Could It Be This Simple? Quotes

“In April 2004 the professional journal Pediatricspublished astounding research that revealed television watching by children increases their risk of developing attention deficit disorder. The amount of time a child watches television changes the brain!”
― Timothy R. Jennings, Could It Be This Simple?: A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind

“After introduction of TV, homicide rates in U.S. increased by 93 percent from 1945 to 1974. During the same period, homicide rates in Canada increased 92 percent. But in South Africa, in which TV did not appear until the 1970s, the homicide rates decreased by 7 percent from 1945 to 1974. Astoundingly, after the introduction of television in 1975, the homicide rate increased 130 percent.”
― Timothy R. Jennings, Could It Be This Simple?: A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind

“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don’t want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert”.7”
― Timothy Jennings, Could It Be This Simple?: A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind

“Although the medical community does not consider such methods as actually providing any physiological benefits, Drs. Benson and McCallie identified some extremely interesting results: such methods were effective for 70-90 percent of those patients who believed the intervention would work. When science eventually proved such treatments as bogus, the rate dropped to 30-40 percent.1”
― Timothy Jennings, Could It Be This Simple?: A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind