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The Importance of Staying Up-to-Date

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June 10, 2024 6:00 am

Growing up, listening to the radio and watching news on TV shaped Dr. Abbadan Shah's outlook on current events. He emphasizes the importance of staying informed, but notes that the world has become increasingly complex and news sources are often unreliable. He shares personal experiences and encourages listeners to be discerning and think critically about the information they consume.

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Ryan's a dad. We're celebrating Father's Day this weekend. That verse always makes me think about, of course, it's good to help out your fellow man.

It's good to help out all people. But there's something special that God feels in his heart to see his children helping each other. My kids are really young right now, so they don't really interact a whole lot. Holden kind of does his own thing.

He's only one. But when they do play together, when there's joy and when there's love there, it's really hard to describe that feeling, that pride that you get in seeing your kids get along. Yeah, it's a special feeling, especially when you see your kids take care of one another. They play together and that's sweet, but when you see your kids look out for their siblings, that's so special.

Seeing a kid hold their brother or sister as a baby or seeing them bring them a toy or help them up when they're down, that just makes your parent heart explode. But imagine if we as sinful human beings feel that about our kids, how much more does our Heavenly Father, who is perfect and loves us with perfect love, feel that when we look out for our spiritual siblings, our brothers and sisters. Do good to those who are of the household of faith.

Do good to everybody, but especially your brothers and sisters in Christ. If you struggle with that, the Word of God is always there to help you. One of the best ways to get the Word of God delivered right to your phone every day is with the Date the Word app. You can download it for free right now on iPhone or Android. That's exactly where we get every single verse that we bring you on the Clearview Today show, of course, that comes from the Word of God, but the Date the Word app makes it a lot easier.

You can get that for free right now. You can download it, and every single day connects today's date to God's Word with the hope of making it more memorable for you. You know, kids getting along, that's just one of the things that God has given us to enjoy. But there's also lots of little other things. We've got a segment for you guys today. It's called All the Small Things, the segment we do every single week, where we just talk about some of the things that bring us that little bit of joy, that glimmer of sunshine.

Look here. Life's hard, man. Life's hard. The days can get long, and they can get cold, but you just have these little things that the Lord gives you every single day that just brings you that little relief that, okay, I think things are going to be good.

For instance, when I put in a USB, and it goes in right the first time. Oh, man. That is chef's kiss, immaculate. It's like you've ever seen Emperor's New Groove?

When that sun just hits right over the hills. It is just, when you put it in there, and it goes in the first time, like... You know why, right? Because this is, I'm not even trying to bring the grapevine into this, but because it never happens. Every time I put in a USB, you put it in, it doesn't go in, you turn it over, it doesn't go in, then I turn it back, guess what? It goes in.

It goes right back in. I love it when I slide it right in the first time, and I don't even use USBs like that anymore. This doesn't, and this is kind of, I hate to even age myself, this is kind of for old fogeys like us, because USB-C has pretty much eliminated that problem. But I remember, back in my day, back in my day, when the USB ports were just one way, we had to just slide it right in, and it just clicked right in the first time.

Why did age also give you a speech impediment? I was off on my seat in the war, in the great USB war, in the war of the USB. I don't know, man. Another thing, I like that, this is also just why I love USB-C as well, no more adapters, no more dongles.

That's right. We can go ahead and just make that switch, everybody. Just go ahead and migrate everything on over to USB-C. Just go ahead and do it. It's crazy, because when every new port comes out, it's like, this is the final one. I truly can't see anything beyond this. And then they always come out with something else. And yet, I'm looking at USB-C, and I'm like, what else could there possibly be? Why would we upgrade from this?

It's pretty perfect. Do you remember Firewire? No, I don't know what that was. Firewire? Firewire, yeah. It was like a connector. It was like USB, but it was different. I think it was used for audio a lot of times, but I think it was also used for data. Firewire cable.

Firewire. We had it here at Clearview. I think it looked like cat5, right?

No, it didn't. It looked like a... It looked like a printer cable.

It looked like a printer cable, but it was a little bit wider. Ew. That was it, right there. Gross.

So, this is crazy. Firewire is sort of a thing of the past. If you go into the hub, that's our student's room right now, and you look on the back of the PreSonus board, it has Firewire port. I don't know where the cable is.

Guarantee you Dr. Shah has one in his shop. I don't like that. No, I don't either. No, thank you.

No bueno. But it's just one of those rare things that you get when you plug a cable in, it just goes in correctly the first time. That is great. It's just something that the Lord has given me, where I can say, ha.

The world might be on fire, but this right now, and this... But my USB went in the right way the first time. Now I've saved.5 seconds on my task. But infinite levels of frustration. Write in and let us know if you've ever experienced the joy of plugging in a USB for the first time.

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Amen. Let's hop back into the show. Welcome back to Clearview Today with Dr. Abbadan Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can visit us online at ClearviewTodayShow.com, or if you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text, 252-582-5028. That's right. We're here once again in the Clearview Today studio with Dr. Abbadan Shah, who is a PhD in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina University, author, full-time pastor, and host of today's show.

You can find all of his information, I guess, all of his credentials, all of his work at his website. That's AbbadanShah.com. That's it.

That's where it is, man. I was trying to help you, but I didn't know what you were trying to write. I was trying to find all of his work, but I said his information, but then it's like, well, you're not... Can I get a social security number? No, I can't get that. Not that information.

Can I get his mother's maiden name? None of that stuff. None of that card. None of that stuff is there. No. None of that. Information's not going to work. Credentials, yeah, sure, but his work.

That's what I'm trying to say, all his work. Dr. Shah, on this Monday, first of all, happy Monday to you. Happy Monday. Welcome to the studio.

Happy Monday. We are talking about things that just delight us, that make us happy deep within our soul and our spirit and make us do that. Whether it's internal or external, we have that going on. Have you ever gone to plug something, but specifically a USB in and gotten it right the first time? It doesn't happen. It rarely, if ever, happens, because I feel like there are times when I go to plug a USB in and I plug it in, it's wrong. Flip it over, still wrong, flip it back, now it's right.

It's always the third time. My problem is, why don't they just make one that's going to go in no matter what? Right, exactly. We have USB-C now, which is kind of that, no matter what, lightning cables are that way where you can flip them no matter which way. But so many appliances still use USB-B. Or even HDMI. HDMI has to go in a specific way, and it will not work the other way, it will not go in. And HDMI is kind of obvious, but you still somehow get it wrong. I don't know if you guys have ever seen the TikTok of when you're in your bed and you're trying to plug it in and the hand comes out and keeps you from doing it.

Trying to mess with you. Yeah, and then you look and there's nothing there. That's always with me.

It's very rarely, I mean, USB gets me every single time. It's always going to fail. But the power, that should never be a thing. Look at that. Look. Absolutely. Yeah.

For some reason. You got that in the stream? Yeah. For some reason, see, like a go to plug it in? Not right. Go to plug it in? Not right. Go to plug it in? Now it's right.

It should not work, but it happens. I don't know. Bruh. Exactly. That's what I feel like.

I love this thing. That's what I feel like when I plug it in. Every single time. It works finally. It's the most frustrating thing to plug in for you.

Is it the USB? Wow. What a great question. I'm trying to think for a moment. What is the most frustrating thing? Oh, I can tell you what's most frustrating is when I have my workout headphones. Those are the things that wrap around my ear. And I put them on, ready to go, and one of them is not working. You have AirPods.

Why would... I have Bose. But don't you have a thing of AirPods as well? But you... You don't have AirPods. No, I gave mine to...

I think Nicholas or Thomas. I can't remember. Bro, they're sitting there acting cool in the youth group, acting like they have their own AirPods. And you're the one to give it to them. I gave one of them to that. Unbelievable.

And the thing is, then I have to put both of my headphones into the little box and then wait for them to pair. I'm like, this is the 21st century. Come on. Come on. And now you look dumb, just like flipping it open. All right.

Okay, now we'll try again. Bloop. Bloop. Take it back out. Put it in. Flip it. Everybody's like, what is this?

Doesn't this guy have a PhD? I'm like doing this number. I mean, it's like, let's... Why don't we go back to, like I said, tapes?

Yeah, I know. I'll just get my Walkman out. Yeah, Walkman out and put it on and just go with it. I had a pair that, before the ones I have now, that did that, where you would use one at a time, and then it would memorize that. And so then you go to use both, and then it's like, I don't think this is right. I think you're supposed to just use one.

