Well Bob, I've been to places like those stated. I've lived among those people. I've heard them ramble about the evils of television, computers, cell phones, radios, cars, the "modern SDA church," you name it, it was evil and I shouldn't have one or get involved because there was the potential of evil in it. For a time I begin to think that way because I was so immersed in the self-supporting/independent ministry culture around me.
Took me some time and some embarrassment to get acclamated back to civility and normality. I'm glad that's all behind me now.
So when I saw the rambling on here about the dangers of cruise ships and all the potential things that are going to go wrong with that, it brought to mind those days when I was told that everything had a satanic pulse to it and that I was doomed if I looked at a beautiful woman, or heard some rock and roll on the radio.