individuals' lives values are streamlined into your home and onto our society whether we believe Hollywood has that responsibility or not. 

When we adults were growing up, values were pushed hard about family, shows I grew up with promoted chastity and they were not afraid to profess God.  The argument that shows just reflect reality, I beg to differ.  Too many people complain that Hollywood does not show reality of people who do abstain from sex, do not take drugs, are respectful etc. etc.    Christian television networks do not count.  But I digress.

Hollywood needs a reformation in morals.  It spreads its immorality all over the world, and is one of the reasons why many are losing favor of the United States because some cultures hate how Hollywood introduces promiscuous sex and evil behavior to their society as pleasing and fruitful. 

Recently Colin Farrell said in an article that he was coming clean about his drinking and being in a fog everyday for 18 years.  There is only so much sex, drinking and 'exciting' devious ways we can experience before we see that while it is different and stimulating on the outside, it becomes boring and does not fill the hole that they feel within eternally.

Colin Farrell admits that even the birth of his first child made him determine NOT to change his lifestyle and be his son's best friend like the cool dad - a DILF(kids say Dad I Like to Fu*k).  His answer to this after maturing with his son now 8 shows he is growing, "Like a (expletive) 28-year-old drug-addicted drunk friend is exactly what my 6-week-old son needs."  Farrell is realizing that he wants to be present and is grateful to be alive for his children. 

Teens who follow Drew Barrymore, would probably never believe her past of drinking, drugs and wild behavior.  "I'm a Barrrymore, keep those drinks coming!" was her anthem.  Miraculously Barrymore was another star who had the guise of prayer from someone who loved her to protect her during those lost years even turning to divorcing her parents.  For her to rise on top and come clean, keep her stardom and get a chance to start over should be praised.  Where is her tell all to help those who are going down the wrong path that it is possible to have second and third chances?

I adore Barrymore because she has been genuine and truthful about her battles and losses since ET and I think this is what saved her as well by not hiding her transgressions or making excuses.  There is one quote that she said that is very enlightening that we should fight sadness like we are fighting an evil dragon everyday.  This explains her giddiness throughout her trials and how it is not fake. 

The picture above is Pink who says that she admits she was wild and crazy not too long ago.  She went from singing a song about losing her husband almost to divorce to being married and with a child.  She has to know that divine intervention helped her restructure her life and she testifies to her changed ways and loves motherhood.  She says she finds it hard to remember what she did with her time beforehand.

Why do these few cases matter?  Because like it or not, Parents, Hollywood and media is raising your children and reinforcing bad behavior as lucrative, sexy, happy and not harmful.  We should acknowledge the actors who are changing their dark path as well as show the fruit of fallen stars actions to demonstrate to children the consequences of choosing the dark path. 



Nicole Richie left wild past settles down with Joel Madden and their
two children

It is impossible to completely erase negative influences from our children.  I personally know tens of families who take television, privileges you name it, lock their children into a safe environment of others with the same values, follow everyday faith practices and still, somehow, their children end up cursing and acting like obnoxious teens who act out.  What? 

My parents were the strictest around and very scary when it came to values.  I had curfews and it all, you name it.  One value my parents did place was rules and consequences.  That was it.  They did not tell me not to watch bad shows, not to have sex, not to listen to bad music as much as encourage me what I could do that was positive.  They encouraged me to do more good things than brought up the bad things which became less interesting to me when I saw friends delving into it.  Piano, afterschool job, band, babysitting the whole neighborhood etc.  I think bad behavior comes from boredom, too much time on hand, and teens not having other choices for clean fun.


So, even though I ended up being in the same room as kids who drink, smoked weed and had friends who did everything they wanted by staying out all hours, my parents ultimately gave me a choice. 

Parents should do the same as far as not fear Hollywood, and society, but reinforce the good more than the bad, because we all know children want to follow the bad because let us face it, it is exciting for awhile before the consequences hits.

I see a revolution in Hollywood taking place.  Marriage, coming clean, regrets, and the realization how their wild lifestyle was...actually boring is taking place.  I think our society definitely should not shun the evils of the world from our children, they will find it in the worst way if we shelter them completely from the realities without giving them alternatives. 

Saying all of this, I do wish that Hollywood would include more positive options in movies and television other than just showing serial daters, non-married people jumping into bed and sexual innuendos even in children shows.  Isn't there other lifestyles and more fun ways people on earth spend their time? 