You have to re-pair it. Weird stuff. I feel like I know the answer to this, but Dr. Shaw, did you have a Walkman? Yes. No, dude.

Bruh. Did you not have a Walkman? No. I had a Walkman.

No, dude. I was like a... Mine was a CD player, but it was a Walkman. Okay, well, that's what I had.

I had a little portable CD player strapped to your hip. Yeah. But we're talking about old technology, but at the same time of being nostalgic with old technology, I know, Dr. Shaw, it's very important to you to stay up to date with what is current. Yes.

You know, we were just talking about, you were one of the first ones to get a CD player. Yeah. Because it's important that we stay ahead of not just technological trends, but just current events.

Yes. And things that are happening in the world. That's one of the, you know, goals behind the Clear Read Today show is we want to help you all that are listening and watching at home stay up to date with current events. I grew up keeping up with current events.

Yeah. I grew up in a home where I remember, this is in the mid to late 70s. I was born in 73. So mid to late 70s, sitting there, dining room table with our transistor radio and listening to the news. And dad would say, shh, and we would have the radio, you know, you had to kind of get the band right. And once you get the band right, and then we would sit there and listen to the news. This is, I don't know what it was called at the time, I can't remember now.

But anyway, Air India or something like that. And then we listen to the news and then, you know, have people talk like they will say, this is just garbage. This is this is not even news. They're just giving you what the government wants us to hear.

People like around the radio would say? Yeah. Well, my mom and dad are talking to each other. That's just government propaganda. This is that's that's not even what's happening right now.

We know it's not just 10,000 people died, more than likely 100,000. I mean, this so this kind of conversation takes took place every night. And then I remember my brother and my dad arguing over political issues, international conflicts, and they will talk about this and this agenda and that agenda and and why does this country always does this or why is America supporting them or why is Russia getting involved? I mean, this, these are the conversations I grew up hearing. Right. Right. Do you think that happens in America today?

So that's what I was about to say. It seems like at a certain point in America's history when television and media and broadcasting was new, that was the thing that was only three channels and it was all about keeping the people informed and then entertainment took over. And now news, current events, things that are happening in the world are they're still important, but we just deal with them later when we feel like it. We are we are uninformed, but heavily entertained. Do you feel like that?

That's a great way to say that. Do you feel like that has happened in the like the East is more like that now? Like that Western influence has kind of taken over or is it in the East they're still keeping up to date with not happening?

Maybe a little more than we are in the West, but East is just as entertained now. Gotcha. I remember when we first got our television, our hometown did not have TV antennas. So in the seventies there was no television in our hometown. No television. That's incredible.

None. Yeah. So the technology was there, but you would see that in Bombay. So when we would go visit Bombay and we would go buy shops and stores or people's homes that we stayed in because my brother was traveling or there was a conference or operation mobilization and the big big ships would come and we would go and so that's where we would see TV and it's like, wow, look at the TV. That's amazing.

And these people get to do this every day. Yeah. Imagine I'm trying to think through like being in the seventies. Like if I see his TV, I think it's weird now if I walk into a room and there's not a TV, but like think about like never having seen it and there's people in a box like telling you and he's really somewhere like actually talking and you're seeing it halfway across the world. That's mind blowing. It is.

It is crazy. Like cricket. We would sit there and listen to the cricket commentary.

Well, now he comes from the Lord's Pavilion and he is bowling and yes, and there is a full run. I mean, you hear the whole commentary. Or soccer games, we would hear commentary.

Maradona passes it on to Socrates, Socrates, I mean, not Socrates, it's opposite teams. But anyways, I mean, it was, so then listen to that. But now in the eighties, finally television came to our hometown and there was a big debate. Should we or should we not get it?

Really? Along with like people in town or just in your family? In our family. Should we, should we not? Should we bring in this entertainment into our home?

Will this corrupt our moral values? Because that was a big thing because there was a lot of junk coming too. So my mom and dad talking, talking, talking, and there was a series of events that happened that were unfortunate. And after that point, maybe someday we'll talk about that, they said, okay, we just need to do this for the kids.

And so they did. And I remember going from listening to transistor radio for our news to now sitting eight o'clock in the evening, watching the news on TV. How old do you think you were at that point? So this is 1982, maybe 81, 82. You'd been maybe nine or 10, 10 years of age, pretty incredible age to see this technology coming to your home for the first time because now you're old enough to understand that this is, this is big, this is special. Now we have what people in Bombay had and we got color television. We never got black and white because when I remember going to Bombay, this is in the mid-seventies, seeing black and white TVs. But this one we got, our first one itself was color television and it was a big deal because other people were buying black and white because they could afford it. That's all they could afford. We were buying a color television, oh my goodness, it's a big deal. And mom was like, no, we're going to make that investment because we have to do this.

It's a big one, but we have to go and do it because it's a long-term thing. And it was long-term. I mean, we had that TV for like 10 years.

Until the day I left. So from 1981 to like 1991, it was the same TV. I remember there was a similar thing, like my parents kept the same TV. They had the TV from before I was born up until I left for school. That TV was, by the time I left, it was like old as heck, but they just kept it.

Yeah, because that's how you treated technology. And so television came and then we began to watch news and I remember sitting there watching news and same kind of arguments over, you know, this is not right. But wait, wait, wait, wait, because now we're going to go to our correspondence, our correspondent on the ground.

And he would sit there and watch it like, oh, you can actually see the damage from the earthquake or the flood or the elections or the riots, we're actually watching them. What was it like mind blowing? Yeah, I was going to say, what is it like having to sit there and listen to the radio and just imagine what they're talking to you about? Like do you always imagine that it's way worse or better and then you actually get to see it?

You know what I'm saying? It's very different. I wish I could explain to you going from just transistor radio to television, it's like a whole new world opens up.

So if we fast forward a little bit. I'm not sure if I can say it was worse or better, it's just a different world. Just completely different. It's like adding a whole new sense. Your mindset about the world just completely shifts. And then you fast forward to college, now you're in broadcasting. So they're teaching you about this equipment, these cameras, microphones, broadcasting stuff.

But then there's also the sense of responsibility that now you have as a supplier of the news and a supplier of current events to the people. Honestly, when I was in college doing broadcast journalism, I had no desire to really stay in that field initially. Then eventually it was like, okay, I think I can do this. I think I'm going to end up owning a television network. I'll do it.

I think I can do this. But then I ended up getting called in the ministry, so I kind of kept the trade secrets, so to speak, kept all the knowledge I had, but I moved on into theology and preaching and all that. So I never had that burden of this is not what we are supposed to do. Albeit I covered elections. This is in 1992, if I'm not wrong, when I covered the election of Zell Miller, governor of Georgia. He was a Democrat, and I was in Atlanta at the Democratic office, their gathering place where the news came. Oh, he got elected. But he didn't come and we had to leave. Second night, things run crazy. He was supposed to be, and it's like 1030, and I'm like, our van is leaving.

I got to go. You were a student, right? You were with the school news? Okay, the school had a student-run radio station, which was just very, very small, and it only covered this campus and maybe part of the town. But then the college had their own radio network called WRAF. So if you ever go down towards Georgia, you'll catch WRAF.

I think it's 90.9, I think it's 90.6, something like that. But anyways, so I was sort of like their correspondent. They asked the broadcast journalism students to go to different parts of Atlanta and be their position. So they told me, why don't you take Zell Miller's, the place where he's going to get up and have the big hurrah, the election results have come, I am the new governor. So they sent a team, it was you as the correspondent, camera guy, audio guy, stuff like that?

Yeah, yeah. And then there were several other camera audio guys at the Republican office and other places. Wow, that's incredible.

So all together, there's like maybe 10, 15 people. That's amazing. And then I got the Democratic office, but of course, he was late in coming and I had to go. And when you're a student doing this, it's like, I'm out, I got to go. The van said they'd leave him and I got to go.

Yeah, it was not like I'm staying here and making this count, no. Through all of this, through growing up, sitting around with your parents, listening to the radio and then eventually watching the news on the TV, and then through broadcast journalism, getting through college, how do you feel like that has shaped your outlook on current events today? It has made me more aware and also made me wanting to be more aware of what's happening. I'm not always as aware as I should be.

The world has gone crazy. I mean, we're getting news all the time. I have a couple of apps on my phone, news apps like CNN, Fox, I have it.

And once in a while, you'll see my phone light up. Here comes some news report or something or some emergency information, and it's almost become like too much. So the sitting down and listening to the news or sitting down and reading the newspaper or sitting down and watching the nightly news, it's not the same. So now we have, I'm opening Facebook and all of a sudden I'm seeing people posting things about something going on in California or some wildfire or some campus protests.

It's just random. And it seemed to be the case that back in the 70s, 80s, when you were listening to the news, and I think even in the early 90s when I was born, news was more or less reliable. You can trust if someone on the news says, hey, this is what's happening. We're bringing you the story.

It's like, that's what happened. And I don't have to think about it. I don't have to think about, well, who's saying it? Why are they saying it? Who funded the study?

Who did the research? You don't have to think about all those things because either there's not as many agendas or people are able to keep them down. Whereas now the news is at best halfway reliable because you're only hearing half the story. Shucks. Like that's the best you can hope for. Open up Facebook or Instagram and you have pictures. This is a family from the 1850s. Look at them. And I'm like, wow, wow, I've never imagined that picture. And then you, oh, it's AI generated. Yeah.

Like why does he have a digital Rolex on? All you got to do is watch their hands. They're like, if you look close enough, something's going to be in the wrong place. Yeah. It's like, what do you trust anymore? Right. Yeah. It's hard. It's hard to point.

It's really hard to trust anything. And we're paying the price for that. Now we are a culture, and I'm talking about America right now, of very ill-informed people on politics, on culture, on international issues, legal issues, environmental issues. We are so clueless, religious issues. No idea.

And it seems like most Americans are completely content to be clueless. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. Because someone else is going to do my thinking for me. Someone else is going to handle it. If they're not doing it, what am I going to do with the environment or the presidential? Just let them handle it.

And personally, if anything, the past four or five years have proven is there's not a single news organization out there that I can say, I'm talking about the big networks. Right. Right. Oh, that's my source for news. Right.

I think they blew it all. Yeah. Yeah. They all went crazy four years ago. Yeah. So I don't know what to say.

True. My inspiration, if I can share this, for keeping up with the news, whether reading, listening or watching, was my dad. I remember when 9-11 happened, my dad was here. He was in Henderson. He was actually coming because a group of his church members who were in New York and other places wanted him to come and start a church. They felt like a good, solid, biblical, active church for Asians was lacking. And they wanted that in New York City.

They wanted one in New York City. So I talked to my dad and my dad was like, well, my children are there, I want to be with them. And so maybe set up a meeting, see if we can invite people to come, I'll preach and then see if there's a need.

We can go from there. Well, who knew that that year, 2001, September 11th, that some maniac or maniacs had a sinister plan to attack us. So your dad had plans to be in New York, not that day, but in the very near future. Oh, I mean, the following week.

Wow. He was supposed to be in New York. So he came here and then he was going to be preaching in my church, same church where we are, different location. And I imagine he'd have been flying into New York, if that were the case. No, he would have, he was supposed to come arrive in Raleigh.

We pick him up, which exactly is what happened. And then he was going to stay with me, which he did, preach that week. And then we were going to get him on a train and send him to New York, which he was fine to do. He's like, yeah, that's perfect. I don't need you guys to come because over there in New York, all these people are there waiting for me and they will take care of me.

And then when it's done, I'll either come back down here on train or you can come pick me up or whatever. And the week before he goes, 9-11 happens. 9-11 happens. But I remember this very clearly, sitting in the living room that morning as a first plane crashed into the building, trade towers.

Second hadn't even happened yet. And I remembered my dad's saying, oh, that's the work of Bin Laden. I never even heard of who Bin Laden was. Most Americans hadn't. No, we hadn't.

Had no clue. 24 hours later, everybody knew Bin Laden. So I'm like, who? He said, Bin Laden. That's his work.

That's him. I mean, to bring down those buildings like that with that plane, he knows how to build those buildings and he is behind that, no doubt. And then the second plane hit and then the Pentagon and then Pennsylvania, all these things happening back to back. And then, sure enough, by that evening or the next day, Bin Laden claims that he was behind it. You saw the video of him rejoicing over that.

And we're like, wow. How did you know? He said, well, I read. I've been reading. He kept up with it. Yeah. We read up the news. I was like, yeah, sure, you do.

Because I saw you all my life. So that's been my inspiration and many times I don't do it as well, but that's what I try. But still, I mean, it's important and I think he proved that it was important.

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