Some youths grew up in laboratory cages, imprisoned in dysfunction, while others had a support system at home, and life was like a walk in the park. When your life is filled with trouble, fear and unfairness, it's easy to turn to temporary forms of escape. Rat park (see below) is not an option for everyone. Yet there's an even better park, a perfect sanctuary, and this One is called JESUS CHRIST.
wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park) - "Alexander designed a number of experiments to test the rats' willingness to consume the morphine. The Seduction Experiment involved four groups of rats. Group CC was isolated in laboratory cages when they were weaned at 22 days of age, and lived there until the experiment ended at 80 days of age; Group PP was housed in Rat Park for the same period; Group CP was moved from laboratory cages to Rat Park at 65 days of age; and Group PC was moved out of Rat Park and into cages at 65 days of age."
"The caged rats (Groups CC and PC) took to the morphine instantly, even with relatively little sweetener, with the caged males drinking 19 times more morphine than the Rat Park males in one of the experimental conditions. The rats in Rat Park resisted the morphine water. They would try it occasionally—with the females trying it more often than the males—but they showed a statistically significant preference for the plain water. He writes that the most interesting group was Group CP, the rats who were brought up in cages but moved to Rat Park before the experiment began. These animals rejected the morphine solution when it was stronger, but as it became sweeter and more dilute, they began to drink almost as much as the rats that had lived in cages throughout the experiment. They wanted the sweet water, he concluded, so long as it did not disrupt their normal social behavior.[1] Even more significant, he writes, was that when he added a drug called Naloxone, which negates the effects of opioids, to the morphine-laced water, the Rat Park rats began to drink it."
"In another experiment, he forced rats in ordinary lab cages to consume the morphine-laced solution for 57 days without other liquid available to drink. When they moved into Rat Park, they were allowed to choose between the morphine solution and plain water. They drank the plain water. He writes that they did show some signs of dependence. There were "some minor withdrawal signs, twitching, what have you, but there were none of the mythic seizures and sweats you so often hear about ..."
Plain water is better than opium wine; Living Water is better than both. Choose Living Water and live.
John 4:10 "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of GOD, and Who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee Living Water."
John 4:11 " The woman saith unto Him, Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast Thou that Living Water?"
John 4:12 "Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?"
John 4:13 "Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:"
John 4:14 "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
Peace in CHRIST JESUS,
Spread-the-Truth
Mr baptist.