So, because there is so little positive in Tinseltown, we should celebrate the good things as well and praise these more.  I guarantee, being a dictator and taking all that is bad from their eyes and leave them no positive options, our worse nightmares come true.  I can only appreciate in my older age my strict Christian parents gave me choices at 16 and asked me what I wanted to do after raising me to make the right choices.  So to this fact, we can not blame Hollywood directly because we need to teach our children the right way and give them better options.

Now only if Hollywood would do something about the names they give their babies.  Well, it is actually cute.  Olive and Apple, which are two real names, are ready to inherit the lineage of their parent's genes for entertaining the world.


Return for Tomorrow's post: The Messiah Needs You

I I have studied the religious textbook, the Divine Principle, for seven years which has the philosophy of the Completed Testament.  Not an addition to the bible or New Testament, but put simply showing the hidden truth of the bible that the Messiah promised that would become clear in the Last Days that he would no longer speak in parables and symbols but tell plainly of the Father. 



Why Celebrities Lives Turn For Worst?

We see it everyday in the newspaper.  The latest celebrity overdoses, divorces, sweet actress does nude scene, cheating incident - you name it.

From the sweet Twilight star's cheating scandal, and going nude, to the poppy Miley Cyrus slithering around like the new 80s Madonna.  Parents must wonder what in the world is going on with the stars. Britney Spears going from sugar to spice by borrowing the boyfriend of a pregnant Moesha star to tearing up property and shaving her head. How can they let their children watch these stars and emulate their every behavior? 

Why do beautiful sweet entertainer's lives eventually go downhill?

Well, one argument says that it only seems this way because they are int he public eye, and if everyone was in the public, our lives would play out the same way in the media.  True to a certain extent.

Celebrities are humans and are no different from others. Why do we place them on such a high pedestal?

 Humans always want an example to follow.  Celebrities are seemingly beautiful people who cracked the code to success, and people want to know how to be successful and follow the lifestyles sometimes. Whether it is through religion or through other means, we all want to be greater in some way and need to see our goal before we can follow it. 

Movie stars, musicians and sports players have been placed in front of our eyes everyday through the media.  They seem to have the answer since they have the money, clothes, confidence, and we give them the glory.  Yet, everday we see through their drug overdoses, bankruptcy, and immoral activities, they are just like us, trying to make it through this crazy world. 


Some people sourly say that celebrities were always the way we see them end up, and the truth is coming out.  Others say that it is only because they are in the public eye that it seems they do many bad things when it isn't that bad as what other people do in private.  All true, but why is it in the entertainment business the majority of the people do not end up with happy lives?  Why do we as a society continue to place regular people on a  pedestal and try to follow their destructive ways which they glorify in their music and movie roles?

It is good to see celebrities lives being exposed more because it demonstrates to children that if they follow the immoral acts of celebrities, no matter who you are, you will lead a life that ends in destruction. 

Remember the account that God told Adam and Eve to obey His commandments in the beginning.  He told them advice that is so profound that it could save the dying lost even in this day and age.

Forget the debate about the fruit in the garden was not literal and symbolizes love, and that they weren't supposed to experience physical love until God blessed them in marriage. 

Let's keep it simple.  God gave them a commandment to wait upon His time when they could 'eat of the fruit'. 

He gave Adam and Eve a choice in that commandment.  If you follow my words, you unlock blessings of the earth, if you do not choose my way you receive curses.  We obviously understand which path our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit chose.  By choosing Satan's word to indulge in love before their time, humanity fell outside of God's realm under Satan's dominion.  All from a certain ACTion of teenagers, the world has been a perpetual hell every since.

One person said the problems of the world can't be that simply answered.  But it can.  All problems can stem from the misuse of love.  Even anger stems from someone inappropriately abusing love by not loving properly in someway.

Love has the power to bring blessing through its connection to God, or curses through its misuse.

We chose curses and we still choose to be cursed or blessed with every moment we make a decision.

Celebrities misfortunes demonstrate what happens when we make a chose without God as our center.  When we choose to be with a person outside of marriage, steal husbands, sleep with many people, choose drugs as our enlightenment only, choose material and wealth to make us happy, we are harming not only other people, but God's heart.  God abhors sin and he told us in the beginning it leads to destruction.

Why are these things bad?  Isn't physical love part of the creation, aren't we as God's children suppose to enjoy the fruits of God's creation?  Yes, but these objects have become our only way to happiness forfeiting God completely as a source of our love.  And love without God as the center is still love, but it is false. 

