Coming Back (5 of 5)
Series: Seeing Red
James Merritt
Matthew 25:31-46
Introduction
1. You have had it happen to you before I am sure. You are about to go see a movie that everybody has been talking about and you let a friend know that you are going and that friend looks at you and says, ‘‘Oh, it’s a great movie except it is just so sad that John dies’’ or you are reading a romantic novel and you let a friend know and they say, ‘‘What a sad story. They got divorced in the end.’’ It is called ‘‘spoiler alert.’’ Normally, we think that people who love to give spoiler alerts are sadistic, hateful, party poopers and deserve capital punishment.
2. As the great philosopher, Lee Corso has famously said, ‘‘Not so fast my friend.’’ Two UC San Diego researchers conducted a study that suggested that spoilers actually don’t spoil stories. They ran three experiments using twelve stories and discovered that people consistently enjoyed the story more if the ending had been spoiled, than if they were hanging in suspense. One of the researchers gave this theory about why people like to know the end of the story before the ending. ‘‘So it could be that once you know how it turns out, it is cognitively easier - you are more comfortable processing the information - and can focus on a deeper understanding of the story.’’
3. I know for myself if I happen to miss a Georgia football game because I am out of the country or can’t watch it I will tape it. But, I always want to know after I tape it if they win, because if they lose I don’t watch it.
4. Xenophobia is a fear that is almost universal. Even if people don’t want to admit it, at one time or another, we have this fear which is called the fear of the unknown. It is one of the major reasons people give why they are afraid to die, because to most people, what is after death is unknown.
5. Jesus does us a big favor. He gives us a spoiler alert. At the end of his ministry, he gave a picture of ...
Series: Seeing Red
James Merritt
Matthew 25:31-46
Introduction
1. You have had it happen to you before I am sure. You are about to go see a movie that everybody has been talking about and you let a friend know that you are going and that friend looks at you and says, ‘‘Oh, it’s a great movie except it is just so sad that John dies’’ or you are reading a romantic novel and you let a friend know and they say, ‘‘What a sad story. They got divorced in the end.’’ It is called ‘‘spoiler alert.’’ Normally, we think that people who love to give spoiler alerts are sadistic, hateful, party poopers and deserve capital punishment.
2. As the great philosopher, Lee Corso has famously said, ‘‘Not so fast my friend.’’ Two UC San Diego researchers conducted a study that suggested that spoilers actually don’t spoil stories. They ran three experiments using twelve stories and discovered that people consistently enjoyed the story more if the ending had been spoiled, than if they were hanging in suspense. One of the researchers gave this theory about why people like to know the end of the story before the ending. ‘‘So it could be that once you know how it turns out, it is cognitively easier - you are more comfortable processing the information - and can focus on a deeper understanding of the story.’’
3. I know for myself if I happen to miss a Georgia football game because I am out of the country or can’t watch it I will tape it. But, I always want to know after I tape it if they win, because if they lose I don’t watch it.
4. Xenophobia is a fear that is almost universal. Even if people don’t want to admit it, at one time or another, we have this fear which is called the fear of the unknown. It is one of the major reasons people give why they are afraid to die, because to most people, what is after death is unknown.
5. Jesus does us a big favor. He gives us a spoiler alert. At the end of his ministry, he gave a picture of ...
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