Well as some of you may know I am a gamer. Gamer I mean as video gamer. Yes I have been called the works geek, lazy, couch potato(even though i don't play my games on the couch) and other more extravagant names that escape my mind. Anyway, in the beginning I played most of my games on platform systems such as Gamecube(Nintendo) the Playstation(Sony) and the Xbox(Microsoft). More recently I have been playing most of on my newly acquired laptop computer( Go PC ). Just so you know I play games anywhere from the rating of E to M. I play all types of games RTS, RPG, FPS, and more recently MMORPG. If you are wondering what that stands for here it goes ( Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Wow try to say that it is a mouthful. Anyway my new MMORPG game of choice is World of Warcraft. The basic layout of the game is you :choose your side, make your guy,and spend countless numbers of hours making you guy stronger as to kill the other team. All of the while you are in this massive computer generated world. Now to get to the meat of the matter...I believe in God. Now some of the old people of the church bound to tradition would say that what i do in the game is witchcraft and is possessed by the Devil. Not to put it to bluntly but that is a load of crap. Now we get into the controversial grey area. I think that a game such as this that you use spells and do "evil" things is easy to become caught up in. But if you use it just as a pass time for fun and it does not become an idol before God then it is no worse then myspace or any of those other sites. I am not going to lie I find the game incredibly fun, but there is line that definitely should not be crossed. You have to tread very softly in this gray area as if walking on ice. I do try my very hardest to do the best i can at putting God first. I even set time limits on myself now. What I'm trying to say is that I don't feel gulity when I start to play because I believe that what I am doing is perfectly ok. I never saw Thou shalt not play video games, but as I said before there is a line. Any opinions( or corrections ) on my logic would be most welcome, because i don't want to walk myself into a hole I can't climb out of. Thank you for reading and once again, this is Drewski signing out.
