Vain Imaginations

VAIN = Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless: a vain attempt. Lacking substance or worth: vain talk Excessively proud of one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited. Foolish. To no avail; without success: Our labor was in vain. In an irreverent or disrespectful manner: took the Lord's name in vain.

IMAGINATION = A traditional or widely held belief or opinion. An unrealistic idea or notion; a fancy. A plan or scheme. Not real: fiction, a figment of one's imagination.

Vain imagination = irreverant, disrespectful, prideful, foolish, and fruitless fiction lacking substance or worth.

Sounds like a definition of most Television to me. Or watching professional sports. Or Pern0graphy of any type.

That is, they generally are fictions. They generally lack substance and worth. There generally are irreverant or disrespectful manner. The Lords name is often taken in vain. They generally don't persuade you to do Good or Serve God or believe in Christ. There are many other activites that are of worth.

Our time on earth is limited. There are more *good* things that we can be doing than we even have time for, let alone to waste away time on vain imaginations.

What having Integrity gets you.

"There is one principle that I wish the people would understand and lay to heart. Just as fast as you will prove before your God that you are worthy to receive the mysteries, if you please to call them so, of the Kingdom of heaven -- that you are full of confidence in God -- that you will never betray a thing that God tells you -- that you will never reveal to your neighbor that which ought not to be revealed, as quick as you prepare to be entrusted with the things of God, there is an eternity of them to bestow upon you. Instead of pleading with the Lord to bestow more upon you, plead with yourselves to have confidence in yourselves, to have integrity in yourselves, and know when to speak and what to speak, what to reveal, and how to carry yourselves and walk before the Lord. And just as fast as you prove to him that you will preserve everything secret that ought to be -- that you will deal out to your neighbors all which you ought, and no more, and learn how to dispense your knowledge to your families, friends, neighbors, and brethren, the Lord will bestow upon you, and give to you, and bestow upon you, until finally he will say to you, "You shall never fall; your salvation is sealed unto you; you are sealed up unto eternal life and salvation, through your integrity."
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 4:371.