How is being with a person who is promised to another (God sees single people as people waiting to mature for their intended spouse - which is one person), even if they are not married, a part of God's True Love? 

Why do we follow in the footsteps of people who endure endless heartache over and over as the pass from one relationship and marriage to the other and believe this is the way we should live our lives to find true happiness?  We should clearly see that beauty, money and love alone is not the only way to live.  Celebrities too are looking for True Love as well.

Why would God make Adam and Eve wait to indulge in the pleasures that they were going to have anyway?

It is like giving a gun or a diamond to a three-year old.  You just don't do it.  They don't understand the value or the destruction that can come by possessing these objects too soon. 

In essence, God was telling Adam and Eve to wait until they were mature before He could bless them to enjoy the fruits of love. 

So, as adults, it may be too late, but we finally realize substantially and heartistically what parents meant when they told us we were not mature enough to handle sex and must wait for marriage, and drugs are harmful.

The parents who are enforcing the rules of saving yourself for one person and during marriage sometimes themselves have a history of not waiting for marriage, cheating and drug abuse, and children follow the example of their parents. How can we enforce this to the next generation if we ourselves have trouble living by God's word?

This is hard because of hormones and our feelings of lust and love for the opposite sex is greater than any consequences or warnings and the heartache that sprout from our misdeeds.

This was the problem with Adam and Eve, our first parents, who were just teenagers.  No matter that God had warned them, they had indulged in premarital sex without God's blessing and we have perpetuated this generation after generation.

The sad part is that God's word judges even our thoughts because even though they are not actions, thoughts plant seeds that eventually become real in some way if not counterbalanced.  If we perform in our mind sexual acts with our best friend's husband, the bible says then we have committed adultery even if we are not married ourselves.

No one is beyond this temptation.  Me, you, your children, even the most faithful and devout have this the responsibility to subjugate the desires of our bodies and fight it everyday.

                                                                                                                              "Anarchy" actor
Of course we should pray for our brothers and sisters in our communities and celebrities who can not overcome their struggles instead of just talking about their issues.  If we don't talk about them and ignore them, as we see evident, it spreads wider until it is seen in our own homes. 

Our children are watching these stars in a different light.  Many see these acts as okay as stars seemingly don't pay for for doing wrong - there are no consequences in young people's eyes, and are jaded by their beauty and  money.  It is important as parents we show that the path away from God no matter how it appears always ends in destruction.

Children must understand that God intended for us to live a life of peace and love and what seems commonplace and as an exciting life of the stars is far from peaceful.  They must see that going to rehab, excessive behavior, multiple relationships, divorce etc. may seem fun, but it hurts God's heart.

Fortunately, God is behind the scenes working to help us clear up this mistake.  No one is beyond the love of God.  No one can go too far in the other direction that they can not return down the same path and start anew.

The first step is to educate about the reasons why we fight our evil mind and carnal desires.  This battle of mind and body will end as we conquer everyday to strengthen our good God-given mind everyday.  Just like us, our spiritual body and mind must eat. 

In the environment of today's society, we feed our evil mind and body more than our good mind, making our evil body stronger.  Our ungodly mind becomes subject over the good activities we want to do.

Reading God's words of all religions, praying, acting in faith, and putting God's word and placing it into action daily is a way to strengthen our good mind and lead us back to God.

If the latest trend of celebrities going toward Eastern religions is truly part of their soul, we may see a new celebrity crop up in Hollywood.  Unfortunately, it just seems to be a ploy for some, but hopefully, one day, a revolution of celebrities that live a life led by God in Hollywood will take over.

Why worry about people we do not know?  Because whether we like it or not, our children and society's next generation of leaders follow the lifestyles of celebrity materialism without thinking about it and it is undeniably not the only cause but is definitely a part of the slow degeneration of America's values.

Simply turning off the television does not work as it has become part of our culture, our lives are inundated with the culture of media no matter how religious we are.  There needs to be a revolution of True Love in the industry or the current trend we will continue.  The trend of other countries despising America's trashy ways will increase.  Can we blame them?

One day absolutely, God's way will be more popular than the materialistic satanic way of life - hopefully in our lifetime.  God deserves to be an idol, don't you think?


Photos courtesy of MSN entertainment news.

This message is based on the Divine Principle which uses the study of the bible as its basis